Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	covenant_n	law_n	sin_n	4,869	5	5.4906	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19372	Foure sermons whereof two, preached at two assizes, this present yeare, 1638. at Maidestone in Kent, the other two, in his own charge. By Robert Abbot ...	Abbot, Robert, 1588?-1662?	1639 (1639)	STC 58; ESTC S100378	53,626	193

small thing that I should be judged of you or of mās Iudgment for I know nothing by my selfe though this justifie me not before God yet it comforts me against your clamors Let a thousand troubles come Iob sets his conscience against Iob. 31. 35. 36. 37. them all Let mine adversary saith he write a booke against me I would take it upon my shoulder and binde it as a crown and declare my steps goe as a Prince against him yea a good conscience shal go with you thorough the pikes of death and the grave The warfare of our faith hope shall end in sight and having but our love out of a good conscience shall passe all and continue for ever Lastly a good conscience 5 It carries with at more then the whole world Rom. 2. carries with it more then the whole world to do us good It carries God along with it If God go with an ill conscience to accuse much more with a good one to excuse comfort The sentence is the judgment of conscience but as Gods interpreter what conscience speaks when it is well regulated God confirms as ye see in Adam for ill and in Iob for good It carries all the host of heaven and earth along as Gods great and mighty train The good conscience of Daniel Dan. 6. Dan. 3. is attended with mild lyons of the three confessors with an unburning fire of penitent Ionah with a sanctuary in the Ioh. 2. hellish belly of the whale of Elijah with a raven to cook 1 King 17 2 Ring 6. cater for him and of Elisha with an army of Angels to guard him And if yours bee not so attended it is with better with the immortal seed of the word to make you bring forth unto life and with powerfull praier which landed Ionah quenched the thirst of Ion. 2. Iudg. 15. 2 King 19. Iosh 10. Ex. 32. 16 Sāpson slew an hundred fourscore and five thousand enemies stopt the course of the sun and is the wel-pleasing bonds of God to hold him close to you for obtaining all good Therefore hold a good conscience Thus you see how you may Application hold a good conscience the grounds of it Oh that I could now dwell in your souls to set them on work totry whether you conforme to this rule of holding a good conscience yea or no. I finde some good people Some think they have no good conscience and why who being clouded with temptations think they have no conscience at all and therefore that they cannot hold it They look for more in themselves then God hath given They measure Gods sea not their own buckets and are therfore unquiet because they have no more They set patternes before them too high for them to reach at an instant Abrahams full saile of faith Pauls chariot of conscience and those first Christians extasies of joy with joy unspeakeable 1 Pet. 1. 18. and glorious even in the fiery triall and if they are not thus though their cases differ downe they fall They reade themselves still in a lecture of the law and look for a deal of legall righteousnes to purge cōscience before Iustification by the bloud of Christ made theirs by faith to pacifie it if they have not at the first Deus et natura non faciunt saltū leap what they would they put off good conscience as the high-priest Iudas what is that to us I find more wicked people Sōe think they have all good cōscience and why who think they have all good conscience They sleepe out the storme and doe not feele the heart-quake The God of this world blinds them with prosperity If he can they shal not faile of profit pleasure or honor while the vines olives and fig-trees are blasted the brābles grow to a full height therefore their consciences cannot but be good They are rock't a sleepe and are not awake yet they look not into the perfect law of liberty and therefore for want of fight covenant with hell and death Es 28. They have leasure to doe nothing but to draw iniquity with cords of vanity and sin as it were Es 5. with cart-ropes they still their consciences with sweet words couzen them with outward Luk. 15. 1● Matth. 7. et 25 formality They are in their owne delights as in their own proper places and then as elements are not heavy when they are where they would be so sinne troubles not their consciences while it is in its center They are dead in sinnes 6 ph 2. and trespasses and if you lay the load of the whole world upō a dead man he feels it not so nor conscience the heavy burthen of sin But as a melancholick man in his passionate pleasures forgets his owne thoughts but when the game is ended he thinks more dismally though for the present he is set up to the merry pinne so the poore sinner layes aside his pensivenesse to indulge to his presenr fancy till the time of rousing comes Hence or from such like springs wicked men thinke they have a good conscience and therfore they thinke they Therefore try whether yee hold good conscience 1 Try the light of conscience hold it therefore it behoves you to try whether you hold a good conscience yea or no. Do ye hold the light of conscience good soules do desire to enform themselves in every particle of Gods will for faith and manners As a good master desires to give light to his servants that they may see to work so deale good christians with conscience But do not you love ignorance Indeed ye come to the church and heare the word but yee quickly lay it aside like a strait payr of shoes wherein he cannot go in ease How shall conscience work think you if it have no light There is an in Lumen 1 Innatum 2 Seminatum bred light which will helpe in some things but if ye have not that sowed light which the sower went out to sowe by the word of Christ it is not so good as it should Workes of darknesse will bee committed by men ●n darkenesse who love not light because their deedes are evill Doe yee therefore hold the light of conscience Do ye hold the love of conscience you will all say yes 2 Try the love of conscience I grant that ye love it as a dog loves a cudgel It is ready to smite you at every turne as it can spy day at a little hole and to make your hearts heavy in the midst of laughter and doe you love this A good mans loves it dearly Oh saith he let mee have a good conscience stil let a righteous conscience smite mee stil let it bee my counsellour comforter corrector stil But had you not rather be without it yee cannot gaine so much as you would for cōscience ye cannot drink so freely of pleasure as you would for