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
A58043	Micro-chronicon, or, A briefe chronology of the time and place of the battels, sieges, conflicts, and other most remarkable passages which have happened betwixt His Majestie and the Parliament from the beginning of these unhappy dissentions to the 25th of March 1647 : together with a catalogue of the Lords, Knights, commanders, and persons of quality slain on either side therein.	Ryves, Bruno, 1596-1677.	1647 (1647)	Wing R2451; ESTC R26225	52,730	111

is 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 Pharisees said against Christ himselfe If we let him alone all men will believe in him Et venient Romani and the Romans will come 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 help 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 mean 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 think it not amisse to speake of And first this I shall be bold to speak of the King our gracious Soveraigne He hath beene 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 think I doe or should know 60th 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 Justice as if that great and wise Court before whom the Causes come which are unknowne to the many could not or would not doe Justice but at their appointment A way which may endanger many an Innocent man and pluck his blood upon their owne heads and perhaps upon the Cities 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 check God forgive the setters of this with all my heart I beg it but many well meaning people are caught by it In Saint Stevens case when nothing else could 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 blood 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 Psalmist tells us That God remembers but that is not all He remembers and forgets not the complaint of the poore that is whose blood is shed by oppression verse 9. take heed of this It is a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the living God but then especially when he is making Inquisition for blood And with my prayers to avert it I doe heartily desire this City to remember the Prophefie that is expressed Jer. 26. 14 15 As for me behold I am in your hand doe with me as seemeth good and meet unto you But know yee for certaine that if yee put me to death ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon your selves and upon this City and the Inhabitants thereof c. The third particular is the poor Church of England It hath flourished and beene a shelter to other neighbouring Churches when stormes have driven upon them But alas now it 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 is become like an Oak cleft to shivers with wedges made out of its owne body and at every cleft prophanesse and irreligion is entring in while as Prosper speakes in his second Booke De vitae contemptu cap. 4. Men that introduce prophanesse are cloaked over with the name Religionis Imaginariae of Imaginary Religion for we have lost the Substance and dwell too much in Opinion and that Church which all the Jesuites 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 alwayes lived in the Protestant Religion established in England and in that I now come to dye What clamour and slanders I have endured for labouring to keepe an Uniformity in the externall service of God according to the Doctrine and Discipline of this Church all men know and I have abundantly felt Now at last I am accused of High Treason in Parliament a crime which my soule ever abhorred this Treason was charged to consist of these two parts An endeavour to subvert the Lawes of the Land and a like Endeavour to overthrow the true Protestant Religion established by Law Besides my Answers to the severall Charges I protested my innocency in both Houses It was said Prisoners protestations at the ●ar must not be taken I can bring no witnesse of my heart the intentions thereof therefore I must come to my Protestation not at the Bar but my Protestation at this houre and instant of my death in which I hope all men will be such charitable Christians as not to think I would dye and dissemble being instantly to give God an accompt for the truth of it I doe therefore here in the presence of God and his holy Angells take it upon my death That I never endeavoured the subversion either of Law or Religion and I desire you all to remember this Protest of mine concerning mine innocency in these and from all Treasons whatsoever I have beene accused likewise as an enemy to Parliaments No I understand them and the benefit that comes by them too well to be so But I did mislike the misgovernments of some Parl. many wayes and I had good reason for it for Corruptio optimiest pessi●a there is no corruption in the world so bad as that which is of the best thing in it selfe For the better the thing is in nature the worse it is corrupted And that being the highest Court over which no other hath jurisdiction when t is mis-informed or mis-governed the Subject is left without all remedy But I have done I forgive all the