Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	idol_n	knowledge_n	weak_a	1,298	5	9.3976	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64833	Venning's remains, or, Christ's school consisting of four classes of Christians, I. babes, II. little children, III. young men, IV. fathers : with their several characteristical differences and attainments, also the doctrines proper to be taught to each of them : being the substance of many sermons / preached by Ralph Venning and fitted by him for the press before his death.	Venning, Ralph, 1621?-1674.	1675 (1675)	Wing V225; ESTC R27039	205,701	393

not to be so there is an honour due to the weaker vessels and uncomely parts 1 Cor. 12. We should be nurses to these froward Bantlings and crying Babes and as Paul was among the Thessalonians we should be gentle as a nurse that cherisheth her own children nurslings 1 Thes 2.7 4. Give good examples to Babes and abuse not your liberty to their offence I told you that Babes mind example much and if they have bad ones given them especially by good and eminent men they are drawn aside by it as when Peter dissembled the other Jews dissembled also insomuch that Barnabas ●n ●minent person was carried away by that dissimulation Gal. 2.13 ●●d saith the Apostle take heed lest by any means your liberty become a stumbling block to them that are weak for if any weak and ignorant which is a Babe man see thee which hast knowledge to sit at meat in the Idols Temple shall not the conscience of him that is weak be emboldened gr edified he takes thy example for a warrant and thinks he is edified thereby when alas 't is to his loss and detriment 1 Cor. 8.9 13. 5. Acquaint the Babes with your experiences as Paul did 2 Cor. 1.6 10. and with Satans devices as he did 1 Cor. 7.5 2 Cor. 2.11 2 Cor. 11.2 Babes have but little skill to distinguish between good and evil between impressions from the good or evil spirit especially if Satan transform himself into an Angel of Light Israel of old was to tell the story to and write an History of Gods dealing with them and Amaleks against them for after Ages and to instruct the children how God had dealt with the Fathers so do you Let the little Children tell stories of the Fathers love the young men of his power and the Fathers of his wisdom in carrying on the work of Grace how God overthrew Pharaoh led them through the Wilderness sought for and provided for them from heaven till they came to the good Land But 2. 'T is time to speak to the Babes whose case we have in hand and so to conclude There are three things that I would exhort Babes unto I. To be glad that they are Babes II. To be humbled that they are but Babes III. To press after being more than Babes 1. TO be glad that they are Babes new-born and in Christ Jesus Glad alas there 's no comfort for me who am but a Babe no yes but there is that thou art a Babe though but a Babe 't is true it doth not belong to thee as carnal but as a Babe in Christ the least work of God is great consolation to the least of Saints viz. to Babes Consider whether this be nothing 1. That thou hast attained to the first Resurrection viz. from being dead and lost in sin thou art called out of Egypt and art called his Son and as such brought out of Egypt the work is begun thou art new-born and eatest Milk the Foundation is laid and is this nothing who knows to what a great Tree this little Mustard-seed of Grace may grow The Babe that lies in the Cradle may become a Father in Israel and is this nothing He that hath laid the Foundation will lay the top-stone and thou shalt cry out with shouting Grace Grace unto it God is not like the foolish Builder he hath cast up his cost and hath wherewithal to finish what he hath begun he will not be laught at and mocked as one that laid a Foundation began to build but could not finish it though thou be a knotty piece yet he will fit thee for thy place and perfect that which concerns thee for this work is not only that of his hand but of his heart and is this nothing Pray to him and believe as Psal 138.7 8. 2. Thou art not only brought out of Egypt but he hath drawn thee into the Wilderness and though thou be in the Valley of Achor yet even there is a door of hope Thou art bewildered and thy motions are full of windings and turnings now forward and then backward almost to Egypt again that thou seemest to wander rather than to walk or to go a journey true but yet thou art in thy way and God is leading thee to his holy Hill Mount Sion 'T is observable how differently the condition of Israel and so thine is exprest Psal 107.4 with 7. in the 4. Vers 't is said they wandred in the wilderness but in the 7. Vers 't is said he led them forth in the 4. Vers 't is called a solitary way but in the 7. Vers 't is called the right way in the 4. Vers they found no and despaired to find any City to dwell in yet Vers 7. that they might go to a City of habitation So 't is with thee poor soul and notwithstanding thy unbelief and murmurings yet he holds thy Soul in Life and when thou art hungry and thirsty he provides food and drink convenient for thee and thy Cloaths shall nor wear out 3. Thy being a Babe hath more of incouragement than discouragement in it Thy being a Babe in Christ is more to thy safety than thy being as carnal is to thy danger though it must be thy sorrow Babe is the name of a Saint not of a carnal man and it makes more for thee that thou art a Babe than it doth against thee that thou art as carnal Is it nothing to thy Joy that thou art born though thou be not yet cloathed with a robe nor kist with thy Fathers lips 'T was more for the Prodigal that he was alive than against him that he had been dead and came home without raggs even naked and bare 'T was more for the Disciples that the Spirit was willing than against them that the flesh was weak 'T is so with us as to our Babes their being ours doth more indear them to us than their being froward and peevish doth disingage us to them And though the elder Brother chargeth his Father as guilty of an indiscreet and partial fondness to make so much of a Prodigal yet he still owns it as meet that they should rejoyce and be glad 4. Though thou be as carnal yet on conviction of this thy carnality thou art angry with it and thy self and dost repent and abhor thy self as in dust and ashes The Corin●hia●● Babes were no sooner convinced of theirs but they made the Apostle glad by their sorrow seeing their sorrow wrought Repentance never to be repented of because it was to Salvation 2 Cor. 7. Yea thus it was with the Incestuous person himself 2 Cor. 2.4 7. so that the Apostle on the account of this ingenuous Repentance pronounceth them clear and him a person to be comforted Now the same consolation belongs to thee if thou do likewise and I am sure 't is in thy new nature to do it when ever thou art under the conviction of thy sin and I can safely tell thee that sin repented of as theirs was