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A69044	A sermon necessarie for these times shewing the nature of conscience, with the corruptions thereof, and the repairs or means to inform it with right knowledge, and stirre it up to upright practise, and how to get and keep a good conscience. To which is adjoyned a necessarie, brief, and pithy treatise af [sic] the ceremonies of the Church of England. By Anthony Cade Batch. of Divinitie.	Cade, Anthony, 1564?-1641.	1639 (1639)	STC 4330; ESTC S107399	57,371	130

Gods word how to carrie our selves purely and profitably therein This must be our a Psal 119.105 lamp and light our b vers 24. delight and counsellour to make us wiser then our c vers 98. enemies d vers 99. teachers e vers 100. ancients f Matt. 10.16 wise as serpents innocent as doves the onely way to g Psal 119.9 11. cleanse our wayes and make them h Josh 1.7 8. prosper This as David said was the blessed mans practise i Psal 1.2 day and night Shall the wicked k Psal 36.4 devise mischief upon their beds and shall not the religious meditate upon goodnesse to be performed sinne to be avoided Conscience to be kept cleare Shall men studie upon the Princes laws to live securely here and not Gods people upon Gods laws to live happily for ever God commandeth Deut. 6.7 8 9 Thou shalt talk of my laws when thou liest down and when thou risest up or sittest in thy house or walkest in the way they shall be in thy heart hand forehead posts and gates Therefore let us learn and consider our dutie beforehand and make vows to perform it resolving never to be withdrawn from it by fear favour lucre pleasure or any earthly thing and pray to God to give us his grace and Spirit for constancie heedfulnesse and good successe therein Secondly at night before we sleep let us look upon our chronicle and search in that book of our Conscience what we have said or done that day Psal 119.59 I thought upon my wayes saith David and turned my feet unto thy testimonies I made haste and delayed not to keep thy commandments The golden verses of Pythagoras taught naturall men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pythag. aur carm Chrysost in Psal 50. hom 2. Antequam veniat tibi somnus profer in medium codicem Conscientiam tuam reminiscere peccata tua si quid in verbo sacto cogitatione peccâsti Not to admit sleep into their eyes till they had thrice run over all they had done that day that they might detest and amend the evil delight in the good and continue in it S. Chrysostome teacheth the same to Christians Before the approach of sleep saith he produce thy book thy Conscience and remember wherein thou hast offended in word deed or thought And Eusebius Emissenus saith Let every soul speak to it self in the secret of his heart How have I spent this day without sinne without envie backbiting murmuring have I profited my self or any other by good deeds or edification have I not lied sworn amisse yeelded to my lusts done hurt to some body who shall restore me this day which I have lost in vanitie or spent in evil Optimus ille Trapezita saith Climachus He keeps his books evenest his layings out and his comings in that every night books all his receits and expenses and makes all straight before he sleep We should so search our Consciences and judge our selves without partialitie that when we come before the Judge Coelo descendit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Juven Domine noverim me noverim te Bern. Psal 132.3 4 5. he may say I need not judge this man for he hath judged himself alreadie 1. Cor. 11.31 And as David vowed I will not climbe up into my bed nor suffer mine eyes to sleep c. untill I finde out a place for the temple of the Lord an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob So let us resolve I will not sleep till I make my body the temple of the holy Ghost 1. Cor. 6.19 Matt. 21.12 13. I will not rest till I have swept and cleansed it from all sinfull filthinesse as Christ did the temple at Jerusalem that I may sleep with a clean heart to my God and rest confident of safetie under his protection saying with David Lord Psal 4.8 9. thou hast now put gladnesse in my heart I will now lay me down in peace and take my rest for thou Lord onely makest me dwell in safety Thirdly when our seventh day dedicated to Gods service approacheth as God looked back upon all his works of the six dayes so let us look back upon ours that if we finde all well we may blesse God for it if any thing still amisse reconcile our selves to God more throughly and use this seventh day as it was ordained for sanctification for deprecation for information for excitation and stirring us up to all good duties yea and for almes and resolution of restitution for all wrongs done by us and pardoning offences done against us Thus having washed our selves seven times in the seven dayes of the week as Naaman did seven times in Jordan 2. Kings 5. by the Prophets appointment the leprosie of our sinnes may be cleansed away and our Consciences as the flesh of his bodie become pure and tender as of an innocent childe to our incomparable comfort And these things we should renew and perform most exactly in our preparation to the holy Communion 1. Cor. 11.28 and at the beginning of the new yeare looking back into the old how we have served God how he hath preserved us and wherein we have offended looking forward into the new with purpose to be new creatures as old things are past away and all things become new 2. Cor. 5.17 All this is as possible as it is profitable See it exemplified in an honourable man an exemplarie Christian This is written by a worthy Minister Mr. Jeremy Dyke in his Epistle dedicatorie before his brothers book entituled The deceitfulnesse of Mans heart the late young Lord Harrington be it ever remembred for Gods glory his honour and our imitation His course was to keep a catalogue or diarie of his sinnes against God and every night or the next morning to review the faults of the day past every seventh morning or night before to review the faults of the whole week and at the end of every moneth to surview the whole moneths transgression All this the better to know and humble himself and renew the practise of his repentance And the day before the receiving of the holy Communion he alwayes humbled himself with fasting prayer and confession The Lord of heaven finde us so alwayes occupied that at our death we may receive that blessed welcome for the well employing of our times and talents Matth. 25.21 Well done thou good and faithfull servant thou hast been faithfull in little I will make thee ruler over much Enter into thy Masters joy FINIS AN APPENDIX TO THE FOREGOING SERMON Concerning the Ceremonies of the Church of ENGLAND By the same Authour HINC LVCEM ET POCVLA SACRA Alma Mater Printed by the Printers to the Vniversitie of Cambridge 1639. To the Reader DEare Christian Reader understanding that this Sermon hath done good to many that either heard it or read some notes of it and that if it were published with some Appendix added proving our

Temple of Diana at Ephesus the Temple of Apollo at Delphos of Jupiter Amon of Isis and Osyris in Egypt with many other And great Kings and Princes were their Priests Rex idem hominum Phaebíque sacerdos And though the vulgar had opinions of many gods yet the wiser sort acknowledged but one as the books De Mundo ascribed to Aristotle and Philo say The same God in regard of severall offices was called by severall names as for moderating the seas called Neptune for moderating the windes Aeolus c. For duties towards their Neighbours The Gentiles knew and practised the substance of the whole Second Table at least so farre as concerned outward duties Children honoured and obeyed their Parents as Sichem did Hamor Gen. 34.4 See D. Williams Church lib. 3 cap. 3. pag. 347. Gen 20.4 5. not presuming to take a wife without his consent and employment Murder every where most abhorred and grievously punished Abimelech King of Gerar would not come neare Sarah hating Adulterie when he knew she was a mans wife The Romane Lucretia prized her chastity above her life 1. Cor. 5.1 Incest unheard of among the Gentiles Wives subjection to their husbands commanded by Ahasuerus Esther 1. And compulsion to drink more then a man list forbidden by the same Gentile Monarch Wrong oppression theft defrauding any man of his right forbidden by the generall rule Reusner in Symbol Imperat lib. 1. Symb. 29. Fac quod vis pati and Quod tibi fieri non vis alteri nè feceris Do nothing to another which thou wouldest not have done to thy self Reusnerus in Symbolis cites many heathen authours which deliver that rule It was the common * Which he learnt of his mother Mammaea the scholar of that great Origen Isaacus Casaub Annot. in Julium Capitolinum word of Alexander Severus which he caused also to be proclaimed by his heraulds whensoever he punished his subjects or souldiers which had wronged any man And for all other morall and civill righteousnesse honesty justice temperance sobriety providing for the poore helping the distressed speaking the truth observing leagues contracts and promises avoiding perjury punishing vice honouring vertue and living orderly the Gentiles had many excellent laws wisely made and carefully observed The generall observation of these in all nations shewed the substance thereof to be naturall notions and principles written in their hearts and the variety of their promulgations and penalties in severall nations argued deductions and consequents drawn from those naturall notions by the force of reason These naturall laws the most wise Creatour did write in the hearts of men for these causes 1. Causes and reasons thereof That there might be a perpetuall difference betwixt men and beasts Had God given man a strong wit understanding policy and not withall a Conscience or naturall law to guide him he had been of all Creatures the most dangerous 2. To preserve humane society and keep mens actions in some tolerable limits by ordaining good laws to bridle the disorderly and protect the innocent in quiet possession of their rights and for the common good Aug. de civitate Dei lib. 4. cap. 4. Rom. 1. else saith S. Augustine Quid sunt regna nisi magna latrocinia 3. To be an ayd to man better to search out the Creatour and to serve him We may say of God as Seneca said of Nature Perditura fructum sui si solitudini ostenderet He had lost the fruit of his work had he shewed it onely to beasts which could not understand it so God had lost his glory and man his felicity 4 S. Paul addes Rom. 1.20 To make the impious and unrighteous unexcusable if they did not according to that law which their own Conscience dictated unto them This was an inestimable benefit of God Vse 1 to give every man such a worthy guide of his life for morall civill and divine duties in observing whereof he might live with much comfort credit profit and earthly happinesse And that these laws are undoubtedly just and equall written by God himself as the first Tables and so legible and in such plain characters that the unlearnedest man may reade them though he know no letters of any other book and in such a language as men of all nations and tongues may understand them and that a man hath this book for his counsellour at home with him he need not make long journeys to seek for a counsellour or tedious waiting to attend his leisure give costly fees to attain his counsell which haply may prove doubtfull and untrusty he hath this his bosome friend free faithfull patient as neare and as true to him as his own soul with whom he may conferre again and again at his leisure and pleasure till he be fully resolved what he may lawfully do or must avoid And This is yet a greater benefit Vse 2 that this Law-book is not a dead thing like other books containing dead letters or precepts but like the divine word of God written in the heart Hebr. 4.12 quick lively powerfull operative and piercing as Gods Lieger Ambassadour residing in our hearts to shew us our duties and call upon us to do them whereupon our Conscience is not onely called a Book Paedagogus animae sociatus Origen but a Schoolmaster also to urge us to learn and perform our duties Monet movet movendo docet docendo movet God knowing our ignorance Conscientia est speculum fraenum calcar flagellum gives us this book to instruct us knowing our headstrong inclination to evil gives us this bridle to restrain us and knowing our dulnesse to all good duties gives us this spurre to quicken us And all this is our Conscience which if we do amisse shall scourge us But As the benefit is great Vse 3 of this Light to guide us and of this Heat to quicken us as of the Sunne in the great world So is the danger great if we shut our eyes against the Notions and our hearts against the Motions of our Conscience For this is to be wilfully blinde when we may see or wilfully wicked when we do see our dutie and do it not This is plainly to rebell against God himself to thrust his Deputie out of his throne and office This is to provoke the Lord to give us up to our own hearts lusts and to have no further care over us as Rom. 1.24 26 28. And this is to draw upon us a most dangerous consequence by degrees through the custome of sinne to make our Conscience senselesse seared cauterized or to choke and kill it or in such sort to extinguish the light and life thereof that the greatest sinnes will be practised without any check or remorse to the intolerable hurt of the Church and Common-wealth the shame of our lives the damnation of our souls Ephes 4.17 The Gentiles walk in the vanity of their minde 18. Having the understanding darkned being alienated from the

life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindenesse of their heart 19. Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousnesse to work all uncleannesse with greedinesse In regard of these benefits and dangers Vse 4 it behoveth us to have a double care First to keep our Law-book pure and perfect lest it misleade us to sinne in stead of righteousnesse Secondly to reade it and follow it diligently lest it cease to be our guide and become our accuser The first man Adam before his fall Ad bonum nil impediebat ad malum nil impellebat Magister lib. 2. dist 25. had it pure and perfect abilitie to know his dutie fully and to perform it throughly But upon his fall he lost his perfection that is the excellencie of the image of God both in Knowledge Coloss 3.10 and Righteousnesse and true Holinesse Ephes 4.24 And in this his depraved image he begat his children Gen. 5.3 In whom though the life of Conscience was left and light enough for performance of outward morall civill and some religious duties for preservation of humane societie and common life yet no sufficient light to attain to the knowledge of the mysteries of saving religion as the Trinitie of the Persons in the Unitie of the Godhead the manner of our redemption by the incarnation and passion of the second person in Trinitie the pardon of our sinnes by his merit our regeneration by his Spirit our resurrection to life eternall and other points The naturall man conceiveth or perceiveth them not he thinketh them foolishnesse they are onely spiritually discerned 1. Cor. 2.14 As the naturall Conscience was short in these things so it was much corrupted in other things The Gentiles a Rom. 1.18 held the truth in unrighteousnesse b Vers 21. became vain in their imaginations their foolish heart was darkened the c 22. professours of wisdome became fools They d 24. dishonoured their own bodies with lusts and uncleannesse In the foure last verses of the first chapter to the Romanes Saint Paul exhibites a long Catalogue of their foul overflowing sinnes which they not onely practised but took pleasure also in the practisers thereof For remedie of which evils Remedies by wise men the Philosophers and wife men of the Heathen have written many books labouring to revive renew and enforce the laws of nature with reasonable deductions therefrom Tully in his books of Offices or Duties layes this for his ground Naturam si sequamur ducem nunquam aberrabimus If we follow the guidance of Nature we shall never stray from our duties and others tell us Conscientia est liber ad quem emendandum omnes scripti sunt libri Conscience is a book for amending whereof all books are written so farre as concern mens actions These men have taken great pains herein husbanding and improving the light of naturall reason to the highest pitch to their own great honour and the worlds great good As also good Princes have And good Princes by the aid of these wise men published and established many worthy laws for their own honour and service and for the common good and happinesse of their subjects But our most gracious God Divine and supernaturall remedies by the Scriptures as he is infinitely above all in providence wisdome and goodnesse so he hath declared his farre more excellent Will and Laws to his people for his own honour and their happinesse inspiring some choice men in the Old and New Testament with divine Revelations and testifying their Mission Commission and Doctrine to be immediately from him by divine miracles as seals unpossible to be counterfeited by any wit or power of men appointing them to deliver by word to the present and by writing to the future ages his holy Laws for the manner of his service the guiding of their lives and the attaining of felicitie And these are the sacred books of the Scriptures And Ministerie And he hath added yet another provident ordinance The sacred Ministerie men separated from other affairs and consecrated to Gods publick service and the peoples edification directing their preaching to these two speciall ends The one to open the meaning of these holy Books and teach the people to understand and imprint these Laws in their Conscience The other continually to work upon their affections to excite and stirre them up often to reade them and carefully to practise them And this is the excellencie of Christian Religion above all Philosophie and humane laws or learning which could never perfect the Conscience nor purifie the heart nor stirre up the affections with such holy doctrines rules or principles nor cause such a constant and universall practise of all kindes of vertue and goodnesse nor procure such blessings temporall and eternall upon persons and nations as these holy Books and the continuall urgent preaching of them doth perform But be the remedies never so good yet if they be not employed applied and continually renewed Satan and Sinne are so busie to assail so potent to prevail and we so impotent to resist so willing to yeeld that corruptions will easily creep into our lives and Consciences As we may observe 1. Causes corrupting the Conscience By the vehemency and disorderlinesse of our corrupt affections lusts or passions whether love hatred covetousnesse ambition pride fleshly lusts or any other blinding and carrying many away into sinfull courses thinking in those passions evil to be good 2. By Custome in sinne For Consuetudo peccandi tollit sensum peccati what many do is thought lawfull for all Thus stealing of garments was lawfull with the Lacedemonians many wives at once with the Turks deadly fewd and stealing one side from another among our borderers they thought it stood well with Religion Sir Thomas More Lord Chancellour of England in king Henry the 8 his time writeth The borderers would heare masse before they went to steal and pray God so to blesse them that they might do harm and take none Amongst us of late drunkennesse pride and such like vices are thought lawfull because usuall and practised without check of Conscience These blot blurre or fill up the deep graven letters of our Law-book with dirt or bring us asleep in sinne that we cannot easily spie or reade them 3. By interlinings of false precepts or principles of false teachers as to this precept Love thy neighbour the Pharisees added And hate thine enemy which interlining Christ put out again and restored the text to his old integrity Matth. 5.43 as he did other doctrines of men Matth. 15. and 23. 4. By mistaking errour for true religion as our Saviour said to his Apostles John 16.2 They that kill you will think they do God service Saint Paul once thought that he was bound in Conscience to persecute Christians Acts 26.9 Phil 3.6 he did it of zeal Acts 13.50 and so the devout and honourable women and