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Cases of conscience practically resolved By the Reverend and learned John Norman, late minister of Bridgwater.
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Norman, John, 1622-1669.
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and rest upon him Doth Conscience terrifie thee with being an enemy to God and God's being an enemy to thee Tell her the blood of his Cross hath made reconciliation for the sins of his people And for me if I renounce my enmity and return unto him Mat. 26.28 Rom. 3.25 26. Heb. 9.12 Col. 1.14 20. Heb. 2.17 Oh if Conscience could but lay a clear claim to this blood farewell such cramps and convulsions quickly Could she but say The blood of our Lord Jesus was shed for me I have redemption through his blood Now there would be a most ample serenity Well Conscience cannot yet put forth an act of assurance after it yet may she and should put forth an hand of acceptance towards it and of an holy acquiescence on it as knowing sin cannot write so bitter things against us but this blood of sprinkling speaks better things for us 1 Tim. 1.15 Isa 26.3 Heb. 12.24 2 See Christ applying his blood for you presenting the merit of it to his Father and thereby pleading for mercy to the faithful in his Intercession He is not gone into the Holiest of all as the high Priest with the blood of goats and calves was wont which he offered for himself as well as others But by his own blood he is entered into the holy place and this not for himself but to appear in the presence of God for us And if that blood sprinkling the unclean sanctified to the purifying of the flesh how much more shall this blood sprinkled in the Conscience purge it from dead works Heb. 9.7 15 24. c. 7.25 Direct 6. Try the Breasts of the Church you may suck and be satisfied These are breasts of Consolation Breasts for beauty and benefit fair and full of milk and nutritive vertue As the clusters of the Vine as clusters of grapes full of vinous spirits succulency and sweetness Isa 66.11 Caut. 7.7 8. You that are athirst i.e. in distress and desirous of relief may come freely Christ invites you encourages injoyns you to come away Isa 55.1 2. Joh. 7.37 Rev. 21.6 Mat. 11.28 1 Try the Breasts of the Promises Do not put them from you they are full of affecting delicacies and as it were ake for want of drawing In them is not only sure but strong consolation For he is faithful who hath promised Lay but the mouth of faith to the promise as Sara and Abraham did and the fears you plead from the improbabilities and seeming impossibilities of peace will melt away and vanish Isa 55.3 Heb. 6.18 c. 10.23 c. 11.11 Rom. 4.19 20 21. Sayest thou I see no peace of Conscience within nothing but puzling calamities without me But the Promises shew that there is peace in Christ for thee In the world ye shall have tribulation but in me ye shall have peace Joh. 16.33 Object Alas for peace I have great bitterness Answ Yet hear what God the Lord will speak for he will speak peace to his people he will bless his people with peace Psal 85.8 29.11 Object What! I have peace Alas I have not deserved the least peace but the greatest punishments 'T is not all the world can give me peace Ans But in the Promises you have to do with the God of peace They ask not for deserts accept desires and afford all of free gift Peace I leave with you my peace I give unto you not as the world giveth give I unto you Let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid Joh. 14.27 Obj. But alas I see no cause no foundation of peace Matter of provocation God may find enough and too much in me but no matter of peace whence he may educe this blessing for me Ans The Promises exhibit peace as not only of God's causing but of God's creating And creation is out of no pre-existing or no predisposed matter I create the fruits of the lips peace peace I create Hierusalem a rejoycing and her people a joy Isa 57.19 c. 65.18 Ply these and the like promises as Phil. 4.7 Isa 26.3 c. 27.5 c. 54.10 c. 57.16 17 18. c. 55.12 c. 66.12 c. with the strongest desires of their goodness and with your steadiest dependance on their truth Who ever went to God in the promises for peace that went away without the peace of God 2 Try the Breasts of the publick and solemn Ordinances These are full of milk and marrow and fatness not for support only but to abundantly satisfie us Let thine heart preserve them and they will add peace to and preserve thee Psal 36.8 65.4 Prov. 3.2 17.1 Essay the Sacraments which some will have to be those two Breasts Cant. 4.5 Certain it is that Christ who is our peace is the internal substance of them And he doth not only outwardly signifie but inwardly seal righteousness and therefore peace by them Ephes 2.14 1 Cor. 10.3 4. Rom. 4.11 c. 14.17 Reflect on thy Baptism It ministreth powerful arguments not only for the killing of sin but for the quieting of the soul as being baptized into Christ and under the bond and therefore having the benefits of the Covenant thereby confirmed and sealed This is another Ark against the deluge of wrath as Noah's was against the deluge of waters Rom. 6.3 4. Gal. 3.26 27. 1 Pet. 3.20 21. Renew thy presence often at and participation in the Supper of the Lord. Here is Bread to strengthen and Wine also that maketh glad the heart of man the Communion both of the Body and of the Blood of our Lord Christ Lo here is both a peace-offering for thee and an offer of peace to thee under the broad-seal of the God of peace How many Souls have unloaded all their pressures and soul-distresses at this port and have gone away loaden under full sail with peace and joy in the Holy Ghost O let not thy weaknesses so much deter thee hence as thy wants drive thee hither and Christ's willingness to communicate himself to his weak believers draw thee even to those who are filled with troubles of heart Psal 104.15 1 Cor. 10.16 Eph. 5.2 Cant. 2.3 4 5. Joh. 14.1 27. c. 16.6 22. cum c. 13. Cant. 5.1 2. Essay Sermons The Lord will speak peace But he is not wont to speak it immediately by himself but through the ministry of his own Ordinances and offices who must therefore preach the Gospel of peace Yea he creates peace but so as the word preached is of place and use in this Creation as the word of his power was in the first Creation I create the fruit of the lips peace peace The Priests lips are to be a storehouse of comfort as well as of knowledg God hath committed to them the Ministry of Reconciliation Nor doth the word they preach only propound the matter of peace but their preaching of the Word is a powerful and oft-times a present means of peace thorough his benediction Psal 85.8 Rom. 10.15 Mal. 2.5 6 7. Isa 57.19 2 Cor. 5.18 19 20. Isa