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
A30814	A glimpse of God, or, A treatise proving that there is a God discovering the grounds of atheism, with arguments of divers sorts against atheists : shewing also, the unity of the Godhead, and the trinity of the persons ... / by ... Mr. Thomas Byrdall ...	Byrdall, Thomas, 1607 or 8-1662?	1665 (1665)	Wing B6404; ESTC R14883	155,901	472

he shall have them God will not deceive him he will not prom●se one thing and give another but what he hath spoken be thou upright toward him he will sincerely make good his word God never did nor can deceive any that put their trust in him So again he is sincere in all his threatnings he will execute upon the ungodly what he denounced against them Doth he threaten damnation to an impenitent wretch then there damnation slumbers not men through ignorance and self love think that God is not and will not be so severe and terrible as his word sets him forth to be but deceive not your selves God is sincere and if he speak the word God is sincere and if he speak the word it shall come to pass 2. Seeing God is most simple Use 2. hence it is that he approveth of all sincere hearts and accepts of all duties where he seeth sincerity he passeth by many imperfections of his servants because he sees they pray they hear they give almes and whatsoever they do they do all in sincerity of heart unto him he hath promised to be a shield and sun to them who walk uprightly Psal 84. 11. A shield to preserve those that are sincere and simple in heart a sun to comfort and refresh them And indeed 't is all the comfort of the Godly that whatsoever they do to God and for God is in simplicity of heart 2 Cor. 1. 12. Our rejoycing is this the testimony of our Conscience that in simplicity and godly sincerity c. We have had our conversation in the World Though many imperfections and infirmities may adhere to the best duties of upright men yet if conscience testifie to thee thou dost them in simplicity and sincerity of heart here is thy rejoycing uprightness breeds boldness and heavenly joy Hence it is that he abhors all hypocrites in whose heart and performances there is abundance of fraud and guil who have as the Psalmist speaks an heart and an heart a double heart because such persons are most opposite and contrary to his most simple nature therefore he throws away all duties of hypocrites how glorious soever they are to outward shew to publique view as so many abominations as hateful things in his sight for want of simplicity and sincerity of heart which he looks into When we go to duty the Lord speaks as Jehu to Jehonadab is thy heart right plain and simple as mine is then give thee mine hand then pray and I will hear thee then I will accept of all that thou dost but if thy heart be false double full of fraud and guile then bring no more vain oblations your incense your prayers are an a●omination to me who am a most simple God upright sincere Sincerity is the life and soul of all our works without which how beautiful soever our works are in the eyes of men they are stinking and abominable in the eyes of God as loathsome in God's eyes as stinking and putrifying carcasses are in ours many splendid performances doth God reject when not done with a perfect heart 3. Seeing God is most simple let Use 3. us strive after simplicity and singleness of heart our simplicity is our sincerity and singleness of heart 't is our perfection 't is our conformity to God What is it to do things in simplicity Quest of heart An heart is said to be simple when Sol. it proposeth one object or end to it self and a double heart when it proposeth a double end or object as when a man proposeth God and himself for his ends God's glory and his own credit and esteem among men to give alms to pray preach hear to aim at himself and God together such an one is an hypocrite and God abhorreth his works But singleness of heart proposeth none but God for his end and object onely I will do such and such good works saith a sincere soul in obedience to God's command that God may be glorified and I rejoyce in my performances as in that which is well-pleasing to him To this purpose consider these Motives 1. 'T is the highest perfection of our works and persons that we are sincere There is no possibility for us to attain to a perfection of degrees but to sincerity in this life 2. The more single in heart and sincere thou art in all duties the more doest thou grow in a conformity to God who is most simple 3. Sincerity and simplicity like love covereth abundance of infirmities and imperfections in our performances Though Satan should feed thee with a thousand suggestions in thy duties yet if Conscience shall give thee this testimony that thou didst them in simplicity of heart thou hast matter of rejoycing 4. It is the highest perfection of glorified Saints in Heaven to be simple and sincere for though neither Angels nor Saints shall have simple beings yet then and there they shall be without the mixture of all hypocrisie and guile they shall be perfectly holy pure upright they shall delight wholly in God and purely love him Admire God's simplicity and give Use 4. him the glory of this most glorious Property of his that he is so pure that there is not in his nature the least mixture of pollution nor the least tincture of defilement he is so holy that he is holiness onely totaliter sanctus wholly and altogether holy A Discourse of the Eternity of God Deut. 33. 27. The eternal God is thy Refuge CHAP. I. THis Chapter as ye may see by the Contents contains three things 1. The Majesty of the God of Israel from the first to the sixth verse 2 The Blessings of the twelve Tribes of Israel from vers 6. to v. 26. Then 3. from the 26. to the end he sheweth the Excellency of Israel above all Nations this belongeth to all the twelve Tribes and not to any one in particular above the other Their Excellency lies in these things 1. That God is the God of Israel vers 26. he is called the God of Jes●run 2. That God is for their help and R●●uge Other Nations had their imagined tutelar gods which could not help nor protect them but the true and onely God was Israel's Protector there 's no Protector like to him From this two excellent blessings follow 1. Victory over their Enemies because God is their help and refuge and his everlasting arms uphold them The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee and say Destroy them 2. Besides their safety the Heaven from above should drop down blessings upon them and the Earth should yield plenty to them because God is their God Israel then shall dwell in safety alone the fountain of Jacob s●●ll be upon a land of corn and wine also his heaven shall drop down dew Vers 28. Then Moses breaks forth into a gratulatory exclamation Happy art thou O Israel who is like unto thee vers