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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57599	Loyalty and peace, or, Two seasonable discourses from I Sam. 24, 5 viz., David's heart smote him because he cut off Saul's skirt : the first of conscience and its smitings, the second of the prodigious impiety of murthering King Charles I, intended to promote sincere devotion and humiliation upon each anniversary fast for the Late King's death / by Samuel Rolls.	Rolle, Samuel, fl. 1657-1678.	1678 (1678)	Wing R1880; ESTC R25524	110,484	255

Smiter or Reprover in every Mans Breast called Conscience I had almost said I appeal to every mans Conscience that there is a Reprover in his Breast which when he rusheth into Sin as the Horse into the Battle and drinketh in Sin as the Fish doth Water Curbs and checks him for so doing tells him he ought not to mispend his precious time to waste those golden sands of time which once run out can never be recalled Tells him that he ought to mind the Errand for which God sent him into the World and set all men upon the face of the earth viz. To seek after God if hapily they might feel after him and find him Acts 17. v. 27. And tells him in case he doth otherwise that he plays Jonah who set sail for Tarshish when God sent him to Nineveh and may justly expect that a storm of Divine Wrath will pursue him that he shall be cast into the Deep into the midst of the Seas and all Gods Billows and Waves shall pass over him as it is Jonah 2.3 Tells him that sith he names the name of Christ he should depart from all iniquity should deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts live righteously soberly and godly in the present world and that tribulation and anguish shall be upon every soul that obeys not the truth Vpon the Christian first and then upon the Heathen for this is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil Now I doubt not but every man is capable of this Appeal to himself or to his Conscience or to that which the Quaker calls The Light within him Unless there be some few that have served their Consciences as desperate Persons sometimes do those Bayliffs and Serjeants which come to Arrest them in the Kings Name viz. kill them out-right which yet I think is hard to do by Conscience for thoughsome have laid their Consciences in Swanes and Trances or cast them into a dead sleep as did Herod in reference to Herodias with whom he lived in Incest yet they do generally awake and come to themselves again as appeareth by that famous instance of Herod Mark 6.16 of whom it is said When he heard of the fame of Christ he said It is John whom I beheaded he is risen from the dead Now to Scripture and Experience the two fore-cited witnesses I shall add a third viz. Reason That three-fold Cord can surely never be broken Hear then what Reason can say on the behalf of Conscience it being a Smiter I know saith Reason it must needs be so because the frame and make of Conscience is such as it is as well as I know that a keen Axe must needs be apt to cut because it hath so sharp an Edge Conscience is a Natural Logician Apta Natu that is naturally fitted to frame Syllogismes concerning which 't is a constant and infallible Rule That the Conclusion doth alwayes follow the worse and weaker part of the Premises Conclusio semper sequitur partem deteriorem If then Conscience shall thus syllogize as often it doth he that believeth not in the Lord Jesus Christ he that loveth not Jesus Christ sincerely and superlatively he that forsaketh not his Sins he that mortifieth not the Flesh with the Lusts and Affections thereof is condemned already and the wrath of God abideth upon him and then assumes or takes this for his minor Proposition But thou O my Soul believest not thou lovest not the Lord Jesus Christ thou hast not forsaken thy Sins c. Then will it be forced to fall foul upon a Man with this Conclusion Ergo or therefore thou art condemned already and the wrath of God abideth on thee I hope by this time I have proved the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Quod sit beyond all exception viz. that Conscience is a Smiter c. Which brings me to the third particular namely to the Propter quod or to shew what it is that Conscience doth usually smite men for In general it is for sin real or supposed most commonly real Now though Conscience doth many times wink at small faults though not alwayes so neither give me leave to tell you it seldome forbears to smite for great and crying Abominations such are first of all sins committed against the clear Light of Nature as well as of Scripture such as the Apostle chargeth them with Rom. 1. v. 32. Who knowing the Judgment of God that they who commit such things are worthy of death not onely do the same but have pleasure in them that do them When Christians venture to do those things which even Heathens know ought not to be done namely to do to others what they would nor others should do unto them to tell pernicious Lies to perjure or suborn Perjury to the undoing of others c. When Conscience smites for such faults as those will it not fetch blood and make every blow it gives pierce to the very heart Secondly Those sins whereto even corrupted Nature seems to have an antipathy aversation and abhorrence as namely Horrid ingratitude towards our best Friends recompencing Evil for Good as Christ saith I have done many good works among you for which of these do you go about to stone me John 10.32 Cruelty to a mans own Flesh and Blood as in Parents towards Children and Children towards Parents and in other near Relations one towards another Incest and the like When Conscience smites such Fools as these doth it not as it were Bray them in a Morter break them upon the Wheel put them upon a Rack give no Quarter and Refuse to ●●ure for their much crying Thirdly Those sins which are at once a manifest breach of both the Tables of Gods Law and which either smite at men as it were through the Loyns of God Almighty or at God Almighty through the Loyns of Men As for Example When Jezebel suborned Witnesses to forswear themselves against Naboth that she might take away his Life What was that but a smiting of Naboth through the Loyns of God Almighty And on the other hand When wicked men have persecuted the Saints and Servants of God spilt their Blood as Water upon the Ground because they bore the Image of their Heavenly Father What was that but to smite at God himself through the Loyns of Men To crucifie our Saviour again in Effigie and to tell the World but that the Heaven of Heavens must contain him till the restitution of all things they would have done as much to him as they have done to his Friends and Followers Now Conscience is wont to stir up all its Wrath as it were to heat the Furnace of its Indignation seven times hotter than at other times when such Miscreants as these are to be cast into it Fourthly Those sins which are of dreadful and horred consequence which produce amazing and astonishing evil Effects which imbrew Nations in Blood and pluck down Divine