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	pope_n	3,103	5	6.3417	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45184	The bow of Jonathan with the flower de Luce in a funeral lamentation committed to the men of Judah : parallelled and applyed to that worthy his compeere Robert Lucy of Charlcote in the county of Warwick, Esquire, lately deceased : in a sermon preached at Charlcote / by Richard Hunt ...	Hunt, Richard.	1657 (1657)	Wing H3741; ESTC R32357	22,399	42

to Saul Artabanus to Cinnamus Sir Tho. E●iol lib. 3. cap. 6. or Ferdinando the Protector to the Castilian Princes faithfully rendred and performed For religion as Jonathan profest and maintained the faith of Abraham and Israel his fathers so he the Church of England eldest daughter to Rome planted here by the Apostles of Christ confirmed and propagated by King Lucius without a license from the Pope making some suite for his counsel but owing none to his court which religion came along though lesse visible in her professors like those rivers that runne under ground or as the Orinoque thorough the salt sea retaining still her fresher water untill at last it brake forth again and was conspicuous to the world in the confession of Augusta and the protestation at Spiers and the Apologies of the Church of England A religion like Christ it s own Law-giver the first and the last the true and pure Elixar Rev. 1.17 drawn out of the new Testament and into that casting off all scum and froth of corrupt times contraction at last resolving it self for when death calls the adversaries to the bar and gives them the book to attest the whole truth nothing but the truth then Bellarmine untwists with Penelope his laborious webb of workes and makes up the whole piece with the onely Tutissimum of trust in Gods mercy for fear of vain-glory and uncertainty of mans righteousness and in this mind and religion he makes his last wil with Lord have mercy on me not as a rewarder of Merits Geor. D. of Saxonic but as an almoner of Pardons Another great Lord a great Anti-protestant in his life is perswaded at his death by his Chancellor to the truth of his own usual saying he is the best Bow-man that shootes next to the mark and so rejecting all other aimes given by his Priests dies Protestant See ●enrad Dieteric Dom. pass●p 2. obs 1. fixing the arrow of his faith in the onely and pure white of Christs merits A religion which Father Sherer commends to his penitent at last without mention of his former ambageous trifles the Confessor confessing to the sick Sir we use to deal one way with the sound and well but another with the sick and weak Thus the wounded Fowl betakes her self to firm land and leaving her vagaries in the water as Balaam all his Essayes against the truth of Israel Num. 23.10 cries out Let me die the death of the the protestant righteous and let my last end be like unto his Of this religion was the generation of our worthies fathers to three or foure ascents whose noble examples have watered these parts as the four rivers falling from the mountaines of the Moon watered Paradise In this religion to see and observe his Bow and bent his practise in his timely readiness like a morning starre or Lucifer resorting and calling out his family to the publick service of God how have I been comforted and cheared and for the order and harmony in private and at home Jerom● I may say with Jerom Videbar mihi interesse choris Angelorum Methought I was among the Quire of Angels and when the bow of death gave him that lamentable blow of which though he left his life yet he took his religion away with him what time he made his compellation to the witnesses round about him that as in the profession of the Church of England he had lived so he resolved to die and in that mind he departed To adde a testimony of his own not setting aside the brethen of the Allobrogick plat-form good God how didst thou incline his heart with Jonathan to Samuel and the men of God to the Clergy constant to their order and of the Orthodox affection Let the house of Aaron now confesse what signal loves they have received as if his house had been a Naioth or Colledge for the entertainment of scholars and an Academy for their resort his nature being composed as Daniels Ish chemdoth a man of desires or a desirable man as Cymbalum mund Dan. 10 11. Palamed to invite them and his various expressions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Nightingal of the Muses to detaine them received with such lowly greeting entertained with such smiling and lovely embraces Theodaret 5.7 fed with such wholesome dishes lodged in the choicest chambers accompanied with so gratefull a presence dismist with such courteous adieus as if Jonathan had strived to ingratiate David or Samuel Theodosius the B. Ambros in ob Val. Meletius with kissing his eyes or lips or Valentinian Saint Ambrose Quem Salutem sibi quandam venturam arbitrabatur whom when he saw he thought some special healthfulness was coming towards him And when maturity invited him to mariage who was the choicest pearl in his eye but the vertuous Margaret allyed collaterally to that mother of pearle his late deceased parent To which choice he was not invited onely by the eyes for beauty that Moon is soon clouded changed or Eclipsed nor by the fingers which values a woman no higher then her portion nor by the eares which by credulity is often cheated with reports but by Solomons character 〈◊〉 1.10 〈◊〉 Her price is farre above pearls and let her own workes praise her in the gates In this his choice he seems to have had a mindful reflection on that name and merit in his mother who like another Rachel Ruth 4 ●● did build the house of Israel and did famously in Bethlehem that house of bread Here the armes of Lucie and Spencer were enquartered and enclasped in one coate the Pike-fish taken in a net or knot Here Lucie with his match is met As taken with a Spencers net Eros and Anteros love and relove so lively acting interchangeably their parts that oh the pitty they were so soon parted the fight would have made a wise mans heart rejoyce to see it so little or no gall was there in this Junoes sacrifice but all the water turned into wine John 2. and may she bear also his religion name love and just interest in estate as his coat of armes in honour and memorial of such a Jonathan And could my speech reach to the ears of all his brothers and sisters I would appeal to their report whether the losse of their late loving and provident parents was not much eas'd and lightned by his supporting hand becoming a second father in performance and a second mother in compassion how did this Lucifer send light morning-influence motion to fortifie their matches improve their fortunes in all proceedings so long as he appeared oriental Lord of the house and in a right aspect or conjunction with those of lesser magnitudes exceeding the examples of this age as much as Jonathan did of his or the morning starre the scarce appearing twinklers of the times And you his Tenants and servants whom he might say with Pyrrhus he never sent away to wear black clothes in sorrow