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A91988	The picture of the conscience drawne to the life, by the pencell of divine truth. VVherein are set out 1. Its nature. 2. Infirmities. 3. Remedies. 4. Its duties. Consisting first in the truths to be beleived [sic]. 2. The vertues to be practised. 3. The vices to bee avoyded. 4. The heresies to bee rejected. All seasonable for these distracted times. By Alexander Rosse.	Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.	1648 (1648)	Wing R1980; Thomason E1195_1; ESTC R208720	46,614	212

who taught that the resurrection was already past the Originists and them who say that our bodies shall arise heavenly and spirituall substances The Atheists Sadduces Gentiles Saturninians Simonians Carpocratians Basilidians Valentinians Marcionits Cerdonians and many others who deny the resurrection The Arabians and Psyehopannychits who say the soules of the dead sleepe in the Grave till the Resurrection and then are raised The Saracins and Mahumitans who assigne corporall pleasures to men after the resurrection The Tertullianists who say that wicked mens soules shall in the resurrection be turned to Devills The Pythagoreans Basilidians Carpocratians Manichees Originists Marcionits who dreame of a transanimation and lastly the Manichees who in the Resurrection give new bodies to men but not the very same that fell 22. Concerning life Eternall we are bound to reject Millinaries Cerinthians Nepotians and Mahumetans who place it in corporeall pleasures Atheists Epicures Democritus Plinie Galen who deny any life after this The Peputians who say that life Eternall is in this world Pope Iohn the twentieth who taught that the blessed soules see not Gods presence till the Resurrection 23. Concerning the Scriptures wee are bound to reject the Marcionits Manichees Valentinians Tatians Cerdonians Simonians and others who deny the Old Testament to bee Gods VVord The Guostics and Priscillianists who counted the Prophets mad men The Saducees and Samaritans who acknowledge the five bookes of Moses onely for Gods Word Papists Eucratits Manithees who equall there traditions to the written word Montanists Donatists Enthusiasts Monkes Anabaptists who obtrude their dreames and revelations to us instead of Gods word Those that reject the book of Iob Ecclesiastes and the Canticles and lastly the Papists who subject the Scriptures authority to the Church who account Apocryphall bookes as Canonicall and forbid the people to reade the Scripture shutting it up in an unknowne tongue 24. Concerning Angels wee are bound to reject Sadducees and Samakitans who taught that there were no Angels or Spirits Plato Tertullian and Origen who held that Angels were corporeall substances Basilides and Proclus the Philosopher who taught that the Angells begot one another The Manichees who affirme that God begot the Angells of his owne substance Mahumet who held that the Angels were created of fire and that they were mortall The Sethians who taught that the Angells had carnall commerce with woemen and of them begot man the Nicolaitans who said that the Angels were begot of light and darknesse Basilidians Archontics Gnostics who held that the wisdom of God was the mother of the Angels the Manichees and Priscillianists who said that the evill Angels were created so lastly the Originists who taught that the evill Angels should at last be saved 25 Concerning mans creation we are bound to reject the Rabbins who held that the Angels assisted God in the making of man the Manichees who denyed that Adam and Eve were made by God the Patricians who will not have God the creator of mans body the Pelagians and Celestinians who taught that Adam should have died though he had not sinned the Eunomians and Paterninians who sayd that mans lower parts were made by the Devill lastly Aristole who held that man had no beginning 26 Concerning Mans soule we are bound to reject Epicures and Sadduces who deny the immortality of the soule Themestius and Averrois who thought that all men had but one soule Apollinaris who said that one soule begetts another the Originists who taught that the soules were long in heaven before the bodies were created Platonics Mannichees Gnostics and Priscillianists who would have the soule a part of divine substance the Pythagorians who held transanimation the Nazarreans who will have the soules of men and of beasts to be of the same nature the Arabians who will have the soules of men and of beasts to sleepe or dye with their bodyes the Tertullianists who say that mens soules are corporall and that wicked mens soules after death are turned into devills and that all soules are by traduction 27 Concerning Gods Image in man we are bound to reject the Saturninians who by Gods Image understand celestiall light the Anthropomorphits and Manichees who will have this Image to consist in some corporeall shape making God himselfe corporeall Flaccus Illyricus who taught that the righteousnesse and holines wherein Gods image consisted to be the very essence of the soule 28 Concerning Originall sin wee are bound to reject the Armenians who deny that there is any originall pollution the Carpocratians and Catharists who bragged of their own purity and that they were by nature the sonnes in God the Manichees who will have concupisence to be a substance and not an originall infirmity the Pelagians who deny that originall sinne is derived by propagation but contracted by example and imitation and teach that Adams sinne was hurtfull to none but to himselfe and that he should have dyed though he had not sinned 29 Concerning Predestination we are bound to reject the Celestinians and Pelagians who deny predestination the Priscillianists who attribute it to the starrs and to the fates the Pelagians and Semipelagians who teach that there is no election but that the cause of mans salvation is in himselfe the Libertins who thinke they shall be saved or damned without the meanes therefore do what they list Pontificians and others who attribute the cause of election to foreseene workes and merits so did the Basilidians and Pelagians of old 30 Concerning Iustification we are bound to rejectthe Papists who teach we are justified by workes and by the Sacraments that CHRIST satisfied for our sinnes only not for our punishments the Libertins who thinke that a justified man may do what he list Osiander who taught wee are justified by the essentiall righteousnesse or essence of God and all such as confound justification with sanctification lastly Epicures who reject good workes as needlesse because wee are justified by Christs righteousnesse 31 Concerning Gods Providence wee are bound to reject the Epicures who held the world to be guided by chance or fortune the Stoics and Priscillianists who taught that destiny inevitable fate did rule all things even God himselfe the Astrologians who will have the starrs to rule all sublunary things the Simonians Carpocratians Severians Marcits Manichees Menandrians who held that the inferior world was guided by the Devill therfore gave themselves to the study of Magick lastly all such as make God either carelesse of inferiour things or so imployed that he is not at leasure or sostately as that he will not abase himselfe to behold the things that are here below Thus have I breifly set down what every man is bound in conscience to beleeve what to practice and what errors concerning matter of faith he is bound to avoyd it remaines that I should also shew what is to be avoyded in matter of practice but because I have already spoke of some of them which are most remarkable and rectum est index sui obliqui he that knowes what he is bound to do cannot be ignorant of what he is bound to avoyd therefore what wee have already set down may suffice to pacifie a mans conscience and to make him a perfect Christian in these unhapy times of ours we see christianity was never more professed conscience never more pretended but alas truth never lesse beleeved goodnes never lesse practised and consequently the conscience never more cheated so that in name we are Christians but in many doctrinall poynts plaine Hereticks and in our practice very Pagans or rather Atheists God grant we may indeavour to be what we would seeme to be and lay aside our Hypocriticall Vizards by which wee deceive the eyes of men but the peircing rays of that all seeing eye who sees us in the darke and knowes of our down sitting and up-rising and our thoughts long before we cannot delude our consciences are seared with a hot iron or fast asleepe if they can content themselves with a mouthfull of Scripture phrasses having our eyes full of wantonnesse our hearts full of malice and our hands full of blood be not deceived the Conscience of a Turk or Pagan will not be thus satisfied St. Pauls conscience was voyd of offence towards God and towards men and he shewes that a good conscience is still accompanyed with charity a pure heart and with faith unfained neither can that conscience be good which is not purged from dead works to serve the living GOD FINIS Septem. the 14th 1646. I have perused this judicious and learned Treatise intitled The picture of a Christian mans Conscience and finding it to be very profitable and seasonable I adjudge it worthy to be printed and published Io. Downame ERRATA PAg. 27. l. 5. read Oneserus for Onefurious pag. 41. l. 1. read We must also beleeve that there are ministring spirits pag. 114. l. 12. for heart read hare pag. 133. l. 7. read temeritie pag. 145. l. 21. put out off pag. 146. l. 1. read refuse pag. 160. l. 12. read Carpocrates pag. 161. l. 5. read Saturninus pag. 163. l. 17. read {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman}

THE PICTVRE OF The CONSCIENCE drawne to the Life by the PENCELL of Divine Truth VVherein are set out 1. Its Nature 2. Infirmities 3. Remedies 4. Its Duties Consisting first in the truths to be beleived 2. The vertues to be practised 2. The Vices to bee avoyded 4. The Heresies to bee rejected All seasonable for these distracted times By Alexander Rosse London Printed by Tho Badger for M. M. and Gabriel Bedeil and are to be sold at their Shop neere Temple-Bar at the middle Temple Gate 164● To the Right Honorable the Lord Scudamore Viscount Sligo My Lord WHen the orbe of learning is illustrat by the irradiation and benigne aspect of Princes favours then all things in a Kingdome are conspicuous and beautifull but when the great Luminaries and Patrons of knowledge are eclipsed the orbe must needs bee obscured and every thing within its circumference darkned hence as in the darknesse of the aire men are troubled with strange and mishapen apparitions which they veryly beleeve are reall visions whereas indeed they are but phantomes and imaginations of our brains which upon the introduction of a candle are easily dissipated even so in the intellectuall darknesse men are troubled with uncoth and hideous opinions beleeving and embracing them as reall truths whereas indeed they are but illusions Morte obita quales fama est volitare figuras Aut quae sopitas deludunt somnia sensus Which upon the approach of the light of Scripture and Truth do vanish into nothing In this time when darknesse hath overwhelmed the minds of many men who are molested with strange fancies which they call new lights whereas indeed they are but the glating of rotten wood or of glowwormes or those skipping lights which wee call jack in the candle I have adventured to bring in this little tract as a peice of waxe candle after so many bright torches that men may be undeceived and that the true abjects both of faith and practice may be manifested to which small peice J have prefixed your Lordships name as being bound in the obligation of duty and affection to Your goodnesse and eminent parts in generall whose knowledge judgment conscience and sincerity are such and so well known both at home and abroad as they need not the help of any pen so likewise J am tyed by this small mite to expresse my gratitude in particular for your Lordships favorable aspect on respect to me which I cannot better testifie then by acknowledging my selfe Your Lordships humble Servant to command ALEXANDER ROSS The Contents of the diseases and cures of the Conscience 1. COnscience what it is 2. An erring Conscience how farre it bindes 3. The Conscience how ruled by opinion 4. The doubtfull Conscience not to bee followed 5. The scrupulous Conscience both a punishment and a tryall 6. Six causes of a scrupulous conscience 7. Tenne remedies against the diseases of the Conscience The Contents of what we must believe 8. Our Conscience bindes us to beleeve 1 There is a God 2. That he is one 3. Immutable 4. Eternall 5. Omnipresent 6. Omnipotent 7. Infinite 8. The chiefe good 9. Most perfect 10. Most simple 11. Incomprehensible 12. Invisible 13. Truth it selfe 14. Ever-living 15. The Trinity and the reasons why 9. Our conscience binds us to beleeve 1. the Creation 2 Christs Incarnation 3. That in him were the Passions of fear anger and sorrow and how 4. That in him were two wills 5. That his Mother was a perpetuall Virgin 6. And the Mother of God 7. And that Christ was accessary to his owne death how 8 And that in his death the divinity was not separate from his body 9. And that hee rose the third day with the scarres of his woundes 10. And that he ascended above all heaven 11. And that he sits at his Fathers right hand 12. And that he is Judge of the quick and dead 10. Our Consicence bindes us to believe that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Son as well as from the Father 11. Wee are bound to beleeve the unitie and universalitie of the Church 12. And the communion of the Saluts with Christ and among themselves 13. And that God only forgives sins 14. And that our bodies shall rise againe 15. And that there is an Eternall life of glory after this of Nature and Grace 16. Our Conscience bindes us to beleeve the truth and authority of Scripture 17. We are bound to beleeve that there are An gels 18. And that God created man whose body he made of earth and infused his soule which soule is immortall and not by traduction and how infected with originall sinne 19. We are bound to believe the doctrine of predestination 20. Our Conscience bindes us to beleeve that wee are justified by Christs Righteousnesse or by his active and passive obedience 21. And we are bound to beleive that the good and evill things of this life come to passe by Gods providence Contents of what we must practise 1. Our Conscience bindes us to feare love and obey God 2. To call upon God when where and how but not to use imprecations 3. Wee are not strictly bound to certaine houres places and gestures 4. We are bound sometimes to fast 5. And to make confession of our faith 6. And to detest openly Idolatry and sin 7. And to flye when we are persecuted 8. And to heare Gods Word how 9. And to heare profane Ministers and to receive from them the Sacraments when there is no other meanes 10. Parents are bound in Conscience to bring their Children to Baptisme 11. God-Fathers also are bound in Conscience to see there God-sons performe what they promise in Baptisme 12. What in conscience wee are bound to performe who have beene baptised 13. We are bound in conscience to receive the Lords Supper when and how 14. The Minister is bound to give and the people to receive the Cup 15. Wee are bound in conscience to love one another 16. And to worship God onely not Angels Saints or Christs humanity 17. We are bound to sweare only by God and not by the creatures 18. Christians may sweare with a safe conscience why and how 19. We are bound in conscience to keepe our oathes though to our prejudice 20. We must not falsifie the oath which we sweare by the creatures 21. What oathes are not to bee required 22. Vnlawsull oathes must not bee kept 23. Nor oathes made to our Neighbours prejudice 24. Nor oathes made by them who are not of their owne power 25. Equivocation in oathes unlawfull 26. What oathes must be kept that are forced 27. What erroneous oathes must bee kept 28. We must not make one sweare a falshood though he think it to be true 29. A second oath contrary to the former that was lawfull must not be kept 30. The oath must bee kept whose forme remaines 31. The oath ex officio unlawfull 32. The oath to conceale a Thiefe must be broken 33. What vowes we must make and keep