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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

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

artificial yet Conscience inlightened is a good natural Logitian As the Apostle told the Christians at Rome who were scarce ever at Athens that they had Logick enough to argue themselves Dead unto sin and alive unto God Rom. 6.11 through Jesus Christ our Lord The original word means thus Exercise so much Logick in your selves and like good Logitians prove your selves c. And thus for the nature of it in general what this thing is which is so called 3. 3. Quale sit The original Quality and condition of it in general Whence and what manner of thing it is Conscience is of God and things only excellent are so termed of God Psal 36.6 Psal 51.17 I say A spiritual thing very sacred and divine much like God as in other respects so in this not easily comprehended A subordinate God Nay some good-natured Atheists have so Revered and Defined it as the only Deity in the world and in proportion fancied nothing but God-like of it Nothing indeed more God like and Divine as seeming to partake of the Immensity Infinitenesse and Omnipresence of God To illustrate the Quality and Condition of it the Holy learned of old time as well as new have many sayings and similitudes For transcendent things need many words for their conveyance unto common apprehensions One calleth Conscience A just and impartial Vmpire betwixt God and man speaking the truth and right Vmpire Another terms it An Authentick and Divine Eccho both of the Mercy and the Judgement-seat saying as God saith If it condemn Eccho 1 John 3.20 21. much more will God who is greater And if not neither doth God One of the Greek Fathers styls it The Souls Lanthorn by it to see her self and her sins Lanthorn But as spirits say some first make the lights to burn blew and at the last to go quite out So the Divel with his blast would blow this Candle of the Lord in the belly as Solomon calleth it out Prov. 20.27 that the soul should see nothing by it Another calleth it The Stomach of the Soul That whereas sin Stomach like the book in the Revelation which St. John was bid to eat sweet in the mouth Rev. 10.10 but bitter in the belly goeth glibly down as smooth as Oyl Conscience disdaineth and loatheth it Fa●tum Infectum and fain would cast it up again but that a thing done cannot be undone yet it yeoxeth and reacheth and exhaleth many loathsome savors it upbraids the sinner One calleth it A secondary Law or Bible Book Bernard Chrysost hodex animae a living and walking Book annexed to the soul of man consisting of two parts or volumes The Law-book of Statutes And the Chronicle-booke of works one for Rule the other for Acts. Another calleth it A School-Master Monitor and Corrector of the soul Origen Paedagogus animae mind thoughts and ways and indeed they fare much alike at the unworthy hands of the misdeeming World for though a good School Master be one of the best members in Church and Common-wealth Quem Jupiter odit hunc Paedagogum facit yet hated and despised even to a Proverb not caring to be troubled with them So with Conscience It is styled by one The House of the Soul because there if anywhere House men may be properly said to be at home Pro. 23.7 and at home men are though not abroad what they are As he thinketh in his heart and Conscience so is he As when we receive Summons from Superiors the Messengers follow us not to our ideling places abroad but come to our houses supposing every man to be at home and there fasten their Scripts upon the door So God's Ministers and Messengers look for us with their Summons at the houses of our Consciences And oh how many Scripts have they fixed upon our doors And is it not pity that this our sumptuous house should lie waste ruined and decayed And by another God 's Secretary and Apparater His Commissary and Minister Preacher God's Preacher in our Bosomes And it is a most certain Rule That that man that will not regard the Preacher in the Bosome will hardly regard the Preacher in the Pulpit And the reason of the ones prositing so little is because the other is neglected so much And The Souls Looking-glasse clearer then Cristal Glasse Speculo Similis wherein by reflection we may see all of our selves and therefore the Conscience is called Anima reflexa The Soul reflecting and recoyling upon it self As St. 1 Cor. 4.4 Paul did to know by it self or A reflexive Knowledge Scientia Reflexiva First the mind thinketh or knoweth a thing which is either good or bad Then it reflecteth by thinking and knowing againe knowing that we know it to be good or bad As men say vulgarly I know what I know 1 Kings 2.44 And as the King to Shimei Thou knowest all that thine heart knoweth c. And this is the Act of Conscience this joyning of the second knowledge to the first giveth it the name of Conscience Resemblance of this we have in the eye that can see all visible objects all things that are to be seen and yet seeth not it self but by reflexion the help of a Looking-glasse So the mind of man that can look upon and into all creatures yet cannot behold it self but by Conscience which is The whole Soul with its eyes inward Forerunner of the last Judgement Another calleth it The Forerunner of the last Judgement the private before the publique Judgement day Praejudicium extremi Judicii as your Sessions before Assizes even the truest Almanack in our own brests and bosomes Tertullian foreshewing the weather of the future world and what shall become of us at the last day And thus for the quality of Conscience in general whence and what manner of thing it is 4. 4. Vbi sit The proper Place and Seat of it And here as between Christ and two of John's Disciples Master John 1.38 where dwellest thou Come and see the habitation is not the Body but the Soul not in the Face 1 Cor. 2.11 no other man can know it not in the Speech no hypocrisie or dissimulation of man can thrall it to justisie his words and deeds although a thousand times alledged It is the Deputy of God in the soul of man Ames and yet here all do not accord about it Some give it as belonging only to the will Barlow for the agent and working power of it as onely practick Some to the Mind for the understanding power of it as only Theorick Actus rationis applicans scientiam ad opus Aquin. Some to Reason for the discoursing power of it driving to issue by discourse Some call it an Habit others an Act others a Faculty with their several arguments Pro and Con This is that I told you before Men

it is so called 4. The place and Situation of it Where this thing resides which is so called 5. The subject of it whose and with whom this thing it which is so called 6. The ground and reason Why there is at all such a thing which is so called Conscience I say 1. The Truth of it That there is such a thing in the general which is so called 1. Quod sit seemeth past all question not only by the writings of holy men of God inspired by the holy Ghost Dr. Hammond both in the New Testament two and thirty times under the particular expresse term of Conscience so frequent among the Evangelists and Apostles and in the Old Testament though but once by the Greek Translators under that notion Eccle. 10.20 Eccles 7.22 Dan. 7. yet often under the general terms of Heart Rom. 2.15 Rom. 8.16 1 Cor. 2.11 1 John 3.21 Soul Spirit and Thought and so the Hebrew ever you can hardly find the term Conscience with them but commonly one of these As St. John who so much abounded with Hebrewismes If our Heart condemn us c. meaning our Conscience Thus not only upon sacred Record but also by human writers Their Paedagogus their Genius their Guardant Angel and the like meaning Conscience Yea by very Heathen themselves in whom this light of Law and Nature is conserved there being no People so barbarous but that part of Conscience which is called Synteresis keepeth in them some sparks of the knowledge of good and evil which the most prophane man that ever was cannot though he would get utterly extinct and suffocate The Dictates of Conscience have apparent impressions in the most Miscreants on Earth Dictamen Conscientiae in whom Nature it selfe shrinks and sighs when it hath done ill joyes and elevates it self when it hath done well And what is all this but the act of Consc their Master-Phylosophers make the soul a building consisting of many rooms some higher some lower whereof the highest is the Vnderstanding and this again is either Speculative containing some general Notions and Principles of Truth Or Practical containing the like Principles and Axiomes of good things which at first were and still are in part left in the soul of man and this even in their judgement is called Conscience And now if the Testimony of an Adversary be strong for an Adversary Why may not this Theological Truth get some advantage by consent from Heathens in whom so much light of Nature and Law is reserved Who shall question a Deity if the very Heathens acknowledge it and who can deny a Conscience if the very Pagans confesse it Nay by unreasonable creatures themselves An irrational animal Conscience Dr. Hammond for there is some shadow of this in a beast as there is of reason some shadow I say whose secret instinct of nature which answers to the Heathens Dictamen Jer. 8.7 whereby the Stork Turtle Crane and Swallow c are inclined to do that which upbraids man is to them in place of that which is called Conscience to man And thus for the Truth of it That there is such a thing which is so called 2. 2. Quid sit The nature of it What in the general this thing is which is so called Conscience for we may with the Israelites ask what is it Exod. 16.15 being a kind of Manna too But let no man ask here of Conscience as Pilate did there of Truth John 18.38 what is it and go out but stay and attend a while For it is a word of great Latitude and of Infinit Dispute and it is a thing much talked of little known and less practised then understood Mllaem ut me reprehendant Grammtici quam ut non intelligant populi Therefore herein the best learning is to be most plain and so I may be profitable I care the less to seem artificial in regard of that we have in hand Conscience I say And note we now both Name Thing For things as well as men should be known by their name The name of it which according to the Etymology of the word 1. Quid nominis both in Greek and Latine is A joynt knowing or seeing together Syneidesis Conscientia Diversly to be taken subjectively if I may so speak anothers knowledge joyned with ours the joynt knowledge of two persons together two Secretaries Records and witnesses one on Earth the other in Heaven Job's witnesse in Heaven Job 16.19 and Record on high so that man can know nothing himselfe alone there must be another besides man's selfe and this other is God And therefore God and man are so joyned together in Conscience 1 Cor. 2.11 1 John 3.20 Rom. 9.1 which God hath deputed to give witnes and sentence with him and before him mans joynt knowledge with God's Conscience I say Objectively of one thing and another the joynt knowledge of two things together A Rule and an Act at once Science is of one simple object Conscience is of two laid together and then with one Act of the intellect apprehended joyntly whence likely it came by the name of Conscience I say Actively also Scientia cum alia Bernard two joynt knowledges together both one and another c. And thus for the name Conscience I say The thing and nature of it though better felt than described 2. Quid Rei yet may be thus conceived Conscience is a Divine thing a standing power in the soul of Man there set and appointed by God to take knowledge and give notice of its spiritual state and condition in what terms it standeth with God Or thus Conscience is the judgement of man upon himself as he is subject to the judgement of God Judge I pray betwixt me and my vineyard Judge our selves that is In our Conscience Isa 5.3 1 Cor. 11.31 Divines do usually expresse it by a practical syllogism as they call it Pro and Con Whereof The Major and proposition is made by Synteresis that is some knowledge of a Rule what we should do in the word The Minor and assumption is made by Syneidesis that is the knowledge of some Act in life what we have done The Conclusion by the act and office of Conscience with us or against us excusing or accusing absolving or condemning comforting or tormenting As for instance To be carnally minded is death Rom. 8.6 But I am carnally minded -Therefore I am in a state of death And so on the contrary As many as are led by the Spirit of God Rom. 8.4 they are the Sons of God this is from knowledge of the word of God But I am led by the Spirit of God this is from knowledge of a mans heart and life Therefore I am the child of God Thus Conscience is very rational and logical it can hold and urge an argument well in right mood and figure though Scholars only are