Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	law_n	sin_n	transgression_n	2,525	5	10.8527	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76088	The storming of the Anabaptists garrisons, vvith a brief discovery of the weaknesse of the same, & of the inconsiderableness of the sconces and forts of all the other sectaries, in despight and contempt of all the which, any Christian souldier may safely march to Heaven, without the least danger; ... In a word, in the insuing discourse, the vanity of all novell opinions is discovered, the ignorance of all the which can no way hinder any mans happinesse: and the baptisme of little children borne of Christian parents, whether Iewes or Gentiles, is proved by the word of God to be lawfull, ... / By Iohn Bastwick, Doctor in Physick.	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.; Smart, Richard, fl. 1647.	1647 (1647)	Wing B1071; Thomason E390_23; ESTC R201542	43,659	52

if I stedfastly to the last period of my life hold that all the conditions of the Independents are meere novelties and their own inventions and that any Christian may die either in the ignorance or contempt of them without the transgression of the law of God The same may be said of all the Anabaptisticall opinions and of all the other erronious doctrines of all the other Sects Yea the rejecting of them all is so farre from sin or depriving men of happinesse and peace of conscience here and eternall felicity hereafter as it is a great vertue to contend earnestly against them for the faith once delivered to the Saints Jud. 3. Yea which is yet more it is a great sinne in any that shall embrace any of those doctrines and approve of those Novelties in Religion for they are all no better then the traditions of men which our Saviour Christ so often warnes his Disciples to take heed of Math. 15. Mark 7. telling them that they worship him in vain who serve him after the precepts of men and confirmes that his doctrine not only by his own testimony but out of the holy word of God Isa 29. And surely those that offer God a vaine worship sinne and that in an elevated nature and greatly provoke God by it which all the Sectaries do that serve him after their own inventions and traditions But had it been so that I had indeed been either a Brownist or an Anabaptist or any Sectary or had I at any time been carryed about with every wind of doctrine or run after every new light as some daily do it had been my sin so to have transgressed the commandements of God but it would have been my glory and honour upon better information and more mature deliberation and judgement to have renounced all those errors and to have embraced the truth Yea it hath bin ever thought praise-worthy in any to change either their manners or judgements for the better and to relinquish the by-waies of sin and error and to receive the truth in the love of it which because many have forsaken it is the just judgement of God to give them over to strange delusions according to that in the se●ond of the Thessal 2. and this I conceive is one of the chiefe causes of the great wrath of God that is now come upon the world and the principall occasion not only of all those miseries and calamities we are now embroyled with but of all those monstrous errors and blasphemous opinions that are now swarming every where And therefore I say if I had at any time been formerly misled and had renounced error and embraced the truth and so have changed my opinion for the botter I had in that done nothing but what God commands and all sollid Christians cannot but allow of and in so doing I should have brought glory to God and procured peace to my owne soule and been a good example to others of doing the like and have given an occasion to all such as truly feare God of praising his Name which all those will do that leave the error of their wayes and the by-paths of sin and turne their feet into Gods commandements But I constantly affirme God and my conscience bearing me witnesse that I never was in my judgement one of them as they falsly calumniate me not only behind my back but to my face reviling me and and that in an odious manner in the open streets calling me an Apostate a persecutor of the Saints an enemy of the people of God and a stirrer up of mutiny against the faithfull of the earth all the which charges they themselves are most guilty of But this is their ordinary language both in private and publick concerning me who never wronged them except to speak the truth and in their own language be to hurt them with which reproches that rabble rout of the Sectaries that were John Lilburnes followers a yeare and a halfe since abused me in the next chamber to the Committee of Examinations and with the which those impetuous women that accompanied his wife to the Parliament with her Petition the last yeare which you heard of most unchristianly bespatter'd me where they behaved themselves in such uncivill manner towards the very Parliament men as the honourable House was forced to order that they should be kept our of that roome which before their insolency was common not only for all Petitioners but to all such as were civill to the great dishonour of God and the shame of their sex and of their holy profession And as they do upon any occasions most barbarously rayle on me wheresoever they meet me though I know them no● by face so they use all possible mean's they can to disparage me by rayling and fomenting calumnies against me and that against all the laws of God and humanity vilifying my books especially the Utter routing of all the Independent Army hindring by all they might the publishing of it pulling down the Titles through Town and Country wheresoever they were set up so that in one night and day they destroyed and defaced no lesse then three hundred through the City and as often as any of them again were pasted up they pulled them down to the number of eleven hundred at times all which their proceedings shew the sinfulness● of their wayes for whereas it is the duty of all good Christians to contend for the truth against error and with all their best indevour to propagate it and spread it abroad for so we are commanded Jud. 3. they hinder it what they can which manifestly proclaimes to the world that they fight against the truth for our Saviour saith John the third That they that doe the truth come to the light that their deeds may be seen and they that shun the light it is because their deeds are evill This I say hath ever beene the method of the truly godly and of the Saints indeed to publish the truth against error and to come to the light and touchstone the word of God for the discovering of errour and proving and declaring the truth but these men being conscious to themselves that their deeds and doctrines are evill shun the light and labour by all their abilities to extinguish whatsoever glimiring of it should discover them and therefore have conspired together to hinder the devulging of my Books especially the utter Routing and my Postscript because they doe apparently hold forth the truth and disolay and discover both the errours of their opinions and their deceitfull dealings in deluding the poore people and in with-holding the truth from them in unrighteousnesse which is not only to their eternall dishonour but one of the most horrid wickednesses that can be perpetrated against God and men for it is an open fighting against God and a hindring of the salvation of the people which was one of those great sinnes the Jewes were guilty of 1 Thess 2 16. by which they filled up the