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	soul_n	sprinkle_v	1,209	5	10.9438	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34389	Conversion exemplified in the instance of a gracious gentlewoman now in glory / written from her own mouth and appointment, by her dearest friend ...		1669 (1669)	Wing C5981; ESTC R21188	30,026	78

CONVERSION EXEMPLIFIED In the Instance of a Gracious Gentlewoman Now in Glory Wr●tten from her own mouth and Appointment by her dearest Friend And Published in pursuance of her desires for common benefit but especially for her near Relations in the flesh London Printed in the Year 1669. AN EPISTLE TO THE READER READER THe following History contains a Natrative of the Work of Conversion upon a Gentlewoman why now enjoyes the harvest of that seed time in Glory At the day of Judgment she will come again br●nging her sheaves with her having as you may here read sown in tears The unusual way of her translation out of the power of Satan into the Kingdom of Christ imprest so deep upon her heart so oft as she reflected on it as though her conscience was sprinkled with the blood of the Covenant yet she could not quietly think on dying till she had caused as much as in so languishing an estate as she was in she could call to mind to be written down that by the publishing of it God might be glorified and souls by her example receive some guidance comfort and establishment The greatest discouragement she herein met with was from a secret stirring of vain ostentation which she was so great an enemy to as she sometime thought it were better not let these things be known than to encline to seek her own name in them But she then considered that if a Christian should omit service till he be perfectly free from sinful self-seeking no duty should be done on this side Heaven ●herefore she proceeded in her purpose only desiring that her name should not be printed with it It would fill a bigger book than this which she directed to be written to give the Grace of Christ in her its full due But my design is brevity to which yet I am not under so strict an Obligation as to make me wholly silent while I have a duty to discharge to a Saint whose Faith though she be dead speaketh so exceeding loud Permit me then to write her Character truly and shortly In freedom from guile she was as if she had been twin-sister to Nathaniel and sole-daughter and heretrix to plain-hearted Jacob. Love to Christ and his Members burnt so hot in her in this frigid age wherein all seek their own as it drank up her radical moisture in a degree to the shortning of her life She did bear the suffering of enemies very uneasily but the wants of friends and relations especially if they were in Christ mingled her pleasant things with gall and wormwood Except in a very few instances I never knew such a Wife such a Child such a Sister such a Mother-in-law such a Friend for reality and ardency of love 'T is prodigious to this luke-warm age to lose such a pattern in the prime of her dayes Such was herself denial humility and constant sence of sin as seldom did any sound come from her lips in which she did not complain of and condemn her self and in private it was her constant practice Never such a sinner pardoned and saved was her daily cry In the description of natural and moral Excellencies I have seen Volumes written of Subjects much inferiour I shall satisfie my self in saying only That in her I have seen an end of those Perfections The heart and bowels are of great use in Nature being both architectonical paris and the seat of affections They were in her of so tender a composition as the fall of her earthly tabernacle at them commenced being deeply wounded at the calamities of Sufferers who sometimes on one side sometimes on another this divided Kingdom hath exposed to that condition Without repentance I am assured God will have an account of her blood of many instruments of cruelty who little think they had any hand in it sins of ignorance being in their nature no more venial than those against knowledge though they are less heinous Her eyes were wholly deprived of their beloved rest from Friday night till Tuesday afternoon when death closed them so far as those about her could discern Much about two compleat dayes and nights she wrestled under more immediate gripes of death and it was that what God had in so great plenty given her might have its due exercise for his glory It was indeed a time of sharp tryal but not the least prevailing against her faith and patience Her saying was My pain is great but God is good still He restrains Satan from troubling me in the least I feel no ravishing joy but I have setled peace in believing I was wont to be troubled at the consideration of the putr●faction of my body in the grave that it must be separated from the society of men and be wrapt up in darkness but I am now beyond all those things and long to be at rest In words to this purpose she oft exprest her mind Once she said It is hard work to be under the Arrest of Death as I am with all my sences in their free exercise She oft expressed fear of being held long under those pains yet with child like submission like that of Christ when he prayed that the Cup might pass from him which he was drinking And they were both heard in the thing they fea●ed for the Cup passed from Christ so soon as his prayer was ended and her patience was protracted till Death had set her free On the Monday morning before she dyed a worthy Friend of Mr. Caryl hers and choice Minister of the Gospel came to see her and spake to her of the Glory she was going into and the way God had led her in unto it and prayed with her When he had taken his leave she told me she perceived he was sent of God to scatter some Clouds that were gathering about her when he came in but his gracious Words had chased away that darkness During the seven years wherein I enjoyed her she would very frequently issue forth in discourse of Eternity and often would say What shall I do when I come to lanch into that Ocean The frequent contemplation of it made it easie to her at last for when her time came to change her station she did it with such chearfulness that her dear Friends and Acquaintance seeing her had their sorrow for parting with it ballanced with Joy So deep was the sence she had of the state of souls departed in regard of the unchangeableness of their condition as I have known her shed plenty of tears for some whose lives gave little hopes though she had no relation to them None needed other attractive of her love than to walk with God and endeavour to rescue souls from Satan She loved Children exceedingly and could not bear their hard usage and would frequently say she hated the name of a Mother-in-law and could not endure to think her self in that relation because it was generally the occasion of so much cruelty and wrong When she met with any poor