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
A64240	Impostor magnus, or The legerdemain of Richard Delamain now preacher in the city of Hereford. Being a narrative of his life and doctrine since his first coming into that county. Faithfully collected and published by one that will assert the truth of each particular. Yay.	Taylor, Silas, 1624-1678.	1654 (1654)	Wing T553A; ESTC R219169	24,689	35

almost in the Threshold caused him to have dashed his foot to the stumbling and undoing of his hopes for by this you may plainly perceive him a designed Temporizer who for his gain could have become a downright Legalist as well as a high flown Notionist and in few words to give you the print of his foot by which you may imagine his stature Gain was his Godliness his Religion it was his God his whole aym and he resolved which by his leaving his small place in the Custom-house you may perceive to obtain it per fas aut nefas holding that Heterodoxal Maxim for his first point of Doctrine dulcis odor lucri ex re qualibet this enforced him to leave Bredwardine awhile and go with M. H. to Webley where by his means having insinuated into the acquaintance of Mrs. K. one nearly related to that Family at Bredwardine then living at a place about two miles from Webley who out of her tender affection to good imagining by his carriage and demeanour some superlative knowledge of Gods wayes at least some eminent sanctity in himself gave him countenance and you may see here he first makes practise with women and widdows where fishing with the bait of Socinianism and perceiving it taking prosecuted his fortune eagerly making use of all advantages for leading of some Captive with his Tenents and absurdities and imagining his interest did much consist in the getting into favor with the old Gentlewoman at Bredwardine because there was the best quarters it being the nature of such deceivers much to mind their bellies For what they naturally know as bruit beasts in those things they corrupt themselves Iude 10. and are the black spots in the feasts of charity and because of the eminency of the place and Family which by the means of these his forementioned acquaintance he with some labor at last to his content atchieved causing in some an admiration of his Doctrine which he now holds forth I dare not say an approbation of it I know it is Satans Master-peice to lay stumbling blocks before the feet of the Saints and if it be possible to cause such as have been renowned for their profession in the strictest wayes of Godliness to be the Antesignani and chiefest abettors of Heresie and error to make such whose light should be set as it were on an hill who should by their lives and conversations be the flaming Beacons of Good works before men that they seeing them may glorifie our Father that is in Heaven to cause them in a more especial manner to be the greedy examples of falling and sucking in those damnable positions of Christian Lethargy Here now this ungodly man having crept in unawares spends his time betwixt the two Families instructing them with his depraved principles and all such as came unto them either out of humanity as to visits or out of the instigation of an itching ear to hear novelties of which last sort more especially then others some were caught and did embrace Doctrines of the Devil Tenents that now stink in the Nosethrils of some of his admirers worse then his breath doth to such as approach him he laboured to seduce some of which I shall now give you a sight of though I know that errors like oaths in telling stories better concealed then repeated yet because he goe's on still making practise with deceits deceiving and being deceived aspiring to eminent places there to make shipwrack of Faith and a good conscience not only in himself but to others insulting over the Ministers who are laborious and painful intermedling in civil affairs in which he is nothing concerned despising powers and authorities and all this and much more under the cloak of Religion and conscience this is therefore to undeceive such who by his fair perswasions may be drawn into the deceit of believing his lyes for having as in a draught or picture seen his carriages and life they may with little straining their Logick believe that out of such an impure polluted puddle cannot proceed the limpid-living streams of the water of Life that whilest himself is the very Epitome of Hypocrisie and Herefie and the abstract of baseness and leudness he can in the mean time preach to others by his example the Doctrine of Truth holyness and sincerity That which he now buckled himself unto when he was received into favor at Bredwardine was that common maxim which all Impostors use to despise Dominions and speak evil of dignities to decry all those that may by any means be a remora in his proceedings either by authority Doctrine or disputes and to that end he declaims against the Ministry in general as if the sins and faylings of particulars were annexed as inseparable companions to the calling even so because some have received poyson in their meat it were necessary or reasonable we should wholly desist from the use of it Here begins a loud invective against them for many crimes which they are guilty of and among the rest scorning them for their receiving Tithes though since he hath received them and threatned trouble to those that did not conform and perswades his Disciples to avoid the disgrace and foyls which else he and they were subject to in disputes that what he said could not be understood be any but such who were under the the same dispensation as he was truly I think so too and in imition of their Master you should have ignorant silly women tell men both learned and knowing That they could not understand those high mysteries because of their carnality and further tells them that what was nonsence to all people out of his way was the very sense of the Spirit to him by which he seemed to anticipate and confute all controversies that might arise and which was a very succinct method of satisfying all questions and doubts and further that what he delivered though it were seemingly contradictory to the received truth and though he could not prove it out of the written Word of God yet it was to be received as the immediate dictate of the Spirit He slighted and scorned at duties as performed by such who were in a lower form and should in time have greater light And upon that place Rev. 3.20 Behold I stand at the door and knock if any man hear my voice and open the door c. he held forth that the Ordinances of God were the door that they do keep Christ at a distance from the Soul and keep him in darkness or dark to us was not this a notable ingredient for his mass of errors not valuing the Spirits injunctions of praying continually and rejoycing alwayes exhorting rebuking c. in season and out of season Tells us that the Scriptures were but the mind of the Spirit in several administrations and that there were several dispensations of God Of Adam Of Noah or Abraham Of Moses Here is strange stuff Of John the Baptist Of Christ Of fire burning up