Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

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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
A35134	A true and faithful testimony concerning John Samm the servant of the Lord who finished his course by laying down his life in Northampton Goal for the truth of Jesus, the 26th of the 1st month, 1664 ... / written by John Crook.	Crook, John, 1617-1699.; Greene, Thomas, 1634?-1699.	1664 (1664)	Wing C7215; ESTC R27612	10,327	18

prisoner in Northampton by me who for some years have had a right knowledge of him and his integrity and faithfulness to Gods eternal Truth of which he was made partaker He was a man of a sound mind and of an upright heart a lover of righteousness and hating iniquity Him the Lord was pleased to choose with the first in the County of Bedford who made him sensible of the living word in his heart by which the Lord brought him to know the work of Redemption who Redeemed him out of the worlds wayes and worships and brought him to Truth in the inward parts which truth he knew to be powerful which set him free from much which did entangle him and feeling the power of it the Lord chose him to bear testimony in words unto it which he received not of man nor by man but of the free gift from the Lord and when he had received it to wit the Truth in the inward parts and his mind to it turned then did he feel the sweet streams of the Lords love to his thirsty soul by which his heart was often filled with joy and great rejoycing and also the Lord in the strength of his Love and in the sense of the living vertue of his life did open his mouth in praises to the Lord to the great refreshment and comfort of his children who were begotten by the same word of power unto the feeling of the life by which he was filled many times as a Cup that overflowes and a good understanding had the Lord given him of the mysteries of his Kingdom and of those things which he had heard learned and received of the Lord in the light of his Son that did he faithfully communicate unto others in the demonstration of the Spi●it of God in season and out of season without respect of time place or person yea prosperous was he made in the hand of the Lord to the convincing of many in the Counties where he travel●ed and to the turning of many from darkness to light from Sathans power to God and a good instrument he was of comfort to the tempted ones and a refresher of the weak ones and a confirmer of the tender hearted in that present Truth which they had received and these words would run through him often saying on this wise As every one hath received Christ the Light so let him walk in it And he was also a man full of love and very zealous for the Lord but not without knowledge for a living sense he had of the heavenly power of God by which he was filled many times as with new Wine and would often say Who is able to containe of this heavenly Vertue and not praise the Name of the Lord And the Lord his Truth and People was dear unto him for whose sakes he often suffered Imprisonment and spoyling of his goods and did rather choose to suffer affliction upon Truths account with the people of the Lord then to enjoy the pleasures of this life for a season or sinne against the light of Christ Jesus which did shine in his heart and give him the knowledge of the Glory that 's Eternal for the enjoyment of which this world and it's glory was of little value to him and both in prison and out of prison the Lord did accompany him with his heavenly presence and many times fill him with the vertue of his life by which his heart was engaged to the Lord. These things I can boldly speak of him having a right knowledge of him being once cast into prison with him because we could not break the command of Christ in sinning against his Ligat which sayed in us Swear not at all according as is recorded in the Scriptures of Truth for which at that time we suffered eighteen weeks Imprisonment with many more of the servants of the Lord who kept the Commandments of God and had the Testimony of Jesus and our hearts was knit together even as Jonathans was to David and as Iron sharpeneth Iron so did the Lord by the manifestation of his love and life in our hearts cause us often to refresh each other Well what might I speak my Friends in Truth of our deceased Brother who fainted not unto the end who hath now finished his Course and made not Shipwrack of Faith and a good Conscience but hath kept the Faith and in it is fallen asleep and now his bodily presence we here no more shall see bu● his life is amongst us and is felt with the faithful for while it was conteined in that narrow compass he would often say There 's no straitness in the Lord but the straitness is of man And he would say How doth one drop from the presence of the Lord cause the Cup to overflow saying Who is able to containe of the exellent streams of Life and not praise the living God On Friends amongst whom he traveled feel his life among you and remember his labour of love for the labour of the Righteous tendeth to life and for this end did he travail labour and suffer to death as a valiant in Israel that many might be made partakers of the like precious faith which he knew to overcome and to give victory and to preserve him to the Lord that so being made partake●s of the riches of Gods grace rejoycing in themselves they might witness this was the earnest desire of his Soul surely the memorial of the Righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance but the name of the wicked shall ●ot So this is my testimony on the behalf of that valiant man who counted not his life dear to himself that he might finish his course with joy And now dear Friends and Brethren whom the Lord hath called in this the day of his mighty Power and hath made you partakers of his Divine nature and hath caused the windowes of Heaven to open and hath shoured down of the ●ertue of his life upon you and ye who have often se●t the ●weet influences of the Fathers love unto your souls be not over much troubled at this our loss but feel his life among you for affliction cometh not out of the dust neither doth trouble spring out of the ground yet man is born to trouble as the spark fly upward as saith Job but the Lord is the support and deliverer of the Righteous and he is their present help in the needful time who brings them to their expected end in peace as he hath this our friend in a good age like as a shock of Corn cometh in in it's sea on And now ye children of the Lord born of the same birth wait ye for the streamings forth of the Lords love into all your souls that you may be as channels or as water courses through which the Lord causeth the water of life to run that you may not only be comforted in your selves but may have wherewithal to comfort others keep in the tenderness and love one to another as children of one Father all sucking at the same brests of Consolation by which the Lords people in all a●e were consolated that ye may grow up together as trees of Righteousness the planting of the Lord that a blessing in his hand ye may be and by his living power to the end ye may be preserved to the glory and to the praise of the Lord This as a testimony for that servant of the Lord J. S. whom I dearly loved with a short Salutation of love to the children of the first born The 7th of the 2d Month 1664. By one who suffers for the same Testimony for which our Brother layed down his life P●is●ner in the Town Goal of Ipswich in Suffolk your Friend THOMAS GREEN FINIS