Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	day_n	holy_a	sabbath_n	1,012	5	9.4280	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97248	A divine miscellany full of delightful and profitable variety, or, The pious mans recreation, in a garden of sweet flowers and fruits divided into four parts / by Richard Younge of Roxwel in Essex.	Younge, Richard.	1665 (1665)	Wing Y150; ESTC R43833	21,306	32

and our manifold breach of Gods righteous Law by actual sin and the guilt and punishment due to us for them both We vowed our selves to Christ in our Baptism but we forget that we promised by Sureties to be his Faithfu● Souldiers and Servant's to our lives end but our rests have stoln away one half of our times and our lusts the other And what is this but downright Perjury At least if hereafter we do not our utmost to perform this our Vow Wherefore let us bethink our selves how we may redeem the time and for hereafter resolve with and say as St. Hierome once did Should my Father kneel to me my Mother beseech me with tears my Brothers and Sisters seek to entice me to the love of this world and the neglect of God● Worship I would shake off my Father tread under foot my Mother and spurn my Brothers and Sisters rather then they should keep me from the service of my God Neither will the complaint of our First Parents be taken for a good answer or plea at the Great Day it will be fruitless to say such and such a friend deceived me Eve was perswaded by the Serpent to eat the Forbidden Fruit and Adam by Eve yet that would not justifie them each of them had a several curse both tempters and tempted Therefore let sin be never so sweet in the taste a Wise man will with all consider that the effect will be bitter and say Satan and his instruments like a flattering Host promise good cheer but the reckoming will more then pay for all and he that compares the welcome with the farewell shall finde he had better have fasted for if we swallow the bait the hook will choak us The true Believer as he is what he was not so he does what he did not We read of some that in the Monastery could fast whole days together with ease but in the desart they could not hold out until noon but their bellies would be craving presently To a cannal heart holy Duties as fasting praying hearing is so tedious and irksome that it thinks one Sabbath or Fast-day more tedious and burdensome than ten holy days as their consciences will bear me witness It is meat and drink for an Hypocrite to fast and perform other Duties if others see it and the like to satisfie his lusts so others see it not Abimeleck and Herod will choose to be destroyed rather then sensured But the Christian that does much in secret and keeps it secret when done is a Christian indeed As one sent a Letter and a Box with 500 l. in it to Sir Edwine Sands to be bestowed for the Education of Children in Virginia and for the propagation of the Gospel there and concluded with Your brother in Christ dust and ashes A Christians work doth not lie in believing or in doing but in believing and doing Yet he that hath learned to compose his manners hath done more then he who hath composed Books The Pharisee and so all that are meerly civil was as far from being Religious as he was from being scandalous Until the heart be changed God esteems not what we do Civil mens good works are as a meer Carkase without the soul since Faith is wanting Nor is it any excuse before God to plead that the matter of the Work is good when the end is not so see Isa 66.3 Good Works are proper onely to true believers and such as in Christ are first accepted because as a woman that abides without an Husband all her fruit is but an unlegitimate birth So until we be marryed to Christ all our best works are as bastards and no better then shining sins or beautiful abominations as the Apostle telleth us Heb. 11.6 Rom. 14.23 And what saith Austine most excellently There is no true vertue where there is no true Religion and that conscience which is not directed by the Word even when it does best does ill because it doth it not in Faith Obedience and Love Though we have lost our ability in obeying yet God hath not lost his authority in commanding Mans fault cannot prejudice Gods right A true Christian doth not desire Grace for this end only that God may Glorifie him but he desires Grace for this end that be may glorifie God Gods servants serve him not for fear as slaves nor for Wages as Hirelings but as sons for Love A Hireling will be a Changling He that will serve God for something will serve the Devil for more he shall be his Master who gives the best Wages Doth Job serve God for nought says the Devil I that he will for Job served God when he had nought Every gratious spirit is of a publick spirit though every publick spirit is not gratious We read that Easther did not preser her own life above her peoples but her peoples lives above her own And indeed every mans private advantage is wrapt up in the good of the Publick A drop of water is soon dryed up when alone which in the Oceon retains its moisture A single beam of light is suddenly obscured whichin the body of the Sun secures its splendor A self-pleaser is a God-displeaser and though he may sinde himself while he lives yet he will lose himself when he dies Besides all this if the stomack a publick Officer should keep all the meat to it felf and starve the whole body what should it gain thereby but it s own ruine It was no small comfort I suppose to Cuthemberg Anaximenes Triptolemus Columbus and other the like whose happiness it was to finde out Printing the Dial the the Plough to enrich the World with the best of Metals with the Loadstone and a thousand the like But had they smothered their conceptions as so many lights under a bushel and not communicated the same for the publick it had argued in them a great dearth of charity whereas now to the glory of God all men are the better for them Nor is any employment so honourable as for a man to serve his generation and be profitable to many When like the Moon we bestow the benefits received from God to the profit and commodity of others It is the Suns excellency that his bright rayes and beams are dispersed into every corner of the Universe It was a dogged speech of Cain Am I' my brothers keeper He that would not be his brothers keeper would be his brothers butcher SECT III. THe hand of the Dial shewes without how the Wheeles of the Clock move within When the Condult is walled in how should we judge of the spring but by the water which runs out at the Pipes By the Leaves the Tree is shewn but by the Fruits the Tree is known Where the heart is of a good constitution the life will be of a fairer complexion Our love to God must be so chaste and pure that no Rivales have the least admitance He loves not Religion sincerely that loves it not superlatively and he loves