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A discourse between law and conscience when they were both banished from Parliament. In the first Parliament of James the Seventh.
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1685
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A DISCOURSE BETWEEN LAW AND CONSCIENCE VVhen they were both Banished from PARLIAMENT In the first Parliament of K James the Seventh LAW to CONSCIENCE HOW now my Lord how is it so That thus in sable-weed ye go what means this sudden alteration That you have lost your Veneration And due Benevolence that ye owe Unto your Country now brought low In yonder Court ye ought to sit A Free-born Member ye 're of it And well acquainted with the Laws Go and Defend your Ancient Cause Conscience Reply A Lace said Conscience well you wit In yonder Court I dar not sit Unless that I betray my Right And dictat Laws against my light Your Parliament it looks awry For I sat in it yesterday And Voted never a Vote but an And they against me did exclame With lustie words both high and bigg They swore that Conscience was a whigg For him they have no veneration Cause banish him out of the Nation And prayed the Clark to word it better Then to put Conscience in a Letter To send unto his Majestie Who bears a mortal feed at me For treason which they say I thought Into the year fortie eight For which I wandred too and fro Even since the year sixty two That I was banished from the Court By Lords and Earls of great report Though I should famish starve and die Yet none of them would harbour me I rapped rudely at their Gat But never enterance could get I knockt and challeng'd as I can Yet non recev'd a banished man The little shelter that I found Was in the Presbyterians ground Yet many of them me sore abus'd And most untenderly me us'd Some took Bonds some took the Test Some to the Kirk were sorely prest Some with their course untender walk Some with their proud unseemly talk Some with their giddie wild opinions Would banish me from these dominions And now since they have serv'd me so To forraign Lands I think to go To see what residence I find Pray Brother Law what us your minde Laws Answere ALace my Lord how can I hear Your dollourous and heavie chear When your afflicted I do mourn We both upon one wheel do turn If Conscience once do lose the Van Law is a broken bankrupt man When conscience turns like weather-cockt Then they will cut the Nazeren Locck My strength lyes in the Penal Laws Cut they off these well lose the cause Our honours both in this doth stand A Dum Man yet wan never Land We will be trusty to our Nation An humble sute is my intent That we may sit in Parliament Conscience Reply My Brother Law where is your wits Think you of us they will permit To sit in court who thus have us'd us And formerly hath thus abus'd us Should I my wrongs denominate Or could my grief demonstrate What I have suffer'd would appear From them above this twenty year It 's long since they me cauteriz'd But now they have me stigmatiz'd And for to make me hold my peace They put hot iron upon my face Like Collilian they will me make Some suffer'd shipwrack for my sake How can you think that such men minde Our Laws and Conscience to be friend Or ever give a free consent That we should sit in Parliament My dearest Brother then I pray Tthat you may not retard away Laws Answere A Lace my Lord will you be gone Then I may mourning go alone If Noble Conscience leave the Land Who then will Popery withstand For Law will prove a broken Reed When Conscience goes in Pilgrims weed You Protestants may be a gaest And may prepair you for a blast When Law and Conscience are abus'd And worse then broken Merchands us'd In Abay's they will shelter find But none to us will prove so kind But yet I humbly do you pray My dearest Lord go not away To yonder Parliament address Some friend you have will entercess Themselves what you and for your plead Some place at Court may yet be had Conscience Reply MY Brother I would be content T'regain my place in Parliament But for these men they 'l never grant it A pick at me they never wanted I know there 's severals to pretend For to propose me as their end But let them once be contradicted They 'l look as if they were convicted If but one Lord should them control They 'le swear it was an Hyperbole Like as I often have it found Pretended friends give many a wound Have alwayes falsly prov'd to me Farewel Brother farewell ye Laws Answer MY dearest Lord my Counsel take Not for my own but Country's sake If you desert these Courts and go To forrgain Lands and live them so They will establish with their hand That Popery shall overspread the Land Once more I humbly you intreat And beggs this favour I may get To signifie you are content To supplicate the Parlament Conscience Replyes WEll Brother Law I am content To supplicat the Parliament And your to blame Brother not I If they shal raise the HV and CRY Come let us joyn with Veneration For to present this supplication For to Vot freely for thee Laws Your Countrey and your Ancient Cause The humble Address of Conscience and Law To the house of Parliament MY Lords and Gentlemen here lyes Two Objects ly before your eyes Conscience and Law two Nobles born To whom the Country once was sworn But now desered as you see By Inorred perjur'd Treacherie Yet we 're content to pardon that And humbly here to supplicat Ye would be pleas'd to permit Us in the Parliament to Sit To serve our Countrie and our Cause And to desend the Penal Laws My Lord our Loyaltie you know Some further proofe we mind to show We shall Vot nothing but what 's good Our wrong is great to be gainstood My Lord Comissioner if your Grace Would harken to our words of peace We would you teach how you should be True to your King your vows and Me And my Lord Chancellour we would crave That Popish tenets you would leave The Ancient Faith ye would imbrace Else you will ne're condol our case And you Lord Bishops where you sit We little trust to your commit You who betrayed our Ancient Cause You would take off the Pennal Laws Conscience nor Law you 'l never defend What ever truths you do pretend I know once Us two ye lov'd dear But we 're foresaken for a Kings ear And for obeying mans command Ye are thrust from the Holy Land You honorable house of Commons all For your assistance we do call Keep Law and Conscience in the Land And against Popery stoutly stand If you refuse so just a thing Then know I am repute a King And I will exercise my Law On you when you can not withdraw And make you were you better fellows Like Judas run unto the Gallows Or else like Spira to discover Your knavery all the World over And for the mischief you have acted My terrors make you go distracted My Scepter over you I 'le Sway. In Time and in Eternitie This to your wisdom we commend And on your Answer we Attend. FINIS