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	sin_n	transgression_n	2,525	5	10.8527	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96329	The danger of greatnesse: or Uzziah his exaltation and destruction: set forth in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, and the reverend Assembly of Divines, in the church of Martins in the Fields, the 14th day of January, 1645. being a speciall day of humiliation set apart to seek God, for his direction in the setling of the great worke of church-government. / By Jeremiah Whitaker, a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Whittaker, Jeremiah, 1599-1654.	1646 (1646)	Wing W1711; Thomason E316_1; ESTC R200519	42,588	49

restored to his dying day the text sayes expresly he was a leper till the day of his death Some inquire why did not the Prophets pray for his recovery for in his time lived Isay Hosea Amos c. why did not they lift up their supplication unto the Lord for the healing of so sad a breach Abulens in H. L. And it is answered though the Prophets were desirous to pray yet it is possible they were forbid that there was a prohibition unto them like unto that which was not long after unto Ieremiah Pray not thou for this people Ier. 7.16 neither lift up thy cry for them or They might pray and yet God would not grant for though the Lord be a God ever hearing the prayers of his servants yet his hearing of requests is not alwaies by granting the things requested God may deny in mercy and grant in fury God can give meats to sinners for their lusts but when the meat is in their mouths the wrath of God comes upon them and flayes the fattest of them and God may deny in mercy Moses prayes to enter into Canaan and is denied yet enters into the rest whereof Canaan was but a type Paul prayes thrice that the messenger of Satan the thorn in the flesh might be removed God answers my strength is sufficient for thee and my power is made perfect in weaknesse Sixthly Some thinke that this very blow broke his heart and that he never lifted up his head after this casting down Iosephus sayes Ioseph he died 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he that could not enjoy the good of comfort without swelling was not notable to endure the evil of discomfort without fainting What is all this to us Quest. 3 What if Vzziah transgressed very much against the Lord and what if the Lord was sore displeased with him Do you not thinke in your conscience that there is a great difference bewixt the state of the Church then under Moses and the state of the Church now in times of the Gospel Were there not 1. many ordinances then and 2. transgressions of those ordinances 3. punishments of God upon those transgressions which are all now done away in Christ Those divers worships and carnall ordinances being imposed on the Jew till the time of Refirmation and that bringing in of a better hope What is this to us For answer hereunto Sol. 1. May not this example cry to you as the Church doth in the day of her calamity Lament 1.12 Is it nothing to you all ye that passe by behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow Why is this precedent left upon record All these things happened to them for ensamples 1 Cor. 10.11 and they are writ for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come 2. Consider he was a man a professour an eminent Governour honoured of the Lord admired of the people yet he transgressed very much Chrysostome admites that a man so pious a Prince so prudent should so sadly miscarry that he who had attained so many victories caused all his enemies to flee or fall before him now himself in the height of his eminency should fall and not be able to recover 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Quia potiur nihil hic esse debet dignum haefitatione 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Homo res ad peccandum lubrica Chrysostome 1 Cor. 10.13 I wonder and stand amazed at it But he answers himself and that answer may be something to us Surely saith he upon second thoughts there is no such cause or wonder Vzziah was wise and godly yet he was a man And what is man but a poor creature dark and slippery a thing prone to transgresse and every moment ready to run upon his own ruin If he because clothed with humane nature was subject to infirmities consider your selves that ye also are in the same body not freed from this or any temptation that is common to men and what man ever left to himself was able to keep himself from any transgression Wherefore saith the Spirit let him that thinketh he standeth take heed left he fall We easily confesse we may transgresse Quest for what man is he that sins not But yet if all these ordinances which then obliged the conscience be not done away and long since ceased and if there be no such rule under the Gospel then we can never sin this sin of Vzziah nor consequently need we be afraid of his judgement for surely where there is no law there can be no transgression Is there any rule now in times of the Gospel hath Christ left any rule in the word touching Government Is there any platform yure divino if there be we would gladly see it and if there be not then is it not left unto Christian prudence They that say that every particular herein is so cleerly and so punctually determined Answ that nothing is left to Christian prudence following the generall rules which Christ hath left his Church They that hold this assertion had need to have cleerer grounds and more cogent arguments then yet have appeared to the best observation of many who have earnestly desired to see light herein and they that hold that nothing at all is determined in times of the Gospel how things should be ordered in the house of God but that all things are left to humane prudence seem to run upon an ●●●our equally as groundlesse and more dangerous then the former In this great question some things seem more clear others more disputable the things that are cleer I mean to sober spirits for to men that are schepticks and resolv'd to employ the eminency of their gifts not in being humble beleevers but rather to be among the high disputers of this world as the Apostle saith to the impure there is nothing pure but mindes and consciences are defiled so experience findes it true that nothing is so cleer but a wanton wit and an unhumble heart will count it darke or call it into question It times of the Gospel Position 1. Jesus Christ hath appointed some and not all to be Ministers dispensers of his ordinances stewards of the mysteries of Iesus Christ 1 Cor. 12.28 For besides that common rule grounded on experience that which is every mans worke usually proves no mans Ephes 4.8 11. the word of God is expresse God hath set some not all in the Church to be teachers Christ when he ascended up on high gave peculiar gifts unto men and he gave some not all to be Pastours and teachers for the perfecting of the Saints for the worke of the ministry for the edifying of that body of Christ and though these gifts and this calling be peculiar to some and not all yet the benefit is to redound to all v. 13. till we all come in that unity of faith and of that knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man Doth not that Scripture