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spirit_n	faith_n	holy_a	jesus_n	7,332	5	5.7358	4	false

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

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