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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86199	The backslider bewailed, the careless warned: and the faithful encouraged. With true desires, and living breathings for the preservation of the whole Israel of God. / Written by P. Hendrick... ; translated into English by W.C.	Hendricks, Pieter.; Caton, William, 1636-1665.	1665 (1665)	Wing H1448; ESTC R229321	8,941	12

done much harm in them by bereaving them of the feeling they once had of the truth of God and of them that walked in it and they thus hardning their necks against the Lord and his precious servants nor not willing to remain subject to the Spirit of the Lord in themselves which had exceedingly striven with them to bow them to subjection nor not being willing to forsake that which was so dear to them which yet remained in them unmortified which having again gotten power and strength the Lord hath finally ceased striving with them and hath given them up to themselves and to their own wills and hath left them to themselves and thus were they at last made vessels of wrath nowithstanding the great and unspeakable long-suffering of the Lord that the Lord might manifest his power and righteousnesse upon them and some of them are made already so sad dreadful and lamentable examples whose misery is unspeakable and whose recovery is not to be expected Oh miserable above all misery much better it had been for them that they had never known the truth of God And my dear unfeignedly beloved friends seeing it hath pleased the Lord after his so great and long suffering forbearance and patience so to reveal his righteousness upon some as before mentioned who have not remained in subjection to his Spirit unto the end Oh let this than serve as a living example unto us lest that any of us at any time should be found in the like unbelief and unfaithfulness and that the Lord therefore should use the like righteous severity against us which he hath done unto them for what are we more then they if our minds should come to be drawn out and alienated from the grace of God in our selves whereby we have had such a feeling of the Lord of his truth and of those that walk in the same I say if that Satan through his subtilty should come to scatter our minds from the feeling thereof in our selves what should we then be better then they but it would be more like that such misery and wrath should be suffered to come upon us as is come upon them And now seeing that it is so that the mind can be so easily moved and drawn out from that in which the Immutability consisteth through the manifold temptations snares deceivable subtilties and subtile seducing of Satan even as its possible the most have found by experience in themselves Let us therefore keep perpetually in the light in our own particulars heartily loving embracing cleaving unto and uniting our minds to it for that same that convinced us in the beginning of our sins and unrighteousness is the same that must preserve us to the end for in the same is lite mercy and peace and through being preserved holily in the same we become partakers of the vertues of eternal life as they are in Christ Jesus for through the light hath the Lord opened our understandings and in the light have we seen and felt the fulness of grace and through the same the unspeakable mercy of the Lord is perpetuated which every morning is renewed to his Children who continually in his fear and in his light do wait upon him calling upon him in his light praying praysing and thanking of him for his unspeakable love grace and mercy which he so often and abundantly hath manifested to them whereby they are often overcome in themselves and constrained to humble themselves before the Lord in true tenderness brokenness simplicity and uprightness of their hearts from the bottom of the same to glorifie his holy Name Oh my friends how doth my soul long for all your establishment in the truth according to your faithfulnesse and uprightnesse of heart and after your simplicity singlenesse and tendernesse before the Lord that you might be exalted and established above all that which would arise to hinder you in your precious running and holy intent that you therefore might be found stedfast and diligent keeping your watch in the light that he who goes about continually as a roaring Lion seeking whom he might devoure might never have cause through any of his subtilties through deceit to trap or ensnare any of you and that before you your selves be aware of it or by bringing one thing or other into your hearts therewith to trouble and disturb you and to spend your time and through such occasions may seek to draw your minds from the light and from watching in the same even as he hath done with some who had neglected the watch in the light over whom he hath gotten power they having made shipwrack of faith and of a good conscience having scattered that which once with diligence they had gathered and having lost that which once they were sensible of so with the D●g turned to his vomit again and with the Sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire again and that after they were in measure washed And though in the beginning of their Apostacy and degentration they gave credit unto Satan who sought to make them believe or rather to imagine that they should be no lesse then they were before not then the people of the Lord but that they should be more perfect and become better holier perfecter simpler uprighter and faithfuller then these who simply wa'ked in the truth and more established in it but finally it became manifest what Satan was determined to do with them and the same it manifest it when they could hide that no longer which was grown up in their bosomes when that came to break out which they had for a long time secretly hidden Oh that Satan should ever so far prevail over any and now that the like might not come to passe concerning any of us who are yet sensible of the grace of God in our selves and of his everlasting and unchangeable truth in our own particulars therefore is my heart so often turned to the Lord and pured forth before him praying for the salvation of Israel and for all in Israel that are of a tender and broken heart that Satan might not in any wise bereave them of their simplicity in the light or of their tendernesse to the truth yea because of this for the truths sake is my life often poured forth before the Almighty Father praying and interceding in much travel sweating and waking night and day that the Lord might be pleased through his unexpressible grace and fatherly mercy to obstruct that which Satan hath purposed and determined for this I may say plainly he hath not yet ceased neither hath he yet despaired neither is he who is the accuser of the brethren cast out of all but goes yet about as a devouring Lion seeking whom he may devour Oh therefore my dearly beloved and pretious Friends is it not exceeding needful to keep our hearts perpetually in the light upon the watch to the Lord in openness and simplicity that nothing but the Lord alone and his work and truth might have