Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	world_n	worldly_a	worm_n	18	3	8.1222	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16269	Bel-vedére, or, The Garden of the muses	Bodenham, John, fl. 1600.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.	1600 (1600)	STC 3189.5; ESTC S102718	102,703	266

Conscience once drownd in wealth and worldly pompe Esteemes all wisdome as meere foolishnes A guiltie conscience is a gnawing worme Conscience t●kes vengeance on her owne transgressions Nothing but true repent cleares conscience The riches we may carrie to our graue Is a good conscience blessed they that haue Conscience once faultie still abides in feare Innocence is the ioy of conscience A conscience standing free from all detect Feares no accuse or doth excuse respect Lookes confident and sober shew cleane soules Conscience for heauen contemns all worldly things To frame excuse before thou be accusde Shewes that thou hast not conscience truly vsde Conscience doth couet nothing but her owne Conscience craues nothing but by lawfull meanes Conscience wi●l willingly offend no man Conscience once loden with the weight of sinne Is Iudge and Iuror to it selfe therein Conscience doth bind vs to respect our kinne Conscience despiseth bribes in any case Conscience commaunds vs to relieue the poore A conscience cleare is like a well fenc't tower Not to be shaken by rough Canon shot Conscience to princes alwaies giues their due Conscience submits when Iustice doth commaund Similies on the same subiect AS persecution is the bodies death So foule despaire quite kills the conscience As the bright Sunne doth lighten all the world So a cleare conscience shineth in the soule As beautie is a thing glads mortall sight So vnstain'd conscience doth high heauen delight As wine cheeres vp the heart when it is sad So peace of conscience makes it much more glad As brazen walls defend a cittie best So conscience taintlesse is at peace and rest As gold is best when through the fire 't is tride So conscience is by troubles purifide Examples likewise on the same O Restes matricide was iustly plagu'd With sting of conscience by his mothers ghost And Nero whose foule fact did equall his Was whipt in conscience with her walking shape Caesar Caligula could neuer rest But conscience torment did him still molest Tullie affirmes a conscience well emploi'd Is chiefest comfort in aduersitie Plato saith Sweetly sle●peth innocence In the safe chamber of good conscience Lactantius writes that no sinne can preuaile Where quiet conscience sits and guides the saile Conscience must leaue a little while to grieue To let in horror comming to reprooue Of Religion Religion is the ground of euery grace And teacheth man saluation to embrace WHere God is not religion cannot be Sundrie religions make no religion Where saints are clarks there alwaies God is iudge Religions touchstone best doth trie the truth Religion is the soule of innocence Working in each vnspotted conscience After religion painted zeale doth runne Blessings come seldome but by earnest prayer Ignorance is religions enemie The Scriptures are sufficient to resolue All doubts that in religion can arise The word 's a med'cine to a troubled mind Religion is the perfect bond of loue No poyson worse than Scripture falsly taught Religion is in truth not fallacies No surer signe of kingdomes ouerthrow Than where religion liueth in contempt Change of religion is most daungerous Faith and not reason teacheth true religion Man was created for religions vse There is no error halfe so daungerous As that committed in religion Ill happens when religion we neglect Doubt in religion punishment deserues Where no religion is no vertue bides Religions cloake can couer much abuse Those men may well be cald religious That hate the world and nothing mind but heauen Religion linketh men in vnitie Religion to all vertues is the guide Humilitie expresseth true religion Religion doth relieue the fatherlesse And succours widowes in aduersitie Religion is the councell of the iust Religion only can support the weake Religion teacheth remedie gainst sinne Religion comforts all afflictions Similies on the same subiect LIke as a Torch directs vs in the darke So doth religion lighten all our hopes As these our bodies liue by earthly food So true religion doth our soules most good As yron maketh soft the rudest earth So doth religion temper hardest hearts As sore eyes cannot gaze against the Sun So wicked minds brooke no religion As want of food the body hunger-sterues So pines the soule through pure religions lacke As med'cines make sicke bodies whole and sound So doth religion wash out errours wound Examples likewise on the same BRennus for wronging of religion Was smitten with a thunderbolt to death Conomachus religious rites prophan'd But with an earthquake was he swallowed vp Pherecydes nick-nam'd religion For which he was consum'd by wormes aliue In Athens they would not create a king Except he had tane orders of a Priest The chiefest oath th' Athenians had was this Pugnabo pro sacris cum alijs solus Old Rome her sonnes sent to Hetruria To be instructed in religion Of Truth Truth is the fount of knowledge earths best light The scale to heau'n and onely rule of right THe weakest things are strongest props to truth Truth is most strong and alwai●s findeth friends Truth neuer failes and true loue wants no might Triall doth certainliest the truth bewray Falshood with truth may by no meanes abide Deeds not by manhood or the do●rs might Are to be scand but by their truth and right What shineth nearest best holds truest worth Where then is truth if there be no selfe trust Truth is the onely shield of best defence When truely in our selues our faults we see We deeme them known to all as well as wee An honest tale speeds best being truly told Truth may be shent but neuer shall be sham'd Truth to all goodnesse is the perfect guide All doubts resoluing is by finding truth How shall he thinke to find a straunger iust That in himselfe dare put no confidence False dreames do euermore the truth deny Time shewes the truth and wit that 's bought is best Truth soundeth sweetly in a sillie tongue Who cherish wrongs are bent against the truth Truth needeth not the aid of Rhetoricke Happie the people blessed is the land Where truth and vertue get the vpper hand Nothing so hard but is by truth explain'd All hidden secrets truth can best disclose Truth to all goodnes is the perfect guide Truth hath two friends Wisdome and Constancie Truth standeth not vpon the tongues of men Nor Honour on authorities bigge frownes Truth triumphes long when falshood soone decaies The truth of things the end or time will trie The smoothest tale hath oft-times smallest truth Truth most delights when shee goes meanest clad The seate of Truth is in our secret hearts Not in the tongue which falshood oft imparts Truth needs no Orators to plead her cause Truth feareth nothing more than to be hid Truth with her owne light is best satisfide A certaine truth doth need no subtill glose Truth is a health that neuer will be sicke An endlesse life a Sunne that neuer sets Truth shewes her selfe in secrecie of trust A cleare case needs no shifting councellour Truth vnbefriended will find friends

men ere they conceiued be God out of season neuer yet doth trie His children new conuerted by and by Man made of earth sounds not the seas profound Of Gods deepe iudgements where there is no ground The Lord law-maker iust and righteous Doth frame his lawes not for himselfe but vs. Gods wisdome guides this worlds societie With equall power and equall pietie Gods word which made the world and guides it still To diuers en●s conducts both good and ill He that preferres not God fore all his race Amongst the sonnes of God deserues no place He that the furrowes ploweth of Gods field May not turne backe his fainting face nor yeeld Sathan suggesteth ill God mooues to grace God can doe all saue that he will not doe Our mightie God alwaies for his elect Of wicked things can draw a good effect God keepes his watch aboue the starrie skies For his elect who neuer idle lyes Similies on the same subiect AS one poore drop is nothing to the sea So all we can is nothing in Gods sight As the bright Sunne defaceth candle-light So Gods great power controlleth all the world As Princes are to be both lou'd and fear'd So God the Prince of princes must haue more As with great care a Pilot guides the ship So with great grace doth God direct the world As when the soule departs the body dies So where God blesseth not all things decay As mothers hugge their children in their armes So God enfolds his chosen with his grace Examples likewise on the same PHerecides for his contemning God Was eate with lice and dyed miserably Lucian an Atheist and denying God Was afterward in pieces torne with dogs Iustinian for his light regard of God Became a foole and so in follie dyde Th' Athenians banished Protagoras Because his bookes question'd the deitie Socrates did confesse one onely God And tearn●'d the heathen Gods but vaniti● Plato when he wrote any serious thing Began still In the name of one sole God Of Heauen Heauen is Gods seat the throne of endles grace The Soules true home and Hopes desired place ALl powers are subiect to the power of Heauen Nothing but Heauen is perfect happinesse What heauen will haue that needs must come to passe The Soule is heauenly and from heauen relieu'd Heauen is as neere to sea as to the land Heauen sings for ioy when sinners truly pray The waking heauens will plague all sleeping ill When as the heauens are to iustice bent All things are turn'd to our iust punishment None can attaine what heauen and earth withstands Earth must come in when awfull heauen commaunds When heauen yeelds meanes they must not be neglect Though men reuenge not yet the heauens will Heauen is the habitation of th'elect Heauen is the iust mans true inheritance It 's hard to liue well easie to dye ill Hard to winne heauen easie to keepe from thence In vaine do men contend against the starres Heauen workes our fall but yet the fault is ours All men ought know they haue the Heauens aboue them No walles can hide vs from the eye of heauen Repentance carries heauens eternall keyes When heauens lampe shines all other lights are lost We neuer know what 't is in heauen to dwell Till wee haue had some feeling of grim hell Heauen is our home we are but straungers here All earthly things are darke to them diuine What heauen decrees sollie may notwithstand Earths admirations are the heauens delights Heauens deepe dessignes are hid from mortall eyes We are at heauens dispose and not our owne Heauen sets our time wherwith can nought dispence High heauens hand restraine● our wilfull powers Whose will must rule aboue this will of ours Heauen doth repaire what fortune hath destroid Things that are heauenly no corruption tast Whome heauen doth spight the earth disdaines to hate Heauens couers him that hath no bu●iall Earth feeds on earth heauen giues the spirit food Proui●ence heauenly passeth humane thought And doth for wretched mens reliefe make way Earth giues vs gold but heauen the wealth of grace The Sunne which shines in heauen doth light the earth Hell cannot hurt whome heauen doth preserue The care of heauen doth seeke the soules content It is the doome of heauen which can and will Con●ound the braunch whose root was planted ill Sinne is earths Sun the Sun of heauen sinnes death Thoughts sixt on heauen contemne all earthly things Mortals may feele heauens doome but not remooue All men are subiect to the powers aboue Heauens secrets are conceald from mortall sight By mortall lawes a bond may be diuorst But heauens decree by no meanes can be forst From heauen our soules receiue their sustenance Hell is the place of horror heauen of rest Good death is true inheritance in heauen The way to heauen is not so wide as hell Men looke vp to the starres thereby to know That as they progresse heauen they earth should so Heauen often winkes at mortall mens amisse Heauens Sun doth shine both on the good and bad All humane wishes neuer haue the power To hast or hold the course of heauen one hower Similies on the same subiect AS hell was made to punish sinnes proud guilt Euen so was heauen for comfort of the iust As base clothes ill become a princes court So none can enter heauen but purely clad As trauailers desire their natiue homes So should all soules long for their heauenly home As hells obscuritie excells all darke So nothing with heauens brightnesse may compare As Iacob for his Rachell thought sower sweet So we for heauen ought deeme all else but vile As all ioyes in this life are fraile and vaine So none but heauens ioyes are perfect gaine Of Conscience Conscience is that accuseth and condemnes Needing no other witnesse than it selfe FAults long vnfelt the conscience will bewray The feare of conscience entreth iron walls Where coyne preuailes conscience beares little sway Kings but the conscience all things can defend Death but an acted passion doth appeare Where truth giues courage and a conscience cleare Conscience owne doome doth halfe condemne a man No armour proofe against the conscience terror Weake consciences are with vaine questions wounded Sound conscience well is cald a wall of brasse Corrupted fit compar'd to broken glasse In conscience booke our faults are daily writ There conscience failes where faith beares no account A guiltie conscience neuer is secure The conscience stain'd with blood of innocents Is alwayes subiect to appeaching guilt Repentance brings the keyes of conscience After minds guilt doth inward griefe begin Runne where thou wilt into all lands betake thee Yet will a w●unded conscience nere forsake thee A stained conscience finds no ioy at all They dread no shame that v●e no conscience If thou but find thy conscience be vpright No matter for the worlds rebuke or spight Conscience will neuer suffer wicked thoughts Conscience needs no tormenter but it selfe Conscience sees that which no eye else can doe