What Shall We Answer?; a Plain Address on the Subject of the Romish Invasion

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851. Excerpt: ... out respect of any person. He regardeth not the rich and mighty, no bribe can blind him; neither doth he pity the person of the poor, to give for pity an unjust sentence; but as the truth is, so speaketh he. The Commission is the active power of Conscience, given of God by His Word, to condemn the guilty or to acquit the innocent, except this Commission be lost. Sometimes it is lost, as when conscience is dead, as in all ignorant persons; or seared with an hot iron, as some men's have been and are, --such as fall from the faith, and are past feeling, by reason of the blindness of mind, and hardness of heart; or else benumbed, as in those that fall into some grievous sin, as did David; who lay therein, until Nathan found the Commission, and acquainted him with it, when he said, Thou art the man., If the Commission be lost, the power of Conscience lieth dead, seared, and benumbed; then the Judge can do nothing till it be found, and being found, it is read openly. The reading of this Commission before the whole County, is every man's experimental knowledge of the power of Conscience; by which is acknowledged his authority to sit as Judge over every thought, word, and deed, of man. The Circuit of this Judge, is his own Soul. He is r not to sit and judge of other men's thoughts, words, or deeds, but of the thoughts, words, and deeds of that man, wherein he is. A man's own Conscience is Judge of himself; to judge another is out of his circuit, neither hath he any authority from the King of Heaven, to enable him so to do. Knowledge may go out to see and discern of other men's ways, but Conscience keepeth ever at home, and sits within to judge of that man's courses, whose Conscience he is. Conscience only troubles a man for his own sins; it cannot for another man'...