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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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HEAVEN upon EARTH in a Serene and Smiling good Conscience. › Sermons on acts n24.16 › Sermon 5
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The 2d use serves to teach us that we should not take every thing to be right where of for the time we may have a sor• of persuasion, neither that which many good people may think to be right: God hath given us another rule, that should be looked to and walked by, as Sovereign ⟨p. 83⟩•nd infallibly regulating, according to which we should regulate our own, and the Consciences and Practices of others.
The 2d use serves to teach us that we should not take every thing to be right where of for the time we may have a sor• of perswasion, neither that which many good people may think to be right: God hath given us another rule, that should be looked to and walked by, as Soveraign ⟨p. 83⟩•nd infallibly regulating, according to which we should regulate our own, and the Consciences and Practices of others.
Therefore 3ly. Learn hence, so much the more accurately and exactly to put every thing to proof and trial, that we may see whither it be so in very deed as Conscience dictateth; By all means let Conscience be laid to the rule of the Word, let us betake our selves and our Conscience, to the law and to the testimony, and if it speak not according to these, it is because there is no light in it; at least in so far; and if even Believers may thus err and mistake, O! how much more and more sadly may others, who sleep on in their security, without fear of being mistaken and of going wrong in matters of greatest and most lasting moment, let be in lesser ones? putting nothing seriously to the trial, and will yet notwithstanding boast of a good Conscience.
Therefore 3ly. Learn hence, so much the more accuratly and exactly to put every thing to proof and tryal, that we may see whither it be so in very deed as Conscience dictateth; By all means let Conscience be laid to the rule of the Word, let us betake our selves and our Conscience, to the law and to the testimony, and if it speak not according to these, it is because there is no light in it; at least in so far; and if even Believers may thus err and mistake, O! how much more and more sadly may others, who sleep on in their security, without fear of being mistaken and of going wrong in matters of greatest and most lasting moment, let be in lesser ones? putting nothing seriously to the trial, and will yet notwithstanding boast of a good Conscience.