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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54986	Plaine truth vvithout feare, or, Flattery being a case of conscience tryed at Oxford	Wilbee, Amon.	1643 (1643)	Wing P2371; Thomason E89_30	5,026	9

delight to bath themselves in troubled waters as may appeare by a great party now in this Kingdome which take advantage of the present distractions and now live in defiance both of Religion Law seperating themselves from the Metropolis of England and have took a Journey as farre as Newcastle Thrivewell Jndeed J have heard that Newcastle is full of Papists nay the report goes that the Earl of Newcastle has a Popish Army under his command but J am hard of beliefe Sharpwit Beleeve it Sir t is as frequent with the said Earl to go from his Army to Masse as it formerly hath been with the Paulonian Singingmen to reel from the Alehouse to the quire and from thence to the Alehouse again as if they had made a Covenant with the Devill and might be drunke by Pattent Thrivewell J must confesse J have seen much wickednesse in some of those Cathedrall-men but because some are wicked we must not condemne all Sharpwit Jndeed it s the part of a Christian to Judge charitably but leaving this discourse pray tell me the oppinion of those men which you call by the name of Rounheads Thrivewell Why they are men that cry down the Common-prayer Episcopacie and the now established Chvrch Government they are all for the maintenance of the purity of Religion with many other new opinions touching which J desire you to give me your opinion Sharpwit To my best power J shall as touching the Common-prayer there hath been many things of late dayes brought in and incerted which are absolute Popery the particulaas therof J will sorbeare to mention because I hope ere long the Authority of the Law will purge the Land both of it and the bringers in of those abominations As touching the Bishops though it may seem strange that I should speak against them being a profest Schollar but J must speake my Conscience without feare or flattery they have been the Authors of all our present distractions had they been suffered to raign but one three yeares longer we had had Fire and Faggot as in Queen Maries dayes for already Divines were instructed to preach Prerogative and Divine Jurisdiction the power of the King over the Subject nay J heard that on Fuller of affection to his King then of Loyalty to his Country in a Court Sermon once and in many Sermons to his Parishoers taught openly this Portion of Law for Divinity ●…re it cannot be that the goods and estates of the Subject were at the Kings disposall if necessity re●…tred and that the King was sole judge of the said necessity and now judge whether this be not the highest degree of Prerogative had Ahab been possest of this rich Jewell he had not made murder the prize of Naboths Vi●e●ard it hath been such false Doctrines which hath procured our present ●r●e●ling miseries it hath been the Bishops and their Creatures who like so many faw●ing Spaniels can sooth and temporize and by Booke maintain to serve their ●uds and glut their Godlesse gaine that hath raysed this storme in the See of the Church and distracted the Commonwealth therefore it shall be my prayer that we may continue free from that Egiptian servitude which wee have so long lived in Thrivewell Pray Sir resolve me how farre doth Prerogative extend what is the Nature of it Sharpwit J shall be loth to medle with an edge tool for feare J should cut my fingers for such is Prerogative to be dealt withall t●e●efore leaving this discourse J wil relate unto you the manner of the Government in France Jn that Kingdome there are three degrees or ranks of People the Prince the Peeres and Pesants the Prince raignes like a Monarcke the Peeres like petty Kings and the poor Pesants like to many Tip●s of Egiptian slavery Thrivewell The manner pray relate Sharpwit As touching the King and his Nobles J will omit them but for the poore Commons J shall discourse at large the●e the Tennant or Fa●…er cannot say his rent being paid that the overplus is his owne as the reward of his tillage the Labourer that hath wrought all day hard and with the sweat of his Brow purchased a piece of silver cannot say t●at is his owne neither for happily while he is counting his Cards an Edict comes from the King and takes away a thirds of what he had gotten so hardly and the question being made wherefore they do so answer is returned the King must have it and this is Prerogative Royall in France Thrivewell From which good Lord deliver us in England but leaving this discourse pray resolve me one thing heard you not that his Ma●…sty had lately a List of the names of all those persons of Eminencie that stand for the King in the City Sharpwit I can name some of them the ringleader was one Blackmore a● very pursey Gentleman but since J have heard that he was very poor for having spent his estate in good House-keeping he has shut up his shop like a broken Marchant and is gone to Sea to ●ave his credit The next was a ●a●dfore man with a Crispt Perriwig his name J have quite forgot but J and certain he was a franke Customer then there was a Capring Just-asse which J believe doth Foster a malignant Spirit next there was one Baconface a ●…ntner which J heare say builds Castles in the Aire then there was another that was scarce able to say Bo●… to a Goose with many other Bakers and Brewers and inded of all Trades so that J could not but wonder that so many men seemingly wisemen should be so blind as not to disern how they send aid to those that desire to destroy them Thrivewell Make that apparent Sharpwit Is not Religion the Foundation of the Lawes and do not the Papists endeavour to subvert our Religion and if the Religion of a Land be subverted are not the Lawes infringed and if the Law which is the protection of the Subject be infringed do we not lye open to an arbitrary Government and so consequently that man that shall any way assist that Party in the promoting of the Designes which they have now on foot their intentions being so apparent doth as much as in him lyes to destroy the Religion and Lawes of the Kingdome and so consequently is his owne destroyer for the bringing in of an arbitrary power is the first step to destruction Before the comming together of this Parliament you had a taste of an arbitrary Government witnesse the Ship-money with many other things from which next to God this Parliament hath preserved us from and therefore considering the benefits we have received by them with the continuall charge care and toyle which they undergo for the Generall Good and how notwithstanding the scandalous speeches of some wicked ones that say they aime at Preferment they might by joyning with his Majesty gain Honour with lesse charge and more security if they did not aim only at the glory of God and the good of the King and Kingdome it is the best way in respect of God to joyn with the Parliament in the defence of Religion and in respect of your own safety to assist them in the maintaining of the Lawes for if the Lawes be destroyed the Liberty of the Subject cannot stand Thrivewell J am converted and will hencforward practise to be an instrument of Reformation FINIS