B22970:106
An appeal to thy conscience as thou wilt answer it at the great and…An appeale to thy conscience as thou wilt answere it at the great and…
An appeal to thy conscience as thou wilt answer it at the great and dreadful day of Christ Jesus.An appeale to thy conscience as thou wilt answere it at the great and dreadfull day of Christ Iesus.
London : s.n., 1643
An Appeal to thy Conscience. › The Answer.An Appeale to thy Conscience. › The Answer.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
God therefore doth always require thy obedience unto thy Prince: If his commands be lawful, then thou must obey him actively, by executing his will; if unlawful, then thou must obey him passively, by submitting thy self unto his punishment. So that there can be no cause or colour for thy disobedience, no ground for thy resistance, unless thou wilt obey neither God nor man.
God therefore doth alwaies require thy obedience unto thy Prince: If his commands be lawfull, then thou must obey him actively, by executing his will; if unlawfull, then thon must obey him passively, by submitting thy selfe unto his punishment. So that there can be no cause or colour for thy disobedience, no ground for thy resistance, unlesse thou wilt obey neither God nor man.
The Objections being fully answered, this truth delivered in Gods Word remains firm and unshaken, That Subjects may not take up Arms against their lawful Sovereign, because he is wicked and unjust; no, though he be an Idolater and Oppressor.
The O•jections being fully answered, this truth delivered in Gods Word remaines firme and unshaken, That Subjects may not take up Armes against their lawfull Soveraigne, because he is wicked and unjust; no, though he be an Idolater and Oppressour.
But tell me, Reader, if thou canst, where the Scriptures allow thee to take up Arms against thy lawful Sovereign, who is a meek and patient1 Moses, a tender hearted David; no Idolater, but a strict and careful maintainer of Gods true Religion, and such a one, whom his very adversaries acknowledge to be, The Defender of the true, ancient, Catholic and Apostolical faith. In whom Gods graces are so eminent, that though hellish spirits have and do daily foam out their malice against him, yet there is not one who hath or can tax him with unchastity, malice, pride, cruelty, profaneness, negligence of Gods service, or any other notorious vice; except his denial of giving away his birthright be a breach of his Royal duty, as the author of the Sovereign Antidote would fain persuade us to believe, without proof.