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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91988	The picture of the conscience drawne to the life, by the pencell of divine truth. VVherein are set out 1. Its nature. 2. Infirmities. 3. Remedies. 4. Its duties. Consisting first in the truths to be beleived [sic]. 2. The vertues to be practised. 3. The vices to bee avoyded. 4. The heresies to bee rejected. All seasonable for these distracted times. By Alexander Rosse.	Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.	1648 (1648)	Wing R1980; Thomason E1195_1; ESTC R208720	46,614	212

different essence which things are not in God the HOLY Ghost is of the Father and the Son not by way of Generation as the word is from the intellect which is the property of the Son who is therefore called the Word but by way of procession or love for the HOLY GHOST is said to proceed from the Father and Sonne as these two persons love each other mutually hence the Holy Ghost loveth essentially and personally essentially as he is the love that proceeds from the Father and the Sonne personally as he from whom this love proceeds 5 We are bound in Conscience to beleeve the Creation of the World because we know this is affirmed by Scripture and learned men of all ages because God is omnipotent wise and Good because the world is not God therefore not infinit nor eternall neither in it selfe wholly or in the parts thereof 6 We are bound in Conscience to beleeve that in the fulnesse of time God was made man that his invisible atributes of wisdom goodnesse justice and power might be made known to us his wisdome in finding out a way to pay so great a price his goodnesse which is communicative of it selfe in that he despised not the infirmitie and basenesse of our nature his justice in making man whom Satan meant to destroy the meanes of Satans own destruction lastly his greatnesse for the Incarnation of the Son of God was far greater then the Creation of the World 7 Wee must beleeve that in CHRIST were the three passions of sorrow feare and anger 1. of sorrow or paine for the faculties of his Soule were natural and his body was sensible for as the evill of paine is apprehended by the outward sense of touching so is the evill of sorrow by the inward sense of imagination these I call evils not of sin but of punishment 2. Feare was in Him as it is from the apprehension of future evill but not as it includes either the incertainty of the event or the perturbation of reason for the one presupposeth ignorance the other sin 3. There was in him also the anger of zeale which proceeds of Iustice but not the anger of revenge arising from sin or of the perturbation of reason 8 We may with a cleare Conscience beleeve that Christ had two wills other wayes he could not have had two natures notwithstanding Apollinarius Einychus and Onefurious maintaine the contrary for an intelligent nature cannot be perfect without the will therefore as God his will was divine as man his will was humane but as he was man he was also a sensitive creature therefore not only had he a rationall will but also a sensitive appetite by this he willed the cup to passe from him by that he dranke of the cup here was a diversite of wils but no contradiction because it was not secundum idem 9 We may safely beleeve that Mary the Mother of CHRIST lost not her virginity neither before nor in nor after the conception for otherwise this could not have stood either with the dignitie of the Father that sent Him nor of the Son that was sent nor of the Holy Ghost that conceived him nor yet with the end of CHRISTS Incarnation which was to make us the sons of God by a pure and virgine like regeneration 10 We may safely beleeve that Mary is the Mother of God though not of the Godhead because she was the Mother of that person who is both God and Man for this cause there is in Christ but one Filiation if wee looke upon the subject or person but two filiations if we respect the two natures 11 We may safely beleeve that Christ was the cause of his own death because he did not hinder it when he might either by suppressing his persecutors or withdrawing himself from them or by immortalizing his body but he was accessary to his own Death indirectly only and without sin that by it he might destroy sinne and death and him that had the power of death 12 Wee may beleeve safely that though in Christs death and buriall the soule was separated from the body yet his divinity was not separated either from the soule or the body for the gifts of God are irrevocable and without repentance and the gift of this Hypostaticall union was the greatest of all Gods gifts therefore all Christ was in the grave but not wholly totus sed non totaliter because neither the body nor the soule was separated from the person of the Sonne of God 13 We must beleeve that Christ rose the third day with the scars of those wounds which he received in his passion both to confirme the truth of his resurrection and by them to make intercession to his Father for us for they were as so many powerfull Orators imployed by our intercessor to plead for us besids they were honourable badges of his victory and love tokens of his true affection toward us and marks of his enemies implacable malice 14 We must beleeve that Christ ascended above al heavens not by his own power that is of his humane nature yet by his own power that is of his Divinity and though it was against the nature of his earthly body to ascend it was not against the nature of his body as it was the body of the Sonne of GOD and as it was glorifyed to ascend and this he did that he might prepare a place for us that from thence as our King sitting on his throne he might give gifts unto men as our high Preist he might enter into the holy place to make intercession for us and as our Prophet he might by sending his Spirit from thence inwardly instruct us 15 Wee must beleeve that Christ sits on Gods right-hand not as man only by being Hypostatically united to the divinitie but as God also by eternall generation injoying the same glory felicity and power with the Father from eternitie therefore although the humanitie of Christ is not to be honored with divine worship yet the man Christ is to be adored as being united to God the word humanitie intimating the nature but the word man the whole person because of the Hypostaticall union 16 Wee must beleeve that Christ is Iudge of the quick and dead not as God only but as man also for as in both natures he is our Mediator and head of the Church so in both he is our Iudge and as in his humane nature he was judged by the world so in the same nature he shall judge the world and because no man hath seen God at any time and the Iudge should be visible therefore it is fit that Christ in the visible forme and nature of man should judge the world 17 Wee may with a cleare Conscience beleeve against the tenure of the Greeke Church that the holy Ghost proceedeth from the Son as well as from the Father for otherwayes in the persons there would be a dualitie only and not a Trinity neither are the Son and holy

Ghost otherwayes distinguished but by generation and procession and if the Sonne be the Wisdom and Knowledge of the Father and the Holy Ghost the love of both he must doubtlesse proceed from the Sonne because Love proceeds of Knowledge 18 Wee must beleeve that there is one Church universall in respect of time place and person which neither hath erred nor can erre in things fundamentall and absolutely necessary and that the head of this Church is Christ only both in respect of eminencie dominion efficacie and perfection as containeing al those graces of spirituall sense motion life and other good things which he imparts to his members and the Church of Rome is not this Catholick Church but a mishapen and lame member therof and that neither her antiquity nor multitudes nor succession nor miracles nor continuance nor unity nor outward splendor c. are true markes of a true Church 19 Wee are bound in Conscience to beleeve that there is a Communion and Fellowship of the Saints among themselves here on earth consisting in their mutuall loves in imparting spirituall gifts and supporting each other with their mutuall helps as also with the Saints in Heaven they praying for us and we earnestly desireing to be with them and with Christ also as the branches with the root builders with the foundation the wife with the husband the members with the head he imparting to us his righteousnesse merits and prerogatives and we imparting againe to him our sins punishments and infirmities 20 We are in Conscience to beleeve that God doth forgive sins and that he alone hath this power the Minister only pronounceth the pardon and that all sins are pardonable though not actually pardoned by reason of impenitency unbeleife that our sins are pardoned not for our merits but for Christs obedience 21 So we are to beleeve the resurrection of bodies because otherwayes the members cannot be conformable to their head nor can God bee the God of the living but of the dead Christ rose in vaine our faith is vaine we are of al men most miserable and this resurrection must be of al because al must be rewarded or punished but this resurection shal not be the work of nature because naturaly from the privation to the habit ther can be no regresse and though there may be a natural disposition in the matter to bee reunited to its forme yet there is no active power in nature to cause this union and though there is an inclination in the soule to bee united againe to its body yet in the dust there can bee no naturall inclination to the soule of man 22 We are also to beleeeve that besides this life of Nature and of Grace here there is a life of Glory hereafter eternall in the Heavens which in Scripture is called Peace a refreshing a rest our Masters joy our Fathers house the Kingdome of Heaven Abrahams bosome Paradise the new Ierusalem this life must be Eternall because God is Eternall the soule is immortall and we that suffer for Christ without it must be of all men most miserable the testimony of Scripture the translation of Henoch the rapture of Eliah and the ascension of Christ doe confirme the truth of this doctrine 23. Our Conscience also bindes us to believe the truth of Gods Word and that the Scripture which we cal Canonical are the dictates of the Holy Ghost if either wee consider the majestie of the stile or the efficacy of the phrase in working upon the heart like a sharp two edged sword deviding betweene the soule and the spirit the joynts and the marrow or if we looke upon the Antiquity of the Scripture or upon Gods providence in the miraculous preserving and divulging of them against all opposition or if upon the inveterate hatred of Satan and of the world in persecuting and labouring to falsifie them if they could or if upon the fearefull and horrid ends of those men who have hated and persecuted the Scripture or again if wee take notice of the divine matter which is contained in them of the truth of their predictions and accomplishment of their Prophesies of the wonderfull harmony and consent of doctrine through all the parts thereof of the generall consent of the Church through all the world maintaining and preserving the Scripture of the transcendent miracles recorded in them of the Constancy of the Martyrs in suffering all kind of tortures for maintaining thetruth of them if lastly we consider the miraculous calling the selfe insufficiency and yet the extraordinary abilities of the men that penned them our Conscience wil assure us that the Scripture were indicted by Gods Spirit Wee must are beleeve that there are ministring spirits which in Scripture are called Angels Gods Sonnes of God morning Starres Seraphim Cherubim men of God c. These wait upon the Throne of God are imployed by him to comfort instruct defend and deliver from danger the children of God to carry their soules into Abrahams bosome to gather their bones together in the last day to pnnish the wicked here and to separate these Goates from the Sheep hereafter these were created in the beginning all good some of which persevered in their integrity partly by the goodnesse of their owne will partly by Gods decree before time and by his assisting grace in time and partly by reason of the excellent knowledge they have of God both naturall experimentall and supernaturall or revealed and some of them fell by pride and envy affecting equality with God and maligning mans felicity for which cause they were thrust out of Heaven and strucke with blindnesse in their mindes and perversenesse in their wils yet much knowledge they have both naturall experimentall and revealed and much strength also by which they worke upon the bodayes the minde and senses of men yet they know not our thoughts nor things to come except by revelation or conjecture We are bound also to believe that God made man after his own Image which consisted in righteousnesse holinesse and immortality which Image being lost by sinne was restored againe by Christ and that mans body was made of earth but his soule of nothing and not of the Heaven or the fire or the ayre or the divine substance And that there is not one soule of all men nor a transmigration of soules out of one body into another nor that the soules were created before the world or that they are mortall being they are simple and uncompounded substances and not made of matter or contrary Elements besides that the Word of God the Consciences of men the excelency of the soul the inorganicall faculties thereof and the consent of all ages and nations do prove its immortality therefore it is not educed out of the matter as other formes are but introduced and infused by God immediatly who breathed into Adam the breath of life and albeit the Soule is infused pure by God yet no sooner enters it into the body but is