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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	faith_n	protestant_n	true_a	2,841	4	4.8754	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57599	Loyalty and peace, or, Two seasonable discourses from I Sam. 24, 5 viz., David's heart smote him because he cut off Saul's skirt : the first of conscience and its smitings, the second of the prodigious impiety of murthering King Charles I, intended to promote sincere devotion and humiliation upon each anniversary fast for the Late King's death / by Samuel Rolls.	Rolle, Samuel, fl. 1657-1678.	1678 (1678)	Wing R1880; ESTC R25524	110,484	255

since his Return we have had as much assurance as we need to wish of the greatness and goodness of his Princely Intellectuals of his being endowed with excellent natural parts which brings to mind a Scotch Proverb viz. That one inch of Mother-wit meaning natural ingenuity is better than an ell of Clergy And those natural parts improved and exalted by forein Travel converse with all sorts of men Experience both of Adversity and Prosperity dispatch of business for many years together the constant and assistance of wise Counsellors and the advantage of his great office and Dignity and you know by how much higher any man standeth by so much farther off can he see So that now I know no man can question whether he hath great fitness and skill for the business and purposes of a King great understanding how to govern in all points and better skill to manage a Scepter than any man who hath not a Scepter to manage 5. If it be yet a further mercy or happiness to a people to have a King that is active or nimble not dull or sluggish so is he I had almost said that his Majesty seems to be as much an Vbiquitary when he pleaseth i.e. here and there and every where as his Affairs require his presence as any man that wears a body I had almost said he hath not only a body so agile and active as if it were a Soul but also a Soul so active as if it were an Angel rather than the Soul of a mortal man 6. Is not that King a great mercy and blessing under whom his Subjects do live as easily as freely and as much like men as any Subjects in the world do Where more liberty more peace more plenty than amongst English men who by their Representatives in Parliament may be said to carry the purse at their Girdles whilst his Majesty carrieth the Sword by his side Go but over Sea to other parts of Europe or of the world and when you see how it fareth with Subjects almost every where else what meer Slaves they are in comparison of Englishmen you will look upon England as the most temperate Climate that any Subjects do live in and think with your selves that if there were but a Bridge betwixt England and other parts of the world all Subjects would chuse to come and live here as is said in another case Verily the Subjects of England are little Princes to what the Subjects are in other parts and to them I may apply those words of the Poet Foelices nimium sua si bona norant We are too too happy if we did but know it If there be at this day a Canaan upon earth like that of old flowing with milk and honey I mean abounding with all manner of good things England is one not for Bodies only but for Souls also In England God is known and his Name great in England he hath not dealt so with every Nation nor have they known his Statutes as we have done Why then hear we such bleating of the sheep and such lowing of the oxen Why such murmuring complaining and not rather serving God with chearfulness in the midst of all the good things which we have in England Is it not a great wonder that we should be the most happy of all people and yet the least contented the least thankful If it be a happiness to a trading people to have a King that maketh it his business to promote the Trade and Traffique of his people we have such a one I could safely produce a person of great worth and eminency and of as much skill in Merchandize possibly as most men in the world who has told me time after time bona fide that no Prince to the best of his observation was ever so much concern'd for the good of Trade or had more denied himself for the advancement thereof than his Majesty that now is hath done which I doubt not but he is ready to demonstrate to every rational man But if after all this Trading be but dead as that is the great complaint and the very cardo controversiae hinc illae lachrymae may not his Majesty say to his people Am I in Gods stead If the Lord help ye not in that point as the King said to the woman of Samaria that cried to him for bread in the time of famine How should I help you So it fareth with many private Families they are but poor and yet the Master of the Family is a man of double diligence providence forecast rises early and eates the bread of carefulness Is it just and equal that his Children and Servants should be ready to stone him because he doth not grow rich upon all his labours Nay it is as God pleases for that matter witness Deut. 8.18 Thou shalt remember the Lord thy God for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth If he that is poor in spight of all his diligence and care had been careless and slothful possibly his Family had been starv'd which now is only not rich So had we not had a Prince who had been such a Nursing-Father to Trade as his present Majesty is it may be by this time there had been no Trade at all or next to none 8ly If Kings be Defenders of the Antient Catholick Apostolick Faith The faith once delivered to the Churches of the true Christian Protestant Religion have we not cause to bless God for them as such And such an one is he whom God hath set over us Is not the Protestant Religion defended by him Are not Protestants by him defended and protected in the publick open and free exercise of their Religion So as Papists are not who fly about like Bats rather than otherwise Are not all the Preferments of the Church bestowed upon the Protestant Divines have not they all the Archbishopricks Bishopricks Deaneries Prebends Masterships of Colledges c. amongst them Are not good and learned Books against Popery licens'd from time to time and Popish Books suppressed whether they come from beyond Sea or endeavor to get out of our English Presses Are not all publick Ordinations Administration of Sacraments and other Church-Offices dispensed after the manner of Protestants Are not the Articles of the Church of England defended by his Majesty and are not they all purely Frotestant Those things considered who can deny his Majesty to be really a Defender of the Faith And why should any man go about to clip his Title any more than he dare to clip his Coin May he not be truly a Defender of the Faith though he be no Defender of Presbytery either Scotch or English nor yet of Independency nor of Anabaptism nor of Quakerism nor of Fifth-Monarchism I say though he be no Defender of any of them in the Abstract but only of their persons in the Concrete who are of those perswasions I say he may be a Defender of the Faith nevertheless and so he is

and Religion often into their mouths for their having nothing of either in their hearts Commend me to a famous Story which I heard from a Reverend and dignified Divine not far off and not long since which was to this purpose An excellent Knight told me saith he that a year or two before the late War betwixt the King and Parliament broke out there were several Meetings held at his house then in Covent-Garden betwixt some great Officers of State that were then in play and other popular Gentlemen who had a great mind to their places The late King was privy to all their Conferences if not sometimes present and finding where the Cardo Controversiae or Hinge of the Controversie was viz. that some Popular but yet private and unpreferr'd Gentlemen thirsted to get into publick Offices such as Mr. of the Court of Wards c. and that they would never be quiet till it were effected yielded that all of them save one to whom he had some particular and unpardonable exception should have and enjoy the Places and Offices which they sought for but the King refusing him and they being resolved upon one and all hit or miss the meeting was quite dissolved and not long after the War broke out which saith he could every one of those great Seekers have found the Preferment which he sought for had been prevented But that which the Author of this Story said most of all to my purpose was this Whilst we were thus bandying at this our meeting from time to time one half to hold the places which we were possest of or parta tueri the other half of the Company to throw us out and get themselves into our places without those Walls nothing was talkt of but Religion what great contrivances there were at that time for reforming and settling Religion whilst God knows within those Walls there was not all that while one word spoken concerning Religion but some of us were willing to hold our Preferments and others to get them away from us O Nation sweetly cheated O thou blessed Name Religion how oft hast thou been misus'd and made use of to christen the most horrid Villanies For the Proverb has prov'd too true In nomine Domine incipit omne malum Was it not under pretext of Religion because Religion as was alledged could not be preferr'd if he were suffer'd to live that that Martyrs blood must be made shed for the Church that the King's Head was said to be cut off As if to cut off the Head of the Church of England were the only way to keep life in the Body thereof Now how fond and irrational a thing was it how groundless and malicious a slander and censure to say or think that the life of King Charles the First could not consist with the true Christian and Protestant Religion Moreover they knew no more than their heels when the Religion established in the Church of England by Law was gone what to put in the room of it for they themselves were not of one Religion nay what if many of them were of no Religion What think you of St. Martin and St. Scot were they not pure Saints with several others of those Aeacus's and Radamanthus's who gave Sentence against the late King Oh how did they burn Was it with zeal for Religion A man would hardly think that Religion to be chaste and honest which such men courted or seemed to court What Religion I beseech you in pulling down all the fences of the Church and letting in all sorts of little foxes and wild bores to spoil God's Vineyard If this were Reformation it was not unlike that in Egypt when the whole Land did swarm and was over-run with Frogs and Lice and Flies Exod. 8. Whilst these men pretended to the honour of Religion who ever disgraced it more to the preservation of true Religion who indangered it more to the Reforming of Religion who ever deform'd and undid it more Look how the Ivy whilst it creeps into the wall and clasp's close about it embracing it as it were with greatest kindness doth mean time rot decay and perish it or look how the Ape so hugs her young ones as that she kills them with her kindness so kind and no kinder were those bloody Reformers to true Religion which they could have as ill afforded to have lookt in the face as a Debtor his severest Creditor or a Malefactor his Judge Surely they were never intended by God for Reformers considering what God said to David 1 Chro. 28. Thou shalt not build an House for my Name because thou hast been a man of war or hast shed blood Who could expect a Reformation of such men's making worthy the cost of that Royal Blood wherewith they purchased it That which they gave us was to dear by every drop which the purchase cost them When I am convinc'd that Jezebel took the course which she took with Naboth upon a Religious account that a zeal to reform Religion put her upon writing Letters in Ahab's name and sealing them with his Seal as it is 2 Kings 21.8 9 10. saying Proclaim a Fast and set Nabal on high among the people and set sons of Belial to bear witness against him saying Thou didst blaspheme God and the King and then carry him out and stone him that he may die I say when I believe that a true zeal against blaspheming of God made her do as she did who 't is most certain did all this meerly in order to what we read ver 15. When Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned and was dead Jezebelsaid to Ahab Arise take possession of the Vineyard of Naboth which he refused to give thee for money for Naboth is dead I say when I so believe then and not till then shall I think that an unfeign'd desire to promote true and undefiled Religion to keep out Popery and to reform Protestantism as practised amongst us was that which prompted the unhappy Judges of King Charles the Martyr to send him packing out of the world How hypocritical and false was the name that was given to the Court which tried him called The High Court of Justice For 1. we know it was no Court for it was not any such thing legallâ— and nothing is a Court but what is legally so and moreover his Majesty would never own it for a Court 2. It was no ways Highâ— but in â—ride presumption and Arroganâ—e to undertake what they did 3. It was to be sure no Court of Justice for it was called together only to serve one turn like Jezebâ—ls Court that was summoned against Naboth aforesaid to do one wiâ—ked job or feat that is per fas aut nefas right or wrong to cut off the Kings Head and there was to be the end of it But do men think that God will always be thus mocked When Ananias and Sapphira added as little Hypocrisie as this comes to to their Sacriledâ—e did it not cost them

three are met together as Papists say of his body natural The younger Brethren of Presbytery For saith one Our English Amsterdam was founded since our English Geneva They who cried down the Covenant as it was for Monarchy and for the preservation of the King's Life and Honour but did and do still cry up the Covenant against Prelacy and to upbraid all Conformists with Perjury who have declar'd the Covenant not to be obligatory The great Freeholders in point of Discipline who brook no Landlord in that point or to have any Authority over them The Hance-town Church-men who claim to have all Power and Jurisdiction within themselves and say Who is Lord over them That sort of men who of all sorts of Christians seem to have least regard to one Article of our Creed viz. I believe the Holy Catholick Church or they by whose practice one would think that were no Article of their Creed If there be no sort of men to whom the Characters aforesaid do agree sith no Party is nam'd none need to be concern'd but if any such there be or have been they were they who said of the King's death Ah! ah so would we have it The Limner who drew the foregoing Picture thought it a disparagement to write under it This is the Picture of such an one for if it be like no body it is good for nothing 'T is possible that some whom it doth not concern will out of a jealous humour apply it to themselves but let them be warn'd by what was said of one that did so I said the Author of a certain Character have made a Fools Cap and such an one has put it upon his head and fancies that it fits him But in good earnest if the Painter have not wrong'd those people whose Picture he meant to give us but such be their real Feature and Portraicture if it be as like them as can be they are a people worthy to be exposed chid and rebuked and most unworthy to be esteem'd by others at any such rate as they esteem themselves and one another Let those Characters be intended of whomsoever for I shall not pretend to know of whom they are intended but I have found them somwhere methinks the men of such a Complexion and Constitution as they seem to describe must needs be some of those men that were well-willers to the death of King Charles the Martyr For they can never love Kings well who would be Kings themselves John 19.12 Whosoever maketh himself a King speaketh against Caesar Fifthly Doubtless Fifth-Monarchy-men gave no discountenance to the death of the King for many of them thought long for the expiration of the fourth Monarchy which they supposed might be at the death of the King or soon after For when all was overturn'd overturn'd overturn'd then they thought he would come whose right it is Sixthly But that the Papists should be so hearty for the King's Murther as it should seem they or some of them were is not that the wonder of all wonders May not such a truth as that is be confirmed by the Testimony of two great Orthodox Divines If so they are forth-coming The first shall be Dr. Perrinshiefe pag. 195. For there mentioning Jesuitical Counsels he addeth whose Society it is reported upon the King's offering to give all possible security against the corruptions of the Church of Rome at a Council of theirs did decree to use their whole Interest and Power with the Faction to hasten the King's death which sober Protestants had reason enough to believe because all or the most of the Arguments which were used by the Asserters of this violence on his Majesty were but gleanings from Popish Writers Also pag. 213. the same Author saith thus How little the Papists credited what the Faction would have the world believe was too evident by the Conspiracies of their Father against his Life and Honour which the discovery of Hubernefield brouâ—ht to light They were mingled likewise amonâ—st the Conspirators and both heated and directed their fury against him They were as importunate in their calumnies of him even after his death as were the vilest of the Sectaries For his sake they continued their hatred to his Family abetted the usurpations of the following Tyrant by imposing on the world new Rules of Obedience and Government inventâ—d frrsh calumnies for the Son obstructed by various Methods his return to the Principality because he was heir as well of the Faith as of the Throne of his Father My next witness and two such witnesses may suffice as well as twenty shall be Dr. Moâ—ulâ—n Prebendary of Canterbury in a Book of his called A Vindication of the Protestant Religion in the point of Obedience to Sovereigns c. pag. 58. The late Rebelion was raised and fostered by the Arts of the Court of Rome Jesuites professed themselves Independent as not depending on the Church of England and in the Committees forthe destruction of the King they had their Spes and their Agents The Roman Priest and Confessor is known who when the fatal stroke was given to our holy King and Martyr flourishâ—d his Sword and said Now the greatest Inemy that we have in the world is gone I 'll â—uote no more but rather commend that excedent Book to thy reading Thus have we made a competent discovery at whose door the death of the late King doth principallyâ—ie Her upon methinks I hear some saying But what is the King's death to us who had not the least finger in the death of the murthered King What is that to us Let them look to it as was said to Judas when in despair Answ There are many ways and circumstances whereby a man that was not principally concern'd yet may be brought in as truly accessary to the Kings death or to any such thing as it was viz. 1. Connivendo 2. Non reprehendendo 3. Non praeveniendo 4 Non dolendo 5. Demerendo 6. Non deprecando 7. Imitando 8. Non detestando satis contra protestando 9. Provocando 10. Non puntendo cum possumus 'T is much to be feared that this whole Nation may come in for a share in the Kings death thus remotely or upon account of one or other of the foresaid particulars For 1. Some did as it were connive at it when it was in fieri or bringing about and dic not do all they could have done to prevent it Now to such that passage 1 Sam. 26.15 16. may be applied David said to Abner wherefore hast thou not kept thy Lord the King For there came one of the people in to destroy the King thy Lord. As the Lord liveth ye are worthy to die because ye have not kpt your Master the Lords Anointed And now see where the Kings spear is and the cruse of water that was at his Bolster Was not old Eli therefore charged with the sins of his wicked Children because his Sons made themselves vile and he restrained them not 1

for none of these are the Faith These are but Mint Annise and Cummin in respect of the great things of Religion the Magnalia Dei the two Tables of the Law of which he is Keeper Those are but the arbitrary Modes Habits and Dresses of Religion Clothes do not belong to the essence of a man A man is a man to all intents and purposes whether he wear a Cloak or a Coat or neither or both Christianity is the same thing in all good men whether they wear Gowns or no Gowns Cassocks or no Cassocks and who are called either Episcopal Presbyterian Independent or whatsoever else So long as the essentials Vitals and Fundamentals of Religion are guarded by the Laws of England and the vigilant care of his Majesty what becomes of those little airy vehicles of disciplinary names divisions and distinctions is the least thing of a thousand For so long as a man lays no other foundation than that which God hath layed viz. Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 3.11 building upon him by faith love and obedience if he should chuse besides Gold and silver and precious stones to build upon the foundation wood hay and stubble that his superstructure would be burnt yet himself should certainly be saved If a man may go to heaven out of the Church of England as well yea more readily than from Geneva or Amsterdam and from under the Discipline of any of those places let him look to it that he be a good Christian exercising himself to have a Conscience void of offence towards God and men one that worshippeth God in the spirit rejoyceth in Christ Jesus and has no confidence in the flesh as it is Phil. 3.3 and my Soul for his having thus his fruit unto holiness his end will be everlasting life So a man come to Heaven at last fighting a good fight finishing a good course and having kept the faith i. e. having been true to the great Doctrine and Rules of Christian Religion defended by the Church of England and his Majesty more especially the Supreme Governor thereof under God by a sincere life and practice thereof I say if a man persevering thus to do come to Heaven at last whether he come in the Kings high way as I may call it I mean in the more eminent and beaten Road of Episcopacy or in the more private narrow and unfrequented paths the matter is not great But I make account no man can ever come there who shall live and dye an incourager of known Schisme in others which is as truly a damning work of the flesh as Adultery or Murther or a wilful allower of it in himself 'T is no complement much less flattery or blasphemy to call him Defender of the Faith by whom as much of Religion as is necessary to Salvation is defended or rather we his Subjects in the free and safe exercise thereof though the same favour be not shewn to those who turn aside from the only established Discipline for but one Discipline can be established in one place as to those who conform thereunto If a man travel upon the Kings high way betwixt Sun and Sun and be rob'd he may sue and recover his Money but so may not he that travelleth in By-roads or cross the Country or over hedges and ditches I say if any man rob them that shall chuse to travel in such by obscure and unguarded paths no amends is made him only if he chance to be kill'd or murder'd in any wood or wilderness the Law will lay hold on him that did it Let who will govern or the Government be what it will be they who conform thereunto will always find more regard and countenance than those who do not though others may be tolerated and protected also And so much of our Kings being Defender of the Faith truly and properly so called upon account whereof we have cause to bless God for him 9thly We have cause to give thanks to God for those Kings by and under whom all the great ends of Government are provided for and therefore for his Majesty that now is By him all the great ends of Government are provided for What are they but in two words Religion and Property How Religion ot the preservation thereof and our protection in the profession and practice thereof are provided for I shew'd under the 8th and last head 'T is manifest that care is taken that we may lead a quiet and peaceble life in all godliness and honesty as it is 1 Tim. 2.2 Also how Property is secured to us may be gathered abundantly out of the formentioned particulars Now if you have any thing more to expect from a King declare what it is For I confess I know nothing else that there is for him to do as a King for us or for us as his Subjects to expect 10thly and lastly I do solemnly appeal to the discontented people of the Nation and to those whose mouths are most full of complaints I say I appeal to them in two cases which I shall propound in the two following Questions 1. Quest If you meet with less misery enjoy more mercy under his Majesty that now is than ye did expect or look for have you not cause to bless God for him Quest 2. Do you not really meet with less misery and more mercy under his Majesty that now is than you thought you should have done How oft have I heard many that were Parliamenteers say If ever the King were restored they should not be left worth a morsel of bread there would be no being for them then in England he would make the Land too hot for them and all such as they They had as good buy Bishops or Deans and Chapters Lands as not for if a change came they should as certainly lose their Lands of Inheritance and what they got by their own labour and was as free as any in the world as Kings and Bishops Lands if they intended to buy them I know that many did look upon the King's return as the giving up the Ghost of all their joys and comforts possessions and enjoyments But did it prove so Have not many of them seen as good days as ever they saw before Where is the Popery you prophesied of that would come in presently For you saw it flying towards us as upon the wings of the wind Where has been the bloody Persecution the Marian-days which your minds boded to you Have you not since that seen days of Grace and Peace and of the Son of man Is the Ark taken as you thought it would be Is God gone Is the Glory departed Is the Gospel extinguished and the Sun set as it were at Noon day as you fancied it would be O leave your dreaming of Dreams and divining of Divinations away with those hypocondriack vapours which turn to new Light and Prophecy Silence and slight your mistaken fancies Your eyes yet see your Teachers and your ears hear them Now even now there is

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