Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	body_n	part_n	soul_n	1,351	5	5.0190	4	true

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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

conscience ye cannot advance your selves as you would for conscience Oh how it troubles you therefore ye wound it smother it stop the mouth of it and will not heare it though a good man might by it bee satisfied from Pro. 14 14. himselfe Is this to hold the love of conscience Do ye hold the worke of conscience 3 Try the worke of conscience Es 57. A good man will let it perfect its work in the feare of God He propounds fairly he that is broken hearted shall bee comforted he that is weary and pressed down with sinnes shal Math. 11. Apoc. 2. be refreshed he that fights the good fight of faith shall have the crown of life he that adds to his faith knowledge to his knowledge vertue so forth shall make his calling and election 2 Pet. 1. sure because he shal neither be barren nor unfruitfull hee that hath the fruits of the spirit Gal. 5. 22. 23. against him there is no law to condemne Hee applies as truely but I have a broken heart I am weary of sin I fight faithfully according to strēgth received I chaine my graces together in act as occasion is offered as I have them in habit and as I have the fruits of the spirit in me therefore hee concludes as necessarily therfore so long as I continue in this estate I shal have comfort heere and salvation hereafter A wicked man wil sometimes suffer conscience to work too according to light Abimelechs conscience will not let him wrong Abrahams wife which Gen. 20. comes not because the conscience is good out of faith unfained but good out of feare and awe But tell me doe yee suffer conscience to worke in all things Then would yee so powerfully conclude against your selves that yee must say 1 Cor. 6. 9. 10. I must amend or perish No unrighteous person what ever whether fornicator adulterer reviler drunkard covetous person extortioner shal inherit the kingdome of heaven but I am so and so therefore in this estate I shall never get heaven Hee that neglects the call of God shal call upon God and God will not heare but laugh Pro. 1. when his destruction comes but I have done so therefore God will deale so with mee Hee that being often reproved Pro. 29 1. hardneth his necke shall suddenly be destroyed without remedy but I have hardened my necke against all reproofes therfore what may I look for if I amend not but destruction Doe ye thus conclude for your amendment Doe ye not rather conclude quite otherwise Gods word saith so so but I do not so do or if I do otherwise God will save sinners and I shall escape Is this to hold the worke of coscience Lastly doe yee hold the 4 Try the charge of conscience charge of conscience What an universal bishopricke hath conscience over the whole man and all of man There is no inclination imagination power thought word or deed but it is under the power of conscience and do ye hold this Davids conscience looked to his inclinations I was Psal 18. 23 upright before God and kept my selfe from my wickednesse Agurs conscience looked to his understanding thoughts if thou hast done foolishly if Pro. 30. 21 thou have thought evill lay thy hand upon thy mouth Davids conscience looked to his words I will keepe my mouth with a bridle and to his deeds Psal 39. I said I will take heede unto my waies But as Christ did mourn within himselfe when he saw the multitude because they were as sheepe without a shepherd Mat. 9. 36. so may you for the neglect of conscience in all these Yee are inclined to every evil way yet conscience takes no notice How is your understanding overwhelmed with ignorance and stuffed with worldly vanity How are your memories charged with unprofitables and your affections lavished wickedly and yet conscience is silent your thoughts words and deedes are not visited by conscience as they should It neither viewes nor censures nor corrects as is meete Oh why doe you not hold conscience Let it looke to every secret and when it knows the duty let it looke about and apply it as need is to every part power of body and soule This will work amendment for the present and care for the time to come and so shall yee hold conscience It may be you will say how How to help to the holding of conscience shall I helpe my selfe forward to such a glorious work I answer Get a a rich mine of grace and duty into your hearts As a good man hath a good treasure in his heart so must you by laying up the word in your Deut. 16. Pro. 6. hearts and binding it to your hearts by a powerful impression Present this treasure to your consciences that it may make you smite your selves upon your thighes and say what have I done Then walke in the presence of God as David when I awake I Psal 139. am ever before thee and then the servant will worke when hee is before his master Next have a setled watchfulnesse over all your wayes covenanting with heart eyes tongue and hand not wilfully to sinne against God And lastly commit your waeyes to GOD by hearty prayers and hee will rectifie all by the bloud and spirit of your JESVS and so surely shall you hold both faith and a good conscience too to the comfort of your soules and to the Glory of your GOD to whom bee praise power and Glory now and for ever Amen FINIS Imprimatur Sept. 1. 1638. Tho. Wykes