Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	sin_n	soul_n	wound_v	2,163	5	9.3309	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12570	A looking glasse for maried folkes Wherein they may plainly see their deformities; and also how to behaue themselues one to another, and both of them towards God. Set forth dialogue-wise for the more tastable and plainnesse sake. By R. S.	Snawsel, Robert.	1610 (1610)	STC 22886; ESTC S106906	42,687	118

so I might become one with him and an heire of his kingdome Abig. With all my heart The first step is repentance and faith in Christ Iesus Eul. What is repentance Abig. The Diuines doe define it in two words mortification and viuification that is a dying to sin and liuing to righteousnesse Eul. And by what meanes must this be wrought in vs. Abig. By the powerfull preaching of the word of God which breaketh and softeneth the hard stony heart humbleth the soule and woundeth the conscience for sinne which it hath committed against the God of heauen and causeth it vnfeignedly to desire peace and reconciliation with him in his Sonne Christ with a detestation of all the sins which he hath committed and a resolution to leade the rest of his life holy and vnblameably as in the sight of God Eul. What is Faith It is the worke of the Spirit of God in vs which doth assure vs of the free pardon of our sins and of the loue and fauour of God in Christ Iesus with all the benefites that come with him as it is written It is the Spirit of God that beareth witnesse vnto our spirits that we are the sonnes of God and so it is that spirit which causeth vs to apprehend and apply the mercies of God in Christ and our selues to the obedience of his word Eul. I pray God that we may so do Abig. If you haue an vnfeigned desire as you seemed to me to haue God hath promised to giue you power if you will giue your endeuour therewithall and so I commit you to his grace Xant Yea but Gossip I pray you tell me who gaue you this new gowne Eul. Your minde is more set vpon my gowne then vpon those heauenly matters which Abigail spoke of Marg. I will lay twenty shillings that Abigail hath almost made her a Puritane Eul. You thinke you may now talke your pleasure when shée was here you had not a word she tooke you downe I trow Xant I hope if you haue a new gowne we may without offence speake of it Eul. Shal I tel you how it is with me Marg. Yea. Eul. Truly Abigails words were so gracious that I could willingly haue heard her though she should haue sate with vs all this day her words are so sauoury to my soule that me thinkes we should not put them out of our remembrance with these outward things Xant Well Margery if she will not tel me who gaue her her new gown do you tel me what cost your neckerchiefe a yard Eul. I thinke your minde runs thus vpon these outward things when you are at praier and at Sermons Xant It is good to speake the truth it doth so indeed Eul. That ought not to be by no meanes for thereby you much dishonor God and hinder your selfe that the word cannot profite you Xant Yea but will you tell me who gaue you your gowne Eul. Why who I pray you should giue honest wiues any such things but their husbands Xant And I pray you Margery who gaue you yours Marg. My husband also Xant O happy women that happen on such husbands For my part I would I had bene married to a toad-stoole when I maried with my Ben-ezer Eu. O fie woman what a wish is that if Abigail had bene here you would haue vext her to the heart and I tell you truly that you grieue me not a little For I remember well what she said and I hope shall do whiles I liue namely that we which professe our selues to be Christians should adorne the Gospell of Christ by our holy conuersation And againe she said that the Apostle exhorts that our words should be gracious and poudred that they might minister grace to the hearers Xant Yea you are happy you haue no cause to speake or complaine that haue all things you stand in need of Eu. I thanke God we two do agrée and I am sorry that you two cannot but that euery foote you are falling out Xant I thinke I shall neuer fall in with such a fellow you see how raggedly he lets me go I would I were dead if I be not ashamed many times to go out a doore when I see how finely other women are dressed that are married to farre poorer husbands then mine is Eu. Well Xantip well I pray thée be contented and if thou louest me nay if thou louest God or thy selfe marke well what our good neighbour Abigail hath said out of the Apostle Paul that the woman ought to be in subiection to her husband And againe the ornamēt of a woman lies not in gay apparell or in any setting out of herselfe to sight as S. Peter teacheth for I remember that I heard awhile ago at a Sermon that the ornament of a woman consisted in chaste and honest conditions and that the ornament of the minds or soules of godly women was loue méeknesse faith and patience c. And further that it is the guise of drabs harlots to prancke and pricke vp themselues to inueigle mens affections Now then as for vs that would be counted honest religious matrons we are neat inough if we be cleanly and can please our husbands Xant Yea but this good man of mine is such a niggard that he will not allow me wherwithall I may go handsome but prodigally he spends my portiō which though I say it was no little one Marg. If I were as thou art I would haue better things or else the house should be too hot for him My husband would not willingly let me haue such and such a thing but I trow hee shall neuer goe to praier quietly nor haue a cheerefull looke till I haue it Xant Yea but my husband doth not only keepe me without such trim attire as you haue but he will not let me haue that which is necessary but spend that we haue in tipling and swilling at dice and cards and amongst whores and harlots Eu. Good words good words I think you surmise and say more then is true Xant It is too true which I say and moreouer when hee comes home well whitled in drinke at mid-night after he hath bene a long while waited for hee snorts like a swine when he is laied and sir reuerence casts vp his drunken gorge in the bed to say no more Eu. O Xantip you make my heart ake to heare you Therefore marke this that when you doe thus disgrace your husband you shame you selfe Xant I would I were dead if I had not rather sleepe with a sow then lye by his side Marg But do you rattle him vp at his comming home Xant Yes I handle him as hee deserues I make him know that I haue a tongue in my head Marg. And what saith he againe Xant At the first he is as loud as I thinking to beare mee downe with great words Marg. But do you neuer fall from scolding to scuffling Xant Once wee were fallen out so farre that a little more would haue

are but simple women little able to doe either you or her that good which you might haue reaped by the word of God preached but yet if it please you to giue vs leaue wee will shew our mindes what a comfortable thing it is for man and wife to liue together in loue and charity Ezer Indeed I thinke no two women in the towne no nor in the whole country can shew it better then you because you know what it is by experience Abig. Wee thanke God wee both haue experience of it to our comforts and so would we that you had with the losse of the best horse or cow that either of vs haue Ezer I thanke you both and I had rather then the best gelding in my stable with twenty pound vpon his backe Abig. Seeing then that peace betweene man and wife is so comfortable you would so gladly enioy it with so great losse will you bee content to hearken and bee thankefull to God if that wee shew you a direct way how you and your wife might agree together as long as you shall liue Ezer Be contented say you yea be glad of the time that euer you set footing ouer my threshold I haue had so much vnquietnesse alreadie that me thinkes a little peace would be as a little paradice to my soule but yet if my wife did know that I desired and labored for peace shée would be the further off it except God wrought aboue ordinary in her Abig. We are but women therefore something bashfull as it beseemes vs to speake vnto you beeing a man of these matters yet vnder leaue and correction we will do our good wil to declare those things which wee haue learned and partly know by experience Ezer You are both ancient and I am but young and my wife also and therefore I would you could direct and tell vs a way how to liue quietly Abig. First of all before you can loue one another as you ought you must labour for the loue of God which must bee shed abroad in your heartes the which loue will cause you to loue one another Ezer I hope wee haue the loue of God already otherwise I am of the minde that hee would either punish vs or else take his blessings from vs. Abig. Doe you not thinke this a great punishment that you cannot agree Truly I may safely say that it is a punishment both to your bodies and soules Ezer I confesse indeed that it is a punishment but yet I hope that God loueth many men women that yet fall out betwixt themselues Abig. Surely if there bee continuall strife it is an euident signe that the Lord loueth not the one of them if not both Ezer But how should wee know whom it is that the Lord doth not loue Abig. They which are the cause of the continuing and breeding of the broiles Ezer That is my Xantip Abig. But who will you be iudged by Ezer By God and the country Abig. Well God iudgeth the heart for your selfe we haue heard that you haue a good report among your neighbours therefore I haue the better hope of you and therefore I pray you let me aske you one question Ezer Aske me two if you will I will tell you if I can I like your talke so well Abig. What thinke you is the loue of God to his children Ezer That is too hard a question for me to answer I doe not professe my selfe a Diuine Abig. But euery Christian ought to be a Diuine especially in such principles as the loue of God is without which none possible can be saued in this life nor in the life to come Ezer I do beleeue verily that whomsoeuer the Lord loues not them hee hates and whomsoeuer he hates vpon them abides his wrath and heauy displeasure till hee bestow vpon them his loue and therefore I pray you if you can shew me what the loue of God is and I will gladly heare you Abig. The singular loue of God vnto his elect is that whereby he loueth them in himselfe and hath adopted them in his sonne Christ before the foundations of the world and hereto pertaines predestination vocation the gift of faith and of the spirit iustification regeneration and eternall saluation with whatsoeuer is good comfortable and profitable for them in this life And here by your patience it shall not bee amisse to shew likewise the loue of Christ vnto his Church because we are to fetch our light from his candle Ezer I pray you do for I haue both good leasure and pleasure to heare you Abig. Our Lord Iesus Christ being in the throne of glory yea being the Lord of glory disrobed himselfe and came downe from heauen and of God became man for our sakes taking our nature vpon him endured much misery for the space of 30 yeares vpward was as an exile amongst his cruell enemies which reproched buffeted blasphemed persecuted him vnto death besides that hee suffered the wrathfull displeasure of his Father in his soule and the grieuous torments of hell that were due vnto vs that he might free vs therefrom as it is written The chastisemēt of our peace was laid vpon him by his stripes are we healed Esay 53. Hee was made a curse for the sinne of man that so man might in him bee blessed Therefore neighbour how ought these things to worke vpon our consciences and to force euery one of vs particularly to say O miserable wretch that I am that for my sinne my Sauiour should suffer such horrible punishment ô sweet Sauiour how am I bound to praise and thanke thee Who am I that thou shouldest thinke much lesse looke on me or doe any thing for me seeing that I haue so many waies offended thee But this is thy mercy yea thine incomprehensible and vnspeakeable loue that thou shouldest not onely free me from death and damnation but bring me to life and saluation euen to a better estate then Adam was in before his fall O the admirable mercy of God and the incomprehensible loue of Christ how am I bound vnto thee What thankes and praise is due vnto thy maiesty for these vnspeakeable blessings for that thou hast not onely freed me from eternal misery but hast brought me vnto euerlasting happines and made me one with thee as thou art one with thy Father that I might bee glorified in thee as thou art in him to this end thou hast made me bone of thy bone and flesh of thy flesh so that thou art become wholly mine with all things that belong to thee Eul. O good neighbour consider of this vnspeakeable loue of God and his Son Christ towards his whole Church in generall and to euery one of his children in particular how that the Lord of his free grace hath wrought in vs repentance and faith and hath shed his loue abroad in our hearts and assured vs of the frée pardon of all our sinnes and of his euerlasting loue