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	unfeigned_a	1,824	5	10.8138	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33300	Christian good-fellowship, or, Love and good works held forth in a sermon preached at Michael's Cornhill London before the gentlemen natives of Warwickshire at their feast November the 30, 1654 / by Samuell Clarke.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1655 (1655)	Wing C4505; ESTC R26025	19,446	26

differences which are too rife even amongst Gods own people in this world when holy Grynaeus lay upon his death-bead he told a friend that came to visit him that he was going to that place ubi Luthero cum Zuinglio optime convenit where Luther and Zuinglius agreed well though they could never agree upon earth 5. In regard of the eternity of this grace it is that the Apostle 1 Cor. 13. 8. tells us that charity never fails and in this regard prefers it before Faith and Hope verse 13. Now abides Faith Hope and Charity but the greatest of these is Charirity 6. It 's a signe we walke by the light of Gods Word and spirit 1 Ioh. 2. 10. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light and there is no occasion of stumbling in him 7. This Grace is of God and sheweth that we are born of God 1 Ioh. 4. 7. Let us love one another for love is of God and every one that loveth is born of God 8. Without this Grace of love no duty is accepted though never so difficult or specious in the eyes of the World 1 Cor. 13. 3. Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not Charity it profiteth me nothing 9. Love will draw love from others Cos Amoris amor Love is the whetstone or Load stone rather of Love ut ameris Ama If you would be beloved of others you must love others Love is a coin that must be returned in its own kind the excellent properties of it are further set forth by the Apostle Paul 1 Cor. 13. 4. 5. c. Charity suffereth long and is kind c. But we must remember as was said before that love comes from God and therefore must be begged of God 1 Ioh. 4. 7. All these things considered will furnish you with arguments enough wherewith to provoke both your selves and one another to love Especially if on the contrary we do but remember what evills are attributed by the spirit of God to the contrary vice of hatred 1 Ioh. 2. 11. He that hates his brother is in darknesse and walks in darknesse 1. John 3. 15. Who soever hateth his brother is a murderer and we know that no murderer hath eternall life abiding in him 1 John 4. 4. 20. If any man say I love God and hateth his brother he is a liar For he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen And thus I have opened and proved the first part of my Doctrine I am come now to the second That it 's the duty of all Christians to provoke one another to good works Now in the prosecution of this Thesis or Position we shall dispatch three things First to speak something by way of explication Secondly by way of confirmation Thirdly by way of Application First for Explication we shall answer severall Queries As Quest What work may be called good Answ. There are three ingredients required to make up good works 1. They must be good materialiter or in the matter of them They must be such things as are either commanded or at least approved of by God Else he will say unto us Who hath required these things at your hands There are indeed many actions which glister much in the eyes of the World and yet are an abomination in the eyes of God As the Popish Fastings Pilgrimages Bead-prayers giving their Prayers to God by number not by weight of which I may say as the Apostle Col. 2. 23. Which things indeed have a shew of wisdom in Will-worship and humility and neglecting of the body and yet the Lord abhors them 2. They must be good quoad fontem they must proceed from a right principle A good heart a pure conscience and faith unfeigned 1 Tim. 1. 5. Now the end of the Commandement saith the Apostle is Charity out of a pure heart c. Charity we know is a work commended by God and yet it 's not accepted except it come from a good Fountain a good heart and a pure conscience For the same Apostle tells us Tit. 1. 15. Unto the pure all things are pure but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure because their mind and conscience is defiled He tells us also Heb. 11. 6. that without faith it is impossible to please God and therefore all works though materially good if done by unbelievers they are but splendida peccata as the Father said But specious and glittering sins 3. They must be good quoad finem They must tend to a right end viz. the glory of God in our own and the salvation of others Christus opera nostra non tam actibus quam finibus pensat saith Zanchy God doth not so much judhe of and weigh our works by the actions as by the ends The want of a right end made Cain's sacrifice and 〈◊〉 zeal and the Pharisees Fastings and Prayers and Almes abomination to the Lord who searcheth the heart and tryeth the reins and knows all our thoughts a far of Wee must therefore look well to our end in all our works and see that as the Sun puts out the light of the fire so the glory of God puts out all other selfish ends whatsoever Quest But what good works should we provoke one another to upon this occasion Answ. The most seasonable is at this our feast to remember the place of our Nativity the Country where we were born and to doe some good for that I shall humbly propose these good works to your Christian considerations First laying down this Position That the chiefest work of mercy is that which tends to the benefiting and enriching of other mens souls The Gospel indeed hath through Gods mercy been preached and professed in Warwickshire ever since the first reformation in King Edward the sixth his daies of glorious memory and many blessed Martyrs suffered there for the truth under that Marian Persecution which followed As sincere Sanders gracious Glover and many others I could also name unto you many famous lights set up in the Candlestick of Warwickshire in the reign of our three late Soveraignes besides such as are now there living So that that Country hath been a Goshen when many other parts of the Nation have been in a Cymerian and Egyptian darknesse Yea give me leave to tell you that which it may be you have not formerly taken notice of that in Warwickshire about the yeare of our Lord 1519. the little Park by Coventry was perfumed with the odours of six of the Saints bodies burned in it upon one day for their profession and perseverance in the truth Besides diverse others which suffered not long after So that it appears that before the name of Luther was heard of in the Christian world Religion was propagated in our Native Country Yet 1. Are there not some blind and barren places in the same