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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91988	The picture of the conscience drawne to the life, by the pencell of divine truth. VVherein are set out 1. Its nature. 2. Infirmities. 3. Remedies. 4. Its duties. Consisting first in the truths to be beleived [sic]. 2. The vertues to be practised. 3. The vices to bee avoyded. 4. The heresies to bee rejected. All seasonable for these distracted times. By Alexander Rosse.	Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.	1648 (1648)	Wing R1980; Thomason E1195_1; ESTC R208720	46,614	212

put away all over-weaning conceit of our own worth abilities and all disturbed affections hardnesse of heart itching eares cares of the world and to receive the word with meeknesse faith and love to it that we being sanctified by prayer to receive it it may be rooted in us treasured up in our hearts and dwell plentifully amongst us 9. If wee live in such a place where there are none but Hereticall or prophane Ministers wee are bound in Conscience to heare the VVord and to receive the Sacraments by their mouth and hands rather then bee deprived of both for the efficacy and dignity of the VVord and Sacraments depend not on the Minister that convayes them to us but on Christ who bestowed them upon us a Raven may conveigh wholesome foode to Elijah and Judas may teach true doctrine to the people and the Scribes and Pharises may sit in Moses Chaire 10. Wee are bound in Conscience to bring our Children to Baptisme when it may bee had because the signe should not bee denyed them to whom the thing belongeth for to them belongeth the Kingdome of Heaven therefore wee must suffer little Children to come to Christ we must become as little children or else wee cannot enter into Heaven God is the God of our seed after us the promise is made to us and our children the precept of baptizing is indefinit to al men under which children are comprehended children are subject to original sin therfore ar capable of the Laver of regeneration children were sealed with circumcision therefore should not be debarred from baptisme which is come instead of circumcision without regeneration of water and of the spirit children cannot enter into Heaven all the Israelites that passed through the Red Sea were baptized amongst which were children so the Apostles baptised whole Families and children are part of the Families children also have Faith potentially and in their faithful Parents yet God is not so tied to baptisme as if hee could not save without it the danger lyeth not so much in the want as in the contempt of the Sacrament 11. As every one who hath bin baptized is bound in Conscience to performe what hee hath promised in baptisme by his God-Fathers and God-Mothers so these are also bound in Conscience to see the performance of those things which were promised by instructing and exhorting their God-children if their parents be dead or negligent 12 All we which are baptized are bound in Conscience to rise and walke in the newnesse of life to mortify and drown the deeds of the flesh represented to us by baptisme also to forsake the devill the world and the flesh to fight under Christs banner to continue his faithfull souldiers to our liv●s end according to our promise in baptisme to keepe our selves cleane and our vessels in holynesse for seeing we are washed how shall we defile our selves to maintain love and unity one with another being all by one spirit baptized into one body to adhere to Christ seeing we have put him on by baptisme to be conformable to the image of Christ our head in bearing the crosse in our spirituall death buriall and resurrection and to cherish the gifts of the Holy Ghost who by the Laver of regeneration is abundantly powred upon us 13. We are all bound in Conscience to receive the Sacrament of the Lords supper as often as we have opportunity if there be no just impediment to the contrary for by so doing we shew our obedience to Christs command and give good example to others by these meanes also our Faith is confirmed Christs death is declared and the benefits represented and sealed by this Sacrament are received but we must be carefull first to examine our selves that we may come with knowledge faith love and repentance then with a longing desire to partake of Christ and his benefits lastly with thankfulnesse and a stedfast resolution to amend our lives 14 As the Minister is bound in conscience to give so is the people bound to receive the cup as well as the bread in the Sacrament for the bread alone doth not fully represent unto us Christs death and passion neither is bread alone without drinke perfect nourishment Christ instituted the Sacrament in both kinds and its wickednesse to alter or impare the will of the Testator the Israelits had not only Manna but also water out of the rock given them to represent Christ they did eat the same spirituall meat and drinke the same spirituall drinke and therefore they participate of both and if there were not as great need of the one as of the other it had been needlesse that Christ and Paul should use them and urge the receiving of them 15 We are bound in conscience to love one another as we see the love of God in this Sacrament represented to us for this is a love-feast so are we bound to be charitable and bountifull to the poore members of Christ whose bounty in giving to us his own body and blood is represented in this Sacrament and lastly we are bound to offer up our bodies and soules our wills and affections to his service who offered up his precious body and blood on the crosse for our redemption 16 We are bound in conscience to feare God both inwardly in our mindes and outwardly in our bodyes and to serve and worship him alone because he made and redeemed both Soule and body and is the preserver and defender of both and none but he therefore this honor we must not give to Angels for they are our fellow servants nor to the departed Saints for they know us not nor to reliquies and Images for we must not fall down before them nor worship them nor to Kings and Princes for though a civill respect is due to them as they are called Gods yet they are but flesh and shall dye like men nor lastly is the humanity of Christ though united to the person of the son of God to be worshiped with divine worship considered by it selfe but the whole Hypostasis or person of the Sonne of God is the object of divine adoration therefore to give Dulia to Saints and Images Hyperdulia to Christs humanitie and to his Mother Latria to the crosse is to commit idolatry 17 We are bound in Conscience to sweare by none but by God only for swearing is a part of divine worship which is not to be given to the creature besids to sweare by the creature takes away the majesty of an oath which should not be taken but with reverence and feare lastly such kindes of oathes are scandulous and offend the weaker brethren and somuch the rather because they were used and commended by hereticks as Austin sheweth l. 19. cont. Faust c. 22. where he reproves the Manichees for sweareing by the creatures 18 A Christian may sweare with a safe conscience when he is required thereto by the Magistrate for in the old and new Testament we read that Abraham Isaac Iacob Paul and

our faith patience constancy and other vertues may be the more exercised and that wee may the more abhorre our sins and withall wee should call to mind how that the best of Gods Saints even Christ Himselfe have for a time beene deserted 46. Against the feare of death wee are bound to comfort our selves that Christ hath taken away the sting of death that neither death nor life can seperate us from the love of God in Christ that death is a gate to future happines that the death of the Saints is precious in the sight of the Lord that death frees us from sinne from temptations from the inticements of the flesh and of the world from all the miseries of this life and the vanities of the world that Christ will raise us againe in the last day by the vertue of his Resurrection let us therefore in consideration of this keepe a good Conscience waite with patience our appointed time till our change come let us therfore strive to the newnesse of life and to the contempt of the world 47 We are bound to comfort our selves in our infirmities in that we have a high Priest who is sensible of our infirmities in that we have a Father who will take pittie of our infirmities in that wee have the holy Spirit who helpeth our infirmities in that the best of Gods servants have been subject to diverse infirmities 48. VVee are bound to obey Gods commands because wee are tied to him in many Obligations he is our Father our Lord Redeemer and preserver because of his supreame authority and absolute power hee hath to punish the disobedient because hee promiseth many blessings to those who obey his will because God reapes no benefit by our Obedience but we our selves because wee have the example of Christ Himselfe who was in all things obedient to his Father even to the death of the Crosse 49. VVee are bound to carry our selves humbly and lowly considering the vilenesse of our nature the greatnesse and Majestie of God the benefits which we receive by humility for it is the way to glory it makes us capable of Grace of VVisdome and other vertues by it wee are fitted as houses for God to dwell in for God to looke upon for God to exalt out of the mire and to set us with Princes and it is a powerfull meanes to avert his anger and judgments 50. We are bound to labour for the true knowledge of God in Christ without which wee cannot have life Eternall without which the people perish without which all our knowledge is but ignorance our wisdome but foolishnesse and our light but darknesse this key of knowledge will open Heaven gates to us this is that knowledge which will truely open our eyes that we may see and be like unto God it is the true foode of the soule without which wee shall never grow fat and well likeing in heavenly things 51 We must conscionably labour for sinceritie in all our actions because God hateth hypocrisie and delighteth in sincerity and in the inward man for he knoweth the heart and searcheth the reines because there can be no peace and security but in sincerity wch consisteth not so much in outward ceremony as in inward truth and integrity not so much in service of the eye as of the heart looking rather to Gods approbation then mans performing not only the greatest but the the least duties looking not for reward from men but from God serving him as well in private as in publique as well in adversitie as in prospiritie as well when he punisheth as when he rewardeth abstaining not only from evill but from all appearance of evill and that not only in the light but in the darknesse also 52 We are bound in Conscience to speake the truth every man to his neighbour for God is truth it selfe and the Devill is the father of lyes which are an abomination to God a lye is a part of the old man which we should put off and mortifie a lye is so hatefull to man that stands upon poynt of honor that it cannot be expiated without a stab lying takes all credit away from the lyar that he is not beleeved when he speakes truth it breakes off all societe and communion betweene man and man which is grounded on truth a lyar is injurious to God the author of truth to his neighbour to whom he ought to speake truth and to his speech which ought to be consonant to his mind 53 We are not bound at all times to speake all the truth or any part thereof when neither justice Charity nor Piety do require it yet we must beware of Iesuiticall equivocation or mentall reservation which is indeed plaine lying they utter that which is false and this is a materiall lye and that which they knew to be false and this is a formall lye 54 When we are commanded by our superior or Iudge to confesse the truth we are bound in Conscience to do it for otherwayes we fall into the sin of disobedience and by our silence we wrong both God the Iudge our selves and our neighbour and the State wherein we live for God is honored by our confession and dishonored by our silence by our confession also sinne shall be restrained justice advanced and the delinquent either totally cut off or amended 55 The Iudge is bound in Conscience to make diligent inquiry before he pronounce the sentence to judge righteously to bewarre of partialitie and acception of persons to beware of delayes and demurrs by which justice may be put off and to beware of corruption and bribery whereby justice is perverted to informe the witnesses of their duty that they must bewarre of lying malice calumnie that they must discharge their Conscience by speaking the truth that so GOD may be honored the party accused may be either cleare or condemned the Law executed so justice and peace maintained which cannot be better performed then by punishing him who out of purpose and malice beares false witnesse according to the Law of retaliation 56 We are all bound to be zealous of Gods glory and of good works for without true zeale God cannot be honored nor sinne suppressed nor Gods judgements averted nor our true love to God witnessed nor true comfort of Conscience or life eternall obtained but let our zeale be according to knowledge out of true indignation against sinne and true love to Gods glory with true sorrow for dishonoring God let it also be joyned with constancy fervency in Gods cause and mildnesse in our own as we see in Moses and Christ 57 In what condition soever we are we ought to be content if we consider Gods providence in ordering all things according to his pleasure if the shortnesse of this life if the estate of the richest and greatest men how little satisfaction or comfort they reape even out of their greatest plenty if the fullnesse of content and happynesse reserved for us in heaven if the true