Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	die_v	hell_n	worm_n	1,009	5	9.7957	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35544	The white robe, or, The undefiled Christian clothed in a vvhite garment held forth in a farewel sermon / preached by Mr. Joseph Caryl at Magnus, August the 17, 1662.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1662 (1662)	Wing C789; ESTC R7475	10,208	22

to be sure they shall at last there is many a one lives under the disfavor of his own conscience many a one that his conscience will not give him a good word or good look whence hath it been they have defiled their garments They who venture to do things displeasing to God shall not long be pleasing to themselves The story speaks of Francis Spira that to please men to save an estate he defiled his garments and he presently fell into rebuke of himself and lived under the rebuke of his conscience a long time Job 8. 15. v. speaking of the Hypocrite his hope shall be cut off the word signifies to loath so some translate his hope shall be a loathing to him he shall loath his hope There is twofold loathing First a loathing to repentance that is a gracious loathing a loathing our selves for our sins against God And there is a loathing of despair and that is the loathing there meant the Hypocrite shall loath his own hope that is he shall loath it despairingly 'T is an affliction to be loathed by men but 't is a dreadful judgement to be loathed of our selves despairingly this is the suburbs of hell for this will be the portion of the damned for ever for their vanity for for their madness 't is next to the Regions of hell for their worm dyeth not and that is the worm of conscience Oh therefore take heed conscience may be silent yea it may flatter for a time but when conscience is provok'd it will speak yea thunder There is no such thundering Preacher in the world as conscience is The Thundering of Mount Sinai is not like the thundering of our conscience Fourthly and lastly Let it be for Exhortation and incouragement for Christ here makes it an incouragement so let this be an incouragement to keep our garments undefiled the remembrance that we shall walk with him in white in the white of peace and joy in this world who would not walk in this white who would not be among those who keep their garments white in the midst of a defiled and defiling world Let me give you but a threefold Consideration to stir you up to an exceeding Exactness and Carefulness not to defile your garments seeing there is such a Reward promised such a Habit of White promised as this White wherein we shall walk with Jesus Christ It is an Angelical Happiness so much Heaven is come down upon ye while you have this White 'T is Heaven before Heaven Matthew 28. verse 3. the Angel that came down to the Sepulchre of Christ his Raiment was white ●s the Light The Martyrs when they had Angelical Apparitions they always appeared to them in white as one upon the Rack thought he felt an Angel supplying him while his enemies tormented him Christ calls the Pharisees whited Sepulchres they are whited but whited sepulchres that is a woful condition to be whited like a sepulchre Thus it is with those who defile themselves they are whited walls and whited sepulchres They that keep themselves white shall walk in white shall have Angelical glory Secondly Consider this white or walking in white is such as conquers all the blackness of this world 't is not possible for the world to alter the colour of this white how much dirt soever they put upon it this white will be white still they cannot turn it to be black they cannot take away this peace this joy from us they cannot strip us of this habit they may pull off your fine garments but you cannot be stript of this white Your joy shall no man take from you 2 Cor. 6. 20. As sorrowful yet always rejoycing as poor yet making many rich as having nothing yet freely possessing all things The world may put us into a sad estate as to the world yet we are not out of our white garments always rejoycing Habakkuk 3. 13. Although the Fig-tree shall not blossom neither shall fruit be in the Vines the labor of the Olive shall fail and the fields shall yield no meat and the flock shall be cut off from the fold and there shall be no herd in the stalls this cannot take away the white garments no saith the Prophet yet I will rejoyce in the Lord and joy in the God of my salvation 'T is a conquering joy turnes all sorrow into joy and blackness to white therefore keep clean Thirdly Consider this this white of peace and joy as 't is a joy unconquerable so 't is that will be with us most when we most need it when worldly joys are farthest from us then this joy will be near to us that is a marvellous comfort to have comfort in its season The Martyrs who have kept themselves white have had this white and walkt in this white but when they have most need of it and come actually to suffering then they have had most of it This is a blessed thing this the Martyrs of Jesus Christ have given witness of although they have had peace and joy in their consciences at other times yet never so much as in the hour of temptation When they have been cast into the Coal-house they have had white garments when they have been cast into prisons and dungeons how have they rejoyced 'T is said of Paul and Silas they were men that kept their garments undefiled and they had a great deal of peace and joy when they were put in the Stocks and Dungeons then they sung at midnight what an enlargement of heart had they at that time So in the Stories of ancient and latter Times how have they rejoyced and gone triumphing to the Gibbet for then Christ gives most of this white It hath been the use of Persecutors to put filthy garments upon the Martyrs drawing pictures of Devils upon them and as their malice hath risen to the height that in time of Sufferings to make them look like Devils then the Love of Christ hath risen to the height and they have been full of peace and joy at that time therefore be encouraged to walk with Christ in this white This white is an Angelical Habit 't is an unconquerable Habit and 't is that will be with us most when we have most need of it I should have added a third as walking with Christ is an honor and 't is walking in the white of peace and joy So thirdly 't is a truth of walking with Christ in the white of glory as in the Transfiguration which was a Type of Heaven his raiment was white so as no Fuller on earth was able to whiten it and that is it which I might have spoken of to ye that they who keep their garments undefiled here shall be sure of that to walk with Christ in glory hereafter If we should miss of the white of honour and have not much of the white of joy yet be sure we shall walk with Christ in the white of Glory I would onely say this to you That as I have from this Text and many more labored to bring poor Souls into a white state to a state of Justification to a state of Holiness and as I have been pressing you to keep your garments white that you may be in the habit of white as your Reward so it shall be the desire and prayers of my heart that if I should have no more opportunities among you that as you have been stirred up to get into this white of Grace that you and I may meet in the white of Glory where we shall never part Here are three white The white of Honor is good the white of Peace and Joy is very good the white of Glory is best of all that is the answer of all our Prayers and that is the issue of all our Working then we shall have as much as we can hold for ever FINIS