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
A47000	The black book of conscience, or, God's high court of iustice in the soul wherein the truth and sincerity, the deceit and hypocrisie of every mans heart and ways is judged and discovered by their consciences : very seasonable for these times wherein wicked men, under pretence of liberty of conscience, take liberty to sin and blaspheme / by Andrew Iones.	Jones, Andrew.	1663 (1663)	Wing J906; ESTC R29450	10,659	26

election sure I have brought out my own damnation without either fear or wit and made my self sure of eternal and everlasting wrath and condemnation saith méer moral formal and prophane christians consciences Ah Lord saith the dissembling Hypocrites conscience I have béen but an outside Christian I have gone to Church but onely as dogs do for fashion sake and to be looked upon estéemed among my neighbours I have made a shew indéed and pretence of Religion and holiness but it hath been but a meer show I have altogether denied the power and practice of it in my life and conversation as it is Tit. 1.16 They profess that they know God but in works they deny him being abominable and disobedient and to every good Work reprobate And why so because as he saith in the 15 vers Their minds and consciences are defiled Ah my conscience told m● several times that I was but an Hypocrite a meer painted Sepulchre fair without but foul within O but I would not hear conscience then but slighted and neglected him Ah but now my conscience makes me hear him whether I will or no. Therefore Lord do with m● what thou pleasest true and righteous art thou in all thy dealings towards me be they never so harsh they are but the just reward of mine iniquities And saith the covetous mans conscience and the griping cruel extorting Vserer● consciences Lord I confess I have been covetous wretch but I have not coveted after heaven it hath been my whole trade and business to cozen and cheat others and to gripe and grind the faces of the poor and all that I could to undo others Aut alas for me what have I done I have quite and clean undone my own soul that to all eternity I have been very cruel and unmerciful to others I would not forgive my poor brethren in the least O Lord I deserve no mercy at thy hands the hottest place will be too cold for me What have you done with all your wealth saith God to rich men all those great estates and possessions which I lent to you or rather intrusted you with as stewards How have you improved them what of them have you laid out or lent to me again in releiving my poor members What good have you gotten to your own souls by them Have you laid up any thing in store for eternal life O no saith conscience I have not Lord I have not But this I have done I have treasured up wrath against the day of wrath My gold and silver is rusted my riches are corrupted myrich garments motheatén as S. James saith in his 5. ch 12 13 14. v. My gold and silver is cankered and the rust of them is now a witness against me to condemn me eats my flesh as if it were fire And now also behold the hire of the laborers which have reaped down my field which I kept back by fraud cryeth and the crys of them which have reaped are entred into the ears of the Lord of Sabbaths I have lived in pleasure on the earth and been wanton and I have nourished my heart as in a day of slaughter I told you saith conscience that for all your pleasures and for all your riches and for all your greatness and delights you must come to judgement give an account to God of all your actions and for all your wealth and how and which way you spent every penny that he lent you Did I not tell you saith conscience True it is my conscience told me but I slighted conscience as a thing of no value or account Ah miserable man that I was to slight this voice of conscience wo unto me my punishment is less then mine iniquities deserve Thus and thus will mens consciences deal with them before the Lord. When as Peter denied his Lord Master his conscience let him alone once yea twice but the third time the Cock crew and Peters heart smote him for what be had done and he went forth and wept bitterly Peter did not go about to stop the mouth of his conscience as Judas did so banged himself no Peter he closed with the voice of his conscience and so by his true unfeigned repentance obtained mercy So likewise David when the Prophet Nathan in 2 Sam. 12.13 had by the Parable of the Ew-lamb shewed David the evil of his sins pr●sently David was convinced in his conscienc● of the horridness of his sins and David sai● unto Nathan I have sinned against the Lord. Have mercy upon me saith David Psalm 51. the Psalm of his Repentance according to thy loving kindness According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions Wash me throughly from mine iniquity and cleans me from my sin For I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is before me Against thee even thee onely have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight David had a very tender conscience for when he did cut off Sauls skirt his heart smote him his conscience accused him as you may sée 5 Sam. 24.5 O but how many wicked men are there now whose consciences tell them over and over again and again of their sins yet for all that they stop their ears against conscience How many times doth the beastly Drunkards conscience the prophane Swearers the Sabbath-breakers consciences tell them of their sins and yet notwithstanding for all the checks of conscience they will go on in their sins and fill up the measures of their iniquities and so makes conscience to fill up his black scroll of indictments against them whereby they are everlastingly condemned O if men would but be convinced in their consciences of the evil of their ways when their conscience tells them of it how many thousands might be brought home by repentance to life eternal who now run head-long to the Pit of destruction I am perswaded that many who cozen and cheat by undermining and over-selling using false and light weights and measures cannot chuse but meet with many checks from their consciences and O that men would be convinced of this great evil Hear this O ye that swallow up the needy by false weights and measures O be convinced in thy conscience Make Conscience thy friend now by forsaking thy evil Practices lest Conscience prove thy foe to torment thee for ever But men now adays instead of being convinced of their consciences of the evil of their ways are not ashamed to commit all manner of abominations that with greediness and then lay all the blame upon their consciences and why so It was my conscience say they As many of our cursed Diabolical Ranters Quakers and notorious wicked Libertines in these our days have laid all their impieties and horrid blaspemies upon their consciences Ask them but the reason why they deny Christ and the Scripture and cast off Ordinance and the Ministry of Christ and live as they list and refuse subjection to Magistrates and in their