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
A65306	Paramuthion, or, A word of comfort for the church of God by Thomas Watson ...	Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.	1662 (1662)	Wing W1135A; ESTC R38519	17,807	46

spring-tyde of deliverance is nearest When Dioclesian raged and things seem'd desperate soon after was the golden time of Constantius * Calvisius in Chronol 'T is usually darkest a little before morning 5. 5. Antidote Though the Church of God may seem sometimes to be in the wain yet when she loseth ground in one place she gains in another as when the fire is quenched at one end of the house it breaks out at the other Or as the Sun when it leaves our Hemisphere goes to the Antipodes At Rome there were two Lawrel Trees when one withered the other flourished An emblem of the Church Militant when it seems to wither in one place it shall revive and flourish in another All this may comfort us concerning the Church of God and may be as Physick to kill the worm of Unbelief and Fear in our hearts God is in the midst of her Therefore will not we fear though the earth be removed If God be in the midst of his Church let 3 Branch us do two things 1. Let us take heed of driving God from us There are wayes whereby we may drive God from the Nation As when Bees are in the Hive and bring their honey you may drive them out with smoak So sin is a smoak that will drive God out from a people Isa. 65. 3 5. A people that provoketh me to anger these are a smoak in my nose In particular there are Nine sins which drive God out of a Land and when he marcheth out judgement marcheth in 1. Idolatry 2 King 17. 12 18. For they served Idols whereof the Lord had said unto them Ye shall not do this thing therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight Idolatry is a sin which breaks the Marriage-knot and makes the Lord disclaim his interest in a people Exod. 32. 7. Thy people have corrupted themselves Before God called Israel HIS PEOPLE but when once they had defil'd themselves with Idolatry then God disclaims them he doth not say to Moses MY people but THY people as if he had quite discarded them and cut off the entail of mercy Take heed of Idolatry yea and of Superstition too which is a Bridge leading over to it Superstition is an intermixing our fancies and inventions with divine institutions 't is an affront offered to God as if he were not wise enough to appoint the manner of his own worship 2. Rapine and Oppression Jer. 12. 7 8. I have forsaken my house my heritage is to me as a speckled bird Or as a bird of prey * Uncis unguibus tanquam digitis in praedam involans Jun. When Gods Dove becomes a Vulture and is given to ravening and cruelty staining her feathers with blood God will then break up House and be gone 3. Uncleanness Hos. 7. 4. They are all Adulterers as an Oven heated by the Baker They who should have been Temples of the Holy Ghost are hot Ovens burning in lust * Urbs est jam tatae Iupanar Vers. 12. I will spread my net upon them That is I will spread the net of my judgements over them and they shall be taken in the Net 4. Covetousness Jer 6. 12. I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the Land for from the least of them even to the greatest every one is given to Covetousness When men smell rank of the earth when they love the Exchange better than the Temple and are more for the earthly Mammon than the heavenly Manna God will take his leave and be gone God is a Spirit he can no more converse with an earthly people than a Prince can converse with a Swine 5. Apostacy Jer. 6. 28. They are all grievous revolters Reprobate silver shall one call them because the Lord hath rejected them This made God remove his golden Candlestick from the Church of Ephesus because she had left her first Love Rev. 2. 4. And if apostacy will make God depart from a people then how can we expect he should stay long with us Where is that zeal for God and love to truth as formerly We live in the fall of the leaf There are many who courted the Queen of Religion when she had a Jewel hung at her ear but when she is in her night-dress and her Jewels of preferment are pull'd off now they desert her Lots wife was turned into a pillar of salt for looking back If all who look back should have this judgement inflicted on them we should hardly go in the streets for meeting pillars of salt Merchants tell us of divers Ships cast away at Sea I believe there have been of late more shipwracks at Land than at Sea I mean such as have made shipwrack of faith and a good conscience The golden head is degenerated into Iron a more faeculent and impure mettal Desinit in piscem mulier formosa supernè 6. Weariness of Gods Ordinances Amos 8. 5. When will the New Moon be gone and the Sabbath Vers. 11. Behold the dayes come saith the Lord that I will send a famine in the Land not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water but of hearing the Word of the Lord. God hath fed this Nation with the finest of the wheat even the bread of life we have had the Cream of Ordinances God hath come down to us in a golden shower of blessings the Vintage of other Nations hath not been so good as the gleanings of England but have not we said What a weariness is it Mal. 1. 13. Is not our sin Sermon-surfeiting though we have liked the dressing we have loathed the food we have said Who is this Moses and what is this Manna and may not we fear God is now coming to punish us for this sin When we have lost our stomacks God may cause the cloth to be taken away and would not that be dismal How sad is it for any Nation when their Seers are blind In what a condition is that people who have husks given them instead of Manna and Musick instead of food Weariness of the Gospel forfeits the Gospel If God sees that Sanctuary-blessings bear but a low price he will remove the Market 7. Perjury Jer. 11. 10. The house of Israel and the house of Iudah have broken my Covenant therefore thus saith the Lord Behold I will bring evil upon them which they shall not be able to escape and though they shall cry unto me I will not hearken unto them * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys ost When a people play fast and loose with God breaking their Solemn Vows and Obligations whether Sacramental or other this is a God-provoking sin it will make the Lord go away from a Nation and though they cry after him he will turn a deaf ear God will pass by infirmity but he will punish Treachery 8. Hatred of Reformation When God calls to a people by his Word Spirit Judgements but they regard him not he will pack up