Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	accuse_v	evil_a	excuse_v	1,813	5	9.4788	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09077	A double catechisme one more large, following the order of the common authorized catechisme, and an exposition thereof: now this second time published: the other shorter for the weaker sort: both set forth for the benefit of Christian friends and wel-willers. By Richard Bernard, Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word at Worsop in Nottingham-shire.; Large catechisme	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.	1607 (1607)	STC 1936; ESTC S113787	23,289	50

vnderstand the doctrine gathered and in heart to affect the vse made after I haue either read or heard it 5. Conference by asking of superiours and Ministers by reasoning with equals and teaching inferiours all in reuerence and humilitie to vnderstand that I know not to be resolued in that I doubt of and to call to memorie what I haue forgotten 6. Continuall prayer with practise of it in my particular calling Q. Do you thinke you are thus bound to forsake the diuell the vvorld and the flesh to beleeue in God to learne to knovv and do his vvill as they haue promised for you A. Yes verily and by Gods helpe so will I indeauour to do or else were I vnthankfull to God my Father that hath called me into the state of saluation making me his child and also vnmindfull of my sureties that haue so bound themselues for me Q. But tell me if any vndergo such a charge hovv can any be suretie to God for you that you should doe as they haue promised for you A. Being assured by faith that the seed of the faithfull are blessed they iudging me charitably to bee one of them did promise by the grace of God belonging vnto me in Christ and the meanes which they would vse J should performe the same Q. VVhat are the meanes vvhich they haue premised to vse A. That I should be taught so soone as I shall be able to learne what a solemne vow promise and profession I. haue made by them II. That they will exhort me to heare sermons and to learn all things which a Christian ought to know for his soules health but especially the principles of religion conteined in these foure the Creed the Lords prayer the ten Commaundements and the doctrine of the Sacraments The second part Q. Let vs then see vvhether they haue vsed those meanes and hovv you haue profited rehearse the articles of your beleefe A. I beleeue in God the Father almightie c. Q. VVhat do you chiefly learne out of these articles of your Christian faith A. 1. J learne to beleeue that there is a God to beleeue God and also in him 2. That he is but one in substance yet distinguished into three the Father Sonne and holy Ghost which distinction is in person propertie and manner of working 3. That this God hath a Church to which onely he is truly knowne and by the same sincerely worshipped Q Hovv can you be persvvaded that there is a God A. 1. By his created workes declaring 2. by my conscience accusing 3. by iudgements terrifying 4. by order obserued in all things 5. by heathen authors consenting 6. By the Scripture confidently auouching the same Q. VVhat is God vve cannot tell ther fore tell me vvhat a one he is A. A spirituall substance most holy and of glorious maiestie infinite in his being as euery where present in wisedome foreseeing rightly disposing all things in power doing what he list in iustice punishing whom he will iustly and in mercie to saue whom he pleaseth Q. Hovv do you behold and conceiue of this God A. Not by any bodily shape but spiritually by his word as he hath therein manifested himselfe and by his workes of creation preseruation and gouerning euery thing according to his foreknowledge and appointment therein to his owne glorie Q. VVhat beleeue you concerning God the Father A. That he is God Almightie in order the first person in the Trinitie begetting the Sonne from euerlasting of his whole substance maker of heauen and earth men and Angels and all things else very good onely by his word of nothing at the beginning in sixe dayes and still by his prouidence preserues the same for my benefite Q. VVhat vvas man especially made of A. Man consists of bodie and soule the first mans bodie was made of the dust of the earth but our bodies come by generation and are with his mortall and both his and all our soules by inspiration and are immortall Q. VVhat estate good man in by creation and vvhat a one did God make him A. In the estate of innocencie void of all sin free from any punishment and was made after Gods image that is holy and righteous hauing perfect knowledge of God and his will as much as was needfull for him and also readinesse of will in heartie affection with bodily strength to fulfill the same and had withall the rule of all Gods creatures made for his benefite Q. Hovv then came you into this vvretched estate A. By the fall of Adam and Eue my first parents who wilfully disobeyed God by the diuels enticement infidelitie and pride possessing their hearts and who stood and fell in the roome of all mankind Q. Hovv can our soules be sinfull that come not by propagation but by inspiration A. 1. For that his soule was deputie for all soules of men naturally begotten 2. Because man sinned and man is not man before body soule be knit together which being conioyned become together as man partaker of mans fal corruptiō Q. Doth any thing of that image of God remaine yet in vs A. Yes 1. In the mind a certaine generall corrupt knowledge of nature concerning good and euill to make vs inexcusable before God 2. In the conscience a power to reproue and represse in part vnbridled affections 3. In will though a free yet a weake choice in euery naturall and ciuill action Q. VVhat euils do vve receiue by this fall A. 1. In the mind ignorance of heauenly things vnaptnesse to learne them or to iudge of them aright but apt to learne euill and to inuent the same 2. In conscience impurenesse to excuse sin not to accuse beeing dead or benummed and to accuse for well or ill doing 3. In will want of power to will any true good but to resist it and onely to will that which is euill 4. In affection to hate good and runne after ill 5. In bodie fitnesse to begin sinne by receiuing outward obiects and occasions theteof by the senses and also to execute the same when the heart hath conceiued it in word and deed and this is called Originall sinne which is in euery man Q. Do all men continue in this sinfull and cursed estate for euer A. No but onely the reprobate whome God hath not decreed to saue to manifest his iustice for the elect being predestinate to eternall life are in this world in their appointed time called effectually through Gods word and his spirit iustified and sanctified and so shall continue in this estate of grace to be glorified for that God will also shew his mercie and all for his owne glorie Q. Are none of the reprobate euor in the estate of grace and Gods fauour A. No verily though many of them endued with the common gifts of the spirit may in outward appearance for a time seeme to be of the elect in the iudgement of the Church Q. Can any of the elect then be euer before God in the