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	queen_n	3,439	5	6.9536	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04532	Certaine orations and answeres made by Iohn Casimire Countie Palatine of Rhyne ... vnto the French king & his embassadours in defence of ye maintenance of his peace, and Christian religion. Translated out of French. 1579.	Casimir, Johann, Pfalzgraf bei Rhein, 1543-1592.	1579 (1579)	STC 14655; ESTC S100355	14,180	48

hinderaunce of the exercise of the same hath engendred the mischéefs and calamities which now he beholdeth through all his Realme Fourthly that his Maiestie not béeing able to confirme the laste peace without his Edict of Pacification and not béeing able to kéepe that without maintaining the same and putting it in execution hée may plainly sée that the maintenance of his Edict is the only fundation and meanes of peace yea it is the very peace it self Fiftly like as the vpholding therof is a meane of peace and auoiding warres so is it the only way wherby his maiestie may recouer the obedience of his subiects for it is a thing most certain the a King becoming Captain of any faction among his subiects can neuer be wel obeyed for it is requisite that hée should shew him self a common Father to all his Subiects in endeuoring to reconsile them one to an other Also sixtly to deale and sweare against the vpholdīg therof is the only meane to brīg his maiesties subiects in greater mistrust then before and so to areare more cruel warre then before time Seuenthly to alleadge the soueraigne autoritie of a King for the dooing or swering to such matters to bring his maiestie vnto a perpetuall rebuke among all the world wherby he shall be accoūted a Prince void of all faith lawe honor and vertue For his maiestie may call to minde how often he hath bothe by woord and writing professed himself to be a true Prince such a one as wil promise nothing but what he entende●h to performe yea and mindeth rather to promise nothing so that no man of honour can otherwise conclude but that either he ought not to haue made the contents of the edict or else he ought to obserue it as his maiestie in his owne person hath vsed to say For the eighth especially the Lord Duke assureth him self that his maiesty may wel perceiue that with any man who would obserue the coutēts of their othe or folow the counsail of these pretended states which is no other then the othe it selfe notwithstanding it had neuer béene sworne it would be vnpossible to haue any trafique because that neither worde promise othe obligation seale or other thing whatsoeuer ordinary and lawfull for the assurance of faith among men especially betwéen the Prince and his subiects considering the imbecilitie of the said subiects would be of any more force but contrariwise should serue only for nets and snares wherwith to entrap eche other Ninthly his Maiestie ought to consider that neighbours and straungers cannot assure them selues of that Prince whose subiects cannot trust him as they of the Religion who haue ouermuch béene perswaded For to showe that they began not we néede no other argument then the proposition of the said Lord of Villequier namely that the King is not minded to obserue the principall point of his Edict As touching the example of the Quéene of England it is sufficiently knowen that that Ladyes hart is such as if shée had among her subiects found such numbers of Princes Lordes gentlemen and others of the Romaine Religion within her dominions who should as his Maiesties subiects haue doon so oftē haue requested her rather than to haue incurred such spoyles and once onely falsifyed her faith and promise her maiestie would haue permitted them the exercise of their Roomish Religion Tenthly that his maiestie should beare at the least asmuch affection vnto his owne Subiects as he hath shewed vnto the estates of the lowe Countryes in reioysing with them for the determination that they haue taken for the recouery of their libertie hauing also béene a mediatour to the saide Estates for the restoring againe of the Countie of Egmonde into his estates and honours wherin he hath the more to consider of the pollicie of the Spaniarde who séeketh nothīg but to continue warres in Fraunce to the end thereby to turne away the tempest from his owne Countryes after his good and vsuall maner Finally whereas his Maiestie alleageth that willingly hée would leaue his Subiects the libertie of their consciences that were much more to be mistrusted because it is moste vndoubted that hée who can liue without exercise of his Religion is vtterly deuoyd of all conscience so that it is as much as if his maiestie should say I will graunt my subiects their liues but in the meane time he should take frō them their foode wherein the Papists doo showe a sufficient argument that they cannot liue without Masse so that the said Lord Duke cannot giue his Maiestie any better counsaile except that if hée minde to remaine a King and to show him self such a Prince that a man may deale and trafique and trust to his maiestie that thē he maintaine his Edict and obserue his faith in procuring the abuses of these pretended Estates wherof his maiestie speaketh to be refourmed by such meanes as shall be thought reasonable for the said assembly cannot be taken for true frée and lawfull Estates but rather for traytors to his maiestie his crowne neither are they the persons promised by the Edict for they should be kept for the maintenaunce and confirmation of the peace but not for the subuerting thereof to which end they haue moste vilanously béene subbourned as many times his Lordship hath aduertised his maiestie The rehearsall of all which things the said Lord Duke could very well forbeare were he not constrayned as well by the plainesse of his conscience and honour which is engaged in the subscription of the peace as also by reason of the singular affection which he beareth to the commoditie aduauncement and seruice of his maiestie in which minde he will continue all his life time hauing nothing in more recōmendatition then to bring to the crown of Fraunce and the tranquilitie of his maiesties subiects what so euer meanes or counsaile God shall euer giue him without sparing ought which the said Lord Duke moste humbly desireth his maiestie to beléeue and for such a one to account him placing him in the number of his moste faithfull and affectionate fréends and seruants This is all which the said Lord Duke can imparte to his maiestie in ought that appertaineth to his person But as concerning his armie that was in Fraunce the said Lord Duke his Colonels Reystremaisters and Captains hauing héeretofore thought it straunge that his maiestie kept not with them the promises which he had bothe made and so often reitreated vnto them as well at Francfort as at Strasbrough touching their payment and hostages doe now thincke it muche more straunge and a matter almoste impudent that such a Lord as the Lord of Villequier comming into these partes as Embassador for his maiestie hath not onely not brought any assuraunce of the same but also not so much as is spoken thereof sauīg by the way yea and which is more that the effect of his message is vtterly repugnaunt vnto the Obligations and promises of his maiestie Therfore the said Lord Duke not