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A18036	The conscionable Christian: or, The indeuour of Saint Paul, to haue and discharge a good conscience alwayes towards God, and men laid open and applyed in three sermons. Preached before the honourable judges of the circuit, at their seuerall assises, holden in Chard and Taunton, for the county of Somerset. 1620. By Richard Carpenter, Doctor of Diuinity, and pastor of Sherwell in Deuon.	Carpenter, Richard, 1575-1627.	1623 (1623)	STC 4681; ESTC S107676	65,416	130

they looke for a glorious resurrection as the full end of all Gods promises when the wicked shall haue their full punishment and the godly their full payment when the wicked shall both in body and soule reunited be made sensible of all manner of misety and intolerable wretchednesse in hell and the godly which haue but breathings heere shall bee bathed in a sea of comforts and inioy the consummation of blisse and complete happinesse in the Kingdome of heauen Doubtlesse this holy perswasion of a Iudgement Esa 26. 19. Hos 6. 3. Ezek. 37. Dan. 7. 12. to come in the Day of Resurrection by the Prophets and * 2. Cor 5. 10. Rom. 14. 10. Reu. 20 12. Apostles and by our * Ioh. 5. 28. Mat. 25. Sauiour himselfe so liuely described hath euer possessed the hearts of Gods Saints and seruants and the life of this perswasion hath been the death of sinne in them and ought to bee in vs the remembrance that there is dies Deus vltionis a day and God of reuenge for his power vnresistable for his wisedome infallible for his Iustice inflexible ought to strike sinne in the blade breake it in the head and kill it to the heart and the due Meditation of the reuniting of our bodies and soules in that day to be ioynt partakers of heauenly felicity should mooue vs all to consecrate both the parts of the one and faculties of the other as pure Nazarites to the seruice of God in all holinesse righteousnesse and sobriety Vse 1 Oh then that this Meditation might take due possession and make deepe impression in your hearts that are Magistrates in ours that are Ministers in all of vs Christians that so in all our doings dealings preachings pleadings purposes and proceedings making account of that Day of accounts when wee shall bee called to account for them all wee may hence-forward conscionably retaine God and his Word for our Counsellor and the true feare of God for our Sollicitor and by the works of piety equity and charity according to our seuerall places and callings lay so good a foundation heere that we may lay hold of euerlasting life heereafter For our better direction and incouragement wherein let vs looke seriously on those worthy patternes of well-doing Dauid Paul Iob and other faithfull seruants of God and withall take notice for our instruction and imitation of those praise-worthy things which vpon the like consideration of the Day of Resurrection they both did and resolued to doe And to begin with the Princely Prophet Dauid 1. Dauid Psal 101. most apparent it is in the 101. Psalme which it seemes he made when hee first drew the soueraigne breath of a King to giue notice to the world what an excellent Gouernour he would be and all others by his example should be that he voweth and protesteth that hee will doe wisely and worthily both in the morall carriage of himselfe and in the domesticall well ordering of his family and in the politicall religious gouernement of his Kingdome and Countrey vpon expectancy of the Lords comming I will doe wisely saith he in the Vers 2 3 4. perfect way till thou commest to me c. being well assured that nothing is so sure as his comming nothing so great as hee that shall come nothing so strict as the Iudgement to come and therefore nothing so needfull as to liue godly to walke warily in priuate to worke wisely in publike vntill his comming And to goe on with our zealous Apostle S. 2. Paul Paul certaine it is that he did not much passe by mans day or esteeme of mans doome but in respect of the iudgement and approbation of God with whom his worke and wages were hee had an accurate vncessant care 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both to walke vprightly Gal. 2. and to Gal. 2. 14. diuide the Word aright 2. Tim. 2. and for the 2. Tim. 2 25. euidencing of his great loue towards Christs little flocke and him the great and good Shepherd thereof hee ceased not to admonish Acts 20. 31. euery one night and day with teares he ceased not ecce laborem to admonish ecce officium euery one ecce amorem night and day ecce vigilantiam with teares ecce compassionem c. Such a painfull pitifull powerfull dispenser of the Word was he neither yet did his care consist onely in fulfilling his ministery by fidelity of dispensation in publishing all the counsell of God in preaching constantly plainly profitably to the conuiction of the conscience the information of the vnderstanding and the reformation of the will whereunto all Ministers should aime but also by integrity of conuersation and singular sanctimony of life which is the very soule and life of the Ministery whereof in the Acts of the Apostles and many Acts 22. 23 24. passages of his Epistles we haue abundant testimony 2. Cor. 6. Phil. 4 9. He knew the people would hardly beleeue the truth of Religion in his mouth vnlesse they did see the power of it in his life and therefore he did as well teach their eyes by his conscionable doings as their eares by his comfortable doctrine making full reckoning that one day he was to be called to a reckoning for both in regard whereof he thus triumphantly concludeth 2. Tim. 4. I haue fought a good 2. Tim. 4. 7. fight I haue finished my course and kept the faith rauished with this heauenly hope and soule-solacing assurance that a Crowne of righteousnesse was laid vp for him which the righteous Iudge would giue vnto him in that day The expectation of which day of reckoning and recompence as it made Saint Paul diligent and faithfull in fulfilling his Ministery So did it make holy Iob very cautelous in the 3. Iob. priuate course of his life and most carefull in his publike gouernment and Magistarcy As for the former I made saith he Cap. 32. a Couenant Iob 31. 1. with mine eyes not to looke or thinke on a Maid or any other thing whether gift or bribe pleasing to the lustfull eye Why this seemes too much precisenes will the carnall man say for lookes and thoughts are free Oh but what Vers 2. portion then should I haue from aboue saith Iob q. d. I dare not giue way to my flesh and the lust thereof in any sort for this were to depriue my selfe of the comfort of the Word and Spirit heere and of happinesse heereafter and suppose I should heerein escape the censures of men yet Is not destruction saith hee to the Vers 3. wicked that is Hath not the Lord meanes vnconceiueable by man for the punishment of the vngodly and can he not bring secret sinnes to open shame yea grant that it be kept close from the eyes of the world yet doth not hee behold Vers ● my wayes and tell all my steps vers 4. though men take view onely of the outward action yet God looketh vpon the

experience well known that for want of knowledge in Gods Booke and of faith in the Gospell offering forgiuenesse of sinnes onely by Christs blood many sottish soules liue in ignorance and darknesse and in the very shadow of death not able to discerne by reason of their blind nature and naturall blindnesse the things which concerne their peace but thinking all religions will saue or a good meaning serue the turne or a Lord haue mercy at last cast be sufficient Alas many a Fly doe these swallow many a sinne vnseene vnsorrowed for doe they digest and in many things do they erre as Christ told the Sadduces Mark 12. because they know not the Scriptures Mark 12. 24. and the power of God The ignorance whereof as Chrysostome noteth is the mother of Chrysost in 3. Coloss all mischiefe and therfore he earnestly exhorteth all secular persons to get them Bibles the physicke of their soules to labour to bee more Iob 22. 21. acquainted with God in his Word that they may grow vp therby in grace and in the knowledge 2. Pet. 3. 13. of our Sauiour Christ without which sauing knowledge and faith grounded thereon which the Hebrewes by an excellency call Shekel Mekodesh sanctifying wisedome the conscience 2. Faith cannot be vpright It is sufficient vnto sin to doe against conscience as Saint Paul in Rom. Rom. 14. Augustine 14. sheweth whereunto that of Saint Augustine agreeth Quicquid sit contra conscientiam aedificat ad Gehennam But it is not sufficient to duty and obedience to doe according to conscience except it bee inlightened and rectified by the Word without which information and illumination conscience often resolues where it should restraine acquits where it should condemn and so erreth and offendeth diuers waies First by an erronious acceptation and entertainment of the lawes fashions and traditions of men for the precepts of God which is the errour of superstition incident to ignorant arrogant Papists who make the Popes Dictates their practicall principles and seeing if they see at al thorow the false spectacles of their purblind guides shew their obedience in those things to wit in the adoration of Images inuocation of Saints meritorious obseruation of dayes and meates and celebration of Pilgrimages and Masses c. for which they can shew no commandement All whose Religion in these and the like poynts of Purgatory of prayer for the dead of satisfactory seruices and sacrifices of their owne inuention may easily be swept away with the Prophets besome Esa Esa 1. 12. 1. Who required these things at your hands Secondly by a vaine assumption of false principles and a misprision of good for euill of euill for good and this is the errour of prophannesse frequent amongst our common people who inlarge their consciences to the vttermost bounds of any pleasure or profit and vnder pretence of not being booke-learned will not suffer their consciences to prooue good Lawyers in Gods Booke but liue in darke corners vnder blind Sir Iohns and so take quid pro quo Chalke for Cheese riches for righteousnesse policy for piety who accounting gaine godlinesse and maintaining bad opinions to iustifie base affections doe hereupon in the errour of their iudgement practise commonly swearing prophaning of the Sabbath Vsury Lying Lottery Legerdemaine without any regret of conscience at all Thirdly by false application of good principles as when from those approued grounds and true propositions Religious adoration is not to be giuen to creatures and likewise Christians haue liberty in things indifferent these vnwarrantable conclusions are deduced Therefore we may not kneele in the Act of receiuing the Communion Therefore we are not bound to obey the Magistrate in things indifferent Which errour of conscience I may call the errour of too much singularity and precisenesse arguing their indiscretion who in their ouerweening curiosity will bee ouer-pleasing God with better deuices then his owne and take vpon them to teach the Spirit to speake according to the consonants of the Alphabet so long till their wit turne to madnes and end in mischiefe as appeareth by the course and condition of Separatists Anabaptists and Arminians at this day For the auoyding of all which errours of superstition prophanenesse and precisenesse let vs heare and obey our Sauiours counsell Search Ioh. 5. 39. the Scriptures Ioh. 5. for they beare witnesse of me the Way the Truth the Life they giue best testimony both of Gods will concerning his own seruice and of his good will in Christ to all his faithfull seruants Let this Word of God dwell plentifully in vs as Saint Paul prescribeth Col. 3. 16. Col. 3. and that not in some but in all wisedome that we may thinke speake and doe wisely in all things And for the better sharpening of our dimmed sight in matters diuine let vs not refuse the eye-salue of our better inlightened guides but gladly accept thereof that so by all these and other good meanes our consciences being rightly informed we may expresse the goodnesse of them by doing or not doing confidently what God hath commanded or prohibited And to this end that our hearts Col. 2. 2 16. may bee comforted and established in euery good saying and doing wee are to lay fast hold on that euerlasting consolation and good hope through grace which the Father hath giuen vs Colos 2. 2 16. and by all spirituall aliments to preserue and cherish that sauing faith in vs whereby we are perswaded that our sinnes are pardoned and God in Christ reconciled to vs. This indeed is the root of a good conscience as hath been already shewed and this Beleeue in Christs blood is the gracious powerfull Word whereby all consciences are now stilled as the Luk. 19. Act. 16. consciences of Mary Magdalen Zacheus Lydia and that Iaylor were suddenly and soundly thereby quieted Now for the cherishing and confirming of this faith the daily exercises of repentance and obedience are requisite and therefore to make vp the vprightnesse of a good conscience wee are in the second place to speake of these ingredients as most necessary thereunto to wit of repentance and obedience Of repentance in mind altering the thoughts from the approbation of sinne of repentance in heart sorrowing for the committing of sinne of repentance in mouth reprouing and controlling sin of repentance in the whole man remoouing whatsoeuer is knowne to be amisse and bringing forth fruits of amendment of life c. This is a worke impossible to nature without grace and so slow in the working of grace through the contradiction of our nature that howsoeuer many professe it yet few practise it but being rightly practised it will make such a diuision betwixt our persons and our sinnes that by the repairing of the Image of God more and more in vs we shall haue comfortable furtherance in the way to saluation This therefore must not be wanting to him or scanting in him that desireth a good conscience For where