Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	faith_n	good_a	purge_v	1,223	5	9.3250	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96993	Elisij Campi. A paradise of delights: or an Elixier of comforts Offered to believers, in two short discourses of I. The confirmation of the Covenant from Heb. 6. 17. 18. II. The donation of Christ from Romans. 8. 32. By R.W. minister of the Gospel and sometime preacher at Tamerton-Foliot, in the county of Devon.	Wyne, Robert.	1672 (1672)	Wing W3774A; ESTC R231977	98,406	309

a change ●●ere Faith is it purifieth the ●●rt and purgeth the conscience ●●m dead works to serve the Li●●ng God it acteth a man toward ●●d it giveth up the Soul to Jesus ●●rist it frameth people unto ●liness and new obedience Therefore all unholy and irreligious persons all workers of iniquitie being without Christ are without hope of happiness whatever they say Po. 14.32 But the Righteous hath hope in his Death He that by Faith hath laid hold on the Righteousness of Christ and is Sanctified by the Spirit of Christ to bring forth the fruits of righteousness in his life he hath hope through Christ Jesus that God who hath bestowed Christ upon him to Justifie an● Sanctifie him will together with him and through him give life Eternal Acts 28.10 1 Tim. 1.1 1 Cor 15.19 Christ is called the hope of Israel and the hope of Believers The Christians hope is in Christ If in this life only we have hope in Christ Beloved he that hath the Son hath everlasting life is saved by hope living and dying he is in certain expectation of Salvation by Christ Here is a main difference now betw●xt the Believer and the unbeliever between the true Christian and the worlding in this perticular And truly the condition of men and women in point of happiness is to be judged of not by what we see or what is now possessed but by what is hoped for hereafter upon good ground he is a poor man a wretched man that hath no hope in Christ As for your present outward enjoyments what an emptiness is in them and how uncertain are they these earthlie considences shall be plucked up they must perish If a man take up any serious thoughts of Eternitie what comfort can he take in his present enjoyments when he hath no hope of Heaven hereafter Now alas the Christless soule is a hopeless soule when the truth of the matter comes to be tried and therefore is a miserable soul inded But as for the Believer vvho possesseth Christ though he hath but little here of the World yet hath hope of an excceeding eternal vveight of glory hath hope of enjoying a Crown hereafter and this hope is the anchor of the soule sure and stedfast vvhich will not give vvay it entereth into that which is vvithin the Veile it is fastened on the Rock Christ Jesus so that it cannot be broken off there can be no disappointment of the Christian his hope he hath Christ that is the engaging and conveying gift of God and the rest must follow This is the great happines of 7 those that enjoy Christ such souls and such only have hope of eternal life Grant that the children of God do live here in a poor outvvard condition and are under Gods Rod in the School of affliction vvhile the ungodly flourish aboud in wealth have no changes allovv I say to vvicked men the greatest ●dds in this life Yet Believers have infinitely the advantage of them in regard of the hope that they have of another life vvhich is transcendently beyond this in the best condition of living here 2. There is a great difference between the Beleever and the Unbeleever betvveen the soul that possesseth Christ and the soule that hath not Christ in respect of present enjoyments There are many carnal men that have this worlds goods in a plentifull measure in great abundance but as long as they are without Christ if they seriously think upon it they have little reason to bless themselves they can take but little comfort in their enioyments for where Christ is not given nothing is given of God with a purpose of Grace so that the unbeliever hath reason to think that these things are given him in anger and in judgment to make him the more inexcusable to be a snare to him to fatten him against the day of slaughter to aggravate his sin and encrease his condemnation But now where God hath bestowed Christ and where the soul takes him up by faith other things coming in with him are gifts of God's will they are fruits and tokens of God his love whatsoever cometh from God together with Christ must needs come from love This is a sweet consideration indeed and surely all other enjoyments of Christians are as hath been hinted much sweetned to them and become much more valuable and profitable by their enjoyment of Christ he that hath not Christ hath nothing that is truly good to him nothing that will prove comfortable in the end but when I know that Christ is mine then I can look upon every thing that I enjoy and say This is the good gift of my God This is a gracious Dispensation this my Fathers love now let my Soul rejoyce in the God of my comforts 6. Infer 6. If Christ be such a gift of God the great all-comprehending gift then Christians should be satisfied with Christ though they possess not these outward things Christ makes up all If God hath given Christ to us he hath done enough for us though it is sure that with him he will give us all things and things needful and that which he sees to be good for us 2. If Jesus Christ be the great and principle gift of God Vse 2 Conviction then it is great folly in people to prefer any thing before Christ now surely many are they who may be convicted of folly upon this account for alass how few are they that make out after Christ People are content generally to be without him to be strangers to him some are Voluptuous some Covetuous some Ambitious Haec tria pro trino numine vul gus habere some for Pleasure some for Profit some for Honour these are the things that men look after but there is little looking after Christ he is held out to be the great gift of God the most comprehensive gift in whom there is a fullness of all good to give abundant satisfaction to the Soul that makes him its portion in him we shall find contentment which is not to be found in any thing beside him and he is such a conveying gift as brings along with him all things pertaining to life and godliness and this gift is held forth by God and offered to souls in the Ministry of the Gospel Come saith God take my Son and give your selves up to him you shall surely finde enough in him but oh how is Christ slighted as a thing of no value so that people will not be perswaded to seek an enjoyment of him Ah foolish wor●dlings you will not be called off from your vain and sinful courses nor from the eager pursuit of the things of this world to look after ●hrist to get an interest in him Do you not in effect say rather let us enjoy the pleasures of sin rather let us have this Worlds goods we judge these things to be better then Christ Ah poor souls Why do you follow after lying vanities forsaking your own

God having given his Son cannot but with him also give other things for 1. An argument from the greater to the lesser concludeth probably in reason but the conclusion made by faith is necessary in this case if we look to Christ as heire of all things upon whom all is ●ntailed as I may say 2 This appear's more clearly if we look upon God's faithfulness in making good his promise and his Justice engaged by Christ his purchase Jesus Christ purchased all things for those for whom he gave himselfe therefore God is engaged to give all things together with Christ Now if Jesus Christ be such a comprehensive gift such a conveighing gift and such an engaging gift then he is the principa gift of God a gift above all other gifts I come to some improvement of the point by application Application I shall make a fourfold use of the doctrine Vse 1 1. If Christ be such a comprehensive good Information then we see the nearest way and indeed the only way to the enioyment of all needfull good things whether should we go for water but to the fountain when it is near now Jesus Christ is near he is brought home to us and there are free offers of Christ made to our Souls and he is a Fountainè that is alwaies full alwaies open and alwaies running therefore let us make out to Christ from whom and in whom we may have all supplies when all other comforts fail when riches flie away and when friends die away and when health is gone and life is going then Christ wil stand us instead and be All and more then all those things to us When the the leaking Cisterns will be found emptie then shall we find the fountain full and that will still yeld us as much as we need if we want not the Bucket of Faith to draw water out of this well 2. If Christ be the conveying gift of God then we must seek all good from God in and through Christ and give thanks to God by Christ for all the good that we receive God bestoweth in and through Jesus Christ all that he giveth graciously and in a way of love and so God receiveth all from us in the way of duty and service by the hand of Christ So that we must have mind upon Jesus Christ and take in the consideration of Christ in all our prayers and praises 3. If Christ be the engaging gift of God and if we reckon that God hath bestowed his son upon us and so as it were bound himself to give us all other needful good things then there is an engagement upon us to give our selves back unto God it is contrary to Religion and reason that we should think to be loose from God and yet to have him bound to us 4. We are informed hence who are the richest men and women surely they are believers such as enjoy Christ for though such may be sometimes in a poor outward condition yet they cannot want any thing that is necessary for their Spiritual and Eternal welfare and having Christ they have that which can supply all wants that which can satissie the Soule When Paul was come to Christ then he had learned in what soever estate he was therewith to be content 5. This speaketh the unspeakable happiness of those soules that enjoy Christ God giveth all things with him and all proced's from love There is a great difference betwixt Believers and Vnbelievers as in point of hope for the future so in respect of their present enjoyments 1. They are exceedingly distinguished in their hope Alas What hope hath a wicked man or a carnal worldling why he is full of vain hopes He hopes that he shall live and see many good dayes upon Earth he hopeth to encrease his estate he hopeth that his posterity shall prosper But what hope hath the Hip●crite Job 27.8 when God taketh away his soule Alas the confidences of vvorldly men shall be plucked up their hopes shall perish they build in the sands and building sinketh the house falleth it is the house built upon the Rock that standeth hope sixed on Jesus Christ will never fail will never make a man ashamed It is true that carnal worldly men such as are faithless and Christless do profess their ●opes of happiness hereafter Some bear themseves up upon their good meaning and honest lealing● civil honesty is the best soundation that their hope hath Others that have not this foundation that have no honesty nor civilitie yet say they hope well and they trust God will be merciful to them many souls are undone for ever by presuming upon the mercy of God turning the grace of God into wantonness Sottish drunkards and prophane sweaters and such as live viciously slatter themselves in their sins and even die with this in their mouths God is merciful but be not deuived saith the Apostle Neither Fornicators nor Idolaters ●●r Adulterers 1 Cor. 6 9. n●r Thieve● nor Covetous nor Drunkards no such ungodly wicked persons shall inberit the Kingdom of God Let no man decive y●u wi●h vain words Eph. 5 6. for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience It appears from both these scripturs that there were divers who had such deceitful thou h●s as if livng and dying in such sins as are there mentioned they should yet go to heaven presuming upon Gods mercy but friends this is most certain that no man hath any reason to hope for salvation till by faith he h●th ●aid hold on Jesus Christ who is the only Saviour of souls God deals out mercies through Christ where he bestoweth Christ there he giveth grace glory and withhold's no good thing but without Christ and out of him there is no exibition of any thing to men and w●men in a gracious way nothing proceeding from loue Christ is the conv●ighing gift of God who brought all good with him out of the bosom of his Father to those that enjoyhim now if other gifts of Gods good will lesser gifts be not bestowed but through Christ with Christ then surely he will not give Eternal life without him or out of him Therefore so long as soules are ●●thout Christ stranger● to him 〈◊〉 they close with him by faith ●●d take him as Lord and Jesus ●●y have no ground to hope for ●●lvation He that hath the Son ●●blife 1 Ioh. 5 12 This is the will of him ●●t sent me that every one which 〈◊〉 the Son and beleeveth on him Ioh 6.40 ●●y have everlasting life The spirit of God speaketh ex●●sly 1 Ioh. 5.11 that eternal life is in Jesus ●●ist and that he who hath not 〈◊〉 Son hath not life that people ●●not have a confident expecta●●●n of any good from God out of ●●rist But now it is as clear as the Sun ●●t many who pretend hope of ●●vation are without Christ and ●●thout Faith for where Christ ●●meth he worketh