Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	great_a	king_n	parliament_n	3,205	5	6.3516	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25533	An answer to a pamphlet entituled The humble apologie of the English Catholicks written by a Royalist before Christmas, 1666.	Royalist.	1667 (1667)	Wing A3324; ESTC R16391	10,450	18

best free from Superstition free from too much homeliness God and the King are best served in our way Our Church is Monarchicall as well as yours but still with a subordination to our Soveraign Temporal Prince What our great Ancestors were wee shall not be ashamed to remember nor the Conversion of England from Paganisme which possibly as all the World besides converted from the like errors did retaine some few Pagan Ceremonies from which the Church of England was purified in the reformation of Edw. VI. and Queen Elizabeth He does well to put us in mind of Romish perfecutions are not we justified therby if we do the same to you France forsooth is instanc'd where the reformed Religion is permitted which I shall leave indifferent whether to attribute that tolleration to their vast numbers or to the innocency of their tenets not at all prejudiciall to Kings this I am sure they own no Soveraigne above their Natural King they have no forraigne jurisdictions in their spirituals and as little in their Temporals Let this be remembred they assisted their Henry the III. against his Popish Rebels even after the Massacre at Paris and Henry the IIII. in his siege of Paris when the Duke of Parma relieved it But as for the French King he is no competent instance in this case Had you singled out some Trent-Catholicks such our English Catholicks would be acknowledged there had been a fairer colour for your Argument When yow have found some Roman Catholick Princes of the Trent perswasion allowing the same favours to known Protestants you may more plausibly plead for the like allowance till when by their Inquisitions and such like entertainments of protestants they have prescribed the Law for other Princes towards those that no less differ from them in matters of Religion Wee will wave the Massacre at Paris to come nearer home what thinke you of the Massacre in Ireland as a forerunner of the English troubles was not the Massacre and Rebellion in Ireland Countenanced and owned by a Popes Nuntio Let us draw nearer to these times and speake of what passed within this twelvemonth Was not the Popes Bull an occasion of Cornett Nangles Rebellion Which had been as universal as the first but that the Romish party there wanted strength The Author by mentioning the French Kings kindness to the French Protestants puts me in mind to affirm he is much mistaken for that King has of late begun very much to persecute them He has taken from them most of their Churches will not suffer them to educate their owne Children and many other grievous punishments he does now inflict upon them and it may well be suspected he intends yet more against them having already purged his guards of all of their belief The Author growes yet more impudent extravagant for first he goes about to illegitimate Queen Elizabeth then bespatters the fame of our King Henry the VIII and by that one may see where he has his breeding and where he learned to speake contumeliously of Kings Your urge the Allegiance sworn to Queen Mary and t is no such wonder considering the Artifices and Power of the Roman Catholicks at that time But all Roman Catholicks will grant that Queen Maries Mother was King Henries Brothers Wife Yes and it will be replyed that the Pope dispenced with the marriage He did so but St John the Baptist whom our blessed Saviour honours with so high a testimony in the Gospel would not have done it he condemned the like marriage in King Herod had be lived in those times would have done no less in Kings Henrys Though perhaps the Pope like another Herod would have cut of his head too for that bold affront yet the Popes power though never so much revered in those times could not then silence the suffrages of our Universities here nor those in forraign parts who joyntly affirmed and confirmed both the lawfulness and necessity of King Henries Divorce from his Brothers Wife which doth sufficiently wipe off that filth the Auth or from his impure mouth breathes out against that Queen of glorious memory But King Henry the VIII it seems is a great eye-sore to you and you will leave no place unsearched for some stones of reproach to throw at him yet if you would be pleased to cast a serious eye upon divers of your Popes the chief heads of your Church you may find a full choice in the ninth tenth Centuries besides several others and vvhen you have throughly perused the exact symmetry of their Carriage and practises as described in some of your ovvne Authors then turn your eye upon King Henry the VIII you vvil readily I doubt not conclude the saynt to be on his side And making so bold with Princes it would be a wonder if Ministers of State did scape his pen and it may well be affirmed that King James is wounded through Cecyls side of rather that wise King himself is deeply pierced for may not one thus understand the Apologist Cecyl is compared to Vlysses King James to Cromwell The whole Parliament is likewise aspersed by him and according to the opinion of the Apologist God is mocked every fift of November so that God himself cannot scape him neither He insists much upon the merit of those of his Religion that ventured their lives in the quarrel of the late King of glorious memory Where this great merit lies I cannot well understand for these reasons First they were his Subjects and so they were in duty bound to fight for him Secondly they were persecuted by the Long Parliament and that good King upon pretence that he so much countenanced them was persecuted likewise for their sakes and so they were constrained to stand by him and for him for their own preservation And there is one of his Subjects of that Religion that stipulated and did drive a bargaine with the last King before he would engage for him The Author would have us beleive Dinner-bells are mistaken for Mass-bells Doe the Papists dine at 6 7 or 8 of the clock in the morning All their Insolencies the Author would persuade us to attribute to the height of their zeale against Constables or other persons in authority formerly against the King When it is very well known that dureing the Rebellion when the late Rebels Cromwell and Bradshaw and the rest were in humane appearance confirmed in their Thrones None were better used that went under the name of Cavaleers then Papists now since the happy restauration of our gratious Soveraigne many of them indeavour to strike in with the Fanaticks desiring them to join with them and they will take an order with the Episcopal party These are the men that so much boast themselves of their Loyalty As to the burning of London God reward them according to their demerit that were the authors of that dismal and execrable fire This is most certaine that the Papists rejoice much in those sad