Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	get_v	good_a	keep_v	4,959	5	6.4863	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26001	Some generall observations upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book, and way of wrighting with a vindication of St. Ignatius Loyola, and his followers the Iesuits, from the foul aspersions he has lately cast upon them, in his discourse concerning the idolatry, &c. : in four letters, written to A.B.	Ashby, Richard, 1614-1680.	1672 (1672)	Wing A3942; ESTC R7040	65,474	73

order that the publick Schools might be restored at Clermont Colledge Upon this occasion he delivered himself thus Fathers There are four years past since you presented me your welcome Petition at Metz. and I did not admit you but upon very good informations You are beholding to your enemies for it and my curiosity was not out of your way If things go on but slowly do not attribute it to my want of Affection and care but to the multiplicity of business which overwhelmes me All cannot be done at once We are now upon the Foundation of Colledges and the rest will be done by degrees for I take it to heart I knew well they were calumnies they cast upon you I have alwayes defended you and when I heard of any thing I instantly acquainted F. Cotton with it that you might take your measures accordingly and to let you know that what I did for you was not out of a counterfeit dissimulation but out of My true Love and sincere Affection I have placed you in my house and that of my Ancestors to give my Subjests example to do the like Your present Petition is grateful I am resolved to finish my work but to tell you plainly I do not think it a fit time to restore your Colledge at Paris there will be a time for that hereafter Here the King making a Pause the Provincial of the Jesuits began to mind him of the other thing he had requested and his majesty immediately replyed I am coming to it but I was willing to begin with that which I take most to heart I remember all you said though I do not observe the same method It is true you are exposed in Paris and were I not there you might come to be affronted but you were too blame you did not tell me so I did not think things went so had I known it I would have remedied it before this Give me a note of it that I may communicate it with my Counsel and get it dispatcht to day or to morrow I have loved you and cherished you ever since I knew you out of an assurance I had that all those who have recourse to you whether for instruction in Learning or for the direction of their consciences are much improved by it and I have alwayes sayd that those that truly love and fear God cannot but do well and are the most faithful to their Princes Keep but your rules they are good ones I have protected you and will still be your Protector I am much pleased that the Pope does not make you Bishops and Cardinals Stick to that for if ambition once creep in amongst you you are lost men We are all frail and have need to resist tentations every one of you may experience it in himself but you have the way to overcome them I have a great Kingdome and as great persons may commit great errors or do much good because they are great and powerful so you that are eminent in Learning and Vertue amongst the servants of God may do much good by your Sermons Confessions Writings Lessons Disputations and good instructions but if you fail in your duty and grow slack in your pious endeavours you may do much hurt in regard the World has a great opinion of you I was very glad to understand that you have taken order that none of you print books which may give offence you do well That which might pass in Italy will not relish in other places and that which is liked in France may displease in Italy We must suit our selves to those we live with and you must avoid the least occasion of offence for there are many eyes upon you and your actions but it is better for you to be envyed then pittyed If all bad tongues were cut out there would be great store of dumb persons we should have difficulty to find servants I have been of two Religions and when I was a Hugonot what ever I did was said to be done for that party now I am a Catholick whatever I do for my Religion I am said to be a Iesuit I slight all such sencures and content my self to do good because it is good do you so too Those that say it is out of spight that you do not restore your Colledge at Paris would soon find something else to object against you Do not value what they say but only do well If in twelve thousand of you one should chance to commit a fault it were no great wonder It were rather a miracle that no more delinquents should be found in so great a number since there was one Iudas amongst twelve Apostles This i●le tell you if any one of you commit a fault I will be the first to fall upon him but will not revenge my self upon the whole body The Father you have chose to go to Rome will assure your General of my affection to the Society For your selves you may beleive I le be as tender of you as of the Apple of my eye Pray to God for me This was His Majestyes Speech to the Jesuits as it is Recorded by Montholon Advocate in Parliament and what can be added to his testimony whether you regard the person that speaks who was a most wise Prince or the substance he delivers which is most sententious and solid I do not see what Panegyrick or what Apology the Jesuits could have made of more force or more for their advantage Their enemies are put upon a necessity either to speak well of them or affront that great Monarch by giving him the Lye For to say he lov'd the Jesuits because he did not know them is to rob him of one of his best parts which all admired in him which was not to be easily consened in the judgment he framed of others and besides this was after he had tryed them many years and had one of them continually near his person 11. After all these expressions of kindness which were alwayes followed with real favours who would imagine that the Jesuits should be I do not say so ungrateful and inhumane but so stupid and insensible of their own good as to plot this their grand Benenefactors and protectors death Yet Dr. St. is the man that layes it to their charge as if they had not only design'd it in Chastels attempt which proved ineffectual but actually murthered him in the person of Ravillac of whose counsel he supposes them to have been though the villain himself who had most reason to know it in all his examinations and tortures alwaies protested that no body counsaild him to the Fact nor so much as knew of his intentions It is true the Jesuits enemies taking it to be a fit occasion to vent their malice against them during the young Kings minority whom they could not hurt in his fathers time spread abroad Libels against them and stuck not to report that Ravillac had suck'd all his deadly poyson out of Mariana's book which he had got