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	witness_n	witness_v	2,329	5	9.9757	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21002	A buckler against adversitie, or, A treatise of constancie written in French by the Right Honourable the Lord Du Vair ... ; and now done into English by Andreuu Court.; De la constance et consolation és calamites publiques. English. 1622	Du Vair, Guillaume, 1556-1621.; Court, Andrew.	1622 (1622)	STC 7373; ESTC S786	88,690	171

Apprenticeship of our Soules which after the Time and Labours that are prescribed vnto them shall be relieued from their Watching set at Libertie and restored to Eternall Rest which will affoord them wherewithall to satisfie that desire of Diuine being whereof they haue cast forth the first Sparkes through this heauie and cumbersome Flesh From her wee learne furthermore that after this Life our Soules doe not onely finde another more happie but euen our Bodyes rotting heere as Seede in the Ground shall spring into a new Fruit and shall be raysed vnto an Estate of Glorie and Perfection Therefore Diuinitie descending from Heauen mingled her selfe againe with Flesh to mould and kneade againe our Humanitie disfigured and defaced by Sinne ioyned her selfe to vs that shee might draw vs to her humbled her selfe to exalt vs quickned her Humanitie after death to make vs liue in the hope of that glorious Resurrection whereof shee was pleased to bee the First Fruites and by the which wee shall bee brought into the Inheritance of Glorie receiuing in Body and Soule the incomprehensible Splendour of Eternall Light But the passage to arriue thereunto is Death Desirable Death seeing it makes vs change Liues with so much profit Death not Death seeing it is the beginning of true Life and that wee are in this Body onely as the Chicken in the Shell which must bee broken ere it can be hatched or like the Child in his Mothers Wombe which must bee left ere wee can see the Day Let vs suffer them to feare it who thinke that all perisheth with the Body or them which expect after it the punishment of their Wickednesse And seeing wee haue so many Testimonies and so certaine Tokens of our future Life and being sure that dying here in the feare of God in the Faith of his beloued Sonne and trust in his Goodnesse wee shall liue againe aboue and enter into Glorie with him in the Throne of his Diuine Maiestie Let vs passe chearefully and lay downe the Burthen that hindereth and stayeth vs as wee would doe prophane Garments at the entrance of a holy Temple As for mee my Friends I feele my selfe almost in the Harbour with a great comfort of my Afflictions past and immediately for the Felicitie I expect I haue floated in the World in great and dangerous Stormes They tossed my Soule but they could not thankes bee to God ouerthrow it I know very well that the Condition of Humane Infirmitie hath put mee backe as shee doth all others from the perfection God requireth in vs but howsoeuer it neuer made mee loose the certaine and constant desire to aduance his Honour and Glory nor abate any thing of the good affection a good Subiect oweth vnto his Countrey My Conscience beareth mee this Witnesse and this Witnesse makes Death sweete and pleasant vnto mee I could wish euen at the last Gaspe I might doe the Publicke some Seruice but hauing no other meanes for it I will returne vnto you which are my best Friendes and it s too and for the last Office I can doe vnto this so holy Friendship I will coniure you that since you remayne heere to shut vp the end of a most Wretched Age you settle your Mindes by braue and constant Resolutions to withstand vndauntedly the Violence of the Tempest that threateneth this State and your particular Fortunes For all the Ages past haue seene fewe Miseries and Calamities but that you are like to see in your dayes The inside the outside of the kingdome great and small are like vnto mad men bent to its ruine and desolation You shall bee amazed one of these dayes when as you shall see the Lawes ouerthrowne the Gouernment altered all put into confusion those that shall haue the Gouernement beare the intent to loose both themselues and their owne Countrey and good men shall not bee suffered to open their Mouth and giue good and wholesome Counsell Remember then you are men and true hearted subiects vnto this crowne Let not your courage run away from you with your good Fortune Stand fast vpon Right and Reason and if the Waues and Billowes must carry you away let them ouerwhelme you with the Rudder in your hand still Behold the the time that you must present your brest against Fortune for the defence of the State and couer your countries body with your owne Certainely this ruine cannot bee auoyded without a great and generous courage of such as shall oppose themselues against it which all good men in my opinion are bound to doe Neuerthelesse you must qualifie by Prudence what an obstinate austeritie would but exasperate and make worse and follow Destinie without forsaking Vertue Doing well you shall shall runne into great hazards and shall suffer many iniuries but what can there happen so strange and horrible that the hope of the soueraigne good wherein I shall preuent you doth not aswage There is well-neere the same words that were vttered vnto vs by that great and wise Personage I rehearsed them vnto you against my Will knowing full well that the weakenesse of my Memorie and harshnesse of my Tongue would loose much of the weight of his Reasons and of the grace of his Discourse But if you had heard him himselfe with his sweete and pleasing fashion hee had kindled in your soules so liuely and ardent a desire of eternall felicitie that there is no affliction in the world the sense whereof hee had not taken away from you There Linus ended his speech and I beeing heartened and cheered vp sayd Certainly this was a very fine Discourse seeing that you who in all other things giue mee such satisfaction seemed vnto mee in the recitall of this to goe beyond your selfe I beleeue the Idea and remembrance of that great personage that is yet fresh and present in your Memorie for the honour and loue you bore vnto him quickned your tongue and inspired into you some thing more then humane Would to God this speech might continue as long as our miseries I am sure I should haue my Eares full of such Discourses and my Minde free from Sorrowes I sweare vnto you that since the time this Calamitie fell vpon vs I found nothing that made this Life more tolerable vnto mee then what I heard from you three these three last dayes but specially to day It is reported That Ptolomaus was forced to forbid Egesias the Cyrenian to discourse any more in publick of the Immortalitie of the Soule because the most part of those which heard him hastened their death with their owne hands That makes mee beleeue hee was ill acquainted with the Subiect hee handled For I beleeue there is nothing in the World giueth vs more courage to endure patiently our Miseries then the Reasons I learned euen now from you which in few wordes represented vnto vs what is the cause and the end of our Afflictions and what recompence our Patience findeth when wee can perseuer in it vnto the end Wherefore I could wish for the comfort of my poore distressed Countrey contrarie to that which was done to Egesias you should bee constrayned all three to continue in publicke such a Discourse But for as much as it is a thing I cannot hope for I am resolued to preserue carefully in my Memorie all that I learned from you about it and at my first leysure if our fortunate Studyes can get any set it downe in Writing to leaue it vnto Posteritie for to instruct in like occasions those that shall come after vs and let them know that in a most corrupted Age and amongst men strangely depriued of all Naturall Affection wee haue liued with a great compassion of the publicke Miserie and yet with a farre greater desire to bee able to helpe it FINIS