Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	draw_v	evil_a	sprinkle_v	1,134	5	10.3564	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14199	The voyce of the cryer Containing 1. A denunciation of Gods iudgements. 2. An inuitation to repentance to preuent the same. Deliuered in two sermons by Alexander Vdny B. in Diuinity, and chaplaine to his Maiestie in ordinary, and minister of the Gospell at Hauking in Kent.	Udny, Alexander, minister of Hauking in Kent.	1628 (1628)	STC 24513A; ESTC S114880	80,029	113

God comforting our selfe in Christ relying vpon his promises by faith aboue all sense and feeling whatsoeuer 3. By paying our vowes vnto the Lord fearing our selfe in our best actions and Satans readines to set vpon vs approouing our selfe by striuing against corruption liuing in spirituall duties louing one another waiting for our end 4. We must watch ouer the outward man 5. Wee must moderate our liberty in respect of time place and person our guide must bee in this loue and wisedome For the fourth wee may entertaine the motions of Gods Spirit in our hearts How we may entertaine the motions of Gods Spirit 1. By discerning and esteeming of them 2. By reioycing in them as in our chiefest treasure 3. By putting them in practise and praising God for the same For the fifth we may discerne of the security and drousines of our hearts by these rules How we may find out the drousines of our hearts 1. If there be within vs a loathing of holy duties 2. If our consciences are continually turmoiled with great tetrors 3. If we finde but little or no comfort when we haue performed holy duties 4. If wee finde much contentment in our willingnesse to sinne and vnwillingnesse to die then our hearts are cast into a drousines and security For the sixt How our hearts may bee roused vp our hearts may bee awakened and roused vp from this security 1. By the powerfull ministery of the word 2. By strong cryes vnto God 3. By crauing the prayers of the faithfull 4. By a resolution to become more carefull 5. By endeauouring more constantly for the conuersion of others 6. By exercising a daily course of Repentance in respect of daily sinne 7. By priuate and publike humiliation and fasting before God For the seuenth we are to take notice of the chiefest sinnes of our heart whereby we may chiefly conquer them How we may find out the chiefest sins of our heart which being vanquished in time we shall ouercome the rest for from the purity or impurity of the fountaine the streames flow accordingly this we may doe 1. By diligent hearing of Gods word which will meet euen with our most secret corruptions 2. By a diligent and carefull obseruation of our thoughts words and actions by which the vsurer shall finde that couetousnesse the adulterer that vncleannes c. are their dearest darlings the chiefest sinnes of their heart out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh 3. By a generall and vniuersall reformation and mortification of our lusts in the performance wherof we shall meet with the greatest resistance from those our chiefest sinnes 4. By an examination of our selfe if we might retaine some sinnes which we would chiefly retaine those are our chiefe sinnes The vses of the former doctrine are threefold For instruction there can bee no true Repentance vnlesse the whole heart be changed it is not onely outward in words or in practise but inward in the affection of the mind and therefore our Sauiour saith First cleanse that which is within Our memory must be changed by remembring God our vnderstanding by knowing God our will by beleeuing God our affections by louing desiring meditating and reioycing in things heauenly All must concurre together else it is not with the whole heart Some haue knowledge but want true faith some haue will but want memory all which must bee amended we must conferre often to get memory reade much to get knowledge heare much to obtaine faith pray alwayes whereby we shall get good effections Seeing God doth require the whole heart and our imperfections are exceeding great we must euen pray with S. Augustine Da quod iubes iube quod ●is Aug. Lord giue vs power to do what thou commandest and command what thou willest For reprehension vnto such as either delay to returne vnto the Lord Vse 2 or turning vnto him but not with their whole heart Some turne but in hypocrisie their outward actions and inward affections goe not together This is abomination in the sight of God God will either haue the whole heart or none of it Seeing I say that the Lord doth require of vs to returne vnto him wholly and totally this excludeth 1. Euery hypocriticall conuersion when there wanteth sincerity 2. Euery conuersion from good vnto euil as from being a Protestant to become a Papist or from euill to euill as of a Prodigall to become a couetous miser 3. Euery false conuersion as when sinne turneth from vs not we from it when we doe not turne from sinne till the strength of nature be decayed when for some by-respects we forsake sinne as the drunkard le ueth his drunkennes in respect of want of meanes or the weaknes of his stomacke 4. Euery halfe turning or imperfect conuersion when we turne from many sinnes not from all as Herod who although he did many things well yet would not forsake Herodias his brother Philips wife Mar. 6.20 Hos 6.4 This is as a morning cloude as the dew of the morning For exhortation vnto vs all to draw nigh vnto God with a pure heart Vse 3 for thus wee are most fitting for him In old times there must bee no blemish either in the Priest or in the sacrifice our hearts now are both and therefore we ought to draw nigh with a pure heart in full assurance of faith hauing our hearts sprinkled from an euill conscience and our bodies washed with pure water Heb. 10.22 As the sacrifice of Cain was reiected so are the prayers of the wicked as hauing their hearts corrupted The heart rules the life purge the heart of ignorance pride and dissimulation and all things which may disquiet the conscience when thou commest before the Lord and the oftner thou doest come the more thou shalt be changed Pray that the Lord may cast thee in a new mould or thou shalt be for thy negligence cast into hell fire Let vs watch ouer our hearts ouer that part which is vnsound for there is no man but hath some wound in the soule We must doe with sinne as the Apostle counselleth to doe with anger Eph. 4.25 Let not the sunne goe downe thereon Doest thou delay to returne thou abusest the mercy of God if thou loue any thing aboue God thou denyest him the more thou delayest truely to repent the further art thou separated from God and the nigher and faster thou hastest vnto thine owne destruction Thus of the fourth point And so much for the inward forme of Repentance layd downe in these words Turne ye euen vnto mee with all your heart Now I come to speake of the outward forme of repentance which concerneth action consisting of three parts 1. Fasting 2. Weeping 3. Mourning The former was to bee internall in the affection this externall and in action whence this generall obseruation doth arise that Both outward and inward repentance must bee ioyned together Doct. Thus Peter to expresse his repentance wept bitterly