Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	law_n	obedience_n	obligation_n	1,036	5	9.4199	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60613	Two sermons preached at the Cathedral Church of Norwich the one upon the 3d of May being Wednesday in Rogation week, the other upon the 29th day of May being the solemnization of His Majesties birth and restauration / by William Smith, D.D., Preb.	Smith, William, b. 1615 or 16.	1677 (1677)	Wing S4284; ESTC R23652	19,007	40

performed offices of prayers for the good of Mankind as necessary it is now certainly the most proper time the sad face and deplorable state of the Christian World every where do now require it now implore it And first the deeply afflictied Asiatic and Grecian Churches the first Plantations of Christ and his Apostles that have so long groaned under the heavy oppressions of him that bids defiance to the Christian name lays claim to the Charity of your Prayers But those Barbarians late approaches and successes must alarm your pity if you can but consider the Hungarian and Polonian calamities But if these distant accents of sorrow cannot reach your hearts yet let the near and loud Cry of those neighbouring Countries that are harassed and undone by the conflicting Legions of so many Princes now engaged in War awaken you to your most compassionate Prayers Let us have a care that those poor ruined Countries may not take up Jerusalems Lamentation against us O all ye that not only pass but live by us have ye no regard Lam. 1. O that God should lay it to your charge as he did once to his people by his Prophet Amos Chap. 6. That we lye upon the beds of Ivory and stretch our selves upon our Couches c. that we are drinking wine in bowls immerst in all sensual pleasures and are not grieved for the afflictions of Joseph nor charitably concerned for their calamities O to your prayers and let your earnest supplications put a stop to the flames of Gods raging displeasure against them lest for our ingratitude and uncompassion God should change the sad Scene and afterwards make them Spectators of our ruines that are such uncharitable beholders of their miseries But if the distant Alarms of Foreign Calamities cannot awaken us from our lethargic unconcernedness yet sure there is something at home that may more nearly affect us and that may implore the charity of our daily Devotions And if there were nothing but the common miseries of Mankind among us such as usually and universally follow Nations in their best peace and prosperity yet no pious and considerate mind could want a sufficient subject matter for such offices of his Charity Let us but consider how many poor Prisoners are now sorrowing in their strait confinements how many of our brethren are roaring in torments languishing in diseases pinched with penury strugling with difficulties to live and in a thousand cases of distress are crying for help in the bitterness of their Souls And can we think there 's never a tear never a petition due Do these need no share in a time of Prayer no concern in the offices of our daily Devotions But besides this cannot a wise and pious heart as things are at present find any thing else that begs the charity of his Prayers Is there no case wherein we stand in need of the counsel and the aid the care and protection of a merciful God For though God hath blessed us above any people of the World under the happy Government of a gracious Prince who hath wisely provided for our peace and plenty when all the World besides are tossed up and down in miserable circumstances yet are there no just fears no real dangers set before us for which it is needful to implore the mercy of a good God to prevent the approaches of many likely ensuing troubles Yes certainly no Nation in prosperous circumstances could ever offer a prospect of more to a considering mind Who can but suggest to himself thoughts of danger to the State when he shall behold so considerable a part of the people to be so malicious to their Rulers of every kind so seditiously disposed against all just Rules of Government so wretchedly intractable to all Laws for subjection and obedience so unfaithful to all the Sacred obligations of Oaths and tyes of Conscience and moreover so universally immoral and vicious that we look like a people preparing our selves for our own ruine if God prevent it not The Charity of your Prayers is here seasonable if you have any design of doing good to your selves and Country As to the Church the poor Church of England the Mirror and Miracle of the Christian World a Church that never refused the exactest tryal from the Scriptures right Reason and the best Rules of Catholicism from the purest Antiquity A Church that never had an enemy but the man was distinguishable by some remarks of ignorance ill humor or of driving on some base design A Church that hath always stood an unshaken Bulwark against the strongest invasions of her enemies of every side she now needs your Prayers and the especial protection of a merciful God Her misery is that she hath a long time layn between two Mill-stones but they are now grinding her to powder as the great Archbishop and Martyr forewarn'd his late Majesty of blessed Memory She hath been hitherto hurrican'd with violent tempests on every side but now she is whirlwinded with their combin'd blasts and must expect all the evils that enmity and treachery faction and prophaneness can bring upon her Where 's your Prayers your addresses for help Are you not rather promoting your animosities quarrelling with circumstances picquering the Government making stories of the infirmities of your Superiours pursuing your base lusts and interests when you should be on your knees begging and pleading and crying for mercy Can any think that we are in Jehosaphats case that we know not what to do and shall not our eyes be upon our God who is sufficient to help us if we seek him Are we with the Apostles in a sinking ship and shall we not with them lift up our voices and say Lord save us or we perish Which if we shall daily and heartily do in our never-ceasing offices of Prayer to our merciful God and shall withal repent and amend our evil lives I doubt not but that yet God will recover us from our dangers and restore us to our safety Or to use the words of the Prophet Hos 6. with which I shall conclude Though he hath hitherto torn us he will yet heal us though he hath hitherto smitten us he will yet bind us up Which God grant for Jesus sake Psal 2. 6. Yet have I set my King upon my holy Hill of Sion WE appear this day before the most high and holy God to express our thankfulness to him as for the Birth so for the Restauration of our gracious King And to recount with all joy and gratitude the concurrence of all those mercies we then received and now enjoy by the incomparable blessing of that happy day in both respects As we celebrate it as the day of his Birth we may remember that it had a remark upon it of an Hactenus Anglorum nulli as it was the Motto of the Medals dispersed upon that day by his Royal Father that is No English Prince was ever so born before with so undoubted a Title to the three united