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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

Church and Common-wealth that the people of God might in peace and piety be the better maintained O rowze vp your selues I beseech you in the name of God of the Gospell of the King and Countrey and with a zealous conscionable affection and a constant couragious resolution shew your selues such Angels such Carpenters such Worthies in opposing the violent streame and torrent of these vicious times and in executing iust and speedy iudgement on all malicious and seditious transgressours of the Lawes of God and the King And for a perclose of the premises heerein exercise the vprightnesse of your conscience and the sincerity of your conscionable obedience viz. in cutting off putting downe or shutting vp all mischiefe-practising-workers of iniquity and all mischiefe-plotting seeds-men and fauourers of Schisme and soule-murthering Popery Thus by taking away the wicked from before Prou. 25. 4. the King his Throne in righteousnesse shall bee established your places of authority shall in their full strength and vertue bee preserued Gods fierce wrath be turned away which is imminent on Prince and people where grosse sinnes passe vnpunished and the peace and piety of these quarters of the Land shall more and more bee increased All which the Lord grant for his great mercies sake for his Gospels sake for his Glories sake and for his Christs sake and so plentifully distill the sweet dewes of his heauenly grace on the high Hill Hermon and all the Mountaines of Sion that there may be still a fruitfull watering and ioyfull refreshing of this whole Land of Israel and that maugre the mischieuous proiects and practices of the malignant enemies of the Gospell truth and peace may meet together righteousnes and mercy kisse each other in all the quarters thereof as long as the earth rests in her Center and the heauens continue their restlesse motion Amen THE CONSCIONABLE CHRISTIAN Preached at Taunton Aug. 8. 1620. The Text Acts 24. 16. Heerein I indeuour my selfe to haue a good conscience alwayes towards God and men RIGHT HONOVRABLE Rightly regarded and beloued in the Lord Iesus c. As good Ionathan 1. Sam. 20. 20. in loue vnto Dauid whom hee loued as his soule did shoot three Arrowes of admonition to driue him the further off from Sauls death-breathing fury So in loue vnto your soules I am now from the as-yet bent Bow of my Text to send forth a third Arrow of instruction and direction to draw you the neerer home to Gods life-giuing fauour Whereof you shall be sure to haue the stronger hold-fast and assurance by how much the more you indeuour and exercise your selues in this to haue alwayes a good conscience towards God and men For the care of a good conscience brings comfort in holinesse and comfort in holinesse breeds assurance of blessednesse and blessed shall you be if to those diuers Ingredients which concurre to the composition of an vpright conscience whereof yesterday I spake at large it shall please you to adde this as the complement of the rest viz. Doct. perseuerance in doing well and cherishing the vertuous and constant boldnesse in repressing euill and punishing the vicious wheresoeuer you haue to doe being as earnest in the pursuit of grosse sinne as worthy Eleazar was in smiting the Philistines 2. Sam. 23. and cleauing as fast in your 2. Sam. 23. 10. hearts to Gods Word the warrant of your wel-doing in this as his hand claue vnto his sword the instrument of his well-doing in that What if for your zeale and religious resolution herein you be sometimes crossed with mischieuous intentions thwarted by mighty oppositions wronged by malicious detractions yet desist not faint not feare not Regium est cùm benefeceris Alexander malè audire It is a princely thing to heare ill for doing well In which course of well-doing as I am bound to be a suiter vnto God for you that your Bow may abide strong and that your hands Gen. 49. 24. and armes may be strengthened by the mighty God of Iacob So giue me leaue also in the name of God to be a bold sollicitour vnto you and for the Gospels sake which you professe and are bound by your best actions to beautifie now the third time to be your humble Monitor and Remembrancer that according to your places of command and greatnesse you would therein striue with an holy kind of emulation the more fully and freely to exercise your goodnesse And as it hath pleased God to indow you with greater meanes power and ability so to account it the best Christian policy by your good workes on earth to lay vp treasure for your selues in heauen and euery day to bring in somwhat into Gods Exchequer as the Israelites did Exod. 25. to the Tabernacle the remembrance whereof may long after both in life and death comfort you and whereof you may say in singular confidence claiming an especiall interest in Gods fauour and expecting the promised recompence Remember me O my God according to this Neh. 13. 22. Note Math. 5. 26. For albeit the glory of God must be the vltimus terminus of our cogitations and actions and the principall motiue of our good workes and the primum mobile of our obedience yet in the Aquin. actions of obedience whilest we seeke the aduancement of Gods glory in the first place wee may as a secondary obiect or adiunct respect Caluin our owne commodity and haue an eye to our eternall reward yea it is lawfull for euery sanctified Christian maugre the spirit of contradiction in weaklings or wranglers whilest he remembreth God in sincere obedience as Abraham did in sacrificing Isaac Moses in guiding Gen 22. 1. King 2. Luk. 7. and going before Gods people Obediah in relieuing the Lords Prophets Magdalen in washing Christs feet Dorcas in making garments Act. 9. for poore widowes Philemon in refreshing Epist Philem. Nehem. 5. 19. the bowels of the Saints and Nehemiah in doing good to Gods House and his people to desire God to remember him by a gracious recompence and to say with Nehemiah Remember Nehem. 13. 22. me O my God concerning this but yet as conscious to himselfe of many imperfections in his best actions of defects and defaults either in the end matter manner or measure of his obedience he is as it followeth in the same place to supplicate for mercy and to pray as there Nehemiah doth But pardon me according to thy great mercy For as Saint Augustine saith Nisi Aug. in Psa 100 Deus per misericordiam parceret non inueniret quos per iustitiam coronaret Except God should spare vs in mercy hee should finde none whom hee might crowne in iustice But yet in hope and expectation to be crowned in mercy let vs all as the Almners of the Almighty remember daily to doe good in our seuerall callings according to our ability to be plentifull in the works of charity to bee faithfull in the exercises of piety that

inward disposition and affection of the heart and hee hath placed also his deputy-Intelligencer conscience within mee to testifie against me These and the like spirituall reasons and arguments Iob vsed to keepe himselfe in order and to affright himselfe from all manner of iniquity in his priuate comportment And as for his publike gouernment you shall finde him liuely described and charactred in the 29. Chapter to be the Oracle of Wisedome Chap. 29. the Guardian of Iustice the Refuge of Innocency the Comet of the guilty the Champion and defender of the fatherlesse poore and needy the Patron of peace and the perfect Myrrour and paterne for all Magistrates to direct them in the wise managing of all publike affaires of Iudgement and Mercy in performing of all which duties Iob shewed himselfe very sedulous and sollicitous yea most studious he was of doing well and most timorous of doing euill because he was assured that God himselfe would one day come to visit all his doings and then Quid faciam saith he vers 14. Chap. 31. 14. What shall I doe when God shall rise vp to iudge me when he shall visit me what shall I answere Vse 2 If iust Iob but thinking of the Day of Iudgement come on with his Quid faciet What shall he doe Alas then quid fiet what shall be done to the vniust whose bodies must boyle and soules fry for it when God comes to Iudgement If righteous Iob make question what hee shall doe or say Alas what then shall the vnrighteous be able to say or doe for themselues What shall mercilesse preiudicate bribe-taking Magistrates mercenary illiterate soule-staruing Ministers vsurarious extorting State-spoyling money-mongers sacrilegious Church-polling Patrons and rent-racking Land-lords and oppressors couetous time-seruing Court-officers and vnconscionable Lawyers with that contagious crue of brothel-hunters Alehouse-hunters and all other blasphemous Sabbath-breaking ruffians reuellers and scornefull mock-Preachers What will these or any of these be able to say or doe at that Day Quando non Bern. perorabit lingua sed denudabitur conscientia when the bookes of conscience shall be opened and the mouth of iniquity be stopped and all vicious and flagitious sinners shall bee vtterly vndone when a feare and consternation of mind shall ouertake the hypocrites and presumptuous transgressors in Sion and none of them shall be able to answere this fearfull question Who among Esa 33. 14 15. vs shall dwell with the deuouring fire with the euerlastings burning But those which walke in iustice and speake righteous things refusing gaine of oppression shaking their hands from taking of gifts stopping their eares from hearing of blood and shutting their eyes from seeing euill euen they shall dwell on high and see the Lord in his glory The time pressing me forward I cannot stand now to presse this in particular to the present occasion onely my desire is that all in generall and you in speciall which are to act any part in this weekes solemne businesse would often rub vp your memories with that saying of Ioseph Gen. 39. Gen. 39. 9. Shall I doe this and so sinne against God and rowze vp your consciences with this meditation of Iob What shall I doe then when God commeth to Iudgement And that you may not then doe amisse but be found of God in peace bee exercised now as Iob was in doing well Follow peace and holinesse without which yee cannot Heb. 12. 14. see God put on as hee did iustice and iudgement as a robe and Crowne bee eyes to the blind feet to the lame fathers to the poore to the widow and fatherlesse Shew your selues in your seuerall imployments men of courage Exod. 18. 21. 2. Cor. 13. 8. fearing God dealing truly and hating couetousnesse iudge pleade witnesse work nothing against the truth but all for the truth vse the Law lawfully wrong not the right right the wronged iustifie the righteous condemne the wicked as the Lord commandeth Deut. 25. To Deut. 25. 1. be briefe let the view of these Assises suggest to your consciences a memorandum of that vniuersall circuit and visitation which Christ the Lord chiefe Iustice of the whole world and Iudge of all Iudges will in one day begin and end and let the meditation of this Day when we shall all stand to our triall for life or death serue as the dead hand on the nauell to cure the dropsie of worldly and vnwarrantable desires and be as a continuall Monitor vnto vs all so to number our dayes and so to spend them that euery day and euery night wee may be able to make vp a good account especially in the night of death and in the morning of the Resurrection For the making vp of which account against that day in the best manner the due consideration of the sollicitous and industrious manner of Saint Pauls exercise and imployment will serue for more then an ordinary president and incouragement vnto vs all and therefore according to the method proposed I will now descend from the motiue to the manner as it offereth it selfe here to be considered Heerein 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by an vsuall Elleipsis for Second part 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I doe exercise my selfe Hee saith not Herein I haue laboured but cannot now or will labour but may not yet hee speakes not doubtfully Peraduenture I shall or faintly I purpose if I can or fainedly with some popish-like reseruation I or some other will but couragiously confidently satis pro Apostolo yea constantly instantly satis pro imperio In this doe I exercise my selfe I deferre not the doing of it knowing it most necessary to be done In this I doe really and for the present without delay readily exercise not others but my selfe personally to haue a good conscience c. Whence you see many particular pregnant instructions might easily be deduced but the general obseruation naturally arising therfrom vnder which the rest are contained and vpon which I meane onely to insist is this Doct. 2 That heauen and heauenly things especially the treasure of a cleare conscience which is an heauen vpon earth is not easily come by gotten and attained but with diligent sedulity with a zealous care and industrious constancy to be sought for and acquired It was not for nothing that the great Commander of all things Christ Iesus who can command vs might condemne vs will certainly iudge vs doth so often and so earnestly inculcate that soule-sauing counsell Striue to enter into Math. 7. Luk. 13. 24. the strait gate into the narrow way which leadeth vnto life he knew and would haue vs to know that without striuing and struggling against our corruptions without stooping and stripping our selues of our carnall worldly affections there is no passage into the narrow portall of heauen We must as the holy Ghost chargeth walke circumspectly and precisely Ephes 5. Make straight steps to our feet Hebr. Ephes 5. 15. Heb. 12. 13. Psal 39. 1. 12.

Gods Law imitate his steps haue no respect of persons in iudgement feare not the face of any man but let the feare of the Deut. 10. 18. Isa 11. 5. Lord with whom is no defect no obliquity no partiality no iniquity bee vpon you and remember as at all times so especially in Iudiciall places God is present with you and vieweth narrowly all your doings hee standeth in the Psal 81. 1. assembly of Gods such are yee nuncupatiuè 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but yee shall die like men so fraile yee are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Wherefore take heed what ye doe and make account this day that yee shall one day render an account for whatsoeuer yee haue done before that righteous Iudge of all the world which iudgeth all righteously O then gird vp your loynes with Iustice and put on Righteousnesse for an Habergeon Iudge not according to the appearance Ioh. 7. 24. but iudge righteous iudgement and let the fire of zeale for truth and equity be so inkindled that the Oyle of mercy be not vtterly consumed Suffer not an Abimelech vpon the malicious 2. Sam. 6. 22. accusation of a Doeg to be destroyed or a Mephibosheth 2. Sam. 16. 3. vpon the pick-thanke insinuation of a Ziba to be spoiled or a Ioseph vpon a wanton Gen. 39. Mistresses allegation to bee imprisoned or a Naboth vpon Iezabels letter to bee depriued 1. King 21. vineae vitae But heare the causes of your Brethren without preiudicate impiety iudiciously examine them without sinister obliquity and sincerely iudge them without vniust partiality Deut. 1. 17. and laying aside all respect of persons and popularity according to the Lords Commandement Deut. 1. Let the cause of the poore and needy come in equall ballance with the rich and mighty deferre not the hearing and determining of their suites from day to day from Terme to Terme lest it fare with them as it did with the Haemor●ese Mark 5. which was diseased Mark 5. 25. 12. yeeres together and when she had spent all on Physicians was not awhit the better or as it did with the weake person Ioh. 5. which had Ioh. 5. 5. beene diseased eight and thirty yeeres and sate in the porch of the poole of Bethesda but might not be healed because for want belike of stirring Angels hee could get none to put him into the poole immediately after the Angel had stirred it For as Salomon saith The gift Pro. 18. 16. of a man inlargeth him and bringeth him before great men that is maketh roome for him and procureth him accesse to the presence of such as are in authority whereunto the poore by reason of penny-peeking pull-backes may not approch Well whatsoeuer they cannot effect for want of meanes performe yee in the abundance of mercy pitty their cases regard their complaints in loue to God and God with Pro. 11. 17. his all-sufficient loue will certainely repay all your loue shewed to them And as for bribery the bane of all truth and Amos 5. 12. equity worthy to be rewarded with Gehasies leprosie if it dare at any time to draw neere vnto you O cast it off from you as Paul did the Acts 27. Viper from his hand and as Peter did Simon Acts 8. Magus his present with indignation of heart For fire shall deuoure the houses of Bribes Iob Iob 15. 34. 15. Contemne the wedge of gold the molten Calfe which so many worldly Idolaters crouch vnto Abhorre the gathering of riches by a Pro. 21. 6. deceitfull tongue which is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seeke death Remember the end of Balaams wages and Iudas his Bagge and Beware sell not thy countenance thy tongue thy silence thy clients cause thy neighbours life liuelyhood or credit or thine owne conscience of truth or peace of conscience for any benefit or Bribe whatsoeuer though neuer so secretly tendred vnto thee Turpe quid ausurus te sine teste time Feare thine owne selfe without another witnesse whensoeuer thou art going about any wickednesse Doct. For without a sharpe-sighted witnesse thou canst neuer bee as long as Gods Intelligencer and Spie conscience is within thee which seeth in the greatest darkenesse heareth the softest whisperings and Elisha-like knoweth what is 2. King 6. 8. contriued in the most priuate counsels of the Aramites This saw well enough when Achan hid the Iosh 7. wedge of gold in the earth Iosh 7. This looked Dauid in the face and made him blush when he 2. Sam. 11. sought to haue his vnlawfull pleasure of Bethsheba This beheld the Idolizing Elders of Israel Ezek. 8. 12. Ezek. 8. when in their secret Oratories offering incense to their Images they blest themselues with this base delusion Tush God sees vs not This beholdeth the blood-sucking Vsurer in stead of lending and looking for nothing againe as Christ commandeth eating Luk. 5. 35. Deut. 23. 19. out and consuming his needy Brother to the bare bones which God forbiddeth Exod. 22. 25. This looketh vpon the crafty Merchant selling dayes and moneths and yeeres at a higher rate then his wares and if they bee too light or too deare by false measures and oathes making amends for both secretly checks him for making guile his gaine and holding the ballance Mica 6. 10. of deceit in his hand the treasures of iniquity in his house Mic. 6. and if he amend not will openly prooue it vpon him that whatsoeuer is gotten by craft and cruelty the diuels Alchimy is as wild-fire in the purse and shall at length turne to Banqueruptisme and beggery To be short conscience as a close Intelligencer is priuie to the secretest actions and intentions of euery corrupt Iudge which turneth Amos 6. 12. the fruit of righteousnesse into Wormewood Amos 6. and by not pressing iustice on the vniust suffereth the iust to bee oppressed with iniustice Ier. 5. 28. Ier 5. Of euery corrupt Lawyer who helpeth his Clyents cause as the Woolfe did the sheepe of his cough by sucking his blood who by quirkes and deuices varnisheth falsehood and wrong and iustifying the wicked for Esa 5. 18. a reward taketh away the righteousnesse of the righteous from him Of euery corrupt Iuror Questman which in his quicke preiudiciall conceit resolueth on the verdict before the cause be opened and euidences produced and of euery corrupt Witnesse who mocketh at Iudgement Prou. 19. 28. Prou. 19. And with the hired rake-hels of Iezabel making no bones to sweare and forsweare to the dishonour of God hurt of his neighbour delusion of the Iudge and confusion of his owne soule beareth rash and vnrighteous testimony in matters controuersed Thus the conscience of these and of euery of these vieweth and knoweth what they doe or intend to doe and if it perceiue that they wittingly and wilfully doe transgresse will not spare to tell them to their faces one by one as