Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	bear_v	spirit_n	wound_a	1,374	5	11.0872	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45322	Susurrium cum Deo soliloqvies, or, Holy self-conferences of the devout soul upon sundry choice occasions with humble addresses to the throne of grace : together with The souls farwell to earth and approaches to heaven / by Jos. Hall.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.; Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656. Soules farewell to earth and approaches to heaven.	1651 (1651)	Wing H420; ESTC R2803	81,778	407

eminent in glory yet thou wouldst have the way to it narrow and the gate of it straight And even thus it pleaseth thee to ordain in the dispensation of all thine inferiour blessings Learning dwells fair within but the entrance is straight through study watching bending of braines wearing of spirits the house of honour is sumptuous and goodly within but the gate is straight that leads into it which is through danger attendance plots of emulation Wealth hath large Elbow-roome of lodging but the gate is straight hard labour careful thrift racking of thoughts painfull adventures How much more wouldst thou have it thus in the best of all blessings the eternell fruition of heaven And why is this way narrow but because it is untracked and untrodden If I may not rather say the way is untracked and found by few because it is narrow and not easie to tread in Surely grace is the way to glory and that path is not for every foot the straighter and narrower it is O my God the more let me strive and shoulder to enter into it VVhat vaine quarrels doe we daily heare of for the way but Lord enable me to strive for this way even to blood And if thou have been pleased to set me a deep way or a rough way through many tribulations to that happy and eternall life let me passe it with all cheerfull resolution How oft have I not grudged to go a foule way to a friends house where I knew my entertainement kind and cordiall O let me not think much to come to those thy everlasting Mansions of bliss through tears and blood The end shall make an abundant amends for the way If I suffer with thee I shall reign with thee Soliloq LIX Gods various Proceedings WHat strange varieties doe I finde in the workings of God with men One-where I finde him gently and plausibly inviting men to their Conversion another-where I finde him frighting some others to heaven some he traines up in a goodly education and without any eminent change calls them forth to an exemplary profession of his Name some others he chuseth out of a life notoriously lewd to be the great patternes of a suddain Reformation One that was only formall in his Devotion without any true life of grace is upon a grievous sicknesse brought to a lively sense of godlinesse another comes to Gods house with a purpose to sleep or scoffe and through the secret operation of Gods Spirit working with his Word returnes full of true compunction of heart with teares in his eyes and resolutions of present amendment of life One that was proud of his owne righteousnesse is suffered to fall into some foule sin which shames him before men and is thus brought down to an humble acknowledgement of his owne frailty another that was cast down with a sad despair of Gods mercy is raised up by the fall of an unbroken glasse or by some comfortable dreame or by the seasonable word of a cheerfull friend One is called at the sixt hour another not till the eleventh one by faire and probable meanes another by contraries so as even the worke of Satan himself hath been made the occasion of the conversion of his soule O God thy waies are infinite and past finding out It is not for us to prescribe thee what to do but humbly to adore thee in what thou doest Far be it from me so to cast my self upon thy All-working providence as to neglect the ordinary means of my salvation Inable me chearfully to endeavour what thou requirest and then take what way thou pleasest so that thou bringst me to the end of my hope the salvation of my soul Soliloq LX The waking Guardian IT is a true word which the Psalmist said of thee O God Thou that keepest Israel neither slumbrest nor sleepest Fond Tyrants thinke that thou winkest at their cruell persecutions of thy Church because thou dost not speedily execute vengeance upon them whereas if the fault were not in their eyes they should see thine wide open and bent upon them for their just destruction onely thou thinkst fit to hold thy hand for a time from the infliction of judgment till the measure of their iniquity be full and then they shall feel to their cost that thou sawest all their secret Plots and Conspiracies against thine Israel The time was O Saviour when in the daies of thine humane infirmity thou slept'st in the sterne of the Ship on a pillow when the Tempest raged and the Waves swelled yet even then when thy Disciples awoke thee and said Lord save us we perish thou rebukedst them sharply with Why are yee fearfull O yee of little faith Their danger was apparently great but yet thou telst them their feare was causelesse and their faith weake that they could not assure themselves that thy presence though sleeping was a sufficient preservative against the fury of windes and waters How much more now that being in the height of thine heavenly glory and ever intentively vigilant for the safegard of thy chosen ones may we rest secure of thy blessed protection and our sure indemnity O God do thou keep my eies ever open that I may still wait upon thee for thy gracious tuition and the mercifull accomplishment of thy salvation Thou seest I have to doe with those enemies that are never but waking never but seeking all advantages against my soul What can they doe when thine eye is ever over me for good O then let mine eyes be ever unto thee O God my Lord in thee let me still put my trust so shalt thou keepe me from the snares that they have laid for me and the grins of the workers of iniquity Soliloq LXI The sting of guiltinesse GUiltinesse can never thinke it selfe sure if there were no Fiends to torment it like a bosome-Devill it would ever torture it selfe no Guard can bee so sure no Fort so strong as to secure it from terrors The first Murderer after his bloody fratricide when there is no mention of any man beside his Father upon earth yet can say It shall come to passe that every one that findeth me shall slay mee and I marvaile that he added not if none else will doe it I shall do that deadly office to my selfe Hee was sure hee could meet with none but Brethren or Nephewes and even the face of those was now dreadfull to him hee that had been so cruell to him that had laine in the same wombe with himselfe feares that no neereness of bloud can shield him from the violence of the next man Conscience when once exasperated needs not stay for an accuser a witnesse a solicitor to enforce the evidence a Judge but it selfe alone acts all these parts and oft-times also the executioners to boot It was a just question of the wisest of men A wounded spirit who can bear But there are divers and different degrees of the wounds of spirit All are painefull some