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	law_n	parliament_n	7,328	5	6.6868	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96996	The bloody prince, or A declaration of the most cruell practices of Prince Rupert, and the rest of the cavaliers, in fighting against God, and the true members of His Church. by I. W.	I. W.	1643 (1643)	Wing W38; Thomason E99_14; ESTC R20350	15,987	30

constantly as they doe their owne hearts carry them on thereunto and the Divell seconding them with his temptations they are carried on vehemently God also giving them up to their own wills they can doe not otherwise If you look into the Scrißtures you may finde wicked Cain killing Abel a wicked Nimrod mightily hunting and persecuting the Saints and a wicked Saul and many others doing the like And now you see wicked men enraged against God his truth and his people even a wicked army of Cavaliets led forth by a wicked Prince fighting against religion imprisoning and killing faithfull Ministers shedding the bloud of the Saints of God with all out-rage and cruelty It is no wonder to see them so doing all wicked men would doe the like if God should not restraine them they doe but what their own hearts carry them unto God having given them up to their owne wills and affections therefore thinke it not strange seeing they are carried by such a power that they cannot resist of themselves The second use may bee a use of instruction to teach every one to take notice of the naturall bent of his own heart and where God hath wrought a change to acknowledge the freenesse of his grace and the mightinesse of his power The third use may bee to reach all wicked men that are carried on with such violence in wicked wayes to take notice by their actions what they themselves are even wicked persons you are wicked but you will not acknowledge your selves to be so but looke upon your actions and they will tell you to your faces that you are wicked wretches But you will say What actions I answer your swearing blaspheming drunkennesse with other outrages which your owne hearts tell you of All you wicked Cavaliers loook upon your cursed and divelish actions and they will cry to you with a loud voyce that you are a company of wicked wretches risen up against the Lord and against his people even company of wicked Doegs to whom the Prophet speakes Why doe you boast your selves in evill But you will say our actions are not wicked neither are we our selves so No Are not your action wicked Then there were never wicked actions wrought in the world take but a view of your actions Is it not a wicked action to murder godly and faithfull Ministers and to imprison them Then Herods action was not wicked in imprisoning and killing Iohn the Baptist not the Jewes in imprisoning and killing the Apostles but they are charged upon them as wicked actions even by God himselfe and so shall your actions be changed upon you even this of imprisoning and killing the Ministers of God Again what think you Is it not an evill action to kill the Saints and to shed their bloud that are as the apple of Gods eye and the signet on his right hand that are his precious ones Esay 43.4 of whom God hath said he wil contend with those that contend with them And yet these you kill and imprison nay you aime at them above all others Psal 37.14 Gladtum eduxerint improbi adduxerint arcum suum ad dejiciendu pauperem egentem ad mact andum rectos via here is a wicked crew charged not only with killing the godly in cōmon with others but for aiming at them above all others and is not this your practice Doe not you bend your force most against them that are most godly And yet O yee wicked ones you will not yeeld that your actions are wicked but let your hearts speak and they will tell you that your actions are wicked and that Cain-like you seeke to kill the Saints because their workes are good and your owne bad and God will one day tell you so to your endlesse woe if you repent not But you will say you fight not against the godly but against rebels and traitors that will not yeeld obedience to their King To which I answer First that they refuse not to obey the King so far as his commands agree with Gods and more ready they are to obey him in such things then any of you which doe hate and openly oppose all such persons and things and commands as haue any stamp of God upon them Secondly they doe not disobey the King but stand up in a defensive way to defend themselves and their posterity from Popery tyranny and slavery which you labour to bring us all unto Doe not some of you remember how you gave the first onset against the Parliament endeavouring to destroy that honorable Assembly before they ever took up arms or did any thing in a hostile way And therefore your first rising was not to suppresse disobedient subjects but to destroy such as were obedient and loyall And both the Parliament and all that stand up with them doe what they doe in defence of the King and that religion and those lawes which the King himselfe is sworne to maintaine and therefore that cavill will no way free you being you are wicked persons nor free your actions from being wicked actions But you may say Have we shed more bloud then the Parliament or imprisoned more then they Wee may charge them with the same crimes that wee are charged withall I answer as before they are necessitated to what they doe in defence of themselves of religion and liberties Besides their aime is not to shed blood their endevours have been and still are for peace but you are still for warre and bloud-shed Besides all this there is a great difference betwixt your shedding of bloud and theirs for they are exceeding tender and carefull of the faithfull Ministers of God and of his servants and would if it were possible preserve them above all other from prison and sword but your aime is altogether against such whom you are pleased out of your divelish malice to call Round heads which terme shewes what you are even such whose tongues are set on fire of hell which doe speake worst of those of whom God speakes best The holy God loves holinesse and commands it but you hate it and condemne it you are contrary to God and all his wayes and yet in your opinion you are not a company of wicked wretches But if all this will not convince you of your wickednesse what thinke you of all your blasphemies and cursed oathes which daily Rabshakeh-like you belch out against God saying with those Psalm 42. Vbi est Deus tuus In a wod doe but look upon the cursed practices of all the wicked wretches that ever you read or heard of and see what villany was ever done by them to declare them to be wicked ones that you are not guilty of and then you will without doubt be of my minde that you are a company of wicked ones indeed And so I come to the fourth use which is a use of exhortation to all you that stand up thus wickedly against God to cease from all your cursed and wicked designes which you have