Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	high_a	power_n	resist_v	1,057	5	9.4839	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52302	The present interest of England, or, A confutation of the Whiggish conspiratours anti-monyan principle shewing from reason and experience the ways to make the government safe, the king great, the people happy, money plentifull, and trade flourish.	Nalson, John, 1638?-1686.	1683 (1683)	Wing N111; ESTC R16235	30,815	50

he adventures upon any thing the consequences whereof may be very great consider seriously of the matter and make a computation of what gain or loss it may be to him and truely if they do not now in this conjuncture they will no longer be the sober Party but act like rash inconsiderable Bedlams and men drunk with Rage and desperation I would therefore as a true Friend that would have them see the worst of their Case advise them first to look up and see what time of the day it is with them for upon the matter they will find that the Sun of their Hopes is just upon setting in a black Cloud of Eternal Night They will find that they have nothing in the World left to expect unless some Miracles to which they may trust their Expiring Cause They will find that the House of David is grown and will grow overy day stronger and their House of Saul forsaken of God every moment weaker They will find that the Nation is thoroughly awakened with the danger of Blood and Confusion in which the Leaders of their Faction had designed to involve it And what can they now possibly hope for by opposing the Government and the Loyal Party of the Nation by endeavouring to send disaffected Representatives to the Parliament there is scarcely a bare possibility considering how many will every where for very shame fall off from them as well as others out of fear or honesty that they should gain a Majority in the Commons House and if they fail in that the disturbance which they have made and the endeavours to oppose the Loyal Party will oblige them to inforce the Execution of the Penal Laws against them and to provide greater severities for the future For if they shall now dare to struggle with the Government and make disturbances when they are under all the disadvantages imaginable it will shew that they are a People of such desperate as well as dangerous Principles that there cannot be too great Caution used nor too great care taken by the utmost severity of Laws and the due Execution of them to take away their strength suppress them and hinder the growth and progress of such Principles and numbers of Men as in time may be fatal to the Government And were it possible which truly they must be of very sanguine tempers that can hope it that the Faction should get such another House of Commons according to their wishes yet what would they be the better for it since there is no hopes of a Perpetual Session And because they shall have an easie way how to compute what they may get for the future I would desire them to take Pen Ink and Paper and set down what they have got already by the former disturbances of this nature which they have given the Nation I am of opinion when they have stated the matter they may put all the gains in their Eyes and whereas we commonly say see ne'er the worse I fancy it will make them see much the better see their folly and madness and if they have any remainders of prudence or discretion teach them to leave trading upon that New-found-land-bank of a Common-wealth where they will catch nothing but had I Fish and Poor John There was a time when they had some hopes they can have none now for most certainly the Nation will never be at rest till it hath by repeated trials and changes purged off this old Commonwealth Scurvy and got a sound new Representative Body and till it comes to that period the Dissenters who are the onely hinderers and opposers of it must expect to be treated by the Laws and Government as the enemies of the peace and happiness the quiet and settlement of the Kingdom The Government may be very tender and unwilling to proceed to extremities of severity but when it shall appear that compassion to the Dissenters and the Enemies of the Government is cruelty to it self and to all the Loyalists its true Friends the Dissenters have little reason to promise themselves impunity or that the Government will run the hazzard of disobliging Friends and turning them into Enemies in hopes of making their Old Enemies New Friends And the Dissenters cannot take any course more effectual to convince the whole Nation of the necessity of such severe procedures against them than by making such opposition to the peace and settlement of it by sending or indeavouring to send ill men to the Representative Body And they may assure themselves that particular notice will be taken in every place of all such Dissenters to a man as make it their business to set up or vote for ill Men and they will be sure to be remembred upon occasion Whereas would they be contented with the liberty and indulgence which the Laws allow them which truly are very great would they leave stickling creating disturbances and exasperating the Nation against them they may reasonably hope to enjoy the favours already allowed them which otherwise they will also in the conclusion be sure to lose But if they would hear reason I would advise them to an intire submission to the Laws and Government in Church and State this will be the best way of uniting Protestant Dissenters for them to unite with the Church of England where they will infallibly learn two short Lessons which will save their Purses their Persons and their Souls Truly to fear God and honour the King This is their indispensible duty This is their true interest This would make them easie the Government safe and the Nation happy And if they shall obstinately persist to oppose all these they will declare themselves open Enemies to God and the King the Church and the Kingdom and must expect as a reward of their Actions not onely the hatred of the Nation but the severity of such punishments in this World as are justly allotted to the common Enemies of Mankind and humane Society but also that dreadfull Damnation hereafter which the great Apostle as an Oracle of God hath intailed upon all such as resist the Higher Powers whose command to the contrary is absolute is peremptory is universal Let every Soul be subject to the Higher Powers and that for Conscience sake for the Powers that be are ordained of God so that they who resist the Higher Powers resist God himself and what the issue of such a Combat will prove I need not tell them but heartily wish they may by repentance escape the dreadfull end of those men who for speaking evil of Dignities and despising Dominions must certainly perish in the gainsaying of Corah that Primitive Dissenter I have but a few words more to add and those are to the Loyal Party that they would not be less assiduous to support the Government than the Conspiratours and Faction have been to subvert it and since the happy turn of their Affairs doth in so great a measure depend upon the good constitution of their Representatives that therefore