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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57719	Rouse his case truly stated and written with his own hand in Newgate, two days before his execution, to prevent any false reports : wherein he gives the world an account of the place and manner how he was taken ... of his defence for himself, how he was brought in guilty, sentence past : with a declaration against things charged upon him, and a confession of his faith, with his prayer for the church of God &c. : to which is annexed a letter to his wife from Newgate.	Rouse, John, d. 1683.	1683 (1683)	Wing R2047; ESTC R25105	11,386	19

agreeable to the Doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles Christ Jesus being the Chief Corner Stone praying God to hasten the calling of the Jews To bring in the Gentiles destroy Babylon build up Sion preserve Great Brittain especially His Majestles Person and Government that Peace with Truth may Flourish Bless and provide for my dear Yoak-Fellow and little ones with all my Relations preserve London and Westminster order and over-rule all publick and private Transactions to his Glory and hasten his coming the second time Lastly I Commit my Body to the Care of my Friends by His Majesties leave for a decent Burial Believing a Resurrection and my Soul to that God whose right it is But this would not be granted the Petitioned for from Newgate July 1683. J. Rouse A Letter Written to his WIFE out of Newgate WHen God brought us first together we made full Account of parting one time or other but whose Lot should be first or the manner of our parting and death that was Locked up in Gods Cabinet and now after Fourteen Years cohabitation we must part it 's true were it at our own House and by an usual ordinary common way we should be better pleased it may be but this is the way appointed my Sins have been the procuring though Evil Men the Instrumental Cause This we know it is appointed to all Men once to dye and after that the Judgment it is now my Lot to be called away not by an ordinary but extraordinary Violent Shameful way of dying but what of all that May God being reconciled to me through Christ the Hand-writing Concealed Sins Pardoned Nature Sanctifyed Soul Washed in the Blood of Sprinkling Conscience Excusing not Accusing as to that Crime Charged on me though I have received Sentence from the Judgment Seat of Man I shall be acquitted at the Judgment Seat of God having this Confidence the manner of dying accompanyed with such outward Ignominy and Reproach and so many Hundred Spectators some to Triumph others to please fancy and a few out of true Love and Sympathy I say in this Confidence I am highly unconcern'd it is but a few hours and this Noise Rout and Vanity will be over What shall Indians that Dream of a place after death full of Carnal pleasure shall Papists upon Account of their Merits and an Absolution at Death indure any kind of torture and shall I who neither believe the one and who abhors the other be afraid of that which is but a Bug-bear to an ingenuous noble Soul who is born from above and now through the Infinite Merits of his dear Jesus the alone Redeemer besides whom he owns no other that very Soul is hasting to the place from whence it came and for the Body the outer Shell believing a Resurrection however that be torn shattered and devoured every piece and particle shall be collected and brought together Now I bid thee adieu till we meet where all Signs and Tears shall be wiped away but before we part I am under all Obligations imaginable to leave thee that I can to support thee since I have left thee in such a condition as without a great measure of Strength and Grace the thoughts thereof would quite sink thy Spirit But chear up from these Considerations What though my Husband be dead and gone yet I have a tender loving good Father alive on Earth and which is more I have a greater and far better Father in Heaven What though I am a Widow and have many Fatherless Children to take care of and provide for what then have I not a God who hath stiled himself the Father of the Fatherless and a Husband to the Widdow in his holy Habitation And so go on reckoning as to Habitation manner of dwelling the difference of fine or course Food and Rayment and as to Friends and Enemies Read studdy Jobs condition When at any time you think of your Husband and manner of his death endeavour to fetch Honey out of the Lyons Carkass banish away all hard thoughts of God who hath done us no wrong though this Providence seems harsh and severe to us yet it is Just and Righteous in our Lord Even that God that chastiseth the Heathen shall not he correct Psalm 94. He that teacheth Man knowledge shall not he know what is best for me I know that thoughts and many troublesome and solicitous ones will now and then arise and work strangely Consider it was thus with Holy David Then in the multitude of thy thoughts within thee let Gods Comforts delight thy Soul Martha was cumbred about many things I hope my Mary hath chosen that part that will never be taken from her then let her acquiesce in whatsoever revolutions shall pass over her head in this World c. Here follows his Advice to his Children To my dear Children whom I leave under the protection and to the care of that God who is the Father of the Fatherless as my Daughters Elizabeth and Mary my two Sons now in being John and Thomas and that which my Wife Travels with God give her a good time Advice to them all in general DEar Children since I am to leave you and leave you in a vain wicked unkind World and cannot leave you each an Estate or Portion to live upon in this world I cannot I dare not go off this Stage without letting you know that you had a Father some of you do now remember it but all of you cannot and not barely a Father but such an one as did hope a few days past to have lived and seen you his Children to find Grace both in the eyes of God and Men since it s otherwise and I am called away from you by an untimely and violent death even such a death as probably may be cast in your Teeth hereafter by some kind of people I leave you all I have instead of Silver and Gold Lands and Houses that is the Prayers Blessing and Counsel of your Loving Dying Father with a strict charge as ever you hope to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven to keep it by you follow it each of you in your own persons and convey it down to your posterity and the Great God Sanctify you Bless Protect and Keep you from all sin and danger hear and at last bring you to his Eternal Kingdom Your Loving Father J. Rouse My Dear Children my Prayers for you are that as you are mine by natural Generation That God would make you his by the Grace of Adoption that when your Earthly Father shall leave you the Father of Spirits may take care and provide for you though you and every of you be Children of Wrath by Nature you may never be Subjects of Wrath though you live in the World you may be kept from the evil of the World and lastly when you leave this World you may have a House not made with hands Eternal in the Heavens By way of Counsel Children these things I write from a