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
A85985	The blessed peace-maker and Christian reconciler: intended for the healing of all unatural and unchristian divisions, in all relations: according to the purport of that divine oracle, pronounced by the Prince of Peace himself, Matth. 5.9. By Claudius Gilbert, B.D. minister of the Gospel at Limrick.	Gilbert, Claudius, d. 1696?	1658 (1658)	Wing G701; Thomason E939_3; ESTC R202209	119,212	155

knowledge righteousness and holiness of Truth art thou born again of the water and Spirit made a new creature by the Spirit of holiness giving thee a new heart and a new Spirit taking away thy heart of stone to give thee a heart of flesh sensible and yielding Hath the Lord melted thy heart having broken it kindly to cast thee into the mould of his Will and stamp his Image on thy heart by transforming thee in the inner man the Spirit of thy mind and writting his Law on thy inward parts Hast thou beheld with open face in the glass of his Gospel the Glory of the Lord that thou mightest be transformed into the same Image from Glory to Glory by the Spirit the of Lord there is no Peace saith my God to the wicked yet unregenerate abiding in Unbelief 2. The ground thereof must needs be good also the Righteousness of God hoth imputed and implanted 1. The Righteousness of Christ God-Man imputed by God to Man upon the marriage terms of his gracious Covenant whereby the Soul is united to Christ concludes Peace with God Secondly The Righteousness of God implanted in man by sanctification initial and progressive through the Spirit of Christ grounds internal and external Peace by the Improvement and reflexion thereof Is thy Peace thus grounded Hast thou been drawn to Christ upon conjugal terms to receive him and be fiducially acquainted with him for Peace Dost thou strip thy self of thy own righteousness accounting the same but filthy Rags yea as dross and dung that thou mayest know him and be found in him not having thy own righteousness which is by the Law but the righteousness which is of him by saith Dost thou depend on him alone for Wisdom and Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption Hast thou learned thus to know him in the Power of his Resurrection and in the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable to his death Hast thou the reflexion thereof in the witness of a good conscience making thee to rejoyce that in simplicity and godly sincerity thou hast had thy conversation towards God and Man exercising thy self to manifest it in every Relation If not thine own partial polluted Righteousness can give no good Peace 3. The matter is as good if the Peace be good It s Peace in good and not in evil Follow Peace with all men and Holiness it s a holy Peace Is thy Peace so qualified in the matter thereof having still holiness conjoyned Peace as the Athenian said of his Amity is to be extended usque ad Aras as far as is lawfull in all good matters Doth thy Peace converse about good Objects Whatsoever things are holy amiable of good report accompanied with virtue and praise are these thy delight and exercise Peace in sinfull things is war proclaimed against God himself it is rather a conspiration then Peace 4. The Rule of a good Peace must needs be good also The Truth of God is the Rule Adaequate of true Peace Truth and Peace are the lovely inseparable Pair of Gods own twisting They are the Abstract of Gods Mercy and mans duty The Scope of the Law and substance of the Gospel The truth of man conforms all things of man to the mind of God and thence Peace Is thy Peace thus regulated by Truth in the manner and means in the getting keeping and improving thereof Dost thou therefore so love the truth in order to Peace as to give it still its priority and due influence into all thy Peace Is the Scripture-truth of Gods holy word thy study and standard thy golden Rule and measuring line in all the Dimensions of thy Peace Dost thou so love Truth and Peace in their order and conjunction as to love the Truth in Peace and the Peace in Truth Whilst thou art using this Divine pair of Compasses to draw the Lines of thy duty from the Center of gracious Justice to the whole Circumference of thy life doth the foot of Truth stedfastly fix upon the Center to give Being and Proportion whilst the other foot of Peace is carried round to give notion and extent to thy Christian course Are they strongly and surely rivetted in their root and joint to make a clear and perfect figure by the rule of Divine Geometry Doth the foot of Truth incline no further then to give unto the foot of Peace the Rule of its due motion and strength for circular extension Dost thou buy the Truth at any rate and sell it at no rate Peace without Truth is the Peace of Hell dark dead and devilish like that carnal Wisdom mentioned by the Apostle whereas true Peace like the Wisdom from above is first pure then peaceable gentle and easie to be intreated that the fruits of Righteousness may be sown in Peace 5. The End of a good Peace cannot but be very good likewise Finis dat esse bene esse mediis The End and Scope of things gives a Being and Perfection to the means The Glory of God is the ultimate End as of all things else so of this Peace All are from him and must needs therefore be also for him Our Alpha must needs be our Omega the first cannot but be the last The subordinate End thereto is mans Good both personal and Relative the publike with our particular No man is made for himself alone but most for others The God of Nature taught Wise Heathens so much by their glimmering Light The Apostle would have Christians not so much to mind their own as each others things and please their Neighbour by true self-denial for his good and edification Is it so with thy Peace Is Gods Honor the main scope thou drivest at in every thought word and work of thine Dost thou account it the greatest Honor and Happiness to be any way serviceable thereto Dost thou still take off the Crown of thy best Acts from thine own head to cast it at his feet as those noble Worthies triumphantly do in that glorious Representation of the Lords Kingdom Canst thou delight in thy own abasement as David the Apostles yea Christ himself did so that thy God may be exalted Dost thou contribute thy utmost towards it and is it thy great trouble that he reaps no more Honor from thy self and others Dost thou account his dishonor thine own being more zealous in his case then in thine Is thy Spirit so generous and ingenuous as to scorn all sinfull basness that reflects on his name and thy profession upon his score Do his reproaches still fall upon thee as they did on the typical and the true David Is this the Life of thy life the cream and marrow of thy best desires and delights designs and labours to glorifie him in the doing or suffering of his Will And is thy Neighbours good thy subordinate end thereto still Hast thou a publike and magnanimous Spirit that other Spirit so eminently commended and