Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	answer_n	baptism_n	good_a	4,281	5	5.0429	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80846	Malice against ministry manifested by the plain and modest plea and defence of Zach. Crofton minister of the Gospel at Buttolphs Aldgate London unto the false and frivolons [sic] charge of Tho. Harrison, and John Levet against him exhibited unto the commissioners for the ejection of ignorant, scandalous and insufficient ministers, &c. within the City of London. In which you have his past credit attested. Present plea demurred. Particular articles duly and distinctly answered.	Crofton, Zachary, 1625 or 6-1672.	1657 (1657)	Wing C6996; Thomason E931_5; ESTC R207660	20,753	32

Simpson a liberty taking it for granted that he and his people have so much honesty and modesty as to obtain both ministers and peoples consent They dis-ingenuously decline that and by his liberty violently bring me and my people and Gods Ordinances into Captivity Can I chuse but be grieved Can a grieved spirit chuse but speak And must not their unadvised speeches meet with indulgence Our common proverb saith Losers may have leave to speak All men must needs judge that to have my Church commanded against the common and just priviledge provided for and possessed by all other Ministers must needs provoke passion I but to be commanded by Jo. Simpson a man of tumults witness Pauls Church yard Bishops-gate and Spittle fields a man of sedition witness Blackfriers Alhallows fifth Monarchy Lectures A man of Error even damned errors a convicted Antinomian the men yet live in Aldgate Parish that convicted him of saying The Law is of no use not so much as a rule of life to a believer Since his intrusion into my pulpit he hath decried and degraded Gods holy Ordinances at one time preaching he said To learn a Catechism is not to worship God you may as wel take your children to the Market or Fair and buy them Bawbles Rattles and Hobbie-horses as Catechismes And when I took notice of it most impudently denyed in the ears and to amazement of the same Assembly that ever he spake it insomuch that some ran out of the Church charging him with a notorious lye And at the same time he utterred this expression That it was grosse ignorance for any to think by catechetical heads to bring a man to the knowledge of Christ Thus in the same place where I had vindicated he hath vilified this needful Ordinance of Catechizing And in my own hearing he did most grosly abuse Scripture by false interpretations as in the Sermon he preached on 1 Pet. 3.19 he noting Christ by his Spirit preached to the spirits which are in prison By Spirit of Christ he understood the Works of Creation and Providence to such as lived remote from Noah and the voice of Noah to such as were neer him and by Prison he understood an estate of sin and unregeneracy And on Wednesday the 2 of Sept. 1657 he preached and most vigorously pressed this Familistical and Baptism degrading Notion viz. Baptism is not the ground of communion with the Church but real grace the answer of a good conscience by the Resurrection of Christ from the dead and though a man were altogether ignorant of the Doctrine and had never passed under Water-Baptism he could own him as a member of the Church and give him all the Ordinances of Jesus Christ And greatly he did inveigh against all such as would not continue in communion with the unbaptized And although the same day I taxed him with error and soberly demanded his Arguments noting some against this notion nay and on the following Wednesday I by another Letter did demand and provoke his answer but so dis-ingenuous and obstinate he is that I never obtained any Now to have such a man to be intruded upon my people will it not provoke ministerial zeal to loud complaints and give me cause to say If any of my peoples souls be damned their blood will be required from the erroneous intruders So that I hope unadvised expressions in this case shall not be deemed disaffection to the Government under which I lived peaceably without the least expression or suspition of disaffection untill hereby provoked and if God and those in Government will but take this yoak from off me and my people I should be found as silent as the most submisse to the present Government and a favourable apprehension of any expressions uttered in this provoked complaint is the rather desired for that I was one who fought for my liberty and expect to enjoy it no lesse then others so far was I from being in armes for the King as mine accusers have reported as that under Sir John Meldrom and Colonel Shuttleworth I was in armes against him as Lancashire and Cheshire can well know where I encountred those dangers that the proudest of mine enemies I believe never did I will not except Captain Harrison nor yet Major John Simpson of both whom I much mistake if it may not be said Tutius est contendere verbis quam pugnare manu And in that Parliamentarie quarrel I did persevere to the last stroak and the Principles thereof I do with constancy retain Nor was I ever sequestred on any account of disaffection as mine enemies have falsly suggested It is indeed true our Nation hath of late been subject to some revolutions wherein I can better dread providence then defend instruments herein I as many other good men stand dissatisfied but not declaredly disaffected and I hope if the childs complaint do flie something too high it will be an Apology to acquit from the charge of disaffection that the parents have provoked unto wrath But why do I stand to apologize where I am falsely accused unto this whole charge I do really plead Not guilty I did not on the 16 of August speak any of these expressions in the Sermon preached at Aldgate nor did I speak them at any other time in any other place or Sermon and I much wonder who must witness these expressions to be mine where did they sit I can already read that they trusted their memory more then their pen and I hope when they come to proof they will give you a convincing account of the Sermon in which these expressions were uttered Sure I am that my whole Congregation will on the first view of them say Mr. Crofton never uttered such words in their eares nor is it his Dialect or stile of speech it sounds much more like the rash conceptions and rude expressions of an All-hallows Lecturer and those who penned that daies Sermon can finde nothing like this Charge though mine accusers charge with confidence and without their wonted Salvo or words to that effect nay so far are these words from being mine that though I would justifie the matter I should blush at the form I do not usually speak non sense and these expressions are no other in the very first note the connexion Moses could prevail with the Lord in prayer but I can neither prevail by prayer nor law I pray you who is the object of Prayer and Law is not the Lord with whom Moses prevailed and doth it not sound like M. Crofton He could not prevail with God by prayer or law because ungodly men had prevailed with unjust Judges c. And again thinks any that I deem a Church-living an inheritance that I should account the intrusion of Joh. Simpson into the whole who is in no part a disinheriting me of my right Again Thinks any that I understand not the term Pious or Godly that I should Tautologize in my expressions Let my brethren Judge whether it