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	shipwreck_n	6,868	5	12.4968	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30559	Two general epistles, or, The breathings of love uttered from the pure life, to the wholeflock of God in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and all other places whersoever this shall come, greeting : being a wholesome exhortation ... / given forth by by that faithful servant of God, who, though he hath lately laid down the earthly body, yet he lives with his Maker forever, Edvvard Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1663 (1663)	Wing B6052; ESTC R6045	15,871	24

TWO General Epistles OR The BREATHINGS of LOVE uttered from the pure Life to the whole Flock of God in England Scotland and Ireland and all other places whersoever this shall come Greeting Being a Wholesome EXHORTATION tending to the Gathering Uniting and Establishing of all the Faithful every-where into that which is Eternal Given forth by that faithful Servant of God who though he hath lately laid down the Earthly Body yet he lives with his Maker for ever EDVVARD BURROUGH LONDON Printed for R. Wilson 1663. The first General Epistle c. FOrasmuch as in these our days the God of Truth hath made manifest his Name and Truth in the hearts of his People and hath gathered the minds of thousands into it to worship him in the Spirit and in the Truth in which he is accepted and of this Truth which is but one and there is not another are we made Witnesses and Ministers of and have the Testimony in our selves that we are of God and are a good savour unto him in them that believe and in them that perish and we have the Testimony That he that is of God heareth us and we know the whole world lies in wickedness and who are in the Truth in the Light and in the Life have fellowship one with another in Holiness and Righteousness in that which comprehends the world and condemns all the works thereof which are evil and this Truth Worship and Fellowship stands in Christ Jesus the second Adam whose Kingdom and Rule is not of this world but from Heaven who according to his Promise in his Counsel hath made known his Power to the raising up a Righteous Branch a Royal Priesthood and Peculiar People zealous of his Name to shew forth his Praise and Glory in Justness and Righteousness in Love Mercy and Peace and works of Purity having our Conversation in Heaven and since that day of the manifestation of this Truth of the Gospel of Peace and Salvation which is the same now as was in the beginning which is in Christ Jesus the Light of the world who is the same yesterday to day and for ever and changeth not I say since that very day hath the Lord prospered his Truth to the renewing of many into his Image and Likeness and to the turning of many from darkness to Light and from Satan's power to God by the mouth of his Ministers and through great sufferings and tribulations oppressions afflictions and labours hath the Lord honoured his Name and his Truth in Nations and given it a praise among all that fear him and hath honoured it and exalted it in the sight of the Heathen to the confounding of the wise and mighty and to the bringing out of the captivity of darkness sin and death wherein in times past all have walked while strangers from the Life of God so that thousands who have received the Truth are established in it and cannot be moved nor shaken but are built upon the sure Foundation their Faith standing in the Power of God with whom the Arm and Presence of the Lord God is defending and preserving continually and unto such the Truth is precious and the Way of the Lord his Name and Honour is dear yea more than life or liberty or any other thing which passeth away who for the Truths sake as it is in Christ Jesus do daily give up themselves to suffering and to reproach for well-doing and not for evil and love not life unto death that the Lord God and his Name and Truth may be honoured so that in that Truth which is received and learned of the Father daily do we walk in all purity and holiness of life answering the Mercy and Love of the Lord in the exercise of a pure Conscience both towards God and man in patience long-suffering and wisdom towards all to the putting to silence of gainsayers rendring love and mercy towards our Persecutors and are set in our hearts to fulfill the Will of God in all things And now whereas that the Scripture may be fulfilled some may and have denied the Truth which once was received and loved to the making shipwrack of Faith and of a good Conscience abusing the Mercy and Grace of God which to them appeared and follow the counsel of their own hearts and not of the Lord having lost the feeling of the Spirit of the Father and are and may be separated from us in the self-separation through an evil heart of unbelief that it may be made manifest they are not of us though they arise from among us and may by disorderly walking contrary to the Truth cause the Truth to be evil spoken of giving occasion thereby to the Enemies of God to blaspheme his Name and Truth in the Earth and may be a stumbling to the weak and an offence to the Way of the Lord before the simple thorow their Disorders and Confusions raising the rage of the Wicked against the Lambs of Christ being not led in the Wisdom of God but in Confusions taking liberty to their own hearts desire fulfilling the will thereof without the Fear of God above the Cross of Christ in the Nature uncrucified and speaking high words in the presumption and not in the Light and Power of God and acting in the vanity of the mind in the pretence of Truth and the moving of the Spirit such things as Truth and the Children of it who are guided with the Spirit cannot justifie but is judged and denied and cast out from among the Children of Light who walk in the Truth and do try the spirits whether they be of God Therefore in the Fear of the Lord God this is written to go abroad among Friends and others to inform and shew unto all that the Truth and we that are in it Ministers of it do stand clear from all such who act and speak out of the Truth and contrary to it in the disorder and confusion and not in the Fear and Counsel of God and with the Truth such are judged and denied and fellowship with them we have not nor their works do approve though such once owned us and were convinced of the Truth and received the Seed of the Kingdom into the unprofitable ground yet being separated from us and gone out from the Truth are not subject to it and its Government but are unruly and disorderly We and the Truth do such deny and the spirit that rules them being not the Spirit of Christ Jesus and such have done evil against their own souls and against God and are troublers of the righteous Seed and have and do dishonour the Lord and his Truth in the sight of the Heathen causing the right Way to be reviled and reproached and evil spoken of through the offence by them to the making sad the hearts of some whom God hath not made sad and even more especially in that they pretend to the Truth in their words and works and professes to be in it yet secretly condemning and