Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	according_a	contrary_a	law_n	1,472	5	5.1541	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60433	For the honour of the King and the great advancing thereof amongst men over all nations in the world in the ensuing proposals tending thereunto : stated in six particulars concerning the King's honour, by his subjects unity one with another, submission to all his laws, faithfulness unto him, uprightness in traffick with other nations, departing from that which dishonoureth both God and the king, being the peculiar people of God, and they having his spirit to counsel him / by Humphrey Smyth.	Smith, Humphrey, d. 1663.	1661 (1661)	Wing S4059; ESTC R10303	6,680	16

FOR THE HONOUR OF THE KING AND The great Advancing thereof amongst men over all Nations in the World In the ensuing PROPOSALS tending thereunto Stated in Six PARTICULARS Concerning the KING'S Honour 1. By His Subjects Unity one with another 2. By His Subjects Submission to all his Laws 3. By His Subjects Faithfulness unto Him 4. By His Subjects Uprightness in Traffick with other Nations 5. By His Subjects Departing from that which dishonoureth both God and the King 6. By His Subjects Being the peculiar People of God and they having his Spirit to counsel him By HUMPHREY SMYTH London Printed for Robert Wilson at the sign of the Black-spread-Eagle and Windmill in Martins Le Grand 1661. FOR THE HONOUR OF THE KING And the great Advancing thereof amongst Men over all Nations in the World I. Concerning the Honour of the King by the Unity of his Subjects one with another VVERE All or the major part of the King's Subjects so in Unity one with another that every man sought each others good as much as his own and so fulfilled the law of God therein by each man's loving his Neighbor as himself and doing unto all and at all times as they would be done unto having the Bond of Peace upon their hearts by the Power of his Spirit who commanded the Christians not only to love one another but also their Enemies whereby they are so far from Defraud or coveting other mens Goods or wronging any man in Person or Estate that Covetousness is not named among them neither could be by any justly charged upon them but rather the things they possess are acknowledged to be the Lord's and themselves to be but Stewards thereof and therefore durst not be unfaithfull towards God or man in the Unrighteous Mammon lest the Lord should refuse to commit unto them the greater Riches And were they brought to have a certain knowledge one of another herein that they durst with boldness confide one in anothers Constancy in those things without the least fear of being any way wronged oppressed or injured by each other with what abundance of satisfaction would such live upon the Earth and how desirable and amiable would this be for Christians and Brethren to live thus in Unity And were they brought not to turn away their faces from their own flesh nor to slight the Cry of the Poor but with an Eye of Pitty still to be commiserating the Needy and much caring how to have Oppression removed that so with the more chearfulness the Necessities of their poor Brethren might the easier be relieved and such continual Care to be taken herein until all Oppressions were brought to an end and all the Poor kept from want there being sufficient within the King's Dominions to do it that what is spent in Vanity might be forborn and what is wasted in Oppression might be withheld and other wayes found out as something hath been prescribed by Thomas Lawrence of Marleborough untill there were not one poor Member of all the Body of the King's Dominions to be found that had need to ask for Food or Rayment by reason of the Brotherly Care Love and Unity in the foresaid Subjects And all Jealousies and Heart-burnings one against another and fear one of another as to be hurt in Person or Estate or destroyed one of another to be as clearly removed out of all minds as if such things had never been all being contented with the things and places that they have and no man seek another's Goods or House or Lands or Place or Worldly Honour from him nor any strive to be greater than another therein but if any strive then so to strive as to excel in Vertue and in his service of love to his Brethren and People of his Nation until Love Unity and lasting Peace and Concord spread over all and all the contrary removed which would be much for the Honour of the KING not onely all the dayes of his Life but would reach unto the Ages to come II. Concerning the King's Honour by his Subjects submission actively or passively unto all his Laws VVEre the King's Subjects or the major part thereof brought to be as ready to observe and keep all his Laws Edicts and Commands which are according unto and grounded upon good Reason the Holy Scriptures and according to God's Witness in their Consciences as he is to require it and as freely willing to walk according to all such his good and wholesom Laws Statutes and Ordinances as he is to impose such upon them And moreover that they could not be constrained to break them by any Forreign Prince or evil Member at home but at all times and in all Cases standing so faithful that the King be never dishonoured by their transgression of his Just and Righteous Laws and that for Conscience sake out of Love and not for Fear And moreover did the King make such Laws and Orders or suffer such to remain in force which his Subjects aforesaid did certainly know were contrary to good Reason and not according to the Scriptures or Law of God but quite contrary also to God's Witness in their own Consciences and that such Laws also were well known to them to be destructive to the King's Subjects and much hurtful to their Estates and danger of ruinating their Families or if it should reach to Death or Banishment yet they not to rebel against the King nor raise Arms to defend themselves though they are truly satisfied that such Laws are unreasonable yet for Conscience sake not to oppose but submit unto every Ordinance of man whether unto the King or such as are set in Authority under him and so though they cannot actively obey those Laws which are contrary to God's Righteous Law written in their Hearts yet passively to fulfill those Laws also by a passive suffering the Penalties which those Laws require of such as actively keep them not and so therein again are those Laws fulfilled also by them that so it might be said of him That his Subjects are alwayes ready to fulfil or submit unto all his Laws and Orders either by active or passive obedience whether they be reasonable or unreasonable And a People being brought thus to submit to the King in all things would be very much for his Honour in Truth and Righteousness III. Concerning the King's Honour by the Faithfulnesse of his Subjects unto him VVEre all the King's Subjects brought unto such Faithfulness unto him that he himself could with good Confidence trust them or himself with them and without any doubting believe and know that they would not harm him in the least nor in the least contrive the shortning of his dayes but all desiring his long life to govern in Righteousness and were they all of such a Principle and unalterable therein as not to destroy any man's Life though their Enemies much less a Friend a Neighbour or a Christian that the King might be well perswaded of them that they would never