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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and gates Therefore let us learn and consider our dutie beforehand and make vows to perform it resolving never to be withdrawn from it by fear favour lucre pleasure or any earthly thing and pray to God to give us his grace and Spirit for constancie heedfulnesse and good successe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

used there they cannot reasonably reprove the old onely for their age without bewraying their own folly for in such a case they ought rather to have reverence unto them for their antiquity if they will declare themselves more studious of unitie and concord then of innovations and new fanglenesse which as much as may be with true setting forth of Christs religion is alwayes to be eschewed The writers against our ceremonies cannot deny that the Fathers practised them but they did it say they without examining their lawfulnesse or unlawfulnesse as men busied in those hard times of persecution about more substantiall matters of religion and not having time and leisure to look into these inferiour things See Burges pag. 383 384 627. Thus the namelesse replier upon Bishop Mortons Defence cap. 3. sect 29. shifts and shuffles off the ancient Fathers But 1. This is a poore evasion and abusing of the Fathers as if they said The whole Church of Christ even in the dayes of most pure zeal and frequent martyrdome was so wholly slack or blinde that they continued by joint consent in the use of unlawfull observations without searching or knowing whether they were lawfull or not 2. It is a vain evasion because still in the better and calmer times of the Church when there was leisure and time enough to examine them the same Ceremonies continued constantly and generally practised 3. It is a confession plain enough that the ancient Fathers are in this point fully against them And as they elude the Fathers so also the late Protestant Divines When we alledge Luther Calvine Melancthon Beza Bucer Martyr Zanchius and such other zealous champions as God raised up against the purple harlot or the blessed Martyrs of our own nation Ridley Cranmer Hooper Latimer c. who gave their lives in opposition to Antichrist and were the men that gave entertainment to these very Ceremonies Burges 387. Their answer is Either their meaning is mistaken or else They shewed themselves to be but men as if the Non-conformists were more then men or There is varietie in some of them touching this point or Sometime they waver in their words or forsooth Some of them wrote in the dawning of the day Others lived in England as Bucer Martyr Chemnitius was a Lutheran Zanchius of a timorous disposition or They were not well informed and such other geare Whereby all men may see that these grave Divines were not of their judgement But they had rather cast dirt in the faces of the Lords worthies then confesse any mistaking in themselves So that to disswade these indifferent things as unlawfull pernicious or evil is bitterly to tax disgrace and condemne all the ancient Churches primitive and the grave Fathers thereof yea the universall Church of Christ not onely in those times but in the after-times and all the reformed Churches in these last times and to appropriate all true knowledge sinceritie and godlinesse onely to the Non-conformists of this onely age and countrey CHAP. VIII Our Ceremonies imposed by lawfull authoritie may not be omitted without sinne THe former objections being answered and our Ceremonies cleared to be lawfull both by the late judicious Divines and also by the Fathers and customes of the ancient Church Behold now the Necessitie of Subjection to them being imposed by Lawfull authoritie For things in themselves indifferent do in a sort alter their nature when by lawfull authoritie they be commanded or forbidden for then being commanded they may not be omitted being forbidden they may not be done Beza epist 24. fol. 142 143. numero 6 7. So saith also our 30 Canon in the end B. Morton sheweth that although Ceremonies be humane in hypothesi in particular choice of some rather then of other yet they are Divine in thesi by the generall appointment or permission of God saying Let all things be done decently and in order to edifying 1. Cor. 14.40 26. B. Mortons generall Defence c. 1. sect 22. And Mr. Cartwright saith of lawfull ordinances that God commandeth them by the Church And we are so farre bound in Conscience to obey them as that we cannot neglect them without sin saith Beza ep 24. So teacheth also Calvine Bullinger Melancthon Zanchius Vrsinus alledged by Dr. Burges Answer p. 276. Yea saith Beza whosoever in the Church of God be they few or many do pertinaciously and tumultuously oppose themselves against the ministers of the Consistorie and will not obey them in things not contrary to the word of God they are of all men most justly to be accounted and censured as manifest enemies to the Church whose publick peace they trouble Beza epist. 24. pag. 149. Therefore Dr. Burges saith pag. 230. What Church is there that doth not punish the disturbers of her publick peace more severely then some other sinnes which in their own natures simply considered are unto God more offensive For what is this but an enervation or dissolution of good laws and government Therefore let no such man complain of the magistrates severitie when the fault is in himself Crudelem medicum intemperans ager facit And let no man pretend Offence either of the people or of his own person for altering his judgement and courses For Of offence 1. All the offence that people take grew from the errour and indiscretion of some preachers declaiming so earnestly against our Ceremonies which offence the preachers again may take away or prevent if they will be as earnest and diligent to inform their peoples Conscience aright about the purpose use and end of our Ceremonies as they have been to leade them into errour and mislike of them as Beza saith epist 12. pag. 99. The people also which have been led by the reverence they bare to their pastours to embrace whatsoever they taught without examination I wish them with the Bereans Acts 17.11 to search the Scriptures whether those things be so and to prove all things and hold fast that which is good 1. Thes 5.21 Ordinarie men in eating an apple will cut out the rotten the worm and the core and eat the good onely and spying a spider or any filth in a glasse of wine will take it out and not swallow down all together without discretion When we see a heap of gold-filings mingled with dust let us cull out the gold and leave the dust and neither think all is gold nor all dust nor scorn the gold because of the dust mixed with it nor esteem the dust because of the gold but separate them with good discretion Learning zeal painfulnesse is gold in the preachers embrace it but if any dust of erroneous opinions be mixed with it take not that for gold also Oves estis sed rationales saith Saint Chrysostome You say you are sheep and must be guided by your shepherds yet you are sheep endued with reason and may perceive when they drive you into bogs or briers Preachers yea Saint Paul himself 1. Cor. 13.12 see