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A55123 A pleasant conference upon the Observator and Heraclitus together with a brief relation of the present posture of the French affairs. Phillips, John, 1631-1706. 1682 (1682) Wing P2540; ESTC R4454 27,476 42

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the pleasure of a Judge They are so certain that Monarchy is Iure Divino that they look upon all people living under Aristocracies or Democracies to be in a state of Damnation and fancie That the Grand Seignior the Czar of Moscovy and the French King dropt down from Heaven with Crowns on their Heads and that all their Subjects were born with Saddles on their backs Your true Tory is as fond of Slavery as others are of Liberty and will be at as much pains and charge to obtain it for he envies the happiness of Canvas Breeches a●d Wooden Shooes and extreamly admires the Mercy of the Inquisition He rails at Magna Charta as the Seed-plot of Sedition swears that it was first obtain●d by Rebellion and that all our Fore-fathers were Rogues ●nd Fools and did not understand Prerogative He wonders why people should squander away their time at the Inns of Court or what need there is either of the Common-Law or the Statute-book since the King might at any time with quicker dispatch declare his pleasure in any Point or Controversie and each Loyal Subject were bound to acquiesce on pain of Damnation Yet after all his boasted Loyalty extends no further than a Drunken Health he Roars and Swaggers but does not Serve the King he promises Mountains and by Lies and Misrepresentations gives false Measures but performs nothing nor is it the Cause but the Crust that he Barks for Then in relation to the Church Tory is either a crab-Crab-Protestant that crawls backwards as fast as he can to Rome or at best but the Cats foot wherewith the Romish Monkeys Claw the Protestant Religion till the Blood comes one that does their Drudgery though he has not always the Wit to see it and all the Wages he must expect is Polyphemus's C●rtesie to be Devoured last He is a Flambeau kindled by the Jesuits and flung in to make a Combustion amongst us Whilst we were Hunting down their Plot with a full Cry they slipt in their Deep mouth'd-Hound who spending on a false Seent diverted the Chase and so the Popish Puss squats safe in her Form and now quitting the pursuit of the Foxes he begins to worry the Sheep He pretends high for the Church of England but as he understands not her Doctrine so he dishonours her by his lewd Conversation What a pretty pious Confession of Faith is it to hear a Bully Cry God-Dam-Mee I am of the Church of England and all the Presbyterians are Sons of Whores Indeed the only proof both of his Religion and Courage is that he swears most frequently by that Tremendous Name at which lesser Devils Tremble and his Christianity consists in Cursing all those that he is pleased to call Phanaticks and Phanaticks he calls all those that are not content to be either Papists or Atheists His Tongue is always tipt with Dam-mee and Forty One and so hot being set on Fire of Hell that he is fain to drink Healths sometimes to the Pope and sometimes to the Devil Sixty times an hour to quench it and then belches out Huzza's as fast as Mount Strombulo does Fire and Brimstone Whilst he clamours at Dissenters for not coming to Church he thinks 't is Canonical enough to sleep over the Lords-day to digest the Fumes of Saturdays Debauch or take a walk in Guild-hall-yard peep in at the Preacher and presently retire to the Tavern for a whet to Dinner or else to meet the Club of Witty good-mockers by Fleet-ditch side and Droll away the day in Blasphemy Ridiculing Religious Duties or inventing Iack pudding Lies of some pretended Nonconformists Preaching If he be somewhat of a more serious Temper he is as very a superstitious Bigot as any in the Papacy he would rather have no Preaching than that the Surplice should be left off and thinks his Child not Christned fit be not done with the sign of the Cross he counts Opus operatum sufficient and if he have but been at Common-prayer and made his Responses loud enough to drown the Clark and had the Parsons Blessing his Task is done and all is safe Flesh on a Friday is more abomination to him than his Neighbours Bed aud he abhors more not to bow at the Syllables of the word Iesus than to swear by the Name of God He has got a New English Dictionary framed by the Indefatigable skill of Heraclitus and the Observator whereby the Traversties the most Loyal honest sense into Blasphemy and Treason Talk soberly of Religion and he flaps you over the face with Heresie Schism Fanaticism and Faction or roundly calls you confounded Whigg and so you are confuted Urge never so modestly Legal Fundamental Rights and mention Irregularities though in a place appointed to remedy them he cryes out Rebellion Treason you Depose the King you Arraign the Government c. Mention the Commons of England and the general sense of the Nation and he exclaims Dam the Mobile and your Appeals to the Rabble and yet at the same time Courts and Applauds Tag-Rag and Long-tail the Cooks and Chandlers of New-Sarum and such other Worshipful Patriots for declaring their three half-penny Judgments of the highest Affairs of State in their Addresses And as for the two last Parliaments every petty Chap-man or Apprentice-boy takes upon him to Censure the grave Proceedings of those Venerable Senates as malepartly as if they had been but a Company of Fidlers Yet still he fears not God so much as a Parliament but the reason why he Blasphemes the one and Rails at the other is because as he really believes not a Future Judgement in the other world so he puts far off the other to him evil day in this and hopes to escape the Justice of both by the Mediation of Saint Noli prosequi Pluto Well what 's the next for I like this so well I must hear all the rest Belfagor Why Sir the next is the Character of a Whigg but a thing so scurralously and weakly penn'd that it cannot afford your Highness matter enough for one smile and therefore if you please we 'll hang that by on the Jesuits file Pluto Do so but what 's the next Belfagor Why the Character of a Tantivie-man Pluto Come read that then Belfagor He is a jolly brisk young huff in Crape Reperteeing Rayling Diolling and Drinking his Library besides Comedies and Novels are Grotius on the Canticles his Votum propapacia Ovid de acte a Mandi Cassander Pece Maimbourg Sham History of Lutherism and Bennets Spinoza which you must know he reads for Confutation and direction only As for his Religion it is an Aristocracie he can burlesque our little Discenting slaves at whom while like a true Spiritual Venetian he opposes the Priviledges of his Enthusiastick Parliament to the Royalties of Holy Daddy and this under the specious pretence of their Liberties and Immunities of the Gallicane and other Iure Divino Grandees though he cannot for all that easily brook the Infallible Cheat yet should at