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
A64181	Mercvrivs Aqvaticvs, or, The vvater-poets ansvver to all that hath or shall be writ by Mercvrivs Britanicvs	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1643 (1643)	Wing T481; ESTC R8378	14,007	22

eares that may have wherewithall to suffer Martyrdome long meales long graces to help digestion but there are so many of the Committee for Religion that watch over them that 〈◊〉 spaire of 〈◊〉 when the great serviceable Rabbie of the 〈◊〉 cannot be heard 〈◊〉 now when Sir Benjamin Rudyeard is turn'd Assembly man too I never look to sée our Church 〈◊〉 according to the ancient Primitive Form of Doctrine and discipline which is the same with the 〈◊〉 Religion her established 〈◊〉 I am informed that Gentleman 〈◊〉 Parsons 〈◊〉 with Brownisticall 〈◊〉 and cuts Episcopacy with sanctified-presbyterian 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 in holy water of the lake Lemannus There are 〈◊〉 bottles come lately to the new Assembly and more are dayly expected from the Close Committees own 〈◊〉 for the shaving from the face of the Church those superfluous excrements of Cathedrall Lands height Mounsieur Salmasius if the Schollers spell his name right Aquaticus tells you that the Parliament did give power to Marshall and Nye to contract with the Scots by new Covenants for the ruine of the English Nation if God prevent not For shal we thinke the Scots are such fools if they conquer to return back againe to their Whig and Scotch porredge Frost and snow and little wood from good fetherbeds gallant houses English beef ale and broad-cloth No Britanicus if that day once come the Brotherhood shall find their Brethren of Scotland will be the Elders and carry away the Land And is not this a more treasonable Act to destroy Trading advance Plundering and ruine the whole Nation only to secure the five Members which yet you see cannot escape Gods vengeance from a legall tryall rather then that of furthering an honest modest petition for peace Is not this to give power for licence and to take away all power and Lawes too as your party in all places where they come doe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they only give power to them to impose new Covenants to another Nation but to contrive and suggest them as no Councell 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the world ever did to such contemptible inferiours especially to those that are so little Scientificall 〈◊〉 knowing men But I must-tell my Merchants of London though they 〈◊〉 greedily trade into Scotland for the present whatsoever their 〈◊〉 and Lecturers tell them the Cavaliers are farre better to trade with and converse with then your Round heads and have a thousand times lesse barbarisme and inhumanity But they will beleeve this too lat He tells you of the Parliament that hath ordered the Assembly that have odrered their Deacon Sir Harry 〈◊〉 to carry Letters to Zurick and to 〈◊〉 up the 〈◊〉 and other parts that in case the Synod should be dissolved they may have a place assigned them to sit in safety to determine of rules that shall never guide the Brownists and Anabaptists two dayes together And it seems 't is high time when they have sent their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by their two Legats a Latere to the Family of Love their Brethren in Scotland when old Fines the Publican who hath sate so long at the Receipt of Custome so excellent at the contriving and managing a Rebellion as also at an 〈◊〉 of more contribution to the common Councell and a very worthy Patriot at a Project of Publick Faith Land in Ireland Newcastle Coles and Excise now begins as much to despaire of the successe of the Cause as of freeing Nath Fiennes or getting Goodwin that Arch-Socinian to be admitted into the New Assembly He tells you of Leslyes Warrants for transporting his fellow Rebells Reader this is Lesly the same man still who though he were honoured by His Majesty with the title of an Carle most unlike a Souldier and a Gentleman basely and ingratefully drawes his sword against his Prince to whom he was so obliged for his favour and Pardon He tells you of the Covenant Lesly administers to all that come over for you must know it was the old policy still to swear them for the 〈◊〉 Religion and it was long since 〈◊〉 on at the Cabinet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Sir Gilbert Gerards Parlour at Harrow o th' Hill that Brownisme be not named yet till the 〈◊〉 be a little more out of their 〈◊〉 by companying together and having Conventicles together where the Candle sometimes most unfortunately is put out and by bringing extemporary nonsense and Blasphemy in fashion to the dishonour of all Religion and the contempt of Common-Prayer but the Covenant begins I Ananias Bodkin resting fully assured that His Majesty labours to preserve His two Kingdoms of England and Ireland from ruine by Lawfull and 〈◊〉 courses will endeavour to overthrow the true Protestant Religion established in the Church of England to let up a new nothing not yet hatched at the Close Committee nor yet thought of by the assemlly or any Reformed Lecturer against all the forces now raised by Commission from his Majesty because they fight for the true Protestant Religion Lawes and Liberties and I will doe my utmost to destroy the Peace and quietnesse of this Kingdome of England by robbing fireing pillaging plundring killing and destroying Aquaticus 〈◊〉 a great Victory Sir William Waller had upon us at Basing house whence he carried no lesle then forty or fifty carts of our Wounded prisoners in Triumph and no lesse then foure or five hundred more dead Which made the Trained Bands so willing to returne home that they might proclaime the cowardise of the Cavaliers and the Valour of Sir William with weeping eyes to their Wives and Children And yet Aulicus conceits that they had the day though you carried home the men in Carts I know not how to distinguish upon daies and 〈◊〉 but I think it is not usuall to conquer and be routed both at a time but this is not the first Victory they have given thankes for witnesse Edge-hill Brainceford and 〈◊〉 three places in which they were 〈◊〉 beaten into a day of 〈◊〉 He tells you of wise Sir William 〈◊〉 Letter to the Irish Commanders to leave fighting and erpounded it as seriously as the Assembly will doe the Covenant or M. Marshall did this piece of Scripture The good man is perished out of the earth at the hideing of 〈◊〉 Pym where he did not as he ought divide the 〈◊〉 Scripture from the Apochrypha but tyed the Text and Sermon both together which was no Sabbaths exercise to the Auditors patience He tells you of the Letters which the Irish commanders returned to Sir William which because Britanicus hath printed according to Sir Williams Copy which he sent to the Parliament and not according to that which was sent to Sir William I shall forbeare to trouble my selfe and the Reader by making the man here eat his own words This piece is so extreame dull and heavk that t is a taske unfit for a Schooleboy to reply to But you must pitty the mans heavinesse for alas he tells us his Wit run all

that fellow shaves with Popish Rasors and cuts with 〈◊〉 Sissars and washes in holy water there are diverse bottles come 〈◊〉 to the Court sent from his holinesse own Barbour Aulicus tells us that the Parliament hath given power to the East-Indian Merchants to impose new Laws Aulicus is not this a more precious Act to keep up Trading then to plunder it and to give power for Laws then to take away all power and Laws too as your Party in all places they come do nor do they give power to them to impose Laws but to contrive and suggest as no Councell 〈◊〉 estate in the world but will take hints at Inferiours especially those that are 〈◊〉 and knowing men but I must tell you that the Merchants though they trade in East India yet their Factors say that the Indians are better to trade with and converse with then your 〈◊〉 and have lesse Barbarisme and inhumanity He tells us of the Parliament that 〈◊〉 ordered the Assembly to write Letters to stirre up the Netherlands and other parts in the Cause Aulicus it is time I thinke had they not need to write to 〈◊〉 States and all the Reformed Churches when you at Oxford have sent your Mendicant Epistles to the Pope and Cardinall and are at this time electing Doctor Cousins 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 flamen to go a pilgrimage to the Monasteries and Priories and Popish States for their assistance and Contributions you have sent old Goring the Publican into Holland and so to France he is excellent at an Ambassage of Monopolizing and a very worthy Patriot at a Project of soape or Salt-peeter He tels us of the Lord of Ormonds Warrants for transporting the Regiment Reader this is Ormond the Apostate who was hired from the Parliament and Protestant Cause with the title of a 〈◊〉 this is he that fought very well till he got his Iewell and for the other Diamond the Parliament might have bought him againe He tells us of the oath that Ormond administers to all that comes over 〈◊〉 you must know that is the old pollicie still to sweare them for the Protestant Religion and it is resolved on at the Cabinet or 〈◊〉 in the Queenes Closet that Popery be not named yet till the Protestants be a little more cut of their wits which they hope will be soone effected by companying together and having Churches together and by bringing the Masse and the Common-prayer a little better acquainted but the oath begins I. A. B. resting fully assured viz. that his Majestie will ruine his Kingdome of Ireland and England with running these courses I will 〈◊〉 the true Protestant Religion established in the Church of England viz in York Minister or Saint Maries in Oxford or any such reformed 〈◊〉 all against all the Forces now under the conduct of the Earle of Essex viz. because they fight for the Protestant Religion and Laws and Liberties and I will do my utmost to procure the Peace and quietnesse of the Kingdome of England viz. by 〈◊〉 obbing fighting pillaging and plundering killing and destroying He tells us of a Victory they had upon us at Stafford and Reader it was thus they had two Troopes to charge us and we took the most of them and yet Aulicus has the conceit they had the day and we their men and horses I know not how to distinguish upon dayes and victories but I think it is not usuall to conquer and be routed both at a time but this is not the first victory they have given thanks for witnesse Edgehill and Newbury two places in which they were soundly beaten into a day of thanksgiving He tells us of Sir William Breretons Letter to the Irish Commanders to leave fighting and expounds every line of it as he did a Chapter in the 〈◊〉 where he took his Text it seems last Sunday in 〈◊〉 sorenoon and expounded Sir William Breretons Epistle in the afternoone and so he divided the Sabbath He tels us of the Letter which the Irish Commanders returned to Sir Williams Gentlemen we were not engaged to the service of Ireland otherwise then by the Kings Commission no did you fight neither for God nor your Countrey the service we have done in leaving the Kingdome of Ireland to the mercilesle bloudy Rebels and making a base dishonourable and irreligious Peace envy it selfe dares not extenuate why do you threaten her it is pitty such deserving Gentlemen were not landed in a richer Teritory then Wales and though we are very sensible of the good plunder in England and of every thing but Popery how worthily we have carried our selves in comming 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from fighting against the 〈◊〉 in Ireland to fight for them in England by your preteneded Parliament a very old title Aulicus taught you 〈◊〉 yet we are not returned hither without his Majesties speciall Commission we are more sorry to heare his Majesty hath such a hand in it you doe well to confesse the truth If you have the like Commission 〈◊〉 the King no we should be sorry we had nor could we ever get so near him for evill Counsellors that have stood in the way we shall Treat with you you are good at 〈◊〉 you came lately from a bloody pacification in Ireland and the drops of so much innocent bloud sticks upon your cloathes yet otherwise you must give us leave What to doe to murder his Majesties Subjects to bring in Popery and 〈◊〉 to carry our selves like 〈◊〉 and Loyall Subjects in killing and plundring Michael Earnele Francis Butler Richard Gibson Edward Hamond George 〈◊〉 These are the names if any man can charge them with more then I have done 〈◊〉 if I say no more to thee at this time thank the 〈◊〉 of Master Pym The Intelligence I Shall begin at Glocester with news that very place where Colonell Massey 〈◊〉 against the whole Army against all their shot and oathes and execrations that very place where his Excellency arrived with no lesse honour then he returned it being 〈◊〉 a question whether of his Lawrels were the best that of Glocester or that of Newbury Not farre from this City at Newnam Colonell Sir Iohn Winter would needs set up a new Government and had some Forces from the Lord Herbert as many as he could well spare to be beaten at one time but Colonell Massey I meane that same Colonell that was attended by his Majesties Army so long went with a Party from his Garrison and dissolved Sir Iohn Winters Government and dis-garrisoned his Army Royal and his plundered cattell so as they all run away crying all was lost after Sir Iohns owne example but I conjecture the cause was for that Colonel Winter was of too cold a constitution for Colonell Masseys hot Alarme but that which is strangest in that defeat Sir Iohn run away and yet left Winter behinde him I should tel you more Intelligence but I am not able at this time to write beyond Master Pym and