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	purge_v	spot_n	1,305	5	9.8594	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16641	Abdias the prophet, interpreted by T.B. fellovv of Magdalene College in Oxforde. Seene and allowed according to the order appoynted	Brasbridge, Thomas, fl. 1590.	1574 (1574)	STC 3548; ESTC S109671	43,473	114

yet Saule persecuted not Christ in his owne person as the Iewes had done before but in the Christians which are members of his body And where the Apostle saith as the afflictions of Christ do abound in vs so our consolation aboundeth through Christ it is euident that he calleth our afflictions Christes afflictiōs both bicause we are mēbers of his body also bicause we suffer like afflictiōs with him for his sake Therefore as long as there remaineth one aliue that shal suffer for Christes sake so long there remayne behind vnfulfilled some of Christes afflictions which his saincts suffer for the church and for the cōfirmation of the same in the true fayth that it may continue vnto the ende be saued This is the commoditie that we receiue by the sufferings of them that are persecuted for Christes sake as we learne by the wordes of the Apostle where he sayth Whether we be afflicted it is for your cōsolation saluatiō which is wrought in the induring of the same suffrings which we also suffer or whether we be comforted it is for your consolation saluation Saluation is wrought sayth the Apostle by enduring afflictions bicause except we ouercome our enimies the flesh the world the diuel by continuing stedfast vnto the ende we can not be saued Therfore saluation is wrought by suffering not that it is meritorious but cōditional If we continue vnto the end in the true worship of God suffering al the torments that are laide vpō vs to withdraw vs from the same there is laide vp for vs in heauen an euerlasting crowne which God of his mercy goodnes will giue vs and not for the desert of our owne works For as God for his promise sake wil giue euerlasting blessednesse to those that beléeue in him so he requireth at our handes that we confesse him before men that we continue his faythful seruants vnto the end that we do not shrink frō the confession of the Christian faith for any worldy respect For this cause if we indure afflictiōs our suffrings do serue to the saluatiō as is aforesaid both of our selues of our brethrē Thus if the true sense meaning of the Apostles wordes may be called a letter it may appere what is the true letter of the former words recited out of the first chap. of the Epistle to the Coloss There is also a false letter which the Romanes haue deuised vpon the same text That is that the rest of Christes sufferings which were vnperfect in him the Apostle hath fulfilled in his owne person for the more full perfect redemption of the Churche wherevpon they grounde the merites of Saincts satisfaction by our owne works making Christes passion vnsufficient of it selfe for our redēption cōtrary to other places of the scripture As this By Christes stripes we are healed those Christ is able perfectly to saue them that come vnto God by him séeing he euer liueth to make intercession for thē Christ by his owne bloud entred in once vnto the holy place obteined eternall redemption for vs For if the bloud of buls and of goates and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling thē that are vncleane sanctified as touching the purifying of the flesh how much more shall the bloud of Christ whiche through the eternall spirite offered him selfe without spotte to God purge your conscience from dead works to serue the liuing god And agayne With one offering hath he consecrated for euer them that are sanctified Héere the Apostle teacheth vs perfect redēption by our sauiour Christ only and by no other Therfore the letter of the Romanists which techeth vs other sauiours beside Iesus Christ is an heretical false letter not to be receiued Likewise in these words The father is greater thā I there is a true and a false letter The true letter is this The father is greater than Christ as touching his manhood The false letter is this The father as touching Christes godhead is greter than the sonne The false letter killeth but the true letter is profitable Neuerthelesse as the true letter is always commodious necessary to be knowē so in some respect it may truly be said that it killeth rather than giueth life as if we rest vpon the letter of any historie or prophesie neglect the moral mysterie therin conteined or if we take part of the letter not the whole or if we take the letter in stead of the figure and allegorie where a figure or allegory is necessarily vnderstanded As for example If we omit the morall and allegorie of the Prophet Abdias before noted rest only vpon the letter which perteineth nothing vnto vs it profiteth vs little Likewise in the commaundements thou shalt do no murther thou shalte not commit adultrie thou shalt not steale and so foorth this is a true letter that thereby we are forbidden actual murder actual adultry and theft This is but a péece of the letter and not the whole the whole letter is that therby we are not only forbidden to stay a man to defile a woman to take away an other mans goodes secretly or openly out of his house or by the highe way side but also we are therby cōmaunded not to hurt our neighbour neither in worde nor thought to absteine frō all maner of iniuries deceitful hurtful dealings also frō al filthy cogitations inwardly no lesse than frō violent manifest couetous actions outwardly Thus our Sauiour him selfe expoūdeth the cōmandements in the Gospel He that taketh part of this letter and not the whole is deceiued in that he persuadeth him selfe that he walketh in godlinesse in absteining frō outward actions that are euill whereas his heart is full of deadly poyson In this respect the letter killeth rather than profiteth Finally where our sauiour calleth himself a stone a dore a vine a shepherd where we are called shéepe by a figuratiue spéeche if we take the letter in stead of the mysterie the letter killeth And in all the Parables of our sauiour as in the Parable of the sower and so foorth where a figure is necessarily vnderstanded if we vnderstande the earthly and not the heauēly sower the letter profiteth not Yet this I will say for the true letter of all necessarie allegories that it may be likened to the wine vessels the allegory to the wine He that will haue his wine safe sweete must take heede that his vessels be not broken that they be wel seasoned for if they be broken his wine wil be spilt if they be not wel seasoned it wil be soure So if we wil haue sounde doctrine we muste be sure that we alter not the letter that we neither adde to it nor take frō it for if we do we shall haue soure wine I meane we shall haue false doctrine As in those words Excepte you eate the flesh