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	protestant_a	5,478	5	8.9498	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64421	The Character of His Royal Highness, William Henry, Prince of Orange	Terry, Edward, 1590-1660.	1689 (1689)	Wing C2017A; Wing T779; ESTC R9704	6,014	8

was misled to his great Misfortune The Church of England being in this Deplorable Condition sending up her Prayers to Heaven for a Moses to deliver her and withal imploring the aid by her Clergy Nobility and Gentry of our William Henry Prince of ORANGE he pitying her Tears and to approve himself the only Champion for the Protestant Religion takes the Almighty's Cause in hand and with an inconsiderable Force to what was raised against him Lands in England and finds the effects of his Virtues more powerful than his Sword for the Fame of his Valour and Conduct Prudence Justice and Moderation being his forerunners the Gates of all Cities and Strong-holds opened to him And not only so but Fortresses more obstinate and difficult to Conquer I mean the hearts of the Clergy Nobility and Gentry of the whole Kingdom And it is much a Nobler Conquest over the Hearts than the Bodies of Men. And he to shew that his Zeal in this Expedition was only for the Protestant Religion spurs on the Convention of the Lords and Commons Assembled and leaves it wholly to them to settle the Government and their Religion upon such a firm Basis that it may hereafter outbrave all the Treachery and Fury of Rome and that the Laws and Properties of the Subject may be secured from Tyranny and Oppression for the future I shall now come to a Corallary upon the whole As to his Phisiognomy it is Martial but tho' there is a fierceness in his Eyes yet withal a Charming Sweetness and a little Melancholly Air in his Countenance in which you may read Temperance and Mildness His Courage has been such in his green years that he opposed the French King in Person the great Conde Turene Luxemburgh and several other great Generals and not only measured his Sword with them but gained much more Honour upon them than they did on him His Patience and Temperance was so great that he endured all the indignities the De Witts and States-General put upon him in his minority without a murmur His Prudence and Policy in Civil Government is without parallel in the Setling the Government and Religion of his Country notwithstanding all the confusions the De Witts and the French Invasion had brought it into on the old Foundation And not only so but improved its Glory to such a pitch through his Conduct that now the States-General of the United Provinces are the most potent in the World. His Constancy appears that he was not at all shaken or dejected at the stupendious devastation the French King made when he first like a Torrent overwhelmed his Country much less at the vast advantages that great General the Prince of Conde obtained over him at the beginning of the Battel of Seneff but with a Constancy and Resolution worthy himself having born the brunt of their fury triumph'd over it and all their Policies He talks not much but very well and of great Judgment to discern the best advice given whether at a Council of War or a Debate at the Convention of the States General Magnificent in his Entertainments without prodigality Women and Wine the two great Seducers of Mankind never could intice him to the least frailty Thus the Charms of his Valour Justice Temperance and the Sweetness of his Disposition makes him Triumph not only in Battel but by a more powerful Conquest over the hearts of his Opponents as the Nobility and Gentry of England must acknowledg So that He may more justly than Titus Vespatiam claim the stile of Deliciae humani Generis FINIS