Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	knowledge_n	sin_n	sin_v	2,885	5	9.7377	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64668	VVits fancies, or, Choice observations and essayes collected out of divine, political, philosophical, military and historical authors / by John Ufflet ...	Ufflet, John, b. 1603.	1659 (1659)	Wing U20; ESTC R8998	43,009	138

but one wrench higher and they cannot be silent the just avenger of sin will not loose the glory of his executions but will have men know from whom they smart Men had rather die then endure torture therefore extorted confession cannot be good It is both lawfull and fit in things not prohibited to conform our selves to the manners and rights of those with whom we live The same day fotty years after England was conquered by William the father was Normandi conquered by William Rufus the Son it being the 27th of September 1106. A Conquest draweth to it the alteration of these three things viz. Apparell Law and Language Conquest is confirmed by continuing possession The price and honour of a Conquest is rated by the difficulty A Prince that hath conquered and joyned a strange Country to his domions ought to be circumspect what Governors he placeth there Conduction is that which is sooner overcome and altered by that which it nourisheth and Crudity is that which is strong and hard and will not suffer it self to be altered A short conclusion of long premisses best befits the memory Henry the eight in the 38th year of his Raign by his Letter commanded the Lord Gray not to demolish Cattillions Fort but in secret gives him a special command to ruine it Contraries are known by one method and the privative is known only by seperation of the knowledge of the positive Contraries are two opposites of one kind as black and white both colours moist and dry both qualities but substances have no contraries in themselves There be two enemies of peace first conscience of evil done secondly sence of fear of evil suffered the first we call sin the latter crosses A wide conscience will swallow any sin those that have once thralled themselves to a known evil will make no difference of sins but by their own loss or advantage wickedness once entertained can put on any shape trust him in nothing that makes no conscience of every thing Many times the conscience runs a way smoothlywith an unwarrantable action rests it self upon those grounds which afterward it sees cause to condemn it is a sure way therefore to inform our selves throughly ere we settle our choice that we be not driven to reverse our acts with late shame and unprofitable repentance Such as make conscience of sinning are carefull not to be thought to sin A good conscience is no less afraid of a scandall then of a sin whereas those that are resolved not to make any scruple of sin despise others constructions not caring whom they offend so they may please themselves Those which have a cleer conscience from any sin prosecute it with rigour whereas the guilty are ever partiall their conscience holds their hands and tells them that they be at themselves while they punish others The conscience may well rest when it tells us we have neglected no means for redressing our afflictions for then it may resolve to look either for amendment or patience A good conscience will make a man undauntedly confident and dare put him upon any tryall when his own heart strikes him not it bids him challenge all the world and take up all comers Contrarily he that hath a false and soul conscience lyes at every mans mercy lives slavishly and is fain to daub up a rotten peice with the basest conditions Conscience is the conserver of religion it is the light of knowledge that God hath planted in man which is ever watching over all his actions as it beareth him a joyfull testimony when he doth right so it curbeth him with a feeling that he hath done wrong when ever he commiteth any sin Conscience not grounded upon any sure knowledge is either an ignorant fantasie or an arrogant vanity The conscience is a conservation of the knowledg of the Law of God and Nature to know good and evil The conscience is that which approves good or evil justifying or condemning our actions The greatest bliss on earth is a pure conscience Nil conscire sibi nulla palescere culpa There is no sin but vexeth him in whom it is the first revenge is that no man is quit from his own guilty conscience There is least danger and most safety when mens consciences do make conclusions for and against themselves No man can wash his hands of that sin to which his will hath consented bodily violence may be in-offensive in the patient voluntary inclination through fear to evil can never be excusable Sin is the off-spring of the will not of the body where consent is not there is no sin A constitution is a gathering and uniting of the people together both in one Common-Weale and Church into a civill or divine Politie the forme of which politie is Order In Anno 682 Agathus commanded that the constitutions of the chief Bishop should be holden for Apostollicall The church of St. Saviour in the raigne of Crathlint founded in the Isle of Man was the first Bishops-See that was erected in Scotland three-upon is esteemed the mother-church churces are not now constituted but repaired If the church cast not out the knownunworthy the sin is hirs but if a man will come unworthily the sin is his No Element but through its mixture hath departed from its first simplicity so there is no church but hath some error or sin in it The naturall sicknesses that have ever troubled and been the decay of all churches since the beginning of the World changing the Candlestick from one to another have been pride ambition and avarice We must be directed by the Church but then the Church must be directed by the right rule the Scripture But if any Church as Rome shall tell the rest any thing that will notly even to that rule we may lawfully dissent The fittest place for prayer is the church and among the congregation especially if the petition be for publike graces and benefits and not in places of seperation or faction in private conventicles The church keeps a feast on no Saints birth day except the birth day of Saint John the Baptist The church is but one body yet the several members of it rest in divers places and are dispersed into several congregations which of themselves are called churches though they be altogether indeed but one church as Saint John in the Revelation writes to the seaen churches yet they were all but one church in seven parts Lingering is a kind of constancy suddenness argues fear Consultation is concerning things that vary and alter and medleth not with those things that be firm and stable The Bread and Wine by consecration cease to be common Bread and Wine being dedicated to a sacred use and so the Bread and Wine are made holy ceasing to be common such a change as this understood the fathers to be made in the Bread and Wine but not as touching the substance and being but as touching the qualities this change the reformed allow and by such a