Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	child_n	spirit_n	witness_v	1,106	5	9.8469	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90716	A word of prophesy, concerning the Parliament, generall, and the army. With A little of the first Adam. Wherein are divers objections answered, concerning that position of God, being the author of sinne. / By Henry Pinnell.	Pinnell, Henry.	1648 (1648)	Wing P2280; Thomason E1184_8; ESTC R210114	45,662	97

9.14.15 must they therefore fast and weep and mourn when he is present 5. Dayes of humiliation are ordained by men now and observed by such as are subject to men in the manner notion and nature that they are injoyned Men may commend the observation of dayes they cannot command the sanctification of them they may propose the form and time of fasting they cannot dispose the frame and affections of the heart It may be seasonable for one man to pray when it is more sutable for another to be singing of Psalmes Nationall communion seldome or never hath its Union in the Spirit If Principalityes or Powers cannot separate us form the love of God in Christ Jesus Ro. 8.38 if rulers and Magistrates of this present world cannot estrange or take away the Bridegroom from the Saints they cannot impose upon them the bewayling of his absence Civill powers may command the corps they are not captains of the conscience I hear what will be objected Did not the Jewes say some observe those dayes and times which were appointed for fasting Ob. feasting c. and enjoyned by their Kings and Civill Magistrates who were but men 1. They did so so may the Jewes doe still let those that are under the dispensation of the Old Testament walke in it If the civill Magistrate make decrees and send forth his edicts let them be obeyd by those that are bound by conscience thereunto but let not conscience be bound or enforced by them The outward Jew hath no King but Caesar the inward none but Christ let both these exercise their respective power and jurisdiction and all strife will cease 2. The whole Paedagogye and Policy of the Jewes people and all were an externall and typicall Ceremony which yet had in them and contained an internall and Anti-typicall equity and morality The Law in the letter was by Moses the Law in the Spirit is in Christ The children of Israel would needs have a King over them like other Nations whose Kings exercised Lordship over them and were called benefactors the the children also of Israel in the Spirit have Christ their King over them the Government is upon his shoulders He reignes over the House of Jacob He exerciseth lordship over the conscience yet so as that he may well be called a Benefactor He breaketh the earthen formes customes Principles Religion Worship c. in pieces with his iron rod of the Spirit like a potters vessel but withall doth erect and set up such a divine and spirituall discipline that He may wel be called a Gracious Lord because of the Word of Truth Meeknesse and Righteousnesse the scepter of Grace Mercy and Love with which he ruleth and the terrible things which his right hand doth in shooting his sharp arrows into the heart of his enemies Psal 45. lust sin flesh and corruption He it is that can kill and cure destroy and make alive confound and comfort make sad or rejoyce command a feast or fast T is no good way of arguing to make up the conclusions of one science from the Principles and Proemises of another Transitus a genere ad genus That which was done under the law and in a type or ceremony will not hold under the Gospel in the verball and litteral sense of it what things the Law saith it saith to them that are under it and what things the Spirit saith it saith to them that that are led by it But we are commanded by the Apostle Rom. 12.15 to weep with those that weepe and to mourn with those that mourn even now under the New Testament was not this present fast injoyned for Irelands sad conditition whose miseries yet continue T is all confest and granted but doth that imply a constant and continued observation of a set and fixed time Sol. Is any man sure to have his heart in a fit and sutable temper for fasting against the last Wednesday in every moneth are not the preparations of the heart and answer of the tongue wholly from the Lord Pro. 16.1 God may dispose one man for singing at the very self-same instant of time that another is stirred up to prayer If the Lord give a cheerful heart to offer up prayse and thanksgivings will it be convenient at that time to sacrifice the oblation of a dul and pensive spirit received from the injunctions of Man He that hath his heart dispos'd to mourn let him mourn who doth forbid him and he that hath his spirit drawn forth to rejoycing let him rejoyce who ought to hinder or judge him One man may have his heart in a frame fit to keepe the monthly fast another man may be more fit to fast at another time yet this man may truly bewail and condole the miseries and afflictions of Ireland and England as well as the other and so fulfill the command or exhortation rather of the Apostle in weeping with those that weep He that doth fast upon Monday or Tuesday without an Ordinance of Parliament may be as tauly humbled as he than keepes the Wednesday-fast and more truly it may be for those duties which flow from the more immediate suggestions of God unto the soul are more sound and cordiall then those that are irritated and provoked by the instigations of mans precepts He that observeth a day let him do it to the Lord and he that observeth not a day let him not be judged and condemned by men Read the 14. Chap. to the Romanes Mr. Baker Hitherto I have contended for truth not for tryumph I shall now let fall the discourse and leave it before the judge In all that I have here set down the most High God my conscience and yours can beare me witnesse that in nothing you are wronged by me Your name is prefixt to nothing but what for matter and substance was spoken and asserted by you when you justified your charge and carriage and maintained and defended your slanderous reports and defamation of me you provoked me to a sharp reply and to tel you that you had done very uncivilly dishonestly and most unchristianly at which you took great snuffe but let others judge whether I had not cause I told you also that I might as well rayl against you behind your back as you had done by me but that I scorned such basenesse and thought it not sit to render rayling for rayling this I sayd to your face and more then this nor so much you shall never prove that I spake behind your back Nor did I intend to put these passages and proceedings between us in print when I told you at our parting that I resolved to require a more publike account from you supposing that a fair free and friendly debate of the matter among some friends in these parts might have been sufficient to have taken up and composed the difference But when I heard about three weeks since that you had divulged and blazed it abroad into other parts I thought it as convenient just and reasonable for me to make the vindication of truth as publike as you have made the imputation of an error Your practise in this kinde I doubt hath been a bad President to others for two or three Parish-preachers hereabout have since accused me of poysoning the people at Hener with error false doctrine Mr. Cr. of Br. Mr. H. of Wes but by that time their covetous practises common tipling excessive gaming c. are fully examined and layd open to the world they will appeare to be such Antinomian Independents such Independent Antinomians as will make them altogether incapable of the office of a Bishop I cannot charge you of being active with them but I suspect and fear that you have been exemplary to them Sir Before I take my leave I shall as a friend suggest one thing unto you i. e. When the shadow of the first Adams excellency is so bigge and long upon the earth it is too cleare a signe that the Day-starre is very low and little in the Horrison of mans heart the second Adam that Heavenly Sunne of Divine Righteousnesse Christ Jesus is declining and drawing near the solstice of Capricorne He is in a weak and low appearance known too much after the flesh when the glorious light and day of the blessed and eternall Spirit is so short and Dark I have not endeavoured to shame you but to sift out the truth and to give you and others occasion to exercise your thoughts upon the mystery of God and man Christ and Adam When your meditations are ripe and perfected let publike profit be made of them I have layd down nothing but my experiences and what I have heard and seen as I have received the Lord Jesus and been taught the truth in Him I have no more to say to you or any man else but Si quid novisti rectius istis Candidus imperti si non his utere mecum FINIS Mr. Calvert I Hear it is reported by some that I am sad melancholike sick and keep my chamber by some that I am dead by others that I am mad and out of my wits since I was with the Generall at Windsor This as I am informed is reported by my friends When Christ began to set forward his Fathers work his friends thought he was beside himselfe Mar. 3.21 and when Paul carried on that work he fell under the same censure Act. 26.24 and what of all that so long as it is to God 2 Cor. 5.13 I blesse the Lord of whom I have obtained mercy and from whom I have received the spirit of power of love and of a sound minde 2 Tim. 1.7 I enjoy that which is better then my self or the life it self which maketh me to scorn and overlooke the reports and reproaches of men Here it is said of me as of others heretofore that I am a pestilent fellow a mover of sedition one that poysoneth and deceiveth the people c. I am not ashamed of the blessed and glorious Gospell of my Lord Jesus Christ nor afraid of the bonds of the Gospel or of persecution for the Spirituall Divine and Heavenly Righteousnesse-sake of God I have therefore sent you these few sheets of paper desiring you to make them publike to the view of all men I am Your assured friend Henry Pinnell Risly in Derby-shire Octob. 14. 1648. FINIS