Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	david_n	heart_n	smite_v	1,341	5	9.6931	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43621	Gregory, Father-Greybeard, with his vizard off, or, News from the Cabal in some reflexions upon a late pamphlet entituled, The rehearsal transpros'd (after the fashion that now obtains) in a letter to our old friend, R.L. from E.H.	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1673 (1673)	Wing H1808; ESTC R7617	145,178	344

or kneel as do the English Protestants one is as warrantable as the other and all alike and all unlike to the posture of our Saviour at the Institution of it if he lean'd his head upon St. Johns Breast as he did at Supper which yet cannot be prov'd that that posture of Discumbency was his posture at the celebration of this Sacrament But much more credit had it been to Trinkles and much more good had he done in his generation if instead of hollaing and whooping against the Ecclesiastical Politician he had been hollaing and whooping his Dogs his Hogs his Geese or his Sheep and leave discourses of Divinity and Policy and censures upon the Doctrine and Fathers of our Church King and Parliament to men of greater abilities and more modesty greater reading and better parts Or if his antipathy be great as it seems to be to all Clergywen forgetting his Father let him concerning Sacraments learn of that almost matchless Pen of Sir William Morrice in his Coena quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by which like a true English Gentleman and not an upstart Virtuoso he has gain'd a more lasting and glorious name than a Kingdom could have given him without such accomplishments and as much honour by every page of that his Book as Father-gray-beard has got dishonour by his And that is enough in all conscience in the judgement of all Learned men always excepted the Modern Orthodox who I know would be angry to be excluded quite from being thought at least to be Learned men though the truly Learned men of the world by long expectation to see some of their Learning in their works or words are now grown hopeless and despair of it it is so long a coming a deaf man would be glad to hear it as much as a blind mind would be glad to see it chiefly because their Learning consists in sounds and tones cantings groanings noise clamours and whinings which would be convenient for a deaf man to hear And likewise in thumping the Pulpit and there traversing all the whole postures of a Master of Fence and has frighted some that used to sit near the Pulpit from their feats being so often menaced with visage grim and fierce and Bible heav'd up lest at last they should be knockt on the head with Geneva and Knox. And truly at this taking Oratory they are old excellent and for this alone cryed up and followed by the rabble in as great multitudes as Jack-pudding himself has about him at a Fair. And though I know not one knowing man of Quality in England that is a Phanatick except upon design as a crafty Mountebank companies and playes the fool with his own Jack so the rabble and multitude are generally as much pleased with one of these Phanatick Jack-puddings and part with their monies as freely to them and flock about them in droves as great and numerous about them as about Merry Andrew or Poet Wild. And they 'l follow this foolery till their pocket's emptied and pickt pretty often and the jest grow stale as indeed it is very sowre already to all understanding men and women and though they did flock hand over head with their Plate Thimbles Bodkins Horse Arms Spoons Gold rings and Beakers to those Jack-Puddings in the late times Hugh Peters and the rest preaching upon Judg. 5. 23. Curse ye Meroz as if they were afraid the Devil would take the hindmost yet it would not be so taking now as then except the Hocus's devise some new Antick Tricks fools and children being delighted only in change and novelty though the Text Curse ye Meroz will serve still now for the feat as well as ever it did when occasion serves Though to all but Fools and Knaves it is such a Text for Loyalty and Allegiance such a Text for the King and Cavaleers that Almighty God has not furnish'd us with such another in the whole Bible Yet these villains could turn it to the quite contrary sence wresting the holy word of God by their Interpretation as blasphemously as atheistically for they were not all of them so besotted but they could not but know that they did lie to the Holy Ghost I confess indeed there are abundance of Texts besides the fifth Commandment that plead for Allegiance and Loyalty but none like this of Curse ye Meroz Other Texts require us not to think evil nor speak evil of Dignities much more not to entreat them evilly For who can lift up his hand against the Lord 's Anointed and be guiltless Though the Lord 's Anoynted be as wicked as Nero or Saul and have a Devil in him as King Saul had yet we must not be so devilish as to lift up our hands against him David that did not cut off King Saul's head yet his heart smote him and his conscience smote him for cutting off Saul's skirt But this Text Curse ye Meroz denounces a heavy Curse not only as other Texts do for rebelling against the King and taking up arms against him and sending in money and plate to the Rebels to comfort the hearts and bowels of Traytors But here they are by the Angel of the Lord accursed that like Meroz sit at home and will neither come nor send in their Horse and Arms and Monies to the help of the Chief Magistrate and Chief Judge of the Land as Deborah then was and Meroz was accursed by the Angel of the Lord for not coming to help her against her mighty enemies Where note too that the helping thus the Chief Magistrate as Deborah was is called helping of God or the help of the Lord. No man that has his wits about him or has any sober sence enough to keep him from slavering can deny this meaning I put upon it and let Greg. and all the Modern Orthodox if they dare offer at any other Interpretation or mitigate the force of this sence I put upon it if they can and they are daring enough even now as well as formerly not only as T. G. and R. B. upon that Text Touch not mine Anointed but as many others of them and Greg. amongst the rest does p. 120. upon that Text Rebellion is as the sin of Witchcraft Which Text because the Eccles. Politician interprets it Rebellion against the King Greg. says for fear he would be knock'd on the head if he should deny it he does allow him that interpretation Nevertheless he say there that Text of Scripture will scarce admit it And though we know by that what true affection he bears to the King against whom who rebels rebels against God We have sinned against Moses and against thee say the People for the sin of Mutiny and Rebellion immediately against Moses is acknowledged Rebellion against God so that that evasion will ease the tender consciences of no Rebels but such of the Modern Orthodox like Father Gray-beard that thus mince it as R. B. and J. O. did Rom. 13. 2. making damn'd in that Text sound more