Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	apostle_n	law_n	transgression_n	5,619	5	10.4785	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92231	Three great questions concerning the succession and the dangers of popery fully examin'd in a letter to a Member of this present Parliament.	M. R.	1681 (1681)	Wing R50; ESTC R229912	34,686	24

or Injustice As for your second Question you will find its Answer easily deducible from what has been said already For allowing that the Parliament have power which yet without every individual persons Consent they cannot have either by Nature or their own Constitutions to alter the Succession yet no motives can be sufficient to induce men in their senses to such an Act but plain transgressions and violations of the Laws in being nothing else being a Crime or penal The Apostle tells us If there had been no Law there would have been no sin and that though sin was in the world before yet till after the Law it neither was nor could be imputed i. e. Yesterday I killed my neighbour but that was not unlawful consequently not punishable because the Act against it was but this day enjoyned and every man is left to the use of his natural power in such instances as the Laws do not restrain This is so plain a truth in all Countries where Men are not govern'd like Beasts that 't is not onely folly but madness to assert the contrary The Abettors are not to be convinc'd by Arguments and Reasons but by Hellebore and Bedlam Now there being no Laws in being that enjoyn the Heir of the Crown of England to believe as the Church of England his departure from that to any other Church can be no Argument for his Disinherison But the other part his giving life and birth to the plot is of another consideration and if true deserved not only his being put by the Crown but his Life And therfore I conceive if that had been evident he had not escap'd so easily nor indeed could he without the imputation of great partiality and injustice upon the House of Commons No mean Argument of the Duk 's Innocence to any considering person For if they proceeded so far upon an Illogical Consequence or unreasonable Proposition to wit That his going over to the Church of Rome must have given birth and life to the Hellish Plot what would they not have done farther if they could have prov'd that he was indeed the Author which he must have been of necessity if he gave birth and life to it Now lest the World should take every thing done by any Factious number to be the Act of all the Commons much less of the Parliament and so defame the Justice and Integrity of the English Nation and lest the people should believe whatever they assert as Oraculous as the Vulgar do of things in Print 't is necessary to examine this matter very narrowly and enquire how they came by this Discovery or why if it were real they inflicted no severer a punishment than an Act that the best Lawyers tell us would have been of no force had it pass'd even the Royal Assent which I cannot think it ever would because contrary to the King's Oath at Coronation his Promise Resolution declar'd even in that very Parliament where many doubt its passing the third time among the Commons and none dispute but that the Lords would have rejected it upon the first reading The grand Discoverer Dr. Oats has not accus'd his R. H. but one the contrary in publick and private acquitted him from any guilt or knowledge as beside his printed Narrative and Depositions in Parliament may be made out by Persons of unquestionable Honour Could then a Vote make matters of Fact Truth or Fals-hood That depends upon natural and eternal Causes and Connexions of unalterable Principles Surely no nor would any man in his Sense have given the more credit though it had pass'd 500000 Votes instead of 500. If twenty Colledges of Virtuoso's or Greshamites should conspire to vote the old Philosopher in the right who every where asserted Snow was black yet could they not persuade one Plowman to disbelieve his Senses and subscribe to so ridiculous an Opinion And as to Capt. Bedlow and upon these two the whole Hinge of the Plot does turn for the rest came in but in subsidiam probationis he pretended at first to know no more than the inhumane Murder of Sir Edmondbury Godsrey and yet however he became more knowing after he never accus'd his R. H. which he wold certainly have done had he found one probable Circumstance even upon his Death he acquitted him Yet to say Truth his accusation wold have been of less credit for his having been so mistaken in his main Discovery as to be contradicted by Prance the reason I suppose why no Narrative in Capt. Bedlow's Name was ever publish'd Read Mr. Oates his Depositions and you will find the D. was to run the same fate of his Brother whose sacred Life God long preserve if he would not approve of all their Villanies and after his Majesties Murder accept the Crown as Feudatory from the Pope And without dispute the villanous Contrivers of the Plot would have spared neither which is plain by Mr. Oates his asserting upon Oath in the Name of the Jesuits that no good was ever to be expected from the Race of the Stewarts with other Reflections on the R. Family with submission not fit to have been published And further that they had resolved notwithstanding his Love to their Religion not to trust him with a Secret his great affection for his Brother would perswade him to reveal It is then impossible he could give Birth and Life to a Plot to which he never was privy as for Colman's Letters in my Lord Danby's Words the best evidence we yet have of the Plot they were not writ by the D's allowance or consent nor do they speak of introducing Popery otherwise than by gaining an Indulgence and that by a Parliament Besides 't is notoriously known he was offered his Pardon and large Rewards if he would confesse the Plot. And 't is senseless to imagine none can but an unthinking Crowd that he would not speak a Truth to save his Life at least not damn his Soul by dying with 〈◊〉 in his Mouth after which nor previous to it there could be no Absolution but to the last notwithstanding the repeated offers of Pardon and Reward he protested his Ignorance and Innocency Oh but say some how then could the Commons proceed as they did Why perhaps the publisher of that designed Bill abuses them but if he did not they do who conclude the Major part consented to it Those that did may be supposed hurryed on by misguided Zeal passion or prejudice imposed upon by Suggestions as agreable to the King's pleasure to banish him for ever by Law who in Obedience went into a voluntary exile for a season If this be not I confesse I am at a losse for the Reason But of this they were soon convinc'd by his Majesty's Speech to the contrary Besides it had been but equal to have given his R. H. liberty to make his Defence to condemn a Man unheard is no where practised where there is the least shadow of Government The Laws of God and