Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	good_a	heart_n	merry_a	1,048	5	9.9107	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79267	His Majesties most gracious speech, together with the Lord Chancellours, to the tvvo Houses of Parliament, on Thursday the 13. of September, 1660 Die Jovis, 13. Septemb. 1660. Printed and published at the desire of both Houses of Parliament, and with His Majesties allowance. John Brown cleric. Parliamentorum.; Speeches. 1660-09-13	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674.; England and Wales. Parliament.; England and Wales. Lord Chancellor's Dept.	1660 (1660)	Wing C3169A; ESTC R223886	8,840	12

story of Nicephorus it is an excellent story and very applicable to such distempers He was a pious and religious man and for his Piety and Religion was condemned to the fire when he was led to execution and when an old Friend who had done him injury enough fell at his feet and asked his pardon the poor man was so elated with the triumph he was going unto with the glory of Martyrdom tthat he refused to be reconciled unto him upon which he was disappointed of his end and for this uncharitableness the Spirit of God immediately forsook him and he apostatized from the Faith Let all those who are too proud of having been as they think less faulty then other men and so are unwilling to be reconciled to those who have offended them take heed of the Apostacy of Nicephorus and that those fumes of Envy and Uncharitableness and Murmuring do not so far transport and intoxicate them that they fall into those very Crimes they value themselves for having hitherto declined But my Lords and Gentlemen whilest we conspire together to execute faithfully this part of the Bill to put all old names and terms of distinction into utter Oblivion let us not finde new names and terms to keep up the same or a worse distinction If the old reproaches of Cavalier and Round-head and Malignant be commited to the Grave let us not finde more significant and better words to signifie worse things let not Piety and Godliness grow into terms of reproach and distinguish between the Court and the City and the Countrey and let not Piety and Godliness be measured by a morosity in Manners an affectation of Gesture a new mode and tone of Speaking at least let not our Constitutions and Complexions make us be thought of a contrary party and because we have not an affected austerity in our looks that we have not Piety in our hearts Very merry men have been very godly men and if a good Conscience be a continuall Feast there is no reason but men may be very merry at it You Mr. Speaker have this day made a noble Present to the King Do you think that if you and your worthy Companions had brought it up with folded Arms down-cast looks with sighs and other instances of desperation would it not have been a very melancholick Present Have not your frank and dutiful expressions that chearfulnes and vivacity in your looks rendered it much more acceptable much more valuable No Prince in Christendom loves a chearful giver so well as God Almighty does and he of all gifts a chearful heart and therefore I pray let not a cloudy and disconsolate face be the onely or the best sign of Piety and Devotion in the heart I must ask your pardon for misplacing much of 〈◊〉 Discourse which I should have mentioned when I came to speak 〈◊〉 the Ministers Bill they I hope will endeavour to remove these 〈…〉 ●●rks of distinction and reproaches and keep their Auditorie 〈…〉 ●●●osed upon by such characters and descriptions The King hath passed this Act very willingly and done much to the end of this Act before yet hath willingly admitted you to be sharers and partners with Him in the Obligation I may say confidently His Majesty hath never denyed his Confirmation to any man in possession who hath asked it and they have all had the effect of it except such who upon examination and enquiry appeared not worthy of it and such who though they are pardoned cannot yet think themselves worthy to be preferred His Majesty well knows that by this Act he hath gratified and obliged many worthy and pious men who have contributed much to his Restauration and who shall alwayes receive fresh evidence of his Majesties favour and kindness but he is not sure that he may not likewise have gratified some who did neither contribute to his coming in nor are yet glad that he is in how comes it else to pass that he receives such frequent information of seditious Sermons in the City and in the Countrey in which all industry is used to alienate the affections of the people and to infuse Jealousies into them of the King and his Government They talk of introducing Popery of evil Councellors and such other old Calumnies as are pardoned by this Act of Indempnity His Majesty told you when he was last here what rigour and severity he will hereafter use how contrary soever it is to his Nature in these cases and conjured you My Lords and Gentlemen to concur with him in this just and necessary Severity which I am sure you will do with your utmost vigilance and that you will believe that too much ill cannot befall those who do the best they can to corrupt His Majesties Nature and to extinguish His Mercy My Lords and Gentlemen I told you I was to acquaint you with some things his Majesty intends to do during this Recess that you may see He will give no intermission to His own thoughts for the publick good though for a time He dispences with your assistance He doth consider the infinite importance the improvement of Trade must be to this Kingdom and therefore His Majesty intends forthwith to establish a Council for Trade consisting of some principal Merchants of the several Companies to which he will adde some Gentlemen of quality and experience and for their greater honour and encouragement some of my Lords of His own Privy Council In the next place His Majesty hopes that by a well settled Peace and Gods great blessing upon Him and you this Nation will in a short time ●●●●●ish to that degree that the Land of Canaan did when Esau found 〈◊〉 ●●cessary to part from his brother For their riches were 〈…〉 that they might dwell together and the Land where 〈…〉 not bear them because of their Cattle We have been Our Selves very near this Pinacle of happiness and the hope of contemplation that we may be so a gain disposes the King to be very solicitous for the improvement and prosperity of His Plantations abroad where there is such large room for the Industry and Reception of such who shall desire to go thither and therefore his Majesty likewise intends to erect and establish a Council for those Plantations in which persons well qualified shall be wholly intent upon the good and advancement of those Plantations There are two other Particulars which I am commanded to mention which were both mentioned and recommended to You by His Majesty in His Declaration from Breda The one for the Confirmation of Sales or other recompence for Purchasers The other for the composing those differences and distempers in Religion which have too much disturbed the Peace of the Kingdom Two very weighty particulars in which His Majesty knows You have spent much time and concerning which he should have heard from You before this time if You had not met with great difficulties in the disquisition of either For the first His Majesty hath not been