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	majesty_n	subject_n	3,135	5	6.4839	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03494	A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, August the 5. 1623. By Barten Holyday, now archdeacon of Oxford	Holyday, Barten, 1593-1661.	1626 (1626)	STC 13615; ESTC S104169	16,484	48

admit increase but by increase of danger His Majestie yeelds vnto his request and haste when the man straight makes a new request For obseruing the Nobles to follow with a faithful and inconuenient speed hee desires they should bee sent backe for a time from this their dutie and the mysterie Gold was a Cordiall that would raise appetite and his thrifty loue would haue the King haue it all But here his wit was a litle too yong for his treason desiring both too openly and speedily to disfurnish his Majestie of his Counsaile his Horse and his Attendance who increasing by this his suspicion with his danger prouided himselfe of all three Of all which notwithstanding hee was afterward againe disfurnished vpon intreatie which ought not to haue failed least it had made lesse the wonder When the High Priest's Officers that came to apprehend our Sauiour were to be strucke downe backward the Miracle did scorne the helpe disgrace of a weapon But his Majestie being as yet prouided thus proceeds on his wisdome and suspicion making vp a censure vpon the man whose visage was more beholding to nature then to melancholy which did disfigure it with varietie of passions The wildnesse of his eye and tongue seemed to accuse him rather of distraction then treason and without art to argue that his displeased spirit had a lesse Enemy then a King A seuere brother might peraduenture by striuing to make him tame make him wild and as much raise his furie as depresse his delight His Majestie was attended with this coniecture and the subiect of it who does solicite him to such mysticall secrecie as if he mistooke his owne Religion and had reuealed it not to a King but to a Priest And being almost at the end of his journey though not of his purpose hee rides before with as much haste as care to prepare and accompany his brother with whom that he might not faile on any side of dissimulation bee quickly returnes to meet his Majestie Who being entertained with some delay and excuse was feasted by a traitour without poyson It was a rare dulnesse in one that had beene an Italian traueller But it seemes his Lordship was there so wholy employed in the study of the Magique Character that he could not intend the drudgerie of poyson But this great Politician being by his owne reciprocall plot sent out by the King to entertaine the guests the King is by his familiar traitour admonished of the opportunity as precious as the gold Wherefore onely with his attendance and direction hee passes through a Labyrinth of roomes as intricate as the heart of a Villaine All which as they passed through his attendant lockes with most accurate feare At last they enter a small Study and this hee likewise lockes with equall jealousie Oh he would faine haue shut-out God and protection But can contraries rest long together Or can Majestie bee so patient of treason The Cloud must breake and the battell of the Thunder must bee reported Thus long you haue beheld the man but now you shall see the violence of the man And that you may behold the contexture of his treason now yee shall see the prisoner that hee promised changed into an Executioner You shall see a man and a Dagger weapon enough to make a traitour and yet you shall behold him almost made innocent by feare But with as much though a better feare you will behold the violent man who now changes his countenance when he should change his heart and increases his treason by laying aside a great part of it dissimulation He now couers his head when hee deserues rather to lose it and shewes it to want as much wit as Loyalty that did not vnderstand in what presence it was After hee had arm'd himselfe thus with his haste and irreuerence he spoiles his seruāt of his dagger who would as willingly haue beene rid of his master as of his weapon which when he has see a danger fit for a deliuerance he holds the point of it to the brest of his King when the point of his conscience ought to haue wounded his owne brest And now alas the weaknesse of furie What can thy violence doe now O violent man Thinkest thou by thy wilde hand to moue the fixt purpose of the Almighty Thinkest thou by thy rashnesse to frustrate the diuine deliberations of our wisest Henry Thinkest thou by thy folly to confound the greatest heire of his wisedome in whom was to be accomplished the marriage and glory of two Nations Alas vaine hand that was no more able to change the Successour then the succcession But you shall see what he does or rather heare what he sayes His furie beginnes already to faint into words yet so execrable as if he would change his treason into blasphemy and now threaten God in stead of the King who must not vpon paine of death open a window or but his lips to proclaime the traitour O the peruerse folly of villany that would giue Lawes to the Law-giuer and make Maiesty as dumbe as Treason ought to be But see more folly yet This traitour would change himselfe into a judge and seeme as just as hee is ridiculous Hee will not haue him die without sentence and yet he will sentence him without witnesse and so at once accuses him and pronounces him guiltie of the death of his father Hee had before violated his Majestie but now his innocencie But O now to see the power of a King armed with God! Hee tries if hee can tame his fury into sleepe by awaking his conscience or else to make the point of his Dagger as dull as this He tels him of the violent eloquence of bloud which will crie out as loud as conscience He tels him of the necessary inheritance of reuenge which will as certainly find an heire as his Crowne He prooues himselfe innocent from the execution of his father by the most innocent argument of Law and Nature it being done by publike act which may erre ignorantly but neuer boldly and at that age which had not mann'd him to the exercise of his right so that hee was then more his King then his judge Hee cals to mind his religion which might moue some feare He vnwillingly repeates some fauours which might moue loue Hee offers secrecie and pardon which might raise his hope When behold a tame Traitour His body has forgot the bargaine of his minde and beginnes againe to vncouer the head as if hee would confesse his vnderstanding were conuinced But it had beene happy if this loyalty had descended from his head to his heart And yet he vowes hee will not bee such an execrable Traitour as hee thought to haue beene now hee will vouchsafe not to murder him You see the degrees of amendement hee seemes alreadie to haue reformed his head and his hand But hee will not as yet leaue off to be King wherefore leauing his Majesty confin'd to silence and expectation he