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 subject_n 4,732 5 6.6515 4 false
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
A54260 The P. of Orange's engagement for maintaining and securing the Protestant religion & liberties of the people of England, according to his late gracious declaration humbly reminded to be performed by their most sacred Majesties K. William and Q. Mary, in their royal assent in Parliament, to the perpetual establishment of liberty of conscience. 1689 (1689) Wing P140A; ESTC R15860 6,645 4

There is 1 snippet containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

much says the Imperial Edict of Constantine and Licinius to establish the publick Tranquility for every man to have liberty to use and chuse what kind of worshipping himself pleases and for that intent is this done of us to have no man enforced to one Religion more than to another A Prince who would draw his Subjects divided into Sects and Factions to his Religion should not in my Opinion use Force says Bodin I will enhance this from the example of Theodosius that eminently good Emperour who though he being offended with Euno●ius did banish him upon a particular account used no coertion or severity upon the person of any other Sect whatsoever Reliquis neque molestiae q●i●quam exhibuit neque secum communicare eoegit sed singulis copiam fecit in locis separatis conventus ●●endi ita de Religione Christiana sentiendi ut quisque de ea opinionem conceperat John Barclay not William that wrote Adversus Monarcho●athos hath a Discourse on purpose to this effect about the Calvinists as it is thought under the Name of the Hyperephanians in one chapter of his Argenis And Camerarius in his Historical Meditations hath a chapter as Learned Full and Grave as need to be on this Subject lib. 3. cap. 18. It was observed by the Popes Council says Guicciardine that the Prosecution of Luther since it was not accompanied with their own Reformation did encrease his Reputation and that it had been a less Evil to Dissemble the knowledge of such a matter which would perhaps have dissolv'd of it self than by blowing at the Brand to make the Fire burn the more I here may be some Notes conferred with this out of Devilah upon the deliberations of the Politick Katharine Regent of France about the Pacification in her Son Henry the Thirds time I will rest in one after Henry the Fourth succeeded That great Prince thought fit to declare himself Catholick but gets the fame Edict for Liberty to the Hugonots to be renewed and passed the Parliament of Paris By which means endeavouring to remove Suspicion from their minds and confirming them by good Usage together with some Guts and Promises to the chief Heads he insensibly took away says the Historian the pulse and strength of that Party so that those that are versed in the Kingdom believe that a few years of such sweet Poyson if he had not been disabled in this course through want of Money would have extinguished that Faction which so many years of desperate Wars had not with the Effusion of so much Blood been able to weaken Violent courses says my Lord Cooke are like hot Waters that may do good in an Extremity but the use of them doth spoil the Stomach and it will require them stronger and stronger and by little and little they will lessen the Operation They that love the Common wealth says Judge Jenkins will use means together with the Restitution of the King to procure an A●t of Oblivion and tender Consciences a just and reasonable satisfa●tion else we must Perish first or last I will Crown these Testimonies with the experienced advice of CHARLES the First to our late Soveraign Beware of Exasperating any Faction by the crosness and asperity of some mens Passions Humours or private Opinions employed by you grounded only on the differences in lesser matters which are but the Skirts and Suburbs of Religion wherein a charitable Connivance and Christian Toleration often dissipate their Strength whom a rougher opposition fortifies and puts their despised and oppressed Party into such Combinations as may most enable them to get a full Revenge on those they count their Persecutors who are assisted by that vulgar Commiseration which attends all that are said to suffer under the notion of Religion There are two Rules in the Preamble of the Statute Primo Mariae the one is That the State of a King standeth more assured by the love of his Subjects than in the dread and fear of Laws The other is That Laws justly made without extream Punishment are more often and for the most part better obeyed than those that are made with that extremity Unto which my once before-named Lord Chief Justice Cooke Subjoyns this Sentence Mitius imperanti melius Paretur I will close up all with the end of a Speech of Sir Orlando Bridgeman to the Parliament when he was Lord Keeper If any just grievances shall have happened his Majesty will be as willing and ready to redress them as you to have them Presented to him and his Majesty doubts not but you will give healing and moderate Counsels and Imprint that known Truth in the Hearts of his Subjects that there is no distinct Interest between the King and his People but the good of one is the good of both Now this is the Copy of the Letter which Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the Priest I make a Decree that all they of the People of Israel and of his Priests and Levites in my Realm which are minded of their own-free will to go up to Jerusalem go with thee And Gamaliel stood up in the Council and said Ye Men of Israel take heed to your selves refrain from these Men and let them alone for if this Counsel or this Work be of Men it will come to nought but if it be of God ye cannot Overthrow it lest haply ye be found even to Fight against God. Printed for R. Hayhurst in Little Britain 1689.