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A02722	Tvvo sermons vvherein we are taught, 1. Hovv to get, 2. How to keepe, 3. How to vse a good conscience. Preached in Alldermanbury Church, London. Not heretofore published. By Robert Harris.	Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.	1630 (1630)	STC 12854; ESTC S105942	21,197	47

so the heart cannot be comfortable therefore to those principles that yet sticke in the soule adde some other adde light to light the light of the Word to the light of Nature for the Word is written to helpe that darkenesse and that light is so dimme and small that wee must needes set vp another by it else wee shall see nothing and hee that sees nothing enioyes nothing therefore thou must get knowledge by reading by deducing couclusions from Gods actions to thy seife by hearing and setting thy selfe if thou be free vnder that Ministry that deales with Consciences that sets out God as he is the Word as it is sinne as it is for then we truely know when we know things in their owne notions and colours Seconly thou must make the Conscience cleane it must be pure and cleare before it will be good there stickes to the conscience of euery man naturally a great deale of guile and filth It is much disabled and maimed lost much of its sight and life it hath learned to be idle false dumbe c. It hath contracted so much guilt foulnesse brawninesse by trading in sinne that there 's do roome for peace till it hath a new constitution and be wholly resined now the way to haue it cleansed is to flye to bloud as in the Law all things were purified with bloud so here the bloud of Christ is that that cleanseth from all sinne that washeth the Conscience from dead workes this bloud is both healing and will cloze all our scarefull gashes and purging and will take off all stains an will make vs as white as snow O goe to this Refiner this Fuller this Physitian this high Priest as the Word entitles him nothing will serue but his bloudy sacrifice and that will doe it goe to him as to an All-sufficient Sauiour rest in his bloud without further mixtures plead his bloud shed for sinners quite lost and vndone beg that of God asd Rahel did children of her husband Giue me bloud or else I dye apply that to thy bleeding soule and say I bleed but Christ bled too for me my sinnes are bloudy and his woundes are bloudy too my bloud if spilt cannot make God that satisfaction that his bloud hath and therefore I le rest in his bloud that speakes peace not vengeance as Abels did and in him who quiets Consciences as well as Seas and windes Mar. 4.39 Else as corrupt breath staines and dimmes the glasse so a corrupt heart the Conscience Next when it is cleare from guilt and filth then it must be pure and sanctified the Spirit therefore of Grace must rest in the Conscience and giue it a new constitution it is not sufficient to let out the bad bloud but now wee must breed good bloud and make new Spirits From a naturall Conscience and a Conscience that is enlightened by the Word we must proceed to a sanctified Conscience and therefore we must labour to feele the power of Christs Bloud and of Christs Life and Resurrection in our soules who is King of righteousnesse and peace both Heb 7.2 quickning vs in the Inner man and stamping on vs our first impresse of wisedome holinesse righteousnesse that we may be throughout sanctified 1 Thes 5. and haue a beauty set vpon the soule and conscience in all points as the Apostle sayes and freed from dead workes by repentance Heb. 9. and when the Conscience is filled in some due measure with light and freed from sinne and furnished with positiue grace then out of all results that goodnesse of Conscience that now we speake of whereby it s fitted for its ends and offices and enabled to giue vs a good word and countenance Now for the keeping of Conscience good because I will not ouercharge your memories with rules I le expresse my selfe in one continued Similitude or Allegory The Conscience is a Clocke or Watch in the bosome look what you would doe to keep that in frame that must be done heere First If the Watch be amisse who so fit to amend it as hee that made it So heere if any thing trouble Conscience that it goes not at all or too fast or out of order goe to Christ and goe quickly pray him to set theein ioynt againe as Dauid did Psal 51. Secondly a Watch must be charily kept the least dust hayre iogge almost distempers it so the Conscience a little dust in this eye marres both sight and peace a little sinne crept in betweene the wheeles sets all at a stand if euer thy Conscience shall hold its comfort and doe thee acceptable seruice keepe it cleane giue no allowance to any the least sinne a man may liue and dye in some sinne and yet haue peace when Conscience is not priuy to it and not conuinced of it But there can bee no true comfort where sinne vnderhand is maintained and allowed be it neuer so small a one let thy Conscience haue this to say for thee I can beare him witnesse that he bore his sinnes as a burden and bid none of them welcome Thirdly a Watch must be daily lookt to and thorowly too if one pin be amisse all is out of order so the Conscience hee that makes not conscience of all according to his light makes conscience of none and wil come to naught and he that doth not looke vpon his conscience euery day and winde it vp and set it in frame will haue no conscience in time euery day thou must talke with thy selfe and know what the Watchsaith I meane what report Conscience makes of thy dayes worke what it hath to say for or against thee 'T is with conscience as with Bay liffs and Stewards if you call them to a daily reckoning they will be carefull and vsefull but if you let things runne on and reckon once at the hundreds end they will not watch or they will not be able to remember so t is with conscience therefore often looke vpon it and euery day consult with it The Watch must be vsed else it rusts furres and first begins to slacke its pace and after some time will not goe at all so conscience t is preserued by vse as the stomacke is and all things else for euery thing is perfected and preserued by its proper operations as water is kept sweet by running the Conscience by motion strengthens it sense and sooner feeles its weight by motion it is facilitated and that 's as good as oyle to the wheele of a Clocke therefore exercise Conscience and that in all good duties whether personall or locall Corscience must haue its full walke and that 's very large for a Conscience is to bee obserued in all religious and righteous acts and whoso will preserue his conscience must first keepe himselfe pure and vpright First in Gods worships Secondly in workes of righteousnesse towards man Thirdly in his owne place he must make conscience of his particulat calling and relation and dwell vpon that and secondly for others hee

TVVO SERMONS VVHEREIN VVE ARE TAVGHT 1. HOVV to get 2. How to keepe 3. How to vse a good CONSCIENCE PREACHED IN ALLDERMANBVRY Church LONDON Not heretofore Published By ROBERT HARRIS 1 COR. 4.3 With mee it is a very small thing that I should be iudged of you or of mans iudgement yea I iudge not mine owne selfe LONDON Printed by T.B. for IOHN BARTLET and are to be sold at his Shop in Cheape-side at the Gilded-Cup 1630. To the Printer WHereas you request mee to enlarge my selfe in some passages of my former Sermons touching Conscience against this new Impression I haue resolued rather to adde two new Sermons of the same subiect than to alter any thing in the old and this I haue beene led vnto vpon these reasons First because I would haue you deale firmely with all men in the venting of Copies Secondly because that labour would haue beene as tedious to me as this Thirdly because I haue now added something touching the vse of Conscience which my former text would not so fitly beare My request vnto you is double first that you would be carefull in obseruing stops interrogations and distinctions which neglected the sence becomes sometimes darke sometimes imperfect and none vt all as is tobee seene in some passages of the Sermons on Prouerbs and Samuel Secondly that you will seuer these so from the former as that who so pleases may haue them alone Thus resting in your care for the due publishing of all I commend you and the worke to the Lords blessing Hanwell Oct. 8. Yours ROBERT HARRIS TWO SERMONS VVHEREIN VVE are taught 1. How to get 2. How to keepe 3. How to vse a good CONSCIENCE HEB. 13. 18. Pray for vs for we trust we haue a good Conscience in all things willing to liue honestly OF the Apostles motion so much Followeth now his reason where first the Assertion I haue a good Conscience in all things Secondly the Euidence and confirmation I am perswaded so vpon this ground I desire to liue honestly The points we note are two First the Apostle secures the thing a good Conscience Secondly hee rests in the confirmation of it From the first this Euery Christian should so order the matter that hee may truly say I haue a good Conscience This the thing that must be made good and assured to wit a good conscience Here lest it be objected that the point holds in such as the Apostle was Preachers who must be men of Conscience not in all Wee must doe two things first see what warrant we haue for the raising next for practizing of the point Our warrant for deducing a generall from this particular is fetcht first from the end and vse of the word in generall namely our instruction as appeares Rom. 15.4 and 2 Tim. 3.16 Euery Christian should so order the matter that hee may truly say I haue a good Conscience This the thing that must be made good and assured to wit a good conscience Here lest it be objected that the point holds in such as the Apostle was Preachers who must be men of Conscience not in all Wee must doe two things first see what warrant we haue for the raising next for practizing of the point Our warrant for deducing a generall from this particular is fetcht first from the end and vse of the word in generall namely our instruction as appeares Rom. 15.4 and 2 Tim. 3.16 Secondly from that generall precept of this Apostle Phil. 4.8 9. Furthermore brethren whatsoeuer things are true whatsoeuer things are honest whatsoeuer things are iust whatsoeuer things are pure whatsoeuer things pertaine to loue whatsoeuer things are of good report if there be any vertue if there be any praise thinke on these things Which yee haue both learned and receiued and heard and seene in mee those things doe and the God of peace shall be with you Thirdly from the like president Heb. 13.5 6. Let your conuersation be without couetousnesse and be content with those things that yee haue for hee hath said I will not faile thee neither forsake thee So that we may baldly say The Lord is my helper neither will I feare what man can doe vnto me Whence the inference is to all from one Ioshuah Fourthly from Reason though examples as examples simply binde not yet reason and precept that is to say the Law of Nature and of God doe binde and therefore when the Example is grounded vpon common equity and hath nothing priuate in it vnlesse haply for degree onely and is backt by precept then it 's binding Now thus stands the case here First A man as he is rationall much more as he is a Christian is to regard his Conscience Secondly the Apostle not onely in his Ministery but in all other Relations and passages of life minded this Acts 23.1 24.16 nay further as his life was rifled into by the aduersaries with his Doctrine so he Apologizes for that with this and grounds his perswasion as much vpon his Christian liuing as his faithfull preaching Lastly the precept reaches all as well as Preachers and there 's as good reason why we as well as they should assure conscience For the first the precept is no lesse large then plain first for getting secondly keeping thirdly vsing of a good Conscience For getting we are called vpon to wash the heart Ierem. 4.14 To wash off all filthinesse of spirit 2 Cor. 7.1 to study vniuersall holinesse 1 Thes 5. and the end of the Commandement is a good Conscience 1 Tim. 〈◊〉 5. Secondly for keeping Salomo●a addresses himselfe to all and each particular Pr. 04.23 Thirdly for vsing Heb. 10.22 In all our approaches to God wee must wash the Conscience as the Iewes did their flesh and rayment For the second 1. Equity 2. Necessity 3. Vtility perswade the practice First wee are dependant and therefore accountable as well as Pauls soules we haue receiued and for a soule and spirit must euery one answer Lawes we haue also receiued and by Law we must be iudged we are vnder the same Iudge the same Law the same censure that others be and must hold vp our hands at the same barre and therefore must haue the same thoughts and care of Conscience Books must be compared Gods and ours Originall and counterpane therefore we also must haue our Bookes fairely kept and a readinesse Secondly there lyes the same necessity vpon vs as vpon Pauls of securing Conscience for first if we looke inward wee shall finde our hearts as crazy our graces as feeble our peace as vnsettled as theirs and on the other side our secret guile and guilt and pride and vnbeliefe as great as theirs And next if we looke outward wee finde the world the world still that 's a Sea our life a warfare wicked men as busie with others consciences as euer the Diuell as malicious as euer troubles without terrours within as stirring as euer in short as much vse