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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	church_n	doctrine_n	england_n	6,989	5	6.3346	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80378	The interest of England how it consists in vnity of the Protestant religion. With expedients moderate and effectuall to establish it by the extirpation of the papacy. By a member of the House of Commons.	Constantine, William, Sir, 1611 or 12-1670.	1642 (1642)	Wing C5948; Thomason E121_47; ESTC R22632	28,124	40

and conscientiously possest such reasonable conditions of subsistence as their conscience bee not violenc'd nor themselves hurryed in dispaire and fury to imbroyle the Kindome which tendernesse as it may insinuate and win into their soules by that Gospellary way of gentlenesse and perswasion Vid. Fol. ult so it will conduce to continue the like piety and pitty to the Protestants beyond the Seas provided that we sufficiently fore cast to secure their allegiance to the Crowne of which see the last Clause and disable them from a further growth To which effect it seemes reasonable that wee enact 2 Clause To disable all such as are now under the age of ten yeares to inherit or purchase c. unlesse they shall conforme at their age of twenty one THat all persons now under the age of ten yeeres who shall not within one yeare after they attaine to the age of one and twenty repair and frequent the Church and three times in the same yeere receive the holy Sacrament and also take the Oath of Supremacy before the Minister and Church wardens of such Parish where they shall inhabite openly in the Church after Evening Prayers in some Lords Day which taking the Minister and Church-wardens shall register in some Booke to be kept for the same purpose or shall after such conformity discontinue the Church or refuse the said Oath being lawfully tendred shall be held reputed and adjudg'd Popish Recusants and shall be disabled to take by discent or purchase in Fee or Tayle c. to his owne use or in trust for others any Lands Tenements or hereditaments c. in England or Wales But all such Lands which such Recusant shall be so seis'd of or any other to his use or Vid. a president for forfeitures in this sort in the Statute of Mortmaine 7 Ed. 1. c. shall descend and come to such Recusants next heire that shall be of the age of one and twenty and conformable as aforesaid If such next heire shall not enter Bona fide within six moneths after such non-conformity or refusall That then his second heire that is of the age of one and twenty and conformable shall enter and be thereof seised to his own use in such estate as such recusant had or enjoyed c. Jf such second heire shall not enter Bona fide within a second six moneths then shall it escheat or remaine to the Lord of the fee or to him in remainder as if such Recusant were dead Jf he shall neglect his entry six moneths then shall his estate be disposed of by the next Parliament to the publick use The like for Leases Tearmes Copyholds or other Interests that hee may become in the same condition as an Alienamee T is evident that some Clause to this sence maturely ripened A moderate and effectuall expedient to extirpate the Papacy being not possible to be evaded or dispens'd with will in one age unground all popish Families T is their store of Lands and thence of tenants that makes them formidable to the state of which being deprived as it will discourage them to settle heere so will it disable such as are setled to ingrosse dependants Nor is it penall more then ordinary for that the now Lawes necessitate Recusants to breed their children under licenst a 23. Eli. 1. 1 Jac. 4. Schoole-masters for that none elce ought to teach in private or in publike If their education be beyond the Seas an b 3. Jac. 5. act in force disables them to inherite or take by gift conveyance or devise or otherwise untill they shall conforme Now if wee shall enliven some quicker Statute for their education me seemes as it is not altogether naturall to rend and force a child from the vigilance and nurture of his proper parents so will it not probably produce the effect both by reason that it is obvious to a multitude of Evasions and for that stomacke which will swell in the issue upon the Fathers reluction Be it therefore at the Fathers perill that his child be educated in the Doctrines of our Church or if his conscience be so scrupulous as to derive to his issue his owne errors he has faire leasure during life to dispose of his Estate and transplant his of-spring into a forraine soyle where the principles of his profession are not so destructive to that policy of government If notwithstanding this reasonable admonition disherison shall accrue to his posterity it may not be traduc'd injurious since the private of all men must submit to the publike reason of State c 39 H. 6. 39. Mirror cap. 3. §. Jura publica ex privatis promiscuè decidi non debent This Clause is onely to be avoyded by the defect of an expedient to scrutinye into the true sence of men For experience dayly justifyes that such whom wee suspect to be Recusants and lately so profest glibly swallow those Oathes of Allegiance and supremacy resort to Church nay and communicate whereby either that act of * 3. Iac. 4. Discovery becomes fruitlesse or really they are what they now professe Converts Truth is nor dispensation nor dread nor hope nor malice can mould a conscience though erronious that is Religious to Hypocrisie but such as are loose or but formerly conscientious will scruple no assay they have volaticum jusjurandum and to provide a Test for the discovery of such Non idem sunt Scriptura Cricaeus Eras Adag were to make a garment for the moone Notwithstanding for more ranke conviction of such dissimulation if it be such it may be requisite to insert into the Oath of Supremacy the first Clause of the Protestation viz. To defend with life power and estate the true Reformed Protestant Religion expressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England against all Popery and Popish innovations c. or rather to compose the severall Oathes that concerne religion into one lesse equivocable and more searching as not only to maintaine the Protestant Religion but to renounce the Romish 3 Clause To raise a present supply of monies THat all such as have not usually frequented Church the first yeare of this present Parliament and have not taken in the same yeare the Holy Communion or shall refuse the Oathes of Allegiance Supremacy and Protestation being tendered by the Commissioners shall forfeit the part of their last yeeres revenew in Lands or goods to bee assest upon their estates as they lie in the severall Counties by the Commissioners nominated in the last Act of 400000. After the same sort as is exprest in the same Act and to be returned accordingly c. This charge will probably be with alacrity disburst by reason of the ease that Recusants have from the penalty of former Statutes and the rapine of Projectors And this way of levying as it will be most speedy so most certaine for that those Commissioners upon experience of the former taxes are well acquainted with those which they