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

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17914	A stay against straying. Or An answer to a treatise intituled: The lavvfulnes of hearing the ministers of the Church of England. By John Robinson. Wherein is proved the contrarie, viz: The unlawfulnes of hearing the ministers of all false Churches. By John Canne.	Canne, John, d. 1667?	1639 (1639)	STC 4575; ESTC S115149	141,377	156

Hos c. 2. 16 17. Zanchus t Comment in Hos c. 16 17. Ainsworth u Arrow against Idolat c 2 p 8 Iacob x Expofit on cōm 2. Marburie y Catech. on cōm 2 Bilson z Answ to the Apol of the semin p 22. Iesuitisme par 2 p 515. D. Humfrey a and others 5. If a mans cause should be judged onely as his adversary laies it down it would bee a great prejudice and losse to him might we haue liberty to speake in our owne cause we would bring in more exceptions against their delectable thing b Isa 44 9 then the state of the officer albeit the Treat speakes but little else for vs. For 1. In this kinde of hearing men vndertake to doe an impossible thing that is to serve two Masters viz Christ and Antichrist and each opposite to other and requiring diverse and contrary service at on and the same time c se a booke intituled a light for the ignorant or the 3. estates ffor the first commands that the doctrines of the Gospell bee heard in a true Church and Taught by a lawfull minister and forbids the contrary the later prohibiteth what the former requireth and requires that the word he heard in a false Church and taught by an vnlawfull minister Now whether it be right in the sight of God to obey Christ rather then Antichrist judge ye d Acts 4 19 2. This is not only to simbolize with Idolaters and to give speciall honour to Antichrist as we haue before proued but also a reviving of an errour held by certaine old Hereticks as the Nicolaitans e Irenaen l 1 c. 27 Euseb l 3 c 29. Bisilides f Cent c 5 p 77. Helchesaits g Cent 3 c 4 p 98. Priscillanists h Cent 4 c 5 p 403. c. condemned inscripture by the fathers which lived in them times Their errour was that Christians in worshiping of God might outwardly conform thēselvs vnto the practice of such waies means as Idolaters had divised yet so as they did inwardly secretly dislike of the intentió ends which the others had in the observatiō use of them Our opposites are here manium inania consilium in judgment alike corrupt with thē For though they daube it over with more artificiall cunning to make their delusion the stronger yet for their principles maine grounds aspis a vipera they are all one and alike as I shall make it good whensoever any of them gives me occasion to reply 3. It is such an act of religion as the paltre petigree of it is only grounded vpon the witt and will of man voyd of all scripture yea indeed all shew therof therfor by learned rightly termed a mocking of God i Luther in Amos c 7 p. 134 grosse superstition k Lavarat in los 22. great rebellion l P. Mart in 1 Sam. 15. wichcraft 4. n ibid 2128. It is so vile a thing as our blessed Martyrs would rather giue their bodies to the fier then doe it witnesse Thomas Reed m Acts Monum pag 2197 his wife and daughter Rafe Allerton o bid 2●08 Iohn Fetty p ibid 2256. Iohn Moyes q ibid 2217 John Hallingdale r ibid 2222. Joan Wast s ibid 2134. Thomas Whut ●ll t ibid 2029 I fabell Foster u ibid 2030. Iohn Cavill x ibid 2074. Thomas Spicer y ibid 2092. Thomas Ha●land a ibid 2099. Iohn Rough b ibid 2226. Roger Barnard c ibid 2098 Adam Foster d ibid 2099. Robert Lawson e John Carelesse f ibid 2114. Alice Benden g ibid 2167. Thomas Harding h ibid 1117 William Tims i ibid 2078. mother Sem●n her Soane k ibid 2234 Angels wife l ibid 2299. many more If any should object but these went not to the Church because of the Masse I answer 1. they refused to goe thither at all 2. many of them shewed their dislike against this Hearinge in particular and suffered for it greevious persecution as the Reader may see in the places quoted 5. By this meanes men breake their vow which they haue vowed vnto God Among other vows vnder the Law the Ievvs had one vvhich they named Cherem * that is of the curse a vvord derived of Charam to wast destroy kill c. and it implied that such a thing vvas seperated and quite set of and so a great sin either to-touch it or put it to any vse aftervvards Such a Vow doe all the faythfull make vvhen leaving Babilon they plant their feete in the pleasant vvaies of Sion Their promise then is not to touch the vncleane thing any more but vtterly to forsake all the orders customes institutions vvaies and vvorship of antichristisme and to practice intirely and onely i ibid 2099. both for matter † See P. Mart Comment in Iudg c 1 v 17. 18. m 1 Cor. 10 14 Esa 2. 18. 20. manner whatsoever the Lord their God commandeth Therfore in going back to make vse againe of any of her constitutions and divised meanes whereby to worship God in this men certainly foresweare themselves and soe are guilty of fearefull perjury before the Lord. 6 It is a worship before Idols and marke it not accidentallie but purposely present before them and such Idols as haue a religious state in the worship And to do this is against the cleare tax of Scripture n Exo 20 5. 1. Cor. 10. 20. Psa 106. 37. And as Pareus o cōment in Hos● 8 p 529. saith is a post a sie from God great Idolatry very scandalous in it selfe ahorible abomination in the Lords sight and the end of it causeth death and wrath eternally Rivetus p còment in Hos c. 4 p. 151. writing of the same thing ads thus Howsoever such worshippers haue their minds voyd of superstition and intend to serue onely the true God yet in truth saith he this they do not but worship and serve the Deuill Ainsworth q Annot. in Exod. 20. 5. Cartwright r Histo Christ lib. 1. pa. 140. say the same 7. In this men cast themselves vpon temptations s P. Mart loc com clas 2 c. 4 p. 209. Aret in Mat. 4 7 p. 155 and provoke the Lord so to wrath as justly he may give them up to satan Antichrist for to blinde them and harden their hearts 8. A tender conscience by it wil be wounded afterwards tanckle inwardly as a thorne in the heele in that it leads men to equivocation dissimulation reservation and in a kinde to a deniall of Christ to condemn themselvs in the things which they approve of Davids heart smote him for a little † See beefore in M. Gres molds cause 9. It gives just cause of offence t Melan. in Evang fest mich p. 552. vnto the brethren weak