Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	assurance_n	evil_a	sprinkle_v	1,124	5	10.4573	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02741	Tvvo treatises I. The purchase of Grace, shewing the excellency of Christ, and the graces of his spirit. II. The soules delight in Gods tabernacles, shewing the excellency of time, spent in duties of God's solemne service. Instances in the chiefe, viz. prayer, word, and sacraments. Motives and directions for right performance. Lastly, the chiefe usurpers of time discovered, with apt remedies against each of them. The contents of the booke are methodically exprest in the margent, which to the diligent reader may serve instead of a table. By William Harrison, Mr. of Arts, and minister of the Gospell at Canwicke neare Lincolne.	Harrison, William, minister at Canwick.	1639 (1639)	STC 12871; ESTC S103879	208,196	400

confessed his owne guiltinesse and the justice of God 2. Vindicated the innocency of Christ. 3. Was affected with the judgement and brought to feare God 4. Earnestly desired to worke upon his fellow servant Doest thou not feare God c. i.e. ô feare God consider what a wofull estate thou art plunged into Reasons or Motives io perswade us hereunto are foure 1. In regard of God 2. In regard of our selves 3. In regard of others 4. In regard of the excellency of Gods Ordinances 1. In regard of God because the Lord is much honoured and his Name is highly magnified and therefore hereby we shall shew our zeale for Gods glory and our ●ove unto his Majesty Gods glory in all things should be respected in the first place Whether ye eate or drinke or whatsoever ye doe doe all to the glory of God saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 10. 31. Now surely the more people and the greater the company is that joyne together in the duties of Gods service the more glory must needs hereby redound to God for the enlarging of Christs kingdome is a chiefe meanes of advancing Gods glory This our Saviour teacheth in the very mould and course of the Lords Prayer it appeareth in the very order of the petitions 1. Hallowed be thy Name to shew that in all things in the first place Gods glory must be respected 2. Thy kingdome come there is the chiefe meanes to shew that the comming of Gods kingdome is one chiefe meanes for the hallowing of his Name and the enlarging of Christ's kingdome is a chiefe meanes for the advancing of Gods glory Matth. 6. 10 11. certainely much glory must needs hereby redound to God when we are not content only to serve God our selves but also exhort and excite and stirre up others hereunto Secondly There is another Motive to perswade us which is drawne from our selves Hereby we shall manifest the work of grace wrought in our own hearts This is a good testimony that we are truely religious indeed when wee are not content to serve God our selves but are ready to provoke and stirre up others hereunto for goodnesse is a spreader of it selfe it is ready to disperse and communicate it selfe for the good of others Yee heard what the Holy Ghost said of Barnabas Acts 11. 23. That he exhorted them all that with purpose of heart they would cleave to the Lord ver 24. for he was a good man and full of the Holy Ghost A good man and one that is full of the Holy Ghost is and will be ready to excite and stirre up others unto that which is good When thou art converted strengthen thy brethren said our Saviour Luk. 22. 32. He that is truly converted himselfe will be ready to be a meanes to convert and turne others to God See it in David Psalme 51. 13. Then shall I teach thy wayes to the wicked and sinners shall be converted unto thee Where there is abundance of grace in the heart it will manifest it selfe in our gracious speeches and holy communication Psal. 37. 30 31. The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisedome his tongue will bee talking of judgement the Law of his God is in his heart c. for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh saith our Saviour Matth. 12. 34. I have hid thy Word in my heart saith David Psalme 119. 11. See the fruit of this Psalm 95. 6. O come let us worship and fall downe and kneele before the Lord our maker c. True grace maketh a man ready to doe good offices for others especially to perswade them to serve God and be religious Thirdly In regard of others For hereby we shall best manifest our love and respect to others yea we doe not know how much good we may doe them this way for by this we may come to save a soule from death and cover a multitude of sinnes Iam. 5. 20. Hereby we may come to be acquainted with the wayes of God our selves and others whom we perswade may be hereby converted to walke in his pathes for Psal. 19. 7. The Law of the Lord is perfect converting the soule c. See how confidently David assureth himselfe of the conversion of others upon his best endeavour to teach them Gods wayes Psal. 51. 13. Then shall I teach thy wayes to the wicked and sinners shall be converted unto thee How much more if we come to the house and Ordinances of God and bring others with us This argument Gods people have used to perswade others to goe with them to Gods house Come let us goe up to the mountaine of the Lord for he will teach us of his wayes and we will walke in his pathes Isa. 2. 2 3. This is the way to bring others to the true feare of GOD as well as our selves if we can perswade them to accompany us in the constant and frequent use of Gods Ordinances Observe an excellent place to this purpose Deut. 31. 11 12. When all Israel is come to appeare before the Lord in the place that he shall choose thou shalt reade this Law before all Israel in their hearing Gather the people together men women and children and the stranger that is within thy gates Why so What good will they get this That they may heare and that they may learne and feare the Lord your God to doe all the words of this Law Where we see that the house or place of Gods worship and service must be constantly frequented and that it is not enough for us to come thither our selves but we must also bring our whole families men women and children yea the very stranger that doth but occasionally come unto us we must bring all to Gods Ordinances And lastly that hereby we are likely to be instruments of working the feare of God in the hearts of those whom we bring and so to bring them to obedience Let no man say What neede we trouble our selves with others Is it not enough for every man to looke to himselfe and to have a care that he spend time himselfe in Gods service though he doe not meddle with others For though Christian charitie begin at home yet it doth not end there but he that is truely carefull to serve God himselfe will be readie to exhort and admonish others especially those of his familie and such as are committed to his charge And if any thinke much at this yet let him know that it is no more then his dutie Heb. 3. 13. But exhort one another dayly while it is called to day Nay no man can have any good assurance that he draweth nigh to God with a true heart himselfe if he doe not doe his best endeavour to excite and stirre up others to doe so too See an excellent passage to this purpose Heb. 10. 22. 24. c. Let us draw neare with a true heart in full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evill conscience and our

it t● serve thee then live in a prison a dunge●●on all my dayes he was strongly engaged to that mans service Here is our very case● we are all prisoners by nature and Sathan is ready every moment to cary us to the prison of hell where we should rot and burne for ever now the Lord redeemeth us and setteth us at liberty from the service of sinne and Sathan and the bondage o● corruption Deliver him from going downe to the pit saith the Lord his Ransome is paid according to that in Iob 33. 28. Oh then how strongly doth this binde us to be constant in Gods service that we should have a care never to depart from him Ye are not your owne saith the Apostle 2 Cor. 6. 19. 20. but ye are bought with a price and therefore glorifie God in your bodies and soules for they are Gods Ye are redeemed with a great price not with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vaine conversation but with the precious bloud of Christ as of a Lambe without spot saith the Apostle 1 Peter 1. 17 18. Excellent to this purpose is that in the song of Zachary Luk. 1. 68. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for he hath visited and redeemed his people But to what end hath he done this That he sheweth plainely ver 74. That we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies might serve him without feare in holinesse and righteousnesse be●●re him all the dayes of our life So that the ●onsideration of our redemption should ●ake us constant in Gods service because ●e were redeemed and bought to that end ●nd purpose Thus Moses expostulateth the ●se with those revolting Israelites Deut. ●● 6. Doe ye thus requite the Lord O ye ●oolish people and unwise Is not he thy fa●her that hath bought thee Hath he not ●ade thee and established thee The sinne of backsliding is fearefully aggravated from 〈◊〉 consideration of the Lords singular goodnesse in our creation and redemption Now the very end of God in the great worke of our redemption is to purge us to himselfe a peculiar people that we might be ●ealous of good workes Fifthly Wee are the Lords hyred servants and doe daily receive our wages from him yea in him it is that we live and move and have our being After the Lord hath made us and sent us into the world alas we all stand idle and doe him no service at all untill the Lord be pleased to hire us and set us a worke Matth. 20. 7. Why stand yee here all the day idle saith the Lord of the Vineyard goe ye into the Vineyard and worke c. Loe wee are the Lords hired servants who is a most excellent paymaster and very bountifull besides our wages he is very kinde unto us in many speciall gifts and vailes Isa. 65. 13 14. Behold my servants shall eat and ye shall be hungry my servants shall drinke and ye shall be thirstie Yea he is such a Master as daily loadeth us with gifts and benefits Psalme 68. 9. Blessed be God even the God of our salvation who daily loadeth u● with his benefits and all to this end and purpose that we might be faithfull and constant in his service that we might observe his statutes and keepe his lawes that is even the very right use of all his mercies When Ioshua had reckoned up Gods singular mercies towards the Iewes in Ioshuah 24. See the use of all verse 14. Now therefore feare the Lord and serve him And now Israel what doth the Lord require of thee but only to love the Lord thy God and feare and serve him Deut. 10. 12. This was godly Samuels argument to the revolting and offending Israelites God forbid that I should sinne against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you but I will shew you the good and the right way 2 Samuel 12. 24. c. as if he had said I will not only pray for you but I will also further teach and instruct you in the right way onely feare the Lord and serve him for consider what great things he hath done for you else a man in this case is worse then the very Oxe or Asse as the Lord himselfe speaketh Isa. 1. 2 3. Heare ô heavens c. the Oxe knowes his owner and the Asse his Masters Crib but Israel hath not knowne my people have not understood And thus yee have seene the first Motive that may perswade us to be constant in Gods service sc. In regard of the equity of it Secondly The second Motive that may perswade us to be constant in Gods service is drawne from the consideration of the Vtilitie of it It is commodious and profitable that we should be constant and persevere in Gods service There be many that say Who will shew us any good Psal. 4. meaning profit And it is the Question of those prophane ones in Job 21. 15. What is the Almightie that we should serve him Or what profit should we have if we pray unto him say they Now to this I answer That constancy and perseverance in Gods service is exceeding usefull and profitable and that in many respects First Constancie in Gods service will assure a man that when he dyeth he shall goe to heaven What an admirable and desireable thing it is that a man should be able to say with the Apostle 2 Cor. 5. 1. Wee know that when the earthly house of our tabernacle shall be dissolved we have a building of God an house not made with hands eternall in the heavens But how came the Apostle by this assurance Vpon what ground did he thus confidently assure himselfe That we shall see Ver. 9. Wherefore we labour that whether present or absent we may be accepted of him This was the ground of his rejoycing The testimonie of our conscience that in simplicitie and godly sinceritie not with fleshly wisedome but by the grace of God we have had our conversation in the world 2 Cor. 1. 12. Vpon this ground he expecteth a crowne of Righteousnesse 2 Tim. 4. 7 8. Constancie and perseverance is the very condition required and expressed in the Lords gracious promise He that endureth to the end shall be saved sayth our Saviour Mat. 24. 13. Be thou faithfull unto the death and I will give thee the crowne of life Rev. 2. 10. In due time wee shall reape if wee faint not sayth the Apostle Gal. 6. 9. Yea this diligence and constancie in Gods service is that which will give a man abundant assurance of entrance into the Kingdome of Iesus Christ. Excellent to this purpose is that of the Apostle Peter 2 Pet. 1. 5. 11. Wherefore giving all diligence adde to your faith vertue and to your vertue knowledge c. i. e. be abundant and constant in Gods service now marke the reason Ver 11. For so an entrance shall be ministred unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdome of Iesus Christ. Oh what a precious thing is this