Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	holy_a	sin_n	sin_v	2,051	5	9.4946	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38614	Shibboleth, or, Observations of severall errors in the last translations of the English & French Bibles together with many other received opinions in the Protestant churches, which being weighed in the ballance are found too light / written by John Despagne ... ; and translated into English by Robert Codrington ...; Shibboleth. English	Espagne, Jean d', 1591-1659.; Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.	1656 (1656)	Wing E3271; ESTC R20162	51,713	172

that it doth inable him to say Thou art my Father But David did never directly call him so And those words which express this preheminence do properly concern Jesus Christ in the same manner as do those in the second Psalm Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee VVherefore then do we attribute to Elihu the language vvhich none ever spake but the Son of God onely or what need vve to seek a Parallel which is to be found in no other place of the Scripture It is not necessary here to make mention of the French rythm in the 27 Psalm which saith My GOD my Father teach me thy way c. For this word Father is not in the Originall Neither will I in this place examin that in the French Catechism Sect. 38. which saith that every believer can call GOD his Father in particular It is necessary as much as can be we should keep unto the stile of the Holy Ghost Otherwise the consequences are greater then they appear to be Of a superfluous word yea a dangerous one in many places of the English Bible expressing the form of the Oaths recited in the sacred History THe Hebrews did ordinarily swear in these terms The Eternall is living such a thing is c. The Examples thereof are frequent in the old Testament The sense is The Eternal who is living is witness of that which I speak And this Epithete which they gave to God was to distinguish him from false Gods whom the Scripture calleth dead Psal. 126. 28. Now in all those places which are many in number in which these words are contained The Eternall or the Lord is living The English Translation doth prevent this oath with a word in the beginning of it saying AS the Lord is living c. The Bible of Tremelius hath also the same addition to render the Hebrew Phrase more intelligible which otherwise seemeth not to be compleat But this addition is not necessary and if it were yet a better may be found The popular ignorance or liberty when it will affirm the truth of any thing will be so hardy as to say That it is as true as there is a God Or As true as God is living A word full of exccess For there is nothing that can be so true as that GOD is All other truths are but the shadow of it It will be replyed that the difference is great between these two expressions As true as GOD is living And As GOD is living For this last doth signify nothing but a resemblance and a conformity to the truth and not an equality But First This comparison is not in the Originall and it is not necessary to say that these words God is living do signify that any thing is as true as GOD is living The sense is more full That GOD who is living doth know that such a thing is true Secondly Although in the Original these words GOD is living are not joyned with any particle to the words following and therefore did render the sense more obscure yet I had rather in this manner to content my self with them then introduce into the text an addition vvhich is disputable And so the French Translation at least that vvhich is most exact in such places doth speak word for word according to the Hebrew The vulgar opinion touching the sin against the Holy Ghost The Contents of the twelfth Chapter of St. Mathew in the French Bible IT is a common saying that the sin against the Holy Ghost is unpardonable So speak the Divines in their Sermons and their Books But this assertion expressed in such words is either defective or erroneous Defective If we presuppose that there is but one kind of sin against the Holy Ghost Erroneus if we understand that all sorts of sins against the Holy Ghost are unpardonable Both are but one Now this doth proceed from a gross misadvertisement which doth yet continue For if precisely we regard the terms of the Gospel in which our Saviour speaketh of the sin which is unpardonable we shall never find that he pronounced this vvord That a sin against the Holy Ghost shall be never pardoned But he hath said that Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall be never pardoned Or that he vvho shall speak against the Holy Ghost shall have no remission The crime then which he hath declared shall never be forgiven is not universally every sin against the Holy Ghost but onely Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost Certainly we sin divers vvays against the holy Ghost vvhether it be in resisting or whether it be in grieving the Spirit or by what kind of offence so ever it be Is there any one of us who can boast to have never committed any thing against the illumination which the Spirit of GOD hath infused into his conscience Have we never acted against the motions of the Spirit To lust against the Spirit is that also to sin unpardonably against the Spirit But where is that Christian in whom the flesh doth not lust against the Spirit Woe be unto us All if every sin committed against the Holy Ghost were excluded from pardon Is it not a sin against the Holy Spirit to make sad and to grieve the Holy Spirit Now the Israelites in the Desart did grieve him oftentimes Esay 63. 10. Shall we dare affirm that all those souls who sinned thus against the Holy Ghost are for ever shut out from obtaining mercy both in this world and the world to come To prove the contrary we shal find in the same place that the compassions of GOD were even then upon them seeing that his Spirit which they had so much provoked was still their Conductor There are then many kinds of sin against the Holy Ghost and amongst others one which shall not be pardoned that is Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost But it is either forgetfulness or too confused a speech to say without distinction or exception that the sin against the Holy Ghost shall never be forgiven The French Bible in the Argument on the twelfth of Saint Mathew saith that the Blasphemy of those who speak evill of the miracles of the Son of GOD is a sin against the Holy Ghost But these terms are ambiguous and do not express the sense of the text For Christ doth not say generally or indefinitly that the sin against the Holy Ghost shall never be remitted but it specifies and marks out that sort of sin which shall never be forgiven not any sin against the Holy Ghost but onely the sin of Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost Of the Name which many give to the mountain on which Jesus Christ was transfigured IT is said that this wonder vvas wrought on Mount Thabor And this saying is as antient as it is common The opinion indeed is not without great appearance of truth For the situation of the Mount Thabor the form the beauty and the height thereof do all seem to speak that it was the place where this