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
A67219	Suum cuiq, or, Every one his own in a short discourse on the 21th. ver. of the 22th. chapt of St. Matthew : first preached, from the firm principles of his own loyalty, then published, to gratify the free proposals of a neighbours generosity / by J. Wyllys ...	Wyllys, J.	1676 (1676)	Wing W3771; ESTC R38782	11,445	25

all Members yea and all Faculties are diligently employ'd to provide Meat for the Belly to invent and menage Preservatives for the Brest rendering their utmost as due to those vital parts nay venturcing the loss of any of all to save Them So should all Subjects render unto Cesar all possible Defenes and Support 5. And at this time lastly Cesars due is Love and Prayer I joyn them because our love is manifested in nothing more to persons out of our reach then in praying for them Now Cesar is above us and our ordinary duties of Charity tho as divine Herbert sings Love is a present for a mighty King which because we cannot frequently manifest in it 's more familiar acts though bound habitually to have it in readiness therefore this that extends to all at all distances and is every ones due so in a peculiar manner is it Cesars See the Apostle's Cannon for it 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. I exhort therefore that first of all Supplications Prayers Intercessions and giving of Thanks be made for all men but particularly for Kings and all that are in Authority over us And they indeed especially need it Cesar's Condition tho much above others yet is more Expos'd than others his Greatness makes not only his Burdens but dangers more imminent He becomes from His height a more conspicuous Mark for the whole Artillery of Hell and wicked men His temptations are many from His uncontroulable Capacitie all being accountable to Him He only to God From His Eminency He is lyable to be flatterd in any of his possible Errors too many being still ready with their Pillows and Kerchiefs nay and the very Prophets are apt to dawb with untemper'd mortar Their Counsels are intricate and difficult their thoughts oft ruffl'd with their Solicitous care of the Peoples good and therefore as a particular and peculiar due they call for our Prayers that They may be directed upon all Emergencies to sound and safe Resolves that They may be preserv'd from all those theatning dangers that They may wisely and powerfully resist and repel those many sly and mighty temptations and indeed in nothing more can subjects be expressive of their Love to Cesar than in humble sincere and constant prayer All and every of which must in their proportion be deriv'd upon his Substitutes it being by St. Peters Rule 1 Ep. 2. 13 14. Due to every ordinance of man and that for the Lords sake For as Cesars are Gods so all other Rulers and Governours are Cesar's Substitutes But oh how little has been nay may I not say how little is Christs advice followed by Christians his peaecable and humble precepts being esteem'd rather as Bouys and Marcks on Shelfs and Rocks not to be approach'd than as Phares and Light houses to direct our way Le ts expostulate the thing a little and may such as are guilty so self-judg and condemn themselves here that they may avoid the judgment of Condemnation hereafter we shall only thetically enquier whether 1. This be to honour and esteem Cesar or his Substitutes when we speak all manner of evil of Dignities which tho St. Jude propheci'd of yet with such an assimulation that one would think should make all men avoid it or at least the punishment annexed to it the perishing of Corah I am sure St. Paul Act 23. 5. Owns the canonical obligation of Exod. 22. 28. That none ought to speak evil of the Ruler of the people which is yet much more material for the Conviction of all who with-hold their Due if we consider it was after the dissolution of the Mosaical Frame yet spoken in reference to a pretended high Priest then in being by whose unjust command He was struck in the Face v. 2. and utter'd by way of retractation that he had any way cast dishonour or appear to disesteem him Those certainly that do slight vilifie and contemn Cesar either in thought word or deed do in neither Honour and Esteem Him and contrary to Christs Command with-hold his due not Rendring unto Cesar the things that are Cesar's 2. Do they Fear or Reverence Cesar that vilifie and reproach him and all his actions do they regard them as Gods that refuse them the common reverence due to men that if they please not them they shall not only not be what God has appointed them but not be at all Invading not only their undoubted Prerogatives but their sacred Persons Shall it be thought an effect of fear and reverence that made David's heart smite him for cutting of Saul's lappet and shall not the stupendious Treason of Remorseless severing his Anointed Head from his Body be rank'd in the front of the same Classis I leave the question to be resolved by the most cauterised Conscience But we hope that so detestable a thing will never again enter into the heart much less reach the hand of the most miscreant Subject For 1 Sam. 26. 9. Who can stretch his hand against the Lords anointed and be guiltless Nay who can brandish his tongue against the worst of Cesars and not incur divine displeasure For Solomon a King wise and good Eccles 10. 20. Curse not the King no not in thy thoughts though it may be thou mayest think he deserves it much less upbraid him in thy speech though never so reproachable Elihu intimates though he be possibly wicked and ungodly yet it is a very unfitting thing to be said to any Supreme Job 38. 18. Is it fit to say to a King thou art wicked or to Princes ye are ungodly The affirmative Interrogation strongly denies the thing it is by no means fit which he esteems so indubitable that he dare leave it to common judgment Every Cesar not being less Gods Minister to execute vengeance on evil doers tho He himself be such They are not to be reviled and flighted as Sinners but dreaded and rever'd as Avengers 3. Again are such Obedient and Subject that out of pretended Conscience but real faction dispute and question all but contradict and oppose many of his Injunctions Not considering that nothing is more evident than that all lawful Commands are to be obeyed actively and even the most unlawful passively as before and then are Cesar's Commands lawful when no way contradicted by Gods Indeed it is unlawful to obey when God forbids the very matter of their commands But then this caution is not to be forgotten That as we are sure Subjection and Obedience is Cesar's due so after the impartial use of all possible means we stand assuredly convinc'd that this or that command of Cesar's runs counter with God's else how easie is it to put on the pretence of Conscience to Cloak Disobedience appearing to give unto God the things that are God's and in the mean time Robb Cesar of that which is his and so under a specious notion of it's being better to obey God then man Disobey both 4. Yet again do they give Cesar his due of Defence and Support who