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A57545	The good Samaritan; or an exposition on that parable Luke X. ver. XXX----XXXVIII. A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell amongst theeves, &c. By Nehemiah Rogers, preacher of the gospel.; Mirrour of mercy, and that on Gods part and mans. Part II	Rogers, Nehemiah, 1593-1660.	1658 (1658)	Wing R1823A; ESTC R222130	165,186	261

Chrysostome in Mat. 22. He telleth us that by Neighbour is understood Christ Iesus He as you have heard is the true Samaritane that powred in both Oyle and Wine into our soares and this is a truth without all Question Vse The Prophet once cried O ye heavens drop downe righteousnesse as if the Earth had quite lost it being taken up above the Clouds We must expect that the Heavens shall send this good Neighbour to us Why seeke wee the living amongst the dead Hee is risen he is not here But the same Iesus who is ascended shall likewise once more descend and come amongst us And if we be as we ought to be the world shall then be well amended with us and be worth the dwelling in when such a Neighbour shall be injoyed Thinkest thou Text. This learned Lawyer could not but be convinced by this Parable propounded and now his opinion is by our blessed Saviour required q. d. In hearing this thine owne Conscience tells thee which of the three was Neighbour to this distressed man thou hast concluded it within thy self but let mee heare thy Judgement What thinkest thou c. Observe from hence Doct. It is a safe appeale to conscience for sentence after the understanding is rightly enlightned and informed Thus doth God Isa 5.3 Hag. 1.2 And Christ doth so Math. 21. And so the Saints Rom. 9.1 2 Cor. 4.2 5.11 Act. 4.9 For the further explicating of this Doctrine we must of necessity take some short notice of the Nature of Conscience For I may not heere make any large Discourse thereof There are few or none that treat of Conscience but conclude it to be a kind of Practicall Syllogisme For looke what discourse it hath with God or the mind of man it doth Syllogistically or by way of reasoning as thus Every murtherer or manslaier is guilty of death But thou art a murtherer therefore c. The Proposition is called the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Conscience the Assumption 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Conclusion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Proposition is made by the help of certain Principles in the mind for without the help of the Vnderstanding it can conclude nothing it must have the help of the rule and knowledge of that els it cannot be called Conscience The Vnderstanding must first discerne of truth and falshood of good and evill before Conscience can approove or dislallow or do its offices So that Ignorance is not conscience The Assumption is made by the help of Memory For though Conscience takes information from the Vnderstanding yet by the aid of Memory that must be retained which the Vnderstanding hath concluded If Memorie faile our knowledge is so farre lost for what we remember not we know not and so no Conscience can be of that Thus the word forgotten is made no Conscience of In these respects Conscience is defined to be Scientia cum alia Scientia A Science conjoyned or a knowledge with another as the word imports or as S. Bernard hath it Conscientia quasi cordis Scientia and so he distingusheth betwixt Scientia and Conscientia Scientia saith he is when the heart knows other things Conscientia quando cor novit se so that the Etimology is not to be rejected being taken with his meaning The Proposition and the Assumption being thus made conscience accordingly concludes and this is the sentence of the soule the proper work of Conscience in which respect Conscience is by some defined to be A kind of concluding Science it concluding with a man or against a man Rom. 2.15 procuring quietnesse or vexation So then conclude Conscience cannot binde of it selfe but where the word binds first In short Conscientia quasi concludens scientia So it necessarily implies a precedēt understanding the Schoolemen define it to be Explicatio Scientiae ad factum seu faciendum And some of the best of our rew Writers say it is a function of the Vndrstanding whereby wee apply the generall knowledge that is in us to our particular thoughts words and actions and this is it our Saviour here requireth What thinkest thou This in briefe for Explication now a word or two for Use Vse 1 First It justifies this kind of appeale made in doubtfull Cases whither by God or man to man It may seeme strange that God should take this course and appeale to Conscience But God knows how to make use of it when the Vnderstanding of a sinner is once inlightned as in Davids case Memorie being a little helped Job 13.26 as Psalm 50. it appeares it shall then Conscience concludes for God Prov. 20.27 and so God hereby brings infinite honour to himself and confusion to a sinner Secondly The appeale made to Conscience by man as in our usuall speech when we are wronged I leave it to your Conscience Betweene God and your Conscience be it 2 Cor. 4.2 5 11. Or when accused and suspected My Conscience beareth me witnesse Rom. 9.1 For what man knowes the things of a man save the spirit of a man within him 1 Cor. 2.11 we may state the Question amisse to others but Conscience speaks home Thus S Austin being accused by Petilian for a Manichee answered Me Petilianus Manichaeum esse dicit c. Petilian gives out that I am a Manichee and this he speaks of an others Conscience I plainly affirme I am none of that Sect and this I speak from mine owne Conscience Cont. lit Pet. l. 3 cap. 10. now chuse ye which of us two you will believe And surely this appeale is a safe appeale and very comfortable For if our Conscience condemne us not we may have boldnesse but if our Conscience condemne us God is greater then our Consciences Vse 2 Next it condemnes such as hearken not to the sentence which Conscience gives through often sinning as through often trampling upon Tomb-stones nothing is left legible unlesse it be as was left of Iezabells carkasse the palmes of the hands and feet and a little piece of the skull to know it by we make not Conscience under God our Judge we hearken not to what it saith whence it is that as Saint Paul told the Master of the Ship Acts 27.21 Wee suffer so much harme and losse Quest But doth not Conscience misse it sometimes doth it alwaies speake sooth and as the truth is Will it alwaies give right sentence Resp There is a good Conscience and a bad The good Conscience is that which is well informed and concludeth rightly the bad Conscience is that which is wrongly informed and concludeth falsly More Particularly It cannot be denied but sometimes and in some things Conscience stirrs not and againe at some times and in some other things it stirrs and passeth sentence but erroneously Sometimes it is speechlesse being dead in a mans body how can it stirre then 1 Tim. 4.2 where it is compared to a part of the body that is not only without sense and rotten

but seared with a hot iron These are like Dionisius the Herocleate whose belly was so fat as that he felt not Needles which were thrust into it And this is the condition of many who have lived a long time willfully in some grosse sin secret or open to whom custome is become another nature and it is joyned with a reprobate mind Eph. 4.18 Rom. 1.28 But as the mute and dumb Divell charged by Christ found a tongue Mark 9.26 so this dead and dumb Conscience in the end will speak Or els if it be not seared and starke dead yet it is very weake and feeble through the ignorance and darknes that is in it having only in the mind and memory a few ●●urall Principles as Abimelech had which are altogether insufficient to direct in the particular occasions of mens lives Whence it is that it workes like the childe in the wombe so weakely that the mother cannot perceive whither it be alive or no. Sometimes it could speake and would speake but it cannot be heard and therefore as good never speake Some silence it either through subtilty of wit finding extenuations or subtill distinctions to evade it as Saul in saving the beasts for Sacrifice or through violence of Affection overswaying it as in Ammons abusing his Sister Thamar against Consciences advice Pilate passing sentence upon Christ Or through cares and pleasures of this world opposing and choaking it so that there is no time to heare it as Faelix said to Paul You see how it is with one that runs in hast he heareth not what a stander by saith though he gives him direction for his race So is it with those that hast after the world Conscience bids them take heed of lying cousenage c. but they heare not Lastly Through Wilfullnesse it is silenced Rom. 14.22 When men allow what Conscience condemnes or with Caine deny what Conscience saith is true or put it willfully away that it may not trouble them in their course as did Himenaeus and Alexander Thus you see that sometimes Conscience may be quiet and still and like the man without the wedding garment say nothing but then it thinkes the more and when it speakes not it is writing and will find a time to read what it hath recorded though for the present with may out-reason it wealth out-buy it or might out-face it Sometimes it passeth sentence but erroneously or els speakes doubtingly Erroneously such a Conscience had Paul before conversion Act. 26.9 and those Ioh. 16.2 and such is the Conscience of some Papists Anabaptists Brownists c. and many amongst us in these daies in the practising of some sins as Vsury Swearing c. Secondly it sometimes speaketh but scrupulously or doubtingly If doubtingly then it passeth no sentence either way but stands debating in the mind what is fit to be said or done Rom. 14.23 And this befals many a child of God especially in things of an indifferent nature If Scrupulously then it concludeth with some feare or doubting But all this proceeds through Ignorance or misapplying of the Rule The light of the Vnderstanding is either lost and gone or marvellously darkened so as that we are ignorant of the Rule for Ignorance of Scripture makes us to erre or els abuse the Rule by false Expositions and Interpretations or misapply the Rule according to our owne conceits and fancies But if according to the Doctrine propounded the Vunderstanding come to be rightly informed and inlightened we need not doubt to appeale to Conscience and stand unto its sentencce as most sure Vse 3 Let us highly respect Conscience seeing God hath thus aduanced it It is that to which next under him we must commend our cases and Estates He hath placed it within us as a Judge to heare determine and passe sentence against which God will admit of no appeale whom it binds on Earth shall be bound in Heaven whom it looseth one Earth shall be loosed in Heaven the sentence of it God will second The advise of it we must take in all our actions and undertakings our Arbitrator it should be in all differences to whose decree and order we must be content to stand It will make us honest men and maintain our honesty in despight of Divels It will gaine us credit and become our surety so that we may be trusted for more than we are worth and if we worthily use it it will not faile us in this life at death nor at the day of Judgement What thinkest thou To conclude then as Saint Paul writing unto Timothy 1 epist 1.18 This command commit I unto thee that thou shouldest fight a good fight having Faith and a good Conscience So say I to you this advice I give to you if you would fight a good fight under the colours of our Saviour keep Faith and a good Conscience It was once said of Troy that so long as the Image of Pallas was kept safe in it that City should never be wonne That was a fiction this without all fiction is most true so long as a man keeps a good Conscience safe within him the sons of Violence shall never be able to do him any hurt Let the winds blow the waves beat upon his house yet it shall not fall because it is grounded on such a Rocke Let a good Conscience be clad in poverty exposed to injury yet it gives a blessed satisfaction to all 2 King 4. 2 King 2. Like Elishaes meale this makes our meat sweet when else it would be bitter Like Elishaes salt it makes our drink wholsome when els it may be our death It made Iohn Baptists garment please him when it was but haire It made Iacobs lodging please him when his pillow was a stone It makes us laugh when others weep sing when others howle but seek not the living amongst the dead 2 Cor. 1 12. this living joy in a dying Conscience non est hic you shall not find it here Those Judges knew this who acquitted those two sons suspected for murthering of their Father one T. Clelius a rich Roman the Story we have in Tully who going well to bed was found slaine in the morning the doores of his Chamber open and his two sons in bed in the same Chamber but fast a sleepe upon which they were acquitted of the suspition the Judges concluding peremptorily that it was impossible for the vilest Miscreant to sleepe so soon upon the committing of a fact so horrid Abad Conscience breaks sleep A good Conscience brings it And he said Text. he that shewed mercy on him then said Iesus unto him Vers 37 go and do thou likewise We have here the Answer to our Saviours Demand where 1. The Answerer who he is He 2. The Answer it selfe which is fairly and fully put in by the Lawyer and then Ratified by the Law-giver He that Lawyer spoken of before verse 25. who made the Question ver 29 He is the Respondent How contrary the Glosse of