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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59953	A few vvords concerning conscience what it is; and what estate it was in before transgression. And how it became darkened, defiled and corrupted; and how again it may be enlightened, cleansed, purified and set at liberty, as it was before sin entred. Intermixt with a few words concerning persecution among the diverse sects in Christendom (and upon the face of all the earth); shewing, that they all arise for want of true liberty of conscience; and what that liberty is. William Shewen.	Shewen, William, 1631?-1695.	1675 (1675)	Wing S3421; ESTC R221163	20,764	49

and Agreement of the Assembly of Divines so called and about Bread and Wine and Water Dayes and Times and other outward Things They will quarrel with tear and devour one another and all like so many ravenous Beasts will prey upon the Sheep ☞ Ephraim against Manasses and Manasses against Ephraim but both against Judith Every Sect in Christendim one against another devided like the Builderrs of Babel yet all against the tender meek harmless Lamb like Spirit of Jesus in whomsoever it appears that in all Ages since the Fall and Apostacy grew up as a Lilly among Thornes prik'd on every Side A Thorn may hurt a Lilly but a Lilly cannot hurt a Thorn as a Lamb among wolves which though hurt and prey'd upon wants the very Nature Capacity of hurting again or rendring Evil for Evil even as an outward Lilly doth a Thorn or a Lamb a Wolf So that this is an infallible Sign and Token both of the one and the other ☞ of him whose Conscience is at Liberty to serve the Lord and loves his whole Creation and is at Unity and Peace therewith and of him who hath his Conscience bound under a private Opinion corrupted and defiled with Envy Hatred and Evil-Will against his Brother and Neighbour about Matters of Sacrifice Religion Faith and Worship And whoever thou art and of what Opinion soever thou art hereby thou mayst measure and try thy self and find of what Generation and Stock thou art of whether of the righteous or the wicked whether thou art a Lilly or a Thorn a Lamb or a Wolf and whether thy Conscience be at Liberty or bound If thou find a Mind Will or Inclination in thee An 〈◊〉 Signe where Conscience 〈…〉 Liberty to Envy Hate Persecute lay violent Hands like Cain upon thy Brother and Neighbour thou mayst assure thy self and infallibly know that thy Conscience is degenerated defiled and that thou art born of the Flesh and that thou art a Thorn and no Lilly a Wolf and no Lamb And this Flesh thou art born of is the Flesh of the Whore the false Church which hath drunk the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs in all Ages and this Whore thy Mother hath not only nursed thee up but made thee drunk with the Wine of her Fornication and thou art a Citizen of Mystery Babylon the great and a Stranger to the beloved City of God and a hater of those that dwell therein notwithstanding thou mayst have a golden cup of Profession which thy Mother holds forth to the Nations yet thy Conscience is defiled and thy Heart corrupted and so far darkened and captivated under Bondage strong Delusion that notwithstanding thou appearest like a Thorn A perfect Sign of one that is made drunk with the Wine of Fornication and in the Nature of a Wolf hurting the Lilly and worrying the Lamb yet thou thinks thou art doing God good Service therein being made so drunk with the Whore's Cup and blinded in thy superstitious Zeal that thou takes the Lilly for a Thorn and the Lamb for a Wolf and the Whore thy Mother for the Lamb's Wife And now this is an infallible Sign where Liberty of Conscience is enjoyed where the Light Love and Power of God rules in the Conscience such if his Brother or Neighbour hath his Conscience in Bondage A true infallible Sign where Liberty of Conscienc is enjoyed or is weak being vailed and darkned so far as to believe a Lye and to make Conscience of doing that which he ought not to do whether it be to worship as the Mass-Book prescribes or as the Common Prayer-Book Directory Church-Faith Assembly of Divines so called or as any other invented Platform of Religion Commands I say he that hath his Conscience truely enlightened ☞ and is a Christian indeed doth not hate and envy his Brother or Neighbour therefore neither hath he any evil Will towards him in this Estate and hath no more inclination to put forth his Hand against his Person Life Liberty or Estate because of his Conscientious Errors and Religious Practices then he hath against his own Life but instead thereof in the universal Love of God finds it his Duty to pitty such in his Heart and having obtained Liberty of Conscience himself and found the universal Medicine which if applied is able to cure all sick and feeble Minds wounded Spirits weak and distempered Consciences he is willing and ready to tell his Brother and Neighbour what the Lord hath done for his Soul and how and where he came to find the precious Pearl and to inform and instruct them how they may find the same and exhort and perswade them to receive and make use and tryal of the same Medicine that hath cured him though for this his Love and good Will he meets with much Exercise and Hardship from the ill-natured and Ignorant and much Opposition and Scorn from the selfish-wise and prudent this was the Portion of the righteous and Ministers of the everlasting Gospel from the ungrateful World in all Ages * who were constrained in the Love of God to run to and fro among them The Work and End of the true Ministry that Knowledge might be enereased and to warn Men to flee from the Wrath which is to come and knowing the Terrors of the Lord perswaded Men to be reconciled to God Thus they did and do in Obedience to him and Love to their Souls and not for Gold and Silver and selfish Ends but to discharge their Consciences in the Sight of God this hath been the Labour of Love and Travail of the righteous in all Ages who come to have their Consciences made tender and truly enlightened cleansed purified and set at Lberty from all that did defile them they never persecuted hated hurt or destroyed any about Matters of Conscience and Religion though erronious in their Opinions and superstitious in their Practices ☞ neither ought any to be troubled vexed and ruined in their Persons Liberties Lives and Estates because of those Things especially when their Opinions tend not to the Ruin Hurt and Destruction of Mankind and his outward well being and humane Society ☞ But some such Opinions there are which indeed are as Monsters in Nature destroying natural Affection Violating the Bounds of Humanity under the Cloak and Pretence of Religion and Christianity and some are so far besotted in their Opinions that they will plead Conscience for the Prosecution of them though thereby they lay waste the Property Life and Liberty of Persons that are of a contrary or different mind and Judgment to them though better livers then themselves Now the End of all good Order and Government among Men The End of Magistracy true Government is to preserve and defend their Properties Liberties and Lives from the Teeth and Mouthes of such as would spoil and rob them of either And among all the Beasts of prey this blind Zeal misguided

able to deliver himself nor to purifie his own Conscience nor enlighten his own Understanding nor can any man deliver the Soul of his Brother nothing less then the Knowledge and Experience of the Light Spirit and Mighty Power of God's appearing and shining in the Conscience and enlightening the Mind and Understanding breaking the Prison-Doors of Opinion and pulling down the Strong Hold of Imagination is able to effect those things therefore all such as have their Consciences purified their Minds and Understandings thereby enlightened are delivered and redeemed from the Spirit of Envy and Cruelty and from all private Opinions and Bondage of Darkness and lives and walks in the Light of the Glorious Gospel of Christ Jesus which brings Peace on Earth and Good-will to Men and such never Envyed any nor Hurt any about Religion though Jews Turks and Infidels Oh! the Weight and Burden of this envivous Bloody Spirit of Persecution in Christendom which is sate down in the Throne of Conscience and wrapt about with the Mantle of Zeal for Religion is very great and ponderous it is the greatest Burden the Earth bears and the greatest Troubler of the World of Mankind 't is the great Whore that John saw ride upon the Scarlet coloured Beast and sate upon the Waters and it is the Beast he saw rise out of the Earth with two Horns like a Lamb yet speaks like a Dragon and makes Fire come down from Heaven in the Sight of Men and causeth all both small and great rich and poor free and bond to receive a Mark in their right Hand or in their Fore-Heads that no Man might buy or sell save he that had the Mark or the Name of the Beast or the Number of his Name this Spirit is the Womb out of which springeth all the Force and Violence and cruel Inventions of Torture and spoil of Bodies Goods and Liberties about Difference in Opinion Faith and Worship which as is said before is cruel unreasonable and unnatural because by the Laws of God all good Men ☞ no Man ought to suffer but according to the Nature of his Offence if his Offence be visible natural and corporal belonging to things of this world then his Punishment ought to be natural and corporal and visibly executed upon him if his Offence be spiritual and relating to the invisible Things of the Mind Heart and Conscience in Matters of Faith and Worship towards God the Life World to come then their Punishment is to be spiritual and executed spiritually and the Weapons to be used against such are not to be carnal The Bodies of Men ought not to be inquisition'd and tortur'd What Persecution is nor their Goods spoyled for the errors of their Minds or the Difference of their religious Perswasions where-ever this is sound and practised it may be justly called cruel and unreasonable and bloody Persecution though under the Pretence of Conscience and Zeal for Religion And the true Christian and Church of Christ never had nor ever will have a Hand in such Work it is the Whore the false Church and her Children The Beast the Whore the false Prophet the three unclean Spirits Mystery-Babylon the great the Mother of Harlots c. rules and reigns not only at Rome in Italy Spain and other popish Countryes where the Romish Sect prevails as some private Opinionists have imagined but is universally to be found reigning throughout all the Sects in Christendom and in the whole World the great red Dragon that gets into Heaven and the Beast that ariseth out of the Sea or Waters on which the Whore sisteth and the false Prophet and the three unclean Spirits like Frogs that come out of their Mouths that corrupteth the Earth and fills it with Violence it is this Woman this Mystery Babylon the great the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth that is drunk with the Blood of the Saints and with the Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus and by her Sorceries are all Nations deceived and in her was and is found the Blood of Prophets and of Saints and of all that were and are slain upon the Earth Now the Voice from Heaven is heard which saith Come out of her my People that ye partake not of her Sins and that ye receive not of her Plagues And all that hear obey and follow this heavenly Voice come to be led out of Mystery Babylon into the heavenly City Jerusalem which comes down from God out of Heaven and to be made Citizens thereof who are at Unity within themselves and though the Gates stand open there shall in no wise enter any thing that defileth neither whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a Lye but they which are written in the Lamb's Book of Life Here all is shut out that entered in through Sin and Transgression and through the Subtilty and Lyes of the Serpent and a Redemption and Restoration into the glorious primitive Estate that God made Mankind in in the Beginning where his Mind Heart and Conscience is set at Liberty cleansed and purified from all that did defile them and here he is delivered from following all his carnal Inventions ☞ private Opinions and Notions where the Envy Anger and Wrath is exercised into the peaceable universal Light and Love to the whole Creation of God But while People are carnaly-minded and their Consciences darkened defiled they are captivated by a private selfish Spirit and are bound under some dark affected Opinion or other about Religion in this State some will be for Paul some for Apello some for Cophas but none for Christ some of one Sect or Opinion and of one Sort Form of Worship and some of another but all bound under one Link or other of the Chain of Darkness and are Slaves to the Prince thereof who hath got the Rule in their Minds Hearts and Consciences and such of his Vassals as are inclined to seem religious he will furnish them with a Form Likeness and Patern if need be even of Heavenly Things themselves according to the State Place and Country they inhabit and the Region of Darkness and Shadow of Death they dwell under whether in Christendom or in any other Part of the World hence many are bound in their Consciences to worship according to the Precepts and Commands of Mahomet or the Turkish Alcoron others according to the Traditions of the scattered Jews and Indians others according to the Pope and his Mass Book and other Invented Trumpery others according to the divers Sorts of invented Liturgies and Forms of Worship Likenesses and Images which they have set up in their carnal Minds and darkened Understandings wherein their corrupt Faiths and defiled Consciences are imployed as Champions to contend for and vindicate every one his own private carnal Opinion Tradition and Form of Worship And the same Spirit of Darkness that leads into these Diversities of Opinions humane carnal Inventions about the Worship of God The