Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	king_n	kingdom_n	parliament_n	5,178	5	6.3666	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46777	A proposition for the safety & happiness of the King and kingdom, both in church and state, and prevention of the common enemy tendered to the consideration of His Majesty and the Parliament against their next session / by a lover of sincerity and peace.	Lover of sincerity & peace.; Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.; Jenkins, David, 1582-1663.	1667 (1667)	Wing J601; ESTC R26145	22,405	102

A PROPOSITION FOR The Safety Happiness of the King and Kingdom both in Church and State and prevention of the Common Enemy Tendered to the Consideration of his Majesty and the Parliament against their next Session By a lover of Sincerity Peace The Interest of England lies in holding a firm Union in it self and the advancement of the Protestant Religion For England is a mighty Animal which can never die except it kill it self The Duke of Roan in his Treatise of the Interest of the Princes and States in Christendom London Printed in the Year 1667. A PROPOSITION for the safety and happiness of the King and Kingdom IT hath pleased Heaven to visit us of late with his heavy and astonishing Judgments The year before he swept away our Citizens from their houses The last year he swept away our houses from the Inhabitants And this year who knows what and who may be swept away by that divastation which accompanieth the Sword If there be not a spark as there is not a Sparrow lights on the House or the Mast top without the Divine Will methinks it will neither be unseasonable to lay his Providences to heart nor unsuitable to make use of them unto acts of mercy and commiseration of others I am a person that am not very careful how I appear to you and if it were a light matter I had to speak about you might turn away your ear from it and regard me as little But if it be a business of the greatest consequence as I am perswaded it is that can be tendered at this present for a healing of the Nation I hope you will both spare me a reasonable hearing and a candid interpretation There hath passed of late some Acts whereby you have been very severe against many innocent persons that fear God and do you no harm I am loth to declare my resentments in particular unless I have further necessity But I will pursue in the general those ends I have in my purpose which are the happiness of our State the peace of the Church the safety of the King and preservation of the Nation not in that way which hath been trodden hitherto in late proceedings but in the paths of moderation which some have not known and some will not know who have already perhaps imposed too much and would not I hope be imposing more on us It shall be an Argument good enough for me from this late calamity on the City and upon our Ships to alarm you to the quenching those Flames which we have helped to enkindle by the over-rigour of such Acts in the hearts of the Nation God Almighty's righteous dealings towards us may bring our own toward others into remembrance and his severity teach us indulgence It can neither be an unchristian or unwise admonition when our Churches with other buildings are laid in heaps to look after our Religion to prevent the ruine which therein also doth threaten us by beginning our repentance in those ashes I shall be clear and plain I desire to be faithful to my Country to my King and to my God I hope though I know not how I shall approve my self in the delivery In magnis pejus est illud non voluisse quam quomodo facias non intelligere We are at this time involved in Warrs abroad with our neighbours and we are incompassed as our Island is with a Sea of intestine dangers amidst our selves in the divisions of our people There is the subtilty of the Jesuite with those many too much to be feared advantages of that party and there is on the other side the wildness of the Sectary with their multitudes and high exasperations Both these are as it were the upper and nether jaw of destruction opening her mouth upon us If we do not finde out a way to reconcile the sober Protestant that we may have their combined strength to oppose these extreams in case of inundation I know not how soon these jaws may shut upon us and overwhelm us in our confusion The Motion therefore I have to make is for moderation in the business of Religion first seriously debated and then prudently concluded in an Act of Accommodation between the Conformist and Nonconformist that are sober in their principles and Indulgence toward others who are so in their lives So far I mean as ever it will stand with the Rules both of Civil and Religious Prudence and the good Order of the Land I am sensible of what a pause there will be on some mens spirits at this Motion I am with Coesar at the flood of Rubicon and the Dye is cast I will confess ingenuously I know not how it fares with others but there is a company of people about us in the Country of different perswasions who meet sometimes many hundreds together that our Justices have been in perplexity what to do The most of them for ought I perceive are certainly inoffensive persons and they have really no more against them than Pliny against the Christians of old when he sent to Trajan about them that is only that they meet and preach and pray together And if that excellent Prince was ashamed after this report he gave him of them in his Epistle to have these good men sought out any more unto punishment I cannot but favour those inclinations which are averse from the like inquisition I profess to God it is such an ungentleman-like thing methinks to trouble ones Neighbors that I should be glad to rid modest men of that work It were better all these Acts suffered at once a due and Christian Regulation than we should be still put upon this untoward dragging innocent folks thus to prison for doing nothing in earnest but endeavouring to save their souls In the name of God take you your Psalter and let them say their prayers as they will I have made my Proposition I shall now offer you my Arguments Visa est enim mihi with the forementioned Author res digna consultatione maximè propter periclitantium numerum Multi enim omnis aetatis omnis ordinis utriusque sexus etiam vocantur in periculum vocabuntur Neque enim Civitates tantùm sed viros etiam atque agros superstitionis istius contagi● pervagata est quae videtur sisti corrigi posse My Arguments may be reduced to these heads The course you have taken in your former Acts will not reach the End you have designed in them The way I propose in this Act is liker to do it The present consideration and exigency of affairs requires the same of us One more The present juncture of affairs and conscience toward our Brethren requires it These heads I will wrap together in my discourse and leave the Analysis to your acuter Judgments If it were not a time to speak now we might lay our hands upon our lips and our mouthes in the dust I said Dayes should speak and years teach wisdom But there is a spirit