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A15711 The Christians iewell. Or, The treasure of a good conscience. By William Worship, Doctor of Diuinitie Worship, William. 1617 (1617) STC 25985; ESTC S114443 54,901 264

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are Good and Euill and first of the Good NOw for the Kindes that I may declare my minde with popular facilitie Conscience is either Good or Euill Good Conscience is that which being inlightned by the Word of GOD Ephes 1. 17 18. 1. Ioh. 1. 7. H●b 9. 14. ● Pet. 1. 8. and purged by the Bloud of Christ from the Guilt and Punishment of Sinne and from dead workes to serue the liuing GOD is cheared vp with ioy vnspeakeable and glorious In this Description are contained the Causes concurrent to the Nature and being of Good Conscience which are Knowledge Faith Repentance Peace of each whereof wee are successiuely to intreat CHAP. XVIII That the knowledge of GODS Word is necessary to the goodnesse of Conscience TO the end the People of Israel might feare the Lord walke in vprightnesse of Conscience before him he is euer calling vpon them to harken vnto his Law which hee commandeth to be written vpon the Posts of their house and Deut. 6. 7. 8. 9. vpon their gates and to be rehearsed or whet continually to their children at home and abroad when they goe to bed and when they ryse in the morning And lest any of them shuld exempt themselues vnder colour of Sexe or Degree or Age hee anticipates with a plain and familiar distribution naming Men Women Deut. 31. 11. 12. Children Strāgers Thus the Prophets also in all matters of Conscience send ouer the People To the Law and To Isai 8. 20. the Testimonie and the Apostle Paul writing to the Colosians Col. 3. 16. giueth charge that the Word of Christ dwell plenteously in them Whereupon Saint Chrysostome very earnestly vrging the practice In Hom. 9. in Epist ad Coloss of this dutie speaketh on this wise Audite obsecro Seculares OMNES comparate vobis Biblia Animae Pharmaca hoc demum malorum omnium Causa est quòd Scripturae ignorātur I beseech you harken All yee that bee Lay-men in any wise get you Bibles the only Physicke for the Soule alas this is the Cause of all mischiefe that men are ignorant of the Scripture Now there are two especial Reasons of this Necessity of the Word to the Goodnesse of Conscience One is because it directeth the Vnderstanding and pointeth it to the middle way betweene the Deut. 5. 32. Right hand and the Left preseruing and staying it in all doubts and demurres vpon warrant of the inviolable truth thereof The other is for that it is a Word of Power working Heb. 4. 12. mightily vpon the affection eyther to the battering of the heart in pieces in which regard it is compared Ier. 23. 29. to a Hammer that breaketh the stone or else to the refreshing of it when it is bruised in which sense it is likened to the dropping Hōny Psal 19. 10 Therefore when wee shall reade the thundering Sentences of the Fathers either in their Apologies of the Christian Faith or Exhortations to the obedience therunto wee must not rest in the applause of their Rhetorick but ascribe the power to that Word which made Foelix tremble or rather to Acts 24. 26. the Lord the Author of that Word The like be affirmed of the incomparable sweetnesse of the Bible euery Leafe whereof is be-sprint with Honie-dew For whereas Ps 119. 103 it is reported of Saint Ambrose by Paulinus that Paulinus ad August wrote his life that lying in his Cradle the Bees were seen to flye in and out at his mouth if he literally vnderstand it I cannot easily concurre with him in opinion but if hee meane it of his mellifluous tongue I willingly imbrace his iudgement yet with this Corollarie that Ambrose had all his Ambrosia from Scripture And here we may take a iust estimate and scantling of the Holinesse of the Rom●n Bishops who haue shrin'd vp Ladie IGNORANCE for a Saint haue painted her face and caused her to speake fierc●ly out of the window to her Opposites forgetting that ere long she shal be thrown downe and trampled vnder foot O the innumerable soules that haue perished in Securitie and Despaire because these Iehoiakims haue Ier. 36. 23. cut their Bibles in pieces with their Pen-kniues and cast them into the fire O Conscience thou maist take it on thy death that thou art murdred by Conscience euen by those that vaunt themselues for thine only Champions and Defenders O wicked Church where Ignorance Errour Ambition and H●pocrisie are the foure Cardinall Vertues whereon the frame of Religion turneth CHAP. XIX That Faith is necessarie to the Goodnesse of Conscience THE conclusion of S Paul is very memorable Rom. 5. 1. Being iustified by Faith wee haue Peace toward God through our LORD IESVS CHRIST For it being generally granted vnlesse by the Sacrilegious Pelagian that the poyson of Originall Sinne transmitted from our first Parents hath spred it selfe ouer all the powers of the soule it must needs follow that Conscience beeing a principall part thereof is corrupted and defiled And because the Guilt of sinne binding ouer vnto punishment is that sharp-pointed sting that woundeth vnto Death can wee euer find redresse and succour but by looking vp to the Brazen Num. 21. 9 Serpent Is there any remission of sinne without bloud Is there any bloud that is Expiatory but Ioh. 3. 14. Heb. 9 22. Christs Will the bloud of Bulls and Goats asswage the pang of a tormented Conscience Will the sending out to the God of Ekron 2 King 1. 2. helpe it Will the precious heapes of the Gold of Hauilah releeue it Will the comfortable Iulep and Trochiske restore it Will the Perfumes of the Garden the straines of Musicke the charme of Oratorie or the These Comedies were of all other most pleasant See Ierome Ad Nepotian sporting Scenes of Atella preuaile with it Nay can Delight her selfe delight it Nay can the Songs of Angels recouer it May not the Conscience in her agonie iustly cry out to these as Iob did to his friends Miserable Iob. 16. 2. Comforters are you all For surely these poore and outward refreshments are no more auaileable for the curing of the Impostume of the soule than a Plantinleafe layd vnto the legge for the remoouall of the Megrimme CHAP. XX. That Repentance is necessary to the goodnesse of Conscience REpentance is so necessary to the constituting of Good Conscience that till sinne bee remooued and newnesse of life begunne the Soule can neyther bee Purified nor Pacified Therfore is King SALOMONS Psal 45. 10. Spouse intreted to forget her Fathers House Grande miraculum saith Saint Ierome Ad Eusto De Cust Virg. P●ter filiam cohortatur ne meminerit Patris sai A strange miracle the Father exhorts the Daughter not to remember her Father And lest that moytie of Repentance might seeme sufficient it presently followeth that the Kings Daughter is all glorious Psal 45. 13. within that is inriched beautified with alspirituall graces