Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	godly_a	rejoice_v	simplicity_n	1,031	5	9.5439	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11823	Tvvo sermons, upon that great embassie of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ recorded by his Euangelist, Saint Matthew, Chap. 10.V.16. Preached by Iohn Scull, an humble professor and minister of the word.	Scull, John, minister of the word.	1624 (1624)	STC 22123; ESTC S114766	41,503	56

bound himselfe to the maine mast and as Serpents Plin. stoppe their eares against the Mathematician spelles so we ad patriam festinantes mortiferos Syrenarum cantus surda aure Hier. transire debemus as we hasten to our Countrey of Heauen should turne the deafe eare to the entising vanities in our iourney And this is one point of wisedome that we may learne of the Serpent in stopping the eare another is in defending the head For howsoeuer the rest of the body speedes he will be sure to keepe the head Whatsoeuer alteration in Religion innouation in State Doctrine occurrance betweene man and man may happen it is our part and duty to preserue faith towards GOD fidelity towards our Countrey good report among men conscience in all our actions I haue fought a good fight and haue finished 2 Tim. 4. 7. my course I haue kept the Faith I haue fought a good fight not onely with Beasts after the manner of men not onely against flesh and bloud but against Principalities against Ephes 6. 12. Powers and against worldly Gouernours the Princes of the darkenesse of this World against spirituall wickednesses I haue fought Heb. 12. 1. a good fight I haue finished my course the race that is set before me looking vnto Iesus Christ the author and finisher of my faith Verse 2 I haue fought a good fight I haue finished my course I haue kept the Faith the Depositum laid vp like the Vrim and the Thummim 1 Tim. 6 20. on the breast without which it is impossible to please Heb. 11. 6. God Whatsoeuer alteration in Religion innouation in State occurrance betweene man and man may happen it is our part and duty to preserue faith towards God 2. Fidelity towards our Countrey God forbid that I should sinne against 1 Sam. 12. 23. the Lord and cease praying for you The people had cast off Samuel and not onely him but the Lord also from 1 Sam. 8. 7. raigning ouer them yet it had beene sinne in him not to preserue fidelity towards his Countrey or to haue ceased praying for them As Phocion was led to execution one Plut. Phoe. asked him what he would haue to his sonne nothing said he but that my sonne remember not the wrong that my Countrey now doth vnto me In all occurrances we must preserue faith towards God fidelity towards our Countrey 3. Good report among men that when they speake euill of you as of euill doers they may be ashamed which blame your good conuersation 1 Pet. 3. 16. in Christ Duo sunt tibi necessaria Conscientia fama Conscientia propter Deum fama propter Proximum A Ambr. epist ad Constant man must be tender of his Conscience and of his good name Of his Conscience to be iustified before God of his good name to be iustified before men He must preserue good report among men 4. Conscience in all his actions Our reioycing is this the testimony of our Conscience that in simplicity 1 Cor. 1. 12. and godly purenesse and not in fleshly wisedome but by the grace of God we haue had our conuersation in the world How hard soeuer we fare in the world this will continually feast vs. For a good Conscience is a continuall feast Prou. 15. 15. The neerer that the members neighboureth one vpon Vse 1 another the greater is their sympathy one with another the neerer and dearer that a man is to God the King and his Countrey the greater faith fealty and fidelity is hee to beare to God the King his Countrey God hath communicated Psal 12. 6. to you his name authority his name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his authority the Sword The King hath made you his Vicegerents Rom. 13. 4. of Oyre and Determine to heare and iudge your Countrey hath put her selfe into your hands as vnder couer barne You of all men must stand stiffe for God the King and your Countrey As L. Tubero sometimes Lord Chiefe Iustice of Rome sate on his Pretorian Throne one Plin hist nat l. 10. cap. 18. of the Birds called Picus Martius pearcht on his head stayed there notwithstanding the concourse of people and suffered Tubero to take him downe The South-sayer thereupon coniectured that if the Bird were let goe that it portended the ruine and ouerthrow of the whole State and Empire but if that he were killed that then it presaged the death of the said Lord Chiefe Iustice Did not Tubero now hold the Wolfe by the eares If he holds him he bytes him if he lets him goe he killes him but he was not long in deliberating whether to preferre his owne or his Countries good and incontinently pulled the Bird in pieces And it was not long till the presage of the Bird tooke effect indeed and was fulfilled in Tuberos owne person He was not like Caligula that Suetonius wished that all the Senators had but one necke that hee might cut it off at a blow Nor like Nero that therefore Xiphilmus in Nerone thought Priamus a happy man for that hee saw together with himselfe the ioynt destruction of himselfe and his Countrey together Tubero in prophane learning and the Serpent in Diuine be better Schoolemasters The one thought it better vt Pereat vnus quàm vnitas Rather as Caiphas Ioh. 11. 50. prophecyed that one man dye for the people then that the whole Nation should perish The other howsoeuer the body speedes will be sure to keepe the head Notum est eum totum corpus pro capite obijcere ferientibus It Vse 2 is remarkable in the Serpent that he interposeth the whole Aug. de doct body a fence for his head so should wee pro capite nostro Christiana lib. 2. cap. 16. Christo corpus potius persequentibus offerre Rather take the Idem ibidem blow our selues then that it should light vpon our head Christ Iesus The Serpent slippes away if he can if hee cannot yet Caput ab ictu subtrahit cedique partem reliquam derelinquit Howsoeuer the body speedes he is sure to keepe the head To teach vs saith Hilary nosque hoc exemplo opportere Hil. in Malt. si quid acciderit persecutionum caput nostrum quod est Christus occulere vt ablatis nobis in omnes cruciatus fidem ab ●o arcessitam iactura Corporis communiamus To interpose our bodies for the defence of our head to suffer as the Apostle counselleth afflictions as good Souldiers of Iesus Christ And 2 Tim. 2. 3. rather as Peter promised and wee all are bound to make good to dye for him then deny him And this is to be wise as Mat. 26. 35. Serpents in keeping the head The third remarkable thing in the Serpent for vs to imitate is that Euery Spring he casteth his olde coat he beginnes at the The third property head and turnes the skinne ouer it All that will be good