Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	england_n	king_n	kingdom_n	4,625	5	5.7154	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03139	Antidotum Lincolniense· or An answer to a book entituled, The holy table, name, & thing, &c. said to be written long agoe by a minister in Lincolnshire, and printed for the diocese of Lincolne, a⁰. 1637 VVritten and inscribed to the grave, learned, and religious clergie of the diocese of Lincoln. By Pet: Heylyn chapleine in ordinary to his Matie.	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1637 (1637)	STC 13267; ESTC S104010	242,879	383

was come unto his knowledge that in many places of the Kingdome the holy table was removed to the Altar place on certain good and godly considerations would this be an Argument unto future ages that this was done de facto by the Countrie people Besides why should you think the people in most places of the Realme were scandalized with Altars in the Countrie Churches when in so many places of the Realme they tooke up Armes because the Masse was taken from them Those enterprises which you speake of of some certaine s Zelots in the beginning of K. Edwards Qu. Maries and Qu. Elizabeths raigne which sometimes you call good and godly considerations and sometimes the irregular forwardnesse of the people were before any law established and therefore of no kin to these Things were now setled by a law and by that law the Altars were to stand as before they did Nor durst the people in the most part of the Churches of the Realme have taken downe the Altars then by law established on any private consideration how good soever therefore I should rather think that it was done in some places and by authority from some Ordinaries such whom the Lords found fittest for the alteration You cavill with the Doctor and reckon it amongst his fainings for telling you what fine doctrine this was for the common people viz. this your report of beating downe the Altars in the Country Churches wherein he failes you say because the writer onely mentioneth it as a matter of Fact But being it was such a Fact as drew on the law the kind of law you tell us of which after put them downe de jure think you to meet with no apt schollers that can tell how to raise a doctrine out of the relation Our Ancestours in K. Edwards daies were zealous of the reformation and beat downe those dressers and why should we betray Gods cause and suffer them to be advanced Are you assured that none amongst your partizans will applie it so and after vouch you for their Author As for the Order of K. Edward which you have slighted off with a kind of law as you did that in Q● Elizabeths Injunctions with a kind of somewhat you still stand to that as being neither Act of Parliament nor Act of Councell but an Act of the King sitting in Councell A most pretty quillet Here is a subtilty indeed a subtilty in print as they use to say But take heed nihil odiosius est nimio acumine You should not spend too many of your nice distinctions upon Kings and Princes Now for the alteration of the Liturgie which did indeed draw with it a full and finall alteration in the thing now talked of you take great paines to make it visible unto the world that Calvin had no finger in it It had beene happy for this Church if hee and Beza could have kept themselves to their meditations and not beene curiosi in aliena republica as they were too much You say of Calvin that he was a Polypragmon and made his letters flie to all Princes in the world that did but looke towards a Reformation and that no man conceives him to be more pragmatically zealous than you doe even in those Countries which cared least for him If so why take you up the Bucklers for him or thinke hee might not stickle here as in other places The Doctor drew a storie of it from his owne Epistles which you indeavour to refell by making ante-dates or false dates unto all his letters and unto most of all the rest whom you there produce As for example The Letter to my Lord Protectour you date Octo. 22. 1546. which was a yeere before K. Edward came unto the Crowne as you say your selfe what time hee neither was Protectour nor was there any English Liturgie to except against Then that Archbishop Cranmer did write for Bucer to come over the 2. of Oct. An. 1549. when Bucer had beene here a long time before and being at Canterbury writes a letter to P. Martyr dated the 20. day of Iune that yeer and so you make him come before hee was sent for So for the treatie with the French whereof Calvin speakes you make that March 24. 1549. when Bucer had been here 10. moneths at least and yet you date Pet. Alexanders letter on the same day also writ by the appointment of my Lord Archbishop to invite him hither And thus you toile and moile your self h pugnantia secum frontibus adversis componere to joyn such things together as are not competible But all is well enough so it please the people and that you can set out the Doctor like a Iack of Lent for every boy to fling his stick at Therefore to set the matter right and let you see the Doctor is not so extreamly ignorant in all the story of those times as you please to make him I will set down some bounds and landmarks as it were for our direction in this search such as by no meanes can deceive us Know then that on the last of Ian. 1547. according to the accompt of those forreine States which doe begin the yeere at Christmasse K. Edward came unto the Crowne that in the lulie following hee set out his Injunctions in the which many things there are that tend unto a Reformation of Religion and that in the November after in the selfe same yeere hee held his first Parliament wherein the distribution of the Sacrament subutraque specie was by law established An. 1548. Feb. 11. an Order was sent forth by the Lords of the Councell for the abolishing of Images March the 13. next following the Order of administring the Communion agreed upon at Windsor by the Prelates and other learned men was by the King confirmed and recommended to the Bishops for the publick use And on the 2. of Oct. the same yeere did the Archbishop write to Bucer to come over hither Veni igitur ad nos te operarium praesta in messe Domini as the letter tells us In the November of that yeere began the second Parliament of K. Edward and held on till the 14. of March next after falling in An. 1549. in the same accompt in which the first Liturgie was confirmed and ratified The tenth day after that March 24. Pet. Alexander S●cretarie to the Archbishop writes againe to Bucer with a Veni igitur quàm citissimè poteris and the Iune after that wee finde him here at Canterbury from whence he writ to Pet. Martyr as before was said Apr. 6. Proclamation was made for putting downe the Masse throughout the Realme the Iuly following those of Devonshire and Cornwall rose up in Armes desiring to have their old religion restored againe and on the 8. of August next the Kingdome being thus embroyled the French Ambassadour made defiance to the King of England The