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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	church_n	government_n	worship_n	3,428	5	7.3798	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97124	The Christians incouragement earnestly to contend for Christ his gospell & for all our Christian liberties inthrall which who refuseth let him bee for aye accursed. Written by J. Ward Gent. Reade and Consider Iudge [and] Censure To which is added Irelands greivance.	Ward, John, fl. 1642-1643.	1643 (1643)	Wing W772; Thomason E59_3; ESTC R6088	15,292	39

This Land and brought them to confusion Now little book flie on the wings of fame As far beyond the place from whence I came As it is thither that both North and South And all the winds may have thee in their mouth And take thy counsell that from Cornwell and From th' utmost limits of Northumberland And Durham yea from Dover in the East To th' utmost bounds of Chester in the West Thou mayest have audience that our Heroes may Muster their Forces 'gainst that fatall day Grave Essex the chief Leader of us all And Bedford our Lieutenant Generall Not all the Romane States can make us fear Nor the great Turke himself if he were here Our Cause is just therefore though thousands die We are confident to get the victory It is credibly affirmed that the Cavaliers do usually drink this wicked and blasphemous health viz. 1. A Health to his Maiestie by whom we live move and have our being 2 A Health to the Confusion of Pym his God and his Gospel FINIS The Humble Petition of the Protestant Inhabitants of the Counties of Antrim Downe Tyrone c. part of the Province of Vlster in the Kingdome of Ireland As it was humbly Presented to the Right Honourable Assembly of Knights Citizens and Burges●es in this present Parliament And accepted of that Honourable House Your Petitioners HUmbly representeth unto your grave wisedomes and juditious considerations that your Petitioners having translated themselves out of several parts of his Majesties kingdomes of England and Scotland to promote the infant Plantation of Ireland wherein your Petitioners by their great labour and industry so much contribute to the settlement of that Kingdome As they were in a most hopefull way of a comfortable abode and when they expected to reape the fruit of their great and long labour partly by the cruell severitie and arbitrarie proceedings of the civill Magistrate but principally through the unblest way of the Prelacy with their f●ction our soules are starved our estates undone our families impoverished and many lives among us cut off and destroyed The Prelates whose pretended authoritie though by some published to be by divine right as wee humbly conceive is directly against the same have by their Canons of late their Fines fees and Imprisonments at their pleasure their Silencing Suspending Banishing and Excommunicating of our learned and conscionable Ministers their obtruding upon us ignorant erroneous and prophane persons to be our Teachers their censuring of many hundreds even to Excommunication for matters acknowledged by all to be indifferent and not necessary their favouring Popery in this Kingdome a double fault their persecuting puritie and indevouring to bring all to a livelesse formalitie divers of them being notorious incendiaries of the unquietnesse and unsettled estate betweene these Kingdomes with many the like too tedious to relate as more fully in our insuing Grievances doth appeare These our cruell Task-masters have made of us who were once a people to become as it were no people an astonishment to our selves the object of pittie and amazement to others and hopelesse of remedie unlesse hee with whom are bowels of compassion worke in you an heart to interpose for your Petitioners reliefe They therefore most humbly pray that this unlawfull Hierarchicall government with all their appendices may bee utterly extirpate such course laid downe as to your great wisdomes shall seeme meete for reparation in some measure of our unutterable damages sustained by the parties thus injuriously grieved your Petitioners settled in a way whereby their persecuted Ministers may have leave to returne from exile and bee freed from the unjust censure imposed on them and an open doore continued unto us for provision of a powerfull and able Ministry the onely best way to promote Plantation and settle the kingdome in the profession and practise of true religion which as it is the earnest expectation so it shall be the daily prayer of many thousands your Petitioners who will ever intreat the Lord for your direction herein and in all other your weighty and important affaires as becommeth your poore Petitioners c. A particular of manifold Evils and heavy pressures caused and occasioned by the Prelacie and their dependants 1 BEfore they had so much as a pretended Canon for their warrant the Prelates urged their Ceremonies with such vehemency that divers of our most learned and painfull Ministers for not obeying them were Silenced and many of us for the like oppressed in their Courts 2 In the yeare 1634. they made such Canons and constitutions Ecclesiasticall as injoyned many corruptions in the worship of God and government of the Church which exceedingly retarded the worke of reformation to the true Protestant Religion animated Papists and made way for divers popish superstitions 3 Our most painfull godly and learned Ministers were by the Bishops and their Commissaries silenced and deprived for not Subscribing and Conforming to the said unlawfull Canons yea through the hotnesse of their persecution forced to flee the Land and afterwards Excommunicated to the danger of all and losse of some of their lives 4 In their places others were obtruded not onely ignorant lazy and lukewarme but many of them unsound in doctrine prophane in life and cruell in persecution 5 Many though sufficiently furnished were not admitted to the ministery onely for not swallowing downe their groundlesse innovations yea some though conforme yet for strictnesse in life were likewise kept out 6 Good and painfull Ministers are not suffered to exercise that function which God hath called them unto nor suffered to enjoy any living whereas the Bishops doe hold by Commendum many livings besides those proper to their Bishopricks and doe conferre livings upon their children and retainers studendi gratiâ as is pretended and divers Benefices as foure five sixe or more upon their favourites Hence 7 The cure of soules are committed to hyrelings who receive 5 6 8 or 10. pounds by the yeare for their cures Divers of which are put together to the charge of some illiterate curate by which meanes the people perish for want of food though the Parson or Vicat through connivance of the Bishop is utterly non resident and by each one of the many Benefices he injoyeth hath a competent allowance for a moderately-minded man to maintaine himselfe and family upon 8 Whereas the Bishops should give all good example by painfull preaching and holy conversation they preach very rarely themselves and like these in the Gospell who will neither enter themselves nor suffer others to enter they have supprest divers others from preaching both on the afternoone on the Lords day and in many places where weekly Lectures were maintained either by the free-will of the Minister or cost of the people they have utterly forbidden the same and showne all manner of discountenance to those who were forward therein so that a Lecturing Minister appeared before them under more prejudice then a popish Priest or undermining Iesuite 9 Lest those who