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	roman_a	rome_n	3,452	5	6.8287	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34540	Rome in her fruits being a sermon preached on the fifth of November, 1662, near to the standard in Cheapside : in the which sermon the author sets up his standard in opposition to the fruits and practices of Rome, and likewise answers in brief a late pamphlet, entitled Reasons why Roman Catholicks should not be pe[r]s[e]cuted / by Richard Carpenter.	Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?	1663 (1663)	Wing C626; ESTC R5572	26,955	38

and homicide and endangers the publick peace and safety secundùm allegata probata according to the Things alledged and proved against him his first and antecede●t consideration of him vanishes and the Will belonging to it becomes a velleity and inefficacious and by his consequent and judiciary Will he wills him to the Gallows It would be ridiculous in such a Prisoner to Retort upon the Judge before his Condemnation Do as you would be done by when as even the Judge himself if reduced to the Prisoner's Condition would naturally desire his own preservation and plead not guilty The same wills are in God who according to his antecedent consideration of Mankind will have all men to to be saved many 1 Tim. 2. 4 whereof notwithstanding according to his consequent consideration of them he reprobates by an act of his consequent and judiciary Will. Our Law-makers and our Judges in the Execution of our Laws that are penal act according to the fruits of men throughly known And it is rottenly inferred concerning the Rule of Prudence which teaches when you are encumbred with more inconveniences to bear with the lesser The Rottennesse here will easily appear to those who shall be pleased to reflect upon past Things As That an Armado was procured from forraign parts by the solicitation of English Priests to dest●oy their own Country I have read a Latin Book at Rome written by Father Parsons a Jesuit wherein it was acknowledged and justified and I have heard it confessed that many English Priests came with the Armado to direct and assist the Spaniards Also That the prime Inventers and plotters of the Gunpowder-Treason were Priests Verily dreadful evils have been performed afterwards I tremble in the remembrance of them But the Malefactors acted them as the Disciples of the Monks and Jesuits and as followers of their Doctrines and Examples When our Law-makers and Judges consider Priests in their holy Names of Jesuits Monks Fryers they wish that such if they will be Jesuits Monks Fryers would as Jesuits ought to do imitate Jesus as Monks live solitarily and separately from the pomp of the world wherein saith St. Athanasius such are as Fishes out of their Element S. Athanas in vitâ Sti. Ant. and like Fryers that is Brethren abound in brotherly love they wish to them even as they wish to themselves in their own condition But when they consider them in their wicked and Retrograde Fruits they wisely Retard and suppresse them by coërcive and agreeable Statutes Salvianus Salvian lib. 4. de Gubern Dei brings Honey to this Hiv● Atrociùs sub sancti Nominis professione peccamus We sin more grievously when our sin breaketh out from under a glorious Name and profession Which two contrary conditions occasion that wise men consider such Persons two contrary wayes By his first Reason he claims the priviledge that Christ's Church gave to the Jewish to be buried with Honour and that as the Heathens were they should be drawn to Truth by perswasion and not by force The first Branch of this first Reason discovers the Author to be either a Jesuit Monk Fryer or Priest Because the bottom or pedestal of this Branch is deep-fetch't out of Thomas Aquinas whose words are Sicuti homines mortuos servati aliquandiù ante D. Tho. p. 2. dae q. 103. art 4. Conclus sepulturam contingit ita legalia quae ut viva post Christi passionem servari sine peccato mortali non poterant rectè ut mortua à passione Christi ad Evangelii divulgationem servata ut cum honore mortua mater Synagoga sepeliretur As it happens that the Bodies of dead men are sometimes kept before their burial so the Legals which after the passion of Christ could not be kept as alive without a mortal sin as dead from the passion of Christ to the promulgation of the Gospel were rightly kept that the mother Synagogue being dead might be buried with honour She was truly noble and honourable being alive and therefore being dead was honourably and nobly buried But when under pretence of an honourable Burial a restlesse people deadly prejudicial to the Kingdom wherein they live shall endeavour to out-live and build up themselves upon the Ruines of those among whom they live it alters the case substantially by a circumstance If ye be not supprest as now ye are by the Laws but may elbow it at your pleasure I see it clearly behind the Curtain more than a hundred thousand Subjects shall be drawn every year from their Allegiance to his Majesty St. Hie●om's complaint would then S. Hierom lib. a●versus Lucif●●anos Tom. 2. quickly be applyed hither with a little Change Ingemuit totus orbis Arrianum se esse miratus est The whole world groaned and wondred that it found it self Arrian upon a sudden Pope Gregory the 13th that established missions into all parts gave ominiously for his Armes a flying Dragon vomiting poyson I know what sublime Advertisements the predicant Jesuits give in their Sermons such indeed as little suit with dead or dying people For example The Heavens are alwayes in motion the Sun takes no rest Fire is always in action The Sea never sleeps The soul is always busy in the exercise of her Faculties active Vertues and Spirits The Heart always panting the eyes are always active when they are open Life keeps the pulse in continual beating and the breath alwayes a passenger coming or going These are numb●ed amongst the choysest of God's creatu es and therefore bear more likenesse of him in themselves than meaner things These ever work and shall his Holiness and we be idle For the second Branch The Church of England rightly and righteously draws you to Allegiance by Force Your different Judgement in matters of Religion is only chastised in a geatle manner with a pecuni●ry mulct Yea the Priests themselves are not otherwise punished but as unquiet and known Seducers of the people from their Allegiance And whereas St. Peter after your stile the first Pope set these two so neerly together Fear God honour 1 Pet. 2. 17 the King the Church of England solidly concludes That ye cannot fear nor serve God except ye honour the the King and that ye cannot serve the Sup●eam except ye honour his Substitute His second Reason pretends That the Roman Church must not be persecuted by the old Protestant as confessing her to be a true Church and professing her self to be sp●ung from her loynes he must not defie his Mother for a VVhore If the old Protestant throughly considers your Whorish falsehood and prostitution in the practice and exercise of Religion truly That she confesses you to be a true Church is more her Goodnesse than your Desert And the Church of England does not spring from the loynes of the Church of Rome as the Church of Rome is a Whore but as by the great providence of God there hath been preserved a continual succession of