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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.
The Answer.
Though I intended only the satisfaction of thy Conscience, which can admit of no other rule then the Word of God. For, Lex Dei sola obligat conscientiam hominis. Et ipsae leges humanae, qua sunt leges hominum, ⟨p. 30⟩non obligant conscientiam, Ames. de cal. Conscient. l. 1. c. 2. The Law of God doth only bind the conscience of man. And humane laws, as they are the laws of men do not bind the conscience. Yet because the rectifying of the judgement, is a ready means to the rectifying of the conscience; and because this evasion is by some much boasted of; I shall therefore briefly set forth the excellent and sweet agreement which the laws of this Land have with the Laws of God, in this particular, affirming, That the King of England is such a King as the Scriptures mention; and that in four respects,
Though I inended onely the satisfaction of thy Conscience, which can admit of no other rule then the Word of God. For, Lex Dei sola obligat conscientiam hominis. Et ipsae leges humanae, qua sunt leges hominum, ⟨p. 30⟩non obligant conscientiam, Ames. de cal. Conscient. l. 1. c. 2. The Law of God doth only binde the conscience of man. And humane laws, as they are the laws of men do not bind the conscience. Yet because the rectifying of the judgement, is a ready meanes to the rectifying of the conscience; and because this evasion is by some much boasted of; I shall therefore briefely set forth the excellent and sweet agreement which the laws of this Land have with the Laws of God, in this particular, affirming, That the King of England is such a King as the Scriptures mention; and that in foure respects,