Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	bad_a	good_a	quiet_a	1,755	5	9.8229	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62112	The Lord Jesus his commission (under the broad seal of His Highnes the Royal & Real Lord Protector of heaven and earth) as man, to be the alone judge of life and death in the great and general assize of the world proved and improved before the reverend judges at the assize holden at Maidstone, March 17, 1655 for the county of Kent / by Henry Symons.	Symons, Henry, fl. 1657-1658.	1657 (1657)	Wing S6360A; ESTC R26957	35,152	56

nothing but dogs and Crocodiles within 1. The privative benefits that shall accrue to our soules are 1. Freedome from sin that great troubler of our spirituall Israel the bane and burthen of our soules Hic praeceptum est ut non peccemus ibi praemium est non posse peccare Aug ad Bonif lib. 7. cap. 7. tom 7. 1. Our hearts those bottomless Oceans of pollution and prophaness shall be emptied we shall never be more troubled with hardness of heart with straitness in duties with hypocrisie in our actions with unbeleife in the promises but our hearts shall be Camaerae regis the Courts of God and presence Chambers of Jesus Christ 2. Our understandings shall be freed from mists and fogs of ignorance those Israelites shall be delivered from Egypt Ignoramus shall never be acted more by them 3. Our judgements shall be freed from errors it shall be truly said of them which is falsly said of Popes they cannot erre 4. Our wills shall be freed from all impurity imperfection unability unwillingness heaven will make us all conformists the wheels of our wills shall sweetly and swiftly move about with the primum Mobile of Gods will 5. Our memories shall be freed from oblivion amongst all the rivers in Paradize there shall be no amnis oblivionis amongst all the Lawes of heaven there shall be no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all good things shall be so imprinted with indeleble characters in our memories that no aqua fortis shall be able to eat them out 6. Our consciences shall be freed from all impurity and unquietness Bernards fourfold conscience shall be abbreviated into one the bad and quiet the bad and unquiet the good and unquiet into a good and quiet conscience that which is not only the heaven upon earth but also that heaven of heavens 7. Our affections shall be freed from all distemper and disorder they shall never more make our soules Bedlam-houses those untamed horses shall not overthrow the Chariots but those strings shall be so well tuned that they shall make melodious musick 2. Freedome from Sathan and his temptations no Devil shall ever stand at our eare or elbow to inspire wicked motions or to incite us to vaine actions he shall never rub our temples with his Opium of poysonous suggestions Rev. 12. 7 8. He was once sued with an Ejectione firma out of heaven he can never gaine possession againe 3. From the feare of hell and damnation you shall have an eternall acquittance and discharge given you under the hand of Jesus Christ 4. From the feare of Gods displeasure that inferni limen God will for ever lift up the light of his countenance upon you nothing but smiles from God 2. Positive mercies to your soules 1. Your soules shall be filled with perfect knowledge scibilia in quantum scibilia all the essences and first qualities of things which now are hidden from us all the riddles in Scripture shall then be resolved yea the whole Arke which now is dangerous to pry into shall then be open'd and we shall know all that is needfull and comfortable for us to know about Gods councel of election and reprobation the Trinity in Unity the hypostatical union c. 1 Cor. 13. 12. 2. With perfect holiness and sanctity of our natures happiness is nothing else but holiness compleated and crowned 3. Enjoyments joyntly to soules and bodies 1. We shall sit Judges upon them that have slurd and slanderd us 1 Cor. 6. 2. The Saints shall judge the world 1. Comparativè Matth. 12. 41. 2. Interpretativè they shall approve of the sentence Psal 119. 137. 3. Accessoriè they shall sit on the bench with him Matth. 19. 28. 2. You shall enjoy the company of Christ and Saints 1. Christ you shall obtaine that which was Austin's desire viz. to see Christ in the flesh John 17. 24. 2. Saints you shall see and know all the Saints from Adam to the last that entred into heaven Heb. 12. 23. 3. All the treasures and pleasures of heaven set forth and shadowed out to you from sundry similitudes and comparisons as crowne of life power over nations feasting marrying summ'd up in the joy of the Lord Matth. 25. 23. 4. The presence and person of Almighty God Matth. 5. 8. You shall see God not only with a mental but also with a corporal vision which is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of heaven and happiness 5. The continuance and duration of all this happiness which is for ever Psal 16. 11. In thy presence is fulness of joy at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore 2 Cor. 4. 17. A more exceeding and eternall weight of glory The words in the Original are so full that we can scarcely render them in English so nigh as we can come is that if Aeternitate magis aeterna Bez. in loc there be an eternity more then eternal this is it As it adds much to the misery of the damned that their torments are eternal so it adds infinitely to the comfort of the Elect that their joyes are eternal and everlasting And thus have I done with my Text in general to come to the occasion of this Assembly in particular 1. To you much honoured Lords It is the honour of To the Judges this people that Judges of such integrity and ability should come this Circuit It is the happiness of the Preacher to have such Judges eares and hearts to speake to that have alwayes been observed for their devotion and piety in their attention to retention of the Word which emboldens me to spread these four Petitions humbly before your Honours 1. When you are in the place of temporal thinke often on eternal judgement let your heart be the true Philosophers stone which turns all these earthly matters and mettals into golden meditations such thoughts will warne and warme your hearts quicken and carry on your spirits in your weighty affaires comfortably and couragiously 2. Execute temporal as this Judge will execute eternal judgement Fiat justitia ruat mundus give me leave thus to English it so execute judgement as if the world were now a ruining that so spectators may learne alphabetum judicij extremi as Luther phrases it 3. Maintaine the honour of that Potentate from whom you have your Commission Prov. 8. 16. By me Princes rule and Nobles even all the Judges of the earth Let your lips speake plead pronounce sentence even to death for Christ if the offence demerit it If any should be brought before you for saying the Protector were a a Reader judge whether here be any thing spoken against the Lord Protector as some obtrectators have falsly accused mee whose unjust calumny did occasion the printing this Sermon Hi mala de dulci flore venena legunt traytor a tyrant an usurper would you not severely punish him and that very justly If any shall be brought before you for calling Christ a bastard impostor no God a cursed b Coppin was