B22970:222
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. › Resolved.An Appeale to thy Conscience. › Resolved.
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.
And if it be so, how then canst thou take up arms against Him? If He be wicked, what advantage will it be to thee to be worse? If He break His Oath, wilt thou also break thine? Or, canst thou say, that thou swearest Allegiance unto Him on condition of His good behaviour? Does the Statute 25. Edw. 3. c. 3. declare it to be treason, only to levy War against a good, a just King? Why then did not the Protestants take up Arms against that bloody Idolatrous Queen Mary? Why then is it treason to compass the death of an Usurper of the Crown? Dalt. 227. Was not Spencer banished for affirming, That if the King did not demean himself by reason, in the right of the Crown, His Lieges were bound by Oath to remove Him? Stat. Edw. 2. called Exilium Hugonis de Spencer.
And if it be so, how then canst thou take up arms against Him? If He be wicked, what advantage will it be to thee to be worse? If He breake His Oath, wilt thou also breake thine? Or, canst thou say, that thou swearest Allegeance unto Him on condition of His good behaviour? Does the Statute 25. Edw. 3. c. 3. declare it to be treason, only to leavie War against a good, a just King? Why then did not the Protestants take up Armes against that bloody Idolatrous Queene Mary? Why then is it treason to compasse the death of an Usurper of the Crowne? Dalt. 227. Was not Spencer banished for affirming, That if the King did not demeane himself by reason, in the right of the Crowne, His Lieges were bound by Oath to remove Him? Stat. Edw. 2. called Exilium Hugonis de Spencer.
Oh! take heed of new coined distinctions: take heed of the sleights of men. There is no wickedness but hath found some excuse.
Oh! take heed of new coind distinctions: take heed of the sleights of men. There is no wickednesse but hath found some excuse.