Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	death_n	sin_n	sting_n	3,033	5	12.3553	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89032	Good company being a collection of various, serious, pious meditations; Christian experiences, sayings, sentences; useful for instruction, consolation and confirmation. / By John Melvin, M.A. preacher of the word at Udimer in Sussex.	Melvin, John, M.A.	1659 (1659)	Wing M1656; Thomason E2124_1; ESTC R210169	44,421	139

Ministry of the Word for it is accompanied with the internal power of the Spirit 82. Let not thy affections rove and the world or Divel can do thee no hurt 83. He that suppresseth sin at the first motion shall assuredly find comfort 84. If we mean to come to heaven we must not live in any known sin for it wasts grace 85. A Christian must mend his pace every day that grace may shine more and more to the perfect day 86. Every poor map is not a blessed man except his bodily poverty bring him to spiritual poverty 87. He that hath spiritual comforts hath them cheap if they cost him many a tear 88. The heart is never so chearful as when it powrs out it self in tears and sighs to God 89. Spiritual mourning secures the soul from hell-mourning 90. The way to divert too much bleeding is to open a vein and the onely way to stop unseasonable grief Is to turn our tears against our sins 91. All worldly sorrow must be sorrowed against but sorrow for sin is a sorrow never to be repented of 92. The adventure and the return of the stock of Praier is most certain to increase more and more 93. God forfeits not his Word but we our Praiers when we seek things which crosse God's nature or will or are hurtfull or not necessary in themselves 94. He that knocks at heavens door onely in death deservs to have the door knockt against his head 95. He that would speed in temporal things must first seek spiritual 96. He that desires to speed in praier must go to God with a knowledg and sense of his own insufficiency to succour himself 97. Cold praiers have cold answers for how should God hear us when we hear not our selves 98. They must look to be denied in their praiers who deny Christ in his members 99. The forgetfulnesse of received mercies makes God to forget us 100. He that will be sure to have his praiers heard must make a trade of praier being constant in it CENTURY 6. 1. WE must lay our hand on the plow and then pray that our endeavours may second our devotion 2. To ask grace and not to use the meant is to knock at heavens gate and pull it to us that it do not open 3. He that saies Lord forgive me my sins without a desire to leave them cannot be heard except God forfeit his Word 4. Things inconvenient and unnecessary are profitably denied us 5. If heavenly things were soon obtained they would be soon forgotten 6. He that puts in his petition at one door may willingly go about to another door to have an answer so let God appoint the way and means and deliverance shall be the more speedy 7. Nothing more humbls the child of God then to be buffeted with base temptations 8. When God laies a plaister to our wound we cry take it off when by holding it on the cure is done 9. He hath not lost his praiers but is doubly paid who with the crosses of the world hath his heart driven off from the world 10. He that hath most grace bath most work to do and greatest trials to buckle with 11. He that lets himself loose to any gross sin shall be sure to find it in his praier 12. Some are as unfit to pray as ever David was to march in Saul's armor 13. The bringing forth of a right praier is in a manner like the bringing forth of a child with many throws yet when the child is born there is joy 14. He that sees not the print of his imperfections is neither humble patient nor pitiful not knowing himself brother or God 15. A Verbal confession of frailty without humility mercy and use of the means is meer hypocrisie 16. Man's body in the grace is free from pain but not dishonor 17. Uprightnesse may stand with imperfection beauty with deformity some light some darknesse in the best 18. Our infirmities should be matter of humiliation not desperation 19. He that studies not to know himself will soon grow proud 20. Though the glory of a Saint be not obvious to every eye yet they have an excellencie in them in the midst of all deformities 21. He that see 's not a true Christian to be a glorious creature hath but a fleshly eye 22. It neither comes from good nor works any good to delight in speaking and hearing other men's enormities 23. Some people come to the means at first as children to the School very eagerly but afterward very hardly drawn to it at all 24 No company or comfort should put off the thoughts of death 25. Death will be very terrible to that man who dies not in his thoughts daily 26. It 's an easie matter to speak of death but to bring it home to the heart is very hard 27. Sin unrepented will bring a sting in the time of death filling the heart with sorrow the soul with amazement the conscience with horror 28. Our eies should be casements to let in fresh air not corruption 29. He that laies much upon natures back will break it and he that trusts to natural parts shall be disappointed 30. All carnal pleasures and delights are but poison if grace in the heart be not an antidote 31. Peace of conscience makes a man rejoice in sorrow and live in death 32. He that sees his own wants and weaknesse will often desire to communicate 33. An hypocrite shews sometimes a greater measure of profession then a Christian but is like corn on the house tops that quickly grows and is quickly down 34. All the hands and hearts on earth will do no good upon a resolute sinner 35. A child of God coming to Christ's Table eats judgment to avoid condemnation 36. He that would profit by heavenly mysteries must be knit to them not by the brain but by affection 37. Christ's prepared medicines minister no comfort unlesse applied to our soul 38. We cannot have Christs benefits unlesse we have himself 39. The signs seal no grace to the soul where there is no faith 40. We are very sensible of bodily hunger but soul hunger is hardly felt 41. He that will not be broken from sin shall have no portion in Christ's body broken 42. Gentlemen-like qualities pride pleasure intemperance bring souls apace to hell 43. He that makes a divorce betwixt his soul and corruption is in the state of grace 44. 'T is no presumption but duty to judge by our calling of our election 45. To know there is a Christ and not our interest in him is rather a punishment then a comfort 46. Faith and hope may be distinguished but not separated for faith hath ever hope 47. A fearful doubting soul lives vext in the suburbs of of hell 48. A weak and dumb evidence may be true as the strongest 49. As grace and glory so sin and shame go alwaies together 50. The more sanctified affliction on earth the more weight of glory in heaven 51. It 's all