Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	church_n	faith_n	profess_v	3,565	5	8.8932	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96054	No nevvs, but a letter to every body. Prescribed, to your truly beloved self; any where: so that you be not resolved to be, who and where you should not be; with care and speed, these be presented. / And subscribed, your daily orator at the throne of grace, R.W.	R. W.	1648 (1648)	Wing W101; Thomason E526_12; ESTC R205656	20,082	16

Land were cried up The Laws But now Birthright and life it self is forfeited for obedience to them And all the use that is made of the pretence of them is by that to commit and protect Sacriledge Treason Murther Rapes Robberies c. 4. At first Arms were taken up to rescue the King from his evill Councell to bring him into the desired embraces of his loyall Parliament For King and Parliament And the making of him a most glorious Prince Now they have him nothing is more dreaded or abhorred then his presence amongst them He become like the holy and just One betrayed by Judas imprisoned for his too good Deeds accused of Treason Barabbas preferred to be set at liberty before he be heard With a multitude of like inconsistencies and impieties as many as the Religions amongst us and as glorious BUT AMONGST ALL THE MEANS that have been used for the consummating of these our sinfull miseries Their deceitfull means Pretence of Religion none have been more dishonourable and odiously contrary to the unchangeable GOD of Truth and Peace then that Religion which enjoyneth us under pain of damnation not to resist that is not to use Defensive Arms against him in the singular number unto whom GOD hath committed his Sword that Religion I say should be abused into the condition of an incendiary and made to heat the fire of hell for those whom CHRIST shed his blood for That that should be now truth which is point blank contrary to the way which GOD put us in So that if GOD be true One and the same yesterday to day and for ever the contrary way must lead to the contrary place The main Arts used in this kinde were chiefly two The one against the Religion established the other for the plausible establishing of their own fancles The first was wrought by the odious aspersion of Popery by them cast upon the King and his loyall Adherents upon the Bishops and their religious Observers But of this smoak onely Time hath cleared the Stage Imputation of Popery And it will daily further make good that that which was suspected by weak men was indeed the onely way for the firm establishing of our Religion against the errors and innovations of Popery For the King The King no words are honorable enough for the pourtraying of his most glorious invincible constancy and his most patient Christian wisdom yea themselves were not close enough to keep from the publick view some of his private Letters taken in his Cabinet His friends wherein he unbosomed himself to his most virtuous Queen By which barbarous act they helped to defile this their own Project For his Adherents who like to His and Him their Moses chose rather to suffer afflictions with the people of God then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a moment The Almighty will be their pay master And if there be universities 〈◊〉 and Learning enough they are not like altogether to be forgotten in this world For the Bishops and their Order they are that which is most feared and hated by the Papists Bishops From which both Order and Persons yea of those who have been worst used at home themselves who smart being Judges they have received their mortall blows No they must be men of other parts and principles then the present pageantry who must maintain the Cause of GOD and his Church against that learned and veterane Adversary Book of Common Prayer And for the Book of Common Prayer that is a thing most detested by them who suffer none who may come to Sermons to be present at that But for the others Directory and Pulpittings they are their joy scorn and laughter For the rest of the persecuted Clergie The Clergy Experience hath indifferently well undeceived the people that the imputation was as false in it self so dangerous to them I shall instance but in one who was of many if not of all others most publickly clamoured against Dr. Cosins by name whose Devotions it may be will come into better esteeme He whom no despight could move or shake though in exile and in the thickest of those our Adversaries stands as an impregnable fortresse in publick and private by Tongue and Pen against the learned Jesuites and others justifying that faith which under his Mother the Church of England He ever professed Which I fear nothing either good or bad can procure one of his Adversaries here once to attempt And here it is considerable whether the Jesuite and Puritan be not like a Map in plano The Iesuit and Puritane or an Hoop stretched out at length The ends seeming to be at all possible distance one from the other but being reduced to use must meet in the breadth of an hair They both under the title of Religion rob GOD of his Prerogative the one to enrich the Pope the other to befool the people Both use the same or the like Arguments and neither do it out of respect to them for whom they pretend but intend to enjoy themselves what seemingly they arrest for others The second of their Arts under this head was by a specious name of a Covenant The Covenant to strike through the body of Episcopacy into that of Monarchy which by the inconsiderate people was easily swallowed for an Act of Religion It being readily visible to those who onely are superficialists in the Book of GOD that entring into Covenant for the better service of GOD was often celebrated in the Book of GOD. But it was not minded that there was no such Covenant or any other then the renewing of that Covenant of GODS own making through the whole Scriptures nor that that ever was publickly attempted against or without the supreme Authority the pride of such an act never having been once heard of amongst the former Israel of GOD. Not observing that the matter of this Vow besides the usurpation upon the Divine power of the King whose destruction appears to have been the principall end thereof containeth the most dreadfull impieties which ever yet were veiled under the mask of Religion the cutting off not of the persons but of the Office of those unto whom GOD had sworn Perpetuity By which as hath been said the Church was to have it's continuance and without which no Church in any age or place hath been or can be and without which no Christian King can be established So that we may put the whole stake upon these two Issues 1. Whether GOD hath accepted of any Nationall Covenant and this other then the renewing of that which himself made without the Supreme Authority Or 2. whether untill this Age there hath been any where at any time any visible Nationall Church without Bishops In which particular unlesse GOD come to constitute a new Man cannot If He had never done it If Power then Divine the authority of the whole Creature cannot reach to constitute a Power For if it