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	liberty_n	parliament_n	4,708	5	6.3048	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95533	Crop-eare curried, or, Tom Nash his ghost, declaring the pruining of Prinnes two last parricidicall pamphlets, being 92 sheets in quarto, wherein the one of them he stretch'd the soveraigne power of Parliaments; in the other, his new-found way of opening the counterfeit Great Seale. Wherein by a short survey and ani-mad-versions of some of his falsities, fooleries, non-sense, blasphemies, forreigne and domesticke, uncivill, civill treasons, seditions, incitations, and precontrivements, in mustering, rallying, training and leading forth into publique so many ensignes of examples of old reviv'd rebells, or new devised chimeraes. With a strange prophecy, reported to be Merlins, or Nimshag's the Gymnosophist, and (by some authours) it is said to be the famous witch of Endor's. Runton, pollimunton plumpizminoi papperphandico. / By John Taylor.; Tom Nash his ghost.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1645 (1645)	Wing T446; ESTC R212364	32,386	51

long Treatise which you call the Treachery and Disloyalty of papists against their Soveraignes Me thinks their old treacheries should be no presidents for you or any man or Members whatsoever to be Rebells and Traytors For as those Crimes in them do seem odious to you so your Villanies transcending theirs cannot be made Amiable by any of your Sophisticating Legerdemaine Meanders The powder Plot I confesse was Hells Maister piece but you have done your best amongst you to out-do it They that had a hand in it to the perpetuall brand and infamy of that Religion did all professe to be Roman Catholiques but let impartiall Truth be the Iudge and it will be found that the Contrivers and Actors in that horrid Plot were of no Religion at all and that they usurped the name and stile of Christians as you and your Crew do the Titles of Protestant and Parliament for the chiefe of them had run out of faire Estates by riotous feasting drinking drabbing gaming and all manner of profuse licenciousnesse which when all was gone and themselves involved and precipitated into bottomlesse Debts then they grew melancholy desperate and to raise their broken Fortunes upon the ruines of this mother Kingdome that nursed and bred them devised that abhorred and detestable Plot some there were of good estates and shallow capacities who were seduced to aid with mony and meanes by the perswasions of Garnet and others for such a Treason or scarce any other mischiefe cannot be plotted without the brain of a Jesuit which makes very understanding heads conjecture that Prinne and his Faction doth hold correspondency with them in these their abhominable unparalleld Treasons Never was it heard or read that any that professe to be Christians did contrive or attempt so cruell bloody barbarous and execrable a Designe therefore I conclude them neither Christians or Roman Catholiques but meere Atheists Libertines and incarnate Devils But by this I may be drawn into some suspition that I am popishly addicted or affected to which I answer that the true Church was once at Rome for Saint Paul Rom. 1. 8. gave God thankes through Jesus Christ for them all that their Faith was spoken of in some Translations famous or published throughout the whole world that faith Rome is fallen from and in the stead thereof she hath a Faith and Religion so intermingled with humane Traditions and inventions of men which is unsafe for a Christian to liue and die in But for all this a Protestant must not cast away all that is used at Rome for they have God's Word there they have the Scriptures there which though they abuse yet we have free liberty to use and it is not their Religion or ours that are Protestants or any other who hold the Fundamentall points grounds and Articles of the Christian Faith that can be compulsively thrust into the soules of men for an enforced Religion takes no root in the conscience a perswasive may which made the Patriarch Noah Gen. 9. 27. say God perswade thee Japhet to dwell in the Tents of Shem here is a Prayer for God's perswasion not for mans inforcing the conscience I have been the longer about this argument concerning the Papists because my nimble Antagonists doth Cuckoo-like play upon the same tone and tune So much in answer to Prinnes first argument The second is page 5. 7. The Papists have exercised a greater power over Kings than this Parliament doth therefore this Parliament may do what it doth Well confest shake hands with the Pope and be friends we see these Round-headed Boatmen row the same way with the Romish Rebells howsoever like Cut-purses they seem to quarrell one against another that they may make a fray in the midst of a crowd unspied The third and fourth Arguments are page 7. 9. Some Kings have been forced to call Parllaments and have been deposed by their Subjects therefore all Kings may be forced to the like and be deposed by Parliaments Well bold Brother now we begin to perceive how your judgement and conscience is biassed Why couldst thou not as well justifie the Devill Lucifer did rebell therefore all may rebell but I will helpe thee to a more concludent and significant Argument Penury was tried legally at the Assises and hanged in Queen Elizabeths time for lesse Treason than this therefore Prinne ought to be tried legally and hanged in King Charles his time for this Treason Also in the seventh Page and thirteenth line he mentions the deposing and death of Vortigerne a wicked King to bolster out Treasons and colour Rebellions against a good King also how Sigebert King of the West Saxons was deposed and murdered and Ofred King of Northumberland likewise deposed Ethelred his next Successour slain by his Subjects at Cobre and how the People expulsed Bernard and Ceolwulph Kings of Mercia and the like they did to Edwin King of Northumberland these seventh and eighth Pages are sufficiently stuffed with Treasons of great Antiquity some of them a thousand and some twelve hundred yeares old which were done by wicked Subjects against most wicked Kings some of them Pagans and not any of them a good Christian and some usurpers that came to the Regall Dignity by murdering the lawfull Heires so that these presidents are incerted by Prinne out of the damnable inveterate impertinent malice of his heart for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh And it is an inscrutable Quere what mischiefe Prinne would not do to do the King a mischiefe Page 5. line 39. He calls this our present Protestant Parliament It is approved by lamentable experience that the word present is too true but as for the Parliament it is past any good Subjects understanding to know where it is it is confest that it was at Westminster but Rebellion hath scattered and shattered it into so many places that upon the matter it is in no place but of this I have spoken of before It is also a transcendent ignorance and impudency in this fellow to call this seditious Conventicle a Protestant Parliament I pray thee which way Protestant Do they hold any Grounds Maximes or Tenets of the Protestant Religion 'T is most manifest that the six yeares Persecution of the Protestants in the bloody Reigne of Queen Mary never destroyed and ruinated halfe so many Protestants as those Brownisticall and Anabaptisticall bloody tyrannicall Sectaries have done within these two yeares for none but Protestants have and do suffer and no Religion but the Protestants is despised derided disgraced and trampled under foot therefore neither Protestant Parliament or Parliament or Protestant Now Sir to your fifth and sixth Arguments from p. 19. to 32. you affirme that Popish Parliaments Lords and Subjects have by force of Armes compelled their Kings to confirme their Liberties c. and have affirmed that when a Parliament was once met together by lawfull Summons it might not be dissolved or discontinued again at the Kings meere pleasure and therefore

this Parliament may do and defend the like Proceed with your Popish practices and positions and fulfill the iniquity of your forefathers yet you do not so politickely as you were wont to let the People see whence you derive your pretended Authority for abusing your present Prince Take heed least they take up the Proverbe We have put down one Pope and set up many Moreover in pag. 27. line 7. It was told King Richard the Second that if he absented from the Parliament forty dayes not being sicke they might by Law rise or breake up Though you have no more power to dissolve than call a Parliament I pray who forbids you to take the benefit of that Law who holds you but you may rise and break up It cannot be said but you have risen with a witnesse to such an height of impiety and Rebellion as no age or Nation can parallell and for your breaking up it hath been superlative for there is no Law of God or Nature or Nations but you have broken up and down too and if Treason Murder Burglary Felony were accounted any breaking of Lawes amongst you and that you should all have legall Trials for those Crimes The Lord have mercy upon you there are but few of you that could be saved by your Book therefore let your factious Conventicle rise and go home to their houses when they please the King hath been absent from them more than five times forty dayes for it is almost two yeares since they drove Him from them therefore they may rise and yet never break up any Parliament I remember in pag. 28. line 15. the Cheshire men are much beholding to Master Prinne for calling them Rude and beastly People I wish you would go in person thither and tell them so because they tendred themselves as a Guard for the person of King Richard the Second in a time of Rebellion for which they are honoured ever since with the Proverbe of Cheshire chiefe of men Pag. 33. to p. 42. His Arguments are concerning the power of Parliaments and that the whole Parliament is greater than the King alone They are such absurd equivocations as although he still followes the footsteps of his Fathers the Papists yet his Brethren the Jesuites would be ashamed of such kinde of arguing and therefore he doth wisely to conceale their Association for who knowes not that the Parliament that is to say the King the Head and the two Houses the Members assembled together have a Soveraigne and transcendent Power and excelling Dignity but it followes not therefore that the two Houses considered apart from their Soveraigne much lesse a few Members a small parcell of that part are of like eminency and authority no more than it followes Master Burton a Divine Doctor Bastwicke a Phisitian and Master Prinne an utter-Barrester stood all on the Pillory and lost their eares in one and the same houre for one and the same Crime of railing slandering and seditious libelling therefore Master Burton Doctor Bastwicke and Master Prinne have all three one and the same soule suffered all in one and the same Body Bastwicke and Burton lost their eares for Prinne by way of sympathy or co-ordination because Prinnes Eares were lost long before and so se invicem supplent and any two of them have all the capacities of all three the Divine and Phisitian make a Lawyer the Lawyer and Phisitian make a Divine and the Divine and Lawyer make a perfect Phisitian this is Prinnes Logicke by which he may prove his halfe Eares to be whole ones and the Five Members to have as much power as both Houses In pag. 42. for his Answer to the Objection concerning the Kings absence from Parliament affirming that He is absent as a man but present as a King it is as learned as that is loyall which justifies the shooting bullets at Him in his personall capacity yet obeying Him in his Regall capacity and I believe both had their originall from the same Master of Sentences The Spirit of the Aire which rules in the hearts of such children of disobedience In pag. 44. 45. Concerning his Arguments from Scripture I will say no more but when the Fox preaches beware your Geese for I am sure the Devill had his Scriptum est it is written as well as he wrests mangles and misapplies it as ill as ever did the Devill If any Diraan please to search he shall finde that the Devill hath but his due in this triall betwixt Master Prinne and himselfe Pag. 46. to 112. As for his Law and Law-bookes let him look them over again if he took them not upon trust as he doth the rest of his Learning from Indexes Glossaries Covels Interpreter Lexicon Juris c. And he shall finde that they never attributed the most absolute and supremest Power of Head and Bodie to use his own phrase to the Parliament but when it is a perfect true Parliament consisting of the Head the King as well as of the Bodie the Houses nor would any man that is not as headlesse as Prinne is earlesse have been so heedlesse in his own Authours let all men that mean to be coozened become Prinnes Clients he shall vouch Book-law enough but not one law-case to the purpose witnesse his instances of the Parliament lawfully deposing the King and of the Parliaments power to dispose the Kingdome to what Family they please and the like he that wants a Kingdome let him come to Prinnes market he will affoord large penniworths now he sets Kingdomes to sale any man may buy one or if he misse he shall be sure to have Bulls enough at a cheape rate Pag. 51. lin 33. He saith King Edward the Confessour took his Oath at his Coronation upon the Euangelists and blessed Reliques of S. S. what is all that to King Charles indeed Prinne and his Members are worthy to have a King that will sweare by Reliques for with a most treacherous diffidence they will not believe a most gracious Christian King that hath often sworne and protested by the true Almighty God to defend and maintain the true Protestant Religion the Lawes of the Land the Subjects Libertie and Right with all the Priviledges of Parliaments all which Oathes and Protestations his Majesty hath never broke though a crew of perfidious Villaines do slander Him most traiterously with the aspish venome of their viperous Tongues the pestiferous poyson bawl'd belch'd and vomited from hireling Schismaticall Preachers and the Presses being opprest with printing of infamous Lyes and Libells for which no doubt but your great Master the Burgesse of Barathrum as sure as George Peard is Burgesse of Barstaple who set you on worke will not faile to pay you your wages In pag. 52. that William Conquerour took his Oath before the Altar of the Apostle S. Peter this is as suitable stuffe as the rest but me thinkes Prinne should not name an Altar without an H. and if the Apostle knew you gave