Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	good_a	law_n	transgression_n	4,529	5	10.4346	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85688	Vox cœli, containing maxims of pious policy: wherein severall cases of conscience are briefly discussed; as I. In what subject the supream power of a nation doth reside. II. What is the extent of that power, and in what causes it doth appear, with the due restrictions and limitations thereof according to the Gospell. III. What obedience is due unto that power from all persons, superiour and inferiour, with other cases of great weight, very necessary to reconcile our late differences judiciously stated and impartially ballanced in the scale of the sanctuary. / By Enoch Grey minist	Grey, Enoch.	1649 (1649)	Wing G1968; Thomason E565_20; ESTC R202336	50,311	67

yet they cannot assure themselves or others that they have not failed in one circumstantiall thereabouts wherefore it is against all justice and reason that humane laws subject to defects and errours should binde absolutely as divine commands do we see all Law-makers are 〈◊〉 in their acts to impose their Lawes with restrictions or amplifications to interpose interpretations and modifications their lawes being subject to ambiguities Hence humane laws should be administred with indulgence to those that 〈◊〉 in some especiall case or ambiguity of conscience and 〈◊〉 reason may allow a dispensasion as in case the end of the law be not violated in case such breach be without just offence to any and lastly in case it be without contempt of that authority prescribing and ordaining that laws in such cases the Magistrate may yea must indulge or he is Tyrannicall Suppose a Magistrate commands in time of Warre that no man upon paine of death open the Gates of a City to any person if after this strict order some eminent and well affected Citizen should desire admission and the Gate should be opened to let in such a person no danger being eminent and no perill like to invade the whole by the security of this part of the body here is a violation a breach of the latter and Grammaticall construction of the law but without the breach of conscience without the contempt of authority without just offence or dammage to any without breath of the equity the sense and the end of that law which was that the City and every part and member thereof be p●rserved in safety in which case such a person cannot in justice suffer Fundamentall lawes respect punishment only 〈◊〉 because so good so just a law is disobeyed and that end thereby intended is frustrated Obedience only is 〈◊〉 and ultimately respected therein because without it the foundations would suddenly be out of course wherefore those commands of the magistrate that tend to the necessary good to the absolute preservation of humane societies i● peace pi●ty and justice those commands are primitively divine formally good finally lawfull and cannot be violated without sinne although the Magistrate should define no penalty impose no punishment upon such transgression the law in these cases respecting due obedience in full satisfaction to the justice thereof rather their submission to the censure subjection to the punishment inflicted in case of wilfull disobedience and obstinace violation Fourthly That the Grounds Rules and Foundations of Justice must be of things lawful possible to be observed within our power and tending to general good to order and peace to liberty and stability Hence those acts in some persons cases and times unlawfull and unjust the same in other cases and thries may truly be proved just è contra 〈◊〉 acts in some persons cases and times just may in others be unjust Shines who cursed and abused David his act was treasonable an act 〈…〉 ●●serving death by the law of God and man yet upon his submission David not only promised him pardon but by 〈◊〉 and covenant solemnly engaged before God to passe by the fault to take off the punishment of this sinne which 〈◊〉 upon better consideration and more serious thoughts he and that without perjury broke giving an absolute charge and command to Solomon his sonne to put Shimei to death and hold him no longer guiltlesse which decree Solomon accordingly did execute returning all the wickednesse of Shimei against David upon his owne head Joab was a man of bloud a man deserving death yet 〈◊〉 was forced to indulge him so farre in his sinne as to continue him in his honour untill the Lord tendred an opportunity and gave him power to be avenged on him to the ●●most Such Oaths Covenants Protestations and Declarations ●●deliberately and rashly made such honour and indulgence 〈◊〉 i● conferred or continued to Delinquent persons deserving death condemned by the decree of God such oaths are 〈◊〉 justly broken then with justice and honour to God or 〈◊〉 and respect to a Republick they can be kept If a man should sweare to save the life of a murtherer such an oath not onely may but must be broken because the Lord hath positively determined that no satisfaction shall be taken for the life of a murtherer neither can the land be cleansed from bloud but by the bloud of him who shed it The inconsiderate 〈◊〉 of making and taking what cannot possibly and without sinne be performed must solemnly and seriously be repented of before the God of Heaven by States and by private persons Such circumstances may intervene which may render that oath unlawfull which at first was lawfull impossible to be kept which before was possible and in such cases the Lord doth disingage us and the binding power thereof doth cease Oaths are conditionall as was Abrahams servants the oath of the Spies to Rahab of Solomon to Ad●n●jah and binde not unless that condition be performed If a State do binde themselves or others by an oath to defend the Person and power of a Prince maintaining Religion and Justice preserving their Lawes and Liberties this oath must be kept the Prince performing those conditions but in case he be a profest enemy to Religion an Adversary to Justice and by no wayes of love or favour can be gained to Patronage the Lawes and Liberties of his People but still he plots and conspires against the lives of those that are most loyall most faithfull such oaths are no longer binding It is absurd against all reason the light of nature the laws of Nations to imagine that any oath should binde a People to deliver their Sword into a Tyrants or Murtherers hands when they know it is desired only to murther them or to be avenged upon them Such oaths as cannot be kept with the Peace and stability of Nations all Casuists acknowledge leave no obligation upon the conscience because Reason and Rule is the bond of Justice The Covenant was only a civill bond wherein we engaged out of respect to the publick peace and safety of the Nation Is the Nation by any one act in hazard Nay ●s not this peace rather secured have not the Parliament wisely layed the Axe to the root of our distempers Plutarch reports of Lys●nder that he cared neither for promise or oath longer then they would serve the accomplishment of his owne ends Did not Cbarles the ninth of France the same and what History can Parallel the Acts of the late KING herein better one should perish then a Nation Ma●asses bloud-guiltinesse reflected upon all Israel indulgence to any deserving death layes a foundation of future miserie and emboldens that delinquent in his impiety No politick law in a Kingdome must dispense with the Positive Law of God that Law enacted by himselfe for the preservation of humane societies from violence He that sheddeth bloud by man shall his bloud be shed by man not by a private person but