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	keep_v	sabbath_n	1,672	5	10.1381	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68419	Siuqila too good, to be true : omen : though so at a vewe yet all I tolde you is true, I vpholde you, now cease to aske why? for I can not lye : herein is shewed by way of dialogue, the wonderful maners of the people of Mauqsun, with other talke not friuolous.	Lupton, Thomas.	1580 (1580)	STC 16951.5; ESTC S1352	138,381	186

a taunt I pray God some of thē leaue not their purses at home purposely bycause they woulde giue them nothing But me thinks these hard harted wretches these nicknamed Christians the next time that they should looke on their great nūber of garded gownes their costly cassocks and their through furred garments which are moe than euer they will weare considering they make new dayly for themselues and all to followe the newe fashion and especially when they sée them moth-eaten should tremble and quake for feare at the terrible wordes of Sainte Iames which threatneth all such saying Go to now ye rich men weepe and howle on your wretchednesse that shall come vpon you your riches is corrupt your garments are motheaten your gold and your siluer are cankered and the rest of them shall be a witnesse vnto you and shall eate your fleshe as it were fire c. But truly their stonie hearts are so flintie hard that neyther these words nor yet the most terrible threatnings in all the Scriptures besides can penetrate any part thereof OMEN As flinte stones are made of such a matter that neither water can moisten nor fire cā melt euen so such obdurate and stony hearts as you speake of are far vnlike to soften with y ● heauenly deaw of the swéete promises of the Gospell or to feare at the fierce and furious threatnings of the Scriptures But if they that haue such stony harts wold faithfully pray vnto God to clense their corrupt harts and to mollifie the same assuredly he would do it For he wyll giue them whatsoeuer they aske faithfully tending to hys glorie and their profit And he is able for he can turn stones into Waxe Beastes into Men Diuels into Angels sinners into Saints Hathe not God made man to his owne likenesse and himselfe into mans likenesse for the soule of man is made in the forme and likenesse of God and the son of God became very man whyche wonderful and mysticall combination or rather crosse marriage was done and performed by that good God only for man without the request or prayer of any mā Then who can be so incredulous that the same God that vnrequested hath done so much for mā wil not at the ernest prayer of man mollifie and make softe his obdurate and stony hart Faithfull prayer is so estéemed and so frequented with vs that neyther high nor low rich nor pore neither yet young nor olde but makes it their meane to gaine by SIVQILA It is maruellous and almost incredible that euery one with you doth depend vpon prayer Wel as that is the onely meane to gette so wicked practises and diuelishe deuises be the onely way to lose I perceiue you doe not as many do with vs which are hearers and small folowers alwayes learning and neuer learned giuen rather to prating than to practising more loathe to be absente from a sermon than willing to performe one point of the sermon OMEN No assure your self of that for as soone as a sermon is ended with vs all the hearers practise it by and by especiallye suche things as the preacher persuades As if he allure thē to loue then they embrace loue in stéed of hatred if to quietnesse and peacemaking then with all diligence they bring the contentious to concorde and furious foes to be faithful friends if to be charitable and merciful then pre sently the richer sort succours their néedie neighbors going from house to house to vnderstand their necessity they visit the sicke and comforte them both with counsaile and coine they resort vnto prisons where not only they persuade the prisoners wyth Gods promises to be patient and penitent but also mitigate their miseries wyth money and meate and what else truely they clothe the naked féede the hungry and harbour the harbourlesse For al their studie endeuour and delight is to do the workes of mercie knowing that the doers therof shall remaine in heauen with Christe and the neglecters therof shal dwel in Hel with the Diuell And this is the daily exercise of the rich with vs. Is it not so with you SIVQILA No it is quite contrarye these are too good to be followed of vs and ours too euill to be liked of you I wil not say but that some with vs vse these orders but vniuersally as with you I am sure they doe not Belike they spende the vacant times of the Sabboth daye in thys order OMEN Nay not onely of the Sabboth daye but of all other dayes SIVQILA I woulde to God they didde bestowe the Sabboth daye so well with vs. I thinke verily if anye daye bée more profaned with vs than other it is the Sabboth daye that God hathe appointed to be kept most holy For I doubt many do come to the Churche that day more to pry than to pray more to looke than to learne more to shew themselues than to shunne sinne more to marke others than to amend themselues more for custome than conscience and more to heare a fine preaching than to followe the godlye teaching And if many of them doe thus that come to the Churche what may be thought of them that come not to the Church Many are constrayned to labour for their liuing in the wéek day whereby they auoyde ydlenesse the mother of mischief wherof many I feare though they are not ydle on the Sabboth day they are not wel occupyed For that day they giue themselues to Drinking Dicing Dauncing Swearing chaffing Playing Bowling Beare-baiting and to other vanities and this is the regard that they haue to God vsing themselues that day most wickedly that God woulde haue them liue most holily OMEN Surely they are such fooles that I am not able to rehearse their follie SIVQILA Yea but none with vs but are thought to be wise ynough as long as they haue Welth. But I pray you is Wisedome preferred before Wealth with you or no OMEN Yea in déede is it SIVQILA It is not so with vs for truely y ● people are so péeuishly addicted that they estéeme Wealth aboue Wisedome and as it séemes they thinke that the wealthye are wise the poore are fooles For euery word y ● the rich speaketh is soothed and counted for an Oracle be it neuer so fond but let the poore speake neuer so wisely he is tript before his tale be half tolde and is fléered or iested at therfore But if the said rich man doth fal into pouerty and the same poore man chance to be rich then Totnam is turned Frēch and then the foole is sodainly become wise and the wise mā a foole So that hereby it muste néedes appeare that it is Wealth that makes Wisedome pouertie makes fooles For when Wealth is gone all Wisedome is gone when Pouertie is gone then all Foolishnesse is gone OMEN It is not so with vs for if a wise riche man doe chaunce to come to pouersie he is not onely prouided for that