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
A51305	Letters on several subjects with several other letters : to which is added by the publisher two letters, one to the Reverend Dr. Sherlock, Dean of St. Paul's, and the other to the Reverend Mr. Bentley : with other discourses / by Henry More ; publish'd by E. Elys.	More, Henry, 1614-1687.; Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.	1694 (1694)	Wing M2664; ESTC R27513	57,265	148

So prayeth for you and for all Men as he desires that all Sincere Christians should pray for him Your faithful Servant in the love of the Truth Edmund Elys Tho' I grant that the Truth of those Seven Propositions may be known without external Revelation yet I assert That 't is Ten thousand times more casie to come to that Knowledge by the Revelation which Almighty God has given us in the Holy Scriptures than without it And therefore we ought to give continual Thanks to the God of Truth for vouchsafing to us so great a Blessing The Seventh Proposition is this That when we err from the Rules of our Duty we ought to repent and trust in God's Mercy for Pardon What it is to Repent no Man shall ever practically or effectually understand unless he be taught of GOD And 't is Ten thousand times more likely that such a Man will be taught of God who with an honest Heart reads or hears the Holy Scriptures than he who is altogether ignorant of them or who having read them will not believe that they were written by Divine Inspiration To Repent is to cease to live unto our selves and to live unto Him that dy'd for us and arose again of which Repentance we become capable only by the Death of Christ whom the Holy Scriptures call the Lamb slain from the foundation of the World The Apostle says expresly 2 Cor. 5. 15. That he died for all that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves but unto him that died for them and rose again In the Ninth Chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews are these words If the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh how much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternal spirit offered up himself without spot to God purge your conscience from dead works to serve the livingood From this Concession of the Deists That God is infinitely just and insinitely merciful I infer That His Hatred to Sin and his Love to Sinners are both Infinite I suppose they will grant that He is Infinite in Goodness in Wisdom in Power and in all Perfection From hence I infer That in His Infinite Wisdom he hath-contriv'd some way by his Infinite Power to make a demonstration to Sinners of his Infinite Love Benevolence or Communicativeness of the True Good even to them so far as they are capable of it But it implies a contradiction that they should be capable of or in a power to receive the True Good or Intellectual Satisfaction but only by Repentance or turning of their Will or Intellectual Appetite to God as to its principal or ultimate Object It implies a contradiction to say That Infinite Wisdom could contrive a better way than this to bring Sinners to Repentance viz. to demonstrate to them that tho' the Hatred which the great and good God has to every Sin is Infinite nevertheless his Love to every Sinner capable of Repentance is also Infinite And this demonstration of the Infinite Justice and Infinite Mercy and Goodness of God those that believe the Gospel clearly perceive in the sacrifice of the Death of Christ. Whatsoever we find in the Holy Scriptures concerning the Death of Christ and the Benefits which we receiue thereby is most perfectly agreeable to all those notions of the Divine Justice and Mercy which are suggested unto us by the Innate Idea of God to the contemplation whereof I earnestly exhort all those Men who call themselves Deists beseeching Almighty God the Father of Mercies and God of all Consolation to lift up the light of his countenance upon them to give them the light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. I declare to all the World that I have not such Indignation to these Open Enemies as I have to such Traytors to the Church of Christ as the Author of that most execrable Pamphlet entituled The Naked Gospel I shall here impart to the candid Reader some of my Reflections on that Infamous Scribler tho' it has been already sufficiently confuted I consider that Saying of the Wise Man Prov. 10. 19. In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin And therefore I would rather chuse to be blamed by my best Friends for using so few words in any Theological Controversie than be ever guilty of publishing of any one Assertion especially concerning the Doctrin of the holy blessed and glorious Trinity which I should not be able to vindicate against a more subtile Sophister than Socinus himself A strange Confidence it is in this Anti-trinitarian to scoff at us for saying That the Doctrin of the Trinity is a Mystery Does not the holy Apostle say expresly 1 Tim. 3. 16. Without controversie great is the mystery of godliness God was manifest in the Flesh c. Is not the Nature of God incomprehensible to any Finite Understanding And shall any Man undertake to determine how GOD could be made Man how the Creator could assume a Created Nature But that Christ is GOD and Man is a Truth as certain and unquestionable as it is that these Texts of Scripture were written by Divine Inspiration Iohn 1. 1 2 3. Col. 1. 16 17. Acts 20. 28. I shall here recite some of the words of this Antitrinitarian whom surely we may most justly call Anti-christian P. 48. To this Objection of the Romanists and to others of the Unitarians we have found an Answer That we must not infer from our own Nature to God's for that ours is Finite and Gods is Infinite Three Persons among Us are three Men because they agree in one common nature but the Divine Nature is not a common one but a singular and therefore three Persons do not make three Gods If you understand not this you must not wonder at least you must not gainsay it for it is a Mystery which Reason may not presume to fathom Is there any thing more reasonable than to conceive that in God the One Infinite Essence there may be a certain Trinity which cannot in any wise appertain to any Three Persons of a Finite Nature Can there ever be a more impious Absurdity than this to deny the Truth of that which the Almighty and Incomprehensible GOD Father Son and Holy Ghost in whose Name we are baptised has reveal'd unto us concerning Himself because we cannot find any thing perfectly like it even amongst the best of his Creatures To say That we ought not to believe any thing but what our Reason can fathom or comprehend is in effect to say We ought not to believe there is a God it being Essential to the Deity to be infinitely beyond the comprehension of our Reason P. 40. The great Question concerning the Godhead of Christ is impertinent to our Lord's Design 2. Fruitless to the Contemplator's own purpose 3. Dangerous P. 53. There is danger of Blasphemy in examining the silly Question concerning