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	faith_n	hold_v	3,740	5	6.0925	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88782	The copy of the petition presented to the honourable Houses of Parliament, by the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury, &c. Wherein the said arch-bishop desires that he may not be transported beyond the seas into New England with Master Peters, in regard to his extraordinary age and weakenesse.	Laud, William, 1573-1645.	1643 (1643)	Wing L582; Thomason E100_29; ESTC R11608	1,685	7

The Copy of the Petition presented to the Honourable Houses of Parliament by the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury c. VVherein the said Arch-Bishop desires that he may not be transported beyond the Seas into New England with Master Peters in regard of his extraordinary age and weakenesse London printed for Io. Smith neare the new exchange 1643. THE Humble Petition of William Laud Arch-bishop of Canterbury and now prisoner in the Tower To the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament that this grave Assembly would permit or give way that the Petitioner might not be transported into New England with Mr. Peters in regard of his age Humbly sheweth THat your Petitioners constant solitude here in this place hath given him time to consider of Your Petitioners self and his actions especially the latter which as they had divers motives and ends from whence they sprung and whither they tended so according to them your Petitioner was generally censured your humble Petitioner therefore will here lay downe what your Petitioner did labour for and upon what grounds that every one may see that humane intents are not alwaies prosperous in their events for which your Petitioner is now exceedingly troubled and grieved humbly desiring that your Petitioners present sufferings and sorrow may bee considered in mercy and compassion And whereas it is chiefly laid unto your Petitioners charge that your Petitioner sought and endeavoured to change the present Religion and instead thereof to introduce Innovation and Popery which purpose was so odious and hatefull to the people that being once possessed of this opinion they generally cryed downe your Petitioners purposes and intents who knowing the great diversity of Religions which have beene and are in the World and the strange fantasticall exorbitancy of some of them which agreeing in many things and in their chiefe principles and foundations doe yet exceedingly differ in many points and Tenets which they doe severally hold and maintaine Vpon those considerations your Petitioner thought it would become his place being Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England to shew a fervent zeale to Christianity in reconciling as much as might bee the Protestant and Cotholique Religion together that though the principles of both were inconsistent and in many things farre different yet they might be in some sort made conformable the one to the other and be brought at least to as neare a distance as possible could any way bee devised that so they should agree in such points as formerly they varied about And your Petitioner having made this the Ground-worke of your petitioners labours hoping that if your petitioner could effect that which your petitioner had propounded her Majesty seeing that all differences of opinion are not Fundamentall and of Faith might be reconciled in some sort her Majesty would more easily be drawne to adhere and joyn with our Church so your petitioners end and purpose of all your petitioners endeavours was not Innovation of Religion but to worke such a conformation and likenesse in both that her Majesties opinion might be drawne on and induced to embrace the Truth holding thereby to be a speedy meanes of her Majesties conversion If therefore your petitioners hearty zeale to Gods glory and her Majesties conversion to the protestant Faith by that meanes and may which your petitioner intended did not worke that great and good effect in her Majesty as was expected nor the petitioners endeavours in that kind were held fitting and agreeable to the petitioners dignity and place your petitioner doth emplore this grave and Honourable Assembly that in Mercy not in Iudgement your compassion may be shewed in pardoning those errours wherein your petitioner hath offended For all men especially such as are advanced to these eminent Honours which your petitioner lately enjoyed are subject to the common condition of humane frailety in matters of Judgement shewing themselves in the greatest estate to bee but men ready to erre and fall from the happinesse wherein time and favour had invested them and that most commonly in age wherein your petitioner deeply stepped forward even to the yeares of 68. all his desires having proceeded contrary and thwart to those grounds whereon they were builded Your Petitioner therefore humbly beseeches that in his age and last part of his Life this grave and Honourable Counsell now Assembled in high Court of Parliament would looke upon him in mercy and not permit or suffer your Petitioner to bee transported to endure the hazard of the Se●s and the long tediousnesse of Voyage into those transmarine parts and cold Countries which would soone bring your Petitioners life to a period but rather that your petitioner may abide in his Native Country untill your petitioner shall pay the debt which is due from him to Nature and so your petitioner doth submit himselfe to your Honourable and grave Wisdomes for your petitioners request and desire therein And Your Petitioner shall humbly pray c. From the Tower of London this 6th of May 1643. FINIS