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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	good_a	pure_a	unfeigned_a	2,187	5	10.9762	5	true

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A91165	Conscientious, serious theological and legal quæres, propounded to the twice-dissipated, self-created anti-Parliamentary Westminster juncto, and its Members. To convince them of, humble them for, convert them from their transcendent treasons, rebellions, perjuries, violences, oppressive illegal taxes, excises, militiaes, imposts; destructive councils, proceedings against their lawfull Protestant hereditarie kings, the old dissolved Parliament, the whole House of Lords, the majoritie of their old secured, secluded, imprisoned fellow-Members, the counties, cities, boroughs, freemen, commons, Church, clergie of England, their Protestant brethren, allies; contrary to all their oathes, protestations, vowes, leagues, covenants, allegiance, remonstrances, declarations, ordinances, promises, obligations to them, the fundamental laws, liberties of the land; and principles of the true Protestant religion; and to perswade them now at last to hearken to and embrace such counsels, as tend to publike unitie, safetie, peace, settlement, and their own salvation. / By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing P3930; Thomason E772_3; ESTC R203226	35,699	53

proving so bitter trampling all Law and Justice under foot with greater scorn contempt impudence than ever any Kings Old Council Table Lords Strafford or Canterbury were guilty of And their leaving not so much as one Judge or Justice to act under them in any one Court of Justice at Westminster nor no face of any real or pretended Legal Authority in England or Ireland to execute Justice between man and man and dismounting all those Judges Grandees of the Law who formerly complyed with them and acted under them in all their Innovations a just reward for their temporizing against their Judgements Law and Conscience their future harvest of our Lawes Reformation will not probably prove so lawlesse and exorbitant that the whole English Nation and Army too if they have not abandonned all humanity christianity charity justice will revive this prayer in our antient Liturgy against such a full and through Deformation and Deformers of our Lawes From all evil and mischief from all blindness of heart from pride vainglory and hypocrisie from envy hatred and all uncharitableness good Lord deliver us And exhort their fellow brethren of Scotland and Ireland in the Apostles words 2 Thess. 3. 1 2. Finally brethren pray for us that the word of the Lord and good old Laws of the Land may run and have free course and be glorified and that we may be delivered from absurd or unreasonable wicked men who thus reform and purge out the Laws very bowels for all men and such reforming Saints especially have not faith whatever they professe who under pretext of a most transcendent Reformation and purgation of the Gospel and Law would reduce us into the condition of the Israelites 2 Chron. 15. 3. Now for a long season Israel had been without the true God and without a teaching Priest and without Law And why so The Apostle resolves us in direct terms 1 Tim. 1. 4. c. The end of the Law is charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith unfeined from which some having swerved have turned aside to vain jangling desiring to be teachers yea Reformers of the Law understanding neither what they say nor what they affirm But we know that the Law is good if a man use it lawfully knowing also that the Law is not made for a righteous man but for the lawless and disobedient for the ungodly and for sinners For Murderers of Fathers and murtherers of Mothers for man-slayers c. for men-stealers for lyars for perjured persons every other thing that is contrary to sound doctrin And our Army-Grandees Juncto and new Reformers being such would abrogate all Lawes and Lawyers too least they should restrain and punish them for these their Capital crimes Forgetting this lesson that though they null all the Laws and Courts of Justice in Westminster-hall and elsewhere yet they shall never abrogate nor escape the Law Judgement Execution Justice and vengeance of * God himself who will render indignation and wrath tribulation and anguish to every soul of man that doth evil whether Jew or Gentile For as many who have sinned without Law shall also perish without Law and as many as have sinned in the Law shall be judged by the Law Enough to disswade them from their intended Reformation to reform their own and the Armies lawless exorbitances before they reform our Laws or others far better than themselves Whether all the old conscientious faithfull publike spirited secured secluded and re-excluded Members who to the uttermost of their powers opposed voted protested against all the late dismal Jesuitical Powder-Treasons Violences Innovations Exorbitances of the dissolved Juncto and Army and have h vexed their righteous souls from day to day yea i shed rivers of tears from their mournfull eyes because of these their heinous transgressions against the Laws of God and the Land may not with much comfort apply this promise of God to themselves and their uncharitable brethren who secluded all imprisoned sundry of them Isa. 66. 5 6. c. 26. 11 13 14. Hear the word of the Lord ye that tremble at his word Your brethren that hated you that cast you out for my name sake said Let the Lord be thereby glorified but he shall appear to your joy and they shall be ashamed by reason of their own double ejection dissolution in a strange unexpected manner A voice of noise from the City a voice from the Temple a voice of the Lord that rendreth recompence to his enemies Lord when thy hand is lifted up they will not see but they shall see and be ashamed for their envy towards the people yea the fire of their Enemies their very fierie Guards and Powder-men shall devour them O Lord our God other Lords besides thee our New Supreme Lords Powers Protectors of the dissolved Junctoes counsel and tother House have had dominion over us but by thee only will we make mention of thy name They are dead they shall not live they are deceased they shall not rise therfore hast thou visited and destroyed them and made all their Memory to Perish Even k so let all thine Enemies and the publike impenitent malicious Enemies of our Churches Kings Kingdoms Parliaments Peoples Liberties fall and perish O Lord but let them that love thee and the publike peace welfare settlement prosperity of our Churches Kings Kingdoms Nations be as the Sun when he goeth forth in his might That so the Land may have rest forty years together as the Land of Israel had after l the Lord had discomfited Sisera and all his Chariots and all his host with the edge of the Sword before Barak and Deborah Amen Whether the General Council of Officers and Army-Saints former and late slandering false accusing forcible secluding the Members of the long Parliament as Trust-breakers and the whole House of Lords for whose defence they were raised waged commissioned and their subsequent dissolving dissipating with high scorne their own Anti-Parliamentary Junctoes from whom they received their new Commissions end engaged several times to yeeld their utmost assistance to them to sit in safety to be true faithfull and constant to them and to live and die in their defence be a conscientious saint-like performance 1. Of John Baptists Evangelical Injunction to all Souldiers Luke 3. 14. Do violence to no man neither accuse any falsly and be content with your allowance 2ly Of St. Pauls description of a good Souldier of Jesus Christ 2 Tim. 2. 3 4. Thou therefore endure hardness No man that warreth intangloth himself with the affairs of this life that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a Souldier not disobey betray supplant or destroy him 3ly Of Pauls and Peters expresse commands to all Officers Souldiers whatsoever as well as others Rom. 13. 1 2 c. Let every soul be subject to the higher powers for there is no power but of God the powers that be are ordained of God

Whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation c. Wherefore ye must needs be subject not only for wrath but also for conscience sake Tit. 3. 1 2. Put them in mind to be subject to Principalities and Powers to obey Magistrates to be ready to every good work To speak evil of no man to be gentle shewing all meekness unto all men Ephes. 6. 5 6 7. Col. 4. 22 23 24. Servants such are all Mercenary Officers Soldiers under pay to the old Parliament and Kingdom obey in all things your Masters according to the flesh in fear and trembling in singleness of heart as unto Christ Not with eye service as men-pleasers but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart With good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men for ye serve the Lord Christ 1 Pet. 2. 13 to 20. Submit your selves to every Ordinance of man for the Lord sake whether it be to the King as supreme or unto Governors as unto those who are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and for the praise of them that do well for so is the will of God that with well-doing ye put to silence the ignorance of foolish men As free and not using your liberty as a cloak of maliciousnesse but as the servants of God Honour all men in lawfull authority Fear God Honour the King Servants be subject to your Masters with all fear not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward For this is thank-worthy if a man for conscience toward God endure grief suffering wrongfully Whether by their former late rebellions against the King Parl. all their lawful Superiors and exalting themselves above all their former Lords and Masters they have not given Christ himself the lye and falsified his reiterated Asseveration Resolution Mat. 10. 24. John 13. 16. c. 15. 10. Verily Verily I say unto you the Disciple is not above his Master nor the Servant above or greater than his Lord neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him If ye know these things happy are ye if ye do them And whether they will not prove bitternesse and damnation to them in the latter end Whether the Juncto and Army Council upon serious consideration of all the premises and their former miscarriages have not all cause with penitent hearts and bleeding Spirits to cry out and make this old publike confession in the Book of Common Prayer Almighty and most mercifull Father we have erred and strayed from thy wayes like lost sheep We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts we have offended against thy holy laws we have left undone those things which we ought to have done and we have done those things which we ought not to have done and there is no health nor truth in us But thou O Lord have mercy upon us miserable Offendors And grant that we may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life to the glory of thy holy name Amen Which if these Workers of iniquity shall still refuse to do as if the Lord did neither see nor regard it and thereby provoke our 3. Nations to cry out with united prayers to God against them * Help Lord for the godly man ceaseth for the faithfull fail from among the children of men O Lord God of revenges O Lord God to whom vengeance belongeth shew thy self lift up thy self thou Judge of the Earth render a reward to the proud Lord how long shall the wicked how long shall the wicked triumph how long shall they utter hard things and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves They break in pieces thy people O Lord afflict thine heritage they slay the widow and murder the fatherless They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous and condemn the innocent bloud Whether they must not then expect that inevitable doom of God himself ensuing after such practises and Prayers Psa. 94. 23. And the Lord shall bring upon them their own iniquity and shall cut them off in their own wickednesse yea the Lord our God shall cut them off * The transgressors shall be destroyed together the end of the wicked shall be cut off But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord he is their strength in the time of troble And the Lord shall help them and deliver them he shall deliver them from the wicked and save them because they trust in him Jer. 36. 3 7. It may be they will now present their supplications before the Lord and return every one from his evil way that God may forgive their iniquity and their sin for great is the anger and the fury that the Lord hath pronounced against this people An Exact Alphabetical List of the Old and New secluded Members of the Commons House in the long Parliament surviving May 7. 1659. when the dissolved Juncto began their new Session Baronets Knights and Viscounts LOrd Ancram Sir Ralph Ashton Sir John Barrington Sir Thomas Barnardiston Sir Robert Benloes Sir George Booth Sir Humphry Bridges Sir Ambrose Brown Sir John Burgoin Sir Roger Burgoin Sir Henry Cholmley Sir John Clotworthy Sir John Corbet Sir John Curson Sir Thomas Dacres Sir Francis Drake Sir William Drake Sir Walter Earl Sir Charles Egerton Sir John Evelin of Surry Sir John Evelin of Wiltes Sir John Fenweck Sir Edmund Fowel Sir Gilbert Gerard Sir Harbotle Grimston Sir Richard Haughton Sir John Holland Sir Anthony Irby Sir Martin Knatchbull Sir John Leigh Sir William Lewis Sir William Lister Sir William Litton Sir Samuel Luke Sir Nicholas Martyn Sir Thomas Middleton Sir Robert Nappier Sir Robert Nedham Sir Dudly North Sir John Northcot Sir Richard Onslow Sir Hugh Owen Sir John Palgrave Sir Philip Parker Sir Thomas Parker Sir Edward Partridge Sir John Pellam Sir William Platers Sir Nevil Poole Sir John Pots Sir Robert Pye Sir Francis Russel Sir Beauchamp Saint-John Sir John Seymor Sir Thomas Some Sir William Strickland Sir John Temple Sir Thomas Trever Sir Humpy Tuston Sir William Waller Thomas Viscount Wenman Sir Henry Worsly Sir Richard Wynne Sir John Young In all 64. Esquiers Gentlemen and Lawyers John Alford Arthur Ansley Mr. Andrews William Ardington John Arundle Mr. Ascough Francis Bacon Nathaniel Bacon Edward Bainton Col. John Barker Maurice Barro Mr. Bell James Bence Col. John Birch Edward Bish John Bowyer John Boyes Major Brooks Major General Brown Samuel Brown Serjant at Law Francis Buller John Bunkly Hugh Buscoen Mr. Button Mr. Camble William Carrent Col. Ceely James Chaloner Mr. Clive Commiss. Copley John Crew Thomas Crompton Mr. Crowder Thomas Dacre John Dormer John Doyle Mr. Drake Robert Ellison Mr. Erisy Mr. Evelin Edward Fowel William Foxwist John Francis James Fyennis Nathaniel Eyennis Samuel Gardiner Francis Gerard Thomas Gewen William Glanvil John Glynne Serjant at Law Samuel Gott Thomas Grove Elias