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Generoso vir•, & amico suo multis nominibus plurimum Colendo Domino Alexandro Durhamo, Domino de Largo, Clarissimi Authoris Filio Germano, & ex multis quos illi Deus gratiosé dederat liberis nunc tantum superstiti; qui defunctum patrem (virum illum non tantum apud Nostrates, sed etiam apud Exteros Celebrem & vere magni nominis) quamvis non passibus aequis, pro suo tamen modulo, in vijs Domini serió sequitur; egregias has de Conscienscia Conciones Conscionatoris consciensciam tenerrimam & plane divinitus illuminatam suaviter spirantes; in sinceri amoris tesseram & perpetuae observantiae testimonium, D. D

GEneroso vir•, & amico suo multis nominibus plurimum Colendo Domino Alexandro Durhamo, Domino de Largo, Clarissimi Authoris Filio Germano, & ex multis quos illi Deus gratiosé dederat liberis nunc tantum superstiti; qui defunctum patrem (virum illum non tantum apud Nostrates, sed etiam apud Exteros Celebrem & vere magni nominis) quamvis non passibus aequis, pro suo tamen modulo, in vijs Domini serió sequitur; egregias has de Conscienscia Conciones Conscionatoris consciensciam tenerrimam & plane divinitus illuminatam suaviter spirantes; in sinceri amoris tesseram & perpetuae observantiae testimonium, D. D

Johannes Carstares.

TO THE READERS, And more particularly to the Inhabitants of the City of GLASGOW.

THE Micro-cosme, or little World▪ Man, a notably curious Compend, and •abridgement▪ (as it were) of the larger one, and the great Master piece of all the visible works of GOD; w• when he came from under the ha•d of the Omnipotent Creator in the first Edition, a little Model, and Representation of the Divine Perfections; having impressed on him that blessed and beautiful, that amiable and admirable conformity to the Image and likeness of GOD, wherein consisted▪ the preheminency of His Nature, above that of all other Creatures in the Visible •r Sublunary World; being one of the great excellencies that a created nature is capable of, and a clearer ray of Divine Majesty, then his dominion over the other Creatures; and which only made him capable of the enjoyment of God, as being that which assimilated to him, and brought him to the nearest approaches to Glory: All the faculties and powers of his Soul carried this glorious Character volley engraven on them; His Body also had somewhat▪ of the same Image stamped on it, tho not in respect of its figure, and shape or natural u•e, but as an esse•l part of his nature, it was interested therein by a participate on of original righteousness; For it was mans person that was made holy, tho his Soul was the first proper Subject of that con-created habit, and principle of holiness, yet his body (as I said) as an essential part of his nature, did ⟨image 4⟩participate thereof, by a peculiar communication of that holiness to […] ▪ as far as it was to be influential on moral operations; and hereby were the Parts and Members of his Body, in that state of innocency and integrity, made Instruments and Servants unto righteousness and holiness: His Understanding was a lamp of clear and pure light, without any the least measure or mixture of culpable darkness or ignorance, it was able clearly and distinctly to represent all objects, competent for him to know, with wonderful readiness and facility: His Will was (to say so) straight as a rush, without any the least sinful crook, o• sinister bias▪ inclining only and perfectly to that which was good▪ and altogether averse from every thing that was evil; there being a thorough agreement betwixt his will, and the will of God, so that he willed wh• he willed, and •illed what he •illed:

THE Micro-cosme, or little World▪ Man, a notably curious Compend, and •abridgement▪ (as it were) of the larger one, and the great Master piece of all the visible works of GOD; w• when he came from under the ha•d of the Omnipotent Creator in the first Edition, a little Model, and Representation of the Divine Perfections; having impressed on him that blessed and beautiful, that amiable and admirable conformity to the Image and likenesse of GOD, wherein consisted▪ the preheminency of His Nature, above that of all other Creatures in the Visible •r Sublunary World; being one of the great excellencies that a created nature is capable of, and a clearer ray of Divine Majesty, then his dominion over the other Creatures; and which only made him capable of the enjoyment of God, as being that which assi•ilated to him, and brought him to the nearest approaches to Glory: All the faculties and powers of his Soul carried this glorious Character v•vely ingraven on them; His Body also had somewhat▪ of the same Image stamped on it, tho not in respect of its figure, and shape or natural u•e, but as an esse•l part of his nature, it was interested therein by a participa• on of original righteousnesse; For it was mans person that was made holy, tho his Soul was the first proper Subject of that con-created habit, and principle of holinesse, yet his body (as I said) as an essential part of his nature, did ⟨image 4⟩participat thereof, by a peculiar communication of that holinesse to 〈…〉 ▪ as far as it was to be influential on moral operations; and hereby were the Parts and Members of his Body, in that state of innocency and integrity, made Instruments and Servants unto righteousnesse and holinesse: His Understanding was a lamp of clear and pure light, without any the least measure or mixture of culpable darkness or ignorance, it was able clearly and distinctly to represent all objects, competent for him to know, with wonderful readinesse and facility: His Will was (to say so) straight as a rush, without any the least sinful crook, o• sinister byass▪ inclining only and perfectly to that which was good▪ and altogether averse from every thing that was evil; there being a thorow agreement betwixt his will, and the will of God, so that he willed wh• he willed, and •illed what he •illed:

All his Affections moved only and constantly towards right and commanded objects, and that with perfection of regularity in all their motions▪ His Memory was of strong retention, neither knew he, while he remained such, what it was •o forget any thing that was suitable, and incumbent for him to remember: His Conscience was in excellent case •o reflect, and there being no ground for any challenge, reproof, or […], it did only commend and applaud▪ in a word, it did most faithfully and exactly act the part of God's Deputy, following his orders punctually and precisely, and so was kept in an indisturbed calm, and perfectly serene tranquillity: The Members of his body were servants only to righteousness, and with holy alacrity, sub•erued the soul in all its operations; But, ah! the entering in of cursed sin, made a sad, sorrowful and stupendous Catastrophe, setting o• fire as it were the whole co•e of nature, and putting its very foundations some way out of course, and deplorably defacing the curious stately, magnificent, beautiful and glorious Fabric of this little […] Man; quite vitiating and corrupting all the faculties, powers and parts of his soul and body, which by the exact and exquisite symmetry ⟨image 4⟩and harmony thereof, through the image of God concreated with him, made him, while it remained in its integrity, incapable of all such motions, or actions, which should be subservient unto, or compliant with any thing contrary unto, or different from it: His Understanding, the leading faculty, and the eye (as it were) of the soul, became an abyss and dungeon of darkness, covered all over with fogs, mists and clouds of ignorance, errors and mistakes, so that becoming of a spiritual and holy man, a carnal and corrupt man, He did not receive, neither could he know savingly the things of God, he became quite blind, having loosed his vi•ive faculty, as to all spiritual discerning: His Will the ruling and governing faculty, utterly loosed its rectitude, and became crooked, froward, perverse, rebellious and obstinate, strongly inclined and bent to evil, to all evil, only to evil, always and constantly to evil, and altogether averse from every thing truly good; willing that which God nilled, and nilling that which he willed:

All his Affections moved only and constantly towards right and commanded objects, and that with perfection of regularity in all their motions▪ His Memory was of strong retention, neither knew he, while he remained such, what it was •o forget any thing that was suitable, and incumbent for him to remember: His Conscience was in excellent case •o reflect, and there being no ground for any challenge, reproof, or 〈…〉, it did only commend and applaud▪ in a word, it did most faithfully and exactly act the part of God's Deputy, following his orders punctually and precisely, and so was keeped in an indisturbed calm, and perfectly serene tranquilli•ie: The Members of his body were servants only to righteousness, and with holy •lacrity, sub•erued the soul in all its operations; But, ah! the entring in of cursed sin, made a sad, sorrowful and stupendious Ca•astrophe, setting o• fire as it were the whole co•e of nature, and putting its very foundations some way out of course, and deplorably de•acing the curious stately, magnificent, beautiful and glorious Fabrick of this little 〈…〉 Man; quite vitia•ing and corrupting all the faculties, powers and parts of his soul and body, which by the exact and exquisit symetrie ⟨image 4⟩and harmonie thereof, through the image of God concreated with him, made him, while it remained in its integrity, incapable of all such motions, or actions, which should be subservient unto, or complyant with any thing contrary unto, or different from it: His Understanding, the leading facultie, and the eye (as it were) of the soul, became an abysse and dungeon of darknesse, covered all over with fogs, mists and clouds of ignorance, errors and mistakes, so that becoming of a spiritual and holy man, a carnal and corrupt man, He did not receive, neither could he know savingly the things of God, he became quite blind, having losed his vi•ive faculty, as to all spiritual discerning: His Will the ruling and governing facultie, utterly losed its rectitude, and became crooked, froward, perverse, rebellious and obstinat, strongly inclined and bent to evil, to all evil, only to evil, alwayes and constantly to evil, and altogether averse from every thing truly good; willing that which God nilled, and nilling that which he willed:

His Affections turned all mutinous, disorderly, disturbed and confused, furiously rushing on prohibited objects, as the horse rusheth into the battle; and what movings of them were toward any commanded object, these were altogether irregular, not so much as one of them moved toward any such object, purely or primarily, because it was a thing commanded: His Memory, quite loosed its retentive faculty, as to the remembering of any thing spiritually good, in the way it should have been remembered, it became in that respect as a leak vessel, all such things slipping and running through and out of it: His Conscience being deemed and made guilty, became clamorous, unquiet, challenging and accusing, boisterous and stormy, filling him with horror; and (when not stupefied and benumbed with spiritually Lethargic Security, or Cauterized) p•ing him upon the rack, and making a kind of hell in his bosom, so that he was Magur •issabib, terror round about▪ even his own Burrio and tormente•: All the members of his body were yielded to be the weapons of unrighteousness ⟨image 5⟩to sin; So that all the faculties and powers of his •oul, and members of his body, were on the sudden up in arms in hostility and rebellion against God, proclaiming and waging war with him, and on the matter blasphemously bidding him a defiance: O! •ad and sorrowful revolution, in and on the Little world Man. Heu quantum mutatus abillo! God made him upright, but he sought out to himself many inventions; woe to us for we have sinned, and the crown hath fallen from our head: And by the loss of our original righteousness, and the corruption of our whole nature, with the innumerable actual sins and transgressions that flow from thence, we bear, alas! a great deal more of the Image of the Devil, and of the Brute, then we do of the Image of God.

His Affections turned all mutinous, disorderly, disturbed and confused, furiously rushing on prohibited objects, as the horse rusheth into the battel; and what movings of them were toward any commanded object, these were altogether irregular, not so much as one of them moved toward any such object, purely or primarly, because it was a thing commanded: His Memory, quite losed its re•entive facultie, as to the remembring of any thing spiritually good, in the way it should have been remembred, it became in that respect as a leck vessel, all such things slipping and running through and out of it: His Conscience being de•ed and made guilty, became clamorous, unquiet, challenging and accusing, boisterous and stormy, filling him with horrour; and (when not stupified and benummed with spiritually Lethargick Security, or Cauterized) p•ing him upon the rack, and making a kind of hell in his bosome, so that he was Magur •issabib, terror round about▪ even his own Burrio and tormente•: All the members of his body were yeelded to be the weapons of unrighteousness ⟨image 5⟩to sin; So that all the faculties and powers of his •oul, and members of his body, were on the suddain up in armes in hostility and rebellion against God, proclaiming and waging war with him, and on the matter blasphemously bidding him a defyance: O! •ad and sorrowful revolution, in and on the Little world Man. Heu quantum mutatus abillo! God made him upright, but he sought out to himself many inventions; wo to us for we have sinned, and the crown hath fallen from our head: And by the loss of our original righteousness, and the corruption of our whole nature, with the innumerable actual sins and transgressions that flow from thence, we bear, alas! a great deal more of the Image of the Devil, and of the Brute, then we do of the Image of God.

The re-introduction, restoration, and renovation of the pristine beautiful conformity to the glorious Image of God (with their reconciliation and justification through his satisfaction to divine justice) in some of the universally lapsed and loosed posterity of Adam, even all the elect and gifted ones to the Mediator to be redeemed, sanctified and saved by him, in order to the capacl•ating of them to enjoy fellowship with God, (forefaulted by the fall) and that by a new Creation (the very splendour and glory of the whole Creation) was the great errand and business, for which Christ Jesus came▪ into the world; who being the head and foundation-stone of this new Creation, hath gracious undertaken to prepare, sanctify and glorify his mystical body, or all the elect given to him by Jehovah: which he accordingly effecteth, and bringeth to pass, by regenerating them, by sanctifying them, and by carrying on this work of sanctification in the growth and gradual advances thereof, till it be perfected and consummated in glory: whereby the Image of God in men is again renewed, and restored both in their souls and bodies respectively, in a good measure now in this life, and shall be perfectly in the life to come; where, as they shall all see him as he is, intuitively face to face, and enjoy him fully and immediately, without any the least moments interruption through all eternity, so they ⟨image 5⟩shall be like him, perfectly like him, according to Creature capacity; resembling him to the very •fe: All the faculties and powers of their souls partake of this renewed work; The Understanding being savingly enlightened; the will rectified; the Affections reduced •nto order; the Memory strengthened, and the Conscience much cleansed and calmed, and put into a capacity as to accuse and condemn, so to excuse, allow and absolve, as there is just ground for either; and they put to make it their great business about which they allow themselves to be exercised, always to have it void of offence toward God and toward men?

The re-introduction, restauration, and renovation of the pristine beautiful conformitie to the glorious Image of God (with their reconciliation and justification through his satisfaction to divine justice) in some of the universally lapsed and losed posterity of Adam, even all the elect and gifted ones to the Mediator to be redeemed, sanctified and saved by him, in order to the capacl•ating of them to enjoy fellowship with God, (forefaulted by the fall) and that by a new Creation (the very splendor and glory of the whole Creation) was the great ear•nd and bussiness, for which Christ Jesus came▪ into the world; who being the head and foundation-stone of this new Creation, hath gracious• undertaken to prepare, sanctifie and glorifie his mystical body, or all the elect given to him by Iehovab: which he accordingly effecteth, and bringeth to passe, by regenerating them, by sanctifying them, and by carrying on this work of sanctification in the growth and gradual advances thereof, till it be perfected and consummated in glory: whereby the Image of God in men is again renewed, and restored both in their souls and bodies respectively, in a good measure now in this life, and shall be perfectly in the life to come; where, as they shall all see him as he is, intuitively face to face, and enjoy him fully and immediately, without any the least moments interruption through all eternity, so they ⟨image 5⟩shall be like him, perfectly like him, according to Creature capacitie; resembling him to the verie •fe: All the faculties and powers of their souls partake of this renewed work; The Understanding being savingly enlightned; the will rectified; the Affections reduced •nto order; the Memory strengthned, and the Conscience much cleansed and calmed, and put into a capacity as to accuse and condemne, so to excuse, allow and absolve, as there is just ground for either; and they put to make it their great bussiness about which they allow themselves to be exercised, alwayes to have it void of offence toward God and toward men?

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 ra•k to the final sorrow and shame of such as are led through gra•e to take this course with them; as the ⟨image 6⟩now-sunk and any other way silenced challenges of most men and women, will once most certainly rise on them, and speak at a high rate against them, never any more to hold their peace from grievously galling and gnawing accusations; For to the unclean and unbelieving nothing is pure, but even the mind and conscience is defiled.

First, we would above all things look well that once we have a good Conscience, not only Morally (that is when Conscience iudgeth it self bound to owne Gods •evealed will for its rule, and when it impelleth or pusheth the man to act according to that rule, and withall 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 fai•h (the gift of God) to the blood of sprinkling, which both purgeth and •acifieth, 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 cryes of the most cl•morous and guilty Conscience, and is that wherein all disquieting challenger and •ccusations for sin• are only •afely sunk and and put to silence, so as they shall never again swime above, and ra•k to the final sorrow and shame of such as are led through gra•e to take this course with them; as the ⟨image 6⟩now-sunk and any other way silenced challenges of most men and women, will once most certainly rise on them, and speak at a high rate against them, never any more to hold their peace from grievously galling and gnawing accusations; For to the unclean and unbelieving nothing is pure, but even the minde and conscience is defiled.