Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	accuse_v	bear_v	witness_n	1,900	5	7.1853	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89755	An additional discourse relating unto a treatise lately published by Capt. Robert Norwood, intituled. A pathway unto Englands perfect settlement. Many things therein are more fully opened, several doubts and objections answered; a brief account given of the ancient laws, customs, and constitutions of this nation, before and since the conquest, so called. With something concerning the Jewish civil constitutions. With a brief answer to Mr. John Spittlehouse, in his book bearing the title, the first addresses to his Excellencie, &c.	Norwood, Robert, Captain.; Norwood, Robert, Captain. Pathway unto England's perfect settlement; and its centre and foundation of rest and peace.	1653 (1653)	Wing N1379; Thomason E708_9; ESTC R207149	39,963	68

his ways and works but man he changeth degenerateth and falleth in himself from himself by going forth out of himself unto other Gods bowing falling down unto fearing serving and worshipping them whereas man as he was made so should he stand remain and continue perfectly upright in and unto himself Wherefore it is written that the Gentiles who have not the Law yet do by nature the things contained in the Law they having not the written Law in Tables of stone are a law unto themselves which shew the effects of the Law written in their hearts or that the Law hath its original ground in nature as the efficient cause thereof their conscience also bearing witness and their thoughts accusing or excusing one another Religion or the true and real Service and Worship of God lies not in Forms but in Essentialities yet I say not that true Forms are to be despised or forsaken for nothing is without its true form Verily I was never so much afraid of any sort of men as those who come so much clothed with the name of God and Religion and I profess before heaven and earth they are generally the most dangerous and deceitful men in the whole world and were so from the beginning O these zealous men undo us all Look into the Old Testament there you shall finde still how these men of God as they are called have still caused the people to erre Aaron their first High-priest no sooner was Moses absent but he makes them a molten calf The Kings Priests and Prophets all along are the men chiefly complained of by the Lord who led and drew away the hearts of the people from the Lord. You shall finde the same in the New Testament and all along since to this day but these here in our days excel herein all that ever went before them you shall have nothing almost in their mouthes but God and all for God and the Godly Party when as the Lord lives they know little or nothing of him I tell you God is certainly a most stable fixed just righteous constant upright and faithful being yea and he is most merciful also all which you might easily see and that every day but that you do and will shut your eyes against the Sun which shines upon the good and upon the bad nor indeed can it very hardly I might say possibly and prove it too but that I hasten be otherwise whilst Kings and Priests claim a right power priviledge and prerogative from God thereunto distinct from and above other men as being better more excellent or more holy then they Wherefore it was not without good ground that the Kings of Judah even of Judah who of all that ever I heard or read of might claim to be immediately from God and so plead exemption from Man's either Judgement or Choice yet they even those of the house of David in special were to be judged as well as to judge which is clear as my Author cited a little after hath it in their Sanhedrin Melec and other parts of their Talmud and that not onely before they were crowned for the Crown was not so intayled on the next heir male or others of that family but that their great Sanhedrin was always to judge and determine whether any such Heir was fit for the Crown both in regard of his Knowledge and of his Vertue And after Coronation also the King of Judah of the house of David was by their Law to be judged and to submit to Corporal punishment by stripes or some other way I and that for such things as to some may seem but small defaults as for multiplying of wives horses or chariots and for using or abusing money beyond the mean and rule prescribed by Law The Jews High-priest a very sacred person and the Lords Anointed also but yet such as must still submit to the Sentence of the great Sanhedrin nay and that for his life also if they so adjudged him for which and for that said before of the Sanhedrin's power over the Jewish King in Criminals and in War I might cite divers clear passages from the Talmud and those that expound it long before Cochius on Sanhedrin or Schickard's Jus Regium Thus sayth my Author And perhaps that Commonwealth had continued longer and much better in more glory a more stable and setled condition had this their Discipline been fully and constantly maintained faithfully duely and truely executed for as is said before you shall always finde their Kings and Priests leading the people into errours and all prophaness and wickedness The ground of their desire to have a King being as the Scripture tells us that they might have one to go in and out before them to fight their battels a Captain-General plain and clear and no other whom they would have a constant certain fixed Officer whenas God would onely as just occasion should be given or offered then onely should be one chosen and appointed as it was here amongst the ancient Brittons in the beginning But say the people of Israel Let us have a King like all the nations about us and they were their Leaders and Conductors in their Wars But yet they are and must be thus bound and limited as you see and nothing better for them and for the Commonwealth then that it should so be for that nothing is more apt to exceed its bounds then is Mars and Martial men fire of which Martial men participate much is a very great Tyrant except very well tempered ordered allayed or qualified it ceases not until it have eaten up and devoured all that stands before it nor makes it neither can it make any difference yet in its due place to its right use and end is as all other things are excellent good We have it promised us by the Lord that there shall be no more need of teaching one another but that all shall be taught of him and the knowledge of him shall cover the earth as the waters do the sea And verily my soul earnestly prays bows and begs for this thing so shall rest and peace be unto the inhabitants of the earth and great will be the joy thereof O that man did but know and would but be himself he would not then give his glory his honor his dignity unto any King or Priest any man or men whomsoever England hath not yet done it hath not yet given its glory honor and dignity unto any whomsoever whatever some private and particular men may have done it hath not bowed down its head to cause it to serve other Gods as the Israelites did of whom God saith as it is written that they made him to serve continually unto their Idols the head of every man as it is written is God therefore hath God scattered them upon the face of the earth made them to be servants and to serve in and unto all Nations yet doth the time of their restitution draw near Which that England hath