THE
CONSCIONABLE
CHRISTIAN
:
OR
,
THE
INDEVOVR
OF
SAINT
PAVL
,
TO
HAVE
AND
DISCHARGE
a
good
conscience
alwayes
towards
God
,
and
men
:
laid
open
and
applyed
in
three
Sermons
.
Preached
before
the
Honourable
Judges
of
the
Circuit
,
at
their
seuerall
Assises
,
holden
in
CHARD
and
TAVNTON
,
for
the
County
of
Somerset
1620.
By
RICHARD
CARPENTER
,
Doctor
of
Diuinity
,
and
Pastor
of
Sherwell
in
Deuon
.
Acts
23.
1.
I
haue
in
all
good
conscience
serued
God
vntill
this
day
.
2.
Cor.
1.
12.
This
is
our
reioycing
the
testimony
of
our
conscience
,
&c.
Aug.
cont.
Petil.
Conscienti●n●
malam
laudant
is
●●●●●nium
non
sa●at
Bona●
cal●mniantis
conuitiam
non
vulnerat
.
Imprinted
at
London
by
F.
K.
for
Iohn
Bartlet
,
and
are
to
be
sold
at
the
signe
of
the
gilded
Cup
,
in
the
Goldsmiths
Rowe
in
Cheapside
.
1623.
TO
THE
RIGHT
WORSHIPFVLL
HIGH
SHERIFE
OF
SOMERSET
,
IOHN
TREVELIAN
of
Nettlecom
,
Esquire
,
&c.
The
Authour
wisheth
what
the
worke
describeth
,
the
singular
comforts
of
a
Conscionable
Christian
in
this
life
,
and
in
that
to
come
,
blessed
immortality
.
SIR
:
Your
worth
shineth
in
so
high
a
Sphere
of
dignity
,
being
now
the
worthily
honoured
high
Sheriffe
of
the
County
;
that
if
I
should
indeuour
to
hold
foorth
a
Candle
to
any
,
to
behold
the
brightnesse
thereof
,
I
might
iustly
bee
censured
of
folly
or
flattery
.
But
I
haue
no
such
proiect
:
and
in
truth
,
it
is
not
your
annuall
acquired
greatnesse
,
and
eminency
of
office
and
place
,
but
your
continually
inspired
goodnesse
,
and
life
of
grace
appearing
in
your
practice
of
piety
,
charity
,
and
hospitality
farre
beyond
many
of
your
ranke
and
quality
;
which
hath
as
it
were
by
a
secret
forcible
influence
drawne
me
vnto
you
;
and
this
discourse
of
a
Conscionable
Christian
,
from
me
.
Which
as
it
resembles
you
much
,
so
desires
to
honour
you
long
;
&
so
much
the
more
to
honor
you
,
as
you
shall
the
more
desire
and
indeuor
to
resemble
it
,
and
proceed
in
some
competent
proportion
,
to
expresse
and
represent
the
lines
,
limbes
&
lineaments
thereof
in
the
future
course
of
your
life
and
conuersation
.
Wherof
I
conceiue
no
small
hope
,
hauing
been
an
often
eye-witnesse
of
the
manifold
graces
of
God
shining
in
you
,
and
occasionally
inforced
to
take
notice
of
your
exemplary
integrity
,
in
the
faithfull
discharge
of
your
publike
Magistracy
heretofore
;
and
at
this
time
,
in
managing
wisely
and
worthily
this
important
Office
,
whereunto
your
vertues
haue
aduanced
you
;
from
which
(
I
doubt
not
)
but
you
will
come
off
commendably
and
comfortably
,
without
any
gash
or
galling
of
your
conscience
.
Which
that
you
may
the
better
doe
,
giue
me
leaue
(
whom
you
haue
chosen
at
your
seuerall
Assises
to
be
a
Monitor
to
many
)
to
bee
also
now
a
Remembrancer
vnto
you
,
that
you
put
your
soule
to
that
noble
imployment
of
reflecting
vpon
it selfe
,
and
recollecting
the
particular
knowne-passages
of
your
well-neere
ouerpast
Magistracy
,
with
an
vndazeled
and
vndissembling
eye
,
that
so
thorowly
trying
&
discrying
what
you
haue
done
,
and
finding
,
vpon
serious
examination
of
your
wayes
,
words
and
workes
,
that
as
another
Moses
,
and
Samuel
,
you
haue
wittingly
and
willingly
done
no
man
wrong
,
neither
been
voluntary
Agent
,
nor
forced
instrument
in
the
doing
of
any
thing
vniustly
;
you
may
hereupon
rest
assured
,
and
secured
of
this
,
that
you
haue
carefully
and
conscionably
accomplished
your
Office
and
duty
:
Whereof
the
Countrey
makes
thankfull
report
,
and
I
cannot
but
heere
to
my
knowledge
giue
publike
testimony
thereunto
;
being
also
desirous
,
that
the
tender
of
this
poore
Paper-present
should
be
,
if
it
may
be
,
a
perpetuall
acknowledgement
,
how
much
I
stand
bound
to
you
in
generall
,
for
your
many
Christian
fauours
vouchsafed
to
mee
in
particular
:
I
haue
long
(
I
confesse
)
run
on
the
score
,
so
that
the
interest
of
your
loue
,
exceeds
the
principall
of
my
abilities
:
But
yet
,
if
verball
payment
may
satisfie
for
reall
benefits
and
goe
for
currant
,
I
hope
hereby
at
length
to
strike
out
some
part
of
my
debt
.
At
this
present
let
it
please
you
to
accept
this
little
monument
of
that
great
respect
which
I
deseruedly
beare
vnto
you
:
what
propriety
you
iustly
haue
,
both
in
the
worke
,
and
in
the
Author
,
it
is
well
known
to
all
which
know
vs
.
I
need
say
no
more
but
this
,
At
your
instance
and
intreaty
these
Sermons
were
preached
;
by
your
best
deuotion
they
were
attended
;
and
in
testification
of
my
dutifull
loue
towards
you
,
they
are
now
published
.
You
were
the
chiefe
meanes
and
motiue
to
bring
these
meditations
to
the
hearing
of
many
;
and
therfore
cheerfully
they
runne
to
your
hands
,
and
are
bold
,
vnder
your
name
,
to
offer
themselues
to
the
view
of
all
.
And
so
humbly
commending
them
to
your
gentle
acceptation
,
and
heartily
committing
you
to
the
Almighties
gracious
protection
,
and
to
the
Word
of
his
grace
,
which
is
able
to
keep
Act.
20.
32.
you
from
falling
,
to
build
you
further
,
and
to
giue
you
an
inheritance
with
them
that
are
truly
sanctified
;
I
rest
euer
prest
to
be
proued
,
Your
louing
Sonne-in-law
in
all
Christian
obseruancy
truly
deuoted
,
RICH.
CARPENTER
.
Loxford
the
20.
of
Septemb.
1620.
TO
THE
READER
.
CHristian
Reader
:
In
these
later
and
looser
times
,
wherein
(
as
the
Heathen
of
old
complained
)
Malunt
disputare
homines
quàm
viuere
:
Men
delight
rather
to
argue
and
discourse
of
piety
and
Religion
,
then
seriously
to
reduce
the
principles
thereof
into
practice
and
action
:
It
is
much
to
bee
feared
,
that
we
all
feare
God
too
little
;
and
it
may
iustly
be
suspected
,
that
too
many
stand
so
affected
in
these
dayes
of
long
peace
,
as
the
Romans
did
in
the
time
of
their
ciuill
warres
:
Then
some
followed
Caesar
,
and
they
were
weakest
;
some
Pompey
,
and
they
were
thought
wisest
;
some
Crassus
,
and
they
were
accounted
worst
:
So
now
some
follow
the
flesh
,
and
are
led
by
her
corrupting
allurements
;
some
are
Fauorites
and
Minions
of
the
world
,
carried
away
with
its
glittering
preferments
;
some
are
meere
Factors
for
the
diuell
,
fulfilling
his
crafty-cruell
designements
;
all
are
set
on
worke
,
but
vnder
the
Commander
of
this
cursed
Triumvirate
,
for
the
most
part
so
wickedly
,
that
euery
where
there
is
a
consumption
of
grace
,
through
the
corruption
of
sinne
;
piety
complaining
that
shee
is
sicke
,
charity
neere
dead
,
good
workes
buried
,
prayer
and
preaching
neglected
,
honesty
and
sobriety
derided
,
iustice
and
equity
abandoned
,
truth
and
plaine-dealing
imprisoned
,
faith
and
a
good
conscience
banished
and
driuen
out
of
the
Countrey
:
For
the
recalling
whereof
from
banishment
,
or
rather
,
for
the
inciting
of
Christians
to
giue
thereunto
better
entertainment
,
I
had
(
I
confesse
)
some
extraordinary
calling
to
those
places
where
these
Sermons
were
preached
,
and
therefore
more
then
ordinarily
laboured
,
to
worke
by
them
powerfully
on
the
consciences
of
my
Auditors
,
that
they
might
be
truly
inlightened
and
inliued
.
To
this
purpose
my
desire
and
study
was
(
as
the
circumstances
of
persons
,
time
,
and
place
required
)
to
lay
the
Axe
of
Gods
Word
close
to
the
root
,
and
to
apply
my
doctrine
home
to
the
heart
,
and
so
to
set
conscience
it selfe
aworke
.
Now
the
whole
and
intire
worke
of
conscience
(
to
giue
by
the
way
some
light
to
the
ignorant
herein
)
consists
,
as
I
conceiue
it
,
in
a
practicall
Syllogisme
:
the
maior
and
proposition
whereof
ariseth
from
the
Synteresis
or
treasury
of
morall
principles
,
and
of
sacred
rules
wherewith
the
practicall
vnderstanding
is
furnished
,
for
the
sauing
direction
of
vs
in
all
actions
.
The
minor
or
assumption
is
properly
Syneidesis-conscience
,
that
is
,
an
actuall
application
of
our
knowledge
,
to
this
or
that
particular
act
or
obiect
;
whence
followes
the
immediate
and
necessary
issue
and
office
of
conscience
;
to
testifie
in
respect
of
things
simply
done
,
or
not
done
;
in
respect
of
things
to
be
done
,
either
to
excite
and
incourage
,
or
to
restraine
and
bridle
;
in
respect
of
things
done
well
,
or
wickedly
,
to
excuse
and
comfort
,
or
accuse
and
terrifie
.
As
for
example
:
thus
it
reasoneth
against
lying
;
Euery
lyar
shall
be
banished
from
the
holy
Mountaine
of
the
Lord
,
and
barred
out
of
the
new
Ierusalem
,
as
the
Synteresis
,
from
Psal.
15.
and
Reu.
21.
supplyeth
the
proposition
.
But
I
haue
thus
and
thus
lyed
for
aduantage
,
as
the
conscience
of
the
lyar
telleth
him
making
the
assumption
.
Therefore
I
shall
be
banished
from
the
holy
Mountaine
of
the
Lord
,
&c.
A
conclusion
full
of
terrour
.
And
as
the
liar
is
thus
of
his
sinne
,
and
punishment
due
vnto
the
same
,
conuinced
;
So
the
vpright
liuer
,
on
the
other
side
,
may
thus
by
consciences-reasoning
be
comforted
:
Euery
one
that
desireth
in
heart
,
and
indeuoureth
in
life
,
to
walke
vprightly
before
God
and
men
,
shall
rest
in
Gods
holy
Hill
:
But
I
,
as
the
conscience
of
the
godly
man
telleth
him
,
doe
thus
desire
and
indeuour
to
walke
vprightly
:
Therefore
I
shall
rest
in
Gods
holy
Hill
.
A
conclusion
full
of
life
and
consolation
.
God
grant
vs
such
consciences
as
may
inable
vs
to
make
such
conclusions
.
To
this
principall
end
,
haue
my
poore
indeuours
,
in
this
ensuing
Discourse
,
been
especially
directed
;
wherein
,
because
I
know
this
age
to
be
full
of
science
,
penurious
of
conscience
,
and
Gods
schoole
to
be
more
of
affection
then
vnderstanding
:
therefore
haue
I
the
lesse
studyed
by
variety
of
choyce
doctrines
,
to
giue
edge
to
the
iudgement
,
accounting
it
more
necessary
to
be
instant
in
exhortation
,
and
frequent
in
the
vse
and
application
of
some
few
pregnant
poynts
,
for
the
whetting
vp
of
the
will
and
affection
to
holy
duties
,
and
warming
of
the
heart
with
liuely
deuotion
in
the
practice
of
Christianity
.
Glad
I
would
be
,
If
I
could
but
bring
a
pin
or
two
,
towards
the
decking
of
Christs
Spouse
,
whilest
others
,
out
of
their
abundance
,
adorne
her
with
costly
Robes
,
and
rich
ornaments
.
Howsoeuer
it
be
,
I
haue
done
my
best
,
by
the
assistance
of
his
grace
,
to
the
praise
of
his
glory
,
and
according
to
the
nature
of
my
Text
,
haue
often
and
earnestly
pressed
vpon
Christians
this
necessary
duty
of
expressing
in
their
conscionable
conuersation
,
the
sauing
power
of
inward
sanctimony
,
and
the
truth
of
a
sound
conuersion
,
aiming
here
and
there
,
and
euery
where
,
generally
at
this
,
that
the
slumbring
conscience
might
be
awaked
,
the
erronious
better
informed
,
the
tender
confirmed
,
the
sad
and
heauie
comforted
,
and
all
,
some
way
or
other
benefited
.
Which
benefit
of
my
vnworthy
labours
,
if
any
any
way
haue
obtained
,
let
the
goodnesse
of
God
be
duly
glorified
and
praised
;
and
in
their
best
vowes
and
prayers
for
the
family
of
the
faithfull
,
let
me
,
his
vnworthiest
seruant
,
be
remembred
.
In
hope
hereof
I
rest
theirs
,
and
Thine
in
the
Lord
Iesus
to
be
commanded
,
RICH.
CARPENTER
.
THE
CONSCIONABLE
CHRISTIAN
.
Preached
at
Charde
,
March
.
4.
The
Text
:
Acts
24.
16.
And
heerein
(
or
in
this
therefore
)
doe
I
indeuour
my selfe
to
haue
alwayes
a
cleare
(
or
inoffensiue
)
conscience
towards
God
and
men
.
RIGHT
HONOVRABLE
:
IF
it
be
sufficient
to
accuse
,
who
shall
bee
innocent
?
Not
Saint
Paul
himselfe
,
though
neuer
so
faithfull
in
his
function
,
neuer
so
sincere
and
vpright
in
his
conuersation
.
Wee
finde
him
(
as
many
times
elsewhere
)
so
heere
in
this
Chapter
,
called
in
question
,
for
his
life
and
doctrine
too
,
before
Felix
the
Gouernour
;
and
at
once
accused
of
both
,
and
abused
in
both
,
by
Tertullus
a
mercenary
O●●●our
,
who
making
b●●●attery
his
Rhetoricke
,
and
bold
lying
his
Logicke
,
beginning
with
the
one
,
and
concluding
with
the
other
;
layeth
to
Saint
Pauls
charge
(
no
maruell
then
if
zealous
Ministers
taste
of
the
same
cup
in
this
last
and
worst
age
)
that
hee
was
a
pestilent
fellow
,
a
moouer
of
sedition
,
a
maintainer
of
sects
,
and
a
polluter
of
the
Temple
.
To
all
which
obiected
crimes
,
or
rather
forged
calumnies
,
the
blessed
Apostle
,
with
great
patience
,
and
no
lesse
confidence
,
pleadeth
not
guilty
;
&
hauing
by
pregnant
reasons
&
powerful
arguments
refelled
those
vniust
imputations
,
with
a
victorious
grace
,
proceedeth
to
the
ingenious
confession
of
his
faith
,
and
course
of
life
;
and
thus
in
effect
saith
:
As
concerning
my
Religion
;
bee
it
knowne
,
that
after
the
way
which
my
aduersaries
call
heresie
,
so
worship
I
the
God
of
my
Fathers
,
the
Father
of
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
,
that
only
true
God
,
with
a
true
heart
,
in
a
true
manner
,
not
as
man
hath
inuented
,
but
as
God
himselfe
hath
in
his
Word
prescribed
,
beleeuing
all
things
which
are
written
in
the
Law
and
the
Prophets
;
especially
,
holding
fast
this
assured
hope
and
full
perswasion
(
as
the
maine
Basis
,
and
principall
pillar
of
my
Profession
)
that
the
resurrection
of
the
dead
shall
bee
both
of
iust
and
vniust
,
and
that
we
shall
all
appeare
in
that
Day
,
before
the
[
](A18036-e10630-b)a
a
1.
Cor.
5.
10.
Tribunall
of
the
Sonne
of
God
,
gloriously
visible
,
in
the
[
](A18036-e10640-b)b
b
Luk.
21.
27.
forme
of
the
Sonne
of
man
,
to
render
an
account
,
and
to
receiue
a
reward
according
to
our
[
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c
Reu.
20.
12.
deeds
.
In
due
regard
and
serious
consideration
whereof
,
I
doe
labour
and
indeuour
my selfe
to
liue
vnblameably
,
and
to
keepe
alwayes
a
good
conscience
towards
God
and
men
:
For
so
it
followeth
in
my
Text
;
which
being
by
way
of
Paraphrase
somewhat
inlarged
,
offereth
it selfe
to
your
better
apprehension
and
vnderstanding
in
these
termes
:
And
heerein
,
or
in
this
therefore
(
as
reuerend
Paraph.
Text.
Beza
,
a
long
fixed
starre
in
the
firmament
of
our
Church
expoundeth
it
)
doe
I
Paul
(
the
seruant
of
the
Lord
,
and
Apostle
of
Iesus
Christ
)
exercise
my selfe
,
(
earnestly
indeuour
,
study
,
and
striue
,
as
a
Runner
to
the
goale
,
a
Wrestler
for
the
game
,
a
due
Tasker
and
Day-labourer
for
the
appointed
wages
and
gaine
)
To
haue
,
to
keepe
,
and
discharge
(
the
Originall
will
beare
it
well
)
to
haue
alwayes
(
in
all
cases
,
in
all
places
,
vpon
all
references
and
occurrences
whatsoeuer
,
through
the
whole
tenor
of
my
life
)
a
conscience
(
as
Monitor
of
my
duties
,
defects
,
bounties
,
blemishes
,
as
moderatour
of
my
desires
and
affections
,
and
vnder
God
,
principall
Commander
of
all
my
thoughts
,
speeches
,
and
actions
)
Yea
;
Heereunto
fully
,
freely
,
actually
,
punctually
,
doe
I
bend
and
extend
all
my
sanctified
will
,
wit
,
power
,
policy
,
and
all
,
to
haue
alwayes
by
all
meanes
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
an
vpright
,
Note
.
cleere
,
acquitting
conscience
towards
God
and
men
,
that
is
,
a
conscience
voyde
of
offence
,
not
staggering
,
tripping
,
or
fayling
any
way
for
matter
or
manner
,
either
in
the
duties
of
holinesse
and
piety
towards
God
,
or
of
righteousnesse
,
peace
,
or
equity
towards
men
.
And
heerein
,
&c.
which
words
being
thus
expounded
by
way
of
diuision
,
offer
to
the
duty
of
our
consideration
,
Three
remarkable
points
of
obseruation
.
-
-
1.
The
first
,
S.
Pauls
Christian
practice
and
actuall
imployment
,
grounded
on
the
hope
of
the
resurrection
:
Heerein
therefore
doe
I
exercise
my selfe
.
-
2.
The
second
,
is
the
matter
subiect
of
his
Diuision
.
imployment
and
exercise
;
to
haue
and
preserue
an
vpright
conscience
.
-
3.
The
third
,
is
the
latitude
&
extent
of
the
same
,
either
-
In
respect
of
time
,
to
haue
a
good
conscience
alwayes
.
-
In
respect
of
the
obiects
,
to
haue
and
discharge
a
good
conscience
towards
-
God
&
Men.
THe
blessed
Apostle
confesseth
in
the
verse
Illustr.
Text.
foregoing
my
Text
,
that
he
confidently
beleeued
the
doctrine
of
the
Resurrection
,
and
(
therfore
)
in
a
well
grounded
expectation
therof
,
professeth
himselfe
heere
studious
of
a
godly
life
,
and
vnblameable
conuersation
;
Hee
had
well
learned
,
that
Christianity
consisted
not
in
idle
speculation
,
but
industrious
negotiation
;
and
therefore
sets
to
the
worke
,
not
doing
it
by
a
Deputy
,
or
putting
it
ouer
to
after-times
,
but
for
the
present
,
without
doubt
or
delay
exerciseth
himselfe
;
Heerein
I
exercise
my selfe
.
He
vnderstood
well
enough
,
that
the
best
duties
required
the
greatest
diligence
;
and
therefore
vltimata
voluntate
,
with
all
might
and
maine
,
exerciseth
himselfe
in
this
,
to
haue
alwayes
an
vpright
conscience
.
Hee
knew
,
that
to
make
a
shew
of
deuotion
and
piety
towards
God
,
and
not
to
procure
things
honest
in
the
sight
of
men
,
sauoured
of
hypocrisie
;
and
on
the
contrary
,
to
obserue
a
kind
of
peaceable
truth
,
and
plausible
equity
in
our
dealing
with
men
,
and
to
be
regardlesse
of
Religion
and
Zeale
in
matters
of
Gods
worship
,
was
no
other
then
prophane
formality
;
and
therefore
with
a
settled
resolution
,
indeuoureth
to
hold
a
concurrence
and
correspondencie
of
both
in
their
order
,
that
is
,
first
,
to
approoue
the
truth
and
sincerity
of
his
seruice
,
in
all
duties
Diuine
towards
God
,
and
then
with
all
diligence
and
dexterity
,
to
performe
all
humane
dues
and
duties
towards
men
.
These
(
Right
Honourable
and
Beloued
)
are
the
seuerall
bounds
and
limits
of
my
intended
Meditations
on
this
Text
,
answerable
to
the
seuerall
limmes
and
lineaments
of
S.
Pauls
holy
practice
and
profession
shaddowed
forth
therein
,
for
the
more
liuely
describing
and
portraying
of
which
in
their
proper
colours
and
proportions
,
three
generall
doctrines
and
instructions
3.
Doct.
obs.
are
principally
to
bee
obserued
;
Whereof
the
first
resulteth
,
and
issueth
from
the
motiue
;
The
second
,
from
the
manner
;
The
third
,
from
the
matter
of
Saint
Pauls
religious
exercise
and
imployment
,
as
in
order
they
offer
themselues
to
bee
handled
.
The
first
Doctrine
,
arising
from
the
motiue
1.
Doct.
(
to
wit
)
the
hope
Saint
Paul
had
of
the
resurrection
of
iust
and
vniust
,
is
this
:
That
the
assured
hope
and
settled
expectancy
of
the
day
of
Resurrection
and
Iudgement
to
come
,
when
we
shall
render
account
,
and
receiue
a
reward
according
to
our
deeds
,
is
,
and
ought
to
bee
a
forcible
allectiue
to
draw
on
Christians
to
the
earnest
pursuit
of
godlinesse
,
and
constant
practice
of
true
Religion
.
Tolle
spem
Resurrectionis
Chrys.
in
24.
Mat.
(
saith
golden-mouthed
Chrysostome
)
&
resoluta
est
omnis
obseruantia
pietatis
:
Take
away
the
hope
of
the
Resurrection
,
and
the
building
of
piety
wanteth
her
foundation
.
For
vpon
this
foundation
all
the
Apostles
haue
builded
their
exhortations
to
amendment
of
life
and
sanctification
,
as
Saint
Paul
,
Acts
17.
Now
God
admonisheth
Acts
17.
30.
1.
Thes.
4.
2.
Tit.
11.
all
men
euery
where
to
repent
,
because
he
hath
appointed
a
Day
,
in
which
he
will
iudge
the
world
in
righteousnesse
.
And
1.
Iohn
3.
1.
Ioh.
3.
3.
Wee
know
,
when
Christ
Iesus
shall
appeare
,
wee
shall
bee
like
him
,
and
euery
one
that
hath
this
hope
,
purgeth
himselfe
,
as
he
is
pure
.
So
S.
Peter
;
Seeing
the
Heauens
shall
passe
with
a
2.
Pet.
3.
11.
noise
,
the
Elements
melt
with
heate
,
and
all
these
things
be
dissolued
;
what
manner
of
persons
Vers.
14.
ought
yee
to
bee
in
holy
conuersation
and
godlinesse
?
Yea
,
seeing
that
ye
looke
for
these
things
,
be
diligent
,
that
ye
may
be
found
of
him
in
peace
,
and
blamelesse
in
that
Day
.
The
expectation
of
which
Day
,
called
the
Day
of
Restauration
Acts.
3.
21.
of
all
things
,
hath
euer
beene
,
is
,
and
will
be
to
such
as
feare
God
,
a
forcible
prouocation
to
vertuous
atchieuements
and
religious
actions
.
Then
,
then
indeed
runs
a
man
cheerefully
in
the
Race
of
Christianity
,
when
hee
knowes
that
he
runs
not
at
vncertainety
:
Tolle
Bernard
.
viatori
spem
perueniendi
,
&
continuò
franguntur
vires
ambulandi
:
He
blunts
the
edge
of
industry
,
that
denies
recompence
,
and
where
there
is
no
apprehension
of
a
Day
of
remuneration
,
there
is
little
care
of
proficiency
,
or
striuing
to
perfection
.
For
to
reason
as
the
Apostle
doth
,
Reason
1
Phil.
3.
How
can
we
,
dwelling
on
earth
,
desire
Phil.
3.
20
,
21.
to
haue
our
conuersation
in
heauen
,
if
we
looke
not
for
the
second
comming
of
our
Sauiour
?
and
how
can
we
looke
for
his
comming
,
except
we
beleeue
the
Resurrection
?
and
how
can
we
beleeue
the
Resurrection
,
vnlesse
wee
acknowledge
that
power
by
which
he
is
able
to
subdue
all
things
to
himselfe
?
Againe
,
How
doe
wee
acknowledge
our
God
to
bee
Almighty
in
power
,
without
the
faith
of
the
Resurrection
?
and
how
can
wee
haue
the
faith
of
the
Resurrection
,
without
the
hope
of
a
Sauiour
?
and
how
can
we
haue
hope
of
a
Sauiour
,
without
an
heauenly
conuersation
?
So
that
the
life
of
this
conuersation
is
hope
,
by
which
wee
expect
the
comming
of
a
Sauiour
:
and
the
ground
of
this
hope
is
faith
,
by
which
wee
are
assured
,
that
at
his
comming
hee
will
change
our
vile
bodies
,
and
make
them
like
to
his
glorious
Body
;
and
the
reason
of
this
faith
(
beyond
reason
)
is
his
power
,
by
which
hee
is
able
to
accomplish
all
things
after
his
good
will
and
pleasure
.
All
these
be
linkes
so
diuinely
hanging
and
depending
each
on
other
,
in
that
golden
chaine
of
the
Apostle
,
that
if
we
let
slip
one
,
we
lose
the
comfortable
hold-fast
of
all
;
but
good
Christians
misse
not
of
any
,
but
established
in
faith
,
rooted
in
hope
,
and
abounding
in
loue
,
set
forward
in
an
holy
course
of
life
,
and
follow
hard
towards
Phil.
3.
14.
the
Marke
,
for
the
price
of
the
high
calling
of
God
in
Christ
,
knowing
that
they
are
begotten
by
the
immortall
seed
of
the
Word
,
in
the
bosome
1.
Pet.
1.
3.
of
the
Church
Militant
on
earth
,
to
a
liuely
hope
of
an
inheritance
immortall
and
vndefiled
in
the
Church
Triumphant
in
heauen
.
Reason
2
This
hope
,
as
it
giueth
vs
an
edge
,
that
wee
should
earnestly
affect
&
couet
spirituall
things
,
so
doeth
it
giue
vs
a
backe
also
to
indure
all
things
;
for
why
doe
the
seruants
of
God
beare
crosses
and
losses
so
patiently
,
abstaine
from
euill
so
carefully
,
pursue
the
things
that
are
good
so
cheerefully
?
but
because
they
looke
for
a
glorious
resurrection
,
as
the
full
end
of
all
Gods
promises
,
when
the
wicked
shall
haue
their
full
punishment
,
and
the
godly
their
full
payment
;
when
the
wicked
shall
(
both
in
body
and
soule
reunited
)
be
made
sensible
of
all
manner
of
misety
,
and
intolerable
wretchednesse
in
hell
,
and
the
godly
which
haue
but
breathings
heere
,
shall
bee
bathed
in
a
sea
of
comforts
,
and
inioy
the
consummation
of
blisse
and
complete
happinesse
in
the
Kingdome
of
heauen
.
Doubtlesse
,
this
holy
perswasion
of
a
Iudgement
Esa.
26.
19.
Hos.
6.
3.
Ezek.
37.
Dan.
7.
&
12.
to
come
in
the
Day
of
Resurrection
(
by
the
Prophets
and
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*
2.
Cor
5.
10.
Rom.
14.
10.
Reu.
20
12.
Apostles
,
and
by
our
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](A18036-e11330-b)*
*
Ioh.
5.
28.
Mat.
25.
Sauiour
himselfe
so
liuely
described
)
hath
euer
possessed
the
hearts
of
Gods
Saints
and
seruants
,
and
the
life
of
this
perswasion
hath
been
the
death
of
sinne
in
them
,
and
ought
to
bee
in
vs
the
remembrance
,
that
there
is
dies
&
Deus
vltionis
,
a
day
and
God
of
reuenge
:
for
his
power
vnresistable
,
for
his
wisedome
infallible
,
for
his
Iustice
inflexible
,
ought
to
strike
sinne
in
the
blade
,
breake
it
in
the
head
,
and
kill
it
to
the
heart
;
and
the
due
Meditation
of
the
reuniting
of
our
bodies
and
soules
in
that
day
,
to
be
ioynt
partakers
of
heauenly
felicity
,
should
mooue
vs
all
,
to
consecrate
both
the
parts
of
the
one
,
and
faculties
of
the
other
,
as
pure
Nazarites
to
the
seruice
of
God
,
in
all
holinesse
,
righteousnesse
,
and
sobriety
.
Vse
.
1
Oh
then
that
this
Meditation
might
take
due
possession
,
and
make
deepe
impression
in
your
hearts
that
are
Magistrates
,
in
ours
that
are
Ministers
,
in
all
of
vs
Christians
,
that
so
in
all
our
doings
,
dealings
,
preachings
,
pleadings
,
purposes
,
and
proceedings
,
making
account
of
that
Day
of
accounts
,
when
wee
shall
bee
called
to
account
for
them
all
,
wee
may
hence-forward
conscionably
retaine
God
and
his
Word
for
our
Counsellor
,
and
the
true
feare
of
God
for
our
Sollicitor
,
and
by
the
works
of
piety
,
equity
,
and
charity
,
according
to
our
seuerall
places
and
callings
,
lay
so
good
a
foundation
heere
,
that
we
may
lay
hold
of
euerlasting
life
heereafter
.
For
our
better
direction
and
incouragement
wherein
,
let
vs
looke
seriously
on
those
worthy
patternes
of
well-doing
,
Dauid
,
Paul
,
Iob
,
and
other
faithfull
seruants
of
God
,
and
withall
take
notice
for
our
instruction
and
imitation
of
those
praise-worthy
things
,
which
vpon
the
like
consideration
of
the
Day
of
Resurrection
,
they
both
did
,
and
resolued
to
doe
.
And
to
begin
with
the
Princely
Prophet
Dauid
,
1.
Dauid
.
Psal.
101.
most
apparent
it
is
in
the
101.
Psalme
,
(
which
it
seemes
he
made
,
when
hee
first
drew
the
soueraigne
breath
of
a
King
,
to
giue
notice
to
the
world
what
an
excellent
Gouernour
he
would
be
,
and
all
others
by
his
example
should
be
)
that
he
voweth
and
protesteth
that
hee
will
doe
wisely
and
worthily
,
both
in
the
morall
carriage
of
himselfe
,
and
in
the
domesticall
well
ordering
of
his
family
,
and
in
the
politicall
religious
gouernement
of
his
Kingdome
and
Countrey
,
vpon
expectancy
of
the
Lords
comming
:
I
will
doe
wisely
(
saith
he
)
in
the
Vers.
2
,
3
,
4.
perfect
way
,
till
thou
commest
to
me
,
&c.
being
well
assured
,
that
nothing
is
so
sure
as
his
comming
,
nothing
so
great
as
hee
that
shall
come
,
nothing
so
strict
as
the
Iudgement
to
come
;
and
therefore
nothing
so
needfull
as
to
liue
godly
,
to
walke
warily
in
priuate
,
to
worke
wisely
in
publike
,
vntill
his
comming
.
And
to
goe
on
with
our
zealous
Apostle
S.
2.
Paul
.
Paul
,
certaine
it
is
,
that
he
did
not
much
passe
by
mans
day
,
or
esteeme
of
mans
doome
,
but
in
respect
of
the
iudgement
and
approbation
of
God
(
with
whom
his
worke
and
wages
were
)
hee
had
an
accurate
vncessant
care
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
both
to
walke
vprightly
,
Gal.
2.
and
to
Gal.
2.
14.
diuide
the
Word
aright
,
2.
Tim.
2.
and
for
the
2.
Tim.
2
25.
euidencing
of
his
great
loue
towards
Christs
little
flocke
,
and
him
the
great
and
good
Shepherd
thereof
;
hee
ceased
not
to
admonish
Acts
20.
31.
euery
one
night
and
day
with
teares
;
he
ceased
not
,
ecce
laborem
,
to
admonish
,
ecce
officium
,
euery
one
,
ecce
amorem
,
night
and
day
,
ecce
vigilantiam
,
with
teares
,
ecce
compassionem
,
&c.
Such
a
painfull
,
pitifull
,
powerfull
dispenser
of
the
Word
was
he
:
neither
yet
did
his
care
consist
onely
in
fulfilling
his
ministery
by
fidelity
of
dispensation
,
in
publishing
all
the
counsell
of
God
,
in
preaching
constantly
,
plainly
,
profitably
,
to
the
conuiction
of
the
conscience
,
the
information
of
the
vnderstanding
,
and
the
reformation
of
the
will
,
whereunto
all
Ministers
should
aime
;
but
also
by
integrity
of
conuersation
,
and
singular
sanctimony
of
life
(
which
is
the
very
soule
and
life
of
the
Ministery
)
whereof
,
in
the
Acts
of
the
Apostles
,
and
many
Acts
22.
23
,
24.
passages
of
his
Epistles
we
haue
abundant
testimony
.
2.
Cor.
6.
Phil.
4
9.
He
knew
,
the
people
would
hardly
beleeue
the
truth
of
Religion
in
his
mouth
,
vnlesse
they
did
see
the
power
of
it
in
his
life
;
and
therefore
he
did
as
well
teach
their
eyes
by
his
conscionable
doings
,
as
their
eares
by
his
comfortable
doctrine
,
making
full
reckoning
,
that
one
day
he
was
to
be
called
to
a
reckoning
for
both
,
in
regard
whereof
he
thus
triumphantly
concludeth
,
2.
Tim.
4.
I
haue
fought
a
good
2.
Tim.
4.
7.
fight
,
I
haue
finished
my
course
,
and
kept
the
faith
,
rauished
with
this
heauenly
hope
and
soule-solacing
assurance
that
a
Crowne
of
righteousnesse
was
laid
vp
for
him
,
which
the
righteous
Iudge
would
giue
vnto
him
in
that
day
.
The
expectation
of
which
day
of
reckoning
and
recompence
,
as
it
made
Saint
Paul
diligent
and
faithfull
in
fulfilling
his
Ministery
:
So
did
it
make
holy
Iob
very
cautelous
in
the
3.
Iob.
priuate
course
of
his
life
,
and
most
carefull
in
his
publike
gouernment
and
Magistarcy
.
As
for
the
former
,
I
made
saith
he
,
Cap.
32.
a
Couenant
Iob
31.
1.
with
mine
eyes
,
not
to
looke
or
thinke
on
a
Maid
,
or
any
other
thing
,
whether
gift
or
bribe
,
pleasing
to
the
lustfull
eye
.
Why
?
this
seemes
too
much
precisenes
(
will
the
carnall
man
say
:
)
for
lookes
and
thoughts
are
free
.
Oh
,
but
what
Vers.
2.
portion
then
should
I
haue
from
aboue
,
saith
Iob
?
q.
d.
I
dare
not
giue
way
to
my
flesh
and
the
lust
thereof
in
any
sort
:
for
this
were
to
depriue
my selfe
of
the
comfort
of
the
Word
and
Spirit
heere
,
and
of
happinesse
heereafter
:
and
suppose
I
should
heerein
escape
the
censures
of
men
,
yet
,
Is
not
destruction
(
saith
hee
)
to
the
Vers.
3.
wicked
?
that
is
,
Hath
not
the
Lord
meanes
vnconceiueable
by
man
,
for
the
punishment
of
the
vngodly
?
and
can
he
not
bring
secret
sinnes
to
open
shame
?
yea
grant
that
it
be
kept
close
from
the
eyes
of
the
world
,
yet
doth
not
hee
behold
Vers
.
●
my
wayes
,
and
tell
all
my
steps
?
vers.
4.
though
men
take
view
onely
of
the
outward
action
,
yet
God
looketh
vpon
the
inward
disposition
and
affection
of
the
heart
,
and
hee
hath
placed
also
his
deputy-Intelligencer
,
conscience
,
within
mee
,
to
testifie
against
me
.
These
,
and
the
like
spirituall
reasons
and
arguments
Iob
vsed
to
keepe
himselfe
in
order
,
and
to
affright
himselfe
from
all
manner
of
iniquity
in
his
priuate
comportment
.
And
as
for
his
publike
gouernment
,
you
shall
finde
him
liuely
described
and
charactred
in
the
29.
Chapter
,
to
be
the
Oracle
of
Wisedome
,
Chap.
29.
the
Guardian
of
Iustice
,
the
Refuge
of
Innocency
,
the
Comet
of
the
guilty
,
the
Champion
and
defender
of
the
fatherlesse
,
poore
and
needy
,
the
Patron
of
peace
,
and
the
perfect
Myrrour
and
paterne
for
all
Magistrates
,
to
direct
them
in
the
wise
managing
of
all
publike
affaires
of
Iudgement
and
Mercy
:
in
performing
of
all
which
duties
,
Iob
shewed
himselfe
very
sedulous
and
sollicitous
;
yea
,
most
studious
he
was
of
doing
well
,
and
most
timorous
of
doing
euill
,
because
he
was
assured
,
that
God
himselfe
would
one
day
come
to
visit
all
his
doings
;
and
then
,
Quid
faciam
,
saith
he
,
vers.
14.
Chap.
31.
14.
What
shall
I
doe
,
when
God
shall
rise
vp
to
iudge
me
?
when
he
shall
visit
me
,
what
shall
I
answere
?
Vse
2
If
iust
Iob
,
but
thinking
of
the
Day
of
Iudgement
,
come
on
with
his
Quid
faciet
?
What
shall
he
doe
?
Alas
then
,
quid
fiet
?
what
shall
be
done
to
the
vniust
?
whose
bodies
must
boyle
,
and
soules
fry
for
it
,
when
God
comes
to
Iudgement
?
If
righteous
Iob
make
question
what
hee
shall
doe
or
say
;
Alas
,
what
then
shall
the
vnrighteous
be
able
to
say
or
doe
for
themselues
?
What
shall
mercilesse
preiudicate
bribe-taking
Magistrates
,
mercenary
illiterate
soule-staruing
Ministers
,
vsurarious
extorting
State-spoyling
money-mongers
,
sacrilegious
Church-polling
Patrons
,
and
rent-racking
Land-lords
and
oppressors
,
couetous
time-seruing
Court-officers
,
and
vnconscionable
Lawyers
,
with
that
contagious
crue
of
brothel-hunters
,
Alehouse-hunters
,
and
all
other
blasphemous
Sabbath-breaking
ruffians
,
reuellers
,
and
scornefull
mock-Preachers
?
What
will
these
,
or
any
of
these
be
able
to
say
or
doe
at
that
Day
?
Quando
non
Bern.
perorabit
lingua
,
sed
denudabitur
conscientia
,
when
the
bookes
of
conscience
shall
be
opened
,
and
the
mouth
of
iniquity
be
stopped
,
and
all
vicious
and
flagitious
sinners
shall
bee
vtterly
vndone
;
when
a
feare
and
consternation
of
mind
shall
ouertake
the
hypocrites
and
presumptuous
transgressors
in
Sion
,
and
none
of
them
shall
be
able
to
answere
this
fearfull
question
,
Who
among
Esa.
33.
14
,
15.
vs
shall
dwell
with
the
deuouring
fire
,
with
the
euerlastings
burning
?
But
those
which
walke
in
iustice
,
and
speake
righteous
things
,
refusing
gaine
of
oppression
,
shaking
their
hands
from
taking
of
gifts
,
stopping
their
eares
from
hearing
of
blood
,
and
shutting
their
eyes
from
seeing
euill
,
euen
they
shall
dwell
on
high
,
and
see
the
Lord
in
his
glory
.
The
time
pressing
me
forward
,
I
cannot
stand
now
to
presse
this
in
particular
to
the
present
occasion
,
onely
my
desire
is
,
that
all
in
generall
,
and
you
in
speciall
,
which
are
to
act
any
part
in
this
weekes
solemne
businesse
,
would
often
rub
vp
your
memories
,
with
that
saying
of
Ioseph
,
Gen.
39.
Gen.
39.
9.
Shall
I
doe
this
,
and
so
sinne
against
God
?
and
rowze
vp
your
consciences
with
this
meditation
of
Iob
,
What
shall
I
doe
then
,
when
God
commeth
to
Iudgement
?
And
that
you
may
not
then
doe
amisse
,
but
be
found
of
God
in
peace
,
bee
exercised
now
as
Iob
was
in
doing
well
.
Follow
peace
and
holinesse
,
without
which
,
yee
cannot
Heb.
12.
14.
see
God
;
put
on
,
as
hee
did
,
iustice
and
iudgement
,
as
a
robe
and
Crowne
;
bee
eyes
to
the
blind
,
feet
to
the
lame
,
fathers
to
the
poore
,
to
the
widow
and
fatherlesse
.
Shew
your selues
,
in
your
seuerall
imployments
,
men
of
courage
,
Exod.
18.
21.
2.
Cor.
13.
8.
fearing
God
,
dealing
truly
,
and
hating
couetousnesse
:
iudge
,
pleade
,
witnesse
,
work
nothing
against
the
truth
,
but
all
for
the
truth
;
vse
the
Law
lawfully
,
wrong
not
the
right
,
right
the
wronged
,
iustifie
the
righteous
,
condemne
the
wicked
,
as
the
Lord
commandeth
,
Deut.
25.
To
Deut.
25.
1.
be
briefe
,
let
the
view
of
these
Assises
suggest
to
your
consciences
a
memorandum
of
that
vniuersall
circuit
and
visitation
,
which
Christ
,
the
Lord
chiefe
Iustice
of
the
whole
world
,
and
Iudge
of
all
Iudges
,
will
in
one
day
begin
and
end
;
and
let
the
meditation
of
this
Day
,
when
we
shall
all
stand
to
our
triall
,
for
life
or
death
,
serue
as
the
dead
hand
on
the
nauell
,
to
cure
the
dropsie
of
worldly
and
vnwarrantable
desires
,
and
be
as
a
continuall
Monitor
vnto
vs
all
,
so
to
number
our
dayes
,
and
so
to
spend
them
,
that
euery
day
,
and
euery
night
wee
may
be
able
to
make
vp
a
good
account
,
especially
in
the
night
of
death
,
and
in
the
morning
of
the
Resurrection
.
For
the
making
vp
of
which
account
against
that
day
,
in
the
best
manner
,
the
due
consideration
of
the
sollicitous
and
industrious
manner
of
Saint
Pauls
exercise
and
imployment
,
will
serue
for
more
then
an
ordinary
president
and
incouragement
vnto
vs
all
;
and
therefore
,
according
to
the
method
proposed
,
I
will
now
descend
from
the
motiue
,
to
the
manner
,
as
it
offereth
it selfe
here
to
be
considered
.
Heerein
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
by
an
vsuall
Elleipsis
,
for
Second
part
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
I
doe
exercise
my selfe
;
Hee
saith
not
,
Herein
I
haue
laboured
,
but
cannot
now
,
or
will
labour
,
but
may
not
yet
;
hee
speakes
not
doubtfully
,
Peraduenture
I
shall
;
or
faintly
,
I
purpose
if
I
can
;
or
fainedly
,
with
some
popish-like
reseruation
,
I
,
or
some
other
will
;
but
couragiously
,
confidently
,
satis
pro
Apostolo
,
yea
constantly
,
instantly
,
satis
pro
imperio
:
In
this
doe
I
exercise
my selfe
,
I
deferre
not
the
doing
of
it
,
knowing
it
most
necessary
to
be
done
.
In
this
I
doe
really
and
for
the
present
,
without
delay
,
readily
,
exercise
(
not
others
)
but
my selfe
personally
,
to
haue
a
good
conscience
,
&c.
Whence
(
you
see
)
many
particular
pregnant
instructions
might
easily
be
deduced
;
but
the
general
obseruation
naturally
arising
therfrom
(
vnder
which
the
rest
are
contained
)
and
vpon
which
I
meane
onely
to
insist
,
is
this
:
Doct.
2
That
heauen
,
and
heauenly
things
,
especially
the
treasure
of
a
cleare
conscience
,
which
is
an
heauen
vpon
earth
,
is
not
easily
come
by
,
gotten
and
attained
;
but
with
diligent
sedulity
,
with
a
zealous
care
,
and
industrious
constancy
to
be
sought
for
and
acquired
.
It
was
not
for
nothing
that
the
great
Commander
of
all
things
,
Christ
Iesus
,
who
can
command
vs
,
might
condemne
vs
,
will
certainly
iudge
vs
,
doth
so
often
and
so
earnestly
inculcate
that
soule-sauing
counsell
,
Striue
to
enter
into
Math.
7.
Luk.
13.
24.
the
strait
gate
,
into
the
narrow
way
which
leadeth
vnto
life
;
he
knew
,
and
would
haue
vs
to
know
,
that
without
striuing
and
struggling
against
our
corruptions
,
without
stooping
,
and
stripping
our selues
of
our
carnall
worldly
affections
,
there
is
no
passage
into
the
narrow
portall
of
heauen
.
We
must
,
as
the
holy
Ghost
chargeth
,
walke
circumspectly
and
precisely
,
Ephes.
5.
Make
straight
steps
to
our
feet
,
Hebr.
Ephes.
5.
15.
Heb.
12.
13.
Psal.
39.
1.
12.
Walke
by
a
rule
,
Gal.
5.
16.
Take
heed
to
our
wayes
,
with
Dauid
,
Psal.
39.
and
striue
to
keepe
an
euen
and
direct
course
,
as
it
were
by
line
or
leuell
,
that
so
we
may
haue
entrance
into
the
strait
gate
,
into
the
which
,
the
proud
man
,
with
his
high
lookes
;
the
ambitious
,
with
his
aspiring
thoughts
;
the
malicious
,
with
his
swelling
vncharitable
heart
;
the
Vsurer
,
with
his
full
bags
;
the
drunkard
,
with
his
full
cups
,
and
corrupt
lungs
;
the
adulterer
,
with
his
fulsome
minions
,
and
wasted
loynes
,
can
haue
no
admittance
;
no
admittance
,
if
they
liue
,
and
lye
and
die
in
their
sinnes
without
repentance
:
facilis
descensus
auerni
;
A
man
may
goe
to
hell
without
a
staffe
,
as
the
Heathen
saith
;
sed
reuocare
gradum
,
&c.
But
to
make
a
step
to
heauen
,
and
so
to
seeke
the
Kingdome
thereof
,
as
to
find
it
,
so
to
finde
it
,
as
to
inioy
it
,
hic
labor
,
hoc
opus
est
,
non
puluinaris
,
sed
pulueris
:
This
,
this
indeed
is
a
labour
of
great
worth
,
a
worke
requiring
much
heedfulnesse
,
diligence
,
and
watchfulnesse
.
Whereof
our
Apostle
had
good
experience
,
and
therefore
for
our
learning
and
imitation
,
he
hath
left
it
recorded
,
that
hee
did
forget
what
Phil.
3.
13
,
14.
was
behind
,
that
is
,
account
whatsoeuer
he
had
done
or
suffered
already
for
Gods
sake
,
to
bee
as
nothing
,
not
worth
the
naming
;
but
this
one
thing
he
did
,
he
did
indeuour
himselfe
to
that
which
was
before
,
and
striued
to
doe
better
,
and
to
bee
better
,
and
followed
hard
towards
the
Marke
,
for
the
price
of
the
high
calling
of
God
in
Iesus
Christ
;
So
heere
in
my
Text
hee
exercised
himselfe
,
that
is
,
with
diligence
and
dexterity
,
and
continuall
indeuour
to
the
vtmost
;
he
pursued
this
one
thing
aboue
all
other
things
,
to
wit
,
the
hauing
and
holding
of
a
good
conscience
,
esteeming
it
at
so
high
a
rate
,
as
the
Merchant
did
the
Pearle
for
which
hee
sold
all
Mat.
13.
46.
that
he
had
,
accounting
all
things
else
as
drosse
and
losse
in
comparison
thereof
.
He
knew
,
that
the
imperfect
Essayes
,
proffers
,
and
momentany
purposes
,
and
propensities
of
lazie
languishing
wishers
&
woulders
,
ripen
not
,
reach
not
home
thereunto
,
and
therefore
with
a
steady
settled
will
,
and
full
resolution
with
the
greatest
bent
and
extent
of
his
regenerate
rectified
affection
,
(
such
as
was
in
Dauid
,
where
hee
vowed
and
Ps.
119.
106.
swore
that
hee
would
keepe
Gods
righteous
iudgements
;
and
in
Ioshua
,
where
hee
resolued
Iosh.
24.
15.
that
whatsoeuer
others
did
,
hee
and
his
house
would
serue
the
Lord
)
pursueth
the
purchase
of
this
heauenly
Iewell
,
a
good
conscience
;
in
which
pursuit
he
deserueth
our
best
imitation
,
and
most
zealous
emulation
too
.
So
that
as
S.
Ierom
,
hauing
read
the
religious
life
and
comfortable
death
of
Hilarion
,
said
,
Surely
Hilarion
shall
be
the
Champion
which
I
will
follow
.
So
hauing
heard
the
godly
care
,
and
continuall
indeuour
which
Saint
Paul
had
to
keepe
an
vpright
conscience
;
wee
should
all
,
both
Magistrates
and
Ministers
,
and
all
other
officers
and
instruments
of
Iustice
here
present
,
religiously
resolue
to
make
Saint
Paul
our
Champion
and
guide
,
in
a
businesse
of
so
singular
consequence
,
henceforward
exercising
our selues
in
this
,
to
haue
alwayes
a
good
conscience
towards
God
and
men
;
to
haue
,
I
say
,
that
tranquillity
of
mind
,
that
heauenly
Musicke
,
whereon
the
old
Philosophers
doubtfully
harped
,
but
the
good
Christian
heart
onely
heareth
it
,
and
answereth
it
with
iust
measures
of
ioy
:
Which
spirituall
harmony
(
to
giue
you
by
the
way
a
taste
of
it
,
for
the
sharpning
of
your
appetite
after
it
)
as
a
song
of
three
parts
,
consisteth
in
a
three-fold
Pax
suprà
,
exrà
,
intrà
.
peace
,
with
God
aboue
vs
,
and
men
without
vs
,
and
the
soule
within
vs
;
and
therefore
is
both
hard
to
be
gotten
,
and
rare
to
be
found
.
But
after
wee
haue
sought
heauen
and
earth
,
Note
.
behold
,
where
onely
the
wearied
Doue
,
the
humbled
Christian
may
finde
this
Oliue
of
peace
,
this
peace
of
a
good
conscience
,
namely
,
in
that
reconciliation
to
God
,
in
that
remission
of
sinnes
,
and
fruition
of
Gods
fauour
,
which
the
eternall
Peace-maker
,
the
Esa.
9.
Sauiour
of
men
,
and
anointed
of
God
,
CHRIST
IESVS
,
hath
procured
and
purchased
,
1.
Pet.
1.
19.
by
the
infinite
price
of
his
most
precious
Blood
;
the
benefit
whereof
hee
offers
to
be
apprehended
of
vs
by
the
spirituall
hand
of
faith
:
Receiue
then
peace
,
and
be
happy
;
beleeue
,
and
thou
hast
receiued
;
by
faith
thou
Ioh.
3.
16.
art
interessed
in
all
that
either
God
hath
promised
,
or
Christ
performed
.
The
faithfull
apprehension
and
application
of
Christs
all-sufficient
satisfaction
,
makes
it
to
bee
thine
.
Vpon
this
satisfaction
thou
hast
the
broad
Seale
of
pardon
and
remission
;
vpon
remission
followes
reconciliation
;
and
vpon
reconciliation
,
peace
of
conscience
.
O
heauenly
peace
,
whereby
alone
we
are
at
league
with
our selues
,
and
God
with
vs
,
without
which
,
all
other
pleasures
are
to
be
pitied
;
without
which
,
the
heart
will
deny
to
be
cheered
,
though
all
the
world
bee
her
Minstrell
and
Musician
.
When
therefore
thy
conscience
,
like
a
sterne
Sergeant
,
shall
catch
thee
by
the
throate
,
and
arrest
thee
vpon
Gods
debt
,
let
this
be
thy
plea
,
that
thou
hast
already
paid
it
,
bring
foorth
that
bloody
acquittance
sealed
to
thee
from
heauen
vpon
thy
true
faith
,
and
straightway
thou
shalt
see
her
fierce
lookes
changed
into
friendly
smiles
,
and
that
hand
which
was
ready
violently
to
drag
thee
to
prison
,
now
louingly
to
imbrace
thee
,
and
fight
for
thee
against
all
temptations
and
accusations
whatsoeuer
.
For
what
can
accuse
or
condemne
,
where
God
and
the
conscience
do
acquit
?
Hic
murus
ahaeneus
esto
,
nil
conscire
tibi
:
Let
this
be
thy
fortresse
and
brazen
Bulwarke
in
all
assaults
of
thy
spirituall
enemies
,
that
thou
hast
no
sinne
vnrepented
;
no
corruption
vnbewailed
,
with
the
guilt
wherof
thou
canst
charge
thy selfe
.
Surely
thou
canst
not
be
by
the
false
Saluianus
.
iudgement
of
another
made
miserable
,
who
art
thus
by
the
true
testimony
of
thine
owne
conscience
become
blessed
;
the
vniust
exclamations
of
the
wicked
without
,
shall
not
be
able
to
hurt
thee
,
whilst
the
iust
acclamation
of
thy
witnesse
within
,
doth
cleere
and
cheere
thee
;
nay
,
rather
thou
shalt
make
to
thy selfe
a
Garland
of
the
false
aspersions
of
Sycophants
,
and
be
able
comfortably
&
confidently
to
say
,
as
S.
Austin
,
in
a
case
not
much
vnlike
said
;
Fideliter
in
conspectu
Dei
dico
,
&c.
I
speake
it
solemnely
Aug.
cont.
lit
.
Petil.
l.
3.
c.
6.
in
the
sight
of
God
,
that
I
am
not
guilty
to
any
of
those
actions
wherewith
my
aduersary
chargeth
me
,
since
the
time
I
was
baptized
in
the
name
of
Christ
,
and
therefore
haue
no
cause
to
be
sad
,
but
to
reioyce
and
exult
.
Goe
to
then
,
ye
righteous
,
reioyce
in
the
Lord
,
sing
merrily
,
ye
that
are
purged
and
pacified
by
faith
in
Christs
Blood
,
to
the
mighty
God
of
your
saluation
.
Walke
cheerefully
on
in
the
way
of
peace
,
thus
chalked
foorth
vnto
you
:
let
no
difficulty
be
a
sufficient
excuse
to
hinder
you
in
the
pursuite
of
this
peace
of
conscience
,
which
of
all
other
things
is
most
precious
,
and
yeelds
sweetest
and
durablest
contentment
;
and
that
you
may
so
haue
it
,
that
you
may
also
hold
it
fast
,
and
be
confirmed
in
the
same
,
put
in
daily
practice
these
few
rules
.
First
,
in
respect
of
God
,
labour
and
indeuour
by
all
holy
exercises
of
Rules
for
the
preseruing
of
a
good
conscience
.
Prayer
,
of
hearing
the
Word
of
God
,
by
conference
and
Meditation
,
to
find
the
fruition
of
his
sweet
presence
renewed
in
you
.
Secondly
,
in
respect
of
your selues
and
your
actions
,
you
must
resolue
by
a
secret
vow
passed
betwixt
God
and
the
soule
,
to
refraine
from
all
occasions
of
dipleasing
his
Maiesty
,
to
performe
Canonicall
obedience
in
all
required
duties
,
and
to
doe
nothing
doubtfully
with
intricate
suspension
of
mind
.
And
lastly
,
in
respect
of
your
estate
,
it
behooueth
you
wholly
to
roll
your selues
,
and
relie
on
the
prouidence
of
the
Highest
,
and
to
consider
whatsoeuer
comes
vnto
you
,
that
it
commeth
from
a
Diuine
hand
,
whose
Almighty
power
is
guided
by
a
most
wise
prouidence
,
and
tempered
with
a
fatherly
loue
,
and
so
to
be
perswaded
,
the
estate
wherein
you
are
,
to
be
best
of
all
for
you
,
because
he
willeth
it
,
who
foresees
and
effects
what
is
best
for
his
.
These
,
as
a
threefold
cord
diuinely
twisted
,
are
sufficiently
able
to
strengthen
in
vs
,
and
to
confirme
vnto
vs
the
hold-fast
of
a
good
quiet
conscience
.
To
the
which
generall
rules
,
these
particular
helpes
are
subordinate
,
which
the
conscionable
Christian
may
,
and
must
vse
for
his
surer
footing
,
and
better
furtherance
in
the
way
to
heauen
.
First
,
his
holy
care
must
bee
so
to
heare
the
1.
Helpe
.
Word
,
as
with
a
settled
purpose
to
yeeld
obedience
from
the
heart
,
to
the
forme
of
doctrine
Rom.
6.
17.
whereunto
he
is
deliuered
;
not
talking
,
as
many
doe
in
a
dreame
,
of
the
Kingdome
of
God
,
and
righteousnesse
thereof
;
or
walking
,
as
others
doe
(
with
respect
to
their
profit
or
preferment
)
in
some
good
duties
,
as
Herod
did
;
but
with
an
heart
inlarged
by
grace
,
running
in
all
the
wayes
of
Gods
Commandements
,
blessing
Psalm
.
119.
God
for
the
day-light
of
the
Gospell
,
and
the
opportunity
offered
thereby
,
of
casting
off
the
workes
of
darknesse
,
and
putting
on
the
armour
of
light
;
imbracing
at
all
times
the
sound
of
the
Word
,
not
onely
when
it
commeth
in
a
still
and
soft
voyce
(
gently
admonishing
vs
to
auoyd
the
quagmires
of
voluptuousnesse
,
the
thorny
copse
of
couetousnesse
,
and
the
stickle
path
of
Prou.
3.
17.
pride
,
and
to
walke
precisely
in
the
pleasant
and
prosperous
wayes
of
wisedome
,
)
but
also
when
as
a
Trumpet
it
soundeth
the
Alarm
of
iudgement
against
secure
and
impenitent
sinners
,
that
so
he
may
be
kept
in
awe
,
and
say
with
the
Prophet
,
O
Lord
,
I
heard
thy
voyce
and
was
afraid
,
Hab.
3.
2.
Psal.
119.
120.
my
flesh
trembleth
for
feare
of
thy
iudgments
.
Secondly
,
with
the
faithfull
,
Esa.
26.
he
is
so
to
wait
for
the
Lord
in
the
way
of
his
iudgements
,
Vers.
8
,
9.
with
his
soule
desiring
him
in
the
night
,
and
with
his
spirit
seeking
him
in
the
morning
,
that
thereby
he
may
not
onely
be
terrified
,
but
as
the
Prophet
there
speaketh
,
learne
righteousnesse
,
and
behold
the
high
hand
of
God
,
as
well
in
protecting
the
vertuous
,
and
compassing
them
about
with
a
wall
of
brasse
for
their
defence
,
Ezek.
5.
as
in
punishing
the
vicious
,
(
which
in
the
Land
of
vprightnesse
doe
wickedly
)
for
their
destruction
.
Thirdly
,
that
his
profession
and
practice
may
be
no
way
mimicall
,
and
grounded
only
on
occasion
,
and
confined
by
limitation
,
but
sincere
and
intire
,
without
dodging
and
reseruation
;
he
must
bind
himselfe
with
Dauids
vow
,
and
make
Psal.
119.
106.
a
couenant
betwixt
God
and
his
soule
,
that
hee
will
performe
his
righteous
iudgements
,
and
be
as
the
Clocke
in
the
house
where
hee
liueth
,
in
the
company
where
he
conuerseth
,
awaking
others
to
doe
their
duties
;
and
to
this
end
must
daily
edifie
himselfe
in
his
most
holy
faith
,
Iude
,
vers.
20.
praying
in
the
holy
Ghost
,
that
God
,
(
who
in
his
conuersion
rowzed
him
out
of
the
sleepe
of
sinne
)
would
,
by
the
neuer-ceasing
influence
of
that
grace
which
first
awaked
him
,
keepe
alwayes
his
heart
awake
,
and
not
suffer
him
to
sleepe
as
others
doe
,
and
let
slip
opportunity
of
grace
,
but
preserue
him
watchfull
and
sober
,
1.
Thes.
5.
6.
that
so
continuing
the
spirituall
motion
of
prayer
,
thankesgiuing
,
meditation
,
and
examination
of
his
heart
and
life
,
he
may
be
preserued
in
his
spirit
,
and
not
transgresse
,
Mal.
2.
and
Mal.
2.
16.
more
and
more
strengthen
in
himselfe
the
good
things
which
else
would
bee
ready
to
dye
,
Reu.
3.
2.
Reuel.
3.
Fourthly
,
he
must
with
all
diligence
auoyd
that
repletion
of
worldly
desires
,
and
carnall
delights
,
which
our
Sauiour
shewes
to
bee
an
especiall
enemy
to
Christian
watchfulnesse
,
and
with
the
wise
Steward
,
Luk.
16.
must
be
content
Luk.
21.
34.
to
sit
downe
and
write
fifty
for
an
hundred
:
Luk.
16.
that
is
,
to
abridge
himselfe
of
many
profits
and
pleasures
;
yea
,
by
seasonable
abstinence
,
he
is
to
bring
his
flesh
into
subiection
,
and
by
perpetuall
sobriety
,
to
fence
the
City
of
his
soule
,
that
by
any
rout
or
riot
of
voluptuousnesse
,
the
walls
thereof
be
not
broken
downe
.
Fifthly
,
he
is
with
the
Israelites
,
Numb.
9.
to
keepe
the
watch
of
the
Lord
;
and
as
they
fixed
Numb.
9.
23.
their
eyes
on
the
pillar
of
a
cloud
by
day
,
and
of
fire
by
night
,
that
according
thereto
they
might
rest
or
remooue
;
so
the
conscionable
Christian
is
to
marke
and
obserue
diligently
Gods
workes
and
dealings
with
others
and
himselfe
,
and
when
hee
calles
to
feasting
or
mourning
,
is
to
haue
his
eyes
opened
,
and
his
senses
awaked
,
to
entertaine
the
Lords
mercies
or
iudgements
with
ioy
or
sorrow
,
as
hee
hath
appoynted
:
Contrary
to
the
disposition
of
Amos
6.
8.
those
retchlesse
rebellious
persons
by
the
Prophets
Ier
5.
3.
condemned
,
Amos
6.
Ier.
5.
Esa.
22.
Lastly
,
that
hee
may
constantly
stand
on
the
guard
of
faith
and
a
good
conscience
,
hee
is
seriously
to
meditate
on
,
and
daily
to
expect
Christs
comming
to
Iudgement
;
that
whether
Luk.
12.
35.
he
come
at
euening
,
or
morning
,
or
midnight
,
he
may
be
ready
with
his
Lampe
burning
,
and
loynes
girded
,
to
entertaine
him
:
and
finally
,
for
the
full
and
finall
preseruation
of
his
conscience
from
ruine
,
hee
is
in
humble
prayer
to
Psal.
127.
commend
the
keeping
thereof
to
the
neuer-sleeping
Keeper
of
Israel
,
that
hee
making
his
Watch-tower
therein
,
it
may
bee
preserued
through
faith
vnto
eternall
life
.
Beleeue
mee
then
(
Fathers
and
Brethren
)
the
procuring
,
and
preseruing
of
this
true
Diamond
,
which
flings
beames
of
comfort
vpon
the
soule
of
this
true
Rubie
,
which
carryes
in
her
face
the
colour
of
vertue
,
of
this
soueraigne
cordiall
of
a
good
and
quiet
conscience
,
requireth
an
excellent
exercised
man
,
well
skild
in
the
pure
and
pious
trade
of
Christianity
,
&c.
Vse
1
Wherefore
whilest
the
Wizards
of
this
world
(
like
to
that
couetous
Cardinall
,
which
preferred
his
portion
in
Paris
,
before
his
part
in
Paradise
)
exercise
themselues
wholly
;
and
their
greatest
wit
,
cunning
and
policy
,
to
gaine
and
retaine
good
estates
,
good
Farmes
,
good
fields
,
good
friends
,
good
houses
,
good
horses
,
good
clothes
,
good
euery
thing
else
,
but
care
not
for
this
onely
permanent
and
Paradisaicall
good
of
an
vpright
conscience
;
let
all
of
vs
that
would
be
accounted
godly
,
wise
,
&
prouident
for
a
better
world
,
make
it
our
principall
care
and
study
to
get
this
choyce
Iewell
of
admirable
vertue
and
operation
,
and
to
set
it
in
the
best
and
chiefest
roome
of
our
holy
and
hearty
affection
,
as
a
blessing
of
all
blessings
:
sufficient
for
present
maintenance
,
Psalm
.
84.
and
future
Psal.
84.
11.
inheritance
,
Luk.
12.
31.
With
which
,
that
wee
Luk.
12.
may
be
really
possessed
,
and
so
royally
blessed
,
it
is
generally
required
of
vs
all
,
(
as
in
part
it
hath
,
and
shal
be
more
fully
declared
hereafter
)
that
we
be
,
according
to
our
seuerall
callings
,
much
exercised
in
prayer
,
in
thankesgiuing
,
in
hearing
,
reading
,
and
meditating
of
the
Word
;
much
in
patience
,
temperance
,
repentance
,
obedience
,
Gods
mercies
and
iudgements
on
our selues
and
others
,
must
be
daily
considered
;
his
Temple
,
on
publike
solemne
assemblies
,
duely
frequented
;
his
Throne
of
grace
in
priuate
deuotion
often
sollicited
;
his
distressed
seruants
pitied
and
relieued
;
especially
wee
must
be
inured
to
a
daily
diligent
search
and
examination
of
our
soules
by
that
scrutiny
in
Seneca
,
Anima
Seneca
.
mea
,
quid
fecisti
hodie
?
O
my
soule
,
what
hast
thou
Ier.
8.
6.
done
to
day
?
that
so
comming
to
a
true
sight
and
sorrow
of
our
sinnes
and
corruptions
,
wee
may
humbly
confesse
them
,
feruently
craue
pardon
for
them
,
and
by
faith
in
Christs
blood
,
be
assured
of
the
forgiuenesse
of
them
,
and
so
with
peace
of
conscience
,
and
ioy
of
heart
,
walke
on
cheerfully
in
the
religious
race
of
godlinesse
and
vertue
,
to
the
iourneys
end
of
endlesse
felicity
.
Herein
,
and
therein
ought
we
to
be
exercised
,
if
we
would
inioy
the
comfort
and
credit
of
conscionable
Christians
.
And
as
these
generall
duties
of
Christianity
are
carefully
to
be
performed
;
so
the
particular
offices
whereunto
we
are
called
,
for
the
propagation
of
Religion
and
piety
,
or
the
preseruation
of
order
,
iustice
and
equity
in
Church
or
Commonwealth
,
are
seriously
to
be
attended
and
executed
.
Hoc
agite
,
in
the
sacrifices
of
the
heathen
gods
,
was
a
precept
much
vsed
and
obserued
:
how
much
more
in
the
seruices
of
the
God
of
heauen
,
especially
in
that
great
businesse
of
Iustice
and
Iudgement
,
whereunto
,
by
God
,
the
King
and
the
Countrey
,
the
most
of
you
are
now
designed
,
should
the
said
precept
(
Doe
yee
this
,
that
is
,
intend
and
apply
all
the
faculties
of
your
mind
to
the
doing
of
it
)
be
kept
inuiolable
:
and
that
not
only
of
you
,
the
chiefe
agents
and
ministers
,
but
of
all
others
the
instruments
and
assistants
of
Iustice
;
whether
witnesses
,
who
are
faithfully
to
prooue
the
action
;
or
counsellours
,
who
are
formally
to
plead
the
cause
;
or
Iurators
,
who
are
vprightly
to
censure
the
allegations
?
These
,
and
euery
of
these
,
for
the
discharge
of
a
good
conscience
herein
,
and
therein
,
according
to
Saint
Pauls
practice
,
must
exercise
themselues
,
and
that
ingeniously
,
without
sinister
affection
;
and
that
instantly
,
as
the
occasion
is
giuen
,
without
put-offs
to
after-times
,
or
any
tedious
protraction
.
Vse
2
So
that
to
come
to
a
second
vse
of
the
doctrine
proposed
(
me
thinkes
)
here
come
within
compasse
of
iust
censure
,
diuers
Christians
(
as
they
esteeme
themselues
)
to
be
sharpely
reprooued
,
for
their
security
and
grosse
stupidity
,
in
slighting
,
neglecting
and
procrastinating
necessary
duties
,
who
thinke
and
speake
much
of
doing
,
but
leaue
to
doe
the
effect
of
their
thinking
;
who
mention
and
motion
many
things
fit
to
be
acted
and
done
,
for
the
reformation
of
disorders
,
and
matters
amisse
in
themselues
and
family
at
home
,
in
the
Church
and
Common-wealth
abroad
,
but
as
weaklings
and
slacke-graces
,
set
not
their
hands
to
the
worke
,
thrust
not
themselues
forth
with
Dauids
resolution
,
Psal.
101.
tot
.
Psalm
.
101.
to
the
speedy
execution
of
the
same
.
Farre
be
they
from
the
Prophets
and
our
Apostles
spirit
and
resolution
;
farre
from
the
obedient
disposition
which
was
in
Father
Abraham
,
who
according
to
Gods
Commandement
,
forthwith
circumcised
his
family
,
Genes.
Gen.
17.
17.
put
away
the
bond-woman
and
her
sonne
,
Gen.
21.
Gen.
21.
yea
,
readily
and
betimes
went
on
his
Gen.
22.
iourney
,
to
sacrifice
his
onely
beloued
Sonne
Isaac
,
Gen.
22.
and
not
asking
a
reason
for
it
,
which
he
thought
to
be
presumption
;
or
opposing
any
carnall
reason
against
it
,
which
hee
knew
to
be
rebellion
,
instantly
did
that
hee
was
called
vnto
,
and
commanded
to
doe
with
all
expedition
.
But
alas
,
these
,
(
and
are
not
some
of
you
,
Fathers
,
many
of
you
,
Brethren
,
such
?
)
either
in
fauour
to
themselues
,
or
for
feare
of
others
,
stand
still
with
the
idlers
in
the
market
,
and
doe
nothing
;
or
hauing
begun
well
,
reuolt
Math.
20.
1.
Tim.
4.
10.
Iudg.
5.
with
Demas
,
disappoynt
with
Meroz
,
or
follow
a
farre
off
,
as
Peter
did
Christ
,
and
doe
not
put
themselues
forward
to
the
reforming
of
any
course
that
is
euill
,
or
the
furtherance
of
any
cause
that
is
good
.
Yea
;
whereas
the
places
and
callings
of
some
require
,
that
they
should
,
as
State-Physicians
,
purge
themselues
of
all
distempered
humours
,
that
they
might
the
more
effectually
worke
on
the
humorous
distemperatures
of
others
,
and
that
they
should
bee
patrons
of
peace
and
piety
,
and
patternes
of
temperance
and
honesty
,
that
so
they
might
the
more
boldly
reproue
,
and
soundly
represse
the
lewd
and
lawlesse
irregularities
of
the
sonnes
of
Belial
,
wherwith
these
times
swarme
:
They
,
on
the
contrary
runne
a
race
of
the
like
excesse
of
riot
with
others
,
and
as
if
it
were
no
disparagement
,
but
rather
an
ornament
vnto
them
;
sweare
by
authority
,
oppresse
and
extort
by
licence
;
drinke
,
that
I
may
not
say
,
drab
it
too
,
without
controll
,
without
feare
,
care
or
conscience
.
Such
,
and
such
,
with
shame
and
griefe
I
speak
it
,
are
more
then
a
good
many
of
our
neuter-passiue
Magistrates
,
scar-crow
Constables
,
and
meale-mouthed
vnder-officers
in
Towne
and
Countrey
,
who
resembling
Ostritches
,
which
Plin.
haue
great
feathers
,
but
no
flight
;
or
Iupiters
Blocke
cast
amongst
the
Frogs
,
to
bee
the
king
,
whom
they
feared
at
first
for
its
greatnesse
,
but
despised
at
length
for
its
stilnesse
,
suffer
many
hainous
and
hidious
enormities
of
whoredom
,
blasphemy
,
drunkennesse
,
prophaning
of
the
Sabbath
,
and
wilfull
recusancy
to
passe
by
them
vncontrolled
,
and
are
loth
(
lest
they
might
bee
accounted
precise
and
pragmaticall
)
to
exercise
themselues
in
this
,
to
see
these
and
the
like
abuses
punished
or
reformed
.
So
that
as
Demosthenes
Plut.
sometimes
complained
,
that
by
the
Athenians
slothfulnesse
,
the
power
of
their
aduersary
,
Philip
,
King
of
Macedon
,
was
greatly
augmented
;
so
may
we
that
are
Ministers
iustly
complaine
,
that
by
the
remisnesse
of
the
aforesaid
Magistrates
and
Officers
,
the
kingdome
of
Satan
,
in
those
his
vicious
vicegerents
is
exceedingly
inlarged
.
And
therefore
we
doe
the
more
humbly
intreat
you
,
my
Honourable
Lords
,
according
to
the
great
measure
of
courage
,
wisedome
and
grauity
which
God
hath
giuen
you
,
that
you
would
with
an
heroicall
spirit
,
incounter
the
many-headed
monstrous
Hydra
of
sinfull
abuses
,
in
these
exulcerate
times
,
and
by
an
Herculean
arme
of
publike
iustice
,
by
degrees
cut
off
the
farre-spreading
branches
of
all
State-spoyling
,
couenant-breaking
,
Church-robbing
,
soule-murthering
iniquity
,
which
beareth
vp
crest
and
brest
too
,
against
all
the
inferiour
Magistracy
.
Some
faults
,
I
know
,
may
be
like
Cummin-seed
,
beaten
out
with
the
rod
,
as
the
Prophet
speaketh
,
Esa.
28.
other
more
scandalous
Esa.
28.
27.
offences
,
like
fitches
,
must
be
driuen
out
with
a
flaile
,
but
the
cart-wheele
it selfe
must
make
a
noyse
,
that
is
,
the
seuerest
punishment
must
bee
inflicted
,
where
the
parties
peccant
will
not
bee
reformed
,
especially
the
incorrigible
followers
of
drunken
Bacchus
,
the
professed
friends
of
Romish
Balaam
,
without
dallying
or
delay
,
must
be
confronted
,
curbed
,
confounded
;
wherein
,
if
you
(
my
Lords
)
shall
duly
exercise
your
authority
,
and
(
as
chiefe
substitutes
vnder
God
and
our
King
,
for
the
redressing
of
inormities
in
this
Circuit
)
approoue
your
fidelity
and
integrity
,
assure
your selues
,
wee
shall
bee
euer
ready
to
blesse
God
for
you
,
&
to
pray
that
God
would
blesse
you
,
that
you
may
continue
a
blessing
vnto
vs
,
in
the
conscionable
execution
of
your
Iudiciall
function
.
Vse
3
For
the
better
execution
whereof
,
the
voyce
of
more
then
a
man
,
and
lowder
then
a
Trumpet
,
is
here
necessary
,
not
so
much
to
rowze
vp
your
consciences
,
as
to
quicken
and
inliue
the
consciences
of
inferiour
Ministers
,
officers
,
and
instruments
of
iustice
,
by
their
ioynt
labours
and
vigilancy
,
by
their
diligent
inquisition
,
true
information
,
&
godly
resolution
,
to
be
assistant
vnto
you
,
in
that
great
worke
which
you
haue
to
doe
,
for
the
preseruing
and
promoting
of
godlinesse
,
peace
and
honesty
,
for
the
suppressing
and
punishing
of
irreligion
and
luxury
,
lawlesse
contention
and
popery
in
these
quarters
of
the
Land
.
For
as
the
Clocke
,
though
it
bee
of
Simile
.
the
best
metall
and
making
,
will
not
strike
orderly
and
truly
,
but
much
therein
will
be
out
of
frame
and
fashion
,
if
the
lesser
wheeles
,
as
well
as
the
greater
,
keepe
not
their
due
and
regular
motion
:
So
in
the
curious
Clockworke
of
Iustice
,
there
will
bee
many
exorbitancies
(
albeit
the
chiefe
agents
and
moouers
therein
bee
neuer
so
sound
in
their
integrity
)
if
the
vnder-agents
and
instruments
of
Iustice
(
as
witnesses
,
in
prouing
the
action
;
Counsellers
,
in
pleading
and
prosecuting
the
cause
;
Quest-men
,
in
sifting
and
censuring
the
euidences
and
allegations
)
doe
not
also
take
care
and
make
conscience
of
discharging
their
duties
.
And
as
Nebuchadnezzars
Image
,
Dan.
2.
Dan.
2.
32.
though
it
had
a
golden
head
,
yet
fell
to
the
ground
,
and
was
dashed
in
pieces
,
because
it
had
feet
of
clay
:
Euen
so
,
though
the
chiefe
Magistrates
,
the
reuerend
Iudges
,
and
some
worthy
Iusticers
,
bee
as
golden
heads
in
places
of
iudicature
,
and
doe
desire
and
indeuour
to
discharge
their
bounden
duty
;
yet
we
heare
too
often
,
that
truth
and
equity
falles
to
the
ground
,
because
these
golden
heads
haue
dirty
feet
,
couetous
vndermining
seruants
,
corrupt
&
cheating
vnder-officers
,
which
set
to
sale
,
conscience
&
honesty
.
If
these
things
be
not
so
,
what
meaneth
the
bleating
of
Sheepe
and
lowing
of
Oxen
in
my
eares
?
as
Samuel
spake
to
Saul
,
1.
Sa.
1.
Sam.
15.
14.
that
is
,
What
meane
the
mournfull
complaints
of
many
poore
plaine
Country
men
,
&
wronged
Widdowes
,
who
comming
from
farre
to
the
Assises
and
Sessions
,
for
Iustice
,
and
redresse
of
iniuries
,
returne
full
often
home
againe
,
with
much
discomfort
of
heart
,
sit
downe
in
heauinesse
,
and
cry
out
with
teares
and
wringing
of
hands
?
Alas
,
what
a
thing
is
this
?
I
had
thought
to
haue
found
Iustice
,
to
haue
had
some
redresse
of
my
wrongs
,
reliefe
of
my
wants
,
remedy
of
my
euils
,
and
an
end
of
my
suite
in
Law
;
but
I
see
,
I
feele
,
I
finde
,
that
there
is
little
equity
,
conscience
,
or
honesty
;
much
dissembling
,
double-dealing
,
and
partiality
,
the
most
things
are
ruled
by
fauour
and
affection
,
and
greatnesse
will
haue
the
victory
,
my
iourney
is
long
,
my
expences
great
,
my
trauell
painefull
,
my
case
helpelesse
,
labour
fruitlesse
,
sorrow
endlesse
,
for
I
thinke
my
matter
put
off
from
time
to
time
,
Terme
to
Terme
,
will
neuer
be
ended
,
&c.
O
ye
seates
of
Iudgement
,
be
ashamed
of
this
,
and
ye
thrones
of
Iustice
,
blush
at
this
iniquity
,
and
ye
Fathers
and
Brethren
,
on
whom
dependeth
the
redresse
of
these
enormities
;
Let
the
cry
,
I
beseech
you
,
of
the
poore
fatherlesse
and
innocent
,
enter
into
your
eares
and
hearts
,
and
mooue
you
to
exercise
true
iudgement
,
and
to
Zech.
7.
9.
shew
mercy
to
your
poore
distressed
Brethren
.
Vp
and
be
doing
what
you
ought
to
doe
,
and
the
Lord
will
bee
with
you
.
Heerein
exercise
your selues
,
that
euery
day
,
and
euery
action
of
the
day
,
may
witnesse
your
desire
and
indeuour
to
keepe
and
discharge
a
good
conscience
towards
God
and
men
.
O
suffer
not
your
Religion
and
profession
,
your
credit
and
reputation
,
godly
courses
,
good
mens
causes
,
and
your
owne
consciences
to
lie
a
bleeding
,
whilest
you
,
too
indulgent
ouer
your selues
,
and
regardlesse
of
the
weale-publicke
,
lie
a
sleeping
.
Rather
as
sentinels
in
a
watch
,
keepe
your selues
euer
waking
and
intent
to
that
worke
,
office
,
and
imployment
,
whereunto
,
by
occasion
of
these
solemne
Assises
,
you
are
called
and
assigned
.
And
as
for
you
which
are
called
hither
to
bee
witnesses
,
to
testifie
the
truth
in
matters
of
right
or
wrong
,
life
or
death
;
hearken
briefly
to
your
watch-word
,
and
apply
it
to
your selues
as
your
owne
proper
Motto
;
Dicatur
veritas
,
rumpatur
inuidia
:
Though
enuy
and
greatnesse
swell
,
sweat
,
fume
,
fret
,
and
burst
in
twaine
;
speake
ye
the
truth
,
and
the
whole
truth
,
and
nothing
but
the
truth
,
without
feare
or
fauour
,
for
small
as
great
,
stranger
as
Brother
;
and
the
God
of
Truth
shall
be
with
you
,
and
you
shall
haue
both
the
testimony
of
honesty
for
your
credit
among
men
,
and
the
testimony
of
a
good
conscience
,
for
your
comfort
before
God
.
And
as
for
you
that
are
Iurors
of
the
Grand
or
petty
Quest
,
presumed
by
the
Law
to
be
either
Gentlemen
of
note
for
wisedome
and
integrity
;
or
Yeomen
of
good
fame
,
for
credit
and
honesty
;
hearken
you
likewise
to
your
watch-word
,
and
take
this
vnto
you
for
your
Impresa
,
Ruat
coelum
,
fiat
iustitia
:
Though
the
skie
fall
,
and
the
mountaines
fume
,
and
the
mighty
rich
ill
ones
frowne
neuer
so
much
;
yet
let
right
be
done
;
Sift
well
and
examine
all
proofes
and
euidences
;
take
heed
,
offer
no
violence
to
your
consciences
;
but
according
to
truth
and
equity
let
matters
be
indifferently
scanned
,
and
so
let
your
vnpartiall
verdict
bee
boldly
deliuered
.
And
as
for
you
that
are
Aduocates
and
Counsellers
of
Law
,
I
pray
(
without
any
Church-pinching
prohibition
)
giue
me
leaue
,
in
the
name
of
him
who
can
command
you
,
may
condemne
you
,
and
will
certainely
iudge
you
,
to
giue
you
also
your
watch-word
and
Embleme
,
which
shall
be
this
,
Pereat
nummus
,
seruetur
innocentia
:
Let
vniust
gaine
of
doubled
trebled
fees
perish
in
the
pit
of
hell
,
and
bee
vtterly
abandoned
,
and
according
to
your
Office
of
pleading
your
Clients
cause
formally
,
and
prosecuting
his
affaires
faithfully
,
as
much
as
in
you
lieth
,
let
innocency
be
preserued
,
vse
your
best
indeuour
that
right
may
bee
had
with
moderate
expence
,
vse
the
Law
lawfully
,
that
it
may
prooue
a
speciall
and
speedy
remedie
of
wrongs
,
and
not
an
Engine
or
trap
to
insnare
the
weake
,
as
many
complaine
;
what
?
though
for
your
plaine
and
conscionable
dealing
,
you
lose
your
fees
and
profit
in
the
place
of
Iudgement
on
earth
,
yet
bee
assured
of
this
,
your
innocency
shall
procure
you
a
better
reward
at
the
Iudgement
seate
in
heauen
.
And
now
for
you
the
reuerend
Sages
and
honourable
Iudges
of
this
Circuit
;
and
for
you
also
,
the
praise-worthy
Iusticers
of
this
Shire
:
what
remaineth
to
be
done
?
but
only
this
,
that
(
out
of
your
owne
ingenuous
disposition
,
without
any
prescription
of
mine
)
you
should
ioyne
together
(
what
in
places
of
iudicature
may
not
be
put
asunder
)
all
these
Symbolicall
sentences
,
and
quarter
them
as
so
many
Scutchions
,
with
the
Armes
of
your
houses
and
offices
,
in
this
order
:
Dicatur
veritas
,
first
:
Fiat
iustitia
,
next
:
and
then
in
the
third
place
,
Seruetur
innocentia
:
whereunto
,
adde
for
a
Crest
(
to
make
vp
the
compleate
coate
of
a
gracious
Magistrate
)
Dominetur
conscientia
.
Thus
if
looking
vp
to
God
,
who
is
present
and
chiefe
President
in
your
assemblies
,
you
shall
,
in
a
reuerent
feare
of
his
Name
,
see
that
truth
bee
testified
and
deliuered
,
Iustice
done
and
executed
,
innocency
preserued
and
protected
,
and
a
good
conscience
in
all
things
kept
and
preserued
;
then
shall
the
mountaines
and
hilles
bring
vnto
the
people
peace
and
prosperity
;
then
shall
Iustice
,
as
the
Sunne
;
Mercy
,
as
the
Moone
;
other
vertues
,
as
the
Starres
;
shine
about
your
seates
of
Gouernement
,
to
the
confounding
of
the
wicked
,
and
the
comfort
of
the
godly
:
Which
God
grant
,
by
the
assistance
of
his
grace
,
to
the
praise
of
his
glory
.
Amen
.
Amen
.
THE
CONSCIONABLE
CHRISTIAN
:
Preached
at
Taunton
,
Aug.
7.
1620.
The
Text
:
Acts
24.
16.
Heerein
therefore
doe
I
exercise
my selfe
,
to
haue
alwayes
an
vpright
conscience
towards
God
and
men
.
AS
the
Prophet
Ionas
brought
the
same
message
to
the
Nineuites
at
his
second
sending
vnto
them
:
so
doe
I
bring
(
Right
Honourable
,
&c.
)
the
same
Text
of
Scripture
,
at
this
my
second
calling
before
you
,
desiring
to
end
what
the
last
Assises
I
began
,
and
to
adde
a
roofe
to
that
foundation
which
then
I
laid
,
and
to
giue
an
account
of
such
particulars
as
remaine
yet
vndiscussed
,
of
that
generall
Bill
of
parcels
,
which
then
I
exhibited
to
your
Christian
consideration
.
And
hauing
then
(
as
you
may
remember
)
spoken
generally
(
according
to
the
modell
of
time
allotted
for
me
to
speake
,
and
you
to
heare
)
of
the
reall
religious
practice
,
and
the
actuall
Christian
imployment
of
Saint
Paul
,
prosecuting
withall
such
doctrines
and
vses
as
the
motiue
and
manner
of
his
imployment
did
offer
to
our
obseruation
;
I
come
now
by
orderly
descent
to
handle
more
especially
the
matter
subiect
,
and
meane
businesse
of
conscience
;
wherein
he
was
thus
seriously
imployed
and
exercised
:
And
for
my
better
proceeding
therein
,
and
your
profiting
thereby
,
will
by
Gods
assistance
,
and
your
continued
patience
,
present
to
the
eyes
of
your
vnderstanding
.
First
,
Conscience
it selfe
,
as
in
her
nature
,
Diuis.
3.
parts
.
properties
,
and
offices
;
in
her
power
,
command
,
and
Soueraignty
she
is
considered
to
be
great
.
Secondly
,
I
will
commend
to
your
view
and
entertainement
,
an
vpright
conscience
,
as
in
her
causes
and
effects
;
in
her
priuiledges
,
of
being
the
best
Gardian
,
Counsellor
,
and
Comforter
,
shee
is
found
to
bee
singularly
good
.
And
thirdly
,
as
her
goodnesse
(
according
to
the
latitude
thereof
)
extendeth
it selfe
,
in
respect
of
time
,
alwayes
,
thorow
the
whole
course
of
mans
life
,
to
the
performance
of
all
good
duties
,
concerning
God
and
man
.
Herein
doe
I
exercise
my selfe
,
to
haue
alwayes
a
good
conscience
towards
God
and
men
.
Of
each
of
these
in
their
order
;
and
first
,
of
1.
Part.
conscience
,
according
to
its
power
and
greatnesse
;
whereof
my
purpose
is
not
to
make
an
exact
Scholasticall
Discourse
,
but
to
touch
the
tops
of
generall
notions
,
and
with
Gideons
Souldiers
,
Iudg.
7.
to
lap
at
the
brinkes
of
those
riuers
wherein
others
haue
deepely
waded
,
and
with
Ionathan
,
1.
Sam.
14.
to
giue
you
a
taste
on
the
tip
of
my
rod
,
of
that
sight-cleering
honysweetnesse
which
therefrom
may
be
gathered
.
Wherefore
passing
by
the
nicities
and
curious
speculations
of
Schoole-men
,
whether
conscience
be
an
Act
or
an
Habit
,
a
faculty
Theoricall
or
Practicall
,
simple
or
mixt
,
and
compounded
of
both
,
whether
seated
in
the
vnderstanding
,
will
,
or
memory
,
as
the
proper
subiect
thereof
,
&c.
and
passing
ouer
with
a
light
finger
,
and
dry
foot
,
the
Rhetoricall
Notifications
and
witty
Illustrations
thereof
,
drawne
from
its
Illustr.
consc
.
offices
,
adiuncts
,
effects
,
when
and
where
it
is
deciphered
to
be
a
mans
best
friend
,
soonest
offended
;
or
bitterest
foe
,
hardliest
appeased
;
a
bridle
before
sinne
,
to
preuent
it
;
a
scourge
after
sinne
;
to
punish
it
,
domesticus
index
,
index
,
carnifex
;
in
briefe
,
to
be
the
soules
Schoolemaster
,
Monitor
,
and
Domesticall
Preacher
,
mans
tutelar
God
and
protector
,
Gods
Law-Booke
,
Leiger
,
Ambassadour
,
Spie
,
Intelligencer
,
and
the
truest
Prognosticatour
in
a
mans
bosome
or
brest
,
foretelling
what
shall
become
of
him
hereafter
,
&c.
As
an
abstract
of
all
the
premisses
,
I
will
briefly
and
plainely
commend
to
your
consideration
,
the
nature
and
essence
of
conscience
,
vnder
these
termes
of
a
definition
or
description
.
Conscience
(
so
called
,
either
à
cordis
scientia
,
Description
of
conscience
.
Bern
Aquin.
in
reference
to
the
soule
,
reflecting
and
recoyling
vpon
it selfe
,
or
à
scientia
cum
alio
;
in
respect
to
God
,
with
whom
it
is
a
co-witnesse
of
whatsoeuer
is
in
man
)
is
a
noble
and
diuine
power
Rom.
2.
15.
and
faculty
,
planted
of
God
in
the
substance
of
mans
soule
,
working
vpon
it selfe
by
reflection
,
Esa.
30.
21.
and
taking
exact
notice
,
as
a
Scribe
or
Register
,
and
determining
as
Gods
Viceroy
and
deputy
,
Iudge
of
all
that
is
in
the
mind
,
will
,
affections
,
actions
,
and
whole
life
of
man
.
I
name
it
a
faculty
,
and
not
a
bare
act
,
because
Prob.
desc
.
sundry
actions
,
as
to
testifie
,
accuse
,
excuse
,
acquit
,
condemn
,
are
giuen
vnto
it
.
I
terme
it
a
noble
diuine
power
,
and
not
an
humane
acquired
habit
,
because
acts
and
habits
too
may
be
got
and
lost
,
deposed
from
their
subiect
,
and
separated
from
the
soule
;
but
Conscience
,
as
it
is
borne
with
vs
,
so
it
will
neuer
leaue
vs
;
it
is
indiuiduall
,
inseparable
,
there
is
no
putting
of
it
to
flight
,
or
flying
from
it
,
nec
fugere
,
nec
fugare
eam
poteris
:
but
it
will
say
to
thee
,
as
Ruth
to
Naomi
,
I
will
Ruth
1.
goe
with
thee
wheresoeuer
thou
goest
.
To
bee
briefe
,
I
giue
it
roome
and
place
in
the
whole
soule
,
and
doe
not
,
as
some
haue
done
,
thrust
it
into
a
corner
thereof
,
as
if
it
were
a
part
onely
of
the
practicall
vnderstanding
,
because
the
operation
of
it
cannot
bee
circumscribed
in
narrower
bounds
then
the
soule
it selfe
;
and
therefore
the
Hebrewes
aptly
call
it
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
Prou.
15.
15.
Prou.
15.
15.
and
the
Greeke
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
that
is
,
heart
or
soule
,
1.
Ioh.
3.
20.
1.
Ioh.
3.
Lastly
,
I
giue
it
the
title
of
Gods
Register
and
deputy-Iudge
,
because
it
is
onely
inferiour
to
God
,
and
vnder
him
holds
court
in
the
soule
of
man
,
and
is
the
principall
commander
and
chiefe
controller
of
all
his
doings
and
desires
,
determining
of
all
his
actions
,
either
with
him
to
excuse
and
absolue
,
or
against
him
to
accuse
and
condemne
;
and
that
for
the
conuersion
of
some
,
and
confusion
of
others
.
The
conscience
endowed
with
these
royalties
,
The
vnderstanding
,
Metropolis
of
conscience
.
resideth
,
I
confesse
,
principally
in
the
vnderstanding
,
as
her
Metropolis
Palace-Throne
,
and
thereby
exerciseth
her
chiefe
functions
,
but
yet
in
the
whole
soule
,
commonly
called
the
consistory
of
conscience
,
she
keepeth
a
compleat
court
,
and
in
the
seuerall
parts
thereof
produceth
occasionally
seuerall
operations
;
whence
,
in
common
speech
we
say
,
My
conscience
tels
me
,
I
did
this
,
or
did
not
that
;
ther
's
an
action
of
the
memory
.
My
conscience
bids
mee
,
or
forbids
me
to
doe
this
;
ther
's
an
action
of
the
will
.
And
againe
,
It
smites
me
,
checks
me
,
it
comforts
or
torments
me
.
What
are
these
but
acts
of
the
affections
recoyling
vpon
the
soule
?
And
certaine
it
is
,
that
whensoeuer
conscience
reasoneth
with
it selfe
,
and
maketh
a
practicall
Syllogisme
,
concerning
the
doing
of
that
which
is
lawfull
,
and
auoyding
of
that
which
is
vnlawfull
;
it
hath
some
helpe
from
all
the
faculties
both
Theorick
and
Practicke
,
as
(
when
that
part
of
conscience
which
the
Ancients
call
Synteresis
,
because
as
a
treasury
of
rules
and
directions
,
it
keepes
the
grounds
of
the
Law
naturall
,
and
the
principles
of
truth
and
equity
)
shall
make
thus
the
proposition
:
All
adulterers
and
Syll.
Cons.
oppressours
are
worthy
of
fearfull
punishment
;
and
hereupon
that
other
part
,
called
Syneidesis
,
as
an
eye-witnesse
and
remembrancer
of
all
thy
doings
,
shall
make
thus
the
assumption
;
But
thou
hast
committed
adultery
and
oppression
,
and
shall
conuince
thee
thereof
,
by
all
circumstances
of
persons
,
time
and
place
:
(
whereupon
followes
an
ineuitable
conclusion
.
)
In
all
this
illatiue
discourse
,
who
sees
not
a
mutuall
dependency
on
the
mind
,
will
and
memory
,
which
moues
me
to
affirme
Conscience
to
be
a
diuine
power
compounded
of
them
all
?
Whereat
Basil
Basil
.
aimed
,
when
he
tearmed
it
,
Naturale
iudicatorium
:
and
Origen
glanced
,
when
he
calles
it
,
Paedagogus
Origen
.
in
2.
ad
Rom.
animae
sociatus
:
and
the
Philosophers
,
when
they
speake
of
a
mans
bonus
genius
:
but
he
Greg.
spake
best
,
that
cald
it
a
booke
,
ad
quem
emendandum
omnes
scripti
sunt
libri
,
for
whose
sake
all
other
bookes
are
written
:
all
other
are
but
glosses
vpon
this
Text.
And
cursed
bee
that
Commentary
which
corrupts
the
Text
of
conscience
.
Vse
.
To
all
here
present
,
both
learned
and
vnlearned
,
I
must
commend
this
Text
,
this
book
:
whatsoeuer
thou
art
which
seekest
for
counsel
,
to
know
what
thou
maist
doe
by
law
:
consult
with
this
booke
of
conscience
first
,
and
see
what
it
saith
;
it
is
an
excellent
booke
,
euen
in
thine
owne
bosome
,
written
by
the
finger
of
God
,
in
such
plaine
Characters
,
and
so
legible
,
that
though
thou
knowest
not
a
letter
in
any
other
booke
,
yet
thou
maist
reade
this
;
nay
,
thou
canst
not
for
thy
life
but
reade
it
,
and
vnderstand
it
too
,
and
yeeld
to
the
truth
and
equity
thereof
,
when
it
pleaseth
God
to
turne
thy
eyes
vpon
it
.
Open
this
booke
then
,
and
see
what
is
written
in
this
Law
,
how
readest
thou
?
Luk.
10.
26.
Ponder
vpon
it
,
conferre
with
it
;
it
is
thy
cheapest
and
faithfullest
counsellour
at
home
,
thou
needest
not
be
at
cost
to
seeke
aduice
abroad
;
it
is
stored
with
singular
precepts
and
principles
concerning
the
knowledge
and
practice
of
good
and
euill
,
perswading
to
the
one
,
disswading
from
the
other
.
Hearken
then
vnto
it
,
reade
it
in
time
for
thy
direction
,
lest
thou
bee
forced
to
looke
vpon
it
too
late
,
to
thy
destruction
:
it
may
be
,
the
light
thereof
,
by
thy
naturall
blindnesse
,
is
much
obscured
,
and
that
the
text
letters
thereof
,
by
affected
ignorance
and
wilfull
malice
,
are
more
blurred
,
and
euen
blotted
out
.
Oh
then
,
compare
it
with
Gods
Booke
,
and
labour
,
by
the
helpe
of
Gods
Ministers
,
to
haue
it
reformed
and
rectified
.
Happy
is
that
man
that
hath
a
liuing
,
feeling
,
and
waking
conscience
;
for
this
shall
keepe
him
so
,
that
he
shall
either
not
commit
sinne
,
or
not
continue
long
therein
,
but
the
crying
voyce
of
his
conscience
will
rowze
him
out
of
the
bed
of
security
,
as
the
crowing
Cocke
did
Peter
,
and
bring
him
to
Math.
26.
repentance
;
and
blessed
is
that
repentance
and
obedience
which
is
wrought
by
the
power
and
command
of
a
rectified
conscience
.
And
thus
hauing
made
a
short
surueigh
of
the
nature
of
conscience
,
as
it
is
great
,
and
Gods
lieutenant
in
the
soule
of
man
,
working
more
forcibly
on
all
the
parts
and
powers
thereof
,
then
all
other
agents
whatsoeuer
,
sitting
in
the
vnderstanding
as
Iudge
,
to
prescribe
,
prohibit
,
absolue
and
condemne
de
iure
;
in
the
memory
,
as
Recorder
and
witnesse
testifying
de
facto
;
in
the
will
and
affections
,
as
rewarder
and
punisher
,
pro
iure
aut
iniuria
facti
:
I
will
now
,
with
the
like
breuity
and
perspicuity
,
speake
somewhat
of
each
of
these
offices
distinctly
:
And
first
,
of
conscience
,
as
it
writes
downe
and
keepes
in
record
all
our
doings
:
Secondly
,
as
it
passeth
sentence
of
them
,
with
vs
,
or
against
vs
:
Thirdly
,
as
it
executeth
the
sentence
determinate
.
First
,
conscience
,
as
a
Scribe
or
Notary
,
sitting
1.
Office
.
Hieroglyphic
.
in
the
closet
of
mans
heart
,
with
pen
in
hand
,
records
and
keepes
a
Catalogue
,
or
Diary
of
all
our
doings
,
of
the
time
when
,
place
where
,
the
manner
how
they
were
performed
,
and
that
so
cleere
and
euident
,
that
goe
where
we
will
,
doe
what
wee
can
,
the
characters
of
them
cannot
be
cancelled
or
razed
.
She
omitteth
no
default
through
slownesse
of
hand
,
neither
strikes
shee
out
any
debt
through
deceit
,
like
the
vniust
Steward
,
that
bade
put
downe
Luk.
16.
6.
fifty
for
an
hundred
;
she
cannot
bee
corrupted
to
conceale
our
faults
,
or
smothered
by
tract
of
time
,
not
to
check
vs
for
them
,
as
appeared
in
Iosephs
brethren
,
whose
consciences
troubled
Gen.
42.
21.
them
in
Egypt
,
for
that
cruelty
which
many
yeeres
before
they
had
shewed
towards
their
Brother
in
Canaan
.
It
is
good
therefore
for
vs
to
agree
with
conscience
in
time
,
and
in
all
our
wayes
to
seeke
her
approbation
.
And
as
the
reuerend
Martyr
B.
Latimer
tooke
speciall
care
to
Fox
Mart.
the
placing
of
his
words
in
his
examination
before
Bonner
,
when
he
heard
the
pen
walking
in
the
chimney
behind
the
cloth
,
and
describing
whatsoeuer
he
said
:
So
ought
we
circumspectly
to
looke
to
all
our
doings
and
sayings
,
and
to
guard
,
watch
and
ward
our
senses
(
which
are
Aug.
the
gates
and
cinque-ports
of
corruption
and
lusts
)
sith
that
conscience
is
not
onely
the
curious
super-visor
,
but
the
continuall
recorder
of
all
the
actions
of
our
life
.
Wee
may
cast
off
our
garments
,
but
not
our
conscience
;
wee
may
often
change
place
and
separate
our selues
from
men
,
but
when
we
are
most
solitary
,
then
shall
we
finde
conscience
most
familiar
with
vs
,
and
alwayes
vpon
our
secrets
:
Falli
potest
fama
,
conscientia
Seneca
.
nunquam
:
her
approofes
or
reproofes
will
neuer
be
wanting
vnto
vs
.
If
we
doe
well
,
shee
will
speake
for
vs
and
iustifie
vs
;
if
euill
,
without
speedy
repentance
,
she
will
bee
as
forward
to
speake
against
vs
,
and
to
accuse
vs
.
Vse
.
Let
no
man
therefore
sinne
,
in
hope
to
lye
hid
for
want
of
euidence
against
him
,
or
lacke
of
witnesses
;
for
he
carries
a
thousand
witnesses
in
his
bosome
,
euen
his
owne
conscience
,
Conscientia
mille
testes
.
which
will
surely
testifie
,
when
the
Lord
cites
it
to
answere
,
euen
of
the
most
secret
sinnes
,
and
Iob
24.
13
,
14.
so
testifie
,
that
it
will
also
terrifie
in
such
sort
,
that
all
the
men
and
creatures
in
the
world
shall
not
be
able
to
comfort
;
whereof
wee
see
an
example
in
Adam
,
who
immediately
after
he
Gen.
3.
had
transgressed
,
ran
away
and
hid
himselfe
amongst
the
bushes
,
though
no
man
pursued
him
,
no
Angell
reproued
him
,
the
Lord
was
not
yet
come
vnto
him
,
yet
his
conscience
for
the
fact
accusing
him
,
all
the
pleasures
of
Paradise
could
not
auaile
to
quiet
him
,
or
doe
him
any
good
:
and
the
like
wee
may
note
in
Balthazar
,
Dan.
5.
who
though
he
had
about
him
all
the
worldly
comforts
which
the
heart
of
man
could
desire
,
yet
because
the
conscience
of
his
sacrilegious
villany
was
against
him
,
nothing
could
remedy
his
griefe
,
or
mitigate
the
terrour
of
the
hand-writing
which
hee
saw
on
the
wall
;
but
therewith
extremely
affrighted
,
he
forthwith
miserably
expired
.
Vse
1
Let
no
man
therefore
(
I
say
)
presume
to
commit
any
wickednesse
,
in
hope
to
hide
it
for
want
of
a
witnesse
,
sith
that
conscience
is
set
in
euery
one
of
vs
as
a
Register
,
to
giue
testimony
of
all
our
actions
;
with
the
tormenting
testimony
whereof
,
as
in
doing
euill
,
wee
ought
to
be
iustly
terrified
;
Vse
2
So
also
with
the
comfortable
testimony
of
the
same
wee
ought
,
in
well-doing
,
to
bee
sufficiently
cheared
and
incouraged
.
Wee
need
not
hunt
after
eye-witnesses
of
our
good
workes
;
conscience
alone
giueth
sufficient
testimony
and
approbation
of
them
;
let
vs
be
zealous
and
abundant
in
them
,
and
seeke
to
please
and
praise
God
by
them
,
and
then
with
Saint
Paul
,
Let
the
witnesse
1.
Cor.
4.
4.
2.
Cor.
1.
12.
of
our
owne
conscience
aboue
all
,
comfort
and
content
vs
,
in
the
middest
of
all
slanders
and
vncharitable
surmises
which
malicious
men
shall
haue
against
vs
.
To
conclude
this
poynt
,
let
vs
in
all
our
intents
and
actions
,
studies
and
consultations
,
as
conscionable
Christians
,
looke
vnto
the
Lord
as
the
searcher
of
our
hearts
,
and
the
tryer
and
rewarder
of
our
workes
,
not
discouraging
our selues
,
whatsoeuer
men
thinke
or
speake
of
vs
and
our
doings
,
so
God
and
our
conscience
doe
approoue
them
;
nor
contenting
our selues
with
mens
approbations
&
commendations
,
when
the
testimony
of
Gods
Word
and
our
conscience
is
not
for
them
and
vs
.
To
which
purpose
,
I
remember
,
*
hee
spake
Secretary
Cecill
.
well
,
who
in
his
dayes
was
accounted
a
worthy
speaker
,
and
in
reply
to
some
that
vniustly
maligned
him
,
spake
thus
praise-worthily
:
I
will
rest
henceforward
in
peace
in
the
house
of
mine
owne
conscience
,
and
if
I
doe
any
good
deeds
,
it
is
no
matter
who
know
them
;
if
bad
,
knowing
them
my selfe
,
it
is
no
matter
from
whom
I
hide
them
,
they
will
bee
recorded
before
that
Iudge
from
whose
presence
I
cannot
flee
:
if
all
the
world
applaud
me
,
and
hee
accuse
me
,
their
praise
is
in
vaine
.
Fame
may
help
vs
,
conscience
wil
not
;
it
is
an
infallible
witnes
;
if
speaking
for
vs
,
it
cheereth
more
then
any
cordiall
;
if
against
vs
,
it
gnaweth
&
tormenteth
more
then
a
corrosiue
.
Secondly
,
Conscience
,
as
Gods
Deputy
2.
Office
.
Iudge
,
Oyer
and
Determiner
of
all
causes
and
cases
in
the
Consistory
of
the
soule
,
passeth
sentence
,
either
of
approbation
or
condemnation
.
on
all
our
speeches
and
actions
,
and
that
with
such
authority
,
that
by
all
the
power
and
policy
of
the
world
,
it
cannot
bee
reuoked
or
resisted
.
Strong
is
the
reasoning
of
conscience
,
when
it
conuinceth
Pagans
by
the
light
of
nature
,
but
much
more
powerfull
,
when
it
conuinceth
Christians
by
the
Word
of
God
.
Wherfore
,
as
good
S.
Paul
sets
the
sentence
of
his
conscience
,
1.
Cor.
4.
3.
2.
Cor.
1.
12.
which
did
iustifie
him
against
the
calumnies
of
al
men
whatsoeuer
that
did
censure
&
condemn
him
,
&
therin
reioyceth
and
triumpheth
in
the
midst
of
tribulation
;
so
the
wicked
and
vngodly
sit
down
confounded
at
the
Iudgement
of
conscience
condemning
them
,
and
therewith
are
stricken
dead
,
at
it
were
,
in
the
midst
of
their
greatest
iollity
and
exaltation
,
as
before
,
by
the
examples
of
Adam
and
Balthasar
,
hath
in
Dan.
5.
part
beene
shewed
,
and
in
the
tragicall
ends
of
Saul
,
Achitophel
,
Haman
,
Herod
,
Iudas
,
and
the
Esth.
7.
like
,
might
more
fully
and
fearefully
be
exemplified
:
but
I
hasten
,
&c.
Thirdly
and
lastly
,
conscience
,
as
inferiour
3.
Offic.
onely
to
God
,
and
chiefe
commander
,
controller
,
and
executioner
vnder
him
,
euen
in
this
life
executeth
the
sentence
determinate
of
good
or
euill
,
rendring
ioy
vnspeakeable
to
the
righteous
and
obedient
,
but
shame
and
sorrow
,
and
terrour
intolerable
to
the
wicked
and
impenitent
.
The
truth
of
the
former
is
cleerely
euidenced
,
in
the
holy
conuersation
of
life
,
and
happy
expiration
in
death
,
of
these
faithfull
seruants
of
God
,
Iacob
,
Ioseph
,
Iob
,
Iosias
,
Hezekiah
,
Gen.
49.
50.
2.
Chr.
34.
2.
King
.
20.
1.
Sam.
12.
3.
Luk.
2.
25.
Samuel
,
and
good
old
Simeon
,
with
others
,
of
whom
the
sacred
Scriptures
make
honourable
mention
,
as
of
such
in
whom
righteousnesse
and
peace
met
so
together
,
mercy
and
truth
so
kissed
each
other
,
that
the
remembrance
of
their
well
led
life
,
and
the
conscience
of
their
godly
desire
and
indeuour
to
walke
inoffensiuely
in
holinesse
and
loue
,
exceedingly
solaced
them
,
and
singularly
supported
them
all
their
dayes
,
making
them
confidently
and
couragiously
to
run
on
their
Race
,
with
an
holy
kind
of
contempt
,
beating
backe
the
surges
of
all
worldly
wrongs
and
sorrowes
;
Illisos
fluctus
rupes
vt
vasta
refundit
:
As
a
brazen
wall
doth
darts
,
or
a
mighty
Rocke
the
billowes
of
the
Sea
.
Thus
conscience
,
on
the
godly
,
executeth
the
sentence
of
vnspeakeable
comfort
in
this
life
,
and
maketh
death
it selfe
welcome
to
them
,
so
that
tanquam
conuiuae
satures
mortis
somno
cedunt
,
like
full
fed
ghests
,
they
goe
willingly
to
their
rest
in
the
bed
of
the
graue
:
of
whom
,
as
Bernard
speaketh
,
Mors
sine
formidine
expectatur
,
Bernard
.
cum
dulcedine
exoptatur
,
cum
deuotione
excipitur
.
But
as
for
the
vngodly
and
wicked
,
a
perpetuall
non
sic
is
threatned
vnto
them
by
their
owne
conscience
,
and
on
them
this
ruthfull
irreuocable
sentence
is
passed
;
Non
est
pax
impijs
:
There
Isa.
57.
21.
is
no
peace
to
the
wicked
,
saith
my
God
:
no
true
peace
,
either
in
life
or
death
.
Lateri
haeret
laethalis
arundo
:
The
griping
,
gnawing
,
and
neuer
dying
Worme
of
an
accusing
conscience
euery
where
tormenteth
them
,
and
executeth
the
sentence
of
remedilesse
condemnation
vpon
them
,
so
that
being
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
selfe-condemned
,
Tit.
3.
11.
through
the
guilt
of
their
sinnes
,
as
Cain
,
Iudas
,
Herod
,
and
Felix
were
:
and
as
credible
Histories
Acts
24.
declare
;
Bessus
,
for
secret
killing
of
his
father
;
Bassianus
,
of
his
brother
;
Orestes
,
of
his
mother
;
and
Richard
the
third
,
of
his
nephewes
to
haue
beene
:
they
leade
heere
a
life
euer-dying
,
and
feele
as
it
were
a
death
neuer-ending
,
which
is
no
other
but
a
fore-runner
of
that
supreme
and
finall
doome
,
which
God
(
who
will
iustifie
the
sentence
and
execution
of
conscience
)
shall
,
in
that
great
Day
of
Iudgement
,
passe
peremptorily
on
all
the
wilfully-disobedient
transgressors
of
his
Commandements
.
Vse
.
Take
we
heed
then
,
that
wee
neglect
not
the
checks
of
conscience
,
when
wee
are
bent
vnto
sinne
,
nor
despise
the
iudgement
of
conscience
,
when
we
haue
sinned
,
but
make
haste
by
repentance
in
faith
,
to
be
reconciled
to
God
and
it
:
for
otherwise
God
will
ratifie
the
sentence
of
conscience
at
the
last
Day
,
on
all
impenitent
sinners
;
and
albeit
now
many
such
by
their
wealth
and
hearts
ease
are
rockt
asleepe
,
by
iesting
,
merry
tales
,
eating
,
drinking
,
and
gaming
,
are
cast
into
a
spirit
of
slumber
,
yea
,
although
the
vnruly
perturbations
of
their
worldly
lusts
and
affections
be
now
so
lowd
,
that
the
voyce
of
their
conscience
,
condemning
their
wicked
wayes
and
workes
,
cannot
bee
heard
;
yet
the
Day
shall
come
,
and
it
will
be
a
dreadfull
Day
for
them
,
when
these
worldly
negotiations
shall
cease
,
and
all
fleshly
perturbations
shall
be
silent
,
and
conscience
shall
be
so
shrill
,
that
they
shall
both
heare
it
,
and
be
thryld
at
it
,
and
gnash
Reuel.
16.
11.
with
their
teeth
,
and
gnaw
their
tongues
for
indignation
,
to
see
how
God
taketh
part
with
it
against
them
:
O
what
horrour
and
confusion
shall
then
couer
the
faces
of
such
as
by
a
multitude
of
carnall
pleasures
and
worldly
cares
and
affaires
,
drowne
,
and
cry
downe
the
voyce
of
conscience
,
by
which
their
euill
wayes
and
workes
are
condemned
,
as
the
Drums
and
Tabrets
2.
King
.
23.
10.
in
the
sacrifices
of
Molech
did
the
cry
of
the
infants
which
in
Tophet
were
burned
.
But
on
the
other
side
,
O
what
honour
and
exaltation
shall
crowne
the
heads
of
those
which
heare
and
obey
the
voyce
of
conscience
,
by
the
light
of
Gods
Word
rightly
informed
,
which
lend
their
eares
,
whilest
this
good
Cassandra
spends
her
tongue
,
and
by
her
,
in
all
their
actions
are
willingly
guided
and
directed
!
And
so
much
(
if
not
too
much
)
may
suffice
to
haue
beene
spoken
generally
of
conscience
it selfe
,
as
in
her
nature
,
properties
,
and
offices
;
in
her
power
,
command
and
Soueraignty
,
she
is
considered
to
bee
great
.
Now
,
by
Gods
assistance
,
vnder
the
conduct
2.
Part.
of
his
feare
and
your
fauour
,
I
will
proceed
,
to
commend
to
your
view
and
entertainement
,
especially
,
an
vpright
conscience
,
as
in
her
causes
and
effects
,
her
proiects
and
priuiledges
,
she
is
found
to
bee
singularly
good
;
and
that
1.
Bernard
.
Bona
conscientia
&
turbata
.
2.
Bona
conscientia
&
tranquilla
.
not
as
she
is
in
continuall
conflict
with
the
flesh
,
rebelling
against
the
Spirit
,
and
so
afflicted
with
the
sanctified
dolours
of
the
new
birth
,
but
as
it
is
after
regeneration
quieted
with
the
sence
of
remission
of
sinnes
,
and
reconciliation
to
God
in
Christ
,
and
so
excusing
,
cleering
,
chearing
,
and
comforting
the
soule
of
the
sound
Christian
.
In
respect
whereof
,
some
call
it
,
The
Paradise
of
the
soule
;
The
Iubile
of
the
heart
,
Laetitia
cordis
,
quasi
latitia
,
A
surpassing
inward
solace
,
so
dilating
and
inlarging
the
heart
for
some
good
in
possession
,
more
in
expectation
,
that
the
ioy
thereof
cannot
well
bee
suppressed
or
expressed
.
And
hence
in
a
common
popular
apprehension
,
it
is
said
to
bee
a
ioyfull
remembrance
of
a
well
led
life
,
ioyned
with
an
hopefull
expectation
of
a
comfortable
death
and
glorious
resurrection
.
S.
Paul
,
in
respect
of
the
mindes
tranquillity
Phil.
4.
7.
inioyed
thereby
,
termeth
it
a
peace
which
passeth
all
vnderstanding
,
like
to
the
hidden
Manna
and
white
stone
,
wherein
a
name
was
written
,
which
no
man
knoweth
but
hee
that
inioyeth
it
,
Reuel.
2.
17.
Salomon
,
that
kingly
Reu.
2.
17.
Preacher
,
pointing
at
the
peerelesse
pleasure
and
immutable
comfort
of
a
good
conscience
,
compares
it
to
a
continuall
feast
,
farre
excelling
Pro.
15.
15.
Mishteh
tamid
.
the
royall
feast
of
Ahashuerus
,
which
lasted
but
nine-skore
dayes
:
for
this
feast
of
a
good
conscience
(
whereat
the
Angels
are
Cookes
and
Butlers
,
and
the
blessed
Trinity
gladsome
ghests
(
as
Luther
boldly
speakes
)
without
intermission
Luth.
in
Gal.
of
solace
,
or
interruption
of
society
,
is
a
continuall
feast
;
A
feast
in
life
and
health
,
refreshing
the
soule
with
dainty
cates
of
diuine
comforts
;
A
feast
in
sicknesse
,
when
worldlings
hopes
hang
downe
their
heads
like
a
Bulrush
,
and
lag
like
a
Ruffians
starcht
Ruffe
in
a
storme
of
raine
;
yea
,
in
death
a
feast
,
when
comfort
is
worth
a
world
,
and
all
worldly
comforts
and
comforters
forsake
vs
,
yea
,
in
the
Day
of
Resurrection
,
and
after
that
Day
(
when
all
these
shaddowes
shall
flie
away
)
a
feast
for
euermore
.
No
maruell
then
that
Saint
Bernard
,
being
rapt
and
rauished
heerewith
,
breaketh
foorth
into
the
singular
commendation
of
the
admirable
endowments
thereof
,
saying
,
Bona
conscientia
est
Be●
.
in
form
.
hon.
vit.
titulus
religionis
,
templum
Salomonis
,
ager
Benedictionis
,
hortus
deliciarum
,
gaudium
Angelorum
,
&c.
A
good
conscience
is
the
Title
and
Crowne
of
Religion
,
the
Temple
of
Salomon
,
the
field
of
Benediction
,
the
Garden
of
delight
,
the
ioy
of
Angels
,
and
Sanctuary
of
the
holy
Ghost
,
&c.
But
because
these
,
&
the
like
allusiue
notions
of
a
good
conscience
,
frequent
in
the
Fathers
,
are
magis
sloridae
quàm
solidae
,
more
pregnant
for
wit
,
then
profitable
for
present
vse
,
I
will
say
to
them
,
as
Iehu
to
the
messenger
of
Iehoram
,
2.
Kin.
9.
18.
2.
King
.
9.
Turne
behind
me
;
and
will
take
hold
of
that
more
sound
description
thereof
by
Isiodore
,
affirming
that
a
cleere
or
inoffensiue
conscience
is
such
a
one
,
Quae
nec
de
praeterito
iustè
accusatur
,
Isiod
.
in
2.
l.
soli
.
loq
.
nec
de
praesenti
iniustè
delectatur
,
nec
de
futuro
sollicitè
perturbatur
;
that
is
,
which
is
neither
iustly
accused
for
things
past
,
nor
vnlawfully
delighted
with
things
present
,
nor
anxiously
troubled
for
things
to
come
.
This
clearing
chearing
conscience
,
and
that
Note
.
perfectly
good
,
Adam
only
had
in
his
Creation
,
whilest
in
Paradise
hee
walked
with
God
,
without
sinne
,
and
without
feare
in
the
state
of
innocency
:
But
now
there
is
no
way
to
come
to
it
,
to
attaine
and
haue
a
quiet
conscience
,
and
that
but
imperfectly
good
after
regeneration
,
but
onely
by
the
mediation
and
reconciliation
of
Christ
.
Being
iustified
by
faith
in
the
Blood
Rom.
5.
1.
of
Christ
(
saith
S.
Paul
)
wee
haue
peace
with
God
,
Rom.
5.
And
againe
,
The
Blood
of
Christ
,
Heb.
9.
14.
once
offred
by
his
eternall
Spirit
without
fault
,
purgeth
our
consciences
from
dead
workes
,
Heb.
9.
Yea
,
so
purifieth
and
pacifieth
them
,
that
it
leaues
no
remorse
of
sin
accusing
or
condemning
in
them
.
Nothing
else
in
this
world
hath
this
vertue
,
saue
Christs
Blood
alone
;
there
is
no
pacification
of
the
soule
,
without
remission
Ioh.
3.
1.
Heb.
9.
22.
Heb.
10.
of
sinne
;
no
remission
of
sin
without
blood
,
no
blood
expiatory
for
sinne
,
but
Christs
;
no
application
of
this
expiation
,
but
by
faith
.
The
consequence
then
is
vndenyable
:
therefore
by
faith
in
Christs
Blood
,
shed
for
the
remission
of
sinne
,
we
attaine
peace
of
conscience
.
No
perfumes
of
the
Sanctuary
or
charmes
of
Oratory
can
relieue
it
,
no
straines
of
Musicke
or
Songs
of
Angels
can
reioyce
it
.
All
other
merriments
and
outward
refreshments
whatsoeuer
,
haue
no
more
power
to
cure
and
quiet
it
,
then
popish
holy-water
hath
to
coniure
the
diuell
.
This
,
this
is
the
honour
,
royalty
,
and
peculiar
dignity
of
Christs
blood
,
by
the
hand
of
faith
applyed
to
the
soule
for
the
full
remission
of
sinnes
.
This
alone
can
pacifie
and
make
good
the
conscience
,
and
fully
effect
it
;
whereas
otherwise
all
the
glittering
appearances
of
happinesse
,
which
dazle
the
eyes
of
doting
worldlings
,
cannot
bring
it
to
passe
.
The
superstitious
Papist
,
troubled
in
conscience
for
sinne
,
runnes
vp
and
downe
for
reliefe
,
like
an
Hart
with
an
Arrow
in
his
side
:
Se
rotat
in
vulnus
transsixam
circuit
hastam
:
hee
sends
to
the
god
of
Ekron
for
helpe
,
hee
buyes
a
pardon
,
2.
King
.
1.
2.
goes
to
shrift
,
lasheth
and
launceth
himselfe
,
as
the
Priests
of
Baal
did
,
posteth
to
a
Masse
,
passeth
1.
King
.
18.
on
in
pilgrimage
to
a
woodden
worme-eaten
Lady
,
or
painted
Image
,
and
all
this
while
as
an
aguish
man
that
drinkes
water
,
his
disease
increaseth
;
no
shift
of
place
,
or
change
of
aire
can
relieue
him
,
being
dogged
and
attended
on
by
the
hellish
hag
of
his
conscience
;
Quae
surdo
verbere
caedit
,
which
whips
him
in
secret
,
and
in
silence
telles
him
,
Omnibus
vmbra
locis
adero
,
dabis
improbe
poenas
.
The
prophane
worldling
likewise
being
vexed
and
perplexed
in
mind
with
the
horrour
of
his
offensiue
life
,
and
the
blood-hound
of
his
guilty
conscience
hunting
dry-foot
on
the
sent
Prou.
28.
1.
of
his
former
sinnes
,
proiecteth
fearfull
things
,
ambulat
in
circuitu
,
walkes
in
a
restlesse
round
or
maze
,
like
a
sea-sicke
wretch
,
from
the
ship
to
the
boat
,
and
so
backe
againe
;
and
(
as
Saint
Augustine
passionately
describes
it
)
runnes
like
Aug.
in
45.
Psa.
a
Male-content
,
ab
agro
,
in
vrbem
,
&c.
from
the
field
,
into
the
City
;
out
of
the
City
,
into
his
house
;
from
the
common
roomes
thereof
,
to
his
!
bed-chamber
;
from
thence
,
to
his
study
or
closet
;
and
then
out
againe
,
to
seeke
for
a
merry
companion
,
to
see
if
hee
can
play
away
his
trouble
,
and
remooue
the
melancholy
qualme
,
as
carnall
men
account
it
,
from
the
stomake
;
he
eates
profusely
,
drinkes
profoundly
,
sports
profanely
,
and
all
to
lull
the
conscience
asleepe
,
and
to
drowne
her
accusing
voyce
by
2.
King
.
23.
10.
the
clamours
of
needlesse
imployments
.
But
all
in
vain
,
he
doth
but
loose
his
chaine
,
that
it
may
be
tyed
straighter
;
and
smother
the
fire
for
a
time
,
which
will
afterwards
breake
forth
with
greater
violence
;
a
seeming
truce
he
may
haue
,
true
peace
he
cannot
haue
:
for
,
Nocte
diéque
suum
gestat
in
pectore
testem
:
yea
,
pestem
,
hee
carries
night
and
day
his
bane
in
his
bosome
,
and
of
all
earthly
refreshments
may
truly
say
,
as
Iob
of
his
Iob
16.
2.
friends
,
Miserable
comforters
are
ye
all
.
But
as
for
the
godly
Christian
,
who
is
willing
to
illuminate
and
regulate
his
conscience
by
Gods
sacred
Word
,
and
the
diuine
Oracles
of
eternall
truth
,
when
scruples
and
troubles
of
conscience
doe
arise
,
whereby
hee
is
somewhat
distracted
or
distressed
;
leauing
all
humane
conclusions
vntryed
,
vntrusted
;
he
forthwith
goes
to
God
in
prayer
for
direction
,
powres
forth
his
soule
in
supplication
to
him
,
imbraceth
all
good
meanes
of
instruction
and
edification
,
layes
fast
hold
,
by
a
liuely
faith
,
on
Christ
Iesus
for
reconciliation
;
and
so
finding
Christ
the
great
Physician
of
soules
,
or
rather
being
found
of
him
,
findes
,
with
all
peace
and
tranquillity
,
his
doubts
resolued
,
his
griefe
remoued
,
his
feare
cancelled
,
his
heart
confirmed
in
well-doing
,
his
soule
(
as
it
were
)
rauished
with
the
sweet
sauour
of
his
precious
oyntments
;
so
that
Flammas
licet
hic
&
ille
iaculetur
polus
,
&
fractus
illabatur
orbis
,
impauidum
ferient
ruinae
:
though
the
heauens
and
earth
crack
and
fly
off
the
hinges
,
and
the
Mountaines
be
remoued
,
yet
therewith
he
cannot
be
appalled
;
to
him
,
being
in
Christ
,
and
feeling
it
to
be
so
,
there
is
no
condemnation
,
or
remurmuration
of
conscience
for
sinne
;
and
therefore
with
glory
to
God
in
excelsis
,
he
sings
De
profundis
,
a
requiem
to
his
soule
.
You
see
then
by
that
which
hath
been
said
,
how
that
the
conscience
,
which
Gods
Word
(
actuated
by
the
Spirit
)
inlighteneth
and
perswadeth
,
and
the
blood
of
Christ
Iesus
,
applyed
by
the
hand
of
faith
,
purgeth
and
pacifyeth
,
is
the
onely
good
conscience
.
Know
also
,
that
truly
to
beleeue
well
,
according
to
the
tenour
of
Gods
sacred
Word
,
and
to
indeuour
duly
to
liue
well
in
a
cheerfull
obedience
to
his
holy
will
,
is
both
mother
and
nurse
of
the
same
.
It
is
the
pure
inmost
blood
which
breeds
,
and
the
radicall
moysture
which
feeds
the
bright
Lampe
of
the
soule
,
a
good
conscience
.
Whereof
for
a
conclusion
to
the
premises
,
and
an
induction
to
that
which
followes
this
plaine
and
pregnant
definition
,
proued
by
direct
passages
of
Scriptures
,
offers
it selfe
to
your
Christian
obseruation
.
Doct.
4
A
good
or
vpright
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a
Prou.
15.
15.
conscience
is
a
diuine
[
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b
Rom.
2.
16.
power
,
and
principall
part
of
Gods
Image
in
man
,
whereby
he
doth
most
resemble
the
selfe-sufficiency
of
God
,
which
being
[
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c
Ephes.
1.
7.
inlightened
by
Gods
Word
,
and
purged
by
[
](A18036-e15410-b)d
d
Rom.
5.
1.
Heb.
9.
14.
faith
in
Christs
blood
,
from
the
guilt
and
punishment
of
sinne
,
and
from
dead
workes
,
to
serue
the
liuing
Lord
,
speaketh
[
](A18036-e15430-b)e
e
Phil.
4.
7.
peace
with
Gods
allowance
,
is
a
[
](A18036-e15450-b)f
f
Iob
33.
messenger
of
good
things
betwixt
God
and
vs
,
and
cheereth
vp
the
heart
with
[
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g
1.
Pet.
1.
8.
ioy
vnspeakable
and
glorious
.
In
which
Definition
,
you
may
easily
perceiue
,
how
that
knowledge
and
faith
,
repentance
and
obedience
,
peace
and
ioy
haue
their
concurrence
,
to
make
vp
the
precious
odoriferous
balme
,
or
oyntment
of
a
good
conscience
.
First
,
knowledge
and
faith
is
requisite
thereunto
,
lest
it
should
be
blind
and
erronious
.
Secondly
,
repentance
and
constant
obedience
,
lest
it
should
be
secure
and
licentious
.
Thirdly
,
peace
and
ioy
,
lest
it
should
bee
stirring
,
galling
,
and
needlesly
tender
and
timorous
.
To
touch
the
tops
of
these
perswasions
,
first
,
Iudg.
7.
1.
Knowledge
.
it
is
by
too
lamentable
experience
well
known
,
that
for
want
of
knowledge
in
Gods
Booke
,
and
of
faith
in
the
Gospell
(
offering
forgiuenesse
of
sinnes
onely
by
Christs
blood
)
many
sottish
soules
liue
in
ignorance
and
darknesse
,
and
in
the
very
shadow
of
death
,
not
able
to
discerne
,
by
reason
of
their
blind
nature
,
and
naturall
blindnesse
,
the
things
which
concerne
their
peace
;
but
thinking
all
religions
will
saue
,
or
a
good
meaning
serue
the
turne
,
or
a
Lord
haue
mercy
at
last
cast
be
sufficient
:
Alas
,
many
a
Fly
doe
these
swallow
,
many
a
sinne
vnseene
,
vnsorrowed
for
,
doe
they
digest
,
and
in
many
things
do
they
erre
;
as
Christ
told
the
Sadduces
,
Mark
.
12.
because
they
know
not
the
Scriptures
,
Mark
.
12.
24.
and
the
power
of
God
:
The
ignorance
whereof
,
as
Chrysostome
noteth
,
is
the
mother
of
Chrysost.
in
3.
Coloss.
all
mischiefe
;
and
therfore
he
earnestly
exhorteth
all
secular
persons
to
get
them
Bibles
,
the
physicke
of
their
soules
,
to
labour
to
bee
more
Iob
22.
21.
acquainted
with
God
in
his
Word
,
that
they
may
grow
vp
therby
in
grace
,
and
in
the
knowledge
2.
Pet.
3.
13.
of
our
Sauiour
Christ
;
without
which
sauing
knowledge
,
and
faith
grounded
thereon
,
which
the
Hebrewes
by
an
excellency
call
Shekel
Mekodesh
,
sanctifying
wisedome
,
the
conscience
2.
Faith
.
cannot
be
vpright
.
It
is
sufficient
vnto
sin
to
doe
against
conscience
,
as
Saint
Paul
in
Rom.
Rom.
14.
Augustine
.
14.
sheweth
;
whereunto
that
of
Saint
Augustine
agreeth
,
Quicquid
sit
contra
conscientiam
,
aedificat
ad
Gehennam
.
But
it
is
not
sufficient
to
duty
and
obedience
,
to
doe
according
to
conscience
,
except
it
bee
inlightened
and
rectified
by
the
Word
,
without
which
information
and
illumination
,
conscience
often
resolues
,
where
it
should
restraine
;
acquits
,
where
it
should
condemn
,
and
so
erreth
and
offendeth
diuers
waies
.
First
,
by
an
erronious
acceptation
and
entertainment
of
the
lawes
,
fashions
and
traditions
of
men
,
for
the
precepts
of
God
;
which
is
the
errour
of
superstition
,
incident
to
ignorant
,
arrogant
Papists
,
who
make
the
Popes
Dictates
their
practicall
principles
,
and
seeing
(
if
they
see
at
al
)
thorow
the
false
spectacles
of
their
purblind
guides
,
shew
their
obedience
in
those
things
(
to
wit
,
in
the
adoration
of
Images
,
inuocation
of
Saints
,
meritorious
obseruation
of
dayes
,
and
meates
,
and
celebration
of
Pilgrimages
and
Masses
,
&c.
)
for
which
they
can
shew
no
commandement
.
All
whose
Religion
in
these
and
the
like
poynts
of
Purgatory
,
of
prayer
for
the
dead
,
of
satisfactory
seruices
and
sacrifices
of
their
owne
inuention
,
may
easily
be
swept
away
with
the
Prophets
besome
,
Esa.
Esa.
1.
12.
1.
Who
required
these
things
at
your
hands
?
Secondly
,
by
a
vaine
assumption
of
false
principles
,
and
a
misprision
of
good
for
euill
,
of
euill
for
good
;
and
this
is
the
errour
of
prophannesse
,
frequent
amongst
our
common
people
,
who
inlarge
their
consciences
to
the
vttermost
bounds
of
any
pleasure
or
profit
,
and
vnder
pretence
of
not
being
booke-learned
,
will
not
suffer
their
consciences
to
prooue
good
Lawyers
in
Gods
Booke
,
but
liue
in
darke
corners
vnder
blind
Sir
Iohns
,
and
so
take
quid
pro
quo
,
Chalke
for
Cheese
,
riches
for
righteousnesse
,
policy
for
piety
,
who
accounting
gaine
godlinesse
,
and
maintaining
bad
opinions
to
iustifie
base
affections
,
doe
hereupon
,
in
the
errour
of
their
iudgement
,
practise
commonly
swearing
,
prophaning
of
the
Sabbath
,
Vsury
,
Lying
,
Lottery
,
Legerdemaine
,
without
any
regret
of
conscience
at
all
.
Thirdly
,
by
false
application
of
good
principles
,
as
when
from
those
approued
grounds
and
true
propositions
,
(
Religious
adoration
is
not
to
be
giuen
to
creatures
:
and
likewise
,
Christians
haue
liberty
in
things
indifferent
)
these
vnwarrantable
conclusions
are
deduced
;
Therefore
we
may
not
kneele
in
the
Act
of
receiuing
the
Communion
;
Therefore
we
are
not
bound
to
obey
the
Magistrate
in
things
indifferent
.
Which
errour
of
conscience
,
I
may
call
the
errour
of
too
much
singularity
and
precisenesse
,
arguing
their
indiscretion
,
who
in
their
ouerweening
curiosity
will
bee
ouer-pleasing
God
with
better
deuices
then
his
owne
,
and
take
vpon
them
to
teach
the
Spirit
to
speake
according
to
the
consonants
of
the
Alphabet
,
so
long
,
till
their
wit
turne
to
madnes
,
and
end
in
mischiefe
,
as
appeareth
by
the
course
and
condition
of
Separatists
,
Anabaptists
,
and
Arminians
at
this
day
.
For
the
auoyding
of
all
which
errours
of
superstition
,
prophanenesse
and
precisenesse
,
let
vs
heare
and
obey
our
Sauiours
counsell
,
Search
Ioh.
5.
39.
the
Scriptures
,
Ioh.
5.
for
they
beare
witnesse
of
me
,
the
Way
,
the
Truth
,
the
Life
;
they
giue
best
testimony
both
of
Gods
will
concerning
his
own
seruice
,
and
of
his
good
will
in
Christ
to
all
his
faithfull
seruants
.
Let
this
Word
of
God
dwell
plentifully
in
vs
,
as
Saint
Paul
prescribeth
,
Col.
3.
16.
Col.
3.
and
that
not
in
some
,
but
in
all
wisedome
,
that
we
may
thinke
,
speake
,
and
doe
wisely
in
all
things
.
And
for
the
better
sharpening
of
our
dimmed
sight
in
matters
diuine
,
let
vs
not
refuse
the
eye-salue
of
our
better
inlightened
guides
,
but
gladly
accept
thereof
,
that
so
by
all
these
,
and
other
good
meanes
,
our
consciences
being
rightly
informed
,
we
may
expresse
the
goodnesse
of
them
,
by
doing
or
not
doing
confidently
what
God
hath
commanded
or
prohibited
.
And
to
this
end
,
that
our
hearts
Col.
2.
2
,
16.
may
bee
comforted
and
established
in
euery
good
saying
and
doing
,
wee
are
to
lay
fast
hold
on
that
euerlasting
consolation
and
good
hope
through
grace
which
the
Father
hath
giuen
vs
,
Colos.
2.
2
,
16.
and
by
all
spirituall
aliments
to
preserue
and
cherish
that
sauing
faith
in
vs
,
whereby
we
are
perswaded
that
our
sinnes
are
pardoned
,
and
God
in
Christ
reconciled
to
vs
.
This
indeed
is
the
root
of
a
good
conscience
,
as
hath
been
already
shewed
:
and
this
,
Beleeue
in
Christs
blood
,
is
the
gracious
powerfull
Word
whereby
all
consciences
are
now
stilled
;
as
the
Luk.
19.
Act.
16.
consciences
of
Mary
Magdalen
,
Zacheus
,
Lydia
,
and
that
Iaylor
were
suddenly
and
soundly
thereby
quieted
.
Now
for
the
cherishing
and
confirming
of
this
faith
,
the
daily
exercises
of
repentance
and
obedience
are
requisite
;
and
therefore
to
make
vp
the
vprightnesse
of
a
good
conscience
,
wee
are
,
in
the
second
place
,
to
speake
of
these
ingredients
,
as
most
necessary
thereunto
,
to
wit
,
of
repentance
and
obedience
.
Of
repentance
in
mind
,
altering
the
thoughts
from
the
approbation
of
sinne
;
of
repentance
in
heart
,
sorrowing
for
the
committing
of
sinne
;
of
repentance
in
mouth
,
reprouing
and
controlling
sin
;
of
repentance
in
the
whole
man
,
remoouing
whatsoeuer
is
knowne
to
be
amisse
,
and
bringing
forth
fruits
of
amendment
of
life
,
&c.
This
is
a
worke
impossible
to
nature
,
without
grace
,
and
so
slow
in
the
working
of
grace
,
through
the
contradiction
of
our
nature
,
that
howsoeuer
many
professe
it
,
yet
few
practise
it
;
but
being
rightly
practised
,
it
will
make
such
a
diuision
betwixt
our
persons
and
our
sinnes
,
that
by
the
repairing
of
the
Image
of
God
more
and
more
in
vs
,
we
shall
haue
comfortable
furtherance
in
the
way
to
saluation
.
This
therefore
must
not
be
wanting
to
him
,
or
scanting
in
him
,
that
desireth
a
good
conscience
.
For
where
there
is
no
true
repentance
,
there
is
no
true
faith
;
no
true
faith
,
no
true
Christ
;
no
true
Christ
,
no
true
remission
of
sinnes
;
no
true
remission
of
sinnes
,
no
true
peace
of
conscience
,
grounded
vpon
the
assured
sense
and
inward
feeling
of
the
same
:
But
rather
the
grace
of
Christ
redeeming
the
loue
of
the
Father
electing
,
and
the
comfortable
fellowship
of
the
holy
Ghost
quieting
the
conscience
,
is
farre
off
from
them
which
continue
in
their
sinnes
,
and
stand
out
as
rebels
in
their
disobedience
against
God
.
The
rule
is
ancient
and
true
,
Bona
conscientia
Aug.
non
stat
cum
proposito
peccandi
;
a
good
conscience
cannot
stand
with
a
purpose
of
sinning
,
or
with
irresolution
against
sinne
,
but
is
armed
thorowout
with
a
resolute
determination
,
wittingly
and
willingly
to
sinne
no
more
;
accounting
it
a
mockery
to
cry
Peccaui
,
and
mourne
for
sinnes
past
,
with
a
meaning
to
sinne
againe
in
the
like
;
yea
,
a
most
ridiculous
folly
,
like
to
the
Shipmans
continuall
labouring
at
the
pumpe
,
without
any
care
to
mend
the
leake
.
Wherefore
as
we
desire
to
liue
in
the
lawfull
peace
of
an
vpright
conscience
:
so
let
it
be
our
chiefest
care
to
inure
our selues
to
the
practice
of
repentance
and
obedience
.
The
practice
of
which
,
(
to
speake
briefly
of
them
ioyntly
)
consists
not
in
pretending
,
as
the
manner
of
many
is
,
a
good
heart
,
without
fruits
of
amendment
,
for
that
is
but
vanity
;
or
in
making
some
outward
shew
of
reformation
,
without
purging
the
heart
and
affections
,
for
that
is
but
hypocrisie
;
or
in
exchanging
of
sinnes
,
to
wit
,
of
prodigality
or
prophanenesse
in
youth
,
for
couetousnesse
and
Popery
in
age
,
for
that
is
but
irreligious
mockery
.
But
in
an
inward
lothing
from
the
heart
,
and
an
outward
leauing
in
the
course
of
our
life
,
of
all
such
knowne
sinnes
wherein
we
haue
formerly
liued
and
delighted
;
and
also
in
an
earnest
desire
of
the
heart
,
and
constant
indeuour
in
our
life
and
conuersation
,
to
practise
all
duties
of
piety
&
charity
,
which
in
our
seuerall
places
and
callings
are
required
.
T
is
not
sufficient
to
put
off
the
old
man
,
to
cast
away
the
weapons
Eph.
4
22.
of
darkenesse
,
and
to
abhorre
and
remooue
Col.
3.
10.
what
is
euill
:
but
we
must
put
on
the
New
man
,
Rom.
13.
take
vnto
vs
the
Armour
of
light
,
and
cleaue
to
Rom.
12
9.
that
which
is
good
.
T
is
commendable
with
the
repentant
Prodigall
,
to
forsake
our
former
riotous
,
Luk.
15.
luxurious
,
and
offensiue
liuing
,
and
to
returne
to
our
Fathers
home
;
for
this
mends
the
matter
:
but
it
is
much
more
comfortable
and
complete
,
after
the
shaking
off
of
the
ragges
of
sinne
,
to
put
on
the
robes
of
Righteousnesse
and
Garments
of
Saluation
;
for
this
perfecteth
the
match
,
and
accomplisheth
the
marriage
betwixt
Christ
and
vs
:
and
heereby
shall
we
giue
testimony
to
others
,
and
to
our selues
,
and
our
owne
soules
,
that
we
are
penitent
and
obedient
Christians
,
and
so
bring
wonderfull
peace
and
comfort
to
our
consciences
.
For
when
a
Christian
,
inriched
with
these
spirituall
graces
of
true
knowledge
and
faith
,
shall
thus
proceed
in
the
carefull
practice
of
these
holy
duties
of
repentance
and
obedience
;
then
his
conscience
,
which
otherwise
would
looke
sterne
vpon
him
,
begins
to
smile
,
to
speak
sweetly
to
him
,
to
conuerse
amiably
with
him
,
to
clap
him
on
the
backe
&
applaud
him
,
&
exceedingly
exhilarate
and
refresh
him
.
To
which
purpose
S.
Bernard
speakes
excellently
,
Vis
,
O
Bern.
homo
,
semper
epulari
,
vis
nunquam
tristis
esse
?
benè
viue
:
Wilt
thou
,
O
man
,
neuer
be
sad
;
wilt
thou
turne
the
whole
yeere
into
a
merry
Christ-tide
?
liue
well
then
.
Fiat
iustitia
,
saith
Saint
Austin
,
Aug.
&
habebis
pacem
;
Eschew
euill
,
and
doe
good
;
Psal.
34.
13.
and
thou
needest
not
seeke
peace
and
ensue
it
,
Psal.
85.
11.
Psal.
34.
for
peace
will
finde
thee
,
and
kisse
righteousnesse
wheresoeuer
shee
finds
it
.
Doe
Iustice
,
loue
mercy
,
humble
thy selfe
,
and
walke
with
thy
God
,
as
Enoch
did
,
Gen.
5.
doing
all
things
as
in
Gods
sight
;
For
this
is
the
direct
Micah
6.
8.
way
to
the
obtaining
and
maintaining
of
a
conscience
comfortably
good
;
the
voyce
of
ioy
and
Psal.
118.
15.
deliuerance
shall
be
in
the
Tabernacles
of
the
righteous
,
saith
the
Psalmist
,
and
the
worke
of
Esa.
32.
17.
Iustice
shall
bring
peace
and
quietnesse
,
Esa.
32.
and
it
cannot
be
otherwise
,
but
that
Melchisedec
the
King
of
righteousnesse
,
which
walkes
sincerely
,
should
also
be
Prince
of
Salem
,
and
walke
confidently
,
peaceably
,
securely
.
Synceritas
Serenitatis
Isiod
.
mater
est
,
sine
qua
tranquillitas
omnis
,
tempestas
est
:
Sincerity
is
the
mother
of
true
tranquillity
,
and
without
it
,
all
carnall
rest
is
as
a
dangerous
Lethargie
.
Sincerity
,
as
it
is
of
all
vertues
the
girdle
,
and
most
acceptable
to
God
,
Eph.
6.
14.
whose
vnfained
obedience
it
implyeth
,
so
it
is
most
profitable
in
all
dangers
,
trials
,
and
temptations
,
to
man
,
whose
peace
it
worketh
,
and
in
whom
it
begetteth
a
Lyon-like
boldnesse
,
as
Salomon
speaketh
:
The
righteous
is
as
bold
as
a
Pro.
28.
1.
Lyon
.
This
cannot
be
put
out
of
countenance
by
the
false
accusations
of
slanderous
tongues
;
it
throweth
them
off
,
as
Paul
did
the
Viper
from
Act.
28.
5.
his
hand
,
vnhurt
.
This
saith
with
Saint
Paul
,
I
passe
not
for
mans
iudgement
,
1.
Cor.
4.
and
1.
Cor.
4.
3.
Iob
31.
35.
with
Iob
,
Though
mine
aduersary
would
write
a
Booke
against
mee
,
I
would
take
it
vpon
my
shoulder
,
and
binde
it
as
a
crowne
vnto
mee
.
What
made
Iob
so
confident
?
Surely
it
was
the
vprightnesse
of
his
heart
,
his
sincere
obedience
and
innocency
,
which
he
saith
he
will
hold
fast
Iob
27.
6.
and
not
forsake
,
lest
his
heart
should
reprooue
him
,
and
his
conscience
trouble
&
checke
him
.
Vse
.
Wherefore
as
hee
that
will
saile
safely
,
must
looke
as
well
to
the
balast
of
his
Ship
,
as
to
his
sailes
:
So
if
you
will
saile
safely
in
the
Ship
of
a
good
conscience
,
to
the
Port
and
Hauen
of
heauen
;
you
must
not
onely
looke
,
that
there
bee
soundnesse
in
your
knowledge
and
faith
,
which
are
as
sailes
hoysted
vp
to
make
foorth
for
the
prize
;
but
also
that
there
be
sincerity
in
your
repentance
and
obedience
,
which
are
as
the
soules
balast
,
to
moderate
her
pace
,
lest
shee
dash
against
the
Rocks
of
presumption
,
and
to
this
end
vse
that
safe
and
sauing
method
by
a
learned
Father
prescribed
;
When
thou
art
Aug.
tempted
to
sinne
,
set
before
thee
the
weight
of
sinne
,
the
wound
of
conscience
,
the
wrath
of
God
,
which
is
as
a
flaming
fire
,
and
remember
Rom.
2.
that
tribulation
and
anguish
shall
be
vpon
euery
soule
that
sinneth
,
Rom.
2.
And
let
this
be
vnto
thee
a
strong
bridle
,
and
retentiue
from
vice
;
and
againe
,
when
thou
beginnest
to
bee
weary
and
drowzy
in
Gods
seruice
,
thinke
vpon
the
blessed
recompence
of
well-doing
,
and
consider
that
to
them
which
by
continuance
in
doing
well
,
seeke
glory
and
honour
,
there
shall
be
giuen
eternall
life
and
immortality
;
and
let
this
be
a
sharpe-pointed
spurre
and
motiue
vnto
vertue
.
Be
timorous
of
doing
euill
and
wrong
,
because
it
offendeth
God
,
though
there
were
no
hell
to
terrifie
thee
;
bee
studious
of
executing
Iustice
,
and
doing
well
,
because
it
pleaseth
God
,
though
there
were
no
heauen
to
reward
thee
.
But
because
there
is
a
reward
in
heauen
for
all
well-deeded
Christians
prepared
,
and
such
a
reward
as
is
life
eternall
,
Rom.
6.
A
Kingdome
Rom.
6.
23.
that
cannot
be
shaken
,
Heb.
12.
and
an
inheritance
Heb.
12.
immortall
and
vndefiled
,
1.
Pet.
1.
Let
1.
Pet.
1.
intuitus
mercedis
;
the
view
of
this
recompence
,
serue
as
the
hand
to
winde
vp
the
plummets
,
to
continue
the
curious
clocke-worke
of
our
sincere
Christian
obedience
.
Vse
.
2
Now
forasmuch
as
the
sincerity
of
our
Christian
obedience
consists
not
only
in
rectifying
our
owne
courses
,
and
doing
good
our selues
;
but
also
in
repressing
the
euils
of
the
time
,
&
in
reforming
the
irregularities
of
others
,
as
much
as
in
vs
lyeth
:
Giue
mee
leaue
,
I
beseech
you
(
Right
Honourable
,
Right
Worshipfull
)
to
insist
somewhat
heereupon
,
as
the
occasion
requireth
;
I
come
not
hither
to
play
a
prize
,
or
to
vent
spleene
;
But
a
great
doore
and
effectuall
seemes
to
bee
opened
vnto
me
at
this
time
,
so
that
if
euer
I
were
,
with
Saint
Iohn
,
in
the
Spirit
Reu.
1.
10.
on
the
Lords
Day
;
I
trust
,
Gods
Spirit
is
in
me
this
Day
of
the
Lord
,
moouing
mee
thus
to
speake
vnto
you
,
and
to
complaine
that
this
practical
politicall
part
of
Christian
obedience
,
in
reproouing
and
repressing
sinne
in
others
,
is
commonly
neglected
of
all
,
especially
of
those
whom
it
doth
most
concerne
,
I
meane
Magistrates
,
to
whom
,
authority
from
God
and
the
King
is
committed
,
if
not
with
Phineas
his
zeale
,
to
slay
sinners
,
ipso
facto
;
yet
with
Moses
his
courage
,
to
slay
sinne
in
grosse
offenders
,
saluo
iure
.
But
alas
,
how
doe
many
luke-warme
neuter-passiue
Magistrates
now a-dayes
slay
it
?
(
aures
omnium
pulso
,
conscientias
singulorum
conuenio
;
that
is
,
I
speake
to
the
eares
of
all
in
generall
,
and
appeale
to
the
consciences
of
euery
one
in
particular
)
Surely
euen
by
being
content
with
it
,
or
else
by
yeelding
consent
vnto
it
;
If
it
were
not
so
,
why
then
are
not
the
hurts
of
the
daughter
Iudah
healed
?
why
are
not
the
breaches
of
this
our
Sion
stopped
vp
?
Is
there
no
balme
in
Gilead
,
is
there
no
Physician
there
?
Yes
,
Physicians
there
are
some
,
but
the
most
like
to
Iobs
Iob
13.
4.
friends
,
Physicians
of
no
value
;
Rephaims
by
Deut.
2.
20.
name
,
Zamzummims
in
deed
,
Deuter.
2.
who
wheras
by
their
places
and
callings
they
ought
to
be
patrones
of
peace
and
piety
,
and
patternes
of
temperance
and
sobriety
,
and
as
Leaders
of
the
Vantgard
,
to
stand
in
the
forefront
of
Gods
Battels
,
against
all
Canaanites
and
Canaanitish
fashions
,
which
beare
sway
in
Towne
&
Country
;
they
either
runne
a
race
of
like
ryot
with
others
,
or
goe
a
foraging
or
boot-haling
for
themselues
,
not
caring
what
become
of
the
Ship
of
State
in
generall
,
so
they
may
saue
themselues
in
the
Pinnace
or
Cocke-boate
of
their
owne
fortunes
in
particular
;
not
daring
to
strike
one
stroke
in
the
warre
against
Gods
enemies
.
Such
as
are
seditious
mischiefe-plotting
Papists
,
horrible
blasphemers
,
shamelesse
fornicators
,
incorrigible
drunkards
,
and
the
like
prophane
,
lewd
,
licencious
liuers
;
not
daring
,
I
say
,
to
let
them
blood
with
the
sharpe
Razor
of
reprehension
,
much
lesse
to
giue
them
a
downe-right
blow
of
condigne
punishment
for
their
sinfull
presumption
.
It
grieueth
me
to
thinke
,
and
I
euen
blush
to
speake
,
how
weakely
the
sword
of
Iustice
is
,
by
the
Paralyticke
hands
of
these
meale-mouthed
Magistrates
,
brandished
against
the
friends
of
Baal
,
Balaam
,
and
Bacchus
too
.
Vse
3
Oh
then
for
a
Moses
in
these
dayes
,
to
fetch
Exod.
17.
water
from
the
rocke
,
teares
from
the
eyes
,
yea
,
drops
of
blood
from
the
hearts
of
our
common
drunkards
,
which
carowse
mans
blood
in
cans
&
flagons
,
and
hardned
by
impunity
,
commit
daily
outrages
in
Towne
and
Countrey
!
Oh
for
a
Phineas
,
to
runne
resolutely
with
the
Num.
25.
speare
of
due
censure
and
castigation
,
thorow
the
very
heart
,
as
I
may
say
,
of
whoredome
,
and
all
filthy
abomination
!
Oh
for
a
Iehu
,
to
2.
King
.
9.
march
on
couragiously
in
the
Lords
businesse
,
against
truth-opposing
poore-oppressing
Ahab
and
Iezabel
,
and
all
other
idolatrous
enemies
of
Gods
sanctuary
!
Magna
quidem
est
in
illa
seueritate
Greg.
pietas
,
per
quam
tollitur
peccandi
libertas
;
Great
godlinesse
indeed
is
shewed
in
that
seuerity
,
where
many
by
the
exemplary
punishment
of
a
few
,
are
restrained
of
their
sinfull
liberty
,
&c.
My
good
Lords
,
your
places
of
authority
,
and
these
exulcerate
times
of
iniquity
,
require
in
you
Moses
his
spirit
,
Phineas
his
zeale
,
and
Iehu's
inuincible
fortitude
.
Oh
put
them
all
on
,
as
complete
armour
,
sutable
to
your
calling
and
dignity
.
Brandish
with
heate
and
courage
,
the
sword
of
iustice
against
the
very
faces
of
Gods
enemies
.
Especially
,
let
Romish
Iezabel
,
howsoeuer
2.
King
.
9.
33.
she
be
painted
,
not
be
spared
,
tumble
her
out
at
window
,
let
Babylons
brats
no
more
bee
dallyed
with
,
or
dandled
,
but
rather
dashed
in
pieces
.
For
they
are
meditating
more
mischiefe
,
and
it
is
to
be
feared
,
they
will
prouide
more
Powder
,
and
poysoned
Kniues
too
,
if
they
bee
not
fettered
and
manacled
.
Obiect
.
Yea
but
they
haue
now
taken
the
Oath
of
alleageance
,
and
will
do
no
more
hurt
.
Answ.
Yea
but
according
to
the
rule
of
the
Parthians
,
they
will
keepe
faith
with
none
,
nisi
quantum
expedit
,
but
as
it
serues
their
turne
;
and
therefore
looke
from
them
no
good
:
and
as
for
Oathes
,
to
the
most
of
them
they
are
no
other
then
collars
for
Munkeyes
,
which
vpon
dispensation
of
superiours
,
they
slip
off
their
neckes
at
their
pleasure
,
especially
if
they
bee
such
State-Papists
as
haue
beene
inspired
with
Iesuiticall
impostures
,
whom
a
Reuerend
Father
Bishop
King
.
of
our
Church
rightly
tearmeth
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
the
falsest
coozeners
of
the
world
;
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
with
whom
no
bond
of
nature
,
consanguinity
,
alleageance
,
alliance
,
affiance
,
wedlocke
,
oath
,
Sacrament
standeth
good
,
if
they
list
to
dissolue
it
.
Dij
terrae
talem
terris
auertite
pestem
.
O
yee
Gods
of
the
Psal.
82.
6.
earth
,
purge
I
beseech
you
,
this
Westerne
region
of
the
ayre
,
as
much
as
in
you
lyeth
,
of
these
pestilent
exhalations
;
shake
not
onely
the
sword
of
the
Law
against
them
,
but
lay
it
close
home
vpon
them
,
and
let
all
such
as
will
not
doe
the
Ezra
7.
26.
Law
of
God
and
the
King
,
receiue
iudgement
without
delay
,
Ezra
.
7.
To
conclude
,
forasmuch
(
Right
Honourable
)
as
your
comming
forth
in
Circuit
to
minister
Iustice
and
Iudgement
,
is
like
the
comming
forth
of
the
foure
Angels
,
Reuel.
7.
to
whom
Reuel.
7.
1.
power
was
giuen
to
punish
the
wicked
of
the
earth
,
but
with
this
restraint
,
that
Gods
Saints
and
seruants
sealed
,
should
not
bee
touched
:
or
like
the
arising
vp
of
foure
Carpenters
,
Zech.
1.
Zech.
1.
20.
to
cut
off
the
foure
hornes
which
scattered
Iudah
,
that
is
,
all
the
aduersaries
of
the
Church
and
Common-wealth
,
that
the
people
of
God
might
in
peace
and
piety
be
the
better
maintained
.
O
rowze
vp
your selues
,
I
beseech
you
,
in
the
name
of
God
,
of
the
Gospell
,
of
the
King
and
Countrey
,
and
with
a
zealous
conscionable
affection
,
and
a
constant
couragious
resolution
,
shew
your selues
such
Angels
,
such
Carpenters
,
such
Worthies
in
opposing
the
violent
streame
and
torrent
of
these
vicious
times
,
and
in
executing
iust
and
speedy
iudgement
on
all
malicious
and
seditious
transgressours
of
the
Lawes
of
God
and
the
King
:
And
for
a
perclose
of
the
premises
heerein
,
exercise
the
vprightnesse
of
your
conscience
,
and
the
sincerity
of
your
conscionable
obedience
,
viz.
in
cutting
off
,
putting
downe
,
or
shutting
vp
all
mischiefe-practising-workers
of
iniquity
,
and
all
mischiefe-plotting
seeds-men
,
and
fauourers
of
Schisme
and
soule-murthering
Popery
.
Thus
by
taking
away
the
wicked
from
before
Prou.
25.
4.
the
King
,
his
Throne
in
righteousnesse
shall
bee
established
,
your
places
of
authority
shall
in
their
full
strength
and
vertue
bee
preserued
,
Gods
fierce
wrath
be
turned
away
,
which
is
imminent
on
Prince
and
people
,
where
grosse
sinnes
passe
vnpunished
,
and
the
peace
and
piety
of
these
quarters
of
the
Land
shall
more
and
more
bee
increased
.
All
which
,
the
Lord
grant
,
for
his
great
mercies
sake
,
for
his
Gospels
sake
,
for
his
Glories
sake
,
and
for
his
Christs
sake
;
and
so
plentifully
distill
the
sweet
dewes
of
his
heauenly
grace
on
the
high
Hill
Hermon
,
and
all
the
Mountaines
of
Sion
,
that
there
may
be
still
a
fruitfull
watering
,
and
ioyfull
refreshing
of
this
whole
Land
of
Israel
:
and
that
maugre
the
mischieuous
proiects
and
practices
of
the
malignant
enemies
of
the
Gospell
,
truth
and
peace
may
meet
together
,
righteousnes
and
mercy
kisse
each
other
,
in
all
the
quarters
thereof
,
as
long
as
the
earth
rests
in
her
Center
,
and
the
heauens
continue
their
restlesse
motion
.
Amen
.
THE
CONSCIONABLE
CHRISTIAN
:
Preached
at
Taunton
,
Aug.
8.
1620.
The
Text
:
Acts
24.
16.
Heerein
I
indeuour
my selfe
,
to
haue
a
good
conscience
alwayes
towards
God
and
men
.
RIGHT
HONOVRABLE
,
Rightly
regarded
and
beloued
in
the
Lord
Iesus
,
&c.
As
good
Ionathan
,
1.
Sam.
20.
20.
in
loue
vnto
Dauid
(
whom
hee
loued
as
his
soule
)
did
shoot
three
Arrowes
of
admonition
,
to
driue
him
the
further
off
from
Sauls
death-breathing
fury
:
So
in
loue
vnto
your
soules
,
I
am
now
from
the
as-yet
bent
Bow
of
my
Text
,
to
send
forth
a
third
Arrow
of
instruction
and
direction
,
to
draw
you
the
neerer
home
to
Gods
life-giuing
fauour
.
Whereof
you
shall
be
sure
to
haue
the
stronger
hold-fast
and
assurance
,
by
how
much
the
more
you
indeuour
and
exercise
your selues
in
this
,
to
haue
alwayes
a
good
conscience
towards
God
and
men
.
For
the
care
of
a
good
conscience
brings
comfort
in
holinesse
;
and
comfort
in
holinesse
,
breeds
assurance
of
blessednesse
;
and
blessed
shall
you
be
,
if
to
those
diuers
Ingredients
which
concurre
to
the
composition
of
an
vpright
conscience
,
whereof
yesterday
I
spake
at
large
,
it
shall
please
you
to
adde
this
as
the
complement
of
the
rest
,
viz.
Doct.
perseuerance
in
doing
well
,
and
cherishing
the
vertuous
;
and
constant
boldnesse
in
repressing
euill
,
and
punishing
the
vicious
wheresoeuer
you
haue
to
doe
;
being
as
earnest
in
the
pursuit
of
grosse
sinne
,
as
worthy
Eleazar
was
in
smiting
the
Philistines
,
2.
Sam.
23.
and
cleauing
as
fast
in
your
2.
Sam.
23.
10.
hearts
to
Gods
Word
,
the
warrant
of
your
wel-doing
in
this
,
as
his
hand
claue
vnto
his
sword
,
the
instrument
of
his
well-doing
in
that
.
What
if
for
your
zeale
and
religious
resolution
herein
,
you
be
sometimes
crossed
with
mischieuous
intentions
,
thwarted
by
mighty
oppositions
,
wronged
by
malicious
detractions
?
yet
desist
not
,
faint
not
,
feare
not
;
Regium
est
,
cùm
benefeceris
,
Alexander
.
malè
audire
:
It
is
a
princely
thing
,
to
heare
ill
,
for
doing
well
.
In
which
course
of
well-doing
,
as
I
am
bound
to
be
a
suiter
vnto
God
for
you
,
that
your
Bow
may
abide
strong
,
and
that
your
hands
Gen.
49.
24.
and
armes
may
be
strengthened
by
the
mighty
God
of
Iacob
:
So
,
giue
me
leaue
also
,
in
the
name
of
God
,
to
be
a
bold
sollicitour
vnto
you
,
and
for
the
Gospels
sake
,
which
you
professe
,
and
are
bound
by
your
best
actions
to
beautifie
,
now
the
third
time
to
be
your
humble
Monitor
and
Remembrancer
,
that
according
to
your
places
of
command
and
greatnesse
,
you
would
therein
striue
with
an
holy
kind
of
emulation
,
the
more
fully
and
freely
to
exercise
your
goodnesse
.
And
as
it
hath
pleased
God
to
indow
you
with
greater
meanes
,
power
and
ability
,
so
to
account
it
the
best
Christian
policy
,
by
your
good
workes
on
earth
,
to
lay
vp
treasure
for
your selues
in
heauen
,
and
euery
day
to
bring
in
somwhat
into
Gods
Exchequer
,
as
the
Israelites
did
Exod.
25.
to
the
Tabernacle
;
the
remembrance
whereof
may
long
after
,
both
in
life
and
death
,
comfort
you
,
and
whereof
you
may
say
(
in
singular
confidence
claiming
an
especiall
interest
in
Gods
fauour
,
and
expecting
the
promised
recompence
)
Remember
me
,
O
my
God
,
according
to
this
:
Neh.
13.
22.
Note
.
Math.
5.
26.
For
albeit
the
glory
of
God
must
be
the
vltimus
terminus
of
our
cogitations
and
actions
,
and
the
principall
motiue
of
our
good
workes
,
and
the
primum
mobile
of
our
obedience
;
yet
in
the
Aquin.
actions
of
obedience
,
whilest
we
seeke
the
aduancement
of
Gods
glory
in
the
first
place
,
wee
may
as
a
secondary
obiect
or
adiunct
,
respect
Caluin
.
our
owne
commodity
,
and
haue
an
eye
to
our
eternall
reward
:
yea
,
it
is
lawfull
for
euery
sanctified
Christian
(
maugre
the
spirit
of
contradiction
in
weaklings
or
wranglers
)
whilest
he
remembreth
God
in
sincere
obedience
(
as
Abraham
did
in
sacrificing
Isaac
;
Moses
,
in
guiding
,
Gen
22.
1.
King
.
2.
Luk.
7.
and
going
before
Gods
people
;
Obediah
,
in
relieuing
the
Lords
Prophets
;
Magdalen
,
in
washing
Christs
feet
;
Dorcas
,
in
making
garments
Act.
9.
for
poore
widowes
;
Philemon
,
in
refreshing
Epist.
Philem.
Nehem.
5.
19.
the
bowels
of
the
Saints
;
and
Nehemiah
,
in
doing
good
to
Gods
House
and
his
people
)
to
desire
God
to
remember
him
by
a
gracious
recompence
;
and
to
say
with
Nehemiah
,
Remember
Nehem.
13.
22.
me
,
O
my
God
,
concerning
this
;
but
yet
as
conscious
to
himselfe
of
many
imperfections
in
his
best
actions
,
of
defects
and
defaults
,
either
in
the
end
,
matter
,
manner
or
measure
of
his
obedience
,
he
is
,
as
it
followeth
in
the
same
place
,
to
supplicate
for
mercy
,
and
to
pray
,
as
there
Nehemiah
doth
,
But
pardon
me
according
to
thy
great
mercy
.
For
as
Saint
Augustine
saith
,
Nisi
Aug.
in
Psa.
100
Deus
per
misericordiam
parceret
,
non
inueniret
quos
per
iustitiam
coronaret
:
Except
God
should
spare
vs
in
mercy
,
hee
should
finde
none
whom
hee
might
crowne
in
iustice
.
But
yet
in
hope
and
expectation
to
be
crowned
in
mercy
,
let
vs
all
,
as
the
Almners
of
the
Almighty
,
remember
daily
to
doe
good
in
our
seuerall
callings
,
according
to
our
ability
,
to
be
plentifull
in
the
works
of
charity
,
to
bee
faithfull
in
the
exercises
of
piety
,
that
so
our
soules
,
as
fields
of
sincerity
,
being
euery
day
more
and
more
charged
with
the
deeds
of
iustice
and
mercy
,
may
at
length
be
accomplisht
with
the
Crest
and
Crowne
of
eternall
glory
.
To
this
purpose
tendeth
the
precept
and
charge
of
the
Apostle
,
Be
not
weary
of
well
doing
;
Gal.
6.
9.
Eccl.
11.
6.
for
in
due
time
yee
shall
reape
,
if
you
faint
not
:
and
that
of
Chrysostome
,
Sow
with
a
mind
to
reape
;
Chrysost.
in
opere
imperf.
sight
,
with
a
desire
to
ouercome
;
conquer
,
with
an
expectation
to
be
crowned
.
Wherein
Perseuerance
(
which
Bernard
calleth
,
Sororem
patientiae
,
constantiae
Bern.
filiam
,
pacis
amicam
,
virtutuni
consummationem
.
And
another
,
Talarem
tunicam
,
that
long
white
Greg.
Robe
reaching
downe
to
the
feet
,
which
euery
good
Ioseph
must
put
on
:
and
another
,
The
Empresse
Chrysost.
of
vertues
,
which
rewardeth
him
that
runneth
,
crowneth
him
that
fighteth
,
bringeth
to
the
hauen
him
that
saileth
;
without
which
,
obedience
hath
no
reward
,
a
good
turne
receiues
no
thankes
,
and
fortitude
deserues
no
glory
.
)
Wherein
,
I
say
,
perseuerance
in
well-doing
,
Note
.
(
which
is
euery
Christian
mans
duty
)
in
hope
and
expectation
of
recompence
,
(
considering
our
humane
infirmity
)
is
commended
vnto
vs
all
,
and
that
not
onely
in
our
generall
calling
as
we
are
Christians
,
but
also
in
our
particular
vocations
,
as
wee
are
Magistrates
,
Ministers
,
Iudges
,
Iusticers
,
or
any
other
inferiour
beneficiall
Officers
in
Church
or
Common-wealth
.
So
that
looking
for
the
reward
,
not
of
debt
,
but
of
fauour
(
as
Saint
Paul
speaketh
)
we
are
to
proceed
Rom.
4.
confidently
and
constantly
in
our
Christian
obedience
to
the
end
.
Yea
,
it
is
our
duty
to
labour
much
to
liue
so
;
to
suffer
much
to
dye
so
,
as
constant
conscionable
Christians
ought
;
yea
,
to
dye
in
despight
of
death
couragiously
for
the
maintenance
of
equity
and
truth
,
to
raigne
so
,
as
constant
conscionable
Christians
vndoubtedly
shall
.
Thus
if
we
(
Beloued
)
shall
giue
all
diligence
to
perseuere
in
the
practice
of
the
generall
and
particular
duties
of
Christian
obedience
,
wee
shall
then
with
daily
comfort
,
taste
the
sweetnesse
of
an
vpright
conscience
;
and
if
we
desire
and
indeuour
without
dissimulation
and
hypocrisie
,
in
respect
of
others
,
without
partiality
and
defection
,
in
regard
of
our selues
,
to
walke
in
the
wayes
of
Gods
Commandements
,
as
he
hath
prescribed
;
wee
shall
bee
sure
to
inioy
the
continuall
ioy
and
peace
of
a
good
conscience
,
without
night
of
desertion
,
or
eclipse
of
change
and
variation
,
as
he
hath
promised
.
To
conclude
this
point
,
if
we
(
Fathers
and
brethren
)
according
to
the
dictate
and
direction
of
conscience
inlightened
and
awaked
,
shall
both
in
the
course
of
our
generall
conuersation
,
and
in
the
offices
of
our
particular
vocation
,
be
carefull
and
faithfull
,
in
louing
what
God
loueth
,
and
hating
what
he
hateth
,
in
doing
what
God
commandeth
,
and
eschewing
what
he
forbiddeth
,
we
shall
then
be
both
truely
holy
and
happy
too
.
So
shall
we
be
exempt
and
free
,
not
onely
from
the
crimson-crying
sinnes
of
Iusticewronging
Magistrates
,
soule-staruing
Ministers
,
face-grinding
oppressors
,
truth-betraying
witnesses
and
lurors
,
sacrilegious
rob-Gods
,
desperate
mocke-Preachers
,
and
such
like
flagitious
offenders
,
who
with
seared
and
benummed
consciences
,
habituati
sunt
in
malo
,
&
faetent
in
peccato
;
lie
stinking
in
their
sinnes
,
as
Lazarus
in
the
graue
:
But
also
from
the
common
sinnes
of
wantons
,
gluttons
,
lyers
,
swearers
,
slanderers
,
Sabbath-breakers
,
and
the
like
common
sinners
,
whose
large
cheuerill
consciences
dispense
with
all
corruptions
and
transgressions
that
are
not
capitall
:
yea
,
we
shall
be
free
by
the
aforesaid
godly
care
,
from
the
vniust
morosity
,
and
causelesse
anxiety
of
scrupulous
bird-eyd
consciences
,
which
make
more
Commandements
then
ten
,
and
proiect
fearefull
things
,
where
no
feare
is
:
That
so
our
rightly-informed
quietacquitting
consciences
may
passe
(
with
Top-saile
and
Banners
displaid
,
with
Flags
of
defiance
to
the
workes
and
workers
of
iniquity
)
through
the
waues
of
this
world
,
to
the
Harbour
of
eternall
rest
,
ioy
,
and
felicity
.
With
such
a
cleering-cheering
conscience
,
Note
.
our
Apostle
Saint
Paul
,
the
worthy
Champion
Acts
27.
14.
●●
36.
of
Iesus
Christ
,
sailed
couragiously
in
the
angry
Adriaticall
Sea
,
when
the
tempestuous
Euroclydon
raged
,
and
meate
and
light
was
for
many
dayes
denyed
,
and
all
that
were
in
the
Ship
besides
despaired
,
telling
them
confidently
,
that
none
of
them
should
perish
,
but
all
bee
preserued
for
his
sake
.
With
the
wings
of
such
a
conscience
,
when
the
Iewes
thought
&
spake
Acts
23.
24
,
25.
euill
of
him
,
and
plotted
mischiefe
against
him
,
he
as
an
Eagle
,
soared
aloft
,
and
respecting
their
forged
calumnies
,
no
more
then
the
chitting
of
Sparrowes
or
chatting
of
Pyes
,
bare
himselfe
vp
brauely
aboue
the
scourges
and
razors
of
their
tongues
,
and
farre
beyond
the
Sphere
of
their
malignity
;
with
this
Armour
of
righteousnesse
on
the
right
hand
,
and
the
left
being
fitly
cladde
,
he
passed
through
good
reports
and
bad
,
through
many
iniuries
,
indignities
,
dangers
and
difficulties
,
as
bold
as
a
Lyon
,
as
valiant
as
Gideon
and
Samson
.
A
good
conscience
,
like
the
Arke
of
Noah
,
bare
him
vp
aboue
the
pride
and
power
of
all
worldly
surges
and
sorrowes
,
vndaunted
,
vnappalled
;
so
that
at
midnight
Acts
16.
25.
in
the
dungeon
,
all
manacled
and
fettered
as
hee
was
in
a
wounded
skinne
,
wee
find
him
praying
and
singing
in
a
whole
and
merry
conscience
.
Saul
could
not
be
merry
without
a
Musician
,
1.
Sam.
16.
Ahab
,
without
Naboths
Vineyard
,
proud
Haman
,
1.
King
.
21.
Esth.
7.
without
Mordecais
courtesie
:
But
he
that
carryeth
the
true
Electuary
,
exhilarans
&
laetificans
Galeni
,
of
a
good
conscience
about
him
,
he
hath
selfe-sufficiency
,
and
without
Musicke
,
money
,
lands
or
honour
,
is
happy
still
,
and
merry
alone
,
like
to
the
late
inuented
Musicall
instruments
of
perpetuall
motion
,
&c.
With
this
Counseller
and
Comforter
in
the
bosome
,
to
wit
,
a
good
conscience
,
Iacob
can
Gen.
28.
11.
sleepe
sweetly
on
a
pillow
of
stone
;
Daniel
and
Dan.
1.
15.
his
fellowes
looke
fresh
and
faire
,
feeding
on
pulse
alone
;
Iob
,
in
the
midst
of
his
paine
and
pouerty
,
possessed
of
this
true
Diamond
,
which
darted
many
beames
of
comfort
vpon
his
soule
,
challenged
his
aduersaries
to
write
against
him
Iob
31.
35
,
36.
a
Booke
of
slander
,
and
hee
would
take
it
vpon
his
shoulder
,
&
bind
it
to
his
head
as
a
Crowne
of
honour
.
Heereunto
Hezekiah
,
neere
vnto
Isa.
38.
death
,
hauing
recourse
for
succour
,
confidently
thus
saith
,
I
beseech
thee
,
Lord
,
remember
how
I
haue
walked
before
thee
in
truth
.
By
this
Anchor-hold
,
all
the
children
of
God
,
in
the
midst
of
manifold
temptations
and
spirituall
conuulsions
,
haue
beene
euer
so
mainely
sustained
,
that
with
Saint
Paul
,
they
haue
thus
constantly
resolued
;
Whether
wee
liue
,
we
liue
vnto
the
Rom.
14.
8.
Lord
;
whether
we
die
,
we
die
vnto
the
Lord
;
whether
we
liue
therefore
or
die
,
wee
are
the
Lords
.
Vse
.
Doe
ye
then
(
Men
,
Fathers
,
and
Brethren
)
desire
to
haue
in
your selues
an
heauen
vpon
earth
,
and
to
aspire
to
an
happinesse
,
independant
on
the
creatures
without
you
?
O
then
indeuour
earnestly
,
and
pursue
this
one
thing
aboue
other
things
,
viz.
the
hauing
and
holding
of
an
vpright
conscience
within
you
.
Doe
all
things
as
in
Gods
presence
,
cherish
true
sauing-faith
,
by
often
hearing
and
reading
of
the
Word
,
and
the
frequent
practice
of
Prayer
and
true
repentance
,
inure
your selues
by
religious
exercises
,
to
a
kind
of
familiarity
with
God
,
that
the
assurance
of
his
loue
in
Christ
,
and
the
comforts
thereof
be
not
interrupted
,
walke
carefully
in
your
particular
callings
,
to
the
glory
of
God
and
the
common
good
,
auoyding
as
serpents
,
couetousnesse
and
ambition
,
which
make
men
set
their
consciences
on
tenters
,
and
stretch
like
cheuerill
,
and
because
at
the
great
and
generall
Assises
,
sentence
shall
passe
,
and
Iudgement
be
awarded
,
according
to
the
things
written
in
the
Booke
of
euery
mans
conscience
;
take
we
heed
Reu.
20.
13.
that
these
Bookes
of
account
bee
kept
vnblurred
,
vnpolluted
,
pure
and
cleane
from
presumptuous
sinnes
,
which
are
the
cut-throate
of
the
soule
,
and
offensiue
in
Gods
sight
.
In
a
word
;
let
this
be
your
wish
aboue
all
wishes
,
and
herein
make
sure
worke
(
come
of
the
rest
what
will
)
that
by
the
effusion
of
Christs
Blood
for
you
,
and
infusion
of
his
Spirit
into
you
,
you
may
inioy
this
pleasant
and
peaceable
portion
of
a
good
conscience
,
which
is
more
highly
to
bee
esteemed
of
,
and
held
at
a
dearer
rate
,
then
the
Merchants
precious
Pearle
,
for
which
(
as
it
is
Mat.
13.
46.
in
the
Parable
)
he
sold
all
that
he
had
;
in
comparison
whereof
,
the
things
that
are
in
the
worlds
eye
most
aduantageable
vnto
vs
,
are
to
be
accounted
losse
,
and
iudged
as
dung
,
that
we
Phil.
3.
7.
may
win
it
.
Let
others
say
,
Who
wil
shew
vs
any
good
?
Yet
,
Lord
,
lift
thou
vp
the
light
of
thy
Psal.
4.
countenance
vpon
vs
.
Let
others
content
themselues
with
a
portion
in
this
life
,
whose
bellies
Psal.
17.
14
,
15.
thou
fillest
with
thy
hid
treasure
;
but
let
vs
(
O
Lord
)
behold
thy
face
in
righteousnesse
,
and
in
the
glasse
of
a
good
conscience
heere
on
earth
:
so
when
we
awake
in
the
day
of
Resurrection
,
we
shall
be
satisfied
with
thine
Image
,
rauished
with
seeing
,
and
secured
for
retaining
thy
glorious
presence
in
heauen
.
All
earthly
ioyes
and
treasures
,
without
this
of
a
good
conscience
,
are
but
as
so
many
ponderous
waights
,
to
giue
poize
to
the
soule
to
sinke
it
to
hell
.
But
with
this
,
all
outward
helpes
for
present
maintenance
,
are
as
so
many
Promooters
and
Proctors
for
the
future
inheritance
,
giuing
vs
not
onely
wings
of
a
Doue
or
an
Eagle
,
but
of
an
Angel
,
to
ascend
into
heauen
.
With
this
heauenly
treasure
then
of
an
vpright
conscience
,
whosoeuer
amongst
vs
(
O
that
there
were
many
such
!
)
is
really
possessed
,
to
speake
plainely
in
the
phrase
of
the
holy
Ghost
,
he
is
(
without
controuersie
)
richly
,
yea
,
royally
blessed
.
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Sola
conscientia
virtutum
praestat
gaudium
verum
&
perpetuum
.
Caeterae
hilaritates
frontem
remittunt
,
cor
non
implent
.
Sen.
in
Ep.
23.
Hee
need
not
enuy
the
rich
Corne-hoorders
barnes
inlarged
,
and
goods
increasing
,
or
the
Gluttons
purple
rayment
and
delicious
feeding
,
or
the
greatnesse
of
the
greatest
Potentate
,
arrayed
in
robes
of
State
,
powdered
with
Pearle
,
and
boasting
with
Nebuchadnezzar
,
of
his
power
and
stately
building
;
No
:
Hee
need
not
enuy
the
magnificent
pompe
,
and
vsurped
Oecumenicall
power
of
that
triple-crowned
ruffling
Priest
of
Rome
(
that
Meridianus
Daemon
,
as
Bernard
calls
Antichrist
)
who
to
giue
life
to
the
image
of
the
Beast
,
seekes
,
as
Reu.
13.
15.
much
as
in
him
lieth
,
to
make
the
Lord
of
life
,
exhaeredem
vineae
,
exhaeredem
vitae
;
riding
on
mens
shoulders
,
treading
on
Emperours
necks
,
and
swimming
in
his
Orcipotent
Sea
,
with
the
bladders
of
intolerable
pride
and
insolency
.
No
,
no
:
Vix
vnius
assis
—
Nec
pretio
pluris
mundana
haec
omnia
ducit
;
For
carryed
in
the
triumphant
Chariot
of
a
cleare
conscience
,
and
aduanced
farre
aboue
these
painted
Pageants
of
things
sublunary
and
perishing
,
with
Gods
leaue
and
loue
he
inioyeth
a
selfe-sufficient
happinesse
in
health
and
sickenesse
,
in
life
and
death
,
and
after
death
euer-induring
.
Vse
.
O
happy
then
,
and
thrice
happy
we
,
if
as
S.
1.
Cor.
1.
12.
Pauls
was
,
so
our
reioycing
and
glory
bee
in
the
testimony
of
a
good
conscience
!
if
in
truth
wee
can
doe
as
in
all
his
tryalls
he
did
,
hold
foorth
this
testimony
as
a
shield
of
defence
,
and
flag
of
defiance
,
against
all
scandalous
imputations
and
Acts
23.
&
24.
&
25.
aspersions
;
if
we
can
truely
say
as
he
said
;
Wee
are
assured
that
we
haue
a
good
conscience
,
desiring
in
all
things
to
liue
honestly
,
Heb.
13.
18.
or
duely
indeuour
,
as
hee
in
my
Text
indeuoured
,
to
haue
a
good
conscience
alwayes
towards
God
Text.
3.
part
.
and
men
.
Which
words
importing
the
latitude
or
extent
of
a
good
conscience
,
in
respect
of
time
,
and
the
obiects
thereof
,
come
now
very
fitly
to
bee
handled
,
wherein
I
will
labour
to
preuent
your
wearinesse
.
First
,
of
the
time
,
and
duration
of
the
Apostles
indeuour
and
exercise
to
haue
a
good
conscience
,
namely
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
Alwayes
,
being
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
as
the
Alwayes
.
Scholiast
hath
it
,
being
in
all
things
euery
manner
of
way
(
so
farre
as
humane
frailty
did
not
let
)
inoffensiue
and
vnblameable
,
indeuouring
at
all
times
,
through
the
whole
tenor
of
his
life
,
Non
pro
vsura
exigui
temporis
,
aut
pro
primis
Caluin
.
tantum
diebus
,
sed
omnibus
diebus
vitae
post
conuersionem
,
as
Caluin
renders
it
,
to
bee
vprightly
conscionable
,
conscionably
vpright
.
Doct.
8
So
that
this
word
(
Alwayes
)
imports
constancie
and
equality
,
without
remissenesse
or
partiality
.
In
the
life
of
man
and
course
of
his
calling
,
there
are
many
turnings
,
references
,
occurrences
,
opportunities
,
importunities
,
and
diuers
respects
;
in
all
which
,
at
euery
turne
to
bee
the
same
man
,
requires
the
strength
of
a
good
conscience
.
A
child
or
weakeling
may
take
two
or
three
steps
well
,
and
walke
somewhat
euenly
;
but
to
turne
hither
and
thither
,
vp
and
downe
with
actiuenesse
and
dexterity
,
and
to
maintaine
the
thorow
pace
or
race
with
settled
constancie
and
alacrity
,
argues
the
metall
and
making
of
a
very
strong
man
.
Such
an
one
was
our
Apostle
in
the
race
of
Christianity
after
his
conuersion
,
as
appeareth
by
his
Triumphant
Epinichion
,
2.
Tim.
4.
I
haue
fought
a
good
fight
,
2.
Tim.
4.
7.
kept
the
faith
,
finished
my
course
,
&c.
and
by
his
confident
protestation
,
Acts
23.
1.
I
haue
Acts
23.
1.
serued
God
with
a
good
conscience
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
thorowout
vnto
this
day
.
Alwayes
,
without
stumbling
,
without
offence
,
as
it
is
in
my
Text
,
&c.
Which
is
not
so
precisely
to
bee
vnderstood
,
Reas.
double
.
as
if
he
had
beene
alwayes
indowed
with
an
equall
good
disposition
to
godly
duties
,
and
had
neuer
slipt
or
slept
through
humane
infirmity
;
For
as
the
Spouse
of
Christ
confesseth
Cant.
5.
●
.
of
her selfe
,
I
sleepe
,
but
my
heart
waketh
:
and
so
condemneth
her
drowzinesse
in
the
flesh
,
notwithstanding
her
watchfulnesse
in
the
Spirit
.
So
S.
Paul
,
Rom.
7.
complaineth
on
himselfe
,
Rom.
7.
19.
that
(
in
regard
of
the
combate
which
is
betwixt
the
flesh
and
the
Spirit
,
in
the
most
Regenerate
)
he
did
sometimes
the
euill
hee
would
not
,
and
did
not
at
other
times
the
good
hee
would
,
and
so
was
vnwillingly
defectiue
,
through
natures
frailty
and
weaknesse
,
but
yee
not
wittingly
offensiue
,
through
sins
malignity
and
peruersenes
.
For
the
power
of
a
good
conscience
preserued
him
so
vpright
,
that
as
a
square
Cube
,
or
homo
quadratus
,
he
was
the
same
,
which
way
soeuer
he
were
turned
:
to
God
,
or
man
;
to
company
,
or
himselfe
alone
;
vpon
all
occasions
and
occurrences
he
held
his
owne
,
and
desired
alwayes
,
in
all
things
,
to
walke
honestly
,
Heb.
13.
18.
Vse
.
It
is
farre
otherwise
,
God
knowes
,
and
experience
shewes
,
in
too
many
now
adayes
,
which
haue
weake
crazy
consciences
,
and
as
distempered
braines
,
their
turbida
&
lucida
interualla
,
their
good
and
euill
dayes
:
who
,
like
Mercury
amongst
the
Planets
,
are
of
a
variable
constitution
,
fast
and
loose
,
strict
in
some
things
,
loose
in
other
;
godly
in
one
company
,
and
prophane
in
another
;
vp
and
downe
,
off
and
on
,
in
and
out
,
almost
at
euery
turne
;
who
can
indifferently
brooke
all
companies
,
and
conuerse
with
all
manner
of
persons
.
If
they
be
ruffians
,
blasphemers
,
drunkards
,
they
can
play
the
good
fellowes
with
them
.
If
they
be
good
men
,
which
feare
God
,
they
will
discourse
of
poynts
of
Religion
,
and
adioyne
themselues
to
their
society
;
as
if
there
were
good
agreement
betwixt
light
and
darknesse
,
righteousnesse
and
vnrighteousnesse
,
God
in
the
one
,
and
Belial
in
the
other
.
To
speake
to
the
present
occasion
;
In
the
cause
and
case
of
Titius
their
kinsman
,
or
rich
friend
and
neighbour
,
they
can
be
precise
and
peremptorily
forward
by
all
meanes
to
promote
it
:
But
in
as
good
a
suite
and
iust
a
cause
of
Sempronius
a
stranger
,
or
meane-stated-man
,
they
will
bee
retchlesse
and
remisse
,
not
caring
how
hee
bee
wronged
in
it
.
I
would
to
God
the
consciences
of
more
then
a
good
many
of
our
Magistrates
were
not
such
;
but
commonly
such
they
are
,
who
though
they
professe
and
pretend
,
that
in
places
of
Iudicature
they
will
heare
the
suites
of
poore
and
rich
with
equall
patience
and
attention
,
examine
and
censure
all
controuersies
indifferently
without
preiudice
,
partiality
,
and
needlesse
protraction
;
yet
when
it
comes
to
proofe
,
they
prooue
farre
otherwise
,
and
like
in
truth
to
a
fishing
rod
,
which
standeth
straight
when
a
Menow
,
or
Gogin
,
or
smal
fish
is
taken
;
but
boweth
and
bendeth
,
and
the
line
sometimes
breaketh
too
,
when
a
Peale
or
great
fish
is
to
be
drawne
vp
:
So
when
the
Law
hath
canuased
and
caught
a
poore
man
,
being
persecuted
by
the
rich
,
then
iust
Iudgment
proceedeth
speedily
;
but
when
the
rich
and
mighty
ones
are
haply
taken
in
their
ouer-takings
and
lawlesse
dealings
,
and
brought
within
compasse
of
the
Lawes
censure
;
then
(
O
cruell
pity
!
)
there
is
much
yeelding
,
bending
,
bowing
,
and
sometimes
breaking
too
,
to
free
them
from
the
penalty
and
vigour
of
the
Law
,
&c.
Neither
is
this
the
fault
only
of
some
chiefe
Magistrates
and
ministers
of
iudgement
,
but
the
vsuall
preuarication
of
many
mercenary
Lawyers
,
Iurors
,
witnesses
,
and
such
like
instruments
of
Iustice
,
whose
weake
consciences
,
at
the
command
of
gaine
or
greatnesse
,
(
as
at
the
view
of
Medusaes
stupifying
head
)
either
stretch
as
Chiuerell
in
the
raine
,
or
shriuell
vp
as
parchment
against
the
fire
,
and
so
giue
way
,
if
not
warrant
,
to
the
works
of
iniustice
,
whereby
innocency
is
wronged
,
good
lawes
are
deluded
,
godly
men
dis-heartened
,
and
God
himselfe
dishonoured
.
And
here
I
could
open
a
mystery
of
iniquity
,
and
shew
quibus
apicibus
&
appendicibus
iuris
,
innocens
torquetur
à
causidico
,
dum
causa
torquet
nocentem
:
that
is
,
with
what
quirkes
and
trickes
the
innocent
party
is
by
the
Lawyer
wrung
and
put
to
the
worst
,
notwithstanding
the
goodnes
of
his
cause
,
and
the
Law
it selfe
hath
driuen
his
aduersary
to
the
wall
.
Yea
,
I
could
iustly
inueigh
against
the
dreadfull
licence
of
inferences
amongst
our
English
pleaders
in
cases
criminall
;
whereby
it
often
comes
to
passe
,
that
vpon
very
nice
poynts
innocents
haue
bin
condemned
;
as
Edward
Earle
of
Warwick
was
in
Henry
the
seuenths
dayes
,
and
the
Duke
of
Somerset
in
Henry
the
sixths
,
&c.
Yea
,
I
could
here
exhibit
a
bill
of
wofull
complaint
,
in
the
name
of
many
poore
,
impotent
,
innocent
men
and
women
:
First
,
against
those
aduocates
,
which
with
their
Clyents
great
cost
,
and
their
owne
small
conscience
,
maintaine
contentions
,
because
contentions
maintaine
them
,
and
by
English
delayes
,
worse
then
Spanish
Strapados
,
Marnix
.
protract
their
suits
in
Law
,
till
they
bee
non-suted
of
life
.
Secondly
,
against
those
Iurates
and
witnesses
,
which
without
heed-taking
to
their
hearts
,
that
they
conceiue
no
malice
;
to
their
hands
,
that
they
receiue
no
bribes
;
to
their
eares
,
that
they
heare
no
false
accusation
;
to
their
eyes
,
that
they
see
no
wrong
;
to
their
feet
,
that
they
be
not
swift
to
shead
blood
(
as
if
all
these
outward
senses
of
the
body
,
and
the
inward
powers
of
the
soule
too
were
wholly
corrupted
)
doe
,
without
care
or
conscience
,
feare
of
God
,
or
reuerence
of
man
,
giue
either
Prou.
19.
28.
vniust
verdict
in
the
cause
,
or
false
euidence
against
the
persons
of
their
brethren
and
neighbours
,
euen
as
by
their
passions
they
are
ouerswayed
,
1.
Kin.
21.
or
ouerwaighed
by
the
purse
,
or
by
their
friends
intreated
,
or
by
their
fellowes
in
Exod.
23.
2.
euill
perswaded
.
These
are
sores
which
had
need
to
be
lanced
,
that
in
time
they
might
bee
cured
.
But
because
your
Honours
haue
proceeded
in
some
degrees
of
roundnesse
against
these
inormities
as
you
meet
with
them
in
your
Circuit
,
resounding
onely
in
your
eares
what
the
Smith
did
in
the
Lantsgraues
,
when
(
he
thought
him
too
mild
)
Durescite
durescite
,
for
,
immedicabile
vulnus-Ense
recidendum
est
,
ne
pars
syncera
trahatur
.
I
here
refraine
from
further
agitation
of
them
,
or
exclamation
against
them
in
particular
,
not
ceasing
yet
to
admonish
in
generall
,
all
such
as
finde
themselues
guilty
of
so
corrupt
dealings
and
cursed
doings
,
that
they
blot
out
of
the
booke
of
conscience
,
their
sinnes
by
repentance
;
and
by
vnfained
sorrow
of
humbled
contrite
hearts
,
deprecate
the
iudgements
due
vnto
them
for
the
same
;
and
for
the
time
to
come
,
beware
of
doing
more
harme
to
a
man
for
a
little
pelfe
,
then
euer
they
can
doe
him
good
againe
with
all
their
policy
or
power
.
Beware
of
cutting
asunder
the
sinewes
of
the
Common-wealth
,
and
of
poysoning
the
pure
breath
it
drawes
,
by
peruerting
Iustice
,
and
abuse
of
the
Lawes
.
Take
heede
by
the
bloody
end
of
Ahab
and
his
seed
,
that
yee
seeke
1.
King
21.
20.
not
,
vnder
colour
of
Law
,
to
rob
your
neighbour
of
his
field
and
life
:
For
though
Naboth
thy
neighbour
be
dead
,
and
cannot
be
reuenged
of
thee
,
yet
thy
conscience
,
the
Lords
Ambassadour
,
will
meet
thee
,
as
Elias
did
Ahab
,
and
tell
thee
,
Thou
hast
sold
thy selfe
to
worke
wickednesse
abominable
,
and
bring
thee
tidings
of
vengeance
vnauoydable
.
Be
warned
by
the
tragicall
issue
of
Iudas
his
treason
,
that
(
either
to
Math.
27.
5.
please
others
,
or
to
profit
your selues
)
yee
dare
not
be
agents
or
instruments
of
betraying
an
innocent
:
For
after
the
fact
,
when
your
conscienences
shall
(
as
sooner
or
later
they
will
)
vex
and
gall
you
for
it
,
and
make
your
liues
more
irkesome
to
you
,
then
the
most
violent
death
;
whither
will
you
runne
for
comfort
and
reliefe
in
this
agony
?
will
you
returne
to
your
great
friends
,
for
whose
pleasure
you
did
it
,
as
Iudas
did
to
the
high
Priests
and
Elders
for
fauour
,
when
he
had
sold
his
Master
?
Alas
,
they
will
reuile
you
,
and
leaue
you
disconsolate
;
and
when
in
anguish
of
spirit
you
shall
confesse
as
Note
.
hee
did
,
that
you
haue
sinned
in
betraying
the
Innocent
,
they
will
desperately
reply
(
as
not
touched
with
the
sinne
themselues
procured
and
hired
)
What
is
that
to
vs
?
looke
thou
to
it
?
Hast
thou
forsworne
thy selfe
in
my
cause
,
thou
vnconscionable
Iuror
?
hast
thou
applyed
thy
wit
and
tongue
to
maintaine
and
follow
my
lawlesse
suite
,
thou
corrupt
Lawyer
?
Hast
thou
,
for
lucre
or
fauour
,
stretcht
thy
conscience
to
doe
wrong
in
a
matter
of
forgery
,
thou
false
witnesse
?
What
is
that
to
me
?
looke
thou
to
it
?
Thus
if
you
deale
hollowly
with
God
for
mens
fauours
,
you
shall
finde
them
in
need
but
hollow
friends
,
yea
,
miserable
comforters
.
Whither
next
will
you
betake
your selues
for
succour
,
for
helpe
,
for
remedy
?
What
,
to
the
money
,
or
worldly
benefit
gotten
by
this
trechery
,
or
purchased
by
that
villany
?
Indeed
the
thirty
pieces
of
siluer
,
were
Iudas
his
Thamar
,
2.
Sam.
13.
the
delight
of
his
soule
,
and
longing
of
his
thoughts
,
vntill
his
wickednesse
was
acted
;
but
afterwards
feeling
that
hee
had
dearely
bought
them
,
by
betraying
his
Master
to
death
,
his
credit
to
detestation
,
and
his
soule
to
damnation
,
he
tooke
no
ioy
in
them
,
as
an
execrable
thing
he
abandoned
them
;
yea
,
he
hated
them
more
Math.
27.
5.
then
he
loued
them
before
,
and
could
not
bee
quiet
till
hee
had
thrust
them
out
at
doore
,
as
Amnon
did
Thamar
;
and
cast
them
downe
in
the
Temple
,
as
the
witnesse
of
his
sinne
,
and
the
burthen
of
his
soule
,
and
so
departing
hanged
himselfe
:
Dignum
opus
authore
;
est
dignus
&
ipse
opere
.
Sith
then
neither
your
friends
,
nor
your
gaine
gotten
by
guile
,
nor
(
to
bee
briefe
)
any
other
worldly
hopes
or
helpes
can
comfort
you
;
but
rather
will
bee
corrosiues
to
you
,
when
your
consciences
awaked
shall
sting
you
for
your
wrongfull
mis-dealings
with
those
in
whose
matters
you
haue
had
to
doe
;
what
refuge
now
remaineth
for
you
?
Will
you
now
at
last
cast
fly
to
God
for
redresse
,
in
this
your
distresse
?
It
is
likely
(
such
is
mans
presumption
)
you
will
make
so
bold
an
aduenture
.
But
alas
,
there
can
be
small
hope
of
aduantage
heereby
:
for
God
will
not
so
easily
bee
intreated
to
pleasure
you
,
sith
you
haue
so
easily
condiscended
in
the
seruice
of
the
diuell
and
your
owne
lusts
to
displease
him
:
but
as
he
sent
the
Israelites
in
their
Iudg.
10.
14.
extremity
,
to
the
Idols
which
they
had
chosen
,
saying
,
Now
let
them
deliuer
you
:
So
will
hee
send
you
to
your
wicked
policies
,
plots
and
deuices
,
which
you
haue
preferred
before
his
counsels
and
Commandements
,
and
bid
you
seeke
helpe
(
but
all
in
vaine
)
from
them
:
yea
,
your
owne
Monitor
in
the
bosome
,
will
deliuer
that
fearfull
message
to
you
,
which
Samuel
did
1.
Sam.
15.
26.
to
Saul
,
Thou
hast
forsaken
the
Lord
,
and
the
Lord
hath
forsaken
thee
.
You
haue
said
,
whilest
you
were
in
the
pursuit
of
your
sinnes
,
to
the
Holy
one
of
Israel
,
Depart
from
vs
,
we
desire
not
the
Iob
21.
14.
knowledge
of
thy
wayes
.
Therfore
,
now
when
the
horrour
of
your
sinnes
vnrepented
pursueth
you
,
he
will
be
euen
with
you
,
and
say
,
Depart
Math.
7.
23.
from
me
,
ye
workers
of
iniquity
,
I
know
you
not
.
O
consider
this
in
your
owne
soules
,
and
refuse
not
in
time
to
bee
made
wise
for
your selues
!
Hearken
to
the
counsell
of
Iesus
the
sonne
of
Syrach
:
Say
not
,
O
man
,
thus
and
thus
haue
I
Eccl.
5.
4.
done
,
and
yet
no
euill
hath
come
vnto
me
;
for
though
the
Almighty
bee
a
patient
rewarder
,
yet
he
will
not
leaue
thee
vnpunished
:
neither
say
,
I
haue
enough
for
my
life
,
I
haue
strength
,
and
who
will
bring
me
vnder
for
my
workes
?
for
God
the
auenger
will
reuenge
the
wrongs
done
by
thee
.
And
although
haply
thou
art
so
in
grace
with
the
greatest
,
and
so
eminent
in
place
and
authority
,
that
thou
thinkest
the
persons
by
thee
wronged
,
dare
not
lift
vp
a
finger
against
thee
;
yet
for
all
thy
security
,
thou
knowest
not
how
neere
thou
art
to
ruine
and
misery
:
For
the
wronged
innocents
,
besides
a
good
and
iust
King
on
earth
,
haue
also
a
rightfull
Defender
in
heauen
,
and
such
an
one
as
hath
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
a
reuenging
eye
and
hand
too
,
who
will
one
day
take
the
matters
of
the
fatherlesse
,
widowes
,
and
poore
Innocents
into
his
owne
hands
,
when
there
shall
be
a
new
inquest
;
and
what
hath
bin
heere
put
off
,
shuffled
vp
,
and
partially
iudged
,
shall
then
be
sentenced
and
iudged
againe
,
together
with
the
Iudges
,
Counsellours
,
Iurors
,
and
all
inferiour
Officers
themselues
:
And
as
they
,
or
any
of
them
haue
sowne
in
hardnesse
of
heart
,
so
shall
they
reape
in
horrour
of
conscience
,
&
quorum
oculos
culpa
clausit
,
poena
aperiet
:
Aug.
and
as
they
haue
liued
vnconscionably
by
the
Law
,
so
shall
they
dye
vncomfortably
without
Gospell
.
Yea
,
lest
any
obdurate
forehead
,
whose
resolution
can
laugh
his
sinnes
out
of
countenance
;
or
any
wilfull
peruerter
of
Iudgment
,
Eccl.
8.
11.
and
persecutor
of
the
poore
and
impotent
,
should
prophanely
thinke
,
that
God
hath
lost
his
power
,
or
left
his
prouidence
,
because
he
doth
not
presently
execute
Iudgement
on
an
euill
worke
:
Nouerint
vniuersi
:
Be
it
knowne
to
all
such
workers
of
euill
,
that
euen
in
this
life
God
will
right
or
reuenge
the
iniuries
and
indignities
of
his
poore
oppressed
distressed
ones
;
and
when
,
in
the
anguish
of
their
soules
,
they
shall
cry
vnto
him
,
Exurgat
Deus
,
Psal.
68.
Let
Psal.
68.
1.
God
arise
:
He
,
with
an
Ecchoes
readinesse
will
reply
,
Surgam
,
Psal.
12.
I
will
arise
.
For
the
oppression
of
the
needy
,
&
the
sighes
of
the
poore
I
will
vp
(
saith
the
Lord
)
and
deliuer
them
.
Psal.
12.
5.
Yea
,
though
the
poore-oppressed
swallow
vp
their
griefe
in
silence
,
&
cry
not
for
vengeance
,
yet
res
ipsa
clamabit
,
the
hire
of
the
labourers
Iam.
5.
4.
detained
,
Iam.
5.
The
blood
of
Abel
and
Naboth
spilled
,
1.
King
.
21.
The
stone
and
beame
,
by
Gen.
4.
Habak.
2.
11.
fraud
and
violence
placed
in
the
house
of
the
mighty
oppressour
,
shall
cry
out
for
vengeance
against
him
,
who
hath
made
his
field
Acheldama
,
and
his
house
Golgotha
(
building
it
with
the
goods
of
the
poore
,
painting
it
with
the
blood
of
the
poore
,
and
hanging
it
about
with
the
skinnes
of
the
poore
,
and
(
as
I
may
say
)
vnderpropping
it
with
the
bones
of
the
poore
.
)
And
surely
God
shall
be
auenged
on
him
,
as
hee
was
on
Cain
,
Ahab
,
Iezabel
;
and
not
onely
auenged
on
the
great
and
mighty
ill-man
himselfe
(
who
hath
discharged
conscience
from
comming
vpon
his
ground
,
and
sacrilegiously
intrudes
himselfe
on
Church
Demaines
,
and
fleshed
therein
,
runnes
with
open
mouth
on
the
Commons
of
the
Countrey
)
but
also
on
all
such
vniust
Magistrates
,
*
suborned
Witnesses
,
Amos
2.
Pro.
19.
5.
Pro.
21.
28.
Psal.
140.
11.
corrupt
Iurors
,
truth-outfacing
Lawyers
,
cruell
vnder-Sheriffes
,
and
cunning
Sollicitors
,
as
haue
assisted
him
in
his
bloody
conquest
,
and
triumph
ouer
his
harmelesse
,
helpelesse
,
distressed
Minister
,
Tenant
,
neighbour
.
Yea
,
more
then
so
,
in
the
26.
of
Leuit.
and
28.
of
Deut.
Deut.
28.
you
shall
finde
a
large
patrimony
of
fearefull
plagues
entayled
to
the
very
posterity
of
all
vnconscionable
peruerters
of
iudgement
,
persecuters
of
the
innocent
,
and
practisers
of
violence
or
villany
,
and
as
well
the
Authours
as
Actors
,
the
Plotters
as
Practisers
of
mischiefe
,
shall
come
to
extreme
misery
.
The
mouth
of
the
Isa.
1.
20.
Lord
hath
spoken
it
,
and
his
hands
will
bring
it
to
passe
.
Vse
.
O
heare
then
and
feare
this
,
all
ye
that
are
,
or
haue
beene
any
way
imbarked
in
such
iniquity
,
breake
off
your
sinnes
by
repentance
,
and
renew
your
reconciliation
with
God
,
by
remoouing
and
disclaiming
the
matter
of
controuersie
betwixt
him
and
you
,
and
in
all
causes
criminall
and
controuersiall
,
which
shall
passe
thorow
your
hands
,
or
come
to
your
hearing
,
euidencing
,
and
sentencing
heereafter
,
learne
and
labour
to
haue
and
discharge
a
better
conscience
then
you
haue
done
heretofore
.
Whilst
the
Flood-gate
of
Gods
loue
is
opened
,
and
his
mercy
stands
and
knockes
at
your
gates
for
amendment
,
be
intreated
,
lest
otherwise
Iudgement
lay
siege
to
your
houses
and
hearts
too
,
and
with
terrour
of
minde
you
bee
constrained
to
doe
iustly
:
be
iealous
ouer
your selues
,
with
a
godly
iealousie
;
be
suspicious
of
your
owne
desires
,
of
the
customes
of
the
times
,
of
the
policies
of
the
world
,
and
of
those
sinfull
baites
which
Satan
couers
cunningly
,
that
the
hooke
of
insuing
dangers
may
not
be
seene
,
and
let
none
of
them
intice
you
to
say
thus
vnto
your
soule
,
Goe
to
now
,
for
this
once
let
such
a
man
in
such
a
matter
be
gratified
,
though
against
equity
:
but
in
the
point
of
Iustice
,
shew
your selues
strict
and
rigorous
,
inflexible
,
inexorable
,
like
to
that
Roman
Cato
,
à
quo
nemo
rem
iniustam
Plut.
petere
audebat
:
or
Fabritius
,
qui
nec
audire
nec
videre
quicquam
turpe
sustinebat
;
and
with
a
full
and
free-hearted
renunciation
of
all
iniustice
,
wrong
,
and
violence
.
Herein
seriously
exercise
your selues
to
haue
and
keepe
Alwayes
,
euery
day
,
and
in
euery
action
of
the
day
,
in
all
places
,
high
or
low
,
publike
or
priuate
,
in
all
cases
of
rich
or
poore
,
great
or
small
,
a
good
and
vpright
conscience
.
It
was
S.
Pauls
Crowne
of
reioycing
,
2.
Cor.
7.
2.
that
he
could
truely
say
,
I
haue
wronged
no
man
,
corrupted
no
man
,
defrauded
no
man
;
and
it
was
Samuels
comfort
,
that
he
could
cleere
1.
Sam.
12.
himselfe
,
and
that
the
people
with
free
acclamation
did
cleere
and
acquit
him
from
all
iniquity
,
1.
Sam.
12.
And
it
was
likewise
the
very
ioy
of
Moses
heart
,
that
he
could
affirme
confidently
,
he
had
done
no
man
hurt
,
Num.
16.
〈◊〉
.
And
doubtlesse
,
this
also
will
be
a
singular
solace
to
your
soules
,
and
an
heauen
to
your
hearts
(
Fathers
and
Brethren
)
when
you
shall
lie
on
your
beds
sickly
,
or
in
health
conferre
with
your
soules
secretly
,
that
(
howsoeuer
you
may
be
otherwise
traduced
,
as
Moses
by
the
Num.
16.
sonnes
of
Belial
was
vniustly
charged
)
yet
you
can
wash
your
hands
with
Dauid
in
innocency
,
Psal.
26.
6.
and
your
consciences
can
tell
you
,
without
lying
or
flattery
,
that
you
haue
wittingly
wronged
no
man
,
defrauded
no
man
,
beene
corrupted
by
no
man
.
Vse
.
Which
comfortable
testimony
of
a
good
conscience
,
that
you
(
Right
Honourable
,
and
Right
Worshipful
)
may
Alwayes
haue
and
hold
,
(
to
come
once
more
with
a
fresh
charge
vpon
your
soules
)
mine
humble
admonition
,
proceeding
from
vnfained
affection
,
shall
be
this
,
That
sith
the
Lord
knoweth
your
downe-sitting
and
Ps.
139.
1
,
2
,
3.
vp-rising
,
and
your
thoughts
long
before
,
and
is
(
together
with
his
Deputy
conscience
)
priuie
to
all
your
wayes
and
workes
,
(
all
things
being
Heb.
4.
13.
naked
before
him
with
whom
we
haue
to
doe
,
as
the
Apostle
speaketh
,
Heb.
4.
)
you
would
be
carefull
therefore
and
circumspect
to
do
,
whatsoeuer
Eccles.
9.
10.
your
hand
hath
to
doe
,
with
all
your
power
,
and
that
in
simplicity
and
sincerity
,
as
in
the
sight
of
God
,
and
in
his
presence
,
from
whom
nothing
can
be
hid
.
Caue
,
spectat
Cato
,
was
an
ancient
Watch-word
among
the
Romanes
,
and
a
great
retentiue
from
vice
.
How
much
more
ought
this
to
be
amongst
Christians
,
Caue
,
videt
Dominus
?
The
forgetfulnesse
whereof
,
Psal.
33.
13
,
14.
makes
many
men
,
especially
great
Ones
,
to
dig
deepe
,
as
if
they
would
hide
their
counsell
from
Isa.
29.
15.
the
Lord
;
to
worke
in
darkenesse
,
as
if
none
should
or
could
see
them
,
and
politickly
,
as
they
deeme
it
,
but
dangerously
,
as
the
euent
prooues
it
,
to
contriue
in
secret
those
things
,
which
afterward
being
brought
to
light
,
cast
shame
in
their
faces
,
a
burthen
on
their
consciences
,
a
blot
on
their
name
;
and
without
repentance
,
euerlasting
confusion
vpon
body
and
soule
.
But
I
hope
,
this
Lethargy
and
deadly
sickenesse
*
hath
no
way
indangered
your
soules
,
but
Temerita●
aut
timiditas
Iudicis
,
vel
fauoribus
corrupti
,
vel
pauoribus
territi
,
est
calamitas
innocentis
,
proditio
iuris
,
proditio
plebis
.
Saluian
.
that
they
are
euer
awaked
with
the
remembrance
of
Gods
presence
,
in
all
your
actions
and
censures
of
vindictiue
or
remuneratiue
Iustice
:
so
that
the
reward
of
vertue
is
not
made
a
gift
of
sauour
,
to
pleasure
friends
;
or
the
punishment
of
vice
,
a
meanes
of
reuenge
,
to
confound
enemies
:
but
mercy
and
iudgement
are
in
their
due
place
and
time
,
according
to
the
rules
of
equity
,
executed
by
you
,
with
a
mind
of
Iustice
to
doe
right
vnto
all
.
Thus
I
hope
the
best
things
of
you
:
and
therefore
giue
me
leaue
,
for
my
farther
and
fuller
assurance
therein
,
to
vse
the
same
words
somewhat
inlarged
vnto
you
,
which
Iehoshaphat
did
vnto
the
Iudges
of
his
time
;
Take
heed
2.
Chr.
19.
6
,
7.
what
you
doe
,
ye
execute
not
the
iudgements
of
man
,
but
of
the
Lord
;
the
seate
wherein
you
sit
,
is
his
;
the
people
which
you
iudge
,
are
his
;
the
authority
wherby
ye
iudge
,
is
deriued
from
him
.
Take
heed
therefore
that
your
passions
sway
you
not
,
that
your
friends
presse
you
not
,
that
your
followers
perswade
you
not
(
in
hope
of
bribes
)
to
peruert
Iustice
:
for
though
the
Master
be
so
iust
with
Elisha
to
refuse
them
,
yet
2.
King
.
5.
commonly
the
seruant
is
so
wicked
with
Gehasi
to
receiue
them
.
Take
heed
what
you
doe
,
for
the
Lord
will
bee
with
you
in
the
cause
and
iudgement
;
great
matters
doe
euer
require
great
deliberation
;
weighty
causes
,
weighty
consideration
;
serious
businesse
,
serious
care
and
circumspection
.
Take
heed
then
what
you
doe
,
be
guided
by
Gods
Law
,
imitate
his
steps
,
haue
no
respect
of
persons
in
iudgement
,
feare
not
the
face
of
any
man
,
but
let
the
feare
of
the
Deut.
10.
18.
Isa.
11.
5.
Lord
(
with
whom
is
no
defect
,
no
obliquity
,
no
partiality
,
no
iniquity
)
bee
vpon
you
,
and
remember
,
as
at
all
times
,
so
especially
in
Iudiciall
places
,
God
is
present
with
you
,
and
vieweth
narrowly
all
your
doings
:
hee
standeth
in
the
Psal.
81.
1.
assembly
of
Gods
(
such
are
yee
nuncupatiuè
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
but
yee
shall
die
like
men
,
so
fraile
yee
are
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
Wherefore
take
heed
what
ye
doe
,
and
make
account
this
day
,
that
yee
shall
one
day
render
an
account
for
whatsoeuer
yee
haue
done
,
before
that
righteous
Iudge
of
all
the
world
,
which
iudgeth
all
righteously
.
O
then
gird
vp
your
loynes
with
Iustice
,
and
put
on
Righteousnesse
for
an
Habergeon
:
Iudge
not
according
to
the
appearance
,
Ioh.
7.
24.
but
iudge
righteous
iudgement
,
and
let
the
fire
of
zeale
,
for
truth
and
equity
,
be
so
inkindled
,
that
the
Oyle
of
mercy
be
not
vtterly
consumed
.
Suffer
not
an
Abimelech
,
vpon
the
malicious
2.
Sam.
6.
22.
accusation
of
a
Doeg
,
to
be
destroyed
;
or
a
Mephibosheth
,
2.
Sam.
16.
3.
vpon
the
pick-thanke
insinuation
of
a
Ziba
,
to
be
spoiled
;
or
a
Ioseph
,
vpon
a
wanton
Gen.
39.
Mistresses
allegation
,
to
bee
imprisoned
;
or
a
Naboth
,
vpon
Iezabels
letter
,
to
bee
depriued
1.
King
.
21.
&
vineae
&
vitae
.
But
heare
the
causes
of
your
Brethren
without
preiudicate
impiety
;
iudiciously
examine
them
without
sinister
obliquity
;
and
sincerely
iudge
them
without
vniust
partiality
:
Deut.
1.
17.
and
laying
aside
all
respect
of
persons
and
popularity
,
according
to
the
Lords
Commandement
,
Deut.
1.
Let
the
cause
of
the
poore
and
needy
come
in
equall
ballance
with
the
rich
and
mighty
;
deferre
not
the
hearing
and
determining
of
their
suites
,
from
day
to
day
,
from
Terme
to
Terme
,
lest
it
fare
with
them
,
as
it
did
with
the
Haemor●ese
,
Mark
.
5.
which
was
diseased
Mark
.
5.
25.
12.
yeeres
together
,
and
when
she
had
spent
all
on
Physicians
,
was
not
awhit
the
better
:
or
as
it
did
with
the
weake
person
,
Ioh.
5.
which
had
Ioh.
5.
5.
beene
diseased
eight
and
thirty
yeeres
,
and
sate
in
the
porch
of
the
poole
of
Bethesda
,
but
might
not
be
healed
,
because
(
for
want
belike
of
stirring
Angels
)
hee
could
get
none
to
put
him
into
the
poole
immediately
after
the
Angel
had
stirred
it
.
For
as
Salomon
saith
,
The
gift
Pro.
18.
16.
of
a
man
inlargeth
him
,
and
bringeth
him
before
great
men
:
that
is
,
maketh
roome
for
him
,
and
procureth
him
accesse
to
the
presence
of
such
as
are
in
authority
;
whereunto
the
poore
,
by
reason
of
penny-peeking
pull-backes
,
may
not
approch
.
Well
,
whatsoeuer
they
cannot
effect
for
want
of
meanes
,
performe
yee
in
the
abundance
of
mercy
,
pitty
their
cases
,
regard
their
complaints
in
loue
to
God
,
and
God
with
Pro.
11.
17.
his
all-sufficient
loue
will
certainely
repay
all
your
loue
shewed
to
them
.
And
as
for
bribery
,
the
bane
of
all
truth
and
Amos
5.
12.
equity
,
worthy
to
be
rewarded
with
Gehasies
leprosie
,
if
it
dare
at
any
time
to
draw
neere
vnto
you
,
O
cast
it
off
from
you
,
as
Paul
did
the
Acts
27.
Viper
from
his
hand
;
and
as
Peter
did
Simon
Acts
8.
Magus
his
present
,
with
indignation
of
heart
;
For
fire
shall
deuoure
the
houses
of
Bribes
,
Iob
Iob
15.
34.
15.
Contemne
the
wedge
of
gold
,
the
molten
Calfe
,
which
so
many
worldly
Idolaters
crouch
vnto
:
Abhorre
the
gathering
of
riches
by
a
Pro.
21.
6.
deceitfull
tongue
,
which
is
a
vanity
tossed
to
and
fro
of
them
that
seeke
death
.
Remember
the
end
of
Balaams
wages
and
Iudas
his
Bagge
,
and
Beware
;
sell
not
thy
countenance
,
thy
tongue
,
thy
silence
,
thy
clients
cause
,
thy
neighbours
life
,
liuelyhood
,
or
credit
,
or
thine
owne
conscience
of
truth
,
or
peace
of
conscience
,
for
any
benefit
or
Bribe
whatsoeuer
,
though
neuer
so
secretly
tendred
vnto
thee
.
Turpe
quid
ausurus
,
te
sine
teste
time
;
Feare
thine
owne
selfe
without
another
witnesse
,
whensoeuer
thou
art
going
about
any
wickednesse
.
Doct.
For
without
a
sharpe-sighted
witnesse
thou
canst
neuer
bee
,
as
long
as
Gods
Intelligencer
and
Spie
,
conscience
,
is
within
thee
,
which
seeth
in
the
greatest
darkenesse
,
heareth
the
softest
whisperings
,
and
Elisha-like
,
knoweth
what
is
2.
King
.
6.
8.
contriued
in
the
most
priuate
counsels
of
the
Aramites
.
This
saw
well
enough
when
Achan
hid
the
Iosh.
7.
wedge
of
gold
in
the
earth
,
Iosh.
7.
This
looked
Dauid
in
the
face
,
and
made
him
blush
,
when
he
2.
Sam.
11.
sought
to
haue
his
vnlawfull
pleasure
of
Bethsheba
.
This
beheld
the
Idolizing
Elders
of
Israel
,
Ezek.
8.
12.
Ezek.
8.
when
in
their
secret
Oratories
,
offering
incense
to
their
Images
,
they
blest
themselues
with
this
base
delusion
;
Tush
,
God
sees
vs
not
.
This
beholdeth
the
blood-sucking
Vsurer
(
in
stead
of
lending
,
and
looking
for
nothing
againe
,
as
Christ
commandeth
)
eating
Luk.
5.
35.
Deut.
23.
19.
out
,
and
consuming
his
needy
Brother
to
the
bare
bones
,
which
God
forbiddeth
,
Exod.
22.
25.
This
looketh
vpon
the
crafty
Merchant
,
selling
dayes
,
and
moneths
,
and
yeeres
,
at
a
higher
rate
then
his
wares
,
and
if
they
bee
too
light
or
too
deare
,
by
false
measures
and
oathes
making
amends
for
both
,
&
secretly
checks
him
for
making
guile
his
gaine
,
and
holding
the
ballance
Mica
.
6.
10.
of
deceit
in
his
hand
,
&
the
treasures
of
iniquity
in
his
house
,
Mic.
6.
and
if
he
amend
not
,
will
openly
prooue
it
vpon
him
,
that
whatsoeuer
is
gotten
by
craft
and
cruelty
,
the
diuels
Alchimy
)
is
as
wild-fire
in
the
purse
,
and
shall
at
length
turne
to
Banqueruptisme
and
beggery
.
To
be
short
,
conscience
,
as
a
close
Intelligencer
,
is
priuie
to
the
secretest
actions
and
intentions
of
euery
corrupt
Iudge
,
which
turneth
Amos
6.
12.
the
fruit
of
righteousnesse
into
Wormewood
,
Amos
6.
and
by
not
pressing
iustice
on
the
vniust
,
suffereth
the
iust
to
bee
oppressed
with
iniustice
,
Ier.
5.
28.
Ier
5.
Of
euery
corrupt
Lawyer
,
who
helpeth
his
Clyents
cause
,
as
the
Woolfe
did
the
sheepe
of
his
cough
,
by
sucking
his
blood
,
who
by
quirkes
and
deuices
varnisheth
falsehood
and
wrong
,
and
iustifying
the
wicked
for
Esa.
5.
18.
a
reward
,
taketh
away
the
righteousnesse
of
the
righteous
from
him
.
Of
euery
corrupt
Iuror
&
Questman
,
which
in
his
quicke
preiudiciall
conceit
,
resolueth
on
the
verdict
,
before
the
cause
be
opened
,
and
euidences
produced
;
and
of
euery
corrupt
Witnesse
,
who
mocketh
at
Iudgement
,
Prou.
19.
28.
Prou.
19.
And
with
the
hired
rake-hels
of
Iezabel
,
making
no
bones
to
sweare
and
forsweare
,
to
the
dishonour
of
God
,
hurt
of
his
neighbour
,
delusion
of
the
Iudge
,
and
confusion
of
his
owne
soule
,
beareth
rash
and
vnrighteous
testimony
in
matters
controuersed
.
Thus
the
conscience
of
these
,
and
of
euery
of
these
,
vieweth
and
knoweth
what
they
doe
,
or
intend
to
doe
;
and
if
it
perceiue
that
they
wittingly
and
wilfully
doe
transgresse
,
will
not
spare
to
tell
them
to
their
faces
one
by
one
,
as
Nathan
did
Dauid
,
Thou
art
the
man
:
Thou
,
thou
2.
Sam.
1
▪
hast
sowne
the
seed
of
iniquity
,
and
thou
shalt
reape
the
crop
of
calamity
:
Thou
hast
gone
on
Prou.
22.
8.
in
such
and
such
vnholy
and
vnrighteous
courses
,
and
therefore
canst
not
but
come
vnder
such
and
such
heauie
and
grieuous
curses
:
Thou
hast
willingly
been
led
heere
in
the
bands
of
sinnes
dominion
;
and
therefore
shalt
,
against
thy
will
,
hereafter
be
led
captiue
in
the
chaines
Iude
,
vers.
6.
of
Satans
damnation
.
But
on
the
contrary
,
if
it
feele
,
finde
and
perceiue
,
as
it
is
nimble
,
sensible
,
and
sharp-sighted
enough
,
that
your
desire
and
indeuour
is
to
doe
well
;
that
you
walke
in
iustice
,
and
speake
righteous
Esa.
33.
14.
things
,
and
abstaine
from
the
gaine
of
guile
and
oppression
,
neither
making
your
hands
the
actors
,
nor
your
hearts
the
inuenters
of
any
impiety
;
but
ponder
in
your
hearts
,
and
professe
with
your
tongues
,
and
practise
with
your
hands
those
things
which
tend
to
Gods
glory
,
and
the
publike
good
;
then
will
it
be
benigne
&
propitious
,
and
no
more
rough
and
rigorous
to
you
,
but
be
vnto
you
as
Ionathan
was
to
Dauid
,
1.
Sam.
20.
a
comforter
in
all
your
troubles
,
and
in
all
your
crosses
and
losses
,
will
speake
comfortably
and
cheerfully
vnto
you
,
as
Elcanah
to
Hannah
,
Am
1.
Sam.
1.
8.
not
I
better
to
thee
than
many
children
,
many
Farmes
,
many
fields
,
many
friends
?
Why
weepest
thou
?
why
is
thine
heart
troubled
?
The
consideration
whereof
well
concocted
,
should
(
me
seemes
)
not
only
checke
,
choke
and
strangle
all
sinfull
and
vniust
proiects
and
practices
euen
in
their
birth
or
cradle
,
but
also
mightily
mooue
and
prouoke
all
Ministers
and
Instruments
of
Iustice
,
yea
all
Christians
whatsoeuer
,
to
walke
innocently
with
a
perfect
hart
Psal.
10●
.
before
the
Lord
,
and
in
their
seuerall
estates
and
callings
to
giue
all
diligence
and
circumspection
,
with
our
Apostle
,
to
haue
and
discharge
alwayes
a
good
conscience
towards
God
and
men
.
Towards
God
and
men
.
Which
being
the
latitude
Text.
and
extent
of
a
good
conscience
,
in
respect
of
the
obiects
thereof
,
leades
vs
directly
,
without
any
forced
construction
,
to
this
last
,
plaine
,
pregnant
and
profitable
obseruation
:
That
,
In
the
exercise
of
a
good
conscience
,
there
ought
to
4.
Part.
Doct.
9.
bee
a
concurrence
of
our
holy
carriage
towards
God
,
and
our
vpright
demeanor
towards
men
.
Requisite
it
is
(
saith
Chrysostome
)
vt
reuerenter
se
Chrysost.
quis
habeat
ad
diuina
,
&
laudabiliter
conuersetur
cum
hominibus
:
that
euery
good
Christian
should
serue
God
reuerently
with
hearty
deuotion
,
Iam.
1.
27.
and
man
righteously
with
a
ready
mind
,
and
liberall
disposition
.
Men
are
to
bee
regarded
in
2.
Cor.
8.
21.
the
way
of
right
and
equity
,
propter
famam
.
God
is
to
be
reuerenced
in
the
way
of
Religion
and
Rom.
15.
2.
piety
,
propter
conscientiam
.
Laetus
lubensque
are
necessary
in
the
seruice
of
both
,
that
neither
our
holinesse
nor
our
righteousnesse
proceed
from
a
dull
heauie
feare
,
or
any
seruile
affection
;
but
that
sincerely
without
faining
,
and
constantly
without
fainting
,
we
be
seruiceable
to
God
and
men
in
a
religious
and
righteous
conuersation
.
Holinesse
and
righteousnes
are
the
meane
parts
Ephes.
4
▪
4.
of
Gods
Image
in
man
,
as
the
Apostle
sheweth
,
Ephes.
4.
Neither
can
we
be
assured
that
we
are
truly
regenerate
and
haue
a
good
conscience
,
vnlesse
wee
finde
in
our selues
a
meeting
and
marriage
of
them
both
.
Remember
then
,
O
man
,
to
ioyne
both
together
,
which
God
and
a
good
conscience
will
not
haue
to
bee
put
asunder
.
First
,
(
because
God
deserueth
first
to
bee
serued
)
be
carefull
to
performe
all
diuine
duties
of
holinesse
and
piety
towards
God
,
according
to
the
contents
of
the
first
Table
;
and
then
consequently
,
all
humane
duties
of
charity
and
equity
towards
men
,
according
to
the
contents
of
the
second
Table
of
the
Decalogue
,
Suum
cuique
.
But
in
the
prime
place
,
giue
vnto
God
the
Math.
22.
21.
things
which
are
Gods
:
and
so
for
Gods
sake
,
giue
vnto
euery
man
his
due
:
For
the
grace
of
Tit.
2.
12.
saluation
which
hath
appeared
,
teacheth
vs
,
in
respect
of
our
great
and
gracious
Maker
and
Master
,
to
liue
godly
;
in
respect
of
our selues
,
to
liue
soberly
;
in
respect
of
our
neighbours
,
to
liue
iustly
;
to
vse
our
friends
with
fauour
,
our
Isod
.
enemies
with
patience
;
all
,
with
beneuolence
,
and
as
many
as
we
can
,
with
beneficence
,
&c.
Haec
*
tria
praecipuè
meditare
aduerbia
Pauli
:
1.
Piè
.
2.
Iustè
.
3.
Sobriè
.
Haec
tria
sint
vitae
regula
sancta
tuae
.
With
the
ouer-weening
Pharise
,
to
haue
all
our
godlinesse
in
our
Phylacteries
,
and
fringes
,
and
care-seruice
,
and
frequenting
the
Lectures
of
the
Law
,
no
matter
how
we
liue
,
is
to
seeme
holy
,
without
righteousnesse
.
Againe
,
with
the
simple-seduced
Sadduces
,
to
liue
indifferent
honestly
and
quietly
,
but
not
to
beleeue
Angels
or
spirits
,
or
looke
for
a
resurrection
,
is
to
appeare
righteous
,
without
holinesse
.
Either
of
these
come
farre
short
of
that
obedience
which
is
approued
and
practised
by
an
inlightened
and
sanctified
conscience
,
which
serueth
not
God
by
halues
,
in
holinesse
onely
,
or
righteousnesse
onely
,
but
in
both
;
desiring
in
all
things
to
please
God
by
an
vniuersall
obedience
,
not
giuing
to
any
the
least
liberty
or
allowance
for
the
committing
of
any
sinne
,
or
omitting
of
any
duty
,
either
of
equity
or
amity
towards
men
,
or
of
truth
and
piety
towards
God
.
Indeed
it
most
respecteth
what
it
most
affecteth
,
the
obseruation
of
the
great
Commanments
,
as
Christ
,
the
best
distinguisher
,
tearmeth
Math.
22.
38.
them
,
but
yet
neglecteth
not
the
least
.
It
most
of
all
straines
at
grosse
sinnes
as
Cammels
,
yet
swalloweth
not
the
lesser
as
Gnats
:
It
trembles
at
wounds
and
blood
,
feares
at
faith
and
troth
:
It
abhorres
adultery
and
fornication
,
hates
dallyance
and
rotten
communication
:
It
cryes
out
on
bloody
violence
or
vengeance
,
dislikes
all
vnaduised
anger
,
and
dogged
eloquence
:
It
payeth
the
Tith-sheafe
carefully
,
and
detaines
not
Mint
or
Annis-seed
deceitfully
;
and
albeit
for
peace
sake
it
will
bee
indulgent
,
and
giue
more
liberty
to
others
,
yet
it
sayes
not
to
it selfe
,
An
inch
will
breake
no
square
,
A
little
will
doe
no
harme
,
or
Small
faults
are
to
bee
winked
at
:
For
well
it
knoweth
,
that
insensible
decayes
continued
,
prooue
at
length
great
breaches
,
and
sliding
,
leades
to
falling
;
slacknesse
,
to
defection
;
and
as
the
least
cranny
or
hole
vnstopped
,
Chrysost.
is
sufficient
to
sinke
a
ship
:
so
the
least
sinne
cherished
and
vncontrolled
,
to
spill
the
soule
.
What
faults
in
these
our
dayes
more
pardonable
,
then
the
remissenesse
of
a
father
to
vntoward
children
?
or
the
carefulnesse
of
a
young
man
to
hold
his
owne
?
or
the
forwardnesse
of
a
man
of
parts
to
purchase
preferment
?
And
yet
we
finde
,
that
Eli
smarted
for
the
first
;
and
our
1.
Sam.
4.
Sauiour
touched
the
young
man
in
the
Gospell
Mark
.
10.
21.
Act.
8.
23.
for
the
second
;
and
the
very
gall
of
Simon
Magus
was
broken
for
the
third
,
Act.
8.
And
therefore
a
good
conscience
is
,
and
will
bee
auerse
from
them
all
,
flying
not
onely
scandalous
blemishes
,
but
the
first
blushes
and
appearance
of
euill
,
and
hauing
respect
to
all
Gods
Commandements
Psal.
119.
6.
in
substance
and
circumstance
,
alloweth
no
man
in
the
wilful
breach
of
any
of
them
,
seeme
they
to
flesh
and
blood
neuer
so
small
.
For
the
least
leauen
of
wickednesse
,
corrupteth
Iam.
2.
10.
the
whole
masse
of
goodnesse
;
and
the
rich
and
precious
oyntment
of
a
good
conscience
,
is
polluted
and
made
impure
,
if
but
one
dead
fly
,
Eccl.
10.
one
deadly
sinne
be
suffered
,
(
I
doe
not
say
to
light
on
it
)
but
if
with
our
will
it
lye
,
and
dye
,
and
putrifie
in
it
.
Auaunt
then
with
Naamans
●
.
King
.
5.
●●rk
.
6.
〈◊〉
5.
and
Herods
exception
in
this
,
with
Anania's
and
Saphyra's
reseruation
in
that
;
with
Agrippa's
modicum
,
and
perswasion
almost
to
be
a
Christian
,
Acts
26.
28.
(
for
this
is
but
almost
to
bee
saued
.
)
Away
with
the
glozing
formality
,
and
sin-cloking
policy
of
those
which
make
siluer
Cawseyes
for
sinne
,
that
they
may
goe
thereupon
thorow
the
world
dry-shod
,
and
steale
away
to
hell
with
the
least
noyse
of
the
world
.
Away
with
the
mock-holinesse
and
righteousnesse
of
those
irreligious
Statists
,
which
make
mans
law
the
scantling
of
their
religion
,
and
better
then
that
makes
them
,
will
not
bee
;
further
then
that
compels
them
,
will
not
go
,
no
not
an
inch
,
nor
so
far
neither
,
but
for
feare
,
thinking
all
to
be
well
,
if
the
statutes
of
Omri
be
obserued
.
Away
with
Mica
.
6.
16.
these
,
and
euery
of
these
:
for
none
of
these
can
stand
with
the
religion
,
price
,
praise
and
peace
of
a
good
conscience
.
It
is
but
halfe
a
mans
honesty
to
be
no
better
then
the
law
of
man
makes
him
,
which
reformeth
but
that
(
if
all
that
)
which
the
world
sees
,
out
of
the
danger
wherof
a
wicked
man
may
liue
.
If
he
haue
not
a
great
man
to
his
enemy
,
or
but
a
great
man
to
be
his
friend
,
(
whose
liuery
as
the
world
goes
,
is
countenance
enough
to
keepe
drunkennes
from
the
stockes
,
whoredome
from
the
post
,
coozenage
from
the
pillory
,
and
theft
too
from
the
gallowes
.
)
The
law
of
man
doth
but
looke
to
the
outward
facts
,
and
pruneth
(
when
it
doth
best
)
but
the
outrage
of
euill
actions
;
but
the
rule
and
religion
of
a
good
conscience
looketh
higher
to
God
,
and
pierceth
deeper
euen
to
the
inward
man
,
examineth
the
heart
,
reformeth
bad
opinions
,
and
base
affections
,
and
makes
him
in
whom
it
beareth
sway
,
to
be
a
law
vnto
himselfe
,
beyond
the
reach
of
all
humane
lawes
whatsoeuer
,
and
so
bindes
him
to
serue
the
true
God
with
a
true
heart
,
in
a
true
manner
;
to
serue
God
immediately
in
true
holinesse
and
integrity
,
without
exception
,
hypocrisie
or
superstition
,
and
men
subordinately
for
Gods
sake
,
in
righteousnesse
,
peace
and
amity
,
without
fraud
,
oppression
,
schisme
and
contention
.
Wherefore
,
to
apply
my selfe
to
the
capacities
Application
generall
and
particular
.
of
all
in
generall
,
and
to
speake
home
to
the
consciences
of
euery
one
in
particular
:
Tell
me
,
I
pray'
,
Art
thou
a
man
of
ciuill
fashion
,
a
reputed
honest
man
,
of
faire
comportment
and
condition
,
one
that
liuest
quietly
with
thy
neighbours
,
giuest
almes
cheerfully
,
in
trading
art
at
a
word
,
in
payments
and
promises
keepest
day
and
touch
,
in
all
thy
dealings
obseruest
equity
and
truth
,
and
payest
euery
man
his
due
?
It
is
well
;
why
then
,
let
God
haue
his
due
too
,
pay
him
the
prime
seruice
of
holinesse
,
holines
Exod.
28.
36.
is
his
due
;
thou
maist
reade
it
in
the
forehead
of
the
high
Priest
,
Exod.
28.
and
heare
it
from
Esa.
6.
3.
the
mouth
of
the
Seraphim
thrice
repeated
,
Esa.
6.
to
teach
what
is
chiefe
in
him
,
what
should
be
chiefe
in
vs
,
and
whereunto
chiefly
we
ought
to
direct
our
seruice
.
Pay
then
vnto
him
this
due
,
and
performe
this
duty
of
holinesse
.
Follow
peace
and
holines
,
without
which
Heb.
12.
14.
thou
canst
not
see
God
,
Heb.
12.
Giue
to
him
this
holy
seruice
in
secreto
Sanctorum
,
in
thy
Closet
,
or
bed-Chamber
,
in
thy
priuate
deuotion
alone
,
at
any
time
of
the
day
or
night
,
as
the
good
Spirit
shall
mooue
thee
;
giue
it
to
him
especially
with
thy
family
,
morning
and
euening
,
speake
to
him
holily
in
Prayer
,
heare
him
reuerently
in
the
Word
,
conferre
with
him
religiously
in
Meditation
,
which
is
the
life
of
hearing
,
the
strength
of
praying
,
the
mother
of
practising
.
More
especially
,
on
his
holy
Sabbath
,
in
his
holy
Sanctuary
,
at
the
receiuing
of
his
holy
Sacrament
,
when
and
where
thy
holinesse
should
bee
at
holiest
,
come
before
him
,
and
worship
him
Psal.
96.
9.
1.
Thes.
4.
1.
Tim.
2.
2.
cum
decore
sancto
,
with
an
holy
kinde
of
decencie
,
or
in
the
beauty
of
holinesse
,
with
godlinesse
and
grauity
,
deuoutly
honouring
the
publike
Ministery
,
and
in
all
,
carrying
thy selfe
most
reuerently
,
as
Gods
humble
and
holy
seruant
should
doe
,
and
not
in
a
stately
surly
kinde
of
holinesse
,
or
homely
fellow-like
familiarity
,
as
many
(
turning
their
phantasticall
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
into
Pharisaicall
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
haue
done
,
and
some
yet
at
this
day
doe
,
and
which
is
worst
,
thinke
,
of
right
they
must
doe
so
,
&c.
Againe
,
on
the
other
side
,
art
thou
a
man
which
makest
more
then
ordinary
profession
of
godlinesse
,
frequentest
diligently
the
outward
exercises
of
Religion
,
hearest
Sermons
and
Lectures
,
readest
Gods
Booke
much
and
oft
,
communicatest
with
due
and
dutifull
preparation
,
and
art
zealous
in
refraining
from
open
disorders
on
the
Sabbath
day
,
and
in
restraining
thy
family
,
and
such
as
depend
and
attend
vpon
thee
,
from
making
it
a
day
of
bodily
labour
,
a
day
of
riotous
eating
and
drinking
,
a
day
of
lustfull
and
vnlawfull
gaming
(
too
common
euery
where
)
that
thou
mayest
consecrate
it
,
as
glorious
vnto
the
Lord
,
by
both
publike
and
priuate
hearing
and
reading
the
Word
,
by
conference
,
Prayer
,
and
thankefull
praysing
of
God
?
Certainely
thou
doest
well
,
and
t
is
very
like
thou
hast
a
good
conscience
towards
God
.
But
yet
grow
not
heereupon
presumptuous
;
take
not
hence
liberty
,
as
some
doe
,
to
pay
no
debts
,
to
put
money
to
Vsury
,
to
rent-racke
thy
Tenants
,
to
deny
the
Magistrate
his
due
of
obedience
and
recompence
,
the
Minister
his
due
of
reuerence
and
maintenance
,
to
be
disdainefull
of
thy
brethren
,
couetous
,
reuengefull
,
and
vncharitably
censorious
;
as
if
righteousnesse
,
peace
,
and
amity
towards
men
,
were
not
as
well
a
part
of
Gods
seruice
,
and
a
duty
of
good
conscience
,
as
well
as
holinesse
and
piety
towards
God
.
Yes
,
yes
:
He
that
doth
a
good
piece
of
Iustice
downeward
,
or
tendreth
his
duty
to
his
Superiour
vpward
,
and
dealeth
equally
with
his
euen-Christian
neighbours
,
procuring
things
honest
and
Phil.
4.
9.
Rom.
12.
17.
of
good
report
before
them
,
and
desiring
,
as
much
as
in
him
lieth
,
to
haue
peace
with
all
men
:
Hee
(
I
say
)
in
so
doing
,
doth
not
onely
deale
well
with
men
,
but
doth
God
good
seruice
also
,
and
when
he
commeth
from
Church
,
going
about
these
things
,
may
say
truely
;
Hee
goes
to
serue
God
:
and
this
seruice
of
righteousnesse
,
peace
,
and
loue
towards
men
,
a
good
conscience
requireth
and
inioyneth
,
as
well
as
the
other
of
holinesse
,
filiall
feare
,
and
religious
worship
towards
God
:
and
so
requireth
and
exacteth
both
in
all
,
that
it
will
not
haue
,
either
the
one
,
to
wit
,
Holinesse
,
to
be
snuffing
,
Mal.
1.
13.
puffing
,
short-winded
,
and
out
of
breath
,
as
theirs
was
,
Mal.
1.
Or
the
other
,
to
wit
,
Righteousnesse
,
to
be
as
a
morning
cloud
,
soone
scattered
Hos.
6.
4.
and
dissolued
,
as
theirs
was
,
Hos.
6.
But
both
lasting
and
induring
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
Alwayes
,
for
all
the
dayes
of
our
life
,
that
in
an
holy
kinde
of
righteousnesse
,
and
a
righteous
kind
of
holinesse
,
we
serue
God
from
day
to
day
,
as
long
as
there
is
a
day
left
to
serue
him
in
;
and
that
so
we
may
bee
pure
and
without
offence
vntill
the
Day
of
the
Lord
,
filled
with
the
fruits
of
Righteousnesse
and
Holinesse
,
which
are
by
Iesus
Christ
,
vnto
the
glory
and
praise
of
God
,
Phil.
1.
11.
So
then
,
to
make
a
corollary
of
the
premises
,
and
a
recollection
of
that
which
at
diuers
times
before
you
hath
beene
deliuered
,
concerning
the
hauing
and
discharging
of
a
good
conscience
alwayes
towards
God
and
men
;
I
will
now
,
for
your
better
instruction
and
edification
,
humbly
commend
to
your
sanctified
memories
obseruation
and
imitation
too
,
this
Summary
conclusion
,
as
a
liuely
Character
of
a
sound
conscionable
Christian
.
A
sound
conscionable
Christian
is
he
,
who
The
Character
of
a
conscionable
Christian
.
(
hauing
his
conscience
inlightened
by
sauing
knowledge
in
Gods
Word
,
and
purged
by
faith
in
Christs
Blood
,
from
the
guilt
and
punishment
of
sinne
,
and
from
dead
workes
,
to
serue
the
liuing
Lord
)
walketh
cheerefully
and
constantly
in
the
way
of
life
,
which
God
hath
chalked
foorth
vnto
him
,
not
wishing
it
to
bee
wider
or
smoother
,
but
going
on
therein
vprightly
and
freely
,
neither
stooping
vnder
the
burthen
of
a
willing
sinne
,
nor
fettered
with
the
gieues
of
vniust
scruples
.
He
alwayes
pondereth
his
paths
,
and
ordereth
his
wayes
aright
,
not
regarding
so
much
to
be
applauded
of
men
,
as
to
bee
approoued
of
God
;
not
looking
so
much
to
what
hee
might
doe
by
his
power
,
as
what
he
ought
to
doe
for
his
praise
;
being
neither
voluntary
Agent
,
nor
forced
Instrument
,
in
that
which
is
vnlawfull
to
bee
done
,
but
holding
all
his
sences
and
members
within
Couenants
,
for
their
good
behauiour
in
that
behalfe
.
If
his
wisedome
and
vertue
aduance
him
to
any
place
or
office
of
command
and
authority
,
he
glorieth
not
therein
as
in
a
Chaire
of
State
,
or
Farme
of
commodity
,
but
is
glad
thereof
,
onely
as
a
meanes
of
furthering
his
reckoning
,
and
pleasuring
his
Countrey
:
wherein
he
wisely
and
worthily
demeaneth
himselfe
,
so
cherishing
and
countenancing
wheresoeuer
hee
comes
and
hath
to
doe
,
religious
,
sober
,
and
honest
liuers
,
that
hee
dares
not
affoord
a
good
looke
to
naughty
Varlets
and
notorious
offenders
.
Hee
waigheth
all
matters
,
not
according
to
the
common
beame
of
custome
and
opinion
,
but
at
the
golden
Standard
of
Gods
Sanctuary
:
Truth
hee
exerciseth
,
as
well
in
the
censure
of
persons
,
as
iudgement
of
things
,
and
will
not
iustifie
the
wicked
through
bribery
or
flattery
;
neither
condemne
the
righteous
through
malice
or
enuy
for
a
world
.
Being
called
therunto
,
he
giueth
plaine
testimony
to
the
truth
,
as
well
for
smal
as
great
,
stranger
as
brother
,
and
oweth
so
much
to
the
Author
of
truth
,
that
he
will
not
paint
potsheards
,
and
say
,
Falshood
is
truth
,
or
truth
falshood
;
Good
euil
,
or
euill
good
,
for
any
feare
or
fauour
whatsoeuer
.
According
to
his
meanes
and
ability
,
he
keepeth
his
house
well
,
and
therein
is
mercifull
and
bounteous
;
but
his
Church
better
,
and
therein
is
deuout
and
religious
:
hee
looketh
so
to
the
Church
,
that
the
Common-wealth
receiues
no
detriment
;
and
so
maintaines
holinesse
and
piety
in
the
one
,
that
he
neglects
not
vpright
dealing
and
equity
in
the
other
:
turne
him
what
way
soeuer
you
will
,
hee
is
euer
the
same
,
and
will
doe
well
:
turne
him
to
God
,
to
his
neighbour
,
to
company
,
to
himselfe
alone
,
put
him
in
office
,
out
of
office
,
turne
him
loose
to
all
occasions
,
references
,
and
occurrences
,
hee
holds
his
owne
,
and
walkes
honestly
,
honourably
,
warily
,
worthily
,
praise-worthily
in
all
things
,
and
wil
not
,
to
gaine
any
thing
,
though
neuer
so
precious
,
leape
ouer
the
pales
,
or
goe
out
of
the
Paradise
of
a
good
conscience
.
In
a
word
,
all
his
dealings
are
square
and
aboue
the
boord
;
in
his
promises
and
payments
hee
keepeth
day
and
touch
;
his
word
is
his
parchment
,
his
yea
his
oath
,
which
he
will
not
violate
for
any
feare
or
losse
;
hee
is
a
faithfull
Clyent
of
truth
and
honesty
,
and
in
the
plaine
way
thereof
goeth
on
confidently
,
and
will
either
triumph
in
his
integrity
,
or
suffer
with
it
.
To
conclude
,
his
soule
is
euery
day
dilated
and
inlarged
to
receiue
God
and
goodnesse
;
and
is
so
taken
vp
with
heauenly
contemplation
and
contentments
,
that
he
lookes
often
as
one
displeased
,
on
earthly
pleasures
and
preferments
:
he
is
very
well
prouided
for
both
worlds
,
and
is
sure
of
peace
and
comfort
here
,
and
of
glory
,
and
a
glorious
Kingdome
hereafter
.
This
,
this
is
the
sound
Christian
,
which
hath
gotten
the
inestimable
treasure
of
an
vpright
conscience
;
that
true
Diamond
,
which
flings
beames
of
solace
vpon
the
soule
.
This
is
the
conscionable
man
,
whose
praise
and
reward
is
of
God
,
though
the
diuell
and
world
storme
and
burst
for
enuie
.
Such
a
one
,
be
he
Minister
or
Magistrate
,
be
he
Witnesse
,
Iuror
,
Clerke
or
Aduocate
whatsoeuer
his
place
or
calling
be
,
(
as
Dauids
souldiers
said
of
him
)
is
worth
a
2.
Sam.
18.
3.
thousand
of
the
common
sort
,
who
feare
to
haue
a
name
to
feare
God
,
and
to
bee
charged
with
sincerity
.
Such
a
one
(
as
you
haue
heard
)
the
elect
vessell
of
grace
,
and
lowd
Clarion
of
the
Gospell
,
Saint
Paul
was
,
and
,
according
to
my
Text
,
indeuoured
still
to
be
.
Oh
then
,
that
in
vs
the
fire
of
●●le
for
imitation
of
him
,
could
so
bee
enkin●●●d
,
that
herein
,
and
therein
conscionably
comporting
our selues
in
our
seuerall
vocations
,
we
might
,
euery
one
for
himselfe
,
bee
inabled
to
say
truly
as
well
as
he
;
Herein
doe
I
indeuour
my selfe
to
haue
alwayes
an
vpright
conscience
towards
God
and
men
.
Which
that
wee
may
all
,
(
Fathers
and
Brethren
)
both
say
and
doe
,
let
vs
humbly
and
heartily
beseech
Amighty
God
of
his
abundant
grace
and
mercy
to
grant
,
and
for
this
end
to
giue
to
that
which
hath
been
deliuered
,
such
a
generall
blessing
,
according
to
our
particular
necessities
,
that
thereby
such
consciences
as
are
dead
and
dull
,
may
be
quickened
;
such
as
are
blind
and
erronious
,
may
bee
inlightened
;
such
as
are
in
a
slumber
,
may
bee
awakened
;
such
as
are
tender
,
confirmed
;
such
as
are
heauie
and
pensiue
,
comforted
;
and
all
,
some
way
or
other
,
bettered
,
through
the
powerfull
operation
of
his
gracious
Spirit
,
to
the
eternall
praise
of
his
glorious
Name
in
Iesus
Christ
,
his
onely
Sonne
,
and
our
onely
Sauiour
:
to
whom
,
with
the
Father
,
and
the
holy
Ghost
,
bee
ascribed
all
glory
and
honour
,
now
,
and
for
euer
.
Amen
.
FINIS
.