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
A62909	The great duty of Christians to go forth without the camp to Jesus set forth in several sermons on Heb. XIII. 13 / by S.T.M. ...	Tomlyns, Samuel, 1632 or 3-1700.	1682 (1682)	Wing T1860; ESTC R2505	47,711	130

is the true savour of Christianity and without this a Nominal Christian is as Salt that hath lost its savour and is good for nothing Luke 14.34 35. He that taketh not up his Cross and followeth Christ is not worthy of him Matt. 10.38 If ever you will approve your selves true Christians you must be ready to leave the Camp and go out to Jesus 3. Mot. Consider what will earthly Comforts avail or advantage thee without Christ If thou forsake him and cleave to them they will prove a Curse unto thee O! how hurtful and pernicious is that to our Souls that entices and draws us from the Son of God 1 Tim. 6.9 and as a Weight doth plunge us and sink us down into perdition and destruction The lusts of men after these things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 do immerse and drown Souls in Destruction These earthly things are as a Weight that do press down a Racer and hinder him from running his Course Heb. 12.1 It is the cares about or the inordinate enjoyment of these things that overcharge the hearts of men Luke 21.34 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lest your hearts be as a Ship too hard or deep Loaden that therefore is in danger to founder and sink down in the Sea and cannot well make way in its Course Are not those things mischievous to us that hinder us in our Race and that obstruct us in our Voyage towards the Haven of a Blessed Eternity It is said the prosperity of Fools shall destroy them Prov. 1.32 They are Simple that turn away from Christ to any Creature and though they seem to flourish for a time in the World yet their Plenty feeds and fuels their lusts and so helps forward their ruine and destruction Thus their Table proves a Snare to them Ps 69.22 and by all their Prosperity they are but Fatted for the Slaughter and more fitted for Destruction Can the enjoyment of any of these things countervail the loss of Jesus Christ or be a sutable Portion to us in the room of Jesus Christ How easily can God imbitter all these things to us and make us sick and weary of them Judas could take no pleasure in the Pieces of Silver for which he sold Christ Mat. 27.34 Francis Spira could not endure to look on his Children for the love of which he had denied the Truth of Christ vid. Hist of Spira he could not abide to eat any thing so weary was he of life all he took was forced as it were upon him A wounded Spirit who can bear The Favour of Princes will not bind up broken Hearts or set broken Bones or heal wounded Spirits An Apostate may suffer more in one Nights Horrours for denying Jesus Christ than a sincere Christian endures in many days Torments for owning and confessing him Account therefore nothing can be either safe or sweet to you which is the Hire of an Harlot or the Wages of Iniquity I mean that you enjoy as the reward of your Treachery to Christ 4. Mot. If you go forth without the Camp if you are cast out as Spiritual Lepers in the Worlds Eye or are led out as Malefactors to Execution you are but treated as your Head Lord and Master was and are you better than he Marvel not saith Christ If the World hate you for it hated me before it hated you John 15.18 It called the Master of the House Belzebub and will it begin to Honour or cease from reviling his Servants Matt. 10.24 25. You are not above Christ or are to expect better usage than he had The world was a Wilderness to him and shall it be a Paradise to us He received here his Evil things and shall we expect our Good things on this Earth Is it fit that Members should lead a pleasant and delicious life under a Head Crowned with Thorns Did the World cast out Christ and will it take us in if it excercised so little Hospitality towards the Son of God will it open its Doors to us 5. Mot. If by going forth to Jesus you expose your selves to Temporal Evils yet he will be a shelter to you from greater and worser Evils Is 32.2 a covert from the Wind a refuge and hiding-place from the Tempest of the Wrath of God Though you may be the worlds Butts to be shot at yet you shall not be Gods Mark Christ will be your Shield to guard you from the Eternal Arrows of Divine Vengeance He is a Rain-bow round about the Throne that Storms shall not fall from Heaven to overwhelm you Rev. 4.3 He is a Priest on his Throne a Mediator at the Right Hand of God to maintain your Peace with Heaven and to deliver you from the Wrath that is to come You shall not be Food to the Worm that never dies nor fuel to the Flames that shall never go out The Blood of this Paschal Lamb is sprinkled on Believers to keep destroying Justice out Though the world draw upon you yet the Sword of God is for ever sheathed towards you Though men cast you out Christ will seek you out and take you in God your great Creditor will not arrest and imprison you and Conscience shall not accuse and condemn you for you are sprinkled from an Evil Conscience by the Blood of Christ though winds do blow high without yet there shall not be a Storm and dreadful Earthquake or rather Heart-quake within in It is worse to be cast as unsavoury Salt out of the House of God Luke 14. last than for our constancy and faithfulness to Christ to be thrust out of the Camp of men and this greater Evil Christ frees from For the Sons of God shall abide in his House for ever John 8.35 6. Mot. When you are called to go forth of the Camp to Jesus what are you required to leave but what you are already dead to if you are true Christians Col. 3.3 For you are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God In Christ Believers are already dead to the Natural life that flows from the first Adam This life Christ hath laid down extinguished and abolished for ever in himself He is risen again to a more Excellent Higher and Nobler Life and this Believers should repute reckon and esteem as their Life The Apostle intimates that we ought not to regard the Natural life as our life but to account that is our life which is hid with Christ in God and that we are risen with Christ Col. 3.1 and so have the beginnings and first Fruits of this new and glorious life Now what are all the Riches Honours and Pleasures of the World to a dying or to a dead Man Why should we be so sollicitous or anxiously careful about a life or the concerns of that life that is abolished by Christ and that we are dead to in Jesus our Head All the Delights and Comforts of this world are but the Appendixes or Appurtenances of this life that is abolished by Christ and Saints are