Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	good_a	heart_n	merry_a	1,048	5	9.9107	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62994	Atheismus vapulans, or, A treatise against atheism, rationally confuting the atheists of these times by Will. Towers ... Polytheismus vapulans, or, There is but one God.	Towers, William, 1617?-1666.; Towers, William, 1617?-1666. Polytheismus vapulans.	1654 (1654)	Wing T1959; ESTC R23437	141,181	385

I have Believed What is a little Blood-shed I have empty'd a Vein to Recover from a Sickness and was well again Shall I not empty them All for Christ and Heaven Say to any Epicure to any He that would be more Crane than he is Philosopher that bids you to be Happy to become a Dog and a Sow to wallow in your own Myrie Vomit to allow of nothing but Sensual Pleasure I will none of that since I have heard not onely that a Friar Erasmus in his Ecclesiastes to Torment a Drunkard bade him be Drunk again as Conceiving no Torture to be equal to an Over-charg'd Stomach nor the Rope it self more Cruelly to stretch a Throat than a Loathsome Yawning but that at God's Right Hand there are Pleasures for Evermore Ps 16.11 Innocent and Un-satiating Pleasures a whole and a clear River of them not onely a River but the Spring-head too All my Springs are in thee O God Psal 87.7 Say to any Livy who calls VVorldly Honour and Earthly Soveraignty Happiness I will none of that since I have heard There is no Honour like to that L. Hatton's Preface to the Psalms of serving God in a Great Capacity that this is the onely Lawfull VVay by which to set up a Royal Priesthood 1 Pet. 2.9 Exod. 19.6 a Kingdome of Priests even amongst the Laity also when God shall make them indeed to be what in both those Scriptures they are call'd a holy Nation Say to any Horace who to be Happy bids you be VVordly-wise and Wise in your Generation I will none of that since I have heard of Another a Heavenly VVisdome a VVisdome to all Eternity and to Salvation in it This if compar'd to the Worlds is not Another but an Onely Wisdome the Worlds if compar'd to this is not Another Wisdome but an Onely Folly Madness Desperation VVhat is my Generation but a Point a Nothing to God's Eternity My Daies are but a Hands Breadth Psal 39.5 Diogenes's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in respect of some Longer Liver in the first of Ages and mine Age is as nothing before thee O God Might I be as Happy Latum Unguem and one Day of my Life as all this World could make me and wretched the whole hand-breadth and all the Life besides I would not make so Indiscreet and Unpolitique a Choyce All this Life to all Eternity is infinitely less than a Day to all this Life and shall I choose the Greater Evil and forfeit the Greater Good when I have skill enough to refuse the Lesser Good because of a Lesser Evil Say to any Aristotle who comes nearest the Mark when he bids you be Happy in Well-Doing and in the Satisfaction which arises from thence I will more than that since I have heard that though a Good Conscience Prov. 15.15 and a Merry Heart because of That is a Continual Feast yet the Reward of that Good Conscience is a much Better and Merrier Feast and that therefore I look up to that Jesus Heb. 12.2 who as he is the Author has appointed unto me a Kingdome and when he is the Finisher of my Faith will Crown me in it that I may Eat and Drink at his Table Luk. 22.29 30. in his Kingdome 100. And yet though this Jesus be Another Notion Examinatio Portugalli Atheis 1617 or rather Another Person for there was a Portugal Atheist who being ask'd what he thought of the Trinity answerd Examinatio 3. quaest 6. Se adorare Trinitatem sed per al●as Notiones non sub Nominibus Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti yet it is but One and the Same God who makes this Feast of Happiness and fils the Table with all these and many more Several and Precious Messes and who by his Vnity with the Father and the Holy Ghost to which Unity in Trinity be all Prayer and Praise for ever calls upon me for my Promis'd Disquisition and Determination That there is One already Argu'd and But One God to which I proceed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Polytheismus Vapulans OR THERE IS BUT ONE GOD. Greg. Nazianz. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LONDON Printed for Humphrey Moseley and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-yard 1654. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE L. VISCOUNT TRACY My much Honour'd Lord and Patron MY Honour'd Lord Since by some Unhappynesses which have made Long Furrowes upon your Back though they could not Psal 129.3 upon your Face and by your unmatcht patience have left That as they found it and have not writh'd nor Afflicted One wrinckle more upon your constant Brow I cannot as the Duty of my Place obliges me Preach to your Ear give me leave to do it to your Ey and to be your Chaplain from the Press when you cannot Hear unless by others that I am so from the Pulpit I may remember your Lordship that the ONE GOD of whom I treat though He binds Himself to None does usually observe this Method in repairing worldly Adversities with spirituall Advantages and as it is His Generall design to better That man by any Cross which He layes upon His shoulders and to bring him neerer to the Favour of That Christ who bore the Cross for Him by the similitude of sufferings so in your Lordship's Case he does not only Prescribe but Confect too tells you what is best and prepares those Ingredients for you in removing you from him who has less of skill in the Cure of Souls to him who has more of it and who would not bless God the more for such a Medicinall and Healing Tribulation As All eyes see your Patience Luke 21.19 Dionys Areopag in which you Possesse your Soul though not very much besides so I beseech That God who is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and sees All things that the things which have Happen'd unto you Philip. 1.12 v. 13. Ibid. may fall out to the furtherance of the Gospell in you that as your Bonds are Manifest in All the Palace and were they not manifest I would not have nam'd them so they may be Bonds in Christ that even This also may turn to your salvation through your and our Prayer and the supply of the Spirit of JESUS CHRIST V. 1● These my god Lord and many more Inconveniencies and Incumbrances of life and fortunes with which you struggle or to speak more properly which struggle with you have made me believe that such a dedication as This upon which your life is Comment and your Fortunes Notes would be not an unacceptable piece of service in recalling to your Lordships Consideration That which all the Circumstances of all your Affaires do daily Mind you of that there is but One Heaven That Above Job 22.14 but One God He that Walks in the Circuit thereof When you Tasted and Try'd All the Happinesses of the Earth together you were even Then too wise to