Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	liberty_n	papist_n	protestant_n	1,212	5	9.6046	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66598	Conscience satisfied in a cordial and loyal submitting to the present government of William and Mary in three discourses justifying the Williamites against the Jacobites : the first being animadversions on a book intitutled The doctrine of non-resistance, or, Passive obedience no way concerned in the controversies now depending between the Williamites and the Jacobites, the second on I Sam. 23.30 ... the third on Dan. 5.20 ... / by Tim. Wilson, rector of Kingsnoth in Kent.	Wilson, Timothy, 1642-1705.	1690 (1690)	Wing W2949; ESTC R38313	57,754	74

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our_o religion_n teach_v we_o love_n goodness_n mercy_n and_o compassion_n let_v we_o not_o rejoice_v at_o the_o calamity_n of_o our_o enemy_n but_o at_o god_n wonderful_a mercy_n to_o we_o that_o our_o religion_n our_o law_n our_o liberty_n our_o life_n and_o our_o posterity_n shall_v be_v free_v from_o the_o sink_n of_o all_o mankind_n the_o tyranny_n of_o jesuit_n and_o bloodthirsty_a papist_n let_v we_o bewail_v our_o sin_n the_o cause_n of_o affliction_n necessity_n nothing_o but_o necessity_n to_o defend_v ourselves_o and_o our_o religion_n and_o our_o posterity_n from_o popery_n and_o slavery_n force_v we_o to_o this_o last_o remedy_n i_o rejoice_v that_o we_o be_v escape_v i_o be_o sorry_a even_o for_o the_o trouble_n of_o our_o very_a enemy_n well_o then_o let_v we_o sin_n no_o more_o lest_o a_o worse_a thing_n befall_v we_o it_o be_v true_a as_o the_o prophet_n say_v the_o whole_a head_n be_v sick_a and_o the_o whole_a heart_n faint_a from_o the_o sole_a of_o the_o foot_n 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