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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09400	A discourse of conscience wherein is set downe the nature, properties, and differences thereof: as also the way to get and keepe good conscience.	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.	1596 (1596)	STC 19696; ESTC S110415	85,171	182

men to this ende no doubt that they might beleeue the accomplishment of the promise in themselues Secondly we learne that it is not presumption for any man to beleeue the remission of his owne sinnes for to doe the will of God to which we are bound is not to presume now it is the will of God to which he hath bound vs in conscience to belo●ue the remi●●ion of our owne sinnes and therefore rather 〈◊〉 to doe it is p●…ous disobedience Thirdly we are here to ●●rke and to re●…ber with care the foundation of the 〈◊〉 certen●e of mans salo●ion For if man be bound in conscience first to giue assent to the Gosp●t and secondly to applie 〈◊〉 to himselfe by true faith then without doubt a man by faith may be certenly perswaded of his owne 〈◊〉 and saluation in this 〈◊〉 without any ext●ordinarie reuelation Gods commaundements beeing in this and the like case● possible For commaundements are either Legall or Evangelicall Legall shew vs ●●t disease but giue vs no remedie and the perfect doing of them according to the intent of the law giuer by reason of mans weaknes and through mans default is impossible in this world As for Evangelicall commandements they haue this priuiledge that they may and can be performed according to the intention of the Lawgiuer in this life because with the commandement is ioyned the inward operation of the spirit to inable vs to effect the dutie commaunded and the will of God is not to require absolute perfection at our hands in the Gospel as in the law but rather to qualifie the rigour of the law by the satisfaction of a mediatour in our steads and of vs we beeing in Christ to accept the vpright will and indeauour for the deede as the will to repent and the will to beleeue for repentance and true faith indeede Now then if things required in the Gospel be both ordinarie and possible then for a man to haue an unfallible certaintie of his owne saluation is both ordinary possible But more of this point afterward Lastly all such persons as are troubled with 〈◊〉 distrustings vnbeleefe dispaire of Gods mercie are to learne and consider that God by his word bindes them in conscience to be●●●ue the pardon of their owne sinnes be they neuer so grieuous or many and to be●●●e their own Election to saluation whereof they doubt M●●●●hat are but civill haue care to auoid robbing and killing because God giues commaundements against stealing and killing why then should not we much more striue against our manifold doubtings and distrustings of Gods loue in Christ hauing a commandement of God that calls vpon vs and binds vs to doe so Thus we see how Gods word bindes consciences now conscience being thus bound againe bindes vs. The bonde of conscience is called Guiltines Guiltines is nothing els but a worke of the conscience binding ouer a man to a punishment before God for some sinne Thus much of the propet binder of the conscience now follows the improper The improper binder is that which hath no power or vertue in it selfe to binde conscience but doth it onely by vertue of Gods word or of some part of it It is threefold Humane lawes an Oath a Promise Touching humane lawes the speciall point to be considered is In what manner they binde That this may in part be cleared I will stande a while to examine and confute the opinion that the very pillers of the popish Church at this day maintaine namely that Civill and Ecclesi●sticall Iuris●●ction haue a coactive povver in the conscience and that the 〈◊〉 made thereby doe as truly and properly binde as they speake to mortall and venial sinne as Gods law it selfe The arguments which they commonly vse are these Argum. 1. Deut. 17. That man that vvill 〈◊〉 presumptuous●y and not ob●y the au● horitie of the priest or I●dge shall 〈◊〉 and th●● shalt take away euill from Israel Here say they the precepts of the high priest are Imperia not ●dmonitions or exhortations and they binde in conscience otherwise the transgressours thereof should not haue bin punished so seuerely Answ. The intent of this law as a very child may perceiu● is to establish the authoriue and right of the highest appeales for all matters of controversie in the Synedrium o● great court at Ierusa lem Therefore the words alleadged doe not giue vnto the priest a soveraigne power of making lawes but a power of giuing iudgement of controuersies and that according to lawes alreadie made by God himselfe from which iudgement there might be no appeale Nowe this power of determining doth not constraine conscience but the outward man to maintaine order and peace For what reason is there that that sentence which might be either a gainsaying of Gods law or a mistaking of it should binde the conscience to a sinne Againe not euery one that refused to subiect themselues to the sentence of this court were straightway guiltie of sinne for this did Ieremie the Prophet and Christ our Sauiour when they were condemned for wicked persons but he that presumptuously despised the sentence and by consequent the authoritie it selfe which was the ordinence of God was guiltie Lastly the seueritie of the punishment which is temporall death doth not argue any power in the iudge of binding conscience this they might haue learned of their owne D●ct●● 〈◊〉 who holdeth that they that binde any man to mortall sinne m●st be able to punish him with answe●rable punishment which is eternall death Argum●… Math. 16. What soeuer ye shall bind vpon 〈◊〉 shall be 〈◊〉 in heauen Here to binde is to make lawes ●…ning conscience according to Matth. 23. 4. They binde 〈◊〉 bur●●ns and lay the●● 〈◊〉 mens 〈◊〉 Ansvver The 〈◊〉 power of binding and soo●… is not belonging to any creature but is p●op●● to Christ who hath the keyes of heauen and hell he openeth and no man sh●… h● 〈◊〉 ●●d no man openeth R●… 3. 7. As for the power of the Church it is nothing but 〈◊〉 ministerie of seruice whereby men publish and pro●… that Christ bindeth or Ido●eth Againe this binding stands not in the power of making lawes but in remitting and retaining of m●n's sinnes as the words going before declate v. 18. If thy brother sinne against thee ● and Christ ●●eweth h● owne meaning when he ●●ith Whose sinnes ye remit they are remitted and ●●hose sinnes 〈◊〉 retaine they are retained Ioh. 20. 23. 〈◊〉 before in the person of Peter promised them this honour in this forme of words Math. 16. I vvillgiue vnto thee the keyes of the king dome of ●e 〈◊〉 what soeuer th●● shalt binde vpon earth sh●● be bo●… in ●e 〈◊〉 This which I say is approoued by consent of auncient Divines August Psal. 101. ser. 2. Remission of s●… saith he is loosing therefore by the law of contraries binding is to hold sinne vnpardoned Hilar. vpon Math. cap. 18. Whome they binde on earth that is