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A47000	The black book of conscience, or, God's high court of iustice in the soul wherein the truth and sincerity, the deceit and hypocrisie of every mans heart and ways is judged and discovered by their consciences : very seasonable for these times wherein wicked men, under pretence of liberty of conscience, take liberty to sin and blaspheme / by Andrew Iones.	Jones, Andrew.	1663 (1663)	Wing J906; ESTC R29450	10,659	26

actions become worse then beasts Why they do hold such damnable and devillish Opinions both against God and Christ yea against humanity it self Ask them the reason of these things and what do they say It is from the Light within us it is the liberty of our consciences and have not we fought for liberty of Conscience Ah cursed wretches the Light within you is darkness Is this the liberty of thy conscience No no this is the liberty of thy lusts and the delnsions of the Devil thou hast seared thy conscience with a hot Iron but yet at last thy conscience though thou hast defiled it never so much will put the saddle upon the right horse and charge thee home with all the blame Is liberty of conscience a libérty to sin No God forbid Shall we sin saith S. Paul Rom. 6.1 that grace may abound No God forbid I dare not saith a gracious heart my conscience tells me I must not How shall I saith Joseph Gen. 39.9 do this great wickedness and sin against God The grace of God saith the Apostle Tit. 2.11 that brings salvation teacheth me to deny ungodliness and worldly lust and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present world And not to live as we list which is a sign of no grace at all A truly tender conscience will be very tender of committing sin and will have a circumspect care over himself how he walks and how he lives that so the name of God and of Christ be not blasphemed but in these last and worst of times wherein men as S. Paul saith make shipwrack of faith and a good conscience men have not minded this at all but have taken a full liberty to commit all manner of sins And I pray God that this sin be not charged upon those who instead of restraining men from sin a punishing them for sin have tollerated them to sin if not countenanced them to sin But let men take beed how they sin because grace abounds For saith the Apostle Heb. 10.26 27. If we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin but a certain fearful looking for of judgement and fiery indignation from the Lord. For the wrath of God Rom. 1.18 is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth of God in unrighteousness Read these two texts and tremble all ye that take liberty to sin because the grace of God hath abounded How will ye be able to look either God or conscience in the face certainly you will be never able to do it unless you repent for if men will sin willingly notwithstanding all their checks of conscience their conscience will condemn them irresistably before the Lord. For certain it is there is a conscience in every man that sées observes and takes notice of all his ways and will kéep a just account of them and so be a witness either for or against the soul at the day of Iudgement What was it that made the Apostles so joyful in all their trouble and persecutions was it not the witness of their consciences sée 2 Cor. 1.12 Our rejoycing is this saith St. Paul the testimony of our conscience What was it made Paul Silas sing in prison for joy was it not that their consciences told them they were happy blessed men notwithstanding all their sufferings and reproaches Now what conscience is I shall briefly shew you and so conclude Conscience is a thing with which God endued the soul of man by creation and is for our comfort if we live well as we ought to do but will be a dreadful terror to all those that live and dye in their sins For this conscience was in Adam before his fall though not as a condemner till his fall for where there is no sin what néedeth an accuser So long as Adam kept the commands of God there was no cause for conscience to condemn him but as soon as ever Adam transgrest his conscience flew in his face which made him fly from the face of God as you may sée Gen. 3.7 8. The eyes of them both were opened their conscience accused and they hid themselves And this conscience is onely in men and women for bruit beasts wanting reason are not capable of conscience and the beasts when they dy there is an end of them but it is not so with man for conscience in man followeth the man further then the grave for if men might bury their consciences with them in their Graves they might be happy notwihstanding al their abuses of conscience for men oftentimes against all reason equity or conscience doth worse then the worst of beasts And this conscience kéepeth his Court in the heart and there sits upon the life or death of the soul and according as he finds every mans work so doth he pass sentence of condemnation or absolution for there is no briving of conscience conscience will speak the truth of every mans ways before the Lord be they good or be they evil If our hearts condemn us saith S. John 1 Joh. 2.10 God is greater then our heart that is our conscience And God hath given this power to conscience because men should have no plea of excuse before the Lord. It was not Pilates washing of his hands saying I am guiltless of the blood of this just man that could wash away the guilt of Christs blood from his conscience Pilates Conscience told him that Christ was a just man and that he saw no cause of death in him at all Luk. 23.23 and yet cursed Pilate contraty to the light of his own conscience delivered the Lord of life into the hands of bloody men to be crucified and so brought the guilt of his blood upon his own soul He that will not endure conscience to reprove him for his sins certainly he loves to go to hell without controul and he that will not endure Conscience to tell him of his sins here shall whether he will or no suffer sufficient torment for his sins hereafter For an evil Conscience is a hell to the soul here and shall be the hell of hels hereafter Now then if there be such a thing in man as conscience and that his conscience shall either justifie or condenm him then let every man take héed how he orders his conversation in the world do not give leave to your selves to think say or do any thing but what you are willing to own before the Lord at the last day Therefore let every one of us so think and so speak ●nd so do that we may not have a conscience to condemn us But let us so live as those that expect to have conscience witness for them before the Lord that with godly sincerity they have had their conversation in this world But what multitudes are there in the world that be as if there were no conscience at all neither God nor Devil nor

THE BLACK BOOK OF CONSCIENCE OR Gods High Court of Iustice in the SOUL Wherein the Truth and Sincerity the Deceit and Hypocrisie of every mans Heart and Ways is judged and discovered by their consciences Very seasonable for these Times wherein wicked men under pretence of Liberty of Conscience take liberty to sin and Blaspheme The 22th Edition By Andrew Iones The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it I the Lord search the heart I try the reins even to give every man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doing Ier. 17.9 Vnto the pure all things are pure but to them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure but even ther Mind and Conscience is defiled Tit. 1.15 Take heed to your selves what conscience ye have For conscience will damn and conscience will save London Printed for Eliz. Andrews at the White-Lyon near Pye-Corner 1663 The Black Book of CONSCIENCE Revel 20.12 And I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the Books were opened And another Book was opened which is the Book of Life and the dead were judged of those things which were written in the Books according to their works AS there are several books of God which he hath written for the good of all the children of men so there are two special books by which the Lord will procēed in Iudgement against all the sons and daughters of men The books which God hath given to the children of men for their use and comfort of salvation are these First and chiefly the books of the Old and New Testament where in ●esus Christ in all his Offices King Priest ●nd Prophet for us to rule and guide us by his Spirit in our hearts is made known and de●●ared unto us And therein likewise is set down how every one of us ought to live an● demean himself in this present world with ●●veral fearful Examples of Gods heavy judg●ments against wicked and notorious sinner in drowning the old World for their sins a●● wickedness as you may sée in the sixth of G●●nesis So likewise in destroying Sodom G●●morrah by fire from Heaven Gen. 19.24 2● And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gom●●rah Fire and Brimstone and over threw tho● Cities and all their inhabitants With sund●● ot her fearful examples of Gods heavy wra●● and indignation both against sin and sinner in general particular All which as St. Ju●● saith in his Epistle are set forth for our examples suffering the vengeance of the etern●● fire Not for our examples that we should 〈◊〉 as they did but that we should be afraid to 〈◊〉 as they did to commit such sins lest the Lo●● lay upon us such or more heavier weights wrath and vengeance So likewise in the book of the Scripture set forth the blessed and happy estate and condition of all the godly both in this life in the life to come as̄ you may sée Psa 1. and 15. and 91. The godly man shall be delivered from the snare of the Fowler and from the noisome P●stilence And because he hath made the Lo●● his refuge there shall no evil befal him So I shall give his Angels charge over him for to ●eep him in all his ways v. 80 21. The joys ●●●t are prepared for the godly and the eternal ●orments that are appointed for the wicked ●●e here likewise set forth in the Book of the ●cripture as you may sée Mat. 15.34 41. To ●e godly Come ye blessed of my Father saith ●hrist inherit the Kingdom prepared for you ●●om the beginning of the world But to the ●●godly Depart from me ye cursed into ever●●sting fire prepared for the devil his Angels Another great book of God is the book of the ●reature containing those mighty works both 〈◊〉 the Creation and Providence wherein the ●lmightiness Power and Goodness of God ●●e so plainly written that he that runs may ●●ad and sée it for as the Apostle saith Rom. ● The invisible things of him from the cre●●ion of the world are clearly seen being un●erstood saith the Apostle by the things that ●●e made even his eternal power Godhead that they are without excuse Who but an ●lmighty God could out of nothing create all things and being created rule and govern all things As David saith It is nothing but the ●lmighty Power and Providence of God that ●ears up the earth and upholds the foundation thereof And this Book even the very hea●ens who know not God in his word who never heard of Iesus Christ or Salvation are acquainted with they I say by séeing and reading the mighty works of God in the world do confess and say Verily their is God and none but a God could create those glorious cretures the Sun Moon and Stars So likewise there are two special Books by which God will judge all the sons and daughters of men at the last And these are first the book of his remembrance written by himself wherein the lives of all men yea their very thoughts are recorded as David saith Psa 94.11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men that they are vanity And Psa 129 1 2 3 4. saith David O Lord thou hast searched me and known me thou knowest my down-sitting and my uprising thou understandest my thoughts afar off Thou compasseth my path and my lying down and art acquainted with all my ways There is not a word in my mouth but thou O Lord knowest it altogether And although the heart of man as Jeremiah saith Jer. 17.9 10. is deceitful above all things yet God hath exactly known every turning corner thereof I the Lord know the heart saith he I try the reins There is nothing can be hid from his eternal all-seeing eye And then secondly there is the book of collscience in which is exactly written all our actions thoughts words and deeds and according to this book of conscience and what is therein written will the Lord proceed in judgment and every mans conscience shall be his own Judge Saith God what hast thou done How hast thou lived in the World Why thus and thus have I lived saith Conscience Conscience will then speak the truth and nothing but the truth O Lord saith a wicked mans conscience I have dishonoured thy name I have abused thy grace and mercy in ●urning it into wantonness I have abused thy treatures by wastful and riotous spending to please and satisfie my lust saith the Prodigal mans conscience And by chambring and wantonness by gaming and dicing away precious ●ime faith the lascivious and voluptuous mans conscience Thou gavest me times and ●easons of grace mercy and many precious ●pportunities and soul-advantages whereby I might have wrought out my own salvation ●ith fear and trembling and as Peter saith I might have made my calling and election sure ●o mine own soul but instead of working out my own salvation with fear and trembling ●n making my calling and