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	sprinkle_v	2,278	5	11.3241	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27638	Confiding England vnder conflicts, triumphing in the middest of her terrors, or, Assured comforts that her present miseries will end in unspeakable lasting mercies to the whole nation first preached in Bengeo and Hitchin in Hartfordshire and now published for the common comfort of the nation / by Iohn Bevvick ...	Bewick, John, d. 1671.	1644 (1644)	Wing B2193; ESTC R2654	46,204	56

mountaines might flow downe at thy presence c. to make thy name knowne to thine adversaries that the nations may tremble at thy presence when thou didest terrible things which we looked not for c. 3. Be incouraged to take notice of every particular act of Gods helping any wayes in righteousnesse it is an excellent meanes to gaine comfort in discomfortable times Thou meetest him that rejoyceth and worketh righteousnesse those that remember thee in thy wayes 4. Let us all be encouraged to put our selves into such a condition that we may be ready to be delivered in righteousnesse when God will save and preserve us and that is in few words study righteousnesse seeke righteousnesse thirst after righteousnesse desire to be found in a way of righteousnesse The more we looke after and apply our selves to the righteousnesse of sanctification or holinesse the fitter shall we be to be saved and delivered in righteousnesse Let it be your prime and principall care not to be found in your owne righteousnesse for that is very odious but in Christs Labour to be found in him and when God comes to deliver in righteousnesse he will espy your consciences sprinkled by the blood of Christ and thereby purged from dead workes he will discerne that your hearts are quickned by the spirit of Christ the spirit of righteousnesse and that your lifes are conformable to the life of Christ who is the sonne of righteousnesse and finding you thus he will deliver you among his faithfull people in righteousnesse though he smites terribly the adversaries of his Saints for by terrible things in righteousnesse he answers us the God of our salvation And so much for the second observation The third is this The deliverance of the Church by terrible things is Gods answering his people Gods answering implyes some things done by the people of God and some things done by him 1. It implyes that his people prayed unto him for deliverance and that he gives a gracious audience and full-fillance of their prayer I will looke as it is in the Prophet to the Lord I will waite for the God of my salvation my God shall heare me the Church speakes in prayer and God heares her in granting her prayers 2. It implyes that his people expects mercies from him and Gods answering them is his affording helpe his reall contributing succour unto them They looked unto him saith the Psalmist and were lightned and their faces were not ashamed this poore man cryed and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles his people expects mercy and his answer is the fulfilling of their expectation I will saith Habbakuk stand upon my watch and set me upon the tower and will watch to see what he will say unto me So then Gods deliverance of his people is an answering their prayers and an answering their expectations They pray for deliverance and he gives it they expect it from him and answerably it comes to passe Gods delivering of Israel out of Aegypt was an answering of their prayers I have heard saith God their cry by reason of their taskemasters for I know their sorrowes and I am come downe to deliver them When he delivered them at the red sea it was an answer to the prayer of his servant Moses The Lord said then unto him why cryest thou to me When he gave Israell victory over Amaleck he then answered the prayer of Moses on the mount while Joshua and Israell fought in the valley His deliverance of his people from Jabin from the Midianites yea from all their other enemies at any time all was an answering of their prayers and expectations They prayed in faith for deliverance and they waited in faith untill God had given a full deliverance and so deliverance was but Gods answering his people Because God usually giveth not unto his Church and People deliverance till they have sought and sued to him earnestly for it Thus saith the Lord God I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israell to do it for them though he knowes that his Church doth need deliverance yet he will have his Church to be apprehensive and sensible of that her need for he will have from it the honour of his mercie towards it and of his providence and care over it as also of his wisdome power and justice in confounding all its adversaries by terrible things This point teaches 1. To pray for deliverance that God with it may answer us And 2. To observe Gods severall answers unto his people by giving unto them the deliverances prayed for First If deliverance be Gods answering his people then surely it concernes all the people of God to put up prayers for deliverance Prayer must preceed deliverance and deliverance is the returne of prayer in a gracious answer of it We must be praying men and men expecting deliverance as an issue and consequent of prayer and that our prayers may be answered we are to put up no other then such which God will answer as namely 1. Let our prayers be prayers of faith coming from a beleeving heart Aske and doubt not beleeve the promises of deliverance and confidently rely on Gods word to be accomplished and from assurance that God will fullfill his word put up prayers Both the cloud of promises and the cloud of witnesses persons families kingdomes Churches which from time to time have beene delivered and the consideration that the Lords hand is not shortned should prevaile with us not to doubt but to pray for deliverance in faith not doubting but that God will answer us 2. Let our prayers be in humility A broken and a contrite heart God will not despise He heares the prayers of the humble destitute Pray for deliverance in humilitie and it shall be granted as an answer to an humble prayer Humble your selves under the mighty hand of God that hee may exalt you in due time 3. Let our prayers be importunately earnest without fainting I have saith the Psalmist waited long and sought the Lord oh my Lord saith he I cry in the day time but thou hearest not and in the night season I am not silent The Lord sometimes delayes deliverance to make us importunately wrastle with him in prayer for it and so it may be the answer of our earnest prayers 4. Let our prayers be sanctifiedly performed with hearts which are departed from iniquity If I saith the Psalmist regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will not heare me Sinne causeth him hide his face that he will not heare If we pray for deliverance let us pray lifting up pure hands from an holy heart and then God will give deliverance as an answer to our prayers which are thus prayers of faithfull humble importunate sanctified petitioners Secondly if the deliverance of the Church by terrible things be Gods answering it then let us observe Gods severall answers unto his people in his