Christian see to thy conscience or a treatise of the nature, the kinds and manifold differences of conscience, all very briefly, and yet more fully laid open then hitherto by Richard Bernard, parson of Batcombe in Somerset-Shire. Anno 1630.
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Christian see to thy conscience or a treatise of the nature, the kinds and manifold differences of conscience, all very briefly, and yet more fully laid open then hitherto by Richard Bernard, parson of Batcombe in Somerset-Shire. Anno 1630.
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Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.
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London :: Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Edward Blackmore, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Churchyard at the signe of the Angell,
1631.
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Conscience -- Early works to 1800.
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"Christian see to thy conscience or a treatise of the nature, the kinds and manifold differences of conscience, all very briefly, and yet more fully laid open then hitherto by Richard Bernard, parson of Batcombe in Somerset-Shire. Anno 1630." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A08989.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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Section 2. In what the iustifying Consci∣ence doth stand: and how it differs from a iustifying faith.
Q. HEre it may be deman∣ded wherein is this iu∣stification of Conscience?
Answ. It stands in the witnessing of our faith in foure things. First, that we beleeue what Christ Iesus is in himself, as the Eunuch did, Act. 8. 37. Secondly, that we beleeue what he was made for vs that be∣leeue in him, euen our wis∣dome, righteousnesse, san∣ctification, and redempti∣on, the end of the law for righteousnesse to all that
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beleeue, and our iustifier; Thirdly, that we doe be∣leeue to be iustified by him, and onely stand iust by his righteousnesse im∣puted without the workes of the Law. Fourthly, that we beleeue in thus belee∣uing, that God for his Son Iesus Christs sake will, yea and doth account vs righ∣teous before him. All these acts of faith it doth witnesse for vs vnto God: and this is the witnesse within vs.
Some may say, we haue often heard of a iustifying faith, but not so of a iustify∣ing Conscience, and ther∣fore desire to know the dif∣ference of them.
Answ. Iustifying faith is the instrumentall meanes
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by which we apply Christ to vs for our iustification: Iustifying Conscience is the witnessing of those forenamed acts of faith for vs vnto God. Faith is as one receiuing money and paying it to his credit our to acquit him of his debt, Conscience is a witnesse standing by, iustifying that payment by which he is freed from the debt.