Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	call_v	emperor_n	pope_n	2,950	5	6.8842	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04416	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, on the first Sunday in Lent: Martij 1. 1600 With a short discourse of the late Earle of Essex his confession, and penitence, before and at the time of his death. By William Barllow Doctor of Diuinitie. Whereunto is annexed a true copie, in substance, of the behauiour, speache, and prayer of the said Earle at the time of his execution.	Barlow, William, d. 1613.	1601 (1601)	STC 1454; ESTC S100950	23,845	78

was that he might haue libertie to set downe in writing what in worde he had confessed to them and other things which either at the barre he had denied or should then occure to his memory The confession it selfe filles foure shéetes of paper euery worde in his owne hand and his name at the end which my selfe haue séene and will shew vnto you so much as is fit the preface thereof I haue transcribed for your sakes and this it is Since that God of his mercie hath opened mine eyes and made me see my sinne my offence and so touched my hart as I hate it both in my selfe and others I will as God shall inable my memorie set downe how far we all are guiltie and where and by what degrees our sinne this offence grew The cheife and the briefe is this his purpose of surprising the court with a power the places allotted to foure persons S. Christopher Blunt the gate with a company S. Iohn Dauis the hal a third to master the guard by seazing the halberts S. Charles Dauers to possesse the priuie chamber with another companie all this confess by himselfe and the rest vnder their handes Here now imagine with your selues what aff●ighting euen the rumour thereof had béene to a prince of that sex a Lady Quéene in a time of peace and the peace so long by her meanes continued in her owne court and chamber the prouerbe is Leues loquntur ingentes stupent that sleight feared make women shrike but if they be great and sodayne they cast them into aswoune and I doubt if in that 〈◊〉 she should haue swounded they would haue taken it for death and haue ●●stowed little paynes to fetch her againe But resistance béeing made as it is not possible but there would there must néedes be bloud shed now thinke you what an horror would this haue béene to her gratious nature to haue séene bloud running in her chambers Then looke to the commanders two of the principall stiffe and open Papists and the fourth by report affected that way what danger to her person to religion to the Realme they may gesse who haue reade the libelles of B●zi●● Reyno●d● Gifforde and others of that church writing slaunderously of her Maiesties person blasphemously of our religion and basely of our Realme and policie You may remember the state of Israel when they were forced to sharpen their axes and tooles and haue no weapons but from the Philistines 1. Sam. 13. And such a slauery and misery assure your selues had ours béen for Prince and religion if we had stoode to the courtesie of armed Papistes and their reformation Perhaps you will say that this was but like the grouth of a Tadstoole Oritu● moritur a nights conceit but vanished in the morning Yea but himselfe voluntarily confessed to vs that it was plotting and deuising not long after hee laye in the Lorde Keepers hous● euen then when he protested that he had made a diuorce betwéene the worlde and himselfe But he meant no hurt to the Quéenes person say you Surely that he● protested both in his confession to the Lords and to vs and writeth it that when he sent the Articles to Drury house to be considered of by his complices he put in that caueat still that as little bloud might be shed as could and that the Queenes owne person might receiue no harme And we will beléeue it Marry the question is first w●ether it had béene in his owne power at the time of their rage and in whot bloud to haue kept her safe certainely as we obiected to him 〈◊〉 which could not as him selfe to 〈◊〉 confessed restraine them from murthering the Queenes subiects when he stood vpon his defence in his house they béeing but a few must not thinke hee could haue stayed them in the Court the obiect of their reuenge For béeing many and many of them néedy what Rapine would haue satisfied them béeing youthfull and lustfull what Rapes woulde haue stanched them being discontented and reuengefull what bloud would haue glutted them and the chiefe of them Pop●sh and armed would they not haue said which comes euen now to my minde as that bloudy Story once saide What doe we pruning the boughes and branches let vs strike at the roote For mine owne part I professe I woulde trust neuer a Papist in the world if he might haue her at that vantage God be thanked that this is but an imagination for had it come ab ima●ine ad rem from a purpose to an effect God knowes saith he himselfe to vs what daunger and harme it had wrought to the Realme But in this point of the Queenes safetie what thinke you of summoning a Parlament which foure or fiue vnder their hands and himselfe 〈◊〉 hath confessed Who should haue called it she or they It is a controuersie betwéene vs and the Papists whether the Emperour or the Pope haue the absolute authoritie of calling a Councell but it was neuer made question that I can read in England who ha●● authoritie to call a Parlament either the Prince or the Péeres Among the Spaniards and French they may saith Bodi● but apud A●glos in the Realme of England ne● admi●ti possunt ●mu●ntus nec dimitti absque 〈◊〉 ●dict● without the Princes warrant it cannot either be sumoned or dis●●●ued Why she should haue done it how voluntarily or by force the first we may not imagine that she would so soone yéeld if the second where is the safety of her person vnlesse you count that safety for a Prince to be a prisoner to her subiects God forbid we should haue felt the Issue of this nay God be thanked saith he to vs that it was preuented And withall gaue God like thankes that he had made him this example to be iustly spewed out of the land Which word Spewed he inforced with a violence arguing himselfe therby to be vnto this Realme as a furfet vnto the stomack both a burthen and a danger He saw himselfe a burthen in this charge of souldiers béeing a burthen to the Cittie and countrie which but for him had now béen spared he felt himselfe a burthen as it séemed to vs by longing and desiring which oft he did that the time of execution were come A danger he confessed himselfe to be in these words of his which I pray you obserue he knew that the Queene could not be in safetie so long as he liued vpon the earth I will stretch nothing to farre but yet marke this if her safety were so vncertain he being a prisoner in the Tower what could her safety haue béene when he was possessed of her court with an armed power But why do I eyther amplifie by circumstance or inforce by argument the haynousnesse and daunger of this plot if I had the tongue of men and Angels I could not better nor would in more bitter tearmes expresse it th●● himselfe hath done in foure epithet●s or adiunctes in his prayer to God or in