Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	brother_n	idol_n	weak_a	1,147	5	9.9884	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02844	Gods vniuersal right proclaimed A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, the 27. of March 1603. being the next Sunday after her Maiesties departure. By I.H.	Hayward, John, D.D.	1603 (1603)	STC 12984; ESTC S103942	20,193	63

ioyfull and all that is in it let all the Trees of the wood reioyce before the Lorde for hee commeth for hee commeth to iudge the earth hee will iudge the worlde with righteousnesse and the people in his truth Thus ought all the earth to do thus let all our earth do for we are his he commeth among vs to iudge vs in righteousnes by his appointed seruant and to instruct vs in the truth by our defender of the faith This is one vse to giue glory vnto God Let the next vse be this that we learne to know our selues in humilitie cease from those proud and importable speeches of some that thinke themselues Lords of the earth when the earth is the Lords and all that is in it The Heathen Poet censureth them saying Impudentissima eorum est oratio their speech is most shamlesse that say Quis tu es quis mihi es what art thou what art thou to me indeed what art thou that speakest thus vnto thy brother but one of those poore Grashoppers spoké of Esa. 40 22. Deus insidet ambitui terrae cui habitatores eius sunt velut locustae God sitteth vpon the circle of the earth to whom the inhabitants therof are as Grashoppers Is the earth thine art thou Lorde of the habitable world yea is there any thing in the world that thou canst call thine when the Prophet saith all is the Lords thou perhaps wilt say thou hast many faire houses some of them thou hast builded thy selfe Thou hast many fruitfull fields and some of them thou hast purchased thy selfe Thou hast thy bags well filled and hast got thy wealth thy selfe and hast goods laide vp in store for many yeares I doubt not but thou hast many of these things in thy possession deliuered of trust by the hand of God For 1. Cor. 4 7. the apostle saith what hast thou that thou hast not receiued as thou hast receiued them from Gods hand so thou must deliuer them with an account for the vse of them into Gods hand But if thou thinke that they are thine and that according to the saying in the gospel thou maiest do what thou wilt with thine owne thou art much deceiued The earth is the Lordes and all the fulnesse of it Which if thou wilt not learne in humility to acknowledge before shortly whether thou wilt or no thou shalt bee compelled to acknowledge it when that shall be tide thee that Christ said befell the proude ritch man Luke 12. 20. When hee had flattered himselfe saying to his soule Soule thou hast goods laide vp in store for many yeres liue at ease eate drinke and take thy pastime The Lord Iesus saith that God saide vnto him Thou foole this night will they fetch awaye thy soule from thee Quae tu parasti cuius tum erunt then whose shall those things be which thou hast prouided heauen doth dispise them they are not needfull there neither can they ad to thine happinesse Hell doth not regard them they are of no vse there neyther can they abate thy paine the graue hath no stowage for them there is nothing but darkenesse As they were not acquainted with thee before thou wast borne so thy goods will not know thee when thou art dead and as the Prophet saith Psalme 49. 17. of the glorious ritch man dying he shall take nothing away when he dieth neither shall his pompe descend after him Thus shall vaine men be taught that nothing is theirs but the earth and all the fulnesse of it the Lordes Let euery one of vs therefore whatsoeuer his present portion be take heede that he be not high minded that he grow not proud of vncertaine riches but that in humility he acknowledge himselfe to haue come naked into the world and shall goe naked out and in the meane time is but a steward accomptable and that the earth and all that is in it as the Lords if our harts were thus framed wee should learne more modestly more soberly more iustly more charitablie more holily to vse the goods of this worlde striuing as the Apostle aduiseth vs. 1. Tim. 6. 18 To be rich in good works laying vp in store a good foundation against the time to come that we may obtaine eternall life This is a second vse of the doctrine to retaine our selues in humility A third vse that shall be that the Apostle teacheth vs 1. Corin. 10. The Apostle would not haue beleeuers to sit with vnbeleeuers at the tables of their Idols in their feasts which he calleth the tables of diuels because no man can be pertaker of the table of the Lord and the table of deuils but if we be bidden to any mans priuate house whether we are willing to go to eate meat with him there he giueth liberty to eate though it bee meate offered to idols whatsoeuer is set before vs except any weake brother say such meate was offered to idols for whose sake hee willeth them of better knowledge yet to abstaine for not offending their consciences also whatsoeuer is solde in the shambles he permitteth to eate without making question and his reason is the doctrine of this place as appeareth v. 26. 18. For the earth is the Lords and all that therin is for the Lord himselfe beeing most pure can any thing that is his in it own nature be impure the Lord being most holy can any thing that is his in it own nature be vnholy it cannot be So may we vse the best things that they may be vncleane to vs. So may we be so may we vse the good gifts of God that they shall be vncleane vnto vs. In the Epistle to Titus 1. 15. the Apostle saith Omnia munda mundis vnto the pure are all things pure Iis autem qui sunt inquinati et increduli nihil est mundum but vnto them that are defiled and vnbeleeuing is nothing pure c. If wee pollute not Gods guifts by our vncleanenesse they are cleane vnto vs. Christ Math. 15. 11. saith vnto the multitude called together That which entreth into the mouth defileth not the man but that which commeth out of the mouth defileth the man And the Apostle Paul 1. Tim. 4. 4. saith Euery creature of God is good and nothing ought to be refused if it bee receiued with thanksgiuing for it is sanctified by the worde of God and prayer This pertaineth to the libertie of Gods children in the vse of Gods creatures all is his and therefore they that are his may freely vse them with peace of conscience Yet it excuseth not them that without cause and with offence breake with contempt the politique lawes of Princes This is a third vse teaching that we may vse the creatures with comfort because they are the Lords Let vs come to a fourth vse which shall be the last reserued to the last place that it might be best remembred The earth and the fullnesse of it the habitable world and the inhabitants