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A69044	A sermon necessarie for these times shewing the nature of conscience, with the corruptions thereof, and the repairs or means to inform it with right knowledge, and stirre it up to upright practise, and how to get and keep a good conscience. To which is adjoyned a necessarie, brief, and pithy treatise af [sic] the ceremonies of the Church of England. By Anthony Cade Batch. of Divinitie.	Cade, Anthony, 1564?-1641.	1639 (1639)	STC 4330; ESTC S107399	57,371	130

Gods word how to carrie our selves purely and profitably therein This must be our a Psal 119.105 lamp and light our b vers 24. delight and counsellour to make us wiser then our c vers 98. enemies d vers 99. teachers e vers 100. ancients f Matt. 10.16 wise as serpents innocent as doves the onely way to g Psal 119.9 11. cleanse our wayes and make them h Josh 1.7 8. prosper This as David said was the blessed mans practise i Psal 1.2 day and night Shall the wicked k Psal 36.4 devise mischief upon their beds and shall not the religious meditate upon goodnesse to be performed sinne to be avoided Conscience to be kept cleare Shall men studie upon the Princes laws to live securely here and not Gods people upon Gods laws to live happily for ever God commandeth Deut. 6.7 8 9 Thou shalt talk of my laws when thou liest down and when thou risest up or sittest in thy house or walkest in the way they shall be in thy heart hand forehead posts and gates Therefore let us learn and consider our dutie beforehand and make vows to perform it resolving never to be withdrawn from it by fear favour lucre pleasure or any earthly thing and pray to God to give us his grace and Spirit for constancie heedfulnesse and good successe therein Secondly at night before we sleep let us look upon our chronicle and search in that book of our Conscience what we have said or done that day Psal 119.59 I thought upon my wayes saith David and turned my feet unto thy testimonies I made haste and delayed not to keep thy commandments The golden verses of Pythagoras taught naturall men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pythag. aur carm Chrysost in Psal 50. hom 2. Antequam veniat tibi somnus profer in medium codicem Conscientiam tuam reminiscere peccata tua si quid in verbo sacto cogitatione peccâsti Not to admit sleep into their eyes till they had thrice run over all they had done that day that they might detest and amend the evil delight in the good and continue in it S. Chrysostome teacheth the same to Christians Before the approach of sleep saith he produce thy book thy Conscience and remember wherein thou hast offended in word deed or thought And Eusebius Emissenus saith Let every soul speak to it self in the secret of his heart How have I spent this day without sinne without envie backbiting murmuring have I profited my self or any other by good deeds or edification have I not lied sworn amisse yeelded to my lusts done hurt to some body who shall restore me this day which I have lost in vanitie or spent in evil Optimus ille Trapezita saith Climachus He keeps his books evenest his layings out and his comings in that every night books all his receits and expenses and makes all straight before he sleep We should so search our Consciences and judge our selves without partialitie that when we come before the Judge Coelo descendit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Juven Domine noverim me noverim te Bern. Psal 132.3 4 5. he may say I need not judge this man for he hath judged himself alreadie 1. Cor. 11.31 And as David vowed I will not climbe up into my bed nor suffer mine eyes to sleep c. untill I finde out a place for the temple of the Lord an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob So let us resolve I will not sleep till I make my body the temple of the holy Ghost 1. Cor. 6.19 Matt. 21.12 13. I will not rest till I have swept and cleansed it from all sinfull filthinesse as Christ did the temple at Jerusalem that I may sleep with a clean heart to my God and rest confident of safetie under his protection saying with David Lord Psal 4.8 9. thou hast now put gladnesse in my heart I will now lay me down in peace and take my rest for thou Lord onely makest me dwell in safety Thirdly when our seventh day dedicated to Gods service approacheth as God looked back upon all his works of the six dayes so let us look back upon ours that if we finde all well we may blesse God for it if any thing still amisse reconcile our selves to God more throughly and use this seventh day as it was ordained for sanctification for deprecation for information for excitation and stirring us up to all good duties yea and for almes and resolution of restitution for all wrongs done by us and pardoning offences done against us Thus having washed our selves seven times in the seven dayes of the week as Naaman did seven times in Jordan 2. Kings 5. by the Prophets appointment the leprosie of our sinnes may be cleansed away and our Consciences as the flesh of his bodie become pure and tender as of an innocent childe to our incomparable comfort And these things we should renew and perform most exactly in our preparation to the holy Communion 1. Cor. 11.28 and at the beginning of the new yeare looking back into the old how we have served God how he hath preserved us and wherein we have offended looking forward into the new with purpose to be new creatures as old things are past away and all things become new 2. Cor. 5.17 All this is as possible as it is profitable See it exemplified in an honourable man an exemplarie Christian This is written by a worthy Minister Mr. Jeremy Dyke in his Epistle dedicatorie before his brothers book entituled The deceitfulnesse of Mans heart the late young Lord Harrington be it ever remembred for Gods glory his honour and our imitation His course was to keep a catalogue or diarie of his sinnes against God and every night or the next morning to review the faults of the day past every seventh morning or night before to review the faults of the whole week and at the end of every moneth to surview the whole moneths transgression All this the better to know and humble himself and renew the practise of his repentance And the day before the receiving of the holy Communion he alwayes humbled himself with fasting prayer and confession The Lord of heaven finde us so alwayes occupied that at our death we may receive that blessed welcome for the well employing of our times and talents Matth. 25.21 Well done thou good and faithfull servant thou hast been faithfull in little I will make thee ruler over much Enter into thy Masters joy FINIS AN APPENDIX TO THE FOREGOING SERMON Concerning the Ceremonies of the Church of ENGLAND By the same Authour HINC LVCEM ET POCVLA SACRA Alma Mater Printed by the Printers to the Vniversitie of Cambridge 1639. To the Reader DEare Christian Reader understanding that this Sermon hath done good to many that either heard it or read some notes of it and that if it were published with some Appendix added proving our