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
A68850	A mothers teares ouer hir seduced sonne: or A dissuasiue from idolatry penned in way of a dialogue, by occasion of a late letter from the sonne now at Doway, to his mother: which is also printed vvith the letter, and is fully set downe in the sonnes part, for the substance, though with some addition in forme.; Answere of a mother unto hir seduced sonnes letter.		1627 (1627)	STC 24903.5; ESTC S114250	89,317	193

hearken my Child I beseech thee even by the throwes of thy first birth hearken and the Lord give thee an open eare while the true Mother pleads with the Harlot for hir Sonne and he that is wiser then Salomon bee judge betwixt us even he be judge He ease me of my adversary even he ease me of my adversarie who vexeth me very sore and makes me goe heavily all the day troubling me and breaking my heart The Lord looke on the trouble of his handmaid and remember hir and give hir hir Sonne againe as I have desired and to my power laboured to give him to the Lord againe all the dayes of his life by keeping his Religion his Church his Truth and rather then to forsake these or any of these to lie in the fetters untill the iron enter into his soule and after to give up his breath in the flame to resist even unto blood O my Child consider it is neither the chaine if not Paules nor the prison if not Silaces nor the flame if not Bradford's that makes the Martyr indeed Child it is not But is it Pauls chaine no reason the bearer should be ashamed A Prisoner in the Lord sure there is great cause of rejoycing At the stake for a good cause now there is cause of singing of clapping the hands But the body may bee given to the fire my Child and love may be wanting 1 Cor. 13 the crosse may be taken up yet not Christs nor he followed The body may be strip't and whip't pinc'ht nay almost starv'd and yet who required these things at your hands But let the cause bee such as these Saints were and then let the sufferers glory for to such is it given not onely to beleeve but also to suffer for the name of the Lord Iesus Phillip 1. 29. And now let the Harlot speake for I know shee told thee what thou shouldest say what could I have done unto my Sonne that I have not done for his better keeping of these even all these Yet would I not seeme a proud Iusticiarie for how few are those Hannah's who give their children backe to the Lord who present them first in the Temple who breed their children as they ought as they are bound to doe as the Grandmother Lois and the Mother Eunice bred Timothy I cannot say I did in how many things might I faile I know in many But let the Harlot accuse me Child canst thou speake nothing for thy Mother my good Child speak I know thou canst Wherunto hath the deare affection of thy parents tended whitherto all their care cost their pains their prayers their feares their hopes Their hopes here it was indeed here it was I thinke I know we offended for surely wee doted upon thee Child forgive as that wrong We thought thee our possession the sonne of our right hand the staffe on which our old age might leane But how often do parents hopes deceiue them how soone may a hopefull blossome die in the bud a forward spring be nipped with a coldwind or a sharp frost Doe not parents I pray you doe not doat upon your children or thinke of them above what is meet There are many moneths yet unto your harvest and a little time makes great alteration I tell you parents I tell you weeping our extraordinary expectations on earthly things ordinarily disappoints us sometimes our ordinary but that doth lesse trouble us Marke this I pray you it falls out many times that a beloved Rachel proues barren and hated Lea fruitfull It falls out so with me and I am sure I was not the first neither can I be the last we have so many doters my possession is become ●●●ity my Beniamin a Bennons the Lord hath knapt my staffe asunder But why should my adversary boast against me I thinke he will not least his Rachell also prove barren so the Lord can make him or hir when wee bottome our selves upon them or set our affection on them too much but come what would the Harlot say HARLOT Why hee suckt in herisie with his very milke and his stronger meate was mingled with it And when you sent him to the fountaine and as you thought to the spring head you were quite mistaken for they are but bitter waters uncleane and muddie MOTHER Mistaken indeed I was and much deceived for had not the fountaine beene impure or had not the Beasts foote mudded i● I had not beene robbed of my Child nor at this time beene pleading for him But there was a bad hearbe in the good pottage a dead flie in the sweet ointment a subtill Serpent in the pleasant garden Thus wee Parents drunke with our owne hopes little foresee our Childrens danger how soone they may fall vpon a shelfe and there make shipwracke of faith and a good conscience and all A Parent art thou when will thy doubts thy feares have an end And now what shall I say to thee my adversary I must not I dare not give thee reviling words but the Lord rebuke thee even hee rebuke thee and be iudge betwixt us whether in that way which thou callest heresie wee doe not worship the God of our fathers beleeving c. HARLOT What and not to submit to our holy Church not come within her armes for instruction What is this but to bee as a Dove without the Arke to be tossed up and downe upon the waues of herefies still ready to suffer shipwracke let your Sonne then have your hand Moth●r who so piously reacheth forth his whereby to drawe you into our Arke MOTHER I thanke my good Child knowing his simple heart and tender child like affection for I beare him witnesse that he hath a zeale though not according to knowledge the time of his ignorance O Lord remember not and find out a time to take away the scales and be mercifull to all such as sinne not of malicious wickednes Now my good Child consider with me that there was a Dove which was out of the Arke but found the way to it and rested in it that was a wise Dove sure it had an heart That was a true Arke sure that could keepe from drowning There was a Dove o be not ignorant of it a silly seduced Dove Hos 7. 11 without an heart and that gott into an Arke of its owne framing which held during the calme but when the winds rose and the flouds of great waters came the workman could not defend the worke nor the worke the workeman both perished together This is spoken by an Allegory This wise Dove is every soule that is incorporated into that house whose builder and founder is Christ or which as a spirituall stone is rooted into that building whose foundation is that chiefe corner stone elect and pretious and he that believeth in him shall not be confounded 1. Pet. 2. 6. By this silly seduced Dove wee all know who was meant even Ephraim and by Ephraim that brave stomackfull tribe is meant Israell

not still be upon the backe of the righteous it is in the Lords hand and when wee shall turne to him that smiteth we know the rod must to the fire for upon mount Sion there shall be deliverance and there shall be holinesse and the house of Iacob shall possesse their possessions In the meane time we know Iacob shall be hid in a secret place till these calamities be past his head shall be covered till the two tailes of this smoking firebrand be blowne over For the Lord hath said it who is making up his Iewells when his fire is in Sion and his fornace in Ierusalem Thus my Sonne wee have of our ministers that weepe betweene the porch and the Altar and say spare thy people O Lord and give not thy heritage to reproch Call them the great Kings Embassadours they know whose message they have and they deliver it faithfully Then call them … rs of the breach they stand in the gap Shepheards they strengthen the diseased Ezec. 34. Watchmen they blow though the Adders ●●r●s charmed Thus they s●●ke not ours but us who will most gladly bestow will be bestowed for our soules though the more they love the lesse they are beloved yet is the word as fire within them and knowing the terrors of the Lord they will perswade men We have of our people too that hold the mystery of faith in a pure conscience 1 Tim. 3. 9. So adorning that holy name by which they are called It is hard to speake of them a part they are so like being indeed but as a one lump leavened with the same leaven but as fellow branches borne up by the same roote onely these last are as the lower bough's the other as the upmost whose places set them as a Citty on an hill that cannot be hid Call them Puritans if thou wilt because they were uncleane in their owne eyes they sought for a righteousnes of faith whereby they are cleansed from their filthinesse Call them Seperatists if thou wilt they cannot runne into the same excesse of riott Call them stout and stiffe fellowes for you can no more make them bow before an Image then you can make an Elephant bend which they say the waight of a Castle with armed men in it will not doe Call them if thou wilt as thy Leader Doctor Carrier hath done Schismaticall fellows Sonnes of Zervia too hard for David Cry out against them Athaliah-like Treason Treason so dealing with them as a man with his dogg whom he would have knock't on the head he calls out he is mad they will by well-doing put to silence the malice of wicked men How they will pray for their King blesse God for their King perswade obedience to their King accounting him the breath of their nostrills He is the Lords Annointed let his soule bee bound up in the bundle of life but let his enemies be slung out as out of the middle of a sling Now my Sonne will use his tongue a little better knowing whose tongue would learne no manners before it was scorched and then it called Abraham Father We will then find out other names for them that thou mayest be instructed by them we will call them freely beloved for they are iustified by faith freely by his grace Rom. 3. 24. Wee will call them living men as they are planted into the likenesse of Christs death so are they into the liknesse of his resurrection Call them new Creatures old things are passed away all things are new Call them Gods workmanship thou hast made us not we our selves thou hast wroght all our works for us Call them holy for they have not defiled thier garments and it shal be their glory and Crowne of reioycing Call them tree● planted by the rivers of waters which cannot care for the yeares of drought nor feele when the heat commeth neither cease from yeelding fruit They are of the Lords plantation ever fat and well liking as the dew from the Lord the shewers upon the grasse tarrieth not for man nor waiteth for the sonnes of men Me thinkes I am againe in Balaams rapture how goodly are thy tents O Iacob and thy habitations O Israel as the valleyes are they stretched forth as Gardens by the river side as the Alloe trees that the Lord hath planted as the Cedars besides the waters We have spoken of them a part and now they are together againe they cannot be parted belonging both to one head and having fellowship one with another Wee will now call them mount Sion for they stand fast for evermore on them is deliverance and in them is holinesse We call them as the Churches primitive fruit was called A Man Child for their faith charity patience labour godly valour These are they who count all things but losse that they may winne Christ whom yet they knew not after the flesh much lesse the crosse much lesse the nailes of it or any other relique The Spirit quickneth the flesh profiteth nothing These are they who goe alwayes bound in the Spirit not knowing what things will befall them but they passe not neither is their life deare unto them For they are ready not to bee bound onely but also to suffer for the name of the Lord Iesus And yet observe my Child before they will goe into the face of persecution they will have as sure a warrant as Iacob had to meete his brother Esau Lord which saidst unto me returne I will deale well with thee Gen. 32. 9. And having this nothing can be too deare for him who hath done so much for them neither goods nor liberty nor life now into the face of this Esau they goe and behold to the admiration of the beholders his sterne face is changed the face of persecution is unto them now no other then the face of God and behold in stead of blowes kisses This is as the healing of the waters and indeed the waters of affliction are healed to the children of God and shall never prove deadly unto them it is like Samsons riddle and none but the children of God can unfold it only they with Samson can find swarmes of bees hony in the carcasse of a Lion SONNE It seemes your men must be dealt with as the Iewes dealt with Simon of Cyrene who was Angariatus so they must be compelled to beare the Crosse The Lord loveth a chearfull giver I adde too and a chearfull sufferer this free will offering is an acceptable thing Our men reading Christs passion see warrant enough to disesteeme life libertie goods and all They will live in austere pennance for ever Christs life was a passion They will bee poore and that willingly Christ was so They will live pent up in a hole Christ had not whereon to lay his head And all this they will doe before they bee Anguriati constrained unto it Meritorious thinges sure Thus you have as I may say the whole bundle of the sower hearbs wherewith we eate our