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	sin_n	smite_v	1,347	5	9.5535	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86501	The nevv world, or, the nevv reformed church. Discovered out of the second epistle of Peter the third chap verse 13. First opened briefly, and some points pourtrayed and propounded before some of the nobilitie and others in the country. Afterwards more fully delineated, and prosecuted before the Honorable House of Parliament; May 30. An. Dom. 1641. And upon the request of some of them, desiring coppies, was limbed up for the presse, according to the maine parts then, and there delivered. / By Nath. Homes Dr. in D.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1641 (1641)	Wing H2570; Thomason E171_4; ESTC R8246	64,684	86

that Church had reformed with lesse cost then greater Thus you see the valour of true hope whereas false hope is a faultering hope To Sathan sinne the world it will succumbere The hope of hippocrites perish wither at every blast If it seeme to have any life for a time or struggle for life it plainely desires to feede on that which Cannot nourish it to live in health It lookes on examples by ends c. Sayth false Hope Doe any of the rulers beleeve in Christ what if they doe not But they doe Nicodemus the Publican Matthew the Centurion What now will the Jewes also believe No. So in our complaints Doe any of the Fathers say some hold with you in your dislikes what if they doe not Saint Paul himselfe will be followed no further then as hee followed Christ Justin Mart. Concil lat Conc. Carth. Concil Mil. Euseb Jren. Tertul. Greg. Naz. Conc. Carth. Con. Aquis Origen Every ono casting in his share of opposition against the corruptions of these times But the fathers are for us as wee have in part shewed and might name many more What now will ye be of our side now No. Why then you do but pose us with questions But intend to oppose our judgements of truth Now is no time nor place to ●tie particulars and those Authors and made treatises store are in print Secondly Distinction The Godly mans hope differs from worldly mens hope in one maine thing above the rest intimated in Text Context and Doctrine Wee must then know what that is And to speake the best or moderately of it Their hope is such as tends to security carnality formality c. More distinctly and particularly The worldly man or man of the world personally for himselfe hopes as the Text Context and Doctrine intimate that he need not bee so terrified from sinne with the consideration of judgement to come or with the word threatning it Deut. 29.19 He hopes as those in Deut. and in the Psalmes Psal 50.21 2 Tim. 3. that God is not so severe against sinne Hee hopes as they in Epistle to Tim. that a forme of godlinesse without the comberance of the power will serve the turne Apoc. 3. vers 1. verse 17. He hopes as Sardis and Laodicea that a name to live and a lukewarme condition in religion is a safe and a rich condition Ecclesiastically concerning the Church his hope is verse 8. as theirs in the Epistle to Collos chap. 2. that the glory of the Churches religion worship consists in subjectionto vaine deceipt tradition of men rudiments of the world shaddowes in a voluntary humility and worship of they see not what in subjection to ordinances tast not touch not handle not in a shew of humilitie wisedome in will-worship and neglect of the body In meat and drinke and holy dayes In doctrines of men In bowings cringings noddings in bare priestly orders in operibus operatis or in whatsoever else humane devised thing mixed with a confused intention of blind devotion Though by this position that human honest intention of it selfe may devise formes of devotion hath brought in all the Iudaisme Turcisme and Papisme that now pester the Christian world This poore hope hopes that it is no superstition to fixe devotion upon the foresaid or the like humble seemingly harmelesse expressions and gestures without a divine warrant Though if any thing that bee superstitio And it hopes that the Pope is not the Antichrist though that Tenet o're throwes the booke of the Revelation He hopes that the same ecclesiasticall offices ceremonies and discipline as are set up by the Pope are no appendix nor tayle of Antichrist And finally hee hopes that this hope is a good hope Though a good hope is only of good things not of evill Spes est tantum de bonis Fides de bonis malis And if it hope for things only good in appeareance that hope is onely good in appeareance Whereas the hope of a Christian that wee may now see its difference is of all good things especially spirituall and mostly those things that are most spirituall The godly man for himselfe hopes to attaine an height and eminency of comfort and conscience as the Apostle intimates in this chapter and text and doctrine And therefore the godly man is afraid of the lowest meanest and smallest sinnes In action his heart smites him for vaineglorious numbring any outward confidences 2 Sam. 24.10 For taking any pride or putting the least confidence in the creature In words he feares a witty kind of jesting Ephes 4.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which Arist in his Eth. commends for a morall virtoe Psal 19. if sinfull tending to the dishonour of God or wronging of his neighbour In his thoughts hee feares any secret evill thoughts yea so much as the filth of them And concupiscence to him though the Papists say t is no sinne is that which makes him cry out of his miserablenesse by reason of the body of sinne Rom. 7. and so of death As for the Church Exod. 10.26 and her reformation For the matter of its reformation his hope is that not an hoofe of it shall be bated to the adversarie By the divided hoofe the Church was distinguished This the Apostle alludeth to Gal. 2.14 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 verse 14 as she that had skill to discerne between law Gospel His hope in that not adust or small stone of the reformation of the Church shall be troden underfoot and lost Psal 102. And for the time he hopes the time is come when Gods peoples hearts are come to a full bent of prayer As it is in that Psalme and other Psalmes verse 13. Psal 10.17 And sutably his desire that the Church should not give way nor himselfe approve of any thing contrary to reformation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not so much as for an houre For he knowes that every dust and every minute of the Churches liberty Gal. 2.5 Col 2.14.15.16 cost a precious drop of Christs blood Things so sadly bought should not be lost for a pipe or song Thirdly Foundation The ground of this hope is the promise A good man is a great promise man all for promises In prayer he lookes to the promise Iacob in his prayer urged the promise Gen. 32.9 In practise he lookes to the promise Shall I go up shall I conquer saith David In all hee lookes for a promise In faith he looks to the promise In hope he looks to the promise Acts 2.41 so here So that the godly man is conversant in the promises converted by the promises Acts. 2. yea versed and turned whethesoever God will have him by the promise as is abundantly shewed in the Hebrewes cha 11. This therefore makes the hope of Gods Israel in this land so quick and lively so cheerie and fixed on God in his way workes and meanes and among the