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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	faith_n	heart_n	sprinkle_v	2,758	5	11.3113	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41684	An Epistle to all the Christian magistrates and powers in the whole Christendom and professors, and teachers, and Christians that witness the end of the law, and the Levitical priesthood, and confess Christ Jesus ...	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Gould, Anne, 17th cent.	1659 (1659)	Wing G1414; ESTC R15794	14,696	17

he was before them Men and Brethren I have lived before God in all good Conscience until this day and the way which ye call Heresie so worship I the God of my Fathers believing all things which are written in the Law and the Prophets and have hope towards God which they themselves also allow that there should be a Resurrection of the dead both of the Just and the unjust and herein do I exercise my self to have my Conscience alwayes void of offence both towards God and towards man see Act. 24. 16. Now when the Apostle came to exercise himself to have alwayes his Conscience void of offence towards God and towards men then did the Magistrates and Counsels and the Priests gather against him when he began to keep his Conscience void of offence towards God and towards men Neither did they persecute us until we came to exercise our selves towards God and towards men not regarding day nor shadows but the substance Christ who ends all types and preached Christ the substance to Jews and Gentiles So that was a thing to the Magistrates to the powers to the Principalities and to the Counsels to the Jewes to the Priests the Temple and the Tithes the first Covenant and the Offerings the shadows the Types they turned against the Apostle who was come to the exercise of himself to have his Conscience void of offence c. Now mark ye Magistrates What have ye to do with Conscience And what have ye to do with Paul and them that exercise themselves to keep alwayes a good Conscience void of offence towards God and towards men What have the Jewes Magistrates and the Counsel and the Heathen Kings and Magistrates to do with the Apostle who exercised himself to have a good Conscience to keep it void of offence c. and what have they to do with him now And then they begin to persecute him ye do not read it before that they persecuted him the Magistrates until he came to exercise himself to have a good Conscience void of offence c. Then was he persecuted of the Magistrates the Jews Magistrates and Counsel and Heathens and so it is now to this day for ye never medled with us or any of the Apostles until they came to improve their own talent and to put hte Lords money to Usury and to improvement and come to that which exerciseth themselves to keep their Conscience clean and void of offence towards God and towards man towards the righteous God and the things which are righteous towards men and shew forth their everlasting Salvation Then doth Magistrates Kings Professors and Priests being to be like mad men rage and cruelly persecute banish whip stone stock reproach mock when men come to exercise their Conscience towards God to have it void of offence c. And that hath been the overthrowing of Nations overthrowing of powers when they left the Law that is Just to keep down transgression envious persons and man-slayers and such as be the destroyers of the Creation and left such and turned themselves against such as exercised themselves to keep their Conscience void of offence c. And then did they turn from the power of God and turned against God and turned themselves against those that exercise themselves to have alwayes a good Conscience void of offence towards God c. And such endures grief and suffers wrongfully for Conscience sake towards God are buffeted for no fault and such as do so taking it patiently are thank-worthy 1 Pet. 2. 19. And such they speak evil of as evil-doers as have a good Conscience And such are falsly accused as have their good conversation in Christ Jesus that suffer for well-doing see 1 Pet. 3. And such as draw nigh unto God with a true heart in a full assurance of Faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water Heb. 10. And such comes to witness the blood of Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered up himselfe without spot unto God purging their Consciences from dead works to serve the living God Then such as be in the dead works persecutes that have the evil Conscience persecutes them that have their Consciences cleansed Heb. 9. Therefore saith the Apostle I thank God whom I serve from my Fathers with a pure Conscience 2 Tim. 1. 3. holding the Mystery of faith in a pure Conscience here was the Apostles the Saints Testimony 1 Tim. 3. But such now professors that profess God in words but in works deny him their Consciences are defiled And they are them that say while they are upon earth their Consciences must be defiled while they are upon earth and so have not the Faith nor a place for it the living Faith in which it is held the pure Consciences Now the end of the Commandement is Charity our of a pure heart and a good Conscience and Faith unfeigned in which Conscience this Faith is held And those were them that were persecuted having Faith and a good Conscience which some have put away and of it made ship-wrack 1 Tim. 1. And such as speaks lyes in hypocrisie having their Consciences seared as with a hot Iron 1 Tim. 4. And such now which have put a good Conscience away they cannot hold the Faith and those forbid meats and drinks and marriage and follows the fables And these be them that be in hardness of heart and turns against them that have a good Conscience Now we knowing the terrour of the Lord perswade men but we are manifest unto God I trust also are manifest in your Consciences 2 Cor. 5. Having renounced the hidden things of darkness and dishonestly not walking in craftiness nor handling the Word of God deceitfully but in the manifestation of the truth commending our selves to every mans Conscience in the sight of God 2 Cor. 4 c. For our rejoycing is this the Testimony of our Consciences that in simplicity and godly sincerity not in the fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we have had our conversation in the world c. 2 Cor. 1. Therefore take heed of sinning against your Brethren and wounding their weak Conscience if ye do ye sin against Christ Therefore keep thy Conscience clean I say the truth in Christ Jesus I lye not my Conscience also bearing me witness in the holy Ghost The good Conscience witnesseth with truth which the Mystery of Faith is held in it Rom. 8. Pray for us for we trust we have a good Conscience in all things willing to live honestly Heb. 12. And the Sacrifice could not make perfect as pertaining to the Conscience Therefore when the Sacrifice Christ Jesus that ends the other sacrifice that makes perfect the Conscience in which the Mystery of Faith is held Heb. 9. For if the comers to had been made perfect by the offerings there had been no more Conscience of sin the worshippers once purged should have no more Conscience of sin but by these

Sacrifices every year it was remembred again Heb 10. And so while they lived in the Sacrifices the changeable shadows of good things to come living in the words out of the the power they will persecute the good thing when it is come as the Magistrates and the Jews did Christ and the Apostles and Saints If a man bid thee to a feast if thou be disposed to go whatsoever is set before thee thou maist eat asking no Question for Conscience sake But if they say it is offered to an Idol eat not for his sake that shews it thee and for Conscience sake for the earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof Conscience I say not thine own but of the other for why is thy liberty judged of another mans Conscience Now here is the state now where the Conscience is pure where the Mystery of Faith is hold and things pure to it which destroyes Idols And where the Conscience is defiled and not pure whose minds yet be in the Idols such Friends must take heed of coming too nigh them least they imbolden them to eat those things that will harden an evil Conscience And such as be in the evil Conscience will persecute where it is not made pure such as have an evil Conscience to Idols will persecute them that do exercise themseles to have a good Conscience towards God which the Mystery of Faith is held in So where this evil Conscience is that will eat things offered to Idols there they be weak and is defiled and this is for want of knowledge Now that which must give them the knowledge the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus is the light that shines in their hearts to bring them to eat of the Offering Christ Jesus of his flesh and drink of his blood And here in the light which gives the knowledge they see Christ the Authour of their Faith which is held in the pure Conscience are them that are come to the exercise of themselves to have alwayes their Conscience void of offence towards God c And not to go along with him eating things offered to Idols for those are Heathens indeed and weak and defiled indeed and for want of knowledge indeed that eats of the offerings offered unto Idols they eat nor or the offering Christ Jesus And these be from the light which should give them the knowledge See 2 Cor. 4 2 3 4 For our rejoycing is in the testimony of our consciences that in simplicity and godly sincerity and not in the fleshly wisdom Now mark and take notice Here is the Saints rejoycing in the testimony of their consciences in simplicity and godly sincerity and not in the fleshly wisdom and this differs from the world whose rejoycing is in the fleshly wisdom not in simplicity nor in godly sincerity not in the testimony of a good conscience of a pure conscience but their rejoycing stands in the testimony of an evil conscience that while they are upon earth they must have sin in it those are the persecutors so here is the good and the evil Cain and Abel here is Isaac and Ishmael here in Esau and Jacob and here is the bad persecuting Jews against the Prophets and against Christ and the Apostles that had the form of godliness but denyed the power And here is the Beasts and false prophets work great whore Mother of Harlots false Church Antichrists inwardly ravening Wolves in sheeps cloathing who drink the blood of the Martyrs Prophets and Saints and kill them that be in the power of godliness the evil consciences full of dead works serving not the living God their consciences unpurged such cannot own the blood of Christ within them nor the light within them nor the word of God nor the power of God within them nor the Spirit of God within them such their sacrifices God never accepts So all the true Saints who are subject to the power of God the higher power not onely for wrath but for conscience sake mark the good conscience is subject to the higher power which is of God that goes over all transgressors and answers the transgressed principle in every man that exerciseth the conscience of every man towards the higher power to which his soul should be subject to Now all the evil consciences of the Heathen and whatsoever they was not being subject to the higher power which was over all the transgressors Therefore the Jews which were in the higher power was to trample down them heathen that was in their evil consciences so who are subject not onely for wrath but for conscience sake they have unity with the Power the power doth not turn against them But where the higher power turns against them the transgressors and so they are not subject to it for conscience sake but onely for wrath the power forceth them down whether they will or no for wrath the terror of the Lord cometh upon them these are not for conscience sake subject nor they are not one with it the power the Gentiles that did the Law did the things contained in the Law by nature which shewing the work of the Law written in their hearts in their consciences so the doers of the Law were justified by the higher power So he was a Jew that was one inward in the spirit not in the Letter whose praise is not of men but of God So the Gentiles was not the Jews in the Letter but the Jews was the Jews in the Letter that did not the things contained in the Law but the Gentiles did by nature having not the command the things contained in the Law but the Gentiles did by nature having not the command the things contained in the Law And so the uncircumision kept the Law this was accounted for circumcision And shall not the uncircumcision which is by nature if it fulfill the Law judge thee who by the Letter is the circumcision and transgresseth the Law And this may judge all the outward professors upon the earth that lives upon things so without them And ye may see the Apostle who did exercise his conscience to keep it void of offence alwayes towards God c. brought the Jews and Gentiles here and how the Magistrates was in a rage against him and called him a pestilent fellow and one that turned the world upside down and a mover of sedition a ring leader of Sects and a man not fit to live upon the earth and how the Apostle confessed before Magistrates and Rulers and Kings how he exercised himself to have his conscience void of offence c. now was he ever persecuted till he came to that confession And do ye ever persecute any till they come to that confession G. F. THE END