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	love_n	unfeigned_a	1,422	5	11.0683	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68828	The holie exercise of a true fast, described out of Gods word Seene and allowed.; Very godly and learned treatise, of the exercise of fastyng.	Wilkinson, William, d. 1613.; Cartwright, Thomas, 1535-1603, attributed name.	1580 (1580)	STC 24251.5; ESTC S120024	22,313	96

to call for the performance of them And first we humbly desire thee to forgiue vs all our sinnes Thou hast saide that if we confesse our sinnes thou art faithfull to forgiue vs them We acknowledge the debte cancell therefore the obligation let not the multitude of them preuaile against vs but where our sinne hath aboūded let thy grace more abounde and as we haue multiplyed our sinnes so we pray thee to multiply thy mercies and although wee haue by continuaunce in them so soked our selues that thereby we are not onely lightly stained but also haue gottē as it were the scarlet purple die of them yet let them all we pray thee being washed in the blod of thy deare sonne be made as whyte as the snowe in Salmon and as the wolle of the sheep which come from washing And ●o conclude as our sinnes haue magnified themselues in an infinit length ●readth depth and height so let thy ●ercies which passe all vnderstan●ing of all sides and all assayes out ●eache them Therefore also we most ●umbly desire thee O Lord that the ●inne being pardoned thy wrath whiche is alreadie declared may be appeased towardes all the Churches of our profession and especially towards vs that the manifolde breaches of the Churches and common wealthes may be made vp that those being receyued into the bosome of the Church which belong to thy election the rest of the Papistes and heretikes may be vtterly rooted out that the enemies in religion being slaine we may to the vttermost think all one thing in the honeste and peaceable gouernment of the common wealth Vpon which vniting of vs in all trueth and honestie the curses of the plague and barrennesse being remoued a way may be made to thy blessinges which as the hills do the valleis may make our land holesomely fruitfull And that not onely the wrath which is alreadie kindled may be quenched but that which hath beene lately threatned may be caused to retyre For the graunt whereof vnto vs we beseech thee to remember that howe vnworthy soeuer yet are wee thy people and the Sheepe of thy pasture whome thou hast redemed with thy most pretious ●lood watched ouer with a carefull ●ye defended with a mightie hand ●espise not therfore O Lord the wor●es of thy hands And seing thou hast ●●ued vs when we hated thee visited vs when we desired thee not then acknowledged vs when we knewe not thee now that there be a nūber of vs which loue thee desire thine aboade acknowledge thee hold on thy loue still depart not from vs deny vs not O thou God of trueth which art the God that chaungest not And if thou wouldest or couldest forget vs calling vpon thee yet what should become of thy great name which is called vpon by vs And therefore for thy glories sake and for thy blessed names sake which in our destruction shoulde b● rent and runne through spare v●spare vs good Lord according to the vsuall dealing which thou hast euer kept with those which in prayer haue had recourse vnto thee and according to the olde and vnchangeable nature of a merciful kind sparing long suffering God Which mercie we do not O Lord desire to the end that we shoulde tumble and wallowe our selues in our accustomed neglect and contempt of thy holy worde but together with mercie for our sinnes and the rewarde of them we moste humbly craue vppon the knees of our heartes that for the time to come howe long or howe short soeuer we with deniall and detestation of our selues and of our wicked lustes may ●●er vp vnto thee in Iesus Christe ●●r selues our bodies and soules to ●●e seruauntes at thy holy commaun●ement in that reasonable seruice ●hich the high reason of thy holy ●orde doth prescribe and to be wea●ons or instruments of righteousnes ●nd holinesse as they haue bene here●ofore of the contrarie All which ●hinges as whatsoeuer thou knowest ●o be further needefull for vs or for any of the Churches we pray thee as our sauiour hath taught c. A CONFESSION OF sinnes with fayth and repentaunce O Mercifull and heauenly Father we thy seruāts doe humbly prostrate our selues before thy Ma●estie acknowledging here in thy ●ight our hainous offences committed against thy Maiestie seeing and beholding thy heauie wrath against them we feele our selues laden O Lord our God with a huge company of horrible sinnes whereof euen the very least beeing but conceiued in thought is sufficient in iudgemēt to throwe vs downe to the euerlastinge burning Lake Our owne consciences O Lorde doe beare witnesse against vs of our manifolde transgressions of thy blessed lawe of our securitie and sencelesse blindenesse running headlong to destruction cōmitting sinne after sinne although not notorious to the worlde yet horrible before thine eye The thoughts of our heartes rise vp in iudgement against vs the vanitie of our talk before thy maiestie condemneth vs the wickednesse of our deedes from thy sight reiecteth vs all our wicked thoughts wordes and deeds with the inwarde corruption of our nature do altogether as it were a whole lumpe and loade of sinne lie heauie vppon vs with their intollerable weight doe euen presse vs downe to Hell Wee doe dayly grone vnder the burthen of them inwardly lamenting our owne follie so greedily running into them In heauen earth or hel we see none able to sustaine the weight of them but euen thy dearly beloued sonne Iesus Christ who in mercy infinite and compassion endlesse hath sustained and ouercome that endlesse punishment due vnto them in him therefore in him most mercifull Father and through him we come to thee being fully assured according to thy promise that thou wilt accept take that full recompence which he thy deare sonne hath made for vs as a iust ransome for all the sinnes of all those who with a true faith take hold on him In him therfore we see thine anger towards vs appesed thy wrath satisfied and our debts paide Increase in vs good Lord we beseech thee this liuely and feeling faith for we feele it oftentimes in vs very weake and troubled with many doubtes increase it in vs O Lorde that we may through thy holy spirite be assured that the punishment of our sinnes is fully in thy sonne discharged Make vs O Lord our God to feele this same in our soules and consciences that Iesus Christe is ours and al that he hath done that we are grafted into his body and made one with him and therefore fellow heires with him of euerlasting life Let vs not onely haue these wordes in our mouthes good Lord but through thy holy spirite let vs feele the comfort of them in our heartes fully sealed and setled in vs that we feeling our selues inwardly before thy iudgement seate discharged and our consciences towardes thee appeased may be swallowed vp with an vnfaigned loue toward thy heauenly Maiestie and towardes our brethren for thy sake Make sinne to dye in vs daily more