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	england_n	people_n	2,804	4	4.5265	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60867	Some succinct remarks on the speech of the late Lord Russel to the sheriffs together with the paper deliver'd by him to them, at the place of execution on July 21, 1683.		1683 (1683)	Wing S4620; ESTC R37577	3,700	5

SOME SUCCINCT REMARKS ON THE SPEECH OF THE Late Lord RUSSEL To the SHERIFFS Together with the PAPER deliver'd by him to them at the Place of Execution on July 21. 1683. HORA MORTIS has been ever look'd upon as HORA VERACITATIS And though Men may dare it out with Impudence and attest their Innocency with all the Asseverations imaginable yet when this Terrible of Terribles draws near when this Hour that launches a Man into the Ocean of Eternity from whence he must never return I say when this approaches it might be rationally supposed That no Man will then cheat his Soul of an Eternal Being by horrid and damnable Equivocations Yet though this has been held as an undoubted Maxim such has been the practice of our Modern Traytors particularly our Noble Lord that we may certainly infer That as the present Age transcends all that has been hitherto in Treasons Rebellions Villanies c. and nothing of that pristine Veracity and Ingenuity is to be found in our Modern Times So likewise the present Traytors are resolv'd to excel all their Fore-runners in that which they call Valour but we may safely term it Impudence at this final hour and think by their pretended Bravery to create a Disbelief of those hellish Crimes of which they are accused But alas they are mistaken they do but gull and cheat their Immortal Souls of that Felicity which they might have capacitated themselves for by a free and ingenuous Confession For I dare aver That if all the Jesuits in Europe had laid their heads together to stuff a Libel with Equivocations Tricks and Evasions they would all have come short of the SPEECH emitted into the World by our Protestant-Jesuite the Lord Russel Tantum Religio potuit suadere malorum ☞ Swear and Forswear But the Great SECRET to reveal Forbear I am sorry I am confined to such narrow Limits that I might have dissected and anatomiz'd this Epitome of Hell and shew'd at large what Tricks c. a True-Protestant Lord could be guilty of at this very dreadful Hour to save his Party from the Appellation of Traytors and some of his True Associates from the Gallows notwithstanding his Lordships Abhorrence of such Actions in the whole course of his Life However I shall take notice of the most material Passages which lie heavy on his Lordship and which no doubt were patched up for no other End but to stifle this Horrid Plot and to hinder its Authors and Abettors from being brought to Exemplary Punishment But to descend to Particulars his Lordship is pleased to begin thus I have set down in this Paper all that I think fit to leave behind me No doubt but his Lordship had a due regard to his Cause and those that were to continue it and therefore thought it not fit to leave any thing behind him that might discover either of them but to wrap it up in such ambiguous terms as might not be understood wherein his Lordship at once would make us believe that he would have us understand him and yet at the same time would not otherwise but that he is made up with Equivocations why did not his Lordship deal sincerely and plainly and add That it was all he knew But it seems he was resolved to wrong his Soul rather than his Party by discovering them His Lordship proceeds and says God knows how far I was always from Designs against the King's Person or of altering the Government This is a pretty way of Appealing for certainly God knows how far he was for Designs against the King as from them and so must his Lordships Conscience too but he was afraid his Conscience would be too plain and therefore left that Point as soon as he had begun it To my knowledge I never saw Captain Walcot in my life That may be and yet both deep in the Plot too according to their Spheres his Lordship possibly being of a higher Club than the Captain was for we are told of several Cabals I bless God that I was born of worthy good Parents and had the advantages of a Religious Education which gave me checks c. The greater the Person the greater the Crime and he has no reason to brag of his Religious Education since he made such ill uses of it which was no wonder that it give him so many Checks for acting such horrid Crimes that were directly against it I have lived and now dye of the Reformed Religion a true and sincere Protestant and in the Communion of the Church of England though I could never yet comply with or rise up to all the heights of many People His Lordship must certainly equivocate here in his meaning of a Church for the Church of England according to the common acceptation of it never allowed such Practises And though he would fain signalize it with such a Member yet he must have a Reservation for that disovvns all Equivocation and allows Salvation for none under his Lordships Circumstances that deal not sincerely in their last hour and make a plain and full Confession of all he knows which his Lordship resolves against as inconsistent with the advantage of his Reformed Traytors I think Bitterness and Persecution are bad at all times much more now No doubt but his Lordship would have them go on without Controll and not have his Saints persecuted NOW though 't is evident to the World that they are the very Source and Fountain of Treasons Rebellions c. but yet forsooth they must not be persecuted For the King I do sincerely pray for Him and wish well to Him and to the Nation that they may be happy in one another and that he may be indeed the Defender of the Faith Here his Lordship is pleased to lend the King a Box on the Ear on one side and endeavour to hold Him up on the other I would fain know what he means by indeed he must certainly insinuate that He is nothing at present but an Hypocrite and pretends one thing and means another but his Lordships Defender of the Faith indeed must certainly be one that would suffer his own Throat to be cut and say nothing And that would see his Kingdom invaded and all his Loyal Subjects destroyed to make way for such Blood-thirsty Miscreants But we now well know that a Whig is that sort of Animal that admires nothing and praises none or at least but slightly and that not without some pity of his defects and wants but he forsooth has all that every Man has and all that every Man wants too So that what 's the meaning of this Religious and dying Speech but a scandalous Libel on the King and Government I did believe and do still that Popery is breaking in upon the Nation and that those who advance it will stop at nothing to carry on their Design I am heartily sorry that so many Protestants give their helping Hand to it This is the old Bugbear Popery Slavery and Arbitrary Government