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Heaven upon earth in the serene tranquillity and calm composure, in the sweet peace…
Heaven upon earth in the serene tranquillity and calm composure, in the sweet peace and solid joy of a good conscience sprinkled with the blood of Jesus and exercised always to be void of offence toward God and toward men : brought down and holden forth in XXII very searching sermons on several texts of Scripture ... / by James Durham.
Edinburgh: printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson, 1685
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To the reader: TO THE READERS, And more particularly to the Inhabitants of the City of GLASGOW.
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which Conscience with the concerns thereof being the great T•eam and Subject of these choice, searching and savoury Sermons (wherein if there be any thing that doth not so fully answer expectation, let it be imputed to the writer from his own mou•h, whose couple was so very incorrect, that the fitting it for the view of the world hath caused no small labour to me) I need say the less of it, only in general, I would humbly offer these few things.
which Conscience with the concerns thereof being the great T•eam and Subject of these choice, searching and savoury Sermons (wherein if there be any thing that doth not so fully answer expectation, let it be imputed to the writer from his own mou•h, whose copple was so verie incorrect, that the fitting it for the view of the world hath caused no smal labour to me) I need say the less of it, only in general, I would humbly offer these few things.
First, we would above all things look well that once we have a good Conscience, not only Morally (that is when Conscience judgeth it self bound to own Gods revealed will for its rule, and when it impelleth or pusheth the man to act according to that rule, and withal the more ordinary disposition of his will is […] comply with these impulses of his Conscience, which may be where there is no special or saving grace,) but Graciously so; which necessarily pre-supposeth a state of regeneration, and the hearts applying it self by faith (the gift of God) to the blood of sprinkling, which both purgeth and pacifieth, cleanseth and calmeth the Conscience, which speaketh better things then the b•ood of A•el, yea hath a cry▪ abl• to out-cry the loudest cries of the most clamorous and guilty Conscience, and is that wherein all disquieting challenger and accusations for sin• are only safely sunk and and put to silence, so as they shall never again swim above, and rak to the final sorrow and shame of such as are led through grae to take this course with them; as the