Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	eat_v	idol_n	weak_a	2,180	5	9.3570	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70256	The priveledge of the saints on earth beyond those in heaven in respect of gifts and graces exercised, duties and services performed, sufferings and tryals undergone by them which the glorified are not capable of : being the sum of a discourse upon a part of Hezekiah's Song of thanksgiving ... : to which is added A short discourse of the nature and extent of the Gospel-day : reaching from the destruction of the old to the erection of the new Jerusalem out of Zech. 14, 6, 7 / by William Hooke.	Hooke, William, 1600 or 1601-1678.	1673 (1673)	Wing H2628; ESTC R28112	66,910	165

his tryals and oppositions in an evil day and this and that was the Rule he walked by For he was a wise Man or she was a wise Woman and very consciencious and tender-hearted and sincere and active and stirring and zealous for Jesus Christ and fearful to give the least offence and ready to every good work and pitiful to the poor Saints his Heart and Purse and House were open for Jesus Christ And he was a just and peaceable Man and one that could govern his Spirit and Tongue and that could keep down his passions and one that was a mortified person dead to the world and the things thereof c. Now what a blessed example is this and what a glorious report what an edifying patern and for the glory of God and our Lord Jesus Christ Yea this example will preach your funeral Sermon you need no other to do it and it will keep you alive when you are dead and immortalize you upon Earth make you of blessed memory indeed and to be had with the righteous in everlasting remembrance when the names of others shall be written in the Earth which will soon be obliterated and quite blotted out and when it shall be said of them as of Hezekiah's Father by way of reproach This is that King Ahaz And such a good example many have left behind them and we are ever and anon speaking of such as these are whose names are as a precious Oyntment and which were embalmed when they dyed with the Graces Vertues and good Works of their Lives that still they send forth a sweet savour to surviving posterity And thus was that good Womans name embalmed who poured out a very precious Oyntment on the Head of Christ against his burial Verily saith Christ wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached in the whole world there shall also this that this Woman hath done be told for a memorial of her So that this good Woman is still alive in her memory and she 〈◊〉 thus lived these 1600 years and more and shall never dye so long as the world standeth And such another was Tabitha And the like I may say of many more whose names are recorded in holy Writ who obtained a good report and though they are now dead yet still they both speak and are spoken of Brethren will ye think upon these things And will ye now study endeavour to live exemplarily and to live lives for posterity and so to live converting lives and convincing and edifying lives yea and to live the lives of such as must be the world's Judges And will it not be greatly to the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ and to your Eternal Consolation to hear of your lives and examples in that great day of Christ's appearance when your examples shall have their resurrection as well as your bodies when Christ shall produce your paterns before all the world and convince and judge the ungodly world by them As if he should say to those on his left hand who lived in your dayes and saw your examples Loe do you see these Men and Women on my right hand who lived thus and thus in your sight and gave you a blesse● example which either you censured or were unwilling to follow they lived and conversed in direct opposition to you they lived so and so when you did thus and thus Therefore they shall be your Judges Methinks I cannot speak enough of this Subject which is of very great moment viz. the transmission and recommendation of paterns to posterity as one grieved that I can see no more of it but rather such a common and ordinary kind of walking as hath little or nothing of singularity in it Alas How few that profess the fear of God this day are writing of Copies for posterity to walk by And where is singularity of life to be seen Yea how many are there among the Professors of the Gospel by whose failings we may learn more than by their Vertues and this I speak to my grief Oh let your light so shine before Men that they may see your good works and glorifie your Father which is in Heaven Jesus Christ there speaks of the light of good works and good examples which are visible to standers-by and such as do occasion them to glorifie our Heavenly Father And know thus much also That Men live much by example either on the one side or other And where good examples are given God expecteth that others should follow them and that not only the examples of the living but of the dead also For what saith the Apostle Remember them which have the rule over you who have spoken unto you the Word of God whose Faith follow considering the end of their conversation The Apostle there speaketh of such as had been their Guides but were now dead for the words in the Original are not remember them that have the rule over you but remember your Rulers i. e. Ministers of the Gospel who are now with the Lord. And he exhorts the Hebrews not to forget their Faith and holy lives who had no other end in their conversations and good examples but God's Glory and the Salvation of them that beheld them But I must pass from this Particular though somewhat loth to leave it and should much rejoyce if what I have said of it may take place in all your hearts and lives Live exemplarily that your paterns may outlive you and edifie others when you are dead And this is a work which cannot be done in Heaven And take heed of scandals and visible infirmities which edifie beholders to ruine For there is a sinful mischievous edification of which the Apostle speaketh 1 Cor. 8. 10. For if any Man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the Idols Temple Shall not the Conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to Idols The word rendred Emboldened is Edified in the Original You may so live in your Examples that you may edifie and teach beholders to sin in following them as Jeroboam the son of Nebat did who made Israel to sin And many that profess to the Gospel do so live and walk the Consideration whereof is very sad and miserable O beware of giving such examples for they will diminish your glory in Heaven if you shall be so happy at least as to arrive there But so much for this 3d Particular Embrace and improve all opportunities of appearing and speaking for Christ another service peculiar to the Saints on Earth who cannot speak a word for Christ in Heaven And many such seasons are providentially administred to us viz. sometimes of reproving sin both in such as fear God and such as fear him not In the Scriptures you find the Saints reproving one another Moses reproveth Aaron and Nathan David and Hanani Asa his son Jehu Jehoshaphat and Paul Peter and one private