Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	darkness_n	light_n	shine_v	1,422	5	9.5903	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35833	The discovery of mans return to his first estate by the operation of the power of God in the great work of regeneration with a word to all saints who set their faces towards Sion to seek the Lord their God ... : a word to the back-slider who hath tasted of the good word of God ... : with a discovery of mystery-Babylon and her merchants .... / written by one whom the people of this world calls a Quaker, whose name in the flesh is William Deusbury, but hath a new name the world knows not written in the book of life.	Dewsbury, William, 1621-1688.	1655 (1655)	Wing D1260; ESTC R27296	24,653	32

thy doings for power from the Lord to guide thee forth of the evill which the light discovers which would guide thee into the Kingdome of God but thou runnest out into the wisdom of the first Adam to seek the Kingdome of God in outward formes and observations according as thou comprehendest of the Saints practices and thou imitatest their practices in thy wisdome and though thou walk never so strictly in these outward formes thou art alive in the first Adam sewing fig-leaves together to cover thy nakedness a peece of new cloth in an old garment thou art putting new wine into old bottles and art building up a tower to get up to God in thy heathenish and Babylonish wisdom and confusion will come upon thee in the day when the Lord comes to look for fruit thou wilt be found a fruitlesse tree that cumbers the ground Cain with his offering up sacrifice unto God in thy first nature Esau seeking the birth-right with teares who shall never find it and all the fruit that is raised in thee is from Hagar the Bond-woman and thou hast thy end for thy self in all that thou dost which is thy hire which thou expectest in the end life for thy labour and obedience and thou regards not the glory of the Lord and his fear is not before thine eyes therefore every man and woman deal justly with your own hearts under what name or title soever thou be whether thou be a Teacher of others or a Professor of what thou comprehendest to be truth from the Testimony the Saints gave forth from the life and power of Christ that was in them and thou expectest life in thy outward formes and observations and mindest not to be guided by the light which is of Christ in thy own conscience which light guided the Saints that gave forth the Scriptures and while thou disobeyest that light profess what thou wilt thou art in the fall first Adam is yet alive in thee Cain is not yet banished nor Esau reprobated nor the bond-woman and her son cast out which are all figures and types of the first nature which is yet alive in thee and thy will is thy guide and thy heart is in the earth notwithstanding all thy profession and thou art a painted beast made drunk with the wine of the wrath of the Whore which is thy wisdom which comprehends that which thou never didst know manifest in it self and sits deckt a well-favoured harlot above the Crosse of Christ thou wilt be found a Thief and Robber who comes not in by the door Jesus Christ but climbs up some other way and thus far went the Scribes and Pharisees and the young man who had kept the Commandements from his youth but when he should have sold all for Christ he went away sorrowful And thus far went Paul when he persecuted Jesus Christ according to the Law he walked blameless and all thy strict walking to get life in observations according to the Letter is striving again to get the tree of life by thy own power who art fenced out with Cherubims and a flaming sword which turns every way to keep the way of the tree of life And if thou never ●…awest thy self senced out from the presence of God notwithstanding all thy righteousness in observations thou art not come so near God as to see the flaming sword which is placed to meet thee in every way thou turnest to get life in thy own power and to cut thee down and kill thee ●…hat Christ may be thy life thou art alive in the first Adam and art in the death for death reignes over all from Adam to Moses and Moses is until the Prophets and the Prophets till John and John untill Christ and if thou canst not witnesse that thou art come to Moses profess what thou wilt thou hast not set thy face towards God no●… one step in the strait and narrow way to eternal life but art going the broad way to destruction whatever thou be whether a Teacher of others or a Professor of what thou comprehendest to be truth from the Le●…ter of the Scripture under what form name or title soever thou be thou art a dead man and a dead woman and the wrath of God abides on thee though thou see it not Rom. 7. 9. there Paul witnesseth I was alive without the Law once but when the Commandement came sin revived and I dyed Friends every one in particular deal justly with your hearts see what you can witness of your death with Christ by the powerful word of truth which enlightens the conscience and condemns sin in the flesh for every one would ascend with Christ to be partakers of the life and glory with him but he becomes a stumbling stone to be baptized with him into his sufferings and death to ascend with him into hell and this thou must witness before ever thou come to sit with him in heavenly places for it is they and they alone that shall reign with him who suffer with him and they that are dead with him shall live with him it is the dead that hears the voice of the Son of God and they that hear shall live Arise thou that sleepest in the dust of the earth securely in thy earthly and Serpentine wisdom thy mind feeding upon the dust of the earth created objects which will perish arise stand up to Judgement that Christ may give thee life This is required of thee O man to doe justly love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God examine thy heart and deal justly with thy own soul there is a light in thy conscience which light is of Christ minding it will let thee see the mystery of iniquity that lodgeth in thy heart which is deceitful and desperately wicked and this light in thy conscience which discovers unto thee the evil of thy heart is of the etarnal Word of God and was from the beginning according as it is written in the outward testimony of the truth In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word is God and the same was in the beginning with God all things were made by him a●…d without him was not any thing made that was made in him was life and the life was th●… light of men and the light shineth in 〈◊〉 and the darkness comprehends it not Every one arise out of your earthly wisdome and minde the light in thy conscience and wait on the power of the Lord in it and it will bring thee to Judgement before the Throne of the Lamb where the righteous Law will be opened in thy heart that will cry through thy earthly heart for righteousness and judgement and the book will be opened in thee where thou shalt see all written that thou hast done in the body and shall give an account for every idle word and receive thy reward for what thou