Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	heart_n	pure_a	sprinkle_v	1,554	5	10.8871	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67808	Crooked pathes made straight: or, The wayes of God made knowne to lost sinners, or bewildered saints Wherein is represented the severall conditions of a Christian in the spirit, as hee growes up out of weaknesse into strength, through death into life eternall. By Anne Yemans.	Yemans, Anne.	1648 (1648)	Wing Y30A; ESTC R222187	125,255	256

many places of Scripture yet none of them kept them out of the Land of Canaan which was a type of heaven but only unbelief And this is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men loved darkenesse rather then light John 3.19 Christ hath obtained of his Father a full pardon for all the sins of the world and a perfect righteousnesse and heaven and spirituall and temporall things and it is kept in store for us in Christ all the spirituall things are till wee doe really believe what Jesus Chri●● hath done for us in particular and he woul● have his love made knowne to the world tha● they might believe and then hee will mak● known to them that their sins are pardoned and how great his love is to them and wh●● hee hath purchased for them and what the● are in him And although there remaines s●● in the conversation yet sin in the conscien●● is done away The blood of Christ which throug● the eternall spirit offered himselfe without spo●● purge your consciences from dead workes to ser●● the living God Heb. 9.14 And he speaking i● the 9th verse of this chapter and verse 2. of th● 10th chapter of the sacrifices in the time of th● Law there was offered gifts and sacrifices tha● could not make holy concerning the conscience of him that did the service for if it could would they not then have ceased to have bee● offered because that that the offerers onc● purged should have had no more sine in thei● conscience but those sacrifices could not take away sin in the conscience Heb. 9.24 25 26. For Christ is not entered into the holy places ma●● with hands which are the figures of the true bu● into heaven itselfe now to appeare in the prese●● of God for us Nor yet that he should offer himself● often as the high Priest entereth into the holy pl●●● every yeare with blood of others For then must often have suffered since the foundation of the world but now once in the end of the world hath be appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himselfe And it is he alone that can and will sanctifie us in our conversation Let us draw neer with a true heart in assurance of faith sprinkled in our hearts from an evill conscience and washed in our bodies with pure water Heb. 10.22 Christ shed both water and blood John 19. ●4 His blood for to sprinkle our conscience from evill works that so they shall not damn us and water to purge and sanctifie us in our conversation that sin shall be mortified in us and we shall walke in obedience to God And this Christ hath done for all and would have all know it that they all might come to Christ and be saved For be tasted death for-every man Heb. 2.9 And be dyed for all that they that live should not henceforth live unto themselves but unto him that dyed for them and rose again 2 Gor. 5.15 Christ not only dyed and was buried but hee also rose from the dead which doth declare unto us that hee hath gotten the victory over the spirituall death for us he triumphed over it for us Death is swallowed up in victory O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Chris● 2 Cor. 15.54 55 56 57. So Christ hath done all things for thee an● hath made way for to goe to God by him J●sus said I am the way the truth and the life ●man commeth to the Father but by me John 1● 6. And now he makes a generall proclamat●on for all to come unto him and he will gi●● them life for their life is hid in him and they doe not come unto him they shall dye● their sins and the Lord saith As I live I wi●● not the death of a sinner Isa 55.1 2 3. Ho ev●●● one that thirsteth come ye to the waters and 〈◊〉 that hath no money come ye buy and eat yea com● buy wine and milke without money and with●●● price Wherefore doe ye spend money for that whi●● is not bread and your labour for that which sati●fieth not hearken diligently unto me and ea●● ye that which is good and let your soule delight selfe in fatnesse Encline your eare and come un●me heare and your soule shall live and I wi●● make aneverlasting Covenant with you even t●● sure mercies of David The waters that we are invited to come 〈◊〉 to is Christ he is the water of life John 4 1● And he calls all to come without any worth nesse of their owne though they are never 〈◊〉 great sinners let them come let them not ke●● back because they are great sinners but ther●fore let them come for he dyed for their sins ●nd if they come unto him he will give them a ●ardon for their sins their sinnes cannot be too great for him to pardon and doe not stay for ●ualification to come to Christ for there is ●o qualification out of Christ but come unto him and he will qualifie thee there is no vessel so unclean but the blood of Christ wil cleanse ●t And saith Christ Those that come to me I will ●●n no wise cast away and that wine and milk is Christ John 15.1 I am the Vine that brought forth those grapes that this wine came of and he was pressed in the wine-pres of the wrath of God for us to drinke of the fruit of it And as it is the nature of wine to comfort strengthen and refresh those that are ready to faint So it is with this spirituall wine Christ whosoever hath tasted of him it comforts him exceedingly and when they are ready to faint through the sence of their sins this wine refreshes them and strengthens them against the Devils temptations and their owne sins and this milke is to feede those that are babes in Christ I have fed you with milke and not with meate for bitherto ye were not able to beare it 1 Cor. 3.2 For every one that useth milke is unskilfull in the word of righteousnesse for he is a babe Heb. 5.13 So Christ is this milke that feeds those that are babes in him he is their nourishment and hee revealeth his love to them by degrees and 〈◊〉 are babes at the first and grow by degrees be men in Christ and hee leades them acco●ding Wherefore doe ye spend money for that whi●● is not bread you spend a great deale of cost paines to get a righteousnesse of your own a●● so feede upon that but that is not bread th●● is but ashes that will not nourish thee b●● wildo thee more harm than good Christ sait● He is the bread of life John 6.48 This is 〈◊〉 bread which came downe from heaven that a m●● may eate of it and not dye I am the living bre●● which came downe from heaven if any man

the grosse seed of the Devill and the kernell of the flesh but the Devill hath a mor● seeming purer seed which he doth sow in mankinde also that is like the seede of God and man as hee is man doth not know it from the seede of God for the Devill it a spirit and knows the things of God and the wayes of God how they are make knowne to us and hee knowes how to deceive us in those things The Devill goeth about like a roaring Lyon seeking whom he may devoure 1 Pet. 5.8 If he can b●● devoure us he cares not how he doth it If he sees that he cannot doe it by the grosse seed in us if we hate that by some glimps of the lo●● of the Lord made known to us or by the ha●● that we see in it or for some by respects that we will not follow those grosse wayes of wickednesse he will not displease us hee hath all manner of wayes to dissert us and he will use that way as shall give us most content whatsoever it be so he can but rob God and deceive 〈◊〉 he cares If a grosse way of wickednesse wil not content us nor a sinfull mortall life not nothing but to be religious he will deceive 〈◊〉 in that For Satan himselfe is transformed into an Angel of light 2 Cor. 11.14 Into the likenesse of it Hee will appeare in a glorious righteousnesse to us like the righteousnesse of Jesus Christ but is not and this seed of the Devill is called the righteousnesse of man which grows up in man to a high degree at the last but there is 7. degrees to come to perfection in this and some attaine to one degree and some to another Here is a high degree of the Devils policie hee tempted man that so he might fall finally by it but Christ redeemed us and so he cannot have his will in that for Christ hath done all things for us hath obtained a perfect righteousnesse for us and 〈◊〉 saith Looke unto mee and be ye saved all the ●●ds of the earth for I am God and there is none ●●se Isa 44.22 Now seeing it is set forth so plainely to us 〈◊〉 without the righteousnesse of Christ wee shall not be saved hee comes and immita●● the righteousnesse of Jesus Christ to us and 〈◊〉 patches up a righteousnesse in us and bring●● forth to us and tels us it is the righteousne●●● of Jesus Christ and without it we shall not 〈◊〉 saved and he saith looke unto this and 〈◊〉 ye saved And it is manifest that he doth so●● this in all man-kinde and it doth appeare i● some measure or other in all for those th● are very wicked persons can say if I say prayers and the Creed and goe to Church hea●● the mysteries and receive the Sacrament a●● reade and the like I shall be saved so th●● looke to be saved by their owne performance But this is the first degree of the growth of th● seed in us and it comes by degrees to a gre●● growth as it did in the Scribes and Pharisee● and in Paul before his conversion they 〈◊〉 this righteousnesse and howsoever God do●● make known his righteousnesse to us the righteousnesse of the flesh will immitate it We 〈◊〉 as those did that went to build a City To●er whose top may reach to heaven Gen 11. 〈◊〉 For wee labour to get a righteousnesse of 〈◊〉 owne performances that should reach to h●●ven should carry us to heaven looking 〈◊〉 be saved by it and without it wee thinke 〈◊〉 shall not be saved When we heare that if we goe on in our 〈◊〉 we cannot be saved and if wee will be saved we must leave them off and do thus and thus ●hen we goe about to do it in our own strength and search our selves and to repent of our sins And if we can be exceedingly humbled for our sins and shed many teares then we are at quiet then we thinke our sins are pardoned and God is well pleased with us because wee are thus humbled for them and our sins are done away by Christ But if wee cannot shed many feares for our sinnes and be much cast down for them then we are much troubled because we cannot be no more troubled for our sins say If I could be throughly humbled for my sins then there were hopes of mercy for me but now there is none so long as my heart is thus hardned And thus we thinke to be saved by our owne righteousnesse and no longer than we are performing duties that we can have any peace of conscience and when wee are very strict in performing duties then wee have peace and joy and this sets us eagerly on performances and we look upon this and see that we have as we thinke performed these duties aright in some measure as prayer and repenting and hearing or reading and the like O then we rejoyce in it and think God accepts of it and if our sins at any time over-master us then we labour exceedingly in our owne strength to beate them downe and she● many teares to wash them away according a the sinne is in greatnesse And when wee ha●● got power over it then we think God is we●● pleased with us for striving against our sinne● and labour to performe the whole Law and often examining our selves whether wee keep it or no and wherein wee break it and for those things wherein we feele in keeping it w● shed many teares for it and we thinke that pacifieth God and now all our sins are done away by our repentance and then that place o● Scripture comes in our mind Behold thou art made whole goe away and sinne no more lest 〈◊〉 worse thing befall thee And this makes us more strict in performing the Law and thinke to be justified by the strict performing of it Thus thou goest from out degree of the righteousnesse of the flesh to another and the higher degrees thou attainest unto the more thou buildest thy comforts on it For if thou neglectest prayer or other duties at those times as thou usest to performe them thou art much troubled for it and hast not the comfort that thou hast when thou doest observe and performe them at the time as thou usest to doe What is this but to build thy comfort upon thy performances And this righteousnesse the Scribes and Pharises had in 〈◊〉 very high degree but Christ told his Disciples That except their righteousnesse exceede the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees they should not enter into the kingdome of heaven And this Paul had before his conversion And the more the Lord makes known himself in a glorious manner in his owne righteousnesse the Divell will transforme himselfe like unto it that as we are men and women we cannot discern betwixt them and this seed of the Devill which is our righteousnesse is in all the children of God even as the seed of God is in us And this righteousnesse of ours