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
A58143	Light sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart This is to go abroad among all people who are honest-hearted, especially amongst the inhabitants in Fourns Fells, in Lancashire, and among all who have known me after the flesh, that all honest people may see what I was in profession, and also what I now am by the grace of God. From him which hath come through great tribulations, who hath even left all for Christ, and hath not whereon to lay his head, but is forsaken of father and of mother, and of kinred also, even for the testimony of Jesus, and for the Word of God, whom the world calls, Thomas Rawlinson.	Rawlinson, Thomas.	1657 (1657)	Wing R369; ESTC R220567	29,951	42

LIGHT SOWN FOR THE RIGHTEOUS AND GLADNESS For the Upright in HEART This is to go abroad among all people who are honest-hearted especially amongst the Inhabitants in Fourns Fells in Lancashire and among all who have known me after the flesh that all honest people may see what I was in Profession and also what I now am by the Grace of God From him which hath come through great tribulations who hath even left all for Christ and hath not whereon to lay his head but is forsaken of Father and of Mother and of Kinred also even for the Testimony of Jesus and for the Word of God whom the world calls Thomas Rawlinson Luk. 14.26 27. If any man come to me and hate not his Father and Mother and Wife and Children and Brethren and Sisters yea and his own life also he cannot be my Disciple London Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth neer Aldersgate 1657. This is to go abroad into my Countrey amongst the Inhabitants in Fornes Fells and among all honest people that have known me after the flesh that all people may see what I was in profession and what I now am by the Grace of God FRiends and Neighbors ye know if ye will but testifie how that I walked from my youth upwards after the straitest Sect of Religion harmless and blameless insomuch that many did admire me and was as touching the rghteousness of the Law acording to the Letter blameless as ye know if ye will testifie without boasting I speak it for I exceeded many of my equals in profession with a shew of righteousness and was exceedingly zealous for the chiefest Priests in this Nation of England some of you have said Ye thought that ye needed never desire to have been in a better condition then I was in when I was where ye are without God and without Christ in the World with a profession of his Name in my mouth but did not know Christ in me the true Light who lightneth every man that cometh into the World so was ignorant of the Foundation of God which standeth sure the Light Christ who lightneth every man the sure Foundation-stone which is already laid for a Foundation that whosoever buildeth thereon shall never be ashamed and being ignorant of the Righteousness of God I went about to establish my own righteousness so did not submit to the Righteousness of God but got up into a profession of knowing the Lord and so became a fair sayer but not a doer of the will of God like unto the chief Priests for they say and doth not the things that they say Wo unto them blind guides who turn the innocent and the poor out of the way and causes the people to erre by their lyes and by their lightness and will not that any should turn from the darkness to the light Wo unto them who gather people into a profession of the knowledge of God but not into the light life and power ye all professing Christ to come and knows not that Christ is in you so ye know not where he is nor how he is in you I speak this to your shame people of all professions And though I had reformed in many things and had left off practicing many Idolatrous and Heathenish Customs which I saw to be evil in the sight of the Lord as my mind came to be turned to that of God in my conscience while I yet followed the Priests but being ignorant of that which did let me see my own unprofitableness and that all that is in the World is but vanity I came short did not follow on to know the Lord but chose rather to follow the Priests gave no heed to the Word of the Lord vvhich call d behind Return return thou art but a dead man in the Earth behold lo this is the way walk in it turn in hither to the Word which is nigh thee even in thy mouth and in thy heart this is the Way but while I followed the Priests they never directed me to this To the Word which is nigh in the mouth and in the heart nor never exhorted people to the light which Christ hath enlightned every man withal While I followed the Priests I say I never heard them bring this Doctrine to the people which the true Ministers of Christ bring and brought who turn people from the darkness to the light and from the power of Satan unto God For in the light of the Lord which did shine into my conscience I came to see the deceit of the Priests the Messengers of Satan who labour to keep people in the darkness in blindness from the light who would perswade the people that the light which Christ hath enlightned every man withall is but a natural light and not sufficient to give the knowledge of God or to convince of all sin and so they wrest the Scriptures and adds thereto and sets up their own Traditions and makes the Commandments of God of no effect and void by their own Traditions and cryes against the Light vvith reproachful and sensual vvords lest the people should believe in the Light and come to the Light vvhich gives the Knovvledge of God and so long as I remained ignorant of that vvhich did convince me of sin and of unbelief which did let me see that I was also out of the vvay of God with the Priests in error and in the darkness so long I was ignorant of the living and true God and knevv not hovv he vvas in me so knew him not at all but by the hearing of the ear though I had got the Bible and Books and a large profession read the Scriptures often and Books many and followed the chiefest Priests dayly and vvould fain have gained the Knovvledge of God by them but could not find it while I follovved the Priests had thought that they should teach the people knovvledge but I novv see that it is not so and that the Lord hath cursed the Priests and their blessings and that no people upon the Face of the Earth shall ever profit by them the Lord hath said it mark it vvho cannot lye nor repent So let God be true and all men lyars for that vvhich may be knovvn of God is manifest in them and God hath shevved it to them so it is evident That no man knovvs the Father nor the Son but as he comes into obedience to that of God in him the Light for the Letter vvithout nor the Priests vvithout nor any thing vvithout can never make the comers thereunto perfect nor give any man the knovvledg of God though he may get the Scriptures into his Head and shall read them often for no man knovvs the Father but he to whom the Son reveals him Yea so desirous I vvas to find out the true knovvledge of the pure God that I ceased not to seek it night and day with Tears and cryed out How shall I come to the living knowledg