Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	david_n	heart_n	smite_v	1,341	5	9.6931	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10516	The old mans staffe two sermons shewing the onely way to a comfortable old age, preached in Saint Maries in Douer by Iohn Reading.	Reading, John, 1588-1667.	1621 (1621)	STC 20792; ESTC S115679	21,817	38

more holy age re●used the prefermēts of Da●ids court How long haue I to liue I am this day eightie years old can I heare any more the voyce of singing Let thy seruant turne againe that I may die in mine owne cittie He remembred prouision was then to be made which could floate aloft vpon a ship-wracked broken bodie It is a world to see the vaine opinions of some men they would lay violent hands on vnconquered nature and be yong againe so their age the onely desired thing they hate their desire of youth in age is but a second childishnesse of the old there being nothing more vnreasonable then to loathe that state and age to which with wishes and feare of failing we haue attained and why forsooth they want those pleasures which attended their youth It is true Sathan giueth the yong man pleasures freely but as the reuengefull Selymus bestowed these farmes on his Ianizaries that he might sequester thē to the slaughter which dangers the good mans age teacheth him to loathe which falling vpon the delights of giddy youth like Pythagoras on the company of drunkards biddeth the Musitians change the harmony sing a sadder note at which becomming sober they cast off their garlands and are ashamed of their folly Doest thou then blame thine age for disburdening thy mind of eui●s Recount thine age number thine errors and thou wilt bee ashamed of that thou hast beene as the starres vanish at the fight of the Sunne so do our foolish delights at the rising and approach of true wisedome shewing vs some light of the ioyes of heauen Age taketh not away but changeth the delights giuing true for false reall for seeming blessed for dangerous pleasures I will dismisse this age as Iacob his Asher with this blessing it shall giue pleasures for a king the greatest and most solid delights The third is a willingnes to die for we die not all at once but part after part decaying giueth vs an easie passage The old man departs as out of an Inne the yong is pulled out of his house the yong dieth as fire quenched with water violently the old man like a lampe burnt out The fourth is a neerer view of the most blessed estate of heauen doubtles God reserueth the greatest comforts for this greatest triall the neerer death the more the righteous man is sensible of heauen therefore how euer in his trials he be toffed betwixt feare hope like Iacob at the report of his deare Iosephs life yet whē he seeth the charets ready to carry him away then his spirit reuiueth as he said of his Bethel so may I of this last age it is the gate of heauē it is our Nebo frō whēce we take a view of the holy lād to which like wearied pilgrims we are entring these are foure benefits which God giues vs by age the 5. he giues for or in respect of age that is honor amōg men As the law makes a diadem the signe of honor maiesty so God by nature makes the hoary head a crown of dignity Therefore the Greeks do aptly expresse age and honour by the like word they had their Presbytery the Magistracy so named of the Roman Senate was so called of age the Iewes Sanhed●im were elders of the people so is the last part of a holy crown of life dignity Thou wilt say thou hast not thine honor Wonder not thou liuest amongst men of whom God receiueth not what they owe. When the old man at the Olympikes could finde no place to rest him but with some disrepect was p●ssed from one to another comming to the Lacedemo●ians men children stood vp and gaue him place which al applauding the old man wept saying Alas that al Greece knoweth goodnesse but the Lacedemo●ians onely practise it All know how God commands to honor the aged but of the godly I may say as Lysander of Sparta It is the most honourable house for age they giue it the best entertainment The last is the dignity which God giueth at the end of a righteous age a glorious and eternall life They perish not which sleepe with the Lord they are like Moses bush not consuming though they seeme on fire 〈◊〉 dying in death their life remaines whose 〈◊〉 remaines so that in their death their 〈◊〉 is rather ended then their life Their corruptible state being changed for a most honorable I will say of the poore decayed temple the old mans bodie as Z●rubbabel Hag. 2. 4. 5. Who is left that saw this house in her first glory and how doe yee see 〈◊〉 now is it not in your eyes in comp●rison of it as nothing yet now be of good courage yet a little while and I will fill this house with glory the glory of this shall be greater then the first The glory of youth is but hope of glorie in age and this shall farre excell it but herein consis●eth the greatest glory of the aged They are neere the crowne of life in the kingdome of glory The end of the first Sermon THE SECOND SERMON If it be found in the way of righteousnesse WE haue surueyed the last part of mans earthly pilgrimage and viewed the dignitie belonging to the aged if their age bee found in the way of righteousnesse to finde may signifie either to attaine as Prou. 4. 22. or to exist and be as 〈◊〉 8. or to afflict and iudge Psal. 21. 8. So 〈…〉 follow this sense we shall discouer the All 〈…〉 of iustice finding out all the wayes of man it is the Epilogue to Solomons Ecclesiastes God will bring ●●ery worke to iudgement with euery secret thing whether it be good or euill How euer our workes seeme to vs God pondereth the spiri●●t he Ancients of Israel may be secret idolaters but he that searcheth Ierusalem with a light euen God vnto whose eyes all things are open shall discouer it Dauid well knew that God spyed out all his pathes and that if he enclined to any euill the Lo●d would finde it out who saw the secrets of the heart By three discoueries God manifesteth himself a present beholder of all the wayes of man First more immediately smiting the conscience with a dreadfull apprehension of his presence which commeth as Iesus to Magdale● before present but after making his presence knowne opening the eye of the soule awakening the conscience to behold the eye of God looking on vs which falling on the heart like some dreadfull light from heauen siniteth downe some like Paul bound for Damascus that hee may raise them openeth others eies and discouereth the iudgement standing like the Angell before Balaam in a narrow way with his sword drawne in his hand or like the fingers of an hand writing on Belshazzars wall loosing his ioynts and striking him with a cold shaking at the sight of this sentence thou art weighed in the ballance and FOVND too light So God