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A00643	The souls looking-glasse lively representing its estate before God: with a treatise of conscience; wherein the definitions and distinctions thereof are unfolded, and severall cases resolved: by that reverend and faithfull minister of the Word, William Fenner, B.D. sometimes fellow of Pembroke-hall in Cambridge, and late parson of Rochford in Essex.	Fenner, William, 1600-1640.; Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1640 (1640)	STC 10779; ESTC S101939	116,565	318

estate before God And that hath made way now to a treatise of con●cience which will shew us what estate ●e are in before God I desire to handle common-place-wise And first I will ●●l you in brief what the conscience of ●ery man is I say of every man For ●ngels and devils have a conscience ●o ye may see it in the speech of the ●ngel to John when John would have ●orshipped him Rev. 19.10 I am thy fellow-ser●ant saith he see thou do it not Mark He had a conscience that could say I am a servant and therefore must not ta●● worship to me So for the devils Whe● our Saviour bade them come forth o● the possessed Matth. 8.29 they say Art thou com● to torment us before our time See the● had a conscience that told them ther● would be a time when they should b● further tormented But I am not t● speak of such consciences but of th● conscience of man Now the conscience of man is the judgement of ma● upon himself as he is subject to God judgement Divines use to expresse i● in this Syllogisme He that truly believeth in Christ shall be saved My conscience telleth me this is Gods word But I believe truly in Christ My conscience telleth me this also Therefore I shall be saved And so also on the contrary side So that conscience is a mans true judgement of himself 1. Cor. 11.31 If we would judge our selves that is If we would bring our selves before the tribunal of conscience to receive its judgement Foure propositions are conteined in that portion of Scripture which I have chosen to make the subject of this ensu●ng treatise Rom. 2.15 1. Foure Propositions That there is in every man a conscience Their consciences bearing them ●itnesse Every one of them had a ●onscience bearing them witnesse 2. That the light which conscience directed to work by is knowledge written in their hearts 3. That the bond that bindeth a mans conscience is Gods law which ●hew the effect of the law written in their ●●arts 4. That the office and duty of con●●●ence is to bear witnesse either with our selves or against our selves accusing or excusing our selves or actions bearing witnesse and their thoughts ac●using or excusing one another I begin ●ith the first Proposition I. There is in every man a conscience THere was a conscience in all these heathen in the text 1. There is in every man a conscience their consciences ●ring them witnesse There was a conscience in the Scribes and Pharisees John 8.9 being convicted of their own consciences There is a conscience in good men as in Paul 2. Cor. 1.12 Our rejoycing is this the testimony of our conscience There is a conscience in wicked men Tit. 1.15 their mind and conscience is defiled As it is impossible the fire should be without heat so it is impossible that any man should be without ● conscience Indeed we use to say Such an one hath no conscience bu● our meaning is that he hath no good conscience But every one hath a conscience either good or bad The Lord engraved conscience in man when he created him at first True it is since the fall of man conscience is miserably corrupted but man can never put it off Conscience continueth for ever in every man whether he be in earth or heaven or hell The most base and devilish profanelings in the world have a conscience Let them choke it or smother it as much as they can let them whore it or game it or drink it away as much as they are able for their hearts yet conscience will continue in spite of their teeth 1. No length of time can wear this conscience out What made Josephs brethren to remember the cruel usage they shewed him but conscience It was about twenty years before yet ●hey could not wear it out 2. No violence nor force is able to ●uppresse conscience but that one day ●●r other it will shew it self What made Judas go and carry back the money that he betrayed our Saviour for ●nd also to cry out I have sinned but conscience No question but he la●oured to suppresse it but he could ●ot 3. No greatnesse nor power is able do stifle conscience but that it will one ●ay like a band-dog flie in a sinners face What made Pharaoh crie out I am ●icked but conscience He was a great King and yet he was not able to over●ower conscience 4. No musick mirth or jovializing ●an charm conscience but it will play ●he devil to a wretched soul for all ●hat What was the evil spirit of me●ancholy that came upon Saul but conscience He thought to allay it with instruments of musick but it still came again 5. Death it self is not able to part conscience from a sinner What is that worm that shall never die but onely conscience and in hell conscience is as that fire that never goeth out I confesse some seem to have lost conscience quite They can omit good duties as though they had no conscience at all they can deferre repentance and turning to God as though they had no more conscience then a beast but one day conscience will appear and shew plainly that it was present with them every moment of their lives and privie to all their thoughts and all their wayes and set before them all the things that they have done Be men never so secure and senselesse and seared for the present conscience will break out either first or last Either here or in hell it will appear to every man That he hath and ever had a conscience Reasons Now the reasons why the Lord did plant a conscience in every man living are 1. Because the Lord is a very righ●ous Judge And as he commandeth ●rthly judges not to judge without ●itnesse so he himself will not judge ●ithout witnes and therefore he planteth a conscience in every one to bring in evidence for him or against him at Gods tribunall 2. Because the Lord is very merci●●ll We are wonderous forgetfull and ●ndlesse of God and of our own souls and have need to be quickned up to our duties therefore the Lord hath ●iven every one of us a conscience to ●●e a continuall monitour Sometime ●e forget to pray and then conscience ●●tteth us in mind to go to God some●●me we are dull in the duty and con●●●ence is as a prick to quicken us some●ne our passions are distempered and ●en conscience checketh command●●h us to bridle them We should ne●r be kept in any order if it were not ●r conscience Therefore hath the ●ord in mercy given us a conscience Vse 1 The first use is to condemn that diabolical proverb common among men Conscience is hanged a great while ago No no Achitophel may hang himself bu● he cannot hang his conscience Sa● may kill himself but conscience canno● be killed Mar 9.44 It is a worm that never dieth As the reasonable soul of man