Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	according_a	heart_n	lord_n	1,006	5	3.6378	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91923	Love to the captives: or, The love of God to the world; who so loved the world, that he gave his onely begotten son, to be the light of the world, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life, and no man cometh to the father, but by him, (who is the redeemer of the captives.) Given forth for their sakes, who desire to turn to the Lord, or to see a return out of captivity, declaring the way to God, and where power against sin may be received, that your souls may no longer be held under the snare of the Divel, nor you be made a prey upon by deceivers, but come away to the light, which is the power of God unto salvation; and he that believes shall be saved, and he that believes not shall be damned.	Rofe, George, d. 1664.	1657 (1657)	Wing R1786; Thomason E903_1; ESTC R207415	6,715	8

sitteth in the Temple of God and saith he is God and so deceiveth them that dwell on the earth who is transformed into the likeness of the truth it self and is a leader of the children of disobedience in all manner of deceivableness of unrighteousness and keeps you in captivity 2 Thes 2.10 Isa 5.13 and into much profession you are led and many likenesses and invitations are acted and many sects and forms Eccles 7.24 and opinions ran into though the life and power of God is lived out of yea it may be not one of a thousand that are acquainted with it or that dare own them who witness it forth as it is in Jesus who are ready to seal to their testimony with their bloods 2 Tim. 4.3 and though you reject the power and testimony of this pure life yet you have heaped up Teachers to your selves and they have your praise and are exalted by you though I know and if you did but examine your own hearts the light of Christ in you would let you also see and know Jer. 23.21.22 32. that they have not profited you but the bands of iniquitie yet is strong in you and them who you have so set up and do exalt and praise to be rare Teachers many of you do not understand what they say nor they themselves whereof they affirm but many of you are in such sottishness that when you are hearing these you so allow of 1 Tim. 1.7 that sleep overcomes you yea in the very time of your pretended worship and some of your your hearts run a whoring after the things and lusts and pleasures and vanity of the world Ezek. 6.9 Hosea 4.11 imagining or coveting what to have to eat or drink and to put on to your bodies and inventing how to get money to satisfie your lusts with 1 Tim. 6.10 and how you should take pleasure enough in your own beloveds or deceitful lovers which your adulterous hearts delights in and thus you poor blind people are held captive and though you draw near unto God with your lips and profess his name with your tongues Mat. 15.7 8 9 yet your hearts is far from him and thus have you delighted your selves in vanity following the wicked one who hath stoln away your hearts which runs a whoring from the living God delighting in the ceatures more than in the Creator and thus you spend your time in vanity treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath Rom 2 5. and thus in your pretended solemn meetings and best duties as you esteem of them you euen add sin unto iniquity your minds running a whoring from God yea when pretended to serve and worship God and in the captivitie where you are where iniquitie is lived in it cannot be otherwaies for where the light is not your guide there your wills is at liberty and the wicked one subjecting you to vanity and the light in which your minds should be stayed is rejected and so in vain is your worship and your drawing near unto God with your mouthes Psal 66 18. while iniquity is regarded in your hearts and the light of Christ rejected Isa 58. which should lead you out of captivity and break the bands of iniquitie And this I know that in time past when the night was upon me and my soul held captive and the creature made a servant to sin and corruption I followed after such men as you have set up to be your Teachers yea I followed them day after day long together and never found any satisfaction to my soul by what I heard them speak though some praise of men I got thereby yet misery encompassed me yea often day and night I sought after the Lord and that in tears and my soul desired after the Lord but their teachings was so dirty and their words so deceitful and so contrary to the life and power of God that instead of awakning me to the Judgements of God 1 Cor 15 34. Ephes 5 4. Rom 8 20. they lull'd me asleep and that in the very time of being to hear them and though I was a constant hearer of them several years together yet vanity and pride encreased and the vain mind and wicked thoughts were at liberty in the tim s of their speaking and I followed them till misery overtook me and the light in my Conscience shewed me the evil of their doings and the vanitie of their words and before I heard the everlasting Gospel the light truely declared of I saw by the witness of God in the Priests and people great wickedness and my self to be one amongst them and knew no way to recover out of it until the Lord revealed his power and while I was a follower of the Priests I instead of going to the Steeple-house have been made to go and lament my condition in a secret place yea from amongst men in a word to seek the Lord and to bewail my soul that was overwhelmed with iniquitie and desired in tears to know the Lord but the way I never found by the wisdome of man nor had known it to this day if the Lord Jesus had not revealed himself to me in his marvellous light which often appeared to me when I knew it not I speak the truth I lie not God is my witness who knows the secrets of all hearts who is the righteous Judge who will reward every man according to his deeds Isa 59.13 Rom. 2.6 and every mans deeds shall be witnessed in the presence of the Lord by the light of his Son in their consciences And all people consider in your beds and in your secret clossets examine your selves and let the light in your consciences manifest your conditions to you which light is present at all times letting you see you should not commit evil and then you will see that you know but little of the life and power of God though in words you have made a large profession of his name and this is it which the Lord requires of you that you obey the light of his Son in your consciences that 's the light which lets you see the evil of your doings and a measure of it you have every one received and obedience to it God requires John 1 9. 1 Cor. 12 7. 1 Sam 15.22 Matt 11.27 and doing this its better than Sacrifice and all that comes unto God its in this light and no man knows the Father but them to whom the light reveals him and so all your profession of God which is out of the light is but vanity and iniquitie and while pride and lusts is obeyed in the professor there is the hypocrite the thief and the robber running before Christ professing his name Iob 15 31. Mal. 4.1 Iames 4 6. Matt 23. Iohn 10 8. Isa 1 12. Deut 4 30 31 being out of his life God requires not this at your hands but obedience the Lord requires and the breaking off iniquitie