Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	babylon_n	mercy_n	zion_n	10	3	10.1699	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41500	Prelatique preachers none of Christ's teachers, or, A Disswasive unto the people of God from attending the ministry (so called) of those, who preach by verture of an (Apocryphal) ordination, received from an order of men, commonly stiled Lord Bishops wherein arguments are tendered to their serious considerations, by way of motive against that practice ... .	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1663 (1663)	Wing G1192; ESTC R33795	80,325	88

Prelatique Preachers NONE OF CHRIST'S TEACHERS OR A Disswasive unto the People of God from attending the Ministry so called of those who preach by vertue of an Apocryphal Ordination received from an Order of men commonly stiled LORD BISHOPS Wherein Arguments are tendered to their serious considerations by way of Motive against that practice the unlawfulness thereof demonstrated and the Pretences briefly answered which commonly are or lightly can be pleaded in justification of it And what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols for ye are the Temple of the living God Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate saith the Lord and touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you and will be a Father unto you and ye shall be my Sons and Daughters saith the Lord Almighty 2 Cor. 6. 16 17 18. For such are false Apostles deceitful workers transforming themselves into the Apostles of Christ And no marvel for Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of Light Therefore it is no great thing if his Ministers also be transformed as the Ministers of Righteousness whose end shall be according to their works 2 Cor. 11. 13 14 15. From such turn away 2 Tim. 3. 5. Then Jesus said unto them Take heed and beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadduces that is of their Doctrine Matth. 16. 6 12. He that is not with me is against me and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad Matth. 12. 30. Let them return unto thee but return not thou unto them Jer. 15. 9. Tell me O thou whom my soul loveth where thou feedest where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon for why should I be as one that turneth aside by or unto the flocks of thy Companions Cant. 1. 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ignatius Epist 6. Malus Ecclesiae Praepositus deseri cum suâ communione potest imo debet Cyprian 1. 1. Ep. 4. LONDON Printed in the Year 1663. A Disswasive unto the People of God from attending the Ministry so called of those who preach by vertue of an Apocryphal Ordination received from an Order of men commonly stiled LORD ` BISHOPS Take heed whom you hear THE Idolatrous madness of the Common-PrayerBook-worship hath of late been made so manifest to all the Houshold of Faith in the Nation that my confidence is great that it shall not proceed any further to ensnare and pollute any of the Sons and Daughters of God by joyning in the offering up of such strange fire unto him And though there be some who having formerly cast it off as a menstruous rag of Popish devotion are of late with the Dog returned unto their vomit making themselves transgressors by building up what once they destroyed yet God I trust will suddenly stop and heal this unclean issue in the body of his People and so curse the root of this bitterness that it shall not bring forth much fruit nor many be defiled with it Yea though a second Repentance in such cases be not a fruit that groweth very plentifully on the Tree of flesh and blood yet am I not without all hope but that through the grace and mercy of God some of those may awaken and recover themselves out of this Snare of Satan whose foot hath been taken and is at present held in it I confess the World hath of late given a furious on-set and charge upon the Saints of God amongst us yea upon all that professed any thing almost after the manner of Saints and as becometh the Gospel to cause them to give back from that holy ground which they had gained and on which they stood Neither is it any marvel there being so many millions of a stricter Profession in the Nation that all of them should not prove valiant in fight or that some of them for fear of the fiery Furnace being het seven times hotter than ordinary should not how down to the golden Image of that Worship which the Nebuchadnezzar-like Interest of the Prelatical party in the Nation had set up But leaving those who tremble to make gods of men by ascribing unto them the incommunicable property or prerogative of God in appointing and imposing his own Worship unto the safeguarding of his blessing upon those convictions of the Truth which have subdued their Judgments and Consciences under it and those that are turned aside like a deceitful or warped bow unto the mercies of God for the bringing of them back again from Babylon unto Sion that they be not surprized in the vengeance of Babylon which is now even at the door I shall proceed to tender unto the Consciences of those whose sovereign interest it is to approve themselves throughly unto God a few Considerations by the light whereof they may see how unlawful it is especially as the case now standeth to be Hearers where men of Episcopal Ordination by vertue hereof are the Teachers CONSIDERATION I. That Authority of Teaching wherewith the Teachers we speak of are invested by that kind of Bishop which presumes to give it is a meer nullity and lye The Gospel knows no Bishop of such a character or complexion as are appropriately theirs who claim and exercise a power as of obtruding upon Christ and his Churches on the one hand what persons they please in the name of Ministers or Teachers only if they be desirous to accept of this sacred investiture from their hand so on the other hand to keep back such from their Service whom both the one and the other most desire in this relation only because God hath not given them Darkness for a Vision or sent them this strong delusion confidently to imagine that they see Prelates or Diocesan Bishops walking like Angels in the plains of the Gospel and Christ giving them power to prescribe in his Church what forms of Worship be they never so uncouth and what Ceremonies be they never so apish they please Besides many other Writings both formerly and more lately published which demonstrate the Generation of such Bishops to be Aliens and Strangers to the Laws and Statutes of the Common-wealth of Israel The Un-Bishopping of Timothy and Titus with the Angel of the Church of Ephesus a Book first compiled and printed Anno 1636 and lately reprinted with sundry Enlargements by the Learned Gentleman William Prynne Esq clearly vindicates the Gospel from all complyance with them and sends them to seek their pedigree and original where they will be ashamed to find it And doubtless the contest about Prelatical Usurpations had been comprimised long before this and the Churches of Christ discharged of such unsupportable burdens were not all disputes against carnal Interests like gapings against an Oven and the Truth though Speaking with the tongues of Men and Angels a Barbarian unto those whose Judgements and Consciences are under an arrest by the pomp and grandure either in Spe or in Re of this present world For to reason Un-bewitched it cannot lightly but appear an