Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.
The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.
Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.
Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.
And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.
O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.
Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.
Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.
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