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	put_v	shipwreck_n	2,471	5	12.3348	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77374	The vvounded conscience cured, the weak one strengthned, [sic] and the doubting satisfied By way of answer to Doctor Fearne. Where the main point is rightly stated, and objections throughly answered for the good of those who are willing not to be deceived. By William Bridge, preacher of Gods Word. It is ordered this 30. day of January, 1642. by the committee of the House of Commons in Parliament, concerning printing, that this answer to Dr. Fearnes book be printed. John White. The second edition, correced and amended. Whereunto are added three sermons of the same author; 1. Of courage, preached to the voluntiers. 2. Of stoppage in Gods mercies to England, with their [sic] remedies. 3. A preparation for suffering in these plundering times.	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.	1643 (1643)	Wing B4476A; ESTC R223954	47,440	52

The VVounded CONSCIENCE cured the weak one strengthned and the doubting satisfied By way of Answer to Doctor Fearne Where the main point is rightly stated and Objections throughly answered for the good of those who are willing not to be deceived By WILLIAM BRIDGE Preacher of Gods Word 1 TIM 1. 19. Holding faith and a good conscience which some having put away and concerning faith have made shipwrack Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and unto God the things that are Gods IT is Ordered this 30 day of January 1642. by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning Printing that this Answer to Dr. Fearnes Book be printed John White The second Edition corrected and amended Whereunto are added three Sermons of the same Author 1. Of Courage preached to the Voluntiers 2. Of stoppage in Gods mercies to England with their remedies 3. A preparation for suffering in these plundering times London Printed for BENJAMIN ALLEN and are to be sold at his shop in Popes-head Alley 1642. THis Treatise was once before travelling abroad into the world till it came unto the Author who could not look upon it without much indignation to see how that and in it himself also was so much wronged and abused being so perverted and misplaced besides other Errata in the printing that it was nothing like the Book that was intended so falsly and so contrary to his meaning that the Author may truly say as Martial to one Quem recitas meus est O Fidentine libellus Sed male dum recitas incipit esse tuus O Fidentine a Book of mine Thou printed'st with my will And yet not mine but it is thine Because it s printed ill Much wrong and damage accrued to many by it but such be the times that all suffer in one thing or other and so this may be the more easily born It s now corrected and much amended by the care and industry of a friend who desires to commend the Book unto thy view and serious thoughts upon it To the Reader IT is Gods wont to warn before he smite a people thereby walking himself after his own rule Deut. 20. 10 13. who would have no City to be destroyed till peace hath first been offered to it the sword of the Lord is ever drawn his bow bent his arows prepared his instruments of death made ready his cup mingled yet he doth not use to powre down his plagues untill he have rained a showre of mercie before them he doth not surprise men at unawares God never discharges his murthering peeces till he have first discharged his warning ones pax domini Luke 10. peace to this house was sounded at every doore where the Apostles came All Ages and Nations will bear witnesse to this truth the old world Sodom Pharaoh c. but no Nation or Age can better subscribe to Gods goodnesse and fair dealing in this then we who have been warned sometimes by prodigious signes as by the appearance of that wonderfull Comet An. 1618. as importing some strange changes which we have seen and heard since and as if its last influence might seem to end in this Island vvhen it blazed over England it was seen no more And Herlicius Stargardensis a noted Astrologer held that its influence was like to continue between twenty and thirty years sometimes by his Ministers by his administration of Justice and dealing with other Nations how long hath the sword walked circuit in Cermany and in Ireland sometimes by lesser and lighter judgements how long hath the plague continued in this Citie without intermission sometime by taking many godly out of the world and the removing many others out of the Kingdom who were wont to stand in the gap sometime by a generall withdrawing himself pulling down his hangings not assisting his ordinances c. And unlesse we will wilfully shut our eyes how hath the goodnesse patience bounty mercifull and powerfull dealings of God towards us and for us of late been as an hand put forth to leade us home unto him to cause us to meet him and take warning that we might prevent these wasting calamities that are gathered together in a black cloud as though they meant to empty themselves in a showre of blood upon our heads But we are so far from taking warning that we study to hasten our own ruine almost every one instead of bringing his bucket of water to quench the fire that is already flaming about our ears bring their bellowes in their hands to blow up these coals of dissention in all places so that now not onely is there a Kingdome divided but the head and the members divided and the members among themselves Cities and Townes divided yea families divided Parents against children brother against brether and familiar friends become bitter enemies one to another the most sure symptome and presage of a fearfull desolation to fall upon all unlesse some speedie remedy be applyed to this desperate disease and the great God himselfe become our Phisitian and heale our distempers I shall desire to commend these two Sermons to thy serious consideration in the one thou shalt see there is a stoppage made of Gods mercies who was coming to heal us but we would not be healed the causes are discovered and the remedies prescribed that could we so go to work to open these stoppings and bring God again into the way of his mercies could we see our sins removed and God returned I might then truly say that there would be yet hope for England The other Sermon is a preparative to bear that crosse that so many have already on their backs viz. of being turned out of all our earthly comforts a sad calamity indeed but now too usuall and when so many of our neighbours houses are on fire why should we think to escape scot-free that are as deep in sin as they being therefore forewarn'd let us be for●arm'd and get into God and his favor as that one necessary thing for us all to look after as the onely means to keepe us from sinking unedr the waves that flow in upon all especially on Gods people experience shewing that if we vvill live in the power of godlinesse and not walk in the same excesse of riot with the world we shall make our selves a prey and had need to have our helmets on to latch the blowes that fall upon us and resolve to sit loose from the world that we may suffer the spoyling of our goods with joy and bo able to say with that noble Spartan who being told of the death of his children Answered I know well they were all begot mortall 2. That his goods were confiscate I knew what was but for mine use was not mine 3. That his honor was gone I knew no glory could be everlasting on this miserable earth 4. That his sentence was to dye that is nothing Nature hath given the like sentence both of my condemners and of me Now should we get a stocke