| Show conscience historical Q on conscience cont coin idled and submitted to the reader of the me enquirer ty by elder D mil jolin conscience is is the souse sense of well and ill doing aside froidl revelation our ideas as to the divine attributes M mast oat be derived from it a knowledge of our own among these is our moral sense bense which cou constrains strains us ua to consider right and wrong as an immutable dis and moral worth as our hiemst excellence infidels In lidIs readily acknowledge Knowledge nc gods god a physical attributes because the a argument is is ad dressed to their and understanding 0 ir standing but deny his bis moral ones because lia cauBO their hearts arc ara hardened through tho the do de ce of sin BID jie he has haa given us a moral faculty by which we dis linguist between actions una and ap prove some as virtuous vir none and of good desert ard and disapprove of others as vicious visions and of ill desert L this moral discernment implies in in the notion of it a rule rale of action and a rule of a peculiar kind for it carries with it authority and a right of direction authority in such eccli a sense as that thai we cannot depart from it without being self condemned and that the dictates of this moral faculty which are by nature a rule to us are moreover the laws of god laws in in a 8 sense boast in in eluding sanctions may be thus brov led ec conscientiousness of a rule of actions action in in creatures who are capable of considering stirs iff as given them hem by their only raises immedi lately a sense of daty bat olao aled a sense ot security in in following lit it and ot of danger in in deviating from it woo joi cutler butler D 0 L on the trial of the co conspirators at ors in t the be infamous gun p powder ow 0 r plot it was shown wood land had scruples about joining in i n so extensive a sehimo ot f slaughter saying baying it was a matter of conscience to take away so BO much blondi but catesby silenced eilen ced him by bi saying it had been resolved on good authority that in in conscience it might have been done knights eng ang when martin luther lather was asked whether he would or would not recant he replied since your imperial majesty have desired a direct answer I 1 shall KIVO give such an one as shall have neither lorna horns nor namely except I 1 be COLTin convinced ced with clear and undoubted evidence of 0 holy scripture tor for I 1 beli believe eve neither antho in the pope nor in la councils alone since it is is evident they have often erred and contradicted them selves and as ag my conscience is M bound by gods god 8 word I 1 cannot and will not recant because it is is voit ctitzer Ct ither ber safe nor advisable to act contrary to con science science elzra I 1 stan stand I 1 cannot do otherwise god help me amon amen reins Iti luther daher in ili the reign of james and 2nd in scotland the anti catholic Catholia feeling was strong the three privy counselors coun who had lately returned from L lon on don took the lead in in opposition to the royal will hamilton declared that he could not t do what was asked ile he was a faithful find and loyal subject but thew was a limit imposts ol by con science conscience said the chan bellor kid iii a vague word which signifies anything or nothing norh lockhart who sat eat I 1 in a parliament as representative of the great county of lanark banark struck in if rolis conscience cionco be a word without moa meaning ding wo we wilt change a it for another phrase which I 1 hope i ml means something for ton con Selen science colet let us put the fundamental laws of scotland ting cromwell strongly advocated lib orty erty of conscience when it was a startling notion nolion to most public me men n lie he was among the first of public bubli 0 won to advocate it lie urged that aba t tile the civil magistrate ha had d nothing to do to td determine ot of anything in in mat tera of religion iou by constraint constrain torro or re but every man man might not dot only hold C but 4 preach and do in in mat I 1 tera of religion what he be pleased hid stiff eng in time rho ice presby terian teann mind of that day which do de inaudi ld not only the right to the ez ex pr crossion ossion of their own but also the repression of all who followed not n t velh willi them did not DOC milton say buy 00 or them that thai presbyter was bleil spelt apelt birgel indeed there wai in ID t dy a to 1 or abt ule anti repress it wai ai a i not that persecution lu in iest it win wai judge it crime crillie only when it the order a of particular opinion toler aaion woi VH regarded by anol its as ha an aW 1 and and oliver ali i nemond ne aloina forth forelli vindicating liberty 4 to all iroldo or cromwell ell cromwell it Is thus we hod find it lilai fin on thu the of nf january ipa when he summoned the 10 lo west meet him la in the painted fainted ii there not yet olton tile the spirits of roen men a itching itch lne nothing ii will 11 satisfy at afy abe them in ulde i 4 they hay can press heir linger finger upon I 1 their it air breth rens consciences to pinch them thein there therb tu to ija do this wai no part of the conlest cont elit we hall hail with the common adversary anywhere and wherein consisted this more than thili in oh ob that liberty from the tyranny of the bishops to till all species of protestants to worship god according to their own light ond and consciences for want of which many olour of our brethren forsook their native countries to seek their broad bread from to alvo in a howling wilderness and lor for which adga many that remained hero wore were ili prisoner and otherwise abased and made tile the scorn ol of the nation those that were sound in ia the aith how proper was it for them to labor for liberty fora for a just lust liberty that men might not be trampled upon for their consciences had not 0 t they themselves labored but lately lately under tho the we weight agh t of persecution and was 1 t fl it t fo for r t them hem to sit alt heavy upon others la Is it ingenuous to ask liberty and not give it hoods cromwell the italians accustomed to darker and baser modes of vengeance wore were glad to learn that they might without nay any crime shoot at their on enemies emiles from behind bechini hedges to deceit was given a license ruffic lent to destroy tho the whole value of human contracts and of human testimony in truth if continued to hold bold together eother to it life and proper property t y enjoyed any security it was because bebau connison and common humanity restrained men from doling what tile the society of jesus assured them they might with a safo safe conscience clence ia do J eng hernando cortez ills ilia will wilf con talked one oa passage so curious that I 1 will conclude by copying it after f recommending ills alls heirs to treat the tha indians with humanity he be proceeds proceed thus it has been long a qu question Ts tion whether we can in good cons conscience clerice hold th tho 0 I 1 indians 0 deans in slavery this question not havin havone g yet been decided e I 1 order my son martin and his heirs to spare no pains to arrive at a knowledge of the tru truth ili on this point for it Is a 11 matter which interests ats deeply their conscience and mine who should havo have thought to find such a alsage in the will of cortez nothing ing Is more certain than this that cortez in all that he did in mexico fully believed that lie he was mi Instrument in tho the hand ofa benevolent god for he found mexico pagan and left it catholic massacre rapine dovea devea tation the betrayal and murder of a king the he fal fait I 1 of I 1 tha he empire these wore were us as no thing in view efti of a result like this so thought all good spaniards of that age ace cyclopedia of staff blog 13 brutus rutus the of crebar sat sal indis n his tent at dead of night and thought a huge buffo shadowy form stood by him and when ho be asked what and nd whence art thou it t answer answered eoll or it to limber 1 I am ain chitte evil ge genilus brains we wa shall meet again at philippi Lid delVs rome sir henry hanry vana executed by charles ad A D blessed UI essed be godl goal exclaimed pe be us as he bared his xi eckfor the axe 11 1 I have kept e a conscience v void ld or of Of fence till 1 chii I day and have not denert cd his cabio for which I 1 suffer 11 that cause was democratic liberty in the history i of lof the world he was wag the first martyr to the principle of the paramount power of the people 1 the manner of his hi death was tho the admiration of ochla his times Bancro Ban crofts fill U A 4 the tha human conscience la Is the only fu stifled limit to 0 o tile the authority of rf if state mere dislike to a state or im nicy annoyance under it gives to no right to resist jt A the state U W tobe to bo Onside led as aa acting for the gond of till nil even evell when it sets acts unwisely wake laws and state slate constitutions WI which fell arl r inertly state laws gon gen herline d and emphasized ara the rightful of legitimate government but conscience Is it its opponent god only Is above the state anti and the true rue conscience Is 1 lod speaking budmen but men tire are loosle 00 oo ape to cull call heir asto or their own opinion or their interest or their heir blind hy by tho the sacred 11 howard cros cm byn I 1 |
