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
B00422	The golden chaine of mans saluation, and the fearefull point of hardening, opened and set downe in two seuerall sermons preached before the king. / By Anthony Maxey Batchelar in Diuinitie, and chaplaine to his Majesty in ordinary ...	Maxey, Anthony, d. 1618.	1606 (1606)	STC 17685.5; ESTC S94149	45,259	102

others that also is in vaine Ier. 7. 16. Because you haue done these things and I spake vnto you you would not heare therefore Ier. 7. 1● 11. 14 thou shalt not pray for this people nor lift vp cry nor entreat me for I wil not heare Though Noe Iob should intreat me though Moses and Samuel should pray vnto me yet will I not heare neither be intreated In the 15. of the Prou. 15. it is said a good conscience is a continuall feast Assuredly if a man haue all earthly blessings which his heart can desire if he wax neuer so warme and wealthie yet if hee be at war with himselfe if hee be stung with the guilt of his owne thoughts what comfort what ioy can he haue The spirit of a man may beare his sicknes or infirmitie Pro. 18. ● but a wounded cōscience who is able to endure Contrariwise peace with God peace of conscience and quiet rest of soule it is the greatest cōfort that man can enioy vpon earth S. Augustine calles it The beautiful Temple of Salomon the garden of Paradice the golden bed of rest the ioye of the Angels the treasure of the great King the mercie seat of the Cherubins and the tabernacle of the holy Ghost This peace the Hardened can neuer bee partakers of Their grief is doubled with mourning 〈…〉 11. 10. and remembring things past and it is plainely said There is no peace vnto the wicked Hope is the treasurie of all spirituall and heauenly 〈…〉 48. 22. blessings in all wants and miseries it is the safe and sure anchor of the Soule For by hope wee are saued but the hope of the vngodly is like the dust blowne away with the wind They forecast vnto 〈…〉 s 17. 10. themselues cruel things and their thoughts are like the flights of a bloudie and vanquisht field where al hope and comfort lyeth slaine Now when the soule thus affected is not at peace with God but giuen ouer to sin remaines in the state of Condemnation all temporall blessings which are comforts to Gods children they doe increase our condemnation Riches weeknow are the good blessings of God but to such as haue no sinne in their conscience otherwise as Iob saith in his 15 Chap. 27. If his face be so couered with fat and that hee hath such collups in his flancks that in aboundance and prosperitie he forgets God Dat legitimum sed non sanctum vsum he giueth a lawfull and outward but not a sanctified vse Sleepe is sweet vnto euery man but a mind secretly woūded with sin is afflicted with feareful 〈…〉 is 12. 13 dreames and visions in the night The wicked that haue liued a dissolute life they are tormented with their owne imaginations as Iob saith The terrours of God do fight against them Mirth and Cheerefulnes the wise man saith they are the reioycing of the heart and prolonging of the life Iob 14. 22. The sinner while his flesh is vpon him he shall be sorrowfull while the soule is in him he shall not cease to mourne Prouerbes 14. 13. Euen in laughing the heart is sorrowfull and the end of that mans mirth is heauinesse Now if the estate of the Hardened be such that the light of the minde and soule be wholly darkned if the word of God cannot peirce thē if hauing made shipwrack of conscience their heart it cannot repent and so neither Sacraments nor teares be auaileable If their own Praiers cannot be heard others are forbid to pray for them if their sleepe be feareful theirlaughing inwardly mournfull their riches cursings their hope vtterly forlorne they can neuer enioy any peace of conscience or quiet rest of soule iudge you whether it had not bin better such a man had not beene borne or being borne had presently bin flung into the bottome of the sea drowned in euerlasting forgetfulnes For alas when God is become our enimy who is able to enter into cōbat to match with the wrath of the Lord of hostes whē a mans ownhart doth condēne him who is able to put to silence the voice of desperation Oh happy is he that sinneth least next he that returneth soonest but most dreadfull is the estate of him who like Pharao is giuen ouer vnto Hardening For he that is once come to this passe that as Ieroboam he hath sold himselfe to cōmit sin his minde reprobate his conseience seared and 〈…〉 1. 28. his soule frozen in the dregges of sin then though 〈…〉 im 4. 2 he weepe lament with Esau though he would 〈…〉 h. 1. 12 restore that which hee hath wrongfully gotten with Iudas though he do gird himselfe in sackcloth walke softly as Ahab though he do pul the men of God to comfort him and pray for him as Saul did though hee do mourne like a Doue and chatter like a crane with the Pellicā though he do send forth shril and fearefull cries into the ayre yet al this wil not helpe wo alas there is no recouery Ier 13. 23. Can the black-More 〈…〉 13. 23. change his skin or the Leopard his spots then may they doe good who haue accustomed themselues to doe euilt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He that 〈…〉 st eth 7 ● 7. hardeneth his heart can neuer be cured Habituati 〈…〉 s 12. 10 in malo sunt impaenituri their thoughts can neuer 〈…〉 l. 17. 14 be altered their stony hearts cānot become fleshy they 〈…〉 b. 10. 26 haue denied the power of saluatiō they haue despited 〈…〉 b. 12. 17 the spirit of grace and though they seeke the blessing with tears they can find no place to repētance This is a lamentable estate this is a feareful iudgmēt for man to be left vnto himselfe giuen vp to Sathan to be forsaken of God for euer frō this estate the Lord for his endlesse mercy deliuer vs. The Remedie TO eschue this gulfe and to auoide the danger of this Hardening either we must cut off and stay the course of sin in the act or else we must resist it in the beginning and stay it in our thoughts It is an excellent saying of S. Ierom Ibi maxime oportet obseruare peccatum vbi nasci solet both in sin also in curing the diseases of the body it is the chiefest point to obserue finde out where the malady first tooke beginning It is plaine sin first buddeth in the thought and therupon S. Ierome calls it primo genita Diaboli the Diuels darling or first begotten Sathan dare not attēpt any vnto murther treasō or any such grieuous sin vnlesse he send an euil thought before to trie whether he shall be welcome The Philistins will not venture till Dalilah hath wrought the feat as she with Sampson neuer left fawning and creeping into his bosome til by cōsenting vnto her he lost both his strength his eyes became a mil-horse for the Philistins so il thoughts allure