Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

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conscience_n	liberty_n	papist_n	protestant_n	1,212	5	9.6046	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81449	Look to it London, threatned to be fired by wilde-fire-zeal, schismatical-faction, & militant-mammon. Discovered July 15. 1648. in a discourse with one Croply and Hide, by one John Dias, one of Captain Whaleys regiment, extant in a printed schedule, here verbatim inserted and commented.		1648 (1648)	Wing D1380; Thomason E457_27; ESTC R32487	16,291	16

1 Sam. 25. as Hares and Hedghogs change their forms as the winds of cross occasions blow If I resolve a journey yet being informed that there is Leo in via a Lyon in the way a French Assassinate Italian Bandetties or a plundering Nimrodian to cut my throat for my purse may I not recall my resolves for travelling that way Seventhly Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas Can the wisest man foresee the issues and events of all good causes Whether preaching will soften a Josiah like wax or Sunlike obdurate a Pharaoh like clay for breaking as ex malis moribus bonae leges good Laws proceed from evil manners so who knows what evil consequences may come of good acts like bad stomacks which turn good meat into evil humours Eightly As David himself said he was in a great strait 2 Sam 24. the best and wisest of men may sometimes be in such straits so sail betwixt a Scylla and Caribdis two contrary Rocks that all their wit and policy cannot evade their dashing if not splitting yea oft shipwracking of credit conscience or both The body Political like the body natural labouring of a dropsie and a yellow or black Jaundice both at once from contrary causes may be so diversifiedly diseased that the best state-Physitian knows not how to cure the one but he indangers killing by increasing the other the salve proving also oft more dangerous then the fore as to him who cut off his toes to cure the raging Gout All these may be applyed to Parliamentary Actings and reactings and repealings so oft like Mariners now hoisting up sails in calms present or hoped now pulling them down yea cutting down the main mast and every man pumping for life in tempestuous storms And being asked why they did not declare he answered that yet it was no time No time Omne tempus habet Every thing hath a time for mirth or for mourning for solace or sorrow Eccles 3. only there is no time for sinning which like snow in June and rain in Harvest is still out of time and as harsh musick out of tune too though every time is not fit for every truth to be brosched as pearls unfit for swine and holy things for dogs yet there is not time for Gusmans cheats and Jesuitical Equivocations or for Judas his treacherous kiss or Joabs imbracing stab no time to be watched for mischief as Wolves and Lyons for their preys And indeed this wrtching a time for base or bloody ends favours strongly of an Esaus spirit who plumps and fats his spleen with the hoped time of his Fathers death then he wil wreak his wrath on his supplanting Brother Gen. 27. and on Cain the murtherers spirit 1 John 3. 13. who watcht his time to butcher innocent Abell Gen. 4. Yea it sympathizeth with all wicked ones who watch their times as the Adulterer the twi-light the silent Serpent his opportunity to sting and the birding Cat the bushed sparrow how to execute their pestilent devises as the Papist s hoped a time after the death of Queen Elizabeth that all would be their own then up Moah and to the spoil In the mean time rebus sic stantibus as the case stood they have liberty of conscience from the Pope the only Monopolizer of that Mungril to be religious Hermaphrodites Papists Protestants either or neither as stood best for their own ends by pens pikes fires or faggots See your faces in the glasse of that Tyrant that lies lutking and couchant for a time to be rampant Psalm 10. Shortly he did not doubt but all would be their own Shortly This short-lye may prove a short or a long lye as some sluggish servants presently oft proves a present lye as Christs Flesh held really in the Sacrament by Papists is a reall-lye Shortly How his lips water at the golden prey which he and such as he have gulpht down and devoured in their hopes as the Foxes lips water at the grapes and pullein and the Cats at the fish which they have not yet catcht and indeed as when the Pope gave Ireland to Tyrone if he could conquer it all the craft is in the catching win gold and wear it But as a long man said of a short cloak which he borrwoed he would make it long enough ere he restored it so this fellow that is one of the Hastings in his hot desires may perhaps dance attendance long enough and cool his toes like the schriech-owl ere he see them effected his musick with silver strings may be so long in tuning as may turn him all into frets for all his shortlye He did not doubt Indeed the strongest faith even of an Abraham a Sarah Gen. 17. a Zachariah Luke 1. a David when he dissembled a madness 1 Sam. 21. a Thomas Didimus Iohn 20. and of the Apostles themselves hath been mixt with doubtings as cold with heat in luke-warm water and darkness with light in the twilight which doubting is like sore lips in a sicknesse a bad thing in it self yet a good sign of health and it s the strongest faith that rests and confides in God in the greatest exigents as did Abraham hoping against hope Rom. 4. and Asa 2 Chron. 16. and Iehosophat 2 Chron. 20. and David 1 Sam. 30. 6. But to be confident in evil as Witches Conjuerers and Necromancers give the Devil a faith who is Gods Ape promiseth them his assistance and as the Collier was wisht to give the Romish Church an implicite faith and to pin his soul on the Popes sleeve to carry it to Heaven or to Hell This bold and brazen-faced folly and presumption builds but as on an Irish Bog and ditcheth the soul in the lowest Hell He did not doubt but all would be their own But festina lente he may first fast all the turkish Lents ere he feast in Apollos with a Lucullus Curst Cows have short horns Iezabel did not doubt but to take off the head of Elias 1 Kings 21. but the dogs shall first eat her for Carrion Benhadab in his drink doubts not but to take the forces of Israel alive but his hopes were strangled in these Halters which his Courtiers wore about their necks as their best Tiffany 1 Kings 20. Saul doubts not but to take David intrentcht as in a trap 1 Sam. 23. And that railing Rabshekah and blasphemous Senacherib doubt not but to swallow up Hezekiah and his people as the Whale did Ionas but God had a hook in both their noses 2 Kings 19. Goliah doubts not but to give Davids flesh to the fowls of the ayr but David with a slinged stone dasheth all these hopes with his brains out of his foolish head 1 Sam. 17. So the Spanish Armado in the year 88 christened invincible by the Nun of Lisbon the Devil being the God-father and Pride the God-mother hoped to make England a Chaos of confusion and Fernesius the Prince of Perma doubted not but to ride his horse up to the saddle

fire and vinegar yea to cut with Alexanders sword all Gordian knots of difficulties and dangers though I know withall how virulent and violent self-love is and self-will how head-strong boiling passions and perturbations like Bellerophons horses unbridled with Minerva's bit of sollid wisdom They resolved not to be governed by a King No more did those sons of Belial who despised Saul and brought him no presents 1 Sam. 11. nor those that said To your Tents O Israel what have we to do with the son of Jesse 2 Sam. 20. Nor those in the Psalmist who said Let us break their bonds and cast their cords from us whom the King of Sion threatens to crush as a potters vessel Psa 2. Not to be governed Kit after kind its natural for all both birds bruites and beasts as well as wilde men to desire licentious liberty like Popery and frenzy it runs in a blood 2. withall they sympathize with their predecessors in Saint Peter and Jude these makers of Sects speak evil of dignities and despise government The devil is semper idem no changeling in his ways and ends he acts still the same parts in all ages only the sceans stage and persons being changed he hath had always his Levellers who made no difference betwixt high and low superior and inferior in Church and State who have villified yea nulled both Moses and Aaron Magistracy and Ministry and have pleaded for and practised an Anarchy an Ataxy a Platonical and an Anabaptistical community Oh this government how degenerate and unregenerate Nature snuffs at it as the wilde Onager in Job snuffs up the wind how every mad colt wrathfully champs the curbing bit and would cast his rider how glad would the frogs be rid of their storks that theymight croak what poysond stuff they pleased in every corner Not to be governed by a King But like the Arabians and Tartars and the Nomades and the Troglodites and those about Mount Caucasus to wander and rave and rake and ramble and scramble at pleasure without controu for had they a King they could not lick their fingers nor feather their silver wings nor build their nests on high nor set up a Dagon a morstrum horrendum a hotch-potch of all Religions call'd Liberty of Conscience for the Turks Alcaron the Jewish Thalmud the Papal Miter and Mass yea for Simon Magus and his Hellena Montanus and his Priscilla for Bohemian naked Adamites Belgick Familists and Enthusiasts Germane David Georgians Arminians Photinians and who not even quicunque vult as likely to agree together in one Land as so many cocks in one pit or the heads of the serpent Amphisbena one fighting against another No King But an Aristocracy or Democracy of that beast with many heads the multitude ruling at best by their Tribunes no Monarchy no King which all Nations as well as the Israclites have ever desired yea which the bees subject themselves unto in their Amazonian and Platonical Common-wealth No King Oh quam multos Dominos habet qui unum non habet how many Kings shall we have if not one King In a Turkish Tyranny every lust will be a Lord Dane every Sect Schism and Heresie a domineering King as when there was no King in Israel every man will beleeve say and do ad libitum placitum what he pleaseth the strongest like birds and beasts of prey feed on the weakest as Pikes in a pond on the lesser Fry But if their Resolution be as the present acts of their Leaders and Governors now speak their intentions that they will have no evil-counselled King spurd on at this instant without any modification by his Junior Achitophels and Court-Hamans as a Lion grated batted and incensed with a wrathful paw to tear his best Patriots and all that have opposed not him but his ill-counselled late postures and passages If they desire the Lion spur'd on to be rampant to be piously patient and passant and so making an Act of Oblivion of real or imaginary affronts writ in dust or drowned in Leth to rule meerly for and not against the Lyon of the Tribe of Iudah in this we shall be still more beholden to the formerly well improved prudence prowess and piety of the General his worthiest Commilitones not regarding the brayings of this dull Ass and of some other lesser blatrant Beasts of the Forrest who would have the Lion stil in his grate and to be no King as if the Heavens and our Horizon should have no sun and the body should be Cyclopical and Polyphemiz'd without eyes yea without a head And that nothing vexed them more then the Parl'aments recalling their Declarations of making no more Addresses to the King Vexed them more Good men are vexed with the sins and sufferings of themselves and of others as was David Psalm 119. Lot 2 Pet. 2. Ieremiah Chap. 9. 1. and others but to be vext for well doing and to be enraged as Unicorns and Turkicocks at the fight of red Stammels at what is legal or will admit of a good construction is for men to fight with their own shadows or as Donquixot with Rams and windmils for Gyants or as inraged Ajax with heards of sheep for Ulisses Vexation and sorrow be good for nothing but sin The Parliaments recalling their Declarations Is not he well studyed in the Statutes that knows not how many Parliamentary Acts have been repealed in every Kings Raign 2. Are their acts like the decrees of the Medes and Persians yea as Gods decree not to be recalled 3. Have not the learnedest Synods and Councels erred As that of Lateran of Calcedon and lately at Trent with many moe are all Councels with these four which S. Gregory so honored to be equalized with the four Evangelists 4. Are our Patritians Gods or Angels are they not men and so subjected errare decipi to humane frailties like Elias lames 5 may they not humani aliquld pati as well as the best of meer men be in some things erroneous as the clear Sun and Moon are subjected to their cloudings and eclipsings 5. Is not an inconvenience better then a mischief better to recal an Error then to persist in it better to be Epimetheus afterwise then not wise since errare humanum preserverare diabolicum at all as it s said of the English and French that they are wise afterwards and of the Spaniards and Italians wise before yet beg him for a fool that is wise neither before nor after that like him who hath bad cards and bad casting at dice which is now a high Courts Case doth not help it as he may in after-play Sixthly Though Inconstancy to weave and unweave like Penelope to act and react and recall be a brand or a blot in many men of great parts and great spirits changing their minds every day as Nero his suits as though they were nought but changeable taffaty yet may not wise men change their Resolutions as David did resolving to march against Nabal