Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

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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
A77608	Heaven on earth or a serious discourse touching a wel-grounded assurance of mens everlasting happiness and blessedness. Discovering the nature of assurance, the possibility of attaining it, the causes, springs, and degrees of it, with the resolution of several weighty questions. By Thomas Brooks, preacher of the Gospel at Margarets Fishstreet-Hill.	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1654 (1654)	Wing B4943; Thomason E1446_1; ESTC R209539	332,772	663

assurance and less money will serve your turns get but more assurance and less places of honor and profit will serve your turns get but assurance and then you will neither transgress for a morsel of Bread nor yet violently pursue after the Golden Wedge c. Fourthly Assurance will exceedingly heighten you in your communion with God and it will exceedingly 1 John 1. 1 2 3 4. sweeten your communion with God Assurance of a mans propriety in God raises him high in his fellowship with God There are none that have such choice and sweet communion with God as those that have the clearest assurance of their interest in God as may be seen thorowout the whole Book of Solomons Song My beloved Cant. 2. 16. is mine and I am his saith the Spouse I am assured of my propriety in him sayes she and therefore he shall lie all night betwixt my Brests and upon Chap. 1. 13. Chap 7. 5. this account it is that she holds King Jesus in the Galleries that she is sick of love that she is raised and ravished with his kisses and embraces His left Chap. 2. 6. hand is under my head and his right hand doth embrace me None had more assurance of her interest in Christ then she and none higher and closer in communion with Christ then she The Wives assurance of her interest in her Husband sweetens and heightens her communion with her Husband The Childes assurance of his interest in his Father sweetens his commerce and fellowship with his Father So the Believers assurance of his interest in God will exceedingly heighten and sweeten his communion and fellowship with God Assurance of a mans interest in God sweetens every thought of God and every sight of God and every taste of God and every good Word of God God is as Habet omnia qui habet habentem omnia He hath all that hath the honor of all sweet to the assured soul when he hath a sword in his hand as when he hath a Scepter when he hath the rod of indignation as when hee hath the cup of consolation when his garments are rowled and dyed in blood as when hee appeares in his VVedding Robes when hee acts the part of a Judge as when hee acts the part of a Father c. Fifthly Assurance will be a choyce preservative to keep you from backsliding from God and his wayes Ah Assurance will glue the soul to God and his wayes as Ruth was glued to her Mother Naomi It will make a man stand fast in the Faith and quit himself like a good Souldier of Christ 2 Pet. 1. 10 11. Wherefore the rather Brethren give Luther writing to his friend Melancthon troubled with fears saith Si nos ruimas ruit Christus If we fall saith he Christ falls diligence to make your calling and election sure for if yee doe these things yee shall never fall Stumble yee may and hee that does but stumble gets ground by his stumbling Assurance will keep a man from falling foully and from falling utterly Verily the reason why there is so many Apostates in these days is because there are so few that have a wel-grounded assurance in these days Pliny speaks of some fishes that swim back-ward Ah many Professors Pulchrior inpralio occisus miles quam fugâ salvus Better be slain in the Bed of Honor then be safe by running away in these days swim back-ward they swim from God and Christ and Conscience yea they swim from the very principles of morallity and common honesty Believe it Friends it is not high notions in the Brain but found assurance in the heart that will keep a man close to Christ when others back-slide from Christ An assured Christian will not exchange his Gold for Copper he knows that one old peece of Gold is worth a thousand new Counters One old truth of Christ is worth a thousand new errors though cloathed with glistering Robes and therefore he will prize the truth and own the truth and keep close to the truth when others that want a sound assurance make merchandize of Christ precious 2 Pet. 2. 3. truths and of their own and others immortal souls Get assurance and thou wilt stand when seeming Cedars fall want assurance and thou canst not but fall to the breaking of thy bones if not to the utter loss of thy precious soul Sixthly Assurance will very much imbolden the foul with God it will make a man divinely familiar with God it will make a man knock boldly at the door of Free-grace it will make a man come boldly before the Mercy-seat it will make a man enter boldly within the Holy of Holies Heb. 10. 22. Let us draw neer with a true 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Such full assurance as fills all the sails of the soul heart in full assurance of Faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water Assurance makes the soul top and top gallant it makes the soul converse with God as a Favorit with his Prince as a Bride with her Bridegroom as a Joseph with a Jacob. Luther under the power of assurance le ts fall this transcendent rapture of a during Faith Fiat mea voluntas Let my will be done and then falls off sweetly Mea voluntas domine quia tua My will Lord because thy will It is the want of assurance that makes the countenance sad the hands hang down the knees feeble and the heart full of Heb. 12. 12. fears and tremblings O therefore get assurance and that will scatter your fears and raise your hopes and chear your spirits and give wings to Faith and make you humbly bold with God You will not then stand at the door of Mercy with a may I knock with a may I go in with a may I finde audience and acceptance but you will with Esther boldly adventure your selves upon the Mercy and Goodness of God Now verily I think saith one speaking of Christ he cannot despise me who is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh for if he neglect me as a brother yet he will love me as a husband that is my comfort Assurance will remove all strangeness from between Christ and the Soul of two it will make Christ and the Soul one Seventhly Assurance will sweeten the thoughts of death and all the Nemo ante s●nera f●lin Solon aches pains weaknesses sicknesses and diseases that are the fore-runners of it yea it will make a man look and long for that day it will make a man fick of his absence from Christ it makes a man smile upon the King of terrors it makes a man laugh at the shaking of the Spear at the noise of the battel at the garments of the Isa 9. 5 6. Nazianzen said to the King of Terrors Devour me devour me Death cures all diseases the aking head and the unbelieving heart Ultimus morborum medicus mors Warriors rolled