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
A40772	The faithfull pastor his sad lamentation over, heart-rending challenge and dreadfull thunders against, sharp reproof of, and seasonnable warning to his apostat-flock. In a letter written by a French minister to those over whom the Holy Ghost had made him an overseer upon their wofull defection, renouncing the faith, and joyning in idolatrous worship. Now carefully translated. Together with a word to mourners in Zion who by grace have kept the faith, to sleepers under the storm, and to the almost Christian; Sad lamentation over, heart-rending challenge and dreadfull thunders against, sharp reproof of, and seasonnable warning to his apostat-flock.		1687 (1687)	Wing F279; ESTC R216409	68,644	59

whom is found the root of the matter your sufferings and blood are precious in the sight of the Lord and how are ye engaged to glorifie God as by your sufferings so by your humility self deniall zeal and holy conversation and think it not enough to suffer for him unless ye profit by your sufferings reap the sweet fruit that groweth on a sanctified cross and improve the rod as your talent for to be laid out for your Masters honour unless ye hear its voice and consider what it saith and unless the furnace become refining and purging to you now ye are called afresh to try and search your wayes to labour after a greater measure of sincerity mortification humility self-deniall charity tenderness zeal circumspection now ye are called to be more frequent and fervent in prayer to be much in the exercise of meditation fasting reading the sriptures and fearching after directions and consolations sutable to your triall there be many graces ye are now in a speriall manner called to exercise and many duties ye are obliged to perform and O do not slight that mercy that while so many having made shipwrack of the faith and of a good Conscience are called to Lament and mourn and are held on the rack by their feares and horrour you having by Grace been enabled to stand out under such a terrible and lasting triall are called to abound in thankfullness and to rejoyce the times are sad your Losses may be great and you haye nothing in hand no provision for to morrow and none of your friends or relations at hand yet how much are ye Concerned to rejoyce to rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your priviledge and great shall your Reward in heaven be Phil. 1. v. 29. Mat. 5. v. 22. your sympathizing Bretheren who look on you with sad hearts yet rejoyce in your stedfastness ye are your faithfull pastors joy and Crown as they Phil. 1. v. 1. Thess 2. v. 19. were Pauls the blessed name of our Lord Jesus Christ hath been glorified in you as in them 2 Thess 1. v. 12. and may I not say of you what is said of these 2 Cor. 8. v. 23. O read it I scarce dare speak it and say ye are the Glory of Christ but he by his Apostle hath said it and as he hath honoured you to be his faithfull witnesses to assert his truth and to be precious Instruments to hold forth his Glory befor a persecuting and backsliding generation so he will glorifie you befor Angels and men and ye who have owned him now shall be owned by him when he will say unto the fearfull and unbeliever depart from me I know you not O think you see Christ putting the crown of glory on your heads when ye see men pletting a crown of thorns for you say with the martyrs when stript naked and shut out in the winter night to the open air to be tormented with the nipping frost the air is sharp the cold gresvous but there is a sweet repose and rest in Abrahams bosom this night will shortly over and pass your * Nubecula est cito transitura Athanas ten dayes tribulation and Satans licence Rev. 2. v. 10. to imprison and torment you will quickly expire and then a blessed long lasting everlasting Eternity of liberty joy and soul satisfying unconceiveable felicity glory perfection Suppose ye see Christ now standing with a napkin in his hand to wip all teares from your eyes Rev. 7. v. 17. and with a pen in his hand writing down and holding a bottle to receive all your teares all are booked and botled Psal 59. v. 8. suppose ye see the Angels rejoycing in your valour and stedsastness as they did Luk. 15. v. 10. Yea and more then at thy first conversion and that ye hear the Lord stopping the mouth of the accuser of the bretheren with your faithfullness and constancy as weell as once with his Job 2. v. 3. suppose ye see Christ welcoming you to heaven and saying to his Father what once the Angel said to John of your Brethren Rev. 7. v. 14 15 16 17. these are they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in my blood let them come before thy throne c. and will he not owne and make good his precious promise Mat. 19. v. 29. Mark. 10. v. 30. and say these are they who have forsaken house Lands countrey and all that was dear to them for my name and Gospels-sake let them have the great and glorious recompence I have purchased for them and promised to them O then watch ye while a secure world is fast a sleep stand fast in the faith quite you like men be strong 1 Cor. 10. v. 13. in nothing terrified by your adversaries which is to them an evident token of perdition but to you of salvation and that of God. Phil. 1. v. 26. and consider the more sharp the triall is the more glory ye bring to Christ his Gospel and truth and let it be on record to the succeeding generations and to your praise that ye did cleave to Christ and abode with him in an hour of such terrible temptation while the persecution was in some respect more hot then the Neroman Decian or Diocletian and the methods more barbarous cruel and subtile then any invented for tormenting the primitive Christians by merciless pagan Emperours Finally my Bretheren be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might take unto you the whole armour of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done and suffered all to stand Eph. 6. v. 10 13 c. the eye of your Captain who is the captain of salvation his encouraging eye is on you and his supporting arme under you and let your eye be towards him and your hands imployed in fighting valiantly under his banner in his name and for his cause O do ye not see him with the crown of glory in his hand and hear him saying so fight and strive that ye may obtain 1 Cor. 9. v. 24 25. to him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life and of the hidden Manna I will give him a white stone and a new name which no man knoweth but he that receiveth it I will give him the morning star cloath him with white raiment and he shaell walk with me in white I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God and will confess his name before my Father and his Angels yea O read and admire I will grant to him to sit with me on my throne And because he hath kept the word of my patience I will also keep him from the hour of temptation which shall come upon all the world to try them Rev. 2. v. 7 17 28. Rev. 3. v. 4 5 10 12 21. dare ye then complain will ye fear or faint who is he Devil or man that can harm you while ye