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

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51257	A lamentation over the dead in Christ, not as those without hope; with instruction, admonition, and encouragement to the survivers As it should have been delivered to the people (had not Satan hindered) at the funeral of Mr. Henry Rix of Cambridge, Jan. 19. 1656--7. in pursuance of his earnest request on his deathbed. Now published for the benefit of those that will hear. By Thomas Moore junior.	Moore, Thomas, Junior.	1657 (1657)	Wing M2604; ESTC R216352	46,108	56

not some way in which men may be made again the righteousness of God and made partaker of his holiness they must all bee shut out for ever from God under the curse of the Law but God hath made his Son that knew no sin to be sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in him and according to that rule the sixth verse of that Psalme gives us the next and fundamental description of the subjects of the glorious priviledge fore-mentioned or rather the description of those Persons in whom the truth of the former description is found and so an answer to the question Who are the righteous This is the generation of them that seek him that seek thy face O Jacob or O God of Jacob that seek the Lord for righteousnesse and strength that through his Name beleeving in him seek righteousnesse by faith in Jesus as Isa 55. 3 4 5 6. 45. 22 24 25. Rom. 9. 30. and as before is shewed by the Scriptures On them comes that blessednesse of Gods not imputing former iniquities but imputing righteousnesse without works Rom. 3. 25 26. 4. 3 6. yea they through the understanding and faith of Jesus have their hearts sprinkled from an evil Conscience and their whole man in all their actings and conversation therein continually washed with that pure water of the love of God through the blond of Christ shed abroad in their heart Heb. 10. 19-22 1 Pet. 1. 18-22 that in the issue they may be presented without spot or wrinckle or any such thing Ephes 5. 26 27. Col. 1. 21 22 23. And truly this large description and explication of the righteous and merciful men or men of kindness and godliness gives us a true character of him whose being taken from us occasioned this Discourse We come in the next place to consider 2 In what sence they may be said to perish and when they so doe Here give me leave for our instruction and encouragement First to propound to consideration in what sence they perish not in respect of themselves or as with reference to their hope towards God They perish not they for their parts are not driven away or cut off from God or from their hope in death the wicked dying in his sins even in his stubborn refusall of him that came to save him from his sins and so out of Christ he is therein driven away in his wickedness cut off and shut out from God and from the hope of a better life and from all opportunities of ever being made partaker of that hope doth not their excellency which is in them even their hope goe away and perish with them They dye without wisdome But the righteous hath hope in his death hee retaines or holds his hope and joy even in death yea then goes to a more full enjoyment of it Prov. 14. 32. Whence our Saviour saith If a man keep my sayings he shall never see death hee shall never dye in the full and proper sence of the word he shall not in or by death be separated or cut off from God or from his hope and portion in him Joh. 8. 51. 11. 26. but from thenceforth shall be more especially blessed in and with his presence and with more immediate and uninterrupted fellowship with him in spirit even while out of the body and while that sleeps in the dust whence the Apostle desired in respect of himself much rather to depart out of the body out of the flesh that he might enjoy that more immediate and free presence of fellowship with Christ which to him would be farre better 2 Cor. 5. 1-6-8 Phil. 1. 20. 23. neither are their bodies though resting in Death and so sleeping in the dust of the earth lost cut off or perished as indeed they should be if there were no Resurrection of the Dead as the Apostle reasons 1 Cor. 15. 18 c. If Christ be not raised and so If the dead rise not then those which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished If in this life only we had hope in Christ we were of all men most miserable then indeed there had been some ground for and truth in their saying Ezek. 37. 11. Beholdour bones are dryed our hope is lost and we are cut off for our parts for even those that having seen those great and precious promises afarre off which were before confirmed of God in Christ and were perswaded of them and embraced them yet dyed not having received them But what saith the answer of God to them vers 12. Behold O my people I will open your Graves and cause you to come up out of your Graves and bring you into the Land of Israel c. And now also for the confirmation of our faith the ground of it is actually come forth and manifested Christ is risen from the dead and become the first fruits of them that sleep for since by man even by the offence and disobedience of one man sin and so death by sin the first death reigneth on all men and so it is appointed to the whole kind once to dye though all shall not sleep or rest in death some of this Body of righteous ones shall survive at the Personal appearance of Christ in his glory and they shall immediately and on a sudden bee changed and passe through death yet so as therein they shall dye though not sleep or rest in death Death is passed on all in the ordinance and appointment of God by reason of the Sin entring by one man even so by man viz. by the obedience and righteousness of one man Jesus Christ in which the transgression of the first one man in which all have sinned and the sin and sinfulness thence entring into and over-spreading the whole Nature is so finished and made an end of in the Court of Heaven or purged and put away from before the Father that no man shall eternally perish or bee separated from God in it nor are they left under the power of that Judgement of Banishment the curse of the Law but all Judgement committed to the Son and he impowred to execute Judgement also because he is the Son of Man by him is the Assurance and certainty of the Resurrection of the dead For as in Adam all dye even in the influence demerit as the fruit of his transgression even so in Christ in the merit influence and vertue and as the fruit of his Righteousness shall all be made alive raised out of the first Death that they may all appear before his Judgement Seat to be judged according to the rule of his Gospel all shall bee raised by him but every man in his own order Christ the first fruits being already raised from the dead afterwards namely immediately at the time of his second Personal coming those that are his peculiar ones the righteous Nation that keepeth the truth those in whose heart the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the