Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	according_a	dead_a	small_a	2,302	5	6.4280	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47000	The black book of conscience, or, God's high court of iustice in the soul wherein the truth and sincerity, the deceit and hypocrisie of every mans heart and ways is judged and discovered by their consciences : very seasonable for these times wherein wicked men, under pretence of liberty of conscience, take liberty to sin and blaspheme / by Andrew Iones.	Jones, Andrew.	1663 (1663)	Wing J906; ESTC R29450	10,659	26

THE BLACK BOOK OF CONSCIENCE OR Gods High Court of Iustice in the SOUL Wherein the Truth and Sincerity the Deceit and Hypocrisie of every mans Heart and Ways is judged and discovered by their consciences Very seasonable for these Times wherein wicked men under pretence of Liberty of Conscience take liberty to sin and Blaspheme The 22th Edition By Andrew Iones The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it I the Lord search the heart I try the reins even to give every man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doing Ier. 17.9 Vnto the pure all things are pure but to them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure but even ther Mind and Conscience is defiled Tit. 1.15 Take heed to your selves what conscience ye have For conscience will damn and conscience will save London Printed for Eliz. Andrews at the White-Lyon near Pye-Corner 1663 The Black Book of CONSCIENCE Revel 20.12 And I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the Books were opened And another Book was opened which is the Book of Life and the dead were judged of those things which were written in the Books according to their works AS there are several books of God which he hath written for the good of all the children of men so there are two special books by which the Lord will procēed in Iudgement against all the sons and daughters of men The books which God hath given to the children of men for their use and comfort of salvation are these First and chiefly the books of the Old and New Testament where in ●esus Christ in all his Offices King Priest ●nd Prophet for us to rule and guide us by his Spirit in our hearts is made known and de●●ared unto us And therein likewise is set down how every one of us ought to live an● demean himself in this present world with ●●veral fearful Examples of Gods heavy judg●ments against wicked and notorious sinner in drowning the old World for their sins a●● wickedness as you may sée in the sixth of G●●nesis So likewise in destroying Sodom G●●morrah by fire from Heaven Gen. 19.24 2● And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gom●●rah Fire and Brimstone and over threw tho● Cities and all their inhabitants With sund●● ot her fearful examples of Gods heavy wra●● and indignation both against sin and sinner in general particular All which as St. Ju●● saith in his Epistle are set forth for our examples suffering the vengeance of the etern●● fire Not for our examples that we should 〈◊〉 as they did but that we should be afraid to 〈◊〉 as they did to commit such sins lest the Lo●● lay upon us such or more heavier weights wrath and vengeance So likewise in the book of the Scripture set forth the blessed and happy estate and condition of all the godly both in this life in the life to come as̄ you may sée Psa 1. and 15. and 91. The godly man shall be delivered from the snare of the Fowler and from the noisome P●stilence And because he hath made the Lo●● his refuge there shall no evil befal him So I shall give his Angels charge over him for to ●eep him in all his ways v. 80 21. The joys ●●●t are prepared for the godly and the eternal ●orments that are appointed for the wicked ●●e here likewise set forth in the Book of the ●cripture as you may sée Mat. 15.34 41. To ●e godly Come ye blessed of my Father saith ●hrist inherit the Kingdom prepared for you ●●om the beginning of the world But to the ●●godly Depart from me ye cursed into ever●●sting fire prepared for the devil his Angels Another great book of God is the book of the ●reature containing those mighty works both 〈◊〉 the Creation and Providence wherein the ●lmightiness Power and Goodness of God ●●e so plainly written that he that runs may ●●ad and sée it for as the Apostle saith Rom. ● The invisible things of him from the cre●●ion of the world are clearly seen being un●erstood saith the Apostle by the things that ●●e made even his eternal power Godhead that they are without excuse Who but an ●lmighty God could out of nothing create all things and being created rule and govern all things As David saith It is nothing but the ●lmighty Power and Providence of God that ●ears up the earth and upholds the foundation thereof And this Book even the very hea●ens who know not God in his word who never heard of Iesus Christ or Salvation are acquainted with they I say by séeing and reading the mighty works of God in the world do confess and say Verily their is God and none but a God could create those glorious cretures the Sun Moon and Stars So likewise there are two special Books by which God will judge all the sons and daughters of men at the last And these are first the book of his remembrance written by himself wherein the lives of all men yea their very thoughts are recorded as David saith Psa 94.11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men that they are vanity And Psa 129 1 2 3 4. saith David O Lord thou hast searched me and known me thou knowest my down-sitting and my uprising thou understandest my thoughts afar off Thou compasseth my path and my lying down and art acquainted with all my ways There is not a word in my mouth but thou O Lord knowest it altogether And although the heart of man as Jeremiah saith Jer. 17.9 10. is deceitful above all things yet God hath exactly known every turning corner thereof I the Lord know the heart saith he I try the reins There is nothing can be hid from his eternal all-seeing eye And then secondly there is the book of collscience in which is exactly written all our actions thoughts words and deeds and according to this book of conscience and what is therein written will the Lord proceed in judgment and every mans conscience shall be his own Judge Saith God what hast thou done How hast thou lived in the World Why thus and thus have I lived saith Conscience Conscience will then speak the truth and nothing but the truth O Lord saith a wicked mans conscience I have dishonoured thy name I have abused thy grace and mercy in ●urning it into wantonness I have abused thy treatures by wastful and riotous spending to please and satisfie my lust saith the Prodigal mans conscience And by chambring and wantonness by gaming and dicing away precious ●ime faith the lascivious and voluptuous mans conscience Thou gavest me times and ●easons of grace mercy and many precious ●pportunities and soul-advantages whereby I might have wrought out my own salvation ●ith fear and trembling and as Peter saith I might have made my calling and election sure ●o mine own soul but instead of working out my own salvation with fear and trembling ●n making my calling and

Heaven nor Hell Whose God is their belly and whose end is destruction as S. Paul saith Phil. 3.19 who declare their sin as Sodom and hide it not Wounto them saith the Lord they have rewarded evil to themselves Isa 3.9 this may be said of thousands among us whose countenance testifie against them their wanton carriages painted faces naked breasts powdred locks 〈◊〉 other antick fashions testifie against thousands both of men and women the they do little mind this great truth that conscience can and will declare all their doings to God Proud Hamans drunken Nabals and whoring Jesabel declare their sin as Sodom hide it not and as for Conscience they turn him off But in these miserable wretches know this as the prophet saith Wo unto them who have reward●● evil unto themselves They have made a long black bloody vill for conscience to open again●● them at the last day of the term of their lives a● soon as ever their souls are departed from the●● bodies sentence shall be passed against them according to the light and testimony of the●● own consciences Séeing then Conscience will give testimon● of every ones ways let us not slight Cons●●ence let us not stop the mouthof Conscien●● séeing Conscience can and will speak and t●●● us what we are Many there are that go about to stop the mouth of conscience when Conscience deals plainly with them and tels them of their sins Oh they cannot endure to hear of that but remember the miserable end of Judas what said Judas his conscience to him Thou hast betrayed thy Lord and Master for a little Silver Ali covetous wretch But could Judas his silver stop the mouth of his conscience No Judas his conscience so terrifies him that he flung in the money again and so went and hanged himself So likewise remember the fearful estate of Spira and many others whose consciences made them to possess the wrath of God here on earth A wounded spirit saith Solomon Prov. 8.14 who can bear a tormenting and condemning Conscience who can endure O there is no resisting of conscience it is Gods Vicegerent in the soul When conscience speaks threatning language to many for such and such sins they séek to turn conscience out of doors but because they cannot possibly do this they strive to stop his mouth by running wilfully into sin like men that desperately give up their souls to the devil and so make shipwrack of faith conscience soul and all for ever and then follows as we have seen by woful experience self-stabbing self-hanging drowning or poisoning or some such like accursed ends Oh consider this all ye that forget God and make no conscience of your ways you undermine your own salvation Many men deal with conscience as Felix did with Paul Acts 24.25 they will hear conscience so long as it speaks good but when conscience tells them thorowly of their sins their darling sins then they have enough of conscience and so puts him off till they he better at lesure When there was no King in Israel every man did what was good in his own eyes so where there is no conscience alive in the soul men lives as they list but yet for all this conscience will speak home at last If thou art a drunkard or an adulterer or an unjust dealer or whatsoever sin it is thou art guilty of conscience will make it known and if at last conscience doth condemn thou shalt never be saved But on the contrary though men and devils say thou art an hypocrite or the like yet if thou hast the testimony of thy conscience God will own thee as just and righteous One dram of the peace of conscience is worth a thousand worlds What would the damned in Hell give for a little of this lasting jay this peace which passeth all understanding the want of which is hell yea worse then hell Think upon this O ye great ones of the world who live in pleasure Remember that there is a conscience and that there is a God and that thou hast a precious immortal soul which if thy conscience witness against shall be thrown-into Hell You that eat the fat and sweet of the earth and drink wine in bowls and cloath your selves in silks remember this that conscience takes notice of all thy ways of the pride of thy heart of the vanity of thy life and setteth all down in his Black Book You that like the harlot in Prov. 7. cry Let us take our fill of love and pleasure consider that all these things must have an end when all is done the Bell must toll and you must all dance after deaths pipe who are now stnging and swinging your selves in worldly pleasures and delights O if God should say to any soul of you as he did to the rich fool in Luk. 12.20 This night shall thy soul be taken from thee It shall little advantage you then to weep and cry O that I were out of these Infernal and external Flames O that I had hearkened when time was to the voice of Christ and my own Conscience The Sighs and groans of dying men are often very sad but the cryes and groans of the damned in Hell can never he imagined or expressed O constder this you that sin away Conscience that quaff and drink away conscience accompanying one another in sin take heed you be not one day found to weep over one anothers backs in hell Certainly whole coachfuls of gallants will be tumbled down into hell The Lord awaken your sleepy dead consciences before you go hence be no more seen What pitty is it that persons that bears the Image of God and are as it were in outward glory and beauty Gods above others what pitty is it that such beauty should come to be embraced by ugly loathsome devils in Hell Thousands there are that court and sport pin and paint away their time whose end is to be burned and shall at last perish in hell Fruitless Fig-trees they are that bear nothing but leaves Cut them down saith God and cast them into the fire To perish in a prison or on a dunghil is nothing to dye for want of food is nothing Lazarus died so whilst Dives with his delicious fare dyed on his hed of down and was cast into hell You that lye upon beds of Ivory and have your hangings of needle-works if you get not Christ and a good conscience hell shall be your fare and devils your companions to torment you for ever and who shall be able to stand in the day of the Lords wrath And who can dwell with everlasting burnings Companions in sin shall be companions in Hell and those who can sport andp lay one with another shall in Hell drag and torment one another and curse the day that ever they saw one another and cry out one of another O what miserable wretches were we to lose the heaven of heavens for a little vain delight the love and favour of God for the love and favour of wicked rompanions in whose presence we more delighted then in the everlasting love of God whose pleasures are pleasures for evermore What prefitteth it now that we have had our Wine and our Musick our fill and our sull of earthly delights O wretched creatures that we are who shall deliver us from this dying death these miserable torments Wo unto us we have rewarded evil to our own souls we are tanished for ever from the presence of the Lord and have utterly lost that inward peace of conscience the want whereof addeth torments to our torments and maketh us in our misery more excéeding miserable Now the Lord give every one of us this peace this joy which that we may all have The Peace of God which passeth all understanding keep our hearts and minds in the love and knowledge of Jesus Christ And the blood of Christ wash and purge our consciences from dead works that we may serve the living God Which that we may all do The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with us all Amen FINIS Courteous Reader THere is lately published an excellent and profitable Sermon called Christs first Sermon or The necessity duty and practice of Repentance opened and applied Also Christs last Sermon or The everlasting estate and condition of all men in the World to come Likewise the Christians best Garment or The putting on of the Lord Jesus Christ The Christians blessed Choice Also Heavens Glory and Hells Horror or the parable between Dives and Lazarus opened and applied And the School of Grace Very godly Books and are but three pence a peece price There is likewise nine other small Books all of them very godly and comfortable for thy soul One is entituled Englands Faithful Physitian The second Dooms-day at hand The third The Dreadful Character of a Drunkard The fourth The Fathers last blessing to his children The fifth The sin of pride arraigned and condemned The fixth The Plain-mans-plain Path-way to heaven The seventh Peters Sermon of Repentance The eighth The Charitable Christian The ninth Death Triumphant All very necessary for these licentious times each of them being but two pence price They are to be sold by Eli. Andrews at the white-Lyon neer Py-corner FINIS