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
A43763	A looking-glass for loyalty, or, The subjects duty to his soveraign being the substance of several sermons preached by a person who always looked upon his allegiance as incorporated into his religion ...	Higham, John, 17th cent.	1675 (1675)	Wing H1966; ESTC R19006	105,066	207

inconsiderable Topick Jobs Argument argues himself into a posture of humility towards the meanest of his menial servants If I did despise the cause of my man-servant Chap. 31.13 14 15. or of my maid-servant when they did contend with me what then shall I do when God riseth up and when he visiteth what shall I answer him Sol. 2. By negation Theirs unsound ad dangerous did not he that made me in the womb make him and did not one fashion us in the womb But because Believers are all one in Christ therefore either all must be Kings or none must be Kings is a plain wresting St. Pauls words wrested himself grosly abused and not the proper meaning of the Apostles words in that place and a sense that makes him most absurdly contradict himself in that precept of his now under consideration put them in mind that they be subject to principalities and powers Indeed it could amount to no less then a very great absurdity to press that as a duty in one place if before he took away that distinction that made it so in another One thing more I have yet to offer from the words of the same Apostle in another place upon the same Subject A further consideration offered for our vindication though written to another people and whatsoever was written to either of them was written for our learning Rom. 15.4 Chap. 13.1 2. Let every soul be subject to the higher Powers for there is no Power but of God the Powers that be are ordained of God whosoever therefore resisteth the Power resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation From whence I inferr by the rule of contraries One inference A sufficient warrant for us to preach and as great a danger to them if they do not practise it that Doctrine cannot but tend to edification whose contrary tends so certainly to destruction A sad judgment it draws upon the guilty in their temporal in their spiritual and in their eternal concerns First In their temporal 1. In their temporal concerns Ezra 7.26 c. Their calamity shall arise suddenly in the very next Verse to the Text and whosoever will not do the Law of God and the King let judgment be executed speedily upon him whether it be unto death or to banishment or unto confiscation of goods or to imprisonment A Law not peculiar to the Persians but common to all other Nations that are under Kings whether Christians or Heathens without which indeed it were impossible to preserve their Authority inviolable How many in our own time and of our own Nation have been deservedly ruined imprisoned executed upon this very account And in the Scripture besides particular persons that were contrivers of the Rebellion against Moses and Aaron Numb 16.32 which with their Families and goods were swallowed up of a miraculous and most remarkable judgment to the horrour and astonishment of all that beheld it they and all that appertained to them went down alive into the Pit and the earth closed upon them Verse 35. two hundred and fifty Princes of the Assembly are consumed by a fire from the Lord as they were offering incense Verse 49. and fourteen thousand and seven hundred were swept away with the Plague 2. In their spiritual E. g. David Secondly In their spiritual When David that man after Gods own heart had but cut off the skirt of Sauls garment his Conscience flies in his face and his heart smote him for that he shewed so little reverence and respect to the Lords Anointed though he did it not with the least intent to injure his person but to testifie his own innocency and to convince him of his errour in causlesly pursuing him from place to place that he aimed not at his life nor kingdom but that notwithstanding God who is the great disposer both of Kings and Kingdoms had rejected him and anointed himself he had been and was resolved to be his most loyal Subject 1 Sam. 24.5 In clearing his innocency he drew a guilt upon his Conscience which once wounded denied him all peace till he had first made his peace with God How many have we read and heard of whose troubled Consciences have been instrumental to the discovery of those treasons wherein both themselves and others have been concerned either as principals or accessaries Thirdly In their eternal concerns 3. In eternal They that resist shall receive to themselves damnation which some understand of the temporal punishment inflicted by the Magistrate Peter Martyr Junius and Tremel or by God himself punishing the contempt of his own Ordinance on the contemners thereof Some of eternal damnation not excluding the other some judgment in the general without specification of any particular kind or sort leaving the Reader to his liberty to chuse which he pleaseth because indeed this sin exposeth those that are guilty of it to all sorts of judgments both corporal spiritual and eternal The Apostles reason acquits Gods justice And the Apostle gives a reason sufficient enough to acquit the justice of God in the severest punishment he can inflict upon them because they resist the Ordinance of God He that resists the King resists God 1 Sam. 8.9 As those that rejected Samuel are said to reject him and so consequently God himself As God sometime told Samuel much troubled at and grieved with the peoples base ingratitude They have not rejected thee but they have rejected me that I should not reign over them Calvin though different in point of Church Government yet sides with us in this point to clear us and to confute our Adversaries Calvin whose authority with some is very great in the point of Church Government to the disquiet both of Church and State in his Book of Institutions placeth Magistracy under the general head of external means necessary to salvation ranking it with the doctrine of the Church of the Sacraments of the Ministery c. intimating that it is as necessary in its kind or way as any of the other and by putting it in the last place as it were to bring up the Reer he seems to me to hint thus much to his Readers that they cannot be compleat Christians though they are Members of the Church by outward profession though admitted her Members by the Sacrament of Initiation and may seem to have attained some strength by the often hearing of the Word and receiving the Lords Supper which is the Sacrament of Confirmation yet if they fail in their duty to the Magistrate Simile they are but like the sullen Cow that yields a considerable quantity of Milk into the Pale but as if the unthankfully grudged it to her deserving owner kicks it all down with her unlucky heels and this one ill Weed like those wild Gourds 2 Kings 4.39 spoils the whole Pot of Pottage And thus I have with as much