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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14003	The picture of a true protestant: or, Gods house and husbandry wherein is declared the duty and dignitie of all Gods children, both minister and people. Written by Thomas Tuke.	Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657.	1609 (1609)	STC 24313; ESTC S102480	87,646	261

hath hired him to worke in his Vineyard He must hold the keyes of his kingdome in one hand the sword of the spirit which is the word of God in the other hand and all are heauy all are weighty and hard to weild aright He must help to beare the Church as the Leuites did the Arke Gouernement is laid vpon his shoulders and the soules of men are cōmitted to his charge If any vnder him do perish by him God will require their bloud at his hands CHAP. 6. Ministers must haue a warrantable calling NOw in a Labourer these seuen things are required First a Lawfull calling for it is against all right and reason that any man should gather his neighbors grapes or thrust his sickle into his corne without his leaue and so it is as vniust for any man to presume to labour in Gods Vineyard to build in his Temple or to worke in his Haruest without his leaue and liking Who dare draw his sword and smite who dare meddle with his keyes to open or shut ministerially without his licence Who dare sit in Moses his chaire vnlesse he haue set him in it and put his Law-booke into his hands to vnclaspe and explicate it vnto his people The labourers in the parable wrought not in the Vineyard till the Lord thereof had set them on worke b Vzzah was slaine because he laid his hand vpon the Arke without a calling Noah medled not in the building of the Arke till God had giuen him direction neither did the Carpenters enter vpon that worke without vocation and approbation from Noah they which built the Temple had licence command first from Salomon who had his warrant also from aboue Wherefore then should any meddle with the building of the Church which is Gods Arke and Temple without sufficient authority either immediately from God or mediatly from those that haue commission from him to proue and admit men to labour for him No man taketh this honour vpon him but he that is called of God as Aaron was Christ sheweth that it of right belongeth to the Lord of the Haruest to chuse and appoint Labourers in that he bids his Disciples pray the Lord of the haruest to send forth Laborers into his Haruest For how dare men cut downe or bind vp bring in without his bidding and authorizing How shall they preach except they be sent The Lord complaineth of some Prophets that ran vnsent prophecied vnspoken to by him Aaron and his sonnes were ordayned by God to assigne the Koathites euery one to his office to his charge so God hath ordained the Gouernors of the Church to cal consecrate Ministers and to set them to their worke It is an Anabaptistique conceit to think that any man of learning may preach without Ecclesiasticall ordination vpon his owne priuate motion or voluntary pleasure The glory of God the honour of the Ministery the security and solace of their consciences and that the people may know that they haue lawfull Ministers may thereby be moued to obay their ministery all these claime a calling argue the necessity of lawfull ordination CHAP. 7. Ministers must be wise their doctrine pure and their life vpright SEcondly a workeman must bee wise that he may behaue himselfe without offence Discretion is required in a Minister that hee may please his maister that he may be an example to his fellowes that he may leade his life without offence to any and so gaine credit to his place and person It is meete therefore that his doctrine should be pure and not parti-coloured and that his conuersation be correspondent so he shall shew himselfe truly wise euen godly wise Paul writing to Timothie saith Study to shew thy selfe approued vnto God a workman that need not be ashamed diuiding the word of God aright And to the Corinthians he saith of himselfe and of his fellowes We haue cast from vs the cloakes of shame and walke not in craftines neither handle we the word of God deceiptfully but in declaration of the truth we approue our selues to euery mans conscience in the sight of God Our reioycing is this the testimony of our conscience that in simplicity and godly purenes not in fleshly wisedome but by the grace of God we haue had our cōuersation in the world most of all to you-wards For we are not as many which make merchandise of the word of God but as of sincerity but as of God in the sight of God speake we in Christ We giue no occasion of offence in any thing that our Ministery should not be reprehended but in all things we approue our selues as the ministers of God In like manner he willeth his sonne Timothy to keep the true patterne of the wholesome words which he had heard of him and to flye from the lusts of youth and follow after righteousnes faith loue and peace sheweth that euery Bishop must be vnreproueable temperate and modest Ministers saith Prosper must not onely instruct the people with the example of a good life but should also shew them by preaching boldly both the penalty which abides the rebellious and the glory which belongs to the obedient The Doctor of the Church saith Chryostome by teaching and liuing well teacheth the people how to liue well but by liuing wickedly teacheth God how to condemne him Aaron was appointed to weare Thummim on his brest-plate vpon his heart and a plate of pure gold vpon his forehead whereon was grauen Holinesse to the Lord. So euery Minister should haue the Thummim of an vpright heart carry the goldē plate before him of an holy life The Arke was commaunded to be pitched within and without with pitch so should euery minister be pitched with grace on the inside of his heart and on the outside of his life and so he shal be better armed against wind and water The Snuffers of the candlestick for the Tabernacle were cōmaunded to be made of pure gold those that snuffe others should be pure themselues Turpe est doctori cum culpa redarguit ipsum It is a shame for a man to correct another and not to direct himselfe or to weed his neighbours corne and to suffer the weeds to choke his owne It is a shame for a Phisitian to proffer Phisick to others and yet to see and suffer himselfe to rot with diseases Phisitian first cure thy selfe Pluck forth thine Owne moat thine Owne beame first He that admonisheth another of that wherein himselfe remaineth wilfully faulty doth giue him the cleare wine and keepeth the dregs to himselfe resembling a Diall or Watch which profit others by shewing how the day passeth but themselues nothing at all They which teach wel and liue wickedly confute their doctrine with their deedes and condemne their practise by their preaching and so make them selues abhominable to God