Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	soul_n	spirit_n	witness_v	1,100	5	9.6899	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56917	A brief discovery of the three natures viz., humane, divine, devilish, the rootes or originals of the politike states of Caesar, Christ, Antichrist in relation to a former treatise discovering the said three states, and withall farther clearing the usefulnesse thereof : whereby also is laid open to humane reason the impossibility of compulsive ecclesiasticall government to be of divine institution, and that liberty of conscience is to be allowed by all unto all, holding the bounds of civility, fully confirmed by principles in nature and Holy Scripture : humbly presented to the serious consideration of the High Court of Parliament / by Michael Quintine.	Quintyne, Michael.	1642 (1642)	Wing Q226; ESTC R13006	12,945	21

practise hath been the lot of many Nations and particular persons witnesse your own experience Why doe ye as parents of soules and spirits meddle in the command of conscience and support such as doe with sword and maintenance is it typicall as in the time and state of the Jewes or as if Christ were not risen from the dead or doe you thinke God accepts of more than he requires at your hands or will you make an intermixion one head of two bodies or two heads of one body which cannot be otherwise if Church and Common-wealth be all one or being as two under one head which nature and policy both deny in Scripture and common reason will ye work your own confusion in taking Gods work upon you in making worshippers in spirit and truth for such only God requires Ioh. 4.21 22 23 24. which by compulsion you must doe or make hypocrites can ye draw men to Christ in Spirit or Policy which is not in your power Ioh. 6.44 45 46. or will ye who should provide for the strength of the Law of humanity breake the Law of Charity belonging to conscience Rom. 14. This great spirituall State of jurisdiction now in fashion or any that is like to be of the constitution of compulsion which jumbleth and tumbleth together the finest natures and soulest worship Gods Divine and holy Ordinances with foulest and profanest natures which will one day cost confusion of soules and blood enough were it not for the great temporall revenewes entailed upon her shee would not in humane reason and common equity be so much stood upon and contended for for those that goe about to yoke others consciences would not bee served so themselves except they be devils incarnate and will become any thing in Religion to serve covetous ends Bondage of conscience is the grossest slavery and most devillish captivity upon earth from whence springeth the greatest treachery and most dangerous rebellion which the earth can afford yee may beleeve it when ye see it All liberty within bounds of civility incourage industry and begets a rich Nation hindereth not prevention of dotage and underhand conveighance of estate to forraigne Belly-gods who by flattery rob people stronger in zeale then knowledge of their bodily means of safeguard and load their soules with an increase of unnaturall slavery even to their destruction So hoping of the true effect of upright dealing with God and Man the sight of that liberty of truth which bringeth peace strength and safety to all Lands and people of Innocency I remaine Gods and Yours in all due service to my power M. Q. Now followes the Reasons and Motives that set me upon this Worke. NOt long since I commended to your Highnesse and the Parliament one Treatise containing an essentiall discovery of the States of Policie as they are distinct one from another And another since of the Natures likewise from whence they spring both which in effect binde both your Soveraignty and your chiefest Court of Councell to cast about for the preservation and defence of your Kingdomes and every subject thereof in the liberty of conscience keeping the bonds of civility and humanity but although at a farre distance I perceive the old course is still on foote making sides of Religion and yokes for conscience on all sides wherein hath a world of blood beene spilt already and much more will be if the same continue Covetousnesse pride and delusion must bring forth their fruits where they grow as doe all other things for any hurt which befalls mankinde let the pretence be what it will floweth from thence not from Christian Religion for neither Christ himselfe or any of his Disciples upon Record in the New Testament Apostles or Evangelists or others did in a warlike way either offend or defend themselves for their Religions sake From former passages expressed in both the said Treatises I have manifested sufficient ground of boldnesse for speaking to you Gods of the earth which to rehearse or inlarge is not improper and for these causes following I am constrained yet further to move your greatnesse and being reasonable therein if ye being as gods despise me I shall notwithstanding fulfill the will of the Lord of Lords in discovering the spirits of error though I perish in the Worke with the strength of his encouragement Mat. 10.32 The first cause is this I being by the Law of Humanity or the nature of man as deepely ingaged in the joy of the welfare and sorrow of the misery thereof though a nothing as having any interest in the power of enlargeing or preventing either am bound by the Law of the Spirit of Humanitie and Christianity to discover any thing or course tending to the accomplishment of both wherein is fulfilled the dutie of innocencie and uprightnesse without feare the roote of slavery and flattery according to Marke 4.22 and Mat. 10.27 28. The second cause is for that there are and shall be many false Christs false prophets and false Teachers as there be many Antichrists and false Churches according to the prophesies of the New Testament Matth. 24.4 5. also vers 24. 2 Pet. 2.1 1 Joh. 2.18 These are all one in spirit and in that respect are of the devill or as the devill himselfe working the misery and confusion of mankinde in the greatest measure that may be the being of the world reserved and that according to the working of Sathan also as in the beginning Serpent-like and as in the full strength of his Raigne Dragon and Lyon-like as is set forth 2 Thes 2.9 10. The Revelation sets forth at large the spirit of Antichrist or false Church in his full portracture in every part and member of the said body from the sixt Chapter to the latter end of the same booke Now although not in any measure invested in any power of suppressing any course of evill and lifting up or inlivening any of good yet as fully bound to discover both by Christian and naturall bonds as any if all sanctity and salvation both of soule and body be of the Spirit of God Christ and the Church or Kingdome of Christ then of necessity is all mischiefe of sinne and misery touching man of the spirit of the devill Antichrist and his Kingdome and in short consider each Kingdome is to be discerned by the Doctrine and Learning and the Discipline or Government of the Spirit thereof and so the Doctrine of the Gospell teacheth touching matters of the soule whose welfare is accomplished and inlarged by the freedome and peace of conscience Christians to beare one with another and the stronger to suffer for the weaker knowing that none is master of his owne light or anothers and in case of greatest gainsaying or persecution for conscience sake to suffer without resistance to doe good to all even our enemies in respect of that part of our well being the discipline therof is a government without Master or Lordship as hath been formerly set forth agreable