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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47484	Pillulæ pestilentiales, or, A spiritual receipt for cure of the plague delivered in a sermon preach'd in St. Paul's Church London, in the mid'st of our late sore visitation / by Rich. Kingston ...	Kingston, Richard, b. 1635?	1665 (1665)	Wing K614; ESTC R4398	31,246	136

supernatural Grace for Grace hath fire for the Will as well as light for the Vnderstanding His Grace shall so enflame our Wills that whereas we formerly affected nothing more than the Transitory and earthly fruitions of this life Riches Honours and Pleasures now we shall love nothing desire nothing so much as God in Christ and with St. Paul account all things but dross and dung in comparison of them Fourthly By healing our consciences I will hear and forgive c. In Scripture-Language healing of Sin and forgiving of Sin are aequipollent terms So Jer. 3.22 Return ye back-sliding children and I will heal your back slidings Now God when he says in my Text I will forgive speaks to the conscience a healing word Grace may heal the spots and stain of Sin but it cannot heal the guilt It is forgiveness of Sin must take away the guilt of Sin and then the Obligation to punishment ceases Those fears which like so many furies continually tormented us shall lose their sting and be turned into gladness when he says I will forgive It is the saying of wise K. Solomon That the Spirit of a Man may bear his Infirmity but a wounded spirit who can bear which words though in the garb of a Question yet are to be fil'd in the number of those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to use the Philosopher's phrase questions which have the energy of affirmative and negative propositions so that the Sense is No man can bear a wounded Spirit And indeed if we consider the unspeakable tortures that they suffer whose conscience is troubled and tempestuous we must needs acknowledge it an insupportable burthen What great comfort then have we in this promise that God will forgive that is not only efface and blot out the stain but pardon the guilt of Sin which so often anticipates Doomsday and begets a Hell on Earth 3. But thirdly and lastly God will heal us Politically When Sin hath so highly distemper'd a Nation that it is come to the very brink of destruction then God many times comes with healing in his wings he will make Good that of his Prophet Jer. 30.17 They that spoil thee shall be a spoyl for I wil restore health unto thee and heal thee of thy wounds he that could make the Assyrians level their Swords at one anothers Breasts can make us English-men that have been too much in this Case Assyrians sheath our Swords and run into mutual embraces He said By me Kings Reign and it is as true by me Kings fall When he hath a mind to punish a Nation for Sin he many times takes away excellent Princes as he did Josiah and glorious CHARLES the First And when he intends to heal a Nation he makes those animosities that begot the first troubles the ground of the ensuing Peace For though the Devil's Maxim be Divide impera yet God can make use of it to serve his most holy intentions In the Building of Babel he made confusion of Languages the ruine of the work and in the Restauration of King CHARLES the Second he made those of different opinions and judgments in Religion draw in the same Yoke and as subservient Instruments cause that Serenity which we now enjoy I do not speak this as if we were now as well disciplin'd in the School of Christ as we should be For the truth is whatever secular happiness we enjoy yet if we do but reflect on the malicious designs that are menaged at present by those that profess Christ and the peaceable temper which he commanded all good Christians to use when he said My Peace I leave with you we shall find the Kingdome is very sick and stands in need of this Physician who can with one word of his Mouth rebuke the madness of the people who can teach Prince Nobility Clergy and Commons their true Interest who can make the most inveterat hatreds end in a vigorous friendship and who out of the leaves of that Tree of Life that hath twelve manner of fruits can make a Balsam for the healing of the Nations Upon our Repentance he hath promised our Cure and he both can and will be as good as his Word To summe up all Let every one of us here present clap his hand upon his heart and not only cry I have sinned But by a serious amendment of Life and humble walking before him endevour as much as we can to be capable of his healing Influence for he that hath promised is God all knowledge that cannot erre and God all truth that cannot Lye and we ought to believe him when he says If my People which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways Then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their Sins and will heal their Land FINIS