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A41684 An Epistle to all the Christian magistrates and powers in the whole Christendom and professors, and teachers, and Christians that witness the end of the law, and the Levitical priesthood, and confess Christ Jesus ... Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Gould, Anne, 17th cent. 1659 (1659) Wing G1414; ESTC R15794 14,696 17

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he was before them Men and Brethren I have lived before God in all good Conscience until this day and the way which ye call Heresie so worship I the God of my Fathers believing all things which are written in the Law and the Prophets and have hope towards God which they themselves also allow that there should be a Resurrection of the dead both of the Just and the unjust and herein do I exercise my self to have my Conscience alwayes void of offence both towards God and towards man see Act. 24. 16. Now when the Apostle came to exercise himself to have alwayes his Conscience void of offence towards God and towards men then did the Magistrates and Counsels and the Priests gather against him when he began to keep his Conscience void of offence towards God and towards men Neither did they persecute us until we came to exercise our selves towards God and towards men not regarding day nor shadows but the substance Christ who ends all types and preached Christ the substance to Jews and Gentiles So that was a thing to the Magistrates to the powers to the Principalities and to the Counsels to the Jewes to the Priests the Temple and the Tithes the first Covenant and the Offerings the shadows the Types they turned against the Apostle who was come to the exercise of himself to have his Conscience void of offence c. Now mark ye Magistrates What have ye to do with Conscience And what have ye to do with Paul and them that exercise themselves to keep alwayes a good Conscience void of offence towards God and towards men What have the Jewes Magistrates and the Counsel and the Heathen Kings and Magistrates to do with the Apostle who exercised himself to have a good Conscience to keep it void of offence c. and what have they to do with him now And then they begin to persecute him ye do not read it before that they persecuted him the Magistrates until he came to exercise himself to have a good Conscience void of offence c. Then was he persecuted of the Magistrates the Jews Magistrates and Counsel and Heathens and so it is now to this day for ye never medled with us or any of the Apostles until they came to improve their own talent and to put hte Lords money to Usury and to improvement and come to that which exerciseth themselves to keep their Conscience clean and void of offence towards God and towards man towards the righteous God and the things which are righteous towards men and shew forth their everlasting Salvation Then doth Magistrates Kings Professors and Priests being to be like mad men rage and cruelly persecute banish whip stone stock reproach mock when men come to exercise their Conscience towards God to have it void of offence c. And that hath been the overthrowing of Nations overthrowing of powers when they left the Law that is Just to keep down transgression envious persons and man-slayers and such as be the destroyers of the Creation and left such and turned themselves against such as exercised themselves to keep their Conscience void of offence c. And then did they turn from the power of God and turned against God and turned themselves against those that exercise themselves to have alwayes a good Conscience void of offence towards God c. And such endures grief and suffers wrongfully for Conscience sake towards God are buffeted for no fault and such as do so taking it patiently are thank-worthy 1 Pet. 2. 19. And such they speak evil of as evil-doers as have a good Conscience And such are falsly accused as have their good conversation in Christ Jesus that suffer for well-doing see 1 Pet. 3. And such as draw nigh unto God with a true heart in a full assurance of Faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water Heb. 10. And such comes to witness the blood of Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered up himselfe without spot unto God purging their Consciences from dead works to serve the living God Then such as be in the dead works persecutes that have the evil Conscience persecutes them that have their Consciences cleansed Heb. 9. Therefore saith the Apostle I thank God whom I serve from my Fathers with a pure Conscience 2 Tim. 1. 3. holding the Mystery of faith in a pure Conscience here was the Apostles the Saints Testimony 1 Tim. 3. But such now professors that profess God in words but in works deny him their Consciences are defiled And they are them that say while they are upon earth their Consciences must be defiled while they are upon earth and so have not the Faith nor a place for it the living Faith in which it is held the pure Consciences Now the end of the Commandement is Charity our of a pure heart and a good Conscience and Faith unfeigned in which Conscience this Faith is held And those were them that were persecuted having Faith and a good Conscience which some have put away and of it made ship-wrack 1 Tim. 1. And such as speaks lyes in hypocrisie having their Consciences seared as with a hot Iron 1 Tim. 4. And such now which have put a good Conscience away they cannot hold the Faith and those forbid meats and drinks and marriage and follows the fables And these be them that be in hardness of heart and turns against them that have a good Conscience Now we knowing the terrour of the Lord perswade men but we are manifest unto God I trust also are manifest in your Consciences 2 Cor. 5. Having renounced the hidden things of darkness and dishonestly not walking in craftiness nor handling the Word of God deceitfully but in the manifestation of the truth commending our selves to every mans Conscience in the sight of God 2 Cor. 4 c. For our rejoycing is this the Testimony of our Consciences that in simplicity and godly sincerity not in the fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we have had our conversation in the world c. 2 Cor. 1. Therefore take heed of sinning against your Brethren and wounding their weak Conscience if ye do ye sin against Christ Therefore keep thy Conscience clean I say the truth in Christ Jesus I lye not my Conscience also bearing me witness in the holy Ghost The good Conscience witnesseth with truth which the Mystery of Faith is held in it Rom. 8. Pray for us for we trust we have a good Conscience in all things willing to live honestly Heb. 12. And the Sacrifice could not make perfect as pertaining to the Conscience Therefore when the Sacrifice Christ Jesus that ends the other sacrifice that makes perfect the Conscience in which the Mystery of Faith is held Heb. 9. For if the comers to had been made perfect by the offerings there had been no more Conscience of sin the worshippers once purged should have no more Conscience of sin but by these