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	heart_n	sprinkle_v	2,758	5	11.3113	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42553	Philadelphia, or, a treatise of brotherly-love Shewing, that we must love all men: love the wicked in general: love our enemies: that the godly must especially love another: and the reasons of each particular love. The manner of our mutual love; the dignity, necessity, excellenc, and usefulness of brotherly-love. That the want of love, where love is due, is hatred, shewed in divers particulars. The greatness of the sin of malice and hatred; with the reasons why wicked men hate the saints: together with cautions against those sins that break the bond of love. Many weighty questions discussed, and divers cases cleared. By William Gearing, minister of the word.	Gearing, William.	1670 (1670)	Wing G436C; ESTC R223669	92,727	215

mighty numbers of notorious Offenders shall then be arraigned and endited for the breach of this ancient Law which was from the beginning What numberless Catalogues and huge Bills of Offences against this Law shall then be brought to Tryal The thought of this might make mens hearts to shake and their knees to smite together as Belshazzar's did If we consider That as he saw an hand miraculously writing his Doom upon the wall so the hand of God hath written and doth write all these Offences in the Tables of men's Consciences where they shall stand recorded until the last day unless in those who have washed out this Hand-writing by the Blood of Christ sprinkled by Faith joyned with unfeigned Repentance and Reformation of Heart and Life How should we bewail the fearful Transgressions against this most ancient and sacred Law committed now among our selves to whom the Gospel of Love and Peace is preached in which Gospel the Lord Jesus Christ the Prince of Peace hath especially as in his last Testament bequeathed Peace and commended Love unto us I say in this Testament sealed with his own most precious blood which he shed in Love towards us to make Peace between God and us That so we might be at peace among our selves CHAP. VIII I come now to the main thing in my Text and that is Christian-Love And thence shall observe Sect. I. Observ THat it is the message and solemn charge of God and Christ That Christians should love one another It is not an Arbitrary thing That we should love one another but the Command of God a great Command and that which is joyned to believing in his Son Jesus Christ 1 Joh. 3.23 The one is as truly necessary to Salvation as the other Let men talk of Believing while they will on the Son of God yet if they have no Love one to another Their Faith is a dead Faith because God stands much upon this To have his people live together in Love At the beginning of the verse he saith it is his Commandment and at the end of the verse he saith he gave us Commandment It is also observable that he saith of the Commandment of Love he gave us that Commandment It is a gift we should not only submit to it as being bound by the Authority of it but we should open our hearts to it and cheerfully embrace it as a Gift from God Love is an affection of the Heart arising out of an Apprehension of God's Love to us and embracing others in the Lord 1 Joh. 4.11 If God so loved us we ought also to love another He sheweth whence this spiritual love springeth even from an Apprehension of God's Love to us Now from this Love to God ariseth our Love to others Ver. 20. If a man say he loveth God and hateth his brother he is a Lyar and ver 21. This Commandment have we from him that he who loveth God love his brother also So that as our Love to God ariseth from God's Love to us so this spiritual Love to men ariseth both from God's Love to us and our Love to God And it is in the Lord True spiritual Love carrieth a respect to God and not so much to outward things It loveth others either with respect to God's Graces in them or with respect to God's Command either because God hath put his likeness upon them or because God hath commanded them to love them In the former respect this Love embraceth the Godly in the second All men because God hath commanded us to love all under the name of our Neighbour For that answer of Saviour to the question Who is my Neighbour is appliable to any And Christ who speaketh peremptorily I say unto you Love your enemies excludeth none Now that this Love is sound only in the sanctified Soul is easily proved by the Description it self for it ariseth from an apprehension of God's Love to us Now wheresoever this is rightly apprehended there is some degree of Sanctification and the heart is in some measure purified For God's Love is apprehended by a sound Faith and a sound Faith purifieth the heart Yea the Love of God prevaileth so far as to brin● the heart out of Love with Sin and so to purge and cleanse out those sinful dispositions and affections of the heart which are contrary to the Love of God and so purifieth the heart A new commandment I give unto you saith our Saviour to his Disciples That ye love one another as I have loved you that ye also love one another Joh. 13.34 This is my Commandment that ye love one another as I have loved you Joh. 15.12 SECT II. THere are two remarkable things about this Christ calleth it a new Commandment and he calleth it his Commandment He calleth it a new Commandment for these reasons 1. Because it is given after a new manner The Law commandeth us to love our Neighbour as our selves Wh●●e our Love to our selves is the Rule of our Love to our Neighbour But Christ in his Gospel commandeth us to love one another sicut ego dilexi vos as I have loved you saith he We must Love each other even as he hath loved us Where Christ's Love to us must be the Rule and Measure of our Love to the Saints and to all men The Law saith Thou shalt love thy Neighbour Christ extends it further and saith Thou shalt love thy very Enemies Our Love must be like the Sun in the Firmament that shineth upon the Good and the Bad. Our Love like the Clouds must drop on the barren Heath as well as upon the rich and fruitful Soyl. We must do good to them that do us evil bless them that curse us 2. It is called new in respect of the excellency of this Grace and so it is an Hebraism It was the Hebrew custom to call excellent things new quia nova aut sunt aut videntur meliora quàm vetera because new things either are or seem to be better than old As if our Saviour had said Many a Commandment have I delivered unto you but this is instead of all Love one another Love will make you to keep all the other Love is the fulfilling of the Law 3. It is called new as Maldonat thinketh not because it is a new command or delivered in a new manner but because our Saviour commendeth this above all and commandeth and presseth it to his Disciples as if it were a new command brought from heaven as if they never heard of such Truth before Love one another Novitas respicit studium diligendi non mandatum 4. It is called a new Commandment as the Gospel is called a new Testament 5. Because it must be renued every day We must love and yet moreover we must pay this this debt of Love continually and yet still stand in debt Christ calleth it his Command for two reasons 1. Because among all the Commands of the Moral Law he presseth this most of all As