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	king_n	pope_n	3,065	5	6.1057	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05611	The ansvver of Iohn Bastwick, Doctor of Phisicke, to the exceptions made against his Letany by a learned gentleman which is annexed to the Letany it selfe, as articles superadditionall against the prelats. In the vvhich there is, a full, demonstration and proof of the reall absence of Christ in the sacrament of the Lords Supper, with the vanity and impiety of the consecreation of temples churches and chapples, also the necessity of the perpetuall motion and circulation of worship if men be bound to bow the knees at the name of Iesus. This is to follow the Letany as a second part thereof.; Litany. Part 2	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.	1637 (1637)	STC 1573; ESTC S104507	58,802	32

his face he lyes to teach an other way to heauen then by the Scripture which Christ the Sonne of God sendeth vs to and all the Prophets and Apostles as to the instructers of the simple and able to make the man of God wise to saluation and perfectly furnished to euery good worke and the which the Holy Ghost compares to a guide and a Lanthorne for direction and a light to conduct vs in this our pilgrimage and peregrination through the errors of the world and to keep our feet in the paths of truth and with the Prelats this great and glorious light this Scripture must be so obscure as it must be inferior to all things that haue a power in themselues to declare demonstrate their owne nature as fire to be fire gold to be gold light to be light But the Scripture onely that can not be knowne but by the helpe of others to be the word of God it cannot be the word of God without the Fathers and their interpretation of them for the Scriptures themselues they are the onely refuge of Schismaticks the cause of all errors and that that commeth confirmed and proued onely from Scripture is euer to be suspected with the Prelats O BLASPHEMY yea the booke that hath nothing but Scripture must be adiudged to the fire and the author of it giuen ouer to the Deuill sined a thousand pounds and censured to pay the costs of sute and be debarred of his practice the onely support left for the releife of his distressed family to the vtter vndoing of him his poore wise and children and all this forsooth because there was nothing but Scripture in it O HORRIBLE impiety The truth is howsoeuer they seemed to condemne it because it had nothing but scripture that was not the occasion but the very cause was because I writ against the Pope Father Antichrist such correspondency there is now betwene the Pope and the Prelats that one cannot write against him but the Prelats say by and by that they are meant by it The Grols You know that among the Papists if any of them hold but any one tenent of the Protestents as that there is no Purgatory beside the bloud of Iesus Christ or that there are no sinnes in their owne nature veniall or that the Scripture is sufficient of it selfe with out traditions and ought to be the sole rule of life and doctrine and the onely Iudge of controuersies or that the Pope is not Christs Vicar nor Peters successor or that Christ is not corporally present in the Sacrament of the altar as they call it for any of these assertions or any other of our tenents he is forthwith condemned for an heritick and burnt at a Stake as dayly experience teacheth vs. Nay it is a common thing amongst vs here in England let any man hold but any one tenent of any sect whatsoeuer be it as they terme them Brownists Anabaptists Antinomians though in all other things he agree with the Church as they call it yet he is forthwith adiudged condemned for such an one Yea let a man refuse but to eate bloud or Swins flesh though in all other things a good Christian by and by they condemne him for a Iew I say then if for any one tenent among the Papists a man may be condemned for an heretick and suffer for it and if by the Prelats likewise for any one opinion differing from them that same sect holdeth one may be iudged and condemned to extremest misery as a Brownest Anabaptist c. I say then by farre more excellent reason one may conclude that those that hold so many damnable Popish opinions and tenents as the Prelats doe and defend them in their open Courts that they are Papists and so they are indeed and to be detested For they mayntayne and set vp Popery and Papall Iurisdiction challenging their owne autority to be iure deuino and the Pope doth no more They likewise trample vpon the scriptures as a thing of nothing accusing them of obscurity and imperfection and will not admit the Scripture to be Iudge of Controuersies The Pope does no more And withall hold the Synagogue of Rome to be a true Church and not so much as to haue had the suspition of error in any fundamentall points of religion and all this I say in their open Court and the Pope doth no more to the making of the King and his Subiects all Schismaticks and hereticks to the infinit dishonour of God and the King and to the eternall disgrace of King Iames of famous memory a Prince for knowledge and wisdome the gratest that euer was saue Salomon and for learning renowned through the extremest parts of the whole vniuerse of whom I dare say thus much as a Scholer becanse I know something in that art for which I should excessiuely haue honoured him had he been but a priuat man much more a King and withall my Soueraygne whose dignyty I will neuer see trampled ypon though I suffer for my loyalty the whole fury of the Prelats and their Confederats I say therefore I dare say thus much of that renowned King that for learning Scholarship all the Prelats in England shouelled into one heape or plastered together into one lump are not worthy to be named the same yeare that his excrements are mentioned and yet notwithstanding these vnworthy fellowes do not cease in their open Courts and in euery stinking pamphlet set forth by their autority to abuse this famous King WHO IN HIS APOLOGY TO ALL CHRISTIAN PRINCES which is well knowne to the learned as defender of the faith maintaynes the doctrine of the reformed Churches in his Kingdomes and dominions to be the onely true doctrine the Popish to be erronious and abominable and with inuencible arguments and that many he proues the Pope to be Antichrist and exhorts all Christian Kings and Princes his brethren to cast off his yoake demonstrateth likewise yea euidently euinceth that Rome is the whore of Babilon and in many of his learned writings he continually like himself a defender of the faith opposeth all the Romish impious tenents And all that I now say is well knowne to all men of vnderstanding Now I pray take notice of the PRELAT OF CANTFRBVRYS ARROGANCY and of all his fellowes The King as defender of the farth teaching vs both by his life and doctrine maintaines and proues THE POPE TO BE ANTICHRIST AND THF CHVRCH OF ROMF TO BE THE WHORE OF BABILON and earnestly exhorts all Christian Princes to come out of her And the Prelats in their Court affirme that the Church of Rome is a true Church and neuer had so much as a suspition of error in fundamentall poynts of religion and in putrid pamphlets set forth by their autority they confirme the same and that the Pope is not Antichrist Is not this damnable impiety against God and the King preiudiciall to the saluation of thousands the maintenance of the Papists