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A80475	The deputy divinity or, inferiour deity and subordinate God in the world, Conscience, I say, 1 Cor.10.29. A discourse of conscience, being the substance of two sermons, delivered: one of them at the Temple-church in London: the other in the countrey. / By Henry Carpenter, Minister of the gospel at Steeple-Ashton in Wilts.	Carpenter, Henry, 1605 or 6-1662.	1657 (1657)	Wing C614; Thomason E1711_1; ESTC R209576	23,781	132

it must speak all at once which who can bear Oh 't is heavy hearing all at once as falling all at once once for all when Conscience shall take up those words in Isaiah I have long Isa 42.14 time holden my peace I have been still and refrained my self now will I cry and destroy and devour at once And as it was in the Fable of the blinde Woman and the Physitian coming often to her house to cure her never departed empty but still carried away a portion of her best good so that by that time that her sight was recovered all her choisest goods were gone So this blinded charmed Conscience sees not the ransacking of the soul and spoyling of graces till it be left empty and then it sees and cries with Esau too late for a blessing And therefore though some wretched men by their wicked commissions of evils omissions of good and procrastinations of their repentance and conversions to God seem as destitute and void of Conscience as the very beasts that perish yet Conscience will stand forth and appear in due time and shew plainly that it was present with them every moment of their lives and privy to all their evil acts Psa 50.21 thoughts and ways by reproving and setting them in order before their eyes and making them say with David O Lord Conscience Psal 139.1 2 3. thou hast searched me and known me thou knowest my down lying and mine uprising and understandest my thoughts Thou compassest or winnowest my paths and art acquainted with all my ways And as Jesus to Nathanael before that Philip called thee John 1.48 when thou wast under the fig-tree I saw thee So will Conscience at last say to those ungodly men Before I now speak to you I saw you At such and such a time in such and such a place with such and such company about such and such ungodly deeds I saw you And all to shew it an impossible and therefore a vain thing to attempt the nulling or avoiding of Conscience 2. Because it were a thing unprofitable and distructive to man Hos 4.17 to be let alone without this Monitor and Corrector Psal 81.11 12. Prov. 20.27 Prov. 4.19 to be given up to the treachery of a beloved sin or to the tyranny of a raging lust without this controller to have this candle of the Lord put out which should search all the hidden parts of the belly to have a mans way as darknesse and not to know whereat he stumbles this were one of God's heaviest judgements on man on this side Hell Like a Body without a Pulse a City without Ward or Walls and an Army without a Watch Such or worse were a mans case without Conscience if it were possible but that divelish rage and practice is vain because impossible and unprofitable And thus for correction of three evil practises 3. For Instruction In a pure and precious point of righteousnesse about Conscience Prov. 4.23 To keep it with all diligence or with all keeping as men would keep their treasures their honours their lives This prime Christian Jewel as Instar omnium is to be sought with all seeking and to be kept with all keeping That it may be good and void of offence toward God and men in all actions spiritual Act. 23.1 Act. 24.16 moral civil natural after St. Paul's example making it our special businesse and dayly exercise to have and to hold and to use a good Conscience And that upon this consideration because Conscience is a thing inseparably annexed unto the soul of man there set and appointed by God never to leave him And now here I crave leave for a little digression to take some view of the sundry kinds sorts of Conscience as of lines drawn from the centre to declinate the several climates and regions of Conscience Which of old were thought to be wittily distributed into Four Bernard 1. Good but not Quiet 2. Quiet but not Good 3. Both Good and Quiet 4. Neither Good nor Quiet 1. An evill unquiet Conscience is bad but hopeful because some life is in it 2. An evil quiet Conscience is worst of all the most hopelesse temper that can be better to have a tormenting Tophet in the soul than a Fools paradise there It was better with Peter when he wept Mat. 26. ●5 than when he presumed 3. A good unquiet Conscience is good not simply but respectively of tendernesse and fearfulnesse to offend God 4. A good and quiet Conscience is best of all a paradise upon Earth a pregustation and prelibation of Heaven Heaven before the time Juge convivium Prov. 15.15 Heb. 1.14 Rev. 3.20 Rom. 14.17 Phil. 4.7 A mansion for the blessed Trinity to dwell in a continual feast at which the Servitors are Angels the prime guest God himself The cheer joy in the holy Ghost the Musick peace with the creatures with our Neighbours and with our selves yea and such peace with God in Christ as passeth all understanding The two good Consciences belong properly to the godly And the two bad to the ungodly Whose Consciences are Either too quiet being blinded or benummed or seared and so like a becalmed Ocean to famished Sea-men that kills with kindnesse and destroys with fair weather Perituros lactans Judg. 5.25 and like dissembling Jael offering Milk and Butter means of life but bringing Hammer and Nail instruments of death Or too unquiet being wounded enraged tormented and so like the troubled Sea that cannot rest So that Good and Bad comprehend all Consciences without more words and terms for rest and trouble are not essential but accidental to Conscience Now in the general a good Conscience is The seeing of an act according with the rule And in particular it is either legal or evangelical according to the rules of each A legal good Conscience compleat is A seeing of all our actions according with all the rules of the Law exactly And requires two things 1. A distinct and universal knowledge of every branch of the Law 2. A constant and universal obedience to every precept of the Law For he who is ignorant of the least tittle Jam. 2.10 and delinquent in any particle is guilty of all and so consequently hath not a compleat legall good Conscience But what is this to us this is none of ours as our case now stands therefore we may say and do with it as did the Tribes with Rehoboam 1 King 12.16 saying What portion have we in David c. And so departed For the compleat legal good Conscience is unto us as Saul's Armour was unto David Too heavy for him to bear therefore our surest safest way is denying and disclaiming all pretensions to compleat legal good Conscience to depart unto the Evangelical that we may be justified and saved Gal. 2.16 Heb. 7.19 these be your only Tents O Israel for if the Law as the case now stands with us be

should not sound as old and legal Rom. 3.27 2 Thes 1.8 but rather as new and evangelical For there is a law of Faith and a vengeance on the disobedience to the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ Mat. 11.28 29 30. yea there is a yoak of Christ and which is more admirable a yoake that easeth O mirus reficiendi modus But whither run we out into particulars there is one comprehensive compendious thing most eminently and transcendently necessary to an evangelical good Conscience as all in all Namely 3. The Spirit of Faith in the blood of Jesus 2 Cor. 4.13 No good Conscience without Faith as it seems by their fast frequent conjunction together 1 Tim. 1.4 18 19. so obvious in holy Scripture Faith and a good Conscience 1 Tim. 3.9 yet not that poor livelesse fruitless faith which may be found in apostate men Jam. 2.15 and Divels Rom. 1.17 Rom. 5.1 Act. 15.9 1 John 5.4 Eph. 2.8 who are said to believe and tremble But that Faith which verisies and justifies and purifies and pacifies and conquereth and saveth This this is the Faith For the image of God wherein man was first created was not more necessary to the attaining of a legal good Conscience than this Faith so invested with such gracious properties is to the accomplishing of an evangelical For what availeth the knowledge of Law and Gospel and so much Faith as to give credence to the truth of the precepts and promises and threats without that personal peculiar proper Faith whereby Christ is applied in particular with all his benefits to each believing soul So that without Faith no evangelical good Conscience Whence here is the difference betwixt the compleatnesse of a legal and evangelical good Conscience That requireth many acts to perfect it Deut. 26.27 Jam. 2.10 one sinful commission or omission is enough to wrack and spoyl it This requires but one only to compleat it one act of believing uniteth to Christ by which union man is made partaker of the all-sufficient obedience of Christ which is the sole and absolute object matter of an evangelical good Conscience For as one act of Adam brake the whole Decalogue so one act of faith in Christ will perfectly fulfil it But not the habit without the act nor the act without the object maketh an evangelical good Conscience and justifies For the whole obedience of Christ typified by the whole Lamb to be eaten and accounted for Exod. 12.4 10. is it that satisfies the justice of the Law which when by faith we are conjoyned to him is made all ours And therefore Faith and Christ's blood Christ's Blood are here conjoyned in one as to an evangelical good Conscience As no good Conscience without faith So No good Conscience without Christ's blood A good Conscience is most beholding unto the blood of Christ for its goodness as the only price of it the material and meritorious cause of it yea and of our redemption the graces fore-mentioned are the means of application There sticketh to the Conscience of every man naturally a great deal of guile and filth which defileth and obscureth and hardens it and it hath contracted so much guilt and foulnesse that there is no room for peace till it be refined and cleansed Heb. 9.14 Act. 15.9 Rom. 5.1 and mollified which can no way be done without saith in Christ's blood Heb. 9.18 22. which is all in all For as in the old Law all dedications and purgings and remissions were by blood So in the new Law of Faith in the Gospel no good done about Conscience without blood It is Purged Purified Pacified all by this blood Conscience is 1. 1 Joh. 1.7 Purged and Cleansed -From the corruption of sin by the efficacy of Christ's blood From the guilt of sin by the merit of Christs blood 2 Tim. 1.3 2. Purified and Sanctified from the stain of sin 1 Pet. 3.21 by the purity of Christs blood 3. Pacified from the unquietness of sin Col. 1.20 by the attonement of Christ's blood In sin unrepented Isa 57.20 21. unpardoned unpurged unreformed there is no peace but like the troubled Sea it cannot rest A good Conscience may be like the troubled Air sometime disquieted but when the wind is still the Air can rest when the occasion is over the Conscience is quiet But a bad Conscience is like the troubled Sea that cannot rest through the inconstancy of its own natural motions fluxing and refluxing and the restlesnesse of its own waves as well as the boysterousnesse of external storms and winds so that the Sea remains unquiet when the storm is ended so do evil mens bad Consciences when the outward occasion of affliction is ceased and that trouble ended yet they have that within which denies their rest Such indeed is the guilt and filth of sin to the Conscience as Jonah to the Mariners and Achan to the Souldiers a dangerous and accursed thing or like an arrow-head and corrupt coar in a wound no safety or blessing ease or healing till out and gone And this can never be done but by the blood of Jesus Heb. 12.24 Oh that purging purifying pacifying blood of his that blood of sprinkling so called in allusion to that blood in the bason of the Passeover Exod. 12.22 wherewith the Lintel and the two side-posts were sprinkled and whereby this blood was prefigured Now although about the two side-posts some Interpreters are but little divided yet about the transome or lintel lesse most applying it to Conscience For the resemblance in ancient buildings of those Countreys contriving in or just over the lintel a place to look out at for the discovery of all that knock at door And such a thing indeed is Conscience through which we should look out upon all occurrences and occasions before we admit or open And this Lintel we must strike with the bunch of Hysop dipped in the blood of the Bason Conscience must be struck with faith in Christ's blood the blood of sprinkling which speaketh better things then that of Abel Better to God and better to Conscience Mark 4.39 and the voice which it speaks is peace and be still and that not because blood but because his blood who can quiet Consciences as well as Seas and Winds and that not without faith for no goodnesse or purity or peace to the Conscience without blood and no such blood for the Conscience without faith Therefore the unbelieving Conscience is a defiled Conscience and the defiled Conscience is a disturbed Conscience and the disturbed Conscience no compleat good Conscience Tit. 1.15 defiled and unbelieving are in conjunction by the holy Ghost Therefore as we love to have and to hold and to use a good Conscience in all our beggings beg we this faith of God in this blood For what can a man do with an old natural Conscience without a new inlightned one And

sufficient to give life then Christ's death was in vain Now therefore Act. 25.12 as Festus to Paul about appealing to Cesar so may I say to the Christian appealing to the Gospel Hast thou appealed unto Gospel unto Gospel shalt thou go And an evangelicall good Conscience is a seeing of an act according with the rule of the Gospel And now since we have left the common rode of Conscience in general and betaken our selves to a good Conscience in particular note we that Conscience is called good for a two-fold goodness 1. An old natural and essential goodnesse of veracity and so much good may be in a bad mans Conscience notwithstanding his depravation and corruption by the Fall as to know something of the true rule and to speak truth according to its knowledge The cursed Scribes and Pharisees John 8.9 Hypocrites even their Consciences were so good as to deal plainly and honestly with them and to tell them the truth of their state to their conviction convicted by their owne Consciences It is indeed the best thing a wicked man hath better then his Mind Heart Will or Affection there is more goodnesse in a wicked mans Conscience I speak not of primitive spiritual but of essential goodnesse than in any other of the powers of his soul besides hardlier seduced then any part in man his Conscience stands and speaks more for God his Servants Truth and Name then himself doth or will And therfore S. Paul durst appeal even unto their Consciences though not unto their speeches commending our selves to every mans Conscience in the sight of God 2 Cor. 4.2 And this is one goodnesse for which Conscience is called good 2. A renewed spiritual goodnesse of Conscience for if a man be renewed all the man is renewed all his mind Eph. 4.23 the spirit of his mind the most pure and spiritual part of his soul is renewed also The mind and the Conscience go together Tit. 1.15 in their soylings and washings in their corruptings and renewings And here might be distinguished again and again of this renewed good Conscience Either perfect not in degrees but in parts and conditions of goodnesse Or defective 1 Cor 8.7 failing in some condition of goodnesse weake and apt to be defiled and seduced The conditions of this goodnesse are principally two One Formal respecting its constitution Another Effective for execution whereby it is fitted and qualified for its proper acts and uses As that Clock may be called good which is made well and goes well Now to the constitution and execution of a good Conscience Amesius Honeste bona Rom. 14.17 Facate bona two specialties are required 1. Integrity and uprightnesse 2. Serenity and peace And here also might be discoursed of the several offices and properties acts and aspects of Conscience upon practice but that I am in a digression and must return to my point of instruction For the keeping of Conscience with all keeping that it may be good Therefore take we up and contract unto this evangelical good Conscience Three things are necessary 1. Rom. 2.15 The light of knowledge Of God his will and rule both Law and Gospel what is good and bidden us what bad and forbidden us of our selves whether we be such as God's rules require yea or no Both David's and Achan's Conscience had this light to walk by Psal 18.23 Josh 7.20 some knowledge of God and of themselves by this light is all the work cut out that Conscience hath to do No being or working for Conscience without knowledge of God and our selves 1. No work for Conscience without some knowledge of God's revealed will the only rule and bond of Conscience which makes it to be what it is and to do what it does Men might swear lye kill Rom. 7.7 steal prophane blasphem remorslesly without this light of knowledge 2. No work for Conscience without some knowledge of our selves for the knowledge of the rule doth but as tell Nathan's tale of two men and a sheep without the knowledge of our selves which doth as say Thou art the man Men might crucifie the Lord of glory Luke 23.34 1 Cor. 2.8 and Conscience say and do nothing without this knowledge O say we then with Solomon That the soul be without knowledge Prov 19.2 it is not good The ignorant soul cannot have a good Conscience for if Conscience be not truly informed and rightly principled it will be either idle or ill imployed as working in the dark either nothing or all things lawful working falsly and erroneously And oh Isa 5.20 Act. 26.9 Joh. 16.2 what a potent instrument for Satan is an erroneous and misguided Conscience That will make a man even kill his Brother his Father nay God's dearest Servants and perswade him that he doth God service Therefore beg we God the Father of lights Jam. 1.17 through the true Light to lighten our darknesse being our own natural lights are waxed dim John 1.9 and burn blew to set up another The light of his Word and another The light of his Spirit That the candle of the Lord within it may give light enough to search the inward parts of the belly Prov. 20.27 For the world is fuller of dangerous downfals than the valley of Siddim was full of slime-pits Gen. 14.10 wherein the Kings of Sodom and Gomorah fled and fell Here is desperate fearful going in the dark not knowing whither he goeth especially neer such horrible Precipices John 12.35 Therefore pray and again I say pray for inlightned Consciences for though some may go to Hell with it yet none can go to Heaven without it therefore labour to get it and be not without it for a world beseech God as he hath given us Consciences that we may not want guides so that he would give our consciences light Mat. 15.14 that our guides may not want eyes lest the blind lead the blind and both fall into the ditch Mat. 6.23 For if the light that is in thee be darkness how great is that darknesse Another ingredient to this evangelical good Conscience The life of new obedience no good Conscience without universal constant sincere obedience knowledge obedience cannot be separated in a good Conscience therefore called The life of obedience For what is knowledge without obedience but as a model without a building Act. 24.16 and a cypher without a figure which stands for nothing therefore the Apostle who is upon sacred record the pattern of a good Conscience made it his dayly exercise to have and to hold and to use a good Conscience in all obedience the lack whereof in daring to act against God's rule or without God's warrant causeth shipwrack of Faith 1 Tim. 1.19 and of all good Conscience As in Hymeneus and Alexander Who hath more science than the Divel yet none worse Consciences for lack of obedience And obedience in Christian ears

what with an inlightned one without a purified and pacified one without a sanctified and saved one by the blood of Jesus O plead this blood but first beg it with more then Rachell's earnestnesse for children Gen. 30.1 Lord give it me or else I die And when we have gotten this good enlightned purified and pacified Conscience we were best keep it with all diligence keep the peace of it and not willingly offend it for a thousand worlds And that upon these considerations 1. That to sin against the cry of an illightned Conscience Isa 65.3 Ezek. 2.4 is to provoke God to his face like impudent children in the holy Prophets account for an illuminated Conscience is as the face of God in the soul of man where a man even sees God looking upon him commanding or forbidding 2. That to sin against the cry of an illightned Conscience is to draw upon a mans soul the horrible guilt of Herod's aggravation and huge addition unto all his sins and evils Luke 3.20 He added yet this above all that he shut up John in prison John 5.35 John was a burning and a shining light And such is an illuminated Conscience therefore to go against the burning and shining light thereof is to add yet this above all other evils to shut up our John in prison 3. That to sin against the cry of an illightned Conscience offends Gods deputy in the soul and provokes him oft times to stab the heart dead all duty discountenance faith and hope and discourage confidence in prayer If our heart condemn us not 1 John 3.20 21. Mat. 5.23 then have we confidence towards God and what we ask we receive c. But if it doth condemn us we may hold our peace for it is of greater danger then in case of an offended and irreconciled brother If thou bring thy prayer into God's presence and there remembrest that thine offended irreconciled Conscience hath ought against thee first go and by faith in Christ's blood and resolution of new obedience be reconciled unto thy Conscience and then come and pray for an irreconciled Conscience doth ever way-lay undermine and enter caveats against prayers Psal 66.18 no offering will be accepted till Conscience be satisfied be it for our selves or others bad Consciences much hinder prayer If I have a bad Conscience God will not heare my prayers saith David ye have good Consciences Heb. 13.18 therefore God will hear your prayers for us said Paul 4. That Conscience is ever to abide and dwell with us never to leave a man therefore to be kept with all diligence that it may be good and void of offence Two that were born and bred and must inseparably live together should take heed of offending one the other there is a parting time for all but a man and his Conscience there are none on Earth with whom we shall always live without any separation but our Consciences not always with Husbands or Wives with Parents or Children with Masters or Servants c. But with our Consciences ever therefore make you much of it In one of the Fathers we read a Parable to this purpose Greg. Mor. of a Man that had three friends two of whom he loved very intirely and the third but indifferently this Man being called in question for his life craved aid of his friends The first would only accompany him some part of the way and bring him going and no more The second would onely lend him some means and accommodate him for his journey and no more But the third whom he least expected and regarded would go all the way abide and appeare ever with him speak and plead for him and never leave him Now we are the man Flesh World and Conscience are our three friends And when death shall summon us to Judgement Our fleshly friends will bring us to our graves and decent burials so far going and there leave us Our worldly goods may help us to Shrouds Coffins Tombs and at most Epitaphs and there leave us But well fare a good Conscience this will live and die with us or rather live when we are dead awaiting our rising again to appear with us and stand for us before God at his judgement-seat And when neither of our other friends can do us good then a good Conscience will stand us in high and eternal stead Conscience I say FINIS

by his own conceit and this he calls his Conscience Another is abundant in passions fears and animosities with all their crosse counsels and commands yea and ignorant zeal which though of God yet may be ranked with passion Rom. 10.2 if without knowledge and this he calls his Conscience too Another is possest with satanical suggestions diabolical delusions enthusiasmes and infusions of that black infernal spirit as upon trial of spirits will appear by the symptomes 1 John 4.1 fruits and products of flesh and Divel Adulteries Idolatries Gal. 5.19 20 21. Strifes Seditions Heresies Envyings Murthers c. And even these he calls his Conscience also And thus as Paul said of false gods in the world For though there be that are called gods as there be gods many 1 Cor. 8.5 6. and lords many but unto us there is but one God So may we say of Consciences There be that are called Consciences many falsly so called But oh that ever so sacred a thing and so divine a name as Conscience even among Christians should be prostituted and forced to yield favour respect and shelter to the vilest things as the errors humours phantasies passions and satanical delusions of men this is one of the worlds practical errors and misbehaviours which falls first under this correction And there is a second not inferiour to it 2. Miscarriage which the world is guilty of in three degrees of ill behaviour towards Conscience 1. One is by strange neglecting and slighting Conscience often in its offices of rebukes and Counsels and so estranging it that it takes it unkindly neglects its office and speaks faintly or not at all like that disregarded Prophetesse This good Cassandra will speak no more Conscience one while may be heard speaking to a man Judg. 9.7 Psal 34.11 as Jotham to the men of Shechem Hearken unto me that God may hearken unto you And as David to the little children Come and hearken unto me and I will teach you c. But if they will not come and hearken then another while conscience thus neglected despised and estranged will sit down as discontented see and hear all and hold its peace and for a long time speak no more 2. Another is by stubborn resisting and opposing Conscience in all its motions of perswasions directions and cautions by crosse contrary and contradicting practises still setting against Conscience in every thing at every turn And this Conscience takes very indignly as Moses when Pharaoh resisted so obstinately all his motions and mediums saying Get thee from me take heed to thy self see my face no more Exod. 10.28 29. c. Moses then answered Thou hast spoken well I will see thy face again no more Sembleably men may so long resist and outface their Consciences by obduracy impenitency and custome in sin that Conscience may sit down as abused and opposed look a long time on other way as if it had vowed to see a mans face again no more 3. Another is by Malignant impudent baffling decrying and beating down of Conscience in all its offices acts and operations of rebukes and admonitions by out ragious affronts and interruptions that the voice of Conscience may be drowned be it never so shrill by louder out-cries and sounds of Drums Trumpets and Bells as in those bloody sacrifices of Molech to drown the cries of the children of vain pleasures carnal company worldly jollity and riotous excesses wine Musick whereby even an importunate loud-speaking Conscience may be for a time as put out of countenance unto silence and this Conscience takes most hainously to be thus affronted abused and baffled and so seems to sit down as offended and seeing and hearing all and saying nothing 2 Cor. 2.11 A divelish devise of Satan and damnable practice of the world and this is another of the worlds practical errors and misbehaviours in those three degrees which falls in the second place under this correction And a third which comes not far behind it 3. Miscarriage is the worlds abominable and odious mad and ridiculous practice of misbehaviour against Conscience endevouring to suppresse and banish shut out and shake off Conscience as thinking to make away with it But 't is like that Heathenrage against God's Son Furious and vain Psa 2.1 3 A vain thing indeed in two respects 1. Because it is a thing impossible to be done totally finally though the acts may be intermitted and the degrees may be remitted for a time as if Conscience were put away yet it sticks so close 1 Tim. 1.19 that a man may as soon part with himself as his Conscience 1 Cor. 11.13 28. for Conscience is a mans self in Scripture-sense Judge in your selves that is In your Consciences Men may shift clothes places companies but not Consciences for a mans Conscience is most bold and familiar in his most private retirednesse like Ehud to King Eglon Judg. 3.20 21. it hath oft times a secret errand and message from God to a man when silence must be kept and all that stand by must go out and then it thrusts a dagger into the belly blade haft and all hardly pluckt out againe Though Conscience since the fall of man be grieveously corrupted and obscured yet it cannot be quite ejected and destroyed The vilest Atheists basest Wretches and most hellish Miscreants in the world 1 Tim. 4.2 though they may seem to choak and smother or blinde or bribe it obdurate or sear it by vicious practises and riotous out-rages as desirous to make away with it yet their fury is all vain Be men as senselesse and secure as sleepy and benummed as blinded and hardned in Conscience as the Divel and their own corrupt hearts can possibly make them for the present yet that Lion that lies at the door will be rouzed and that Sampson will be awakened to break in and pull down first or last in due time As it is said of evil men Their feet shall slide in due time either here or hereafter Conscience will be known and found Deut. 32.35 and the things that shall come upon them make haste If not in the day of life then to be sure at the day of death or of judgement when the heavy weights of sin shall be hung upon those lines then I say shall the hammer of Conscience strike thick and indistinctly with terror For as they say of Witches That their familiar spirits leaves them at the Gaol and will serve them then no longer So the Divel that hath charmed the Conscience all the life time that it could not do its office and perform its function well removes his spell at the approach of death to drive the sinner to despair by speaking all at once men were better hear Conscience when it would speak now a little and then a little as they can bear rather then by misbehaviours toward it to force it unto such long silence that at last