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
A25854	Mr. John Arndt (that famous German divine) his book of Scripture declaring that every child of God ought and must 1. daily die to the old Adam, but to Christ live daily, 2. and be renewed to the image of God day by day, 3. and in the new-birth live the life of the new creature / translated out of the Latine copie by Radulphus Castrensis Antimachivalensis.; Wahres Christenthum. 1. Buch. English	Arndt, Johann, 1555-1621.; Antimachivalensis, Radulphus Castrensis.	1646 (1646)	Wing A3731; ESTC R16074	180,338	440

judgement Rom. 2. The third is the Law of Nature or naturall justice by which honest and dishonest are commonly discerned whereby both joy and sorrow are discerned and reconciled For there was never The light of nature any Nation so barbarous and c●●ell which did not acknowledge some God to be nature arguing and convincing this by both inward and outward reasons most firmly yea they did acknowledge not only there was a God but taught by their owne conscience because therein somtimes they were cruciated with sharp and terrible things and sometimes they did find an inward pleasure and tranquillity thereby collecting that God was just and ought so to be and that he was the revenger of ev●ll things and the rewarder of good things by which knowledge they went further to find the knowledge or doctrine of the immortality of the soule as appeareth by Plato who most gravely hath discussed and treated of this businesse Last of all by this law of Nature or inbred light they gathered that God was the author and cause of good according to whose nature the best and true worship was the study of vertue and a mind purged from vices wherefore they defined the summe or chiefe good by vertue vertue is the chiefe goodnesse and there were for that cause Schooles of Morall vertues founded and maintained by Socrates and other Philosophers which things doe serve us for instruction that God hath left in man a spark of the light of nature and as it were a certaine token of footstep of in-bred knowledge and understanding Sparks of naturall Theologie of God that thereby he might be admonished of his off-spring and by following these footsteps might so come to his Maker neither was many of the Ethnickes ignorant of this and amongst those Aratus the Poet spoken of by Saint Paul Acts 17. We are the off-spring of God And Munilius who thus saith Is there any doubt that God dwels in our hearts and that our souls return to heaven as they came from heaven Moreover because the Gentiles had this naturall testimony of God and a conscience besides which is a convincing argument that he is our maker and hereupon through their own fault and merit man shall be condemned and shall be altogether without excuse And St. Paul Ethnickes are inexcuseable to the Romans argueth thus Chap. 1. He who knoweth that God is and doth not study to know him aright and him to worship he shall be inexcusable at the day of judgement Seeing then that the Gentiles did know the justice of God that is to say taught by their natural conscience because they that do evill are worthy of death not only because they doe evill but because they are delighted therein and thereby have condemned themselves And in Chap. 2. hee speaketh of their consciences in themselves in like manner accusing or excusing themselves will be a testimony at the future day of judgement when God shall judge the hidden thoughts of men which if the Gentiles for that cause shal be inexcusable because being indued with the naturall knowledge of God against their consciences they have not sought God what shall they say for themselves to whom God hath manifested his Word and by Jesus Christ his onely begotten Sonne hath invited them to repentance that is that they should abstain from sinne and decline from the works of malice to participate by faith False Christians lesse excuseable then Ethnicks the merit of Christ and obtain thereby eternall salvstion Wherefore every halfe Christian in that day shall be condemned of two most grievous witnesses by their conscience I say the law of Nature and by Two witnesses shal cōdemn the wicked the revealed word of God Whereupon the terrible sentence will follow Christ saying In that day it shall be easier or better for Sodome and Gomorrah then for them and that the Queen of the South shall arise to the condemnation of the wicked generation The reason is because our great God made the Whereupon cometh the eternall vexatiō of the soul soule immortall and in that soul a conscience which can neither forget God nor come at God and hereupon followeth the terrible vexation and unrest of the soule and the everlasting pains of the damned which also will be so much more heavy hereafter by how much more by impenitency of heart they have heaped up the wrath of God against the day of judgement 2 Thess 2. for even as our great God Why amongst Christians be wickedness unknown to the heathen by a most just judgement hath given over the Gentiles into a reprobate sense because they contemned the inward Law of Nature and their conscience and the Law of God written in their hearts and contemptuously resisted it as God himself whereby they become blind in their understanding they fell violently into filthy and abominable heynous offences thereby heaping up the just wrath of God So false Christians because they have contemned both as well the inward as the outward testimony of God in not repenting doe resist the holy Ghost and blaspheme God For this cause God giveth them over to a reprobate sense worse then Ethnickes and Turkes And moreover suffereth them to fall into terrible errours to beleeve lies and that all those should be punished that are delighted in unrighteousnesse Whereupon it is that such filthy abominable offences do creep abroad among Christians and doe beare rule pompous and Satanicall pride unsatiable covetousnesse abominable intemperance beastly lust and every kind of most inhumane wickednesse all which doe arise from wilfull blindnesse hardnesse of heart and are in a reprobate sense and the reason is because Christians in their life and They that wil not follow Christ follow Satan conversation will not follow poore courteous meek lowly Christ and are scandalized in him thinking it a shame to them to lead his most holy life whom God hath given to the world that they might live after his example as in the light and walke in his steps Hereupon the the same most just God suffereth them to follow Satan taking the life of Satan upon them full of all abominable wickednesse lying and unmercifulnesse to execute all the workes of darknesse because they resolved in their minds not to walk in the light according to that of Christ Walk in the light while you Joh. 12. have the light that the darknesse doe not overtake you Lastly if God did punish the Ethnicks with such terrible blindnesse and reprobate sense because they contemned the Law of Nature being like unto the snuffe of a Lamp smoking and the remainder of the darknesse of the light of Nature and Conscience or as the words of Paul to the Romans Chap. 1. they did not approve it to have God in their knowledge so that by their own fault they went without their own salvation how much more true is it The new covenant written in our hearts that those doe not attain to salvation in