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