Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	church_n	discipline_n	doctrine_n	4,176	5	6.2312	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43512	A briefe relation of the death and sufferings of the Most Reverend and renowned prelate, the L. Archbishop of Canterbury with a more perfect copy of his speech, and other passages on the scaffold, than hath beene hitherto imprinted.	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1644 (1644)	Wing H1685; ESTC R212372	21,500	34

Heart and yet I thanke God I have not found among the many any one sinne which deserves death by any knowne Law of this Kingdome And yet hereby I charge nothing upon my Iudges for if they proceed upon proofe by valuable witnesses I or any other innocent may be justly condemned And I thanke God though the weight of the sentence lye heavie upon me I am as quiet within as ever I was in my life And though I am not only the first Archbishop but the first man that ever dyed by an Ordinance of Parliament yet some of my Predecessors have gone this way though not by this meanes For Elphegus was hurried away and lost his head by the Danes and Symon Sudbury in the fury of Wat Tyler and his fellowes Before these Saint Jon Baptist had his head danced off by a lewd woman and Saint Cyprian Archbishop of Carthage submitted his head to a persecuting Sword Many Examples great and good and they teach me patience for I hope my Cause in Heaven will looke of another dye then the colour that is put upon it here And some comfort it is to me not only that I goe the way of these great men in their severall generations but also that my Charge as fowle as 't is made lookes like that of the Jewes against Saint Paul Acts. 25.3 For he was accused for the Law and the Temple i. e. Religion And like that of Saint Stephen Acts 6.14 for breaking the Ordinances which Moses gave i. e. Law and Religion the holy place and the Temple verse 13. But you will say doe I then compare my selfe with the integrity of Saint Paul and Saint Stephen No farre be that from me I only raise a comfort to my selfe that these great Saints and Servants of God were laid at in their times as I am now And 't is memorable that Saint Paul who helped on this Accusation against Saint Stephen did after fall under the very same himselfe Yea but here 's a great Clamour that I would have brought in Popery I shall Answer that more fully by and by In the meane time you know what the Pharises said against Christ himselfe If we let him alone all men will beleive in him Et venient Romani and the Romans will come and take away both our place and the Nation Here was a causelesse Cry against Christ that the Romans will come And see how just the judgement of God was they crucified Christ for feare lest the Romans should come and his death was it which brought in the Romans upon them God punishing them with that which they most feared and I pray God this Clamour of Venient Romani of which I have given no cause helpe not to bring them in for the Pope never had such a Harvest in England since the Reformation as he hath now upon the Sects and Divisions that are amongst us In the meane time by Honour and dishonour by good report and evill report as a deceiver and yet true am I passing through this world 2 Cor. 6.8 Some particulars also I thinke it not amisse to speake of And first this I shall be bold to speake of the King our gracious Soveraign He hath bin much traduced also for bringing in of Popery but on my Conscience of which I shall give God a very present accompt I know Him to be as free from this Charge as any man living and I hold Him to be as sound a Protestant according to the Religion by Law established as any man in this Kingdome And that he will venture His Life as farre and as freely for it and I thinke I doe or should know both His affection to Religion and his grounds for it as fully as any man in England The second particular is concerning this great and Populous City which God blesse Here hath beene of late a fashion taken up to gather hands and then goe to the Great Court of this Kingdome the Parliament and clamour for Iustice as if that great and wise Court before whom the Causes come which are unknowne to the many could not or would not doe Iustice but at their appointment A way which may endanger many an Innocent man and plucke his bloud upon their owne heads and perhaps upon the Citie 's also And this hath beene lately practised against my selfe the Magistrates standing still and suffering them openly to proceed from Parish to Parish without checke God forgive the setters of this with all my heart I begge it but many well meaning People are caught by it In Saint Stephen's case when nothing else would serve they stirred up the People against him and Herod went the same way when he had killed Saint James yet he would not venture upon Saint Peter till he found how the other pleased the People But take heed of having your hands full of bloud for there is a time best knowne to himselfe when God above other sinnes makes Inquisition for bloud and when that Inquisition is on foot the Psalmest tells us That God remembers but that 's not all He remembers and forgits not the Complaint of the Poore that is whose bloud it shed by oppression vers. 9. take heed of this 'T is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the living God but then especially when he is making Inquisition for bloud And with my Prayers to avert it I doe heartily desire this City to remember the Prophesy that is expressed Jer. 26.15 The third particular is the poore Church of England It hath flourished and beene a shelter to other neighbouring Churches when stormes have driven upon them But alas now 't is in a storme it selfe and God onely knowes whether or how it shall get out and which is worse then a storme from without it 's become like an Oake cleft to shivers with wedges made out of it's owne body and at every cleft prophanenesse and Irreligion is entring in while as Prosper speakes in his second Book De vitae contemptu cap. 4. Men that introduce prophanenesse are cloaked over with the name Religionis Imaginariae of Imaginary Religion for we have lost the Substance and dwell to much in Opinion and that Church which all the Iesuits machinations could not ruine is fallen into danger by her owne The last particular for I am not willing to be too long is my selfe I was borne and baptized in the bosome of the Church of England established by Law in that profession I have ever since lived and in that I come now to dye This is no time to dissemble with God least of all in matter of Religion and therefore I desire it may be remembred I have alwaies lived in the Protestant Religion established in England and in that I come now to dye What Clamours and Slanders I have endured for labouring to keepe a Vniformity in the externall service of God according to the Doctrine and Discipline of this Church all men know and I have