Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	blood_n	bull_n	purge_v	993	5	9.4603	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08180	Christian purposes and resolutions.	D. T. (Daniel Tuvill), d. 1660.	1611 (1611)	STC 24393.3; ESTC S95608	48,765	294

of Adam which did not in some measure beare a part of his punnishment All things did degenerate from theyr creation and from that time became obnoxious to corruption The Elements themselues did waxe impure The earth brought nothing foorth but Thornes Thistles It had in it that mightie Behemoth to molest it Gen. 3 18. Iob. 40 10. the Water that monstrous Liviathan to infect it But Christ the holy one of holy ones came downe from Heauen and sanctified the one by walking too and fro vpon it the other by causing himselfe to be Baptized with it He purified the Ayre by suffering in it and the Fire by sending his holy Spirite in the likenesse of it Man who was indeed that sower Leauen which corrupted the whole lump was to be cleansed from his impurity not vvith the fat of Buls and goats nor with the Ashes of an Heyfer Heb. 9 14. but with the precious bloud of that immaculate and spotles Lambe who thorough the eternall Spirite offered himself without blot or blemish to the Lord that he might purge the Conscience from dead workes and make it fit to serue the liuing God As the Childe of obedience therefore I will no longer fashion my selfe to the former lusts of an vnbrideled Affection 1. Pet. 1.13 I will bee sober and relye wholly on the grace which is brought vnto me by the reuelation of my blessed Sauiour The Meditatiō of his wounds shal be the Iordan wherein I wil alwaies wash my loathsome leaprous and exulcerated Soule I will endeauour that as hee which hath called me is holy so may I likewise be holy in all manner of conuersation that both of me and of others hee may bee glorified in the day of the visitation 1. Pet. 2.12 XXV PRofanenesse is the badge of basenes but a religious and vpright heart is the ensigne of true gentry Such as are the Children of Abraham will doe the works of Abraham Iohn 8.39 They will bring foorth nothing to disgrace their birth to preiudice their breeding 1 Ioh. 3 10 Their Actions shal haue alwaies written in theyr fronts the liuely Characters of their Progenitors Others may boast of their descent but they are no better then the spurious Issue of an Heroike Father Gen 16 12. They are a wilde and sauage generation The Bond-Woman is their Mother They haue nothing in them that is truely generous Gen. 21 10 and shall therefore be cast out with Ishmael from beeing partners of the promise with the lawful Heire The father of Canaan for his impiety shall be made a Slaue and the King of Babell for his pride shall become a Beast The Wealth and and glory of the World with those hydropicall and puffed vppe Titles which are the foode and Fodder of Ambition what are they else but imaginary and fantastick graces of slender substaunce of short continuaunce The feare of the Lord is the height of Honour and hee that is vertuous is only Noble I wil labor alwaies therfore to doe righteously teach my hart the way of Gods Commaundements Actes 17.11 The Men of Berea were preferred by the holy Ghost before those of Thessalonica because they searched the Scriptures with more diligence and receiued the word which was taught them with morewillingnesse I will doe as they did and obtain the same stile which they had I will delight in the Statutes of my God with his precepts will I solace my Soule XXVI THE Lord is a good God slow to anger and of great kindnesse Hee desireth not the ouerthrowe of a Sinner Why will ye dye saith he O House of Israell Eze. 33 11 But rather that he should returne from his wicked waies and liue Though in the heate of his wrath and indignation he pronounce the fearefull sentence of Death against him yet notwithstanding if he fal from his former courses and subiect himselfe vnto his ordinaunce hee will reuerse his iudgements hee will annihilate his doombe Hee knoweth of what Moule we be made hee remembreth that we are but Dust Psal 103 14 that our daies are but Grasse and that as the flower of the field so flourish we He excuseth our manifold transgressions vpon our weaknesse that hee may not punish them as proceeding from wilfulnesse I know saith he ye did it of ignoraunce Actes 2 17 There is in his bosome a louing and kinde affection towardes vs. Hee pleadeth our cause himselfe and seeketh to remooue the guilt that hee may spare the guilty He forgetteth the place of a Iudge to performe the part of a father He inuiteth them that are thirsty to the Fountaines of liuing Water and willeth such such as are heauy laden to come vnto him that he may ease them And when thorough vile and obstinate contempt of this his kindnesse they fall into a bottomlesse immeasurable Gulfe of miserie his hart is ouercome with pittie and cōpassion and out of the commiseration which he hath of the wretchednes of their estate he cryeth out by the mouth of his holy Prophet Oh! That thou hadst hearkened to my Commandements Esay 48.18 Iere. 48.31 then had thy prosperitie beene as the Floud and thy righteousnesse as the Waues of the Sea Hee is in all thinges GOD omnipotent yet there are three thinges which lye without the compasse of his power He cannot deny his pardon to him that seeketh with inward sorrow and deiection for it nor with draw his grace from him that is vnwilling to part with it Cadant amici dummodo inimici intercidant Farewell Friendes so Foes may perrish is no principle in his Politiks no precept of his propounding Hee cannot punish the wicked where there is danger of offending the godly hereupon when hee intended the ruine and subuersion of Sodome and Gomorrah Gen. 19 22. Hast thee said he to Lot from hence and saue thy selfe for I can doe nothing til thou be gone And in the Gospell he would not suffer the Seruants of the houshold to pluck vp the Tares for feare they should offende the Wheate Mathew 13 29. Hence-forward therfore I will forsake my wicked wayes Psal 123 2. I will abandon mine own imaginations and with speede returne vnto the Lorde As the eyes of a Seruant looke vnto the handes of his Maister or the eyes of a Maide to the handes of her Mistris euen so shal mine without ceasing or interruption waite vpon my GOD till hee doe crowne me with mercy till he receiue mee to his glory XXVIII THe Maiesty of christ is wondrous great his Empire is exceeding large There is nothing in all this spacious Vniuerse which lyeth not within the compasse of his iurisdiction The heauens are his by birth as he is the onely Sonne of his Father begotten before all Worldes And heere are those selected troopes of Saintes and Martyrs those triumphall Conquerors that haue giuen the ouerthrowe to Sinne and Sathan and doe now waite vppon the Throne