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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

thus The bloud of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sinne 1. Joh. 1.7 If we have a good Conscience either not having sinned against it Vse 3 or being cleansed from our sinne by faith and repentance so that in our Conscience nothing remaineth written up against us happy are we for 1. Joh. 3.21 If our heart condemne us not then have we confidence to God and whatsoever we ask of God we shall receive Rom. 8.15 16 17. Matth. 7.11 For as dutifull children receive all necessaries which they ask of their earthly fathers so shall we of our heavenly being his children by adoption But because the heart is deceitfull above measure take heed you be not deceived Jer. 17.9 for many men brag of a good Conscience but few men have it S. Bernard delivereth foure sorts of Consciences two not good two good 1. There is a Conscience quiet but not good 2. There is a Conscience neither quiet nor good 3. There is a Conscience good but not quiet 4. There is a Conscience both good and quiet 1. The Conscience quiet but not good Conscience quiet but not good See Mr. Slater upon Rom. may be a broad or large Conscience swallowing down any sinne without feeling or brawny seared senslesse or sleeping until God in mercie or the devil in policie awake it This is not good it proceeds from ignorance delight or custome in sinne or want of a sound faithfull ministerie a dangerous sicknesse not felt and therefore not desiring the cure 2. The Conscience neither quiet nor good Conscience neither quiet nor good is too stirring in small matters too senslesse of greater such is first the erroneous accusing more for the use of a ceremonie then for disobeying the Magistrate and secondly the superstitious disquieting more for breaking our fast on a fish day or omitting a few Ave Maries then for drunkennes cozening our neighbours or for treasons rebellions massacres of Princes and people but thirdly and especially the despairing conscience which for sinne against God afflicts too grievously and endlesly admitting no comfort of Gods mercie Christs merits This Conscience through the devils strong delusion or their own despair if so it continue is past physick These two are in the two extreams the one too carelesse and fearlesse the other too carefull and fearfull both dangerously evil Conscience good but not quiet 3. The Conscience good but not quiet accuseth for breach of Gods law and fills the heart with sorrows and fears yet grieveth more at his fault then at his punishment and therefore tends to good and seeks for comfort 2. Sam. 24.10 17. So Davids heart smote him for numbring the people as trusting to them rather then to God and prayed that he might be punished and they saved This is a good Conscience and is known by these signes First except in the violence of temptation it holds the principle Psal 73.1 Psal 42. and 43. Yet God is loving unto Israel and O my soul why art thou so disquieted within me hope in God for I will yet praise him who is the health of my countenance and my God And he seeks to the Lord in good time for reconciliation and pardon as David Psal 51.1 8 12. c. And he resolves with Job chap. 13.15 though the Lord should kill him yet to put his trust in him Secondly he is carefull to use the means and hungerly hangs upon the ministerie of the word no physician in the deadliest sicknesse more welcome then he that declares Gods mercie to one thus afflicted he receives him as the angel of God even as Christ Jesus Gal. 4.15 Rom. 10.15 more deare to him then his own eyes Oh how beautifull are the feet of them that preach the Gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things Thirdly he continues in the wayes of Gods commandments usually with more strictnesse and zeal then others lesse troubled And this Conscience is blessed with a happy successe for such men are now in their physick they a Matt. 5.4 6. hunger after comfort and shall be satisfied These b Matt. 12.20 bruised reeds Christ will not break nor quench this smoking flax Into these c Luk. 10.30 34. wounded and half-dead travellers the good Samaritane will poure the oyl wine of his mercie These are they whom our Saviour so lovingly calls even them that d Matt. 11.28 labour and are heavie laden with the burden of their sinnes to give them ease and rest Therefore as they said to blinde Bartimeus by the way side e Mark 10.49 Be of good comfort for he calleth thee so I may say to all afflicted consciences labouring for pardon and peace Be of good comfort Jesus calleth you 4. The Conscience both good and quiet Conscience both good and quiet is that which after due knowledge of his own sinne repentance faith reconciliation findes and feels f Rom. 5.1 and 8.1 14 15 16. peace with God this is a g Prov. 15.15 continuall feast the Christians jewel worth all the world h 1. Joh. 3.21 heaven upon earth This ministreth comfort and joy both in life and death for i Rom. 14.8 whether we live we live unto the Lord and whether we die we die unto the Lord whether we live therefore or die we are the Lords k Rom. 8.28 All things shall work together for good to us l Rom. 8.18 Our sufferings in this world are not worthy to be compared to the glorie prepared for us in the next We have comfort in all judgements even in the expectation of the m 1. Joh. 4.17 2. Tim. 4.8 2. Cor. 1.12 great day Our inheritance is a n Luk. 12.32 kingdome o 1. Pet. 1.4 incorruptible undefiled immortall p 1. Cor. 2.9 Eye hath not seen nor care heard neither have entred into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him Therefore when we have beaten our brains and imagined the greatest joy and felicitie that our hearts can think yet we may still say This is not it August in Psalm 26. Enarrat 2. for all a man can possibly think comes short of it as S. Augustine speaketh Such troubled and such quiet Consciences are both good the one feels the Lord is strong the other sweet the one in sharpnesse the other in sweetnesse runnes the wayes of Gods commandments the one is in the battell the other in the victorie the one in the way to peace the other in possession the one feeds hungerly the other is satisfied both are blessed Now to procure and preserve a good Conscience I commend unto you these means Means to procure and preserve a good Conscience First every morning before we rise to consider as good husbands do what businesse we have to do that day what company what temptations we are to meet withall then to look into our law-book of Conscience or