Selected quad for the lemma: grace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
grace_n	deny_v	teach_v	ungodliness_n	4,302	5	11.7286	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47000	The black book of conscience, or, God's high court of iustice in the soul wherein the truth and sincerity, the deceit and hypocrisie of every mans heart and ways is judged and discovered by their consciences : very seasonable for these times wherein wicked men, under pretence of liberty of conscience, take liberty to sin and blaspheme / by Andrew Iones.	Jones, Andrew.	1663 (1663)	Wing J906; ESTC R29450	10,659	26

actions become worse then beasts Why they do hold such damnable and devillish Opinions both against God and Christ yea against humanity it self Ask them the reason of these things and what do they say It is from the Light within us it is the liberty of our consciences and have not we fought for liberty of Conscience Ah cursed wretches the Light within you is darkness Is this the liberty of thy conscience No no this is the liberty of thy lusts and the delnsions of the Devil thou hast seared thy conscience with a hot Iron but yet at last thy conscience though thou hast defiled it never so much will put the saddle upon the right horse and charge thee home with all the blame Is liberty of conscience a libérty to sin No God forbid Shall we sin saith S. Paul Rom. 6.1 that grace may abound No God forbid I dare not saith a gracious heart my conscience tells me I must not How shall I saith Joseph Gen. 39.9 do this great wickedness and sin against God The grace of God saith the Apostle Tit. 2.11 that brings salvation teacheth me to deny ungodliness and worldly lust and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present world And not to live as we list which is a sign of no grace at all A truly tender conscience will be very tender of committing sin and will have a circumspect care over himself how he walks and how he lives that so the name of God and of Christ be not blasphemed but in these last and worst of times wherein men as S. Paul saith make shipwrack of faith and a good conscience men have not minded this at all but have taken a full liberty to commit all manner of sins And I pray God that this sin be not charged upon those who instead of restraining men from sin a punishing them for sin have tollerated them to sin if not countenanced them to sin But let men take beed how they sin because grace abounds For saith the Apostle Heb. 10.26 27. If we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin but a certain fearful looking for of judgement and fiery indignation from the Lord. For the wrath of God Rom. 1.18 is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth of God in unrighteousness Read these two texts and tremble all ye that take liberty to sin because the grace of God hath abounded How will ye be able to look either God or conscience in the face certainly you will be never able to do it unless you repent for if men will sin willingly notwithstanding all their checks of conscience their conscience will condemn them irresistably before the Lord. For certain it is there is a conscience in every man that sées observes and takes notice of all his ways and will kéep a just account of them and so be a witness either for or against the soul at the day of Iudgement What was it that made the Apostles so joyful in all their trouble and persecutions was it not the witness of their consciences sée 2 Cor. 1.12 Our rejoycing is this saith St. Paul the testimony of our conscience What was it made Paul Silas sing in prison for joy was it not that their consciences told them they were happy blessed men notwithstanding all their sufferings and reproaches Now what conscience is I shall briefly shew you and so conclude Conscience is a thing with which God endued the soul of man by creation and is for our comfort if we live well as we ought to do but will be a dreadful terror to all those that live and dye in their sins For this conscience was in Adam before his fall though not as a condemner till his fall for where there is no sin what néedeth an accuser So long as Adam kept the commands of God there was no cause for conscience to condemn him but as soon as ever Adam transgrest his conscience flew in his face which made him fly from the face of God as you may sée Gen. 3.7 8. The eyes of them both were opened their conscience accused and they hid themselves And this conscience is onely in men and women for bruit beasts wanting reason are not capable of conscience and the beasts when they dy there is an end of them but it is not so with man for conscience in man followeth the man further then the grave for if men might bury their consciences with them in their Graves they might be happy notwihstanding al their abuses of conscience for men oftentimes against all reason equity or conscience doth worse then the worst of beasts And this conscience kéepeth his Court in the heart and there sits upon the life or death of the soul and according as he finds every mans work so doth he pass sentence of condemnation or absolution for there is no briving of conscience conscience will speak the truth of every mans ways before the Lord be they good or be they evil If our hearts condemn us saith S. John 1 Joh. 2.10 God is greater then our heart that is our conscience And God hath given this power to conscience because men should have no plea of excuse before the Lord. It was not Pilates washing of his hands saying I am guiltless of the blood of this just man that could wash away the guilt of Christs blood from his conscience Pilates Conscience told him that Christ was a just man and that he saw no cause of death in him at all Luk. 23.23 and yet cursed Pilate contraty to the light of his own conscience delivered the Lord of life into the hands of bloody men to be crucified and so brought the guilt of his blood upon his own soul He that will not endure conscience to reprove him for his sins certainly he loves to go to hell without controul and he that will not endure Conscience to tell him of his sins here shall whether he will or no suffer sufficient torment for his sins hereafter For an evil Conscience is a hell to the soul here and shall be the hell of hels hereafter Now then if there be such a thing in man as conscience and that his conscience shall either justifie or condenm him then let every man take héed how he orders his conversation in the world do not give leave to your selves to think say or do any thing but what you are willing to own before the Lord at the last day Therefore let every one of us so think and so speak ●nd so do that we may not have a conscience to condemn us But let us so live as those that expect to have conscience witness for them before the Lord that with godly sincerity they have had their conversation in this world But what multitudes are there in the world that be as if there were no conscience at all neither God nor Devil nor