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	unfeigned_a	3,625	5	11.4478	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44571	The vnrighteovs Mammon exchanged for the true riches or A sermon, preached at the funeral of William Adams Esq; in the parish church of St. Lawrence Iury on Tuesday. Septemb. 3. 1661. By Thomas Horton. D.D.	Horton, Thomas, d. 1673.	1661 (1661)	Wing H2883; ESTC R213856	28,717	49

lodged me and I sayes another was sick and in prison and this man came unto me and so of the rest And what shall be the issue and consequent of all this Testimony at last why even that which is there signified to us Matth. 25.34 Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world IV. This holds good in a way of Gratulatory entertainment those friends whom you have made by your almes shall receive you into heaven so farr forth as any of them as it may happen being there before you shall rejoice to see you come thither as indeed they shall Look as there is joy in Heaven amongst the Angels for any one sinner that is converted so is there joy also in Heaven amongst amongst the Saints for any one convert that is glorified there is a mutual Heavenly welcome which they doe bid as I may say one to another into those everlasting Habitations and this is that which you who have formerly bin bountiful to them shall then partake of from them The consideration of this point thus opened and in larged may be thus far useful to us namely from hence to teach us to set an high price and estimation upon the poor servants of Christ and to think highly honorably of them We doe usually so farr reckon of any persons as they are able to doe the most for us now see here by this rule how to account of such persons as those who are enabled thus to help us to Heaven which is the greatest good of all we should honour them and think highly of them in the midst of many outward disparagements they are men of great interest with God and so they should be of great esteem with us and we should never think we can doe enough for them nor never repent of any good that ever we did them as being sure it shall not be lost but abundantly recompensed to us take heed of despising one of these little ones who have such great things in their reach Yea and take heed of disingageing them also and of doing any thing to them whereby to loose or abate of their affection which may be of more use unto us perhaps then we are aware of not only as to the keeping off of temporal evils calamityes and the procuring of many temporal blessings but also as to the diverting of God's eternal wrath and indignation and admittance into the everlasting Habitations And that 's the second thing here intimated xiz The practise of the poor releived Christans which they will be ready to comply with in reference to those persons that relieve them The third and last is the Issue or effect in regard of the thing it self and that is that these liberal persons who doe lay out of their essates to good uses they shall indeed at the last have admittance and entrance into those everlasting habitations They shall receive you that is no more but you shall be received by taking the words not relatively so much as absolutely nor personally but impersonally rather And this is very sutable and agreable to other places of Scripture where the like Form and manner of expression hath the like sense and meaning with it as Luk. 6 38. Good measure shall they give into your bosome that is good measure shall be given Luk. 12.20 This night shall they take away thy Soul that is thy Soul shall be taken away And Revel 12.6 Speaking of the woman fled into the wildernesse where she hath a place prepared of God that they should feed her that is that she might be fed as will appear if we shall compare it with the 14 verse of that chapter And so now answerable here in the text that they may recieve you that is I say that you may be recieved And so now it does not so much point out the Persons as rather the state and condition it self not the Persons conferring but rather the state and condition it self which is conferred This is the summ of all that those who faithfully expend of their ●states to the relief of the poor servants of Christ when they dye they shall have Heaven it self bestowed upon them This is the doctrine of this present text and of the whole scripture likewise beside which yet that it may be duly and rightly understood by us must be taken with this explication I. That this is not meant of any meritorius virtue in the act of Beneficence it self so that whosoever shall give an Almes more or less to any one poor man or more he shall thereby ipso facto and as it were ex opere operato promeriti a place in Heaven for that he shall not nor cannot doe There is no proportion or commensuration betwixt our bounty and the bounty of God in eternal life II. It is not so meant neither as if this liberality were enough of it self for any man that should go to Heaven with out other graces besides for so neither it is not It is not liberality considered solitarily or abstractly but in its full concomitancy in the association of other good works going along with it It is not when ye faile of your duty but when ye faile of your Life III. It is not meant neither Independently upon the general principle of saving Grace wrought in the Heart we are said to be created in Christ Iesus unto good works that we should walk in them Eph. 2.10 And it holds good of these works of Beneficence among the rest which are no further properly good neither have Salvation attending upon them then as they flow and proceed in us from such a root and spring as this not from a common principle only of morality but from a special principle of regeneration and the new Creature The end of the commandement is charity out of a pure heart and a good conscience and of Faith unfeigned 1. Tim. 1.5 So then the plain and direct meaning is briefly this That as God will reward all other good services besides with Eternal life in a subject duly fitted and qualified thereunto so amongst the rest in a special manner will he take notice of the kindnesse which is done to any of his poor servants and will at last reward that also with eternal happinesse and salvation This is matter of great encouragement to any to be faithful in such performances as these alwaies to abound in this work of the Lord for asmuch as they hear and may know that their labour shall not be in vain in the Lord. That which makes men commonly so strait-handed and close-fisted towards the poor is because they have this conceit with themselves that they shall otherwise be loosers by the bargains But here now for their comfort it is the contrary if it be gain to be partakers of Heaven they shall not loose that are bountiful towards the poor And therefore let this argument have its full force and efficacy upon us Those