Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	conscience_n	good_a	heart_n	4,051	5	4.9715	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09507	The good conscience. Or, The soules banquet royall. In a sermon by T.P.	Pestell, Thomas, 1584?-1659?	1615 (1615)	STC 19789; ESTC S114583	21,753	36

carcase in the graue daily rotting and consuming away they shall sinne so long as they beare about flesh and blood wherein dwells corruption they that fall cannot but be subiect to many weakenesses yet if they haue a good Conscience their fall is not like the fall of the Elephant which being down cannot rise againe but contrarie their falls teach them better how to stand and their infirmitie serues to confirme the vertue of their Constancie And which is the soueraine ioy of Gods people in euery sinfull tentation they doe like Hercules exire maiores growe greater which S. Paul meanes where he sayes Become more then Conquerours 2. And as thus they are not depressed by this enemie so neither doe they stoope or stand in seare of the other which is affliction It is a bitter thing to looke into the manifolde distresses and incombiances to be met and encountred yet a good Consciences abides the iniurie and assault batterie of them all vnmoued and vnappalled Illisos fluctus rupes vt vasta refundit Like a rock against which a thousand Billows rise and roare yet the stone for all their chasing and foaming keepes his place and beates them in pieces So the soule of such a man is like Socrates who was euer in one countenance nay it is in affliction like fire in winde more enflamed as a Traueller meeting in hindrance wil be more eager on his iourney like golde in the furnace neither lessened in his weight through differēce or distrust of Gods goodnes Though he kill mee yet still I will trust in him nor evaporates or goes away in fume impatient follie In all these things did not Iob sinne with his mouth nor charge God foolishly but shines out fresher and purer then before in an holie life and conuersation And after hee hath stood the shocke and passed the storme of many afflictions he can yet encourage and cheere his sorrowful Fortunes speaking of his good conscience as Hecuba of Polixena when the rest were dead 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Good men indeed seeme the poorest and most wretched things on earth and are counted as S. Paul speaketh of himselfe the very off-scowring of all things Dauid and Iob and hee had pretie shares in affliction And a man that should read Iobs book and Dauids Psalms and S Paules Epistles would maruell to heare that these men were so merrie There is plenteous mention of fasting of teares of bonds of cold imprisonment nakednes c But wher 's this ioy this continuall feast we talke of Let the man that moues such questions knowe for certaine that hee vnderstands not such mens estates aright For the true Christian man is a bundle and world of wonders running contrary courses like the Antipodes strong when they are weake as the Moon waining to the earthward waxeth towards heauen Therefore S. Paul saith I take pleasure in infirmities in reproches in necessities in persecutions in anguish c. 2. Cor. 12.10 Indeed the comfort of the wicked is like a compound Medicine There must be p●●…ing and dancing and dallying or they cannot seeme merrie but the godly mans pleasure is of another straine a newe kinde like a light shining in the ayre when no matter is seene to nourish it We are mistaken then if we thinke such men vpon earth it is true we see them heare as we see the Moone and starres in water but they are in heauen S. Paul saith plainely our conuersation is in Heauen already Their soule is where it would be as Gregorie of Mary Magdalene Maria ubi nos erat vbi erat c. She was not where she was for she was wholly where her Master was Hence is it that when the worldlings shrinks and sinkes vnder a little trouble they beare it out brauely and with a kind of heauenly scorne trample on all encombrances So Paul speakes disdainefully of tribulation Who shall separate vs from the loue of Christ shall tribulation c. as though hee thought it vnworthy the naming And the reason of this is nothing but the testimony of these mens soules and consciences assuring them first that all afflictions are momentany for a night ioy returning in the morning or if they last longer yet the Prophet Osee tels vs After two daies hee will reuiue vs and the third day hee will raise vs vp Ose 6.2 Secondly theyr conscience tels them how iustly these things are inflicted that the store of corruption in them deserues not onely this fire of affliction to purge them but euen hell fire to consume them that as God alway rewards supra meritum aboue mans desert so he punisheth citra iustitiam on this side his iustice and then thirdly makes them know that they are needfull for wiping away all teares in heauen doth necessarily ptesuppose wet eyes on earth resting their toyle and labour here and also good for them Dona Dei admonentis the good gift of God admonishing vs sayeth Austin It is good for mee sayeth Dauid Nay they are not onely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 medidicines of their health and safety but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 special tokēs of Gods fatherly loue and kindnesse as the Apostle reasons Heb. 12.8 If yee bee without correction then are yee bastards and not sonnes So that men being once armed with this armour and strength of a sound heart and good conscience like Dauid with his stone and sling no vncircumcised Philistine can dismay him nothing in the world can sound to his discomfort Vbi in altum delati sumus when wee are carried into the deepe of calamity and trouble it is then the anker of a good conscience saith Caluin that keepes vs fuse that preserues our soules from perishing in the waters If afflictions atise like a spring of bitter waters yet the salt of a good conscience will season this spring and the waters shall bee healed or is thy griefe yet greater risen to a flood euen as the flood of Iordane that thou mayest cry with the Psalmist The waters are come in Lord euen to my very soule yet faint not for the vertue of a good conscience like the spirite of God in Elias will cut this Iordane and thou shalt goe ouer it in safety or yet more if the course and confluence of thy afflictions be swolne and risen to a sea whose waues are madde and rage horribly yet thy good conscience shall like the Arke of Noah beare thee aboue the pride and power of all those surges ouer whose backes thou shalt ride like another Arion in mirth and triumph or last of all if it come to the worst of all terrible afflictions that they increase to a red and bloody sea of tribulation and persecution why yet feare not stand still and behold the saluation of the Lord the spirite of God in the testimony of thy good conscience will speake peace to thy affrighted soule nay like Moyses will stretch his hand and his rod ouer this sea and diuide