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	papist_n	protestant_n	3,430	5	8.0447	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42258	Gleanings, or, A collection of some memorable passages, both antient and moderne many in relation to the late warre.	Grove, Robert, 1634-1696.	1651 (1651)	Wing G2150A; ESTC R24265	68,241	186

into great trouble of minde yea he grew to such a degree of despaire as that he rejected all the comforts that many godly Ministers and other Christian friends endeavoured to apply to him nay he would not permit them to pray with him nor in his Family neither would he suffer either Reading Singing or praying to be used in his house for a long time though formerly he had both liked and used all such Christian exercises and that which is most strange he sent to all the godly Ministers and Christians that dwelt neare him to desire them for Gods sake that they would not pray for him saying that it would but increase his torments in Hell in this sad condition he continued a long time till walking one day in his chamber alone he hapned unawares to sing a line or two of a Psalme to himselfe at which instant he began to feele some inward refreshing in his spirit and by little and little he grew abundantly filled with heavenly comforts in such a measure as he told all that came to him that it was impossible for any tongue to utter or heart to imagine that did not feele them Thus he continued about three quarters of a yeare injoying heaven upon earth and then he dyed in the armes of Jesus Christ Vertue and valour is the best nobility One Verdugo a Spanish Commander in Frizeland of very meane birth but an excellent Souldier being at a great Feast with certaine of the Spanish Nobility and sitting uppermost at Table as it belonged to him there being Governour of that Country some of them began to murmure that he tooke the place before them to which he thus replyed Gentlemen quoth he question not my birth nor who my father was I am the Son of my own desert and fortune if any man dares doe as much as I have done let him come and take the Tables end with all my heart Want of learning in Noble-men to be lam●nted Sigismond King of the Romans greatly complained at the Counsell of Constance of his Princes and Nobility that there was not one of them that could answer an Embassadour who made a speech in Latine whereat Lodowick the Elector Palatine tooke such a deep disdaine in himselfe that with teares he lamented his want of learning and presently returning home began though very old to learne his Latine tongue The meanes Julian used to destroy Christian Religion The Apo●●ate Julian who made it his businesse to destroy Christian Religion betooke himselfe to the use of two principall meanes the one whereof was obstructing the wayes of liberall Education by putting down Schools of Learning that Christians being kept in ignorance might sooner be cheated of their Faith and lesse able to resist the Heathens Sophistry The other was Indulgence to all kinde of Sects and Heresies in hope by countenancing them to create such a distraction amongst Christians as should bring speedy destruction not only upon the Orthodox party but upon the very profession of Christianity Christ only inlightens the soule Were it not for the Sunne it would be perpetuall night in the world notwithstanding all the Torches that could be lighted yea notwithstanding all the light of the Moone and Stars it is neither the Torch-light of Naturall parts and Creature comforts nor the Star-light of civill honesty and common gifts nor the Moon-light of temporary faith and formall profession that can make it day in the soule till the Sun of righteousnesse arise and shine there In warre policy is better then valour The Oracle of Apollo at Delphos being demanded the reason why Jupiter should be the chiefe of gods sith Mars was the best Souldier made this answer Mars indeed is the most valiant amongst the gods but Iupiter is the most wise concluding by this answer That policy is of more force in Military affaires then valour Parui sunt arma for is nisi sit consilium domi The qualities of a good Servant The first duty of a Servant is willingnesse to learne whatsoever is necessary the second faithfulnesse in performing truly whatsoever belongs to his duty the third carefulnesse in seeking all honest meanes to profit his Master the fourth silence in tongue in not replying to his Masters speeches Men are easily drawne to vice but hardly to vertue Calistes the Harlot said she excelled Socrates because when she was disposed she could draw away his Auditors from him no marvell saith Socrates for thou allurest them to dishonesty to which the way is ready but I doe exhort them to vertue whose way is hard to finde The wonderfull power of Prayer even in our dayes At the beginning of our New-England Plantation our Country-men were driven into great streights and one time especially above the rest for the wind held so contrary that the long expected Ships which should bring them necessaries out of Old England could not come to them whereby they were brought almost to extremity And besides it had not rained by the space of eleven weeks which made them despaire of receiving any reliefe from the seed that they had sowen In this sad condition they kept a day of seeking the Lord by Prayer and of solemne humbling of themselves before him Now marke the event before they had fully ended the businesse of the day it pleased God to send them a gracious raine which so refreshed the parched earth that they had a plentifull crop from it and the next morning three English Ships came into the Bay which abundantly supplyed their wants Christ is All and in All We have all things in Christ and Christ is all things to a Christian If we be sick he is a Physician If we thirst he is a Fountaine If our sins trouble us he is Righteousnesse if we stand in need of help he is mighty to save if we feare death he is Life if we be in darknesse he is Light if we desire Heaven he is the Way if we hunger he is Bread Queene Elizabeths godly answer about Tollerating of Popery The Emperour and almost all the Popish Princes of Christendome interceding with Queene Elizabeth in the beginning of her reigne to Tollerate the Popish Religion in her Dominions and that she would suffer the Papists to have Churches in Townes by the Protestants she answered That to let them have Churches by the others she could not with the safety of the Common-wealth and without wounding of her honour and conscience neither had she reason to doe it seeing that England imbraced no new Religion nor any other then that which Jesus Christ hath commanded that the Primitive and Catholick Church hath exercised and the ancient Fathers have alwaies with one voyce and one minde approved And to allow them to have divers Churches and divers manners of service besides that it is directly oppugnant to the Lawes established by the authority of the Parliament it were to breed one religion out of another and draw the spirits of honest people into varieties to nourish the designes

life became All Scot and quit his English claime This mystick Proteus too as well Might cheate the Devill scape his Hell Since to those pranks he pleas'd to play Religion ever pav'd the way VVhich he did to a Faction tye Not to reforme but crucifie 'T was he that first Alarm'd the Kirk To this preposterous bloody worke Vpon the King to place Christs Throne A step and foot-stoole to his owne Taught zeale a hundred tumbling tricks And Scriptures twin'd with Politicks The Pulpit made a Juglers Box Set Law and Gospel in the Stocks As did old Buchanon and Knox In those dayes when at once the Pox And Presbyters a way did finde Into the world to plague Mankinde 'T was he patcht up the new Divine Part Calvine and part Cataline Could too transforme without a Spel Satan into a Gabriel Just like those Pictures which we paint On this side Fiend on that side Saint Both this and that and every thing He was for and against the King Rather then he his ends would misse B●tray'd his Master with a Kisse And buried in one common Fate The glory of our Church and State The Crown too levell'd on the ground And having rook'd all parties round Faith it was time then to be gone Since he had all his businesse done Next on the fatall Block expir'd He to this Marble-Cell retir'd VVhere all of Hamilton remaines But what Eternity containes The old Cardinall did not like the new way of chusing Popes An old Sicilian Cardinall after long absence comming to the election of a new Pope and expecting that incessant Prayers as of old should have been made to God for the directing of the choyse of Christs Vicar and finding now nought but canvasing promising an● threatnings for Voyces Ad hunc modum faith he fiunt Romani Pontifices Are the Popes of Rome chosen after this manner He would stay no longer in the Conclave but away he went and never saw Rome after The Low-Countries compared to a Cow The State of the Low-Countries hath been resembled to a Cow the King of Spaine spurring her the Queen of England feeding her the Prince of Orange milking her the Duke of Anjoy pulling her back by the tayle but she befoul'd his fingers The Counsell of Constance At the Counsell of Constance Anno 1414. were assembled Sigismund the Emperour four Patriarchs twenty nine Cardinals three hundred forty six Arch-Bishops and Bishops five hundred sixty foure Abbots and Doctors six hundred Secular Princes and Noble-men foure hundred and fifty common Harlots six hundred Barbers three hundred and twenty Minstrils and Jesters Of one that had never troubled God with his prayers before that time A man being sick and afraid of death fell to his prayers and to move God to heare him told him that he was no common Begger and that he had never troubled him with his prayers before and if he would but heare him at that time he would never trouble him againe England and Scotland seldome long at peace That which Vellejus said of the Romans and Carthaginians may as truly be said of the English and Scotch That almost for three hundred yeares there was either Bellum inter eos aut belli preparatio aut infida pax Either Warre or preparation to Warre or a false Peace between them What to doe in time of danger The Duke of Saxony preparing an Army against the Bishop of Magdenburg which he hearing of he fell to prayer reforming his Church and amending what was amisse which one of his friends perceiving and saw that he made no preparation for his defence asked him if he did not heare what the Duke intended yea said he I doe heare it well enough Sed ego sanabo Ecclesiam meam Deus pugnabit pro me I will reforme my Church and then God will fight for me A Rule for Kings Theopompus being demanded by what means a King might safely keep his Kingdome answered by giving his friends free liberty o● speech Riches the bane of the Church Bishop Jewell records out of Joannis Parisensis and others that when Constantine the Great advanced Bishops and endowed the Church with Lands and great temporall Possessions there was a voyce of Angels heard in the aire saying Hodie venenum funditur in Ecclesiam This day is poyson poured out upon the Church Germany baned by three things Luther Prophesied that there were three things which would be the bane of Christian Religion in Germany First Forgetfulnesse of Gods great blessing in restoring the Gospel againe to them Secondly Security which said he already reigneth every where Thirdly Worldly wisdome which would bring all things into good order and undertake to cure the publick distempers with wicked Counsels Learning too low for Noble-mens Sons A great Peere of this Land not guilty of ●uch Learning nor any great friend to it ●●id it was enough for Noble-mens Sons to winde their Horne and carry their Hawke ●●ire and that Study and Learning was for Children of meaner ranke to whom it was justly replyed That then Noble-men must be content that their Children may winde their Hornes and carry their Hawkes while meaner mens Sonnes doe weild the affaires of State The Earle of Castle-havens miserable Comforters When the Earle of Castle-haven was to be beheaded there were sent two great learned Deanes and Doctors of Divinity to his Lodgeing to pray with him before his death who calling for a Common Prayer-booke they read over the Letany to him which was all the Prayers they used with him the Earle much grieved and discontented there-with brake forth into these speeches Alas what doe these Doctors meane to trouble themselves or me in praying to God to deliver me from Lightning Tempest from Plague Pestilence and Famine from Battle and Murder and from suddaine death who am now presently to dye and lose my head Or what doth their praying to preserve all that travell by Land or by Water all Women labouring with Childe all sick Persons young children concerne either me or my present condition who am now ready to perish and b● destroyed miserable Comforters are they This he spake with teares in his eyes and thereupon desired the Company that was with him to goe into another roome from these Deanes where he made such an heavenly fervent extemporary Prayer pertinent to his present dying condition as ravished all the Auditors An Imposture handsomely discovered The Duke of Gloster being with Henry the Sixth at Saint Albans there was a great brute up and downe the Towne of a famous Miracle wrought at that very time upon a poore man by vertue of St. Albans Shrine which was the restoring of fight to this poore man who as he said was born blinde the Miracle was so noysed in the Towne and in every mans mouth that the Duke desired to see the man that was thus cured of his blindnesse who being brought to him he asked him if he were borne blinde who answered him that he was and