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
A49230	Vindiciæ Evangelii, or, A vindication of the Gospel, with the establishment of the law being a reply to Mr. Steven Geree's treatise entituled, The doctrine of the Antinomians confuted : wherein he pretends to charge divers dangerous doctrines on Dr. Crisp's sermons, as anti-evangelical and antinomical / by Robert Lancaster ...	Lancaster, Robert, b. 1603 or 4.	1694 (1694)	Wing L313; ESTC R5714	69,011	72

and sins and we are meerly passive in receiving Life A dead man can be no way active not instrumentally and subordinately in giving Life unto himself Secondly It is taken for the full Complement and Revelation of salvation in Heaven in the state of Glory and that also we have freely from God for Christs sake onely How shall he not with him also freely give us all things saith the Apostle Rom. 8.32 Our works and conversation here on earth goes before the Revelation of that Glory in Heaven but they have no influx into it as a motive or moving Cause why God doth bestow it upon us either in whole or in part For Eternal Life is the Free Gift of God through Jesus Christ our Lord Neither as an efficient producing Cause 1. Because the proper and native efficiency of the best of our works by reason of their imperfection is the Curse Cursed is he that continueth not in all things 2. Because they can have no other efficiency with God but that of a moving cause which must needs be according to some Covenant or Engagement for otherwise God cannot be Debtor to any man Then the Covenant must be that of works which promiseth nothing but to perfection and therefore by that we can claim nothing Or else by the Covenant of grace and there all the promises of God are Yea and Amen in Christ onely It is most absurd that works perfect or imperfect should be the conditions of a Covenant of Pure Grace And therefore neither by nor for our works can we be said to have either the beginning or complement of our salvation but it is wholly to be attributed unto the Lord Jesus Christ who is the Author and Finisher as of our faith so of our Salvation Mr. G. thinks the Dr. is in a contradiction because heretofore he ascribed all goodness wholly unto God whereas here he calls our duties a righteousness of our own In this contradiction a caviller may find the Holy Scripture When the Lord challengeth to himself to Work all both the will and the deed of his own good pleasure yet the Prophet Esay calls it our righteousness when he saith all our righteousness is as menstruous raggs It is called ours because we are agents in the action of it though it be Gods onely in reference to the goodness of it as is fully proved and explained before But what is this then saith Mr. G. but to disgrace Righteousness and Holiness Why because they are acknowledged to be what they are as they come from us why should we not own the dung of our Solemnities and the uncleaness of our Holy things That we may not think of any man or work above that which is written namely that there is none that doth good no not one no not the great Apostle who found no means to perform that which is good Rom. 7. That so God may have the full glory of his grace and man might be taught true Christian Repentance consisting in a real and faithful renouncing of themselves and their best doings as unavailable to commend them before God not in a glorious magnifying and setting of great rates upon their Repentance and other performances which are direct wayes to puff up and how they should thus be wayes of humiliation I know not The Lord preserve the Kingdom from the fruits of such Humiliation Sect. 10. The Dr. had denyed that there is any ground of Peace by Works This Mr. G. acknowledgeth in regard of our peace with God But saith he peace of Conscience hath much dependance upon Sanctification and Sincerity Let us first take that which is granted namely that our peace with God doth not depend upon our Works And then let it be a dangerous course and an high intrenchment upon our Peace-maker to think or go about to make our peace with God by our Sanctification or Sincerity or any of the effects thereof The Lord teach all his ministers and people to acknowledge this not in word onely but in deed and in practise But Secondly Whereas he saith that peace of conscience hath much dependance upon Sanctification and Sincerity out of that 2 Cor. 1.12 Our Rejoycing is this the Testimony of our conscience that in Simplicity and Godly Sincerity not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God we have had our conversation in the world Here we are to distinguish of a double Peace of conscience and thereby a double Rejoycing First A peace of conscience with God whereby we are assured that God is pacified towards us in the blood of his son And this is meant by that place cited by Mr. G. Rom. 5.1 That being justified by faith we have peace with God whereby it is not onely meant a bare attonement with God whereof we are not conscious but a manifested peace which is therefore said to bring forth joy and rejoycing which an unknown peace could not do And this peace of conscience de jure of right ought to have no dependance upon Works That is though we are weak and as much as lyes in us Covenant breakers yet we ought to know that the Lord is faithful He hath promised to do for his own sake and not according to our Works but according to his Grace This Peace of Conscience therefore ought notwithstanding all our fallings to be acknowledged and believed although I confess that de facto and in practise the Children of God are not always able to consider and remember and keep their hearts up unto this Rock of peace and safety especially when the Heaven above them seems to be black and the Sea under them tempestuous with wave upon wave so that although by reason of their little Faith with Peter they begin as it were to sink yet still at the length they find a gracious issue and the hand of Christ stretched out to save them and the voice of Christ calling unto them My Grace is sufficient for thee yet notwithstanding they ought with David to confess that it is their own infirmity that they did not cleave unto the faithfulness of the Promise and remember the years of the right hand of the Most High This Peace of Conscience therefore with God although de facto as they say it be sometimes darkened by Works yet de jure it ought to have no dependance upon them And this is that Peace which the Dr. speaks of which causeth rejoycing and glorifying in the Conscience before God But Secondly There is another Testimony of the Conscience or Peace thereof and thereby rejoycing as the effect of it which hath relation unto men And here when we have done our duty towards men in simplicity and godly sincerity of heart then have we peace of Conscience towards men And this is the peaceful Testimony which the Apostle speaks of here For the former that dependeth upon the All-sufficiency of the satisfaction of Christ whereby God is perfectly reconciled and fully at peace with us But this dependeth upon our