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A80475	The deputy divinity or, inferiour deity and subordinate God in the world, Conscience, I say, 1 Cor.10.29. A discourse of conscience, being the substance of two sermons, delivered: one of them at the Temple-church in London: the other in the countrey. / By Henry Carpenter, Minister of the gospel at Steeple-Ashton in Wilts.	Carpenter, Henry, 1605 or 6-1662.	1657 (1657)	Wing C614; Thomason E1711_1; ESTC R209576	23,781	132

by his own conceit and this he calls his Conscience Another is abundant in passions fears and animosities with all their crosse counsels and commands yea and ignorant zeal which though of God yet may be ranked with passion Rom. 10.2 if without knowledge and this he calls his Conscience too Another is possest with satanical suggestions diabolical delusions enthusiasmes and infusions of that black infernal spirit as upon trial of spirits will appear by the symptomes 1 John 4.1 fruits and products of flesh and Divel Adulteries Idolatries Gal. 5.19 20 21. Strifes Seditions Heresies Envyings Murthers c. And even these he calls his Conscience also And thus as Paul said of false gods in the world For though there be that are called gods as there be gods many 1 Cor. 8.5 6. and lords many but unto us there is but one God So may we say of Consciences There be that are called Consciences many falsly so called But oh that ever so sacred a thing and so divine a name as Conscience even among Christians should be prostituted and forced to yield favour respect and shelter to the vilest things as the errors humours phantasies passions and satanical delusions of men this is one of the worlds practical errors and misbehaviours which falls first under this correction And there is a second not inferiour to it 2. Miscarriage which the world is guilty of in three degrees of ill behaviour towards Conscience 1. One is by strange neglecting and slighting Conscience often in its offices of rebukes and Counsels and so estranging it that it takes it unkindly neglects its office and speaks faintly or not at all like that disregarded Prophetesse This good Cassandra will speak no more Conscience one while may be heard speaking to a man Judg. 9.7 Psal 34.11 as Jotham to the men of Shechem Hearken unto me that God may hearken unto you And as David to the little children Come and hearken unto me and I will teach you c. But if they will not come and hearken then another while conscience thus neglected despised and estranged will sit down as discontented see and hear all and hold its peace and for a long time speak no more 2. Another is by stubborn resisting and opposing Conscience in all its motions of perswasions directions and cautions by crosse contrary and contradicting practises still setting against Conscience in every thing at every turn And this Conscience takes very indignly as Moses when Pharaoh resisted so obstinately all his motions and mediums saying Get thee from me take heed to thy self see my face no more Exod. 10.28 29. c. Moses then answered Thou hast spoken well I will see thy face again no more Sembleably men may so long resist and outface their Consciences by obduracy impenitency and custome in sin that Conscience may sit down as abused and opposed look a long time on other way as if it had vowed to see a mans face again no more 3. Another is by Malignant impudent baffling decrying and beating down of Conscience in all its offices acts and operations of rebukes and admonitions by out ragious affronts and interruptions that the voice of Conscience may be drowned be it never so shrill by louder out-cries and sounds of Drums Trumpets and Bells as in those bloody sacrifices of Molech to drown the cries of the children of vain pleasures carnal company worldly jollity and riotous excesses wine Musick whereby even an importunate loud-speaking Conscience may be for a time as put out of countenance unto silence and this Conscience takes most hainously to be thus affronted abused and baffled and so seems to sit down as offended and seeing and hearing all and saying nothing 2 Cor. 2.11 A divelish devise of Satan and damnable practice of the world and this is another of the worlds practical errors and misbehaviours in those three degrees which falls in the second place under this correction And a third which comes not far behind it 3. Miscarriage is the worlds abominable and odious mad and ridiculous practice of misbehaviour against Conscience endevouring to suppresse and banish shut out and shake off Conscience as thinking to make away with it But 't is like that Heathenrage against God's Son Furious and vain Psa 2.1 3 A vain thing indeed in two respects 1. Because it is a thing impossible to be done totally finally though the acts may be intermitted and the degrees may be remitted for a time as if Conscience were put away yet it sticks so close 1 Tim. 1.19 that a man may as soon part with himself as his Conscience 1 Cor. 11.13 28. for Conscience is a mans self in Scripture-sense Judge in your selves that is In your Consciences Men may shift clothes places companies but not Consciences for a mans Conscience is most bold and familiar in his most private retirednesse like Ehud to King Eglon Judg. 3.20 21. it hath oft times a secret errand and message from God to a man when silence must be kept and all that stand by must go out and then it thrusts a dagger into the belly blade haft and all hardly pluckt out againe Though Conscience since the fall of man be grieveously corrupted and obscured yet it cannot be quite ejected and destroyed The vilest Atheists basest Wretches and most hellish Miscreants in the world 1 Tim. 4.2 though they may seem to choak and smother or blinde or bribe it obdurate or sear it by vicious practises and riotous out-rages as desirous to make away with it yet their fury is all vain Be men as senselesse and secure as sleepy and benummed as blinded and hardned in Conscience as the Divel and their own corrupt hearts can possibly make them for the present yet that Lion that lies at the door will be rouzed and that Sampson will be awakened to break in and pull down first or last in due time As it is said of evil men Their feet shall slide in due time either here or hereafter Conscience will be known and found Deut. 32.35 and the things that shall come upon them make haste If not in the day of life then to be sure at the day of death or of judgement when the heavy weights of sin shall be hung upon those lines then I say shall the hammer of Conscience strike thick and indistinctly with terror For as they say of Witches That their familiar spirits leaves them at the Gaol and will serve them then no longer So the Divel that hath charmed the Conscience all the life time that it could not do its office and perform its function well removes his spell at the approach of death to drive the sinner to despair by speaking all at once men were better hear Conscience when it would speak now a little and then a little as they can bear rather then by misbehaviours toward it to force it unto such long silence that at last

THE Deputy Divinity OR Inferiour Deity AND Subordinate God in the World Conscience I say 1 Cor. 10.29 A Discourse of Conscience Being the substance of Two Sermons delivered One of them at the Temple-church in London The other in the Countrey By HENRY CARPENTER Minister of the Gospel at Steeple-Ashton in Wilts London Printed for N. Webb W. Grantham at the Bear over-against the little North-door in Pauls Church-yard 1657. To the Truly RELIGIOUS AND Right Noble Lady THE LADY Dorothy Pakington The Promises of both lives Madam MY Gratefull Purposes long since engaged to your Ladyships service were never yet so Advantaged by opportunity as to make the World the witnesse of their sincerity Difficult and perplexed times occasion too much neglect of duty and make place for pardon This little Book and small Comment upon one of the greatest Books in the world whereof I humbly present you with the Dedication hath nothing to commend it up so high as your hands but the weight of the Subject and the simple integrity of the Author obliged not more to the memory of your dear Father my very good Lord and Patron of undefiled hands then to your own merits and excellencies whereof I had once the honour to be an unworthy Servant and have still the duty to be an observer and admirer As for my self I must know who I am but for this thing here in hand I may wish it laid to heart for a Jewel is a Jewel though wrapt up in plain leather or in brown paper Now that the God whom you serve in your spirit and Family would in blessing blesse you in all your Relations and that the same God who hath so begun to glorifie you in those graces wherewith he hath enriched your soule making you an eminent and unfeigned example of Goodnesse even in this Age will also Perfect and Crowne these graces with Glory Is the Prayer of Madam Your Ladiships Humble Faithful Servant For Jesus and Conscience-sake H. CARPENTER To the Reader Christian Reader THat which one spake of his learned Tractates Justus Lipsius Politicks B. King on Jonas Nihil egisine Theseis Et nihil nostrum omnia and another from him of his rich Lectures may the lesse mis-become me of this plain poor piece of mine That I have done little herein without good guides And though in one sense all may be mine own yet in another not much more then nothing For where I liked the waters of other mens wells I drank deep and elswhere I did but sip And as one observes of Ruth I have sometime but stood to glean Rab. Solom and sometime sitten down Here it is such as it is presented to thy good acceptance if here and there it give thee any new lesson blesse God for thy Instructor And where it doth but rub up the old despise not thy Remembrancer who hurts none by these but himself in the danger of the attempt changing Tongue into Pen and eares into eyes The severer of the two But that which discourageth many provoketh me of purpose to shew how hardy I dare seem rather then be ungratefull to those my many friends who have required this at my hands for thy good which if thou finde remember God in thy praise and me in thy prayers H. C. THE Deputy-Divinity OR Inferiour Deity AND Subordinate God in the world 1 Cor. 10.29 Conscience I say WHAT one said well of Lawes That many good Laws were made but there wanted one Law to make us put all those Laws in execution The like may we say of Books and Sermons Many good Books are written and many good Sermons preached but there wanteth one Book one Sermon to make us put all the other in practise and that were good indeed worthy of the reading and hearing And I know none more likely through God to do this thing than upon this subject of Conscience I may commend the Text though not the Sermon which being good as one said of Justice is a Synopsis and Epitomy of all vertues a medicine to cure all soul-diseases and to deject all book-surfeitings Conscience it self is a Book Rev. 20.12 one of those Books to be opened at the last day to which all men shal be put and by which they shall be tried and judged viz. The Book of the Creatures The Book of the Scriptures The Book of the Conscience A Book of Books for the Informing and Reforming whereof all other books should be Printed and Sermons Preached for indeed what should all Divinity-books and Law-books be but glosses and Comments upon this Text Maledicta Glossa quae corrumpit Textum And cursed be that Gloss which doth corrupt the Text viz. Goe against Conscience The wise man makes as if all other books and studies without this Eccle. 12.12 13. and in comparison of this were vain and endlesse of making many books there is no end True saith the Gloss upon it Of books that are written to no end There are great outcries made against places times and the World for being naught and bad But alas All places naturally are equal being but several parcels of the same common Earth and Air and all times naturally are equal being distinguished by the same constant and uniforme motion of the Heavens what aile places or times or the world They were all good if men were so and men were all good if their Consciences were so nothing maketh bad times but bad men and nothing maketh bad men but bad Consciences Ill Consciences are the springs and pipes from whence come all the evils that spoyl places times Mat. 15.18 19. and world And I know no remedy to that of Elisha's curing the naughty waters of Jerico for the cry there was for sound much the same The waters are naught 2 King 2.19 21 22. c. He cast salt into the spring and healed the waters The water-spring of all our actions good or evil is Conscience Prov. 4.23 and as mens Consciences are so are their actions as the spring is so is the issue The issues of life and death are out of the heart and Conscience The spring of all O that God would cast salt into the spring heale and mend Conscience and all will be mended For good Consciences make good men and good men will make good places times and World Conscience I say Here I find Conscience as in common and in general therefore shall not trouble you with particular context here where is intended no longer stay than while we have to do with Conscience in generall Conscience I say Wherein I propose unto my self and your attention for order sake this Method 1. The Truth of it That there is such a thing Though the Text be not divided by parts Yet the Discourse should be limited by bounds which is so called 2. The Nature of it What this thing is which is so called 3. The Original and condition Whence and what manner of thing

all Scripture given by Inspiration of God 2 Tim. 3.16 is profitable not only for doctrine but also for reproof correction and instruction c. So let this be used 1. For reproof Of three Errors in opinion 1. 1. Error That Conscience in general is not common to all as if some men had no Consciences whereas it is as possible for fire to be without heat as for any man to be without a Conscience The vulgar saying is Such a man hath no Conscience c. But the meaning is He hath no good Conscience for as good none as none good But every man hath a Conscience one or other such as it is good or bad For it is a standing Power created by God and unmoveably set in the soul of man abiding for ever with him whether he be on Earth in Heaven or Hell 2. 2. Error That Conscience is nothing but a sad mood or melancholy sit or heavy damp and dumps on the spirit of a man c. Erroneously mistaking the effect of the cause Whereas Conscience is a standard chained to man ever remaining with him when all his moods and fits of heats and colds of fears and joyes and jollities are over and gone Let Hypocrites and Epicures slabber it with their jollity and daub it with their formality yet their Consciences will be sure one time or other if not in the midst of their drunken carouses and riotousexcesses like those singers of a mans hand on Belshazzar's wall get in the end and bottome Dan 5.5 to sadden soure and spoyl all Prov. 14.13 yea even in their best services as in Cain's Sacrifice when his countenance was dijected there will be something if not in the midst Gen. 4.5 yet in the end to tell them That both their Acts and Persons are rejected That Conscience is hanged or drowned 3. Error dead and gone a great while a go c. But alas these are idle addle opinions Atheistical Proverbs and sottish imaginations had it been no more then this That Conscience hath lain long bedrid and speechlesse c. it had been enough yet it might be raised and recovered But that he is dead yea so shamefully and accursedly dead 'T is petty Atheism to say and think so No no Ahitophel can tell you That though a man hang himself 2 Sam. 17.23 yet he cannot hang his Conscience Saul can tell you 1 Sam. 31.4 That though a man kill himself yet he cannot kill his Conscience which is as immortal as his soul Judas could tell you Mat. 27.4 That no force or violence can suppresse or curb it for it made him carry back the price and decry his sin saying I have sinned Pharaoh could tell you That no earthly might or majesty can bash or dash it but that one time or other it will stare and flie in the sinners face for it did in his as great a King as he was and made him say I have now sinned The Lord is righteous Exod. 9.27 but I and my people are wicked Saul again could tell you That no Mirth or Musick can Charme or Conjure the evill spirit of it 1 Sam. 16.14 16. for his bad Conscience plaied the Divel with his wretched soul And Joseph's Brethren could tell you That time and years cannot expunge the writings nor obliterate or eat out the ingravings of it for twenty years after when there was no other Pursuer or Remembrancer it accused them Gen. 42.21 22. and made them look wistly upon one another and accuse themselves of their cruel unnaturall usage of him Nullum tempus occurrit Regi And they said one to another We are verily guilty concerning our Brother c. Therefore is this distresse come upon us and his blood required of us And now having mentioned twenty years 't is the lesse notable to speak of Pharaoh's Butler's Conscience remembring him about one year after Gen. 40.23 Gen. 41.9 I do now remember my faults this day And verily so it is That as many in youthful vanity and vain-glory do such violent wrongs in bulges and bruises to their bodies as forty or fifty years after they sadly remember in the Aches and Ailings of pained old Age So do many bear out insensibly for a time the bulges and bruises they have given their souls it may be thirty forty fifty years till the hand of the Lord be upon them either in some heavy crosse and sharp affliction or a Death-bed and then commonly Conscience remembers them For Conscience will keep a grudge a long time and is not so soon pacified as offended though it doth not always shew remorse yet it always keeps remembrance though in many men it sleep in regard of motion yet it never sleeps in regard of notice and observation And though not always speaking yet it is always writing taking Notes preparing Bills and Items against that day to come Nay death it self that dissolves all worldly knots and parts the neerest on Earth Man and Wife cannot part Conscience and Sinner but it remains in him as a worm that never dies Mar. 9.44 and as a fire that never goes out Isa 66.24 not on Earth no nor in Hell And thus for reproof of three errors and false opinions 2. For Correction Of three practical Errors and Misbehaviours of the World in point of Conscience 1. 1. Miscarriage In wrapping up Goliah's sword in a fair cloth behind the Ephod In hiding the monstrous miscarriages prodigious impieties and divelish practises of the World under that Religious name and specious mask of Conscience One man is of an erroneous opinion and Hetrodox judgement holds some false doctrine by means either of the authority of the Teacher or of the dignity of some eminent follower as having mens persons in admiration Jam. 2.1 Jude 16. and having the faith of Christ in respect of persons or of prejudice and prepossession sticking to his first perswasion pride and obstinacy denying place for retractation or truer information and this he calls his Conscience Another is of an irrefractory inclination of an heady headstrong humour and propension his senses not exercised to discern between his natural and spiritual disposition Heb. 5.24 the motion of his sensitive appetite and his diviner principle his lower and his upper soul and the former commonly is more obstreperous importunate and clamorous for satisfaction then the latter whereby a man thinks himselfe bound to do whatsoever he hath a strong mind will and humour to do and this he calls his Conscience Another is of a strong strange imagination and phantasie which is a kind of irrational animal conscience having the same relation to sensitive representations those Laws in the members which Conscience hath to intellectual those Laws of the mind Rom. 7.23 Aristotle And as phantasie supplieth the place of reason in unreasonable creatures so it doth of Conscience in unconscionable when a man is directed