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
A77004	Occasus occidentalis: or, Job in the VVest. As it was laid forth in two severall sermons, at two publike fasts, for the five associated westerne counties. By Iohn Bond B.L. late lecturer in the City of Exon, now minister at the Savoy, London. A member of the Assembly of Divines.	Bond, John, 1612-1676.	1645 (1645)	Wing B3572; Thomason E25_22; ESTC R4274	79,184	92

them This cruell Decree is most severely executed in the West Secondly Hearing of the word preached As for that onely ordinary soule-saving Ordinance of Preaching and other publike Exercises of the Congregations those in the West are made to be as a bait and a traine to conshiracy and perjury for the common practice of the Enemy in those parts is this Upon the Lords day when there is a full Congregation met together to seeke the publike food of their soules they being stript and plundered of all their outward and bodily comforts then the Civill and Military Magistrates and Commanders doe usually send their severe Warrants and Orders requiring that first the Church-doores bee shut up 4. Horrid Oaths enforced and strictly guarded by armed Souldiers onely the women and children are first let goe then the cruell Officers are sent in to the people with a new Oath which is exactly in all points contrary to our Covenant and to that solemne Protestation which all those poore soules have taken already in that place And here the trembling wretched creatures are put to this miserable dilemma or choyce either to take that perjurious Oath and so to sweare that they will fight against their Religion Parliament Lawes and Liberties to their utmost or else to receive a brace of bullets from that Carbine or Pistoll which is there presented to their brests Brethren what think you of such a choyce as this Doe not those men make the place of Gods publike worship which themselves doe seeme so much to reverence to become such another Shambles as Jehu made in the house of Baal you know the History King Jehu by a stratagem 2 Kin. 10.25 pretending a great sacrifice did draw the Priests of Baal into Baals house and having gotten them together did cause them to be there sacrificed to their god so turning the place of their worship into a slaughter-house Such another butchering place of soules doe these men make of their Churches Or is not this act of theirs like that of a bloody Italian of which I have heard An Italian studying an high degree of revenge against one that had offended him did resolve upon this cruell stratagem himselfe being armed way-laid his unarmed enemy in a solitary place where hee was to passe and rising against him at an advantage doth put him to this choyce Either saith hee doe thou presently curse God and abjure and blaspheme Jesus Christ in these and these words high enough you may be sure or else thou shalt dye immediatly by this sword withall offering the point thereof unto his brest The poore defendant thus helplesse and fearing the face of sudden death doth choose wretched creature the farre worset part namely to blaspheme his God and forsweare his Saviour which hee had no sooner done but the witty bloudy assaylant doth immediatly thrust him through with these words Now will I kill soule and body together Doth not the fore-mentioned act of the cruell Enemy in the West come up full to this barbarisme Is it not a killing of soule and body together when they doe first enforce men for feare of present death to forswear themselves and to abjure their God and Gospel and then by vertue of that perjurious Oath doe immediatly require and carry them away to the warres where they are cut off in the midst of that perjury whilst they are fighting against God and their owne consciences And yet such is the terrour of present imminent death the King of feares that divers godly persons through infirmity have entangled themselves verbally with that bloudy combination but after the taking thereof some of them have been distracted with the terrours of their clamorous consciences others have lost their comfort and activity the very wheeles of their soules and doe lock up themselves in darknesse Brethren there are divers Hospitals in this City for such souldiers as have been wounded and maimed in these warres where there is provision of food physicke and Chirurgeons made for their bodies and doubtlesse that worke is an act of much equity prudence and mercy But alas alas how many Savoys and Bartholomews I mean Hospitals and Spittles shall wee need for wounded consciences and maimed soules in the West Surely I am perswaded that if ever the Lord doth turne our captivity and brings us backe into those parts wee shall meet with spirituall wounds ulcers and broken bones of all sorts and degrees there wee shall have one crying out like hopelesse Spiia I have denyed God before men and now am I sure to be denyed of him before his Angels in heaven the wound of mine Apostacy is incurable Another roaring out because of his perjury and saying Which side soever is in the right I am certainly a forsworne man because I have taken Oaths that were directly contrary and therefore I am marked out like Cain with a trembling conscience I have sold Christ and his Cause like Judas for gaine and safety and this my sin was committed both with knowledge and against it yea I have sinned presumptuously and then the Scripture is cleare in my sentence For if wee sinne wilfully Heb. 10.26 27. after that wee have received the knowledge of the truth there remaineth no more sacrifice for sinne but a certaine fearfull looking for of judgement and fiery indignation which shall devoure the adversaries And perhaps a third man that was once a Professor Acts and Monuments but last an eminent Actor for the Enemy will like that Judge Hales if I mistake not lay violent hands upon his owne body and become Executioner to himselfe by drowning burning or hanging Yea some cryes and carriages of this kind have been uttered and acted in those parts already And they are but according to the desires of some of the Enemies who are said to have wished Oh that they could but kill the soule of a Round-head This was the last and highest of Jobs three kinds of Affliction namely the plundering of him in Spirituals And thus have I done with my Parallels And now if all these considerations both of Westerne sins and sufferings doe not lie heavie enough upon our hearts to breake them before the Lord this day then I have yet one talent of Lead more which I would cast in and it may also be digged out of my Text Some especiall unhappinesses of the West as in even out of this last clause and close thereof For the hand of God hath touched me That is the Lords speciall peculiar immediate afflicting hand was upon him and against him my meaning is Brethren to commend unto you with reference to those words this consideration namely that the especiall immediate and me thinkes extraordinary hand of God is against the poor West above other parts and quarters of the kingdome I know that every Country and person is apt by nature to thinke ' its owne burthen to be the heaviest but therefore I shall spread my reasons and arguments before you