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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51573	A sermon preached at St. Pauls by Henry Maisterson ...	Maisterson, Henry, d. 1671.	1641 (1641)	Wing M304; ESTC R10882	18,210	30

hardnesse of heart a reprobate sense c. Ever praying as the Church Letany directeth us From all false doctrine heresie from hardnesse of heart and contempt of thy word and commandments good Lord deliver us And Grant we beseech the O Lord that we may never make shipwrack of faith and good conscience the Ark and ship wherein faith is preserved And so I proceed to a just censure of those that neglect integrity of conscience and here it is no lesse then a wonder to behold how conscience is neglected on every side which yet is not so wonderfull as lamentable The covetous man sells the integrity of his conscience for a little red and white earth one of the basest things in the world if we except the party that adores it and maketh it his God which when he hath got the Chest he putetth it into may be said to possesse it as truly as he For it keepeth it clausum possidet arca Jovem and he doth no more For he is afraid to use it Quaerit inventis miser abstinet timet uti The ambitious man selleth it for the thing called Honour which can neither be got nor enjoyed without labour and travail Fructus honos oneris fructus honoris onus And therefore the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth honour cometh à radice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies ponderosum esse to be heavy or burthensome To which we may apply that of St. Augustine Qui te amat non te cognoscit qui te contemnunt ipsi te intelligunt The envious man for a little 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or a short rejoycing at the misery of his brethren The vain glorious man for the breath of the multitude which he can enjoy no longer then he is every mans servant Vniversis singulisque servit servus gloriae The adulterer for a momentany dalliance which perhaps leaveth rottennesse behind it in his bones The proud person that doteth upon apparell the thing that blazons mans downfall and the devils conquest puts of integrity of conscience as a wear out of fashion to put on a phantastick garment which may force the beholders into wonder not so much at the strangenesse of the unwonted habit as the monstrous folly of the party that wears it Nazianzen affords these no better a name then silk-wormes or butterflies and doubtlesse such ridiculous creatures they are in the eyes of God and his Saints and Angels who value not the adorning of the outward man but the comely ornament of an upright and undefiled conscience The beastly intemperate drunkard and glutton pardon the weaknesse of the expression chops away the integrity of his conscience for a sinne which turnes men into swine with such devilish charms that they would not leave their bruitish nature for their former reason or if you will for a pleasure scarce two fingers long quae non durat nisi quantum durat transitus ille per gulam which continues but whilst the meat passeth from mouth to stomach and that too is but an anteambulo to usher in a thousand pains and distempers Such pleasures as these are but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 deceitfull mistresses or rather 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bitter-sweet delights or pleasures mixt with pain Of which St. Cyprian excellently Voluptatem vicisse voluptas est maxima The greatest pleasure is to overcome these pleasures The sacrilegious Church-robber puts out the integrity of his conscience by putting forth his unhallowed hand to purloyn that which is sacred and to eat the forbidden fruit upon which God hath set a noli me tangere This stole a good conscience from Adam and cast him out of paradise whilst he robbed God of his forbidden fruit and I fear it hath deprived many a sonne of Adam not onely of the integrity of his conscience but of his earthly inheritance I le adde but one instance more and that is those restlesse spirits whose cheif study it is without call from God by wicked contrivement and sinfull practices to enervate and weaken that wholesome established government which through the provident care of vertuous kings and religious parliaments hath a longe time flourished and still doth flourish thanks be to God and a good King both in Church and state These sell integrity of conscience for swarms of discontented thoughts whereby they do but turn themselves into hives of unnumbred cares sorrows and passions make themselves in an especiall manner the outlawryes of heaven and sometimes procure their own just and deserved punishment Thus I have run through some sinnes no lesse dangerous then common it would not be hard were it not too tedious to do the like in all professions but I 'le onely instance in one without private spleen to place or person and that is the unconscionable tradesman And for the rest because time will not permit I leave their own consciences to make the application A man would blesse himself to think what a world of mysteries are found out in every trade what tricking and counterfesance to delude the sense what intricate devices of sophistry dissimulation what lying equivocating perhaps swearing and forswearing and all this for the getting of a little mony which when it is lawfully got is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luke 16.9 that is not Mamon about which the sonnes of men use to be unrighteous as some understand the words but Mamona fallax so Beza that is deceivable and uncertain riches when compassed by lawfull means and no fit objects for us to trust upon being such things as are but got out of the bowels of the earth and which they that have them are forced many times like Euclio in Plautus to hide there again And yet notwithstanding how ordinary is it with men for the getting of this trash to transgresse both against religion and reason as if they hoped that after this life there were nothing to be hoped for and to violate the laws of justice in their unequall weights and measures in their abusing ignorant and unskilfull chapmen whereas commutative justice observes proportionem arithmeticam an arithmeticall proportion which is immutably one and the same in respect of all persons of what quality soever Such as these sell integrity of conscience for gain and yet gain nothing by that bargain but the losse of their souls whilst with the golden book they swallow down the worm of conscience and barter away their own eternall happinesse for very trifles which if they did but like the good merchant buy that pearl our Saviour speaks of Matth. 13. should as farre as were convenient as a mantissa or an overplus be cast in at their bargain But if any shall make profession of religion profits stirrup to get up by and bait craft with humility rough casting his countenance as if by an hypocriticall monopoly he had ingrost all honesty and integrity of conscience that he may the more easily deceive his case is farre worse then the