Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	heart_n	pure_a	unfeigned_a	1,824	5	10.8138	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76083	A just defence of John Bastwick. Doctor in Phisicke, against the calumnies of John Lilburne Leiutenant [sic] Colonell and his false accusations, vvritten in way of a reply to a letter of Master Vicars: in which he desires to be satisfied concerning that reproch. In which reply, there is not onely the vindication of the honour of the Parliament, but also that which is of publike concernment, and behooves all well affected subjects to looke into. Printed and published with license according to order.	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.; Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1645 (1645)	Wing B1065; Thomason E265_2; ESTC R212430	39,689	39

minded men who if they shall impartially judge I am most assured they will determine that the obligation lyes on John Lilburnes part towards me and not on my part towards him especially if they shall seriously way all other passages betweene us which in the following discourse will appeare for I freeley gave him the Copies of both my Letany and answer never expecting any profit to my selfe by them or ever looking for any reward from him or any other thing but his love And I am most confident if I could have beene mercenary as yet I never was who never tooke a penny of my Printer for any thing I did I might have had forty pieces at least for the Copies of them and it will not be a difficult thing to prove what I now say Now then whether or no Iohn Lilburne bee not for this my humanity obliged to mee I leave it to all mens consideration And whereas hee saith he adventured his life at home and abroad and underwent all those miseries for my sake and cause it is most false for he exposed himselfe to all those dangers as Mariners doe to all the perills of Sea for hope of gaine and of getting a livelyhood for themselves their Families And it is well known that Iohn Lilburne at that time was not so well instructed in the controversies of the Church as uow he seemeth to be who dares all the World to dispute with him Neither was it so much his zeale to the Cause that put him upon that imployment as the eye he had to his own honour and profit which in all probability if he had not beene betrayed hee would have concommitated his endeavours and if John had not forgot himselfe he would as formerly hee hath done acknowledge that I was the best master and instructour that ever hee had for matters of controversie and Religion so that next unto God he owes his greatest ski●l to mee who was a good Tutor to him and I would have him to know that I am yet able to teach him and a better Schollar then any independant in England who are yet to learne their Primer in Politickes and their Catechisme in Divinity though through the judgment of God upon this Nation which affect Novelties the people are infatuated with that generation of men and as it is in the song of Moses Revel. 15. Great and wonderfull are thy workes Lord God Almightie and just in all thy wayes thou King of Saints to give men over to error because they receive not the truth in the love of it that they might be saved 2 Thes. 2. ver. 10. 11. And if John had but grace in him he would not disdaine at this present to be advised by me who so long as he followed those wholsome principles and the good councell I gave him hee had true honour indeed and might have lived and dyed with comfort and repute whereas taking those idle courses and following a company of unstable guidy-headed people out of vaine glory and ambition to have a name of a Champion of the Independents he perpetrates those unwarrantable things that brings dishonour to God and scandalls all Christian Religion and his holy profession so that whiles hee would be thought to bee a Teacher and Doctor as Saint Paul speakes 1 Tim. chap. 1. Hee understandeth not what he speaketh nor whereof he affirmes who hath erred from the truth and is now turned in to vain janglings not knowing that the end of the Commandement is love out of a pure heart and a good Conscience and of faith unfained which forbids him to rayle of dignities and to speake evill of Government and injoynes him to obedience and teaches him in love to thinke better of others then of himselfe and to preferre others before himselfe Rom. 12. v. 10. Phil. 2. and not out of a vapouring humour proudly and arrogantly to vaunt himselfe and dare all others and our of his turbulent and tumultuous spirit to rayse a Faction to the disturbing of both Church and State and the disquieting himselfe and others to the griefe of all such as wish his good both for soule and body Now as I have related unto you Master Vicars the beginning of our acquaintance and shewed you what the Obligations were that hee sayes I stand so much ingaged unto him for so I thinke it not amisse to speake of some other passages of love both from my Wife and my selfe towards him As for my Wife in the time of my banishment at his sufferings she was failing to him in no offer of friendship but withall tender affection shee was ever ready to yeeld him her best assistance in any thing and night and day she was solicitous for his good providing for him a most faithfull and diligent Chirurgion often visiting him and stirring up friends to doe him good and according to her owne abilities pleasuring him in any thing hee stood in need of continually taking order that hee wanted nothing that was sitting for a man in his condition and had as great a care of him as if he had been his owne Father and that when he was diserted of his friends as can sufficiently be proved and after he was set at liberty and I was returned from my banishment we lived in as great amity and affection as ever any two christian Brethren did and there was no office of love that I have ever hitherto been failing to him in either in his sicknesse or in health notwithstanding in the time of his imprisonment he falling into acquaintance with sectaries and straglers was much swarved from those ●uthes and that purity of doctrine he had learned of me yet all this in the least alienated not my affection from him but I continued as cordiall as ever rejoycing either to see or heare of him and of his wel-fare and he had my prayses wheresoever I came and all these were obligations and so would any others have thought And this I may also say that he may thanke me as an earthly instrument that I may make use of some of his owne language for all the honour he had in the world for his acquaintance with me and his suffering about my books as many of the Parliament have often told me was the cause that he became so famous and so well knowne and honoured whereas otherwise he might have lived and dyed in obscurity and been knowne no farther then a man can shoot a pelle● with a Trunk and perhaps not to his next neighbours doore as it happens in London to many thousands of eminenter men otherwise for all parts then he though his abilities are very considerable and therefore i● that also he is beholding unto me Besides I taught him some courtship by being in my company and made him sit for all Gentlemens and Noble-mens society whereas when he came first to be my Scholler though he were Honest and Religious yet he was but a meere country courtier and very rough hewen so