B22970:171
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.
Hear Ambrose in Orat. contra Auxentium, Repugnare non novi, dolere potero, potero flere, potero gemere: adversus arma, milites, Gothos, lachrymae meae, mea arma sunt; aliter nec debeo, nec possum resistere: How to resist I know not, I can grieve, I can weep, I can sigh: my tears are my weapons against weapons, Soldiers, Goths: in any other way I neither must nor may resist.
Hear Ambrose in Orat. contra Auxentium, Repugnare non novi, dolere potero, potero flere, potero gemere: adversus arma, milites, Gothos, lachrymae meae, mea arma sunt; aliter nec debeo, nec possum resistere: How to resist I know not, I can grieve, I can weep, I can sigh: my teares are my weapons against weapons, Souldiers, Gothes: in any other way I neither must nor may resist.
Hear Bernards resolution, Epist. 170. ad Regem Ludovicum Regem. Si totus orbis adversum me conjuraret, ut quippiam molirer adversus Regiam Majestatem•, ego tamen Deum timerem, & ordinatum ab eo Regem offendere temerè non auderem; nec enim ignoro ubi legerim, qui potestati resistit, Dei ordinationi resistit: If the whole world should ⟨p. 29⟩conspire against me, to the end that I should do something against the Kings Majesty, yet I would fear God, and not dare rashly to offend the King ordained by him▪ For I know where I have read, that he who resisteth the power resisteth the Ordinance of God. And the same Father, Epist. 221. Quiequid vobis de regno vestro, de animâ, & coroná vestrâ facere placeat, nos Ecclesiae filii, matris injurias, contemptum, & conculcationem omnino dissimulare non possumus. Profectò stabimus, & p•gnabimus usque ad mortem (si ita oportuerit) pro matre nostrâ, armis quibus licet, non scutis & gladiis, sed precibus & sletibus ad Deum. Whatsoever you may please to make of your Kingdom, life, and Crown; we the sons of the Church cannot altogether dissemble the wrongs, disgrace, and spurning of our mother. Verily for our mother we will stand, and sight even unto death (if need be) with such weapons as are lawful, not with Shields and Swords, but with prayers and tears to God.