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
A19639	Three sermons viz. The walking sleeper, the ministeriall husbandrie, the discouerie of the heart. Preached and published by Sam. Crooke.	Crook, Samuel, 1575-1649.	1615 (1615)	STC 6069; ESTC S117125	72,467	211

a more conuenient time Hee loueth not the loud alarme of the Trumpet shewing sinne Esa 58.1 and denouncing judgement the soft musicke of consolation pleaseth him better of the two Yet it is but as a song vnto him it tickleth his eare Ezek. 33 32 and haply causeth him to make an offer to rise but presently hee sinketh downe into his Couch againe it maketh him turne vpon his bed Pro. 26.14 as the dore vpon the hinges but not turne off Thus Herod at Iohn Baptists preaching Mark 6.20 c. turned this way and that way but hung fast all the while vpon the hinge of his beloued sinne The like may bee said of the day-light of the Gospell which many times shining vpon a carnall man offereth him the good morrow shewing him that it is both time and reason he should arise from sleepe but neyther the Sun-shine of Christ Mal. 4.2 Ioh. 5.35 nor the candle-light of Iohn Baptist can bee long pleasing vnto the carnall sluggard 1. Thess 5.7 They that sleep sleep in the night or which is all one turne the day into the night The morning light is not in them Esa 8.20 neither can it bee welcome vnto them but is as vnto the murtherer Iob. 24.13 c. the adulterer and the theefe euen as the shadow of death Ioh. 3.20 For euery man that euill doth hateth the light Sometimes also this sluggard is shaken with the force of Gods iudgements lighting eyther vpon others or vpon himselfe and then hee maketh God many faire promises that hee will awake and get vp yea that hee will rise early Psal 78.34 c. and seeke the Lord but being not of an vpright and faithfull heart hee doth but slatter God with his mouth and dissemble with him with his tongue Hee was frighted with a fearefull dreame of worldly shame or of the terrors of God but hath quickly ouercome that feare with the resolution of the valiant Drunkard They haue stricken me but I was not sicke Prou. 23.35 they haue beaten mee but I felt it not therefore I will seeke it yet still Thus notwithstanding the exterior causes of grace or helpes thereto may happily not bee wanting to the carnall sluggard yet whiles there is no soule of spirituall life no inward operation of the Spirit of Christ to mortifie the deeds and lusts of the bodie Rom. 8.13 it is impossible that such a man should truely say mine heart waketh And in like manner may wee conclude against the apparant effects of grace which may seeme to plead for the naturall man Hee may attaine to some generall knowledge of God and the thinges of God why not Iam. 2.19 seeing euen the Deuils beleeue and tremble yet is not his vnderstanding truely awakened or enlightned His knowledge of God is but his dreame and as no man maketh his dreames the rules of his life no more doth hee make his knowledge the rule of his practise And therefore hee is not onely debarred from our Lordes blessing Is yee know these thinges Ioh. 13.17 blessed are ye if ye doe then but also denied the honour of his knowledge being reckoned among those fooles that vnderstand not nor seeke after God Rom. 3.11 yea that saie in their hearts There is no God Psal 14.1 He may haue some touch and sense of conscience Rom. 2.15 for euen the Gentiles haue a conscience bearing witnesse and thoughts accusing or excusing them and yet neyther is conscience at anie time in a naturall man soundly awakened that is purged and pacified for vnto the vnbeleeuing and vnsanctified nothing is pure but euen their mindes and consciences are defiled Tit. 1.15 and as for that peace which wicked men vainly preach vnto themselues it is but a sleeping joye like that of the hungrie man who dreameth and behold he eateth and when he awaketh his soule is emptie Esa 29 8. True it is that Conscience as Gods Register and Notarie neuer sleepeth no not in the bosome of the greatest sluggard but keepeth a perfect Booke of account in Gods behalfe against the sinner which shall one day bee produced and opened but being also a deputed Iudge to excuse Reuel 20.12 or accuse to iustifie or condemne Herein it is that Conscience sheweth it selfe to be a sleep in the vnregenerate man For sometimes it excuseth where it should accuse calling euill good and darknesse light haply at first rather desiring it were so then iudging it to be so but at length it becommeth as a lier that telleth his lie so often till in the end he beleeueth it himselfe Or else it iustifieth the deed done and withall the sinfull doer when onely the worke it selfe is justifiable not the manner of doing Thus the Consciences of ignorant Gentiles are said Rom. 2.14.15 by the Apostle to excuse them when they doe by nature the thinges required in the Law but being performed by direction of naturall reason not by grace and faith Heb. 11.6 it is impossible they should bee pleasing vnto God Rom. 14.23 for whatsoeuer is not of faith is sin and not comming to the light of the Word for the examination of such deeds Ioh. 3.21 it cannot bee made manifest that such workes are wrought according to God Sometimes againe it accuseth and condemneth which is the ordinarie iudgement of conscience in wicked men vnlesse when it is imperiously put to silence or seared with an hot iron 1. Tim. 4.2 and so brought past feeling for a time Ephes 4.19 1. Cor. 15.34 But this is not a waking to do righteously but to make way vnto and to approoue the righteous iudgement of God who shall one daie pronounce condemnation vpon the sinner thus formerly condemned of himselfe For euen as many as haue sinned without the Law written shal vpon this euidence of conscience perish also without the Law How much more they Tit. 3.11 Rom. 2.12 whose enditement shal be framed both according to the euidence of conscience and knowledge of the Word and will of God Tit. 1.15 Thus it fareth with conscience according to the Prouerbe It runneth with the Hare and holdeth with the hoūd that is It shareth with the sinner as a guilty defiled mēber but it holdeth with the blood-hound of Gods iustice pursuing the sinner and in him sinfull conscience it selfe vnto destruction Finally the vnregenerate man may seeme not onely in his speech but euen in his practise to shew some tokens of an heart awakened by grace For who so forward to take the word of God in his mouth Psal 50.16.17 as hee that hateth to be reformed and the Gentiles saith the Apostle in the place forementioned Rom. 2.14 do by nature the thinges required in the Law Mark 6.20 and Herod not onely heard Iohn Baptist and that gladly but also did many things by his direction and perswasion But alas all this is but as the talking