Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	kingdom_n	law_n	parliament_n	3,975	5	6.2994	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17345	Religions peace or A reconciliation, between princes & peoples, & nations (by Leonard Busher: of the county of Gloucester, of the towne of Wotton, and a citticen, of the famous and most honorable citty London, and of the second right worshipfull Company) supplicated (vnto the hygh and mighty King of great Brittayne: etc: and to the princely and right Honorable Parliament) with all loyalty, humility and carefull fidelity	Busher, Leonard.	1614 (1614)	STC 4189; ESTC S121938	38,867	38

RELIGIONS PEACE Or A reconciliation between princes Peoples Nations by Leonard Busher of the County of Gloucester of the towne of Wotton and a Cittieen of the famous and most honorable Citty London and of the second right worshipfull Company Supplicated vnto the hygh and mighty King of great Brittayne etc And to the Princely and right Honorable Parliament with all loyalty humility and carefull Fidelity Esay 60. 1. 3. 10. 12. 16. ARise O Sion be bright for thy light is com and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee and the Gentils shall walk in thy light and Kings at the brightnes of thy riseing vp And the sonnes of strangers shall build vp thy wals and their Kings shall minister vnto thee For in my wrath I smought thee but in my mercy I had compassion on thee Therefore thy gates shall bee open contynually neyther day nor night shall they bee shut that men may bring vnto thee the riches of the Gentils and that their Kings may be brought vnto thee For the Nation and that kingdom that wil not serve thee shal perish ād those nations shal vtterly be destroyed The sonnes also of them that afflicted thee shal come and bow vnto thee and al they that despised thee shal fall downe at the soales of thy feete and they shal call thee the Citty of the Lord Zion of the holy one of Israell Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentils and shalt suck the breasts of kings and thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy redeemer the mighty one of Iaacob Proverbs 20. 28. Mercy and truth preserve the King for his throne shall bee established with mercy Eccle. 10. 22. The feare of the Lord causeth that the Kingdom fayleth not but the Kingdom is lost by cruelty and pride Printed in Amsterdam 1614. To the high mighty King Iames by the grace of God King of greate brittayne France Yrland And to the princely right Honorable Parliamēt Leonard Busher wisheth the wisdome of Salomon the Zeale of Iosias the mercy of Christ with the salvation of your Spirits in the day of the Lord Iesus FOr as much as your Maiesty and Parliament doe stand for the maintenance of the Religion wherein you are borne and for the same doe most zealously persequte with fyer and sword I haue thought it good and also my dewty most Royal soueraigne to enforme your Maiesty and Parliament thereof In al humility therfore I give you to vnderstand that no Prince or People cā possible attaine that one true Religion of the Gospell which is acceptable to God by Iesus Christ meerely by birth for Christ saith Except a man be borne againe he cannot see the Kingdom of God Also the Apo Iames saith Of his owne wil he begat vs by the word of truth And the Apo Peter saith Being borne a new not of mortal seed but of immortal by the word of God who liueth endureth for ever Therfore Christ commanded this word to be preached to al nations that thereby they may attayne the new birth By which your Maiesty and Parliament may perceaue that the one true Religion of the Gospel is not attayned by natural birth for the all Princes and peoples in all nations shold haue that one true Religion of the Gospell the which you see and grant they all haue not yet many of them also wil defend theyr Religion wherein they are borne by fyer and sword as if it were theyr natural and earthly inheritances or had with fyer and sword been gotten and therfore wil with fyer and sword maynteyne and defend it But your Maiesty and Parliament may please to vnderstand that the Scriptures doe teach that the one true religion is gottē by a new birth then by the word and spirit of God and therewith also it is onely maynteyned and defended For the word of God is liuely mighty in operation sharper then any two edged sword entereth through even vnto the deviding asunder of the soule the spirit of the joynts of the marrow is a discerner of the thoughts the intents of the heart Seeing then the one true Religion of the Gospell is thus gotten and thus defended and mainteyned namely by the word preached onely let it please your Maiesty and Parliament to be entreated to revoke and repeale those Antychristian Romish and cruel lawes that force al in our lād both Prince ād people to receaue that Religion wherein the King or Queen were borne or that which is stablished by the law of man and in steed thereof enact and publish that Apostolick Christian Gentle merciful law of Christ viz Goe teach al nations preach the Gospell to every creature that is Christ wil haue his ministers to preach and teach the people of al nations the things that concerne the Kingdom of God the name of Iesus Mesiah repentance remision of sins to baptise in his name such as doe beleeve And for as much also that the false ād Antychristian religion did come by the spirit of error doctrine of Devils ād not by fyer and sword therfore by the spirit of Christ ād doctryne of the word of God must it be driven out of the hearts and consciences both of Prince and People and not by fyer and sword as the false Bishops and ministers haue and doe still perswade Therfore may it please your Majesty and Parliament to vnderstand that by fyer and sword to cōstraine Princes and peoples to receaue that one true Religion of the Gospell is wholy against the mynde and mercifull Law of Christ dangerous both to king and State a meanes to decreace the Kingdom of Christ and a meanes to increace the Kingdom of Antychrist as these reasones following doe manifest The which I humbly beseech your Majesty and Parliament carefully to consider and that according to the word of god which shal judge every man according to his deeds and perseqution is a worke well pleasing to al false Prophets and Bishops but it is contrary to the minde of Christ who came not to judge destroy mens lives but to save them And though som men and women beleeue not at the first howre yet may they at the eleventh howre if they bee not persequted to death before And no King nor Bishops can or is able to command faith That is the gift of God who worketh in vs both the wil the deed of his owne good pleasure set him not a day therefore in which if his creature heare not and beleeue not you will imprison and burne him Paule was a blasphemer and also a persequter and could not be converted by the Apostles and ministers of Christ yet at last was receaued to mercy and cōverted extraordinarily by Christ himself who is very pittiful mercyful would have

did pul downe and destroy for they did not imprison nor burne nor hang nor yet caused to be bannished any of the kings subjects that would not worship them as these Idol Bishops doe And out of doubt these Bishops are greater Idols then the golden calfe Aaron made and offred vnto for the calfe did not persequte nor ver such as did not acknowledge it for their Lord as the Bishops doe neyther did the Calfe reygne and rule by force over the consciences of the people as these Idol Bishops doe Besides the Calfe was set vp in steed of Moses who brought the people out of Egypt and shewed them the wil of God but these Bbs are set vp in steed of Christ who have brought vs out of the bondage of hel and who sheweth vs his Fathers wil in his new Testament the which these jdol Bs wil not suffer vs to obey but in steed therof wil force vs to faldown worship and obey ther Father Antychrists wil and old testamēt which stinks in the nostrels of al reformed strangers that heare thereof as wel as in ours that have taken our flight from it Therfore these spirituall lords and Idol Bishops ought to be pulled downe and suppressed like the Abbots their lordly brethren though not sacrificed vnto the Lord in Smithfeild as the Godly king Iosias sacrificed the Idol Priests of the high places on the Altars therof And I doe verely beleeve that if free liberty of cōscience be granted that the spiritual kingdom of these Idol Bs will in tyme fal to the ground of it self as the jdol Dagon fal before the Arke for throug the knowledge of Gods word wil al godly people with draw themselves in al peceable and godly wise from the spiritual obedience of these spiritual lords and Idol Bbs and quietly betake themselves vnto the obedience of the onely spiritual lord Iesus Messiah But howsoever it be I shal be contented therewith and so I wish al others for we al ought to be content if we obtayne freedom of conscience and therefore to give god prayse cōtinualy that hath wroght so blessed a worke in the hearts of the King and Parliamēt for whō as the scripture teacheth we ought to make supplications prayers and intercessions that they may com to the knowledge of the truth and that we may lead a peaceable and quiet life in al godlines and honesty And vnto whō we ought to give by the law of God al earthly honor feare and reverence and willingly to paytribute and custō tax and tol so much and so often as it shal please his Majesty and parliam to appoint and gather by any officer or officers whatsoever For whom also and for the whole common wealth of al his Kingdoms we ought to be diligent and ready to hazard and lay downe not onely our goods but also our lives at al tymes and occasiōs For Christ hath onely set vs free from al ecclesiastical lawes and ordinances which himself hath not commanded in his last wil and Testament Yea from the ecclesiastical lawes and commandements of the old Testament how much more hath he set vs free from the ecclesiastical lawes and ordinances of Antichrist but he hath not set vs free from the Moral and Iudicial law of God for that the king is bound to execute and we are bound to obey and for want of the execution therof there are in our land many whores and whorekeepers ād many childrē murdered besides the death ād vndoeing of many persons about whores Wherfore I humbly desier that the Morall and and Iudicial low of God may be practised and executed of al degrees both high and low without respect of persons according the mynd of Christ For the Lord wil have that evry man shal love him above al and his neyghbor as himself and Christ saith as ye would that men shold do to you so do ye to them likewise Therfore as the king wold not have his subjects to take away his life because he is contrary to them in religiō So let not the king take away his subjects lives because they are contrary to the king in religion and as you wold not men shold force you to a religion against your consciences so doe not you force men to a religion against their consciences And as it is the duty of subjects to seeke the conversion of their king ād State by the word of God and not his and their destruction by fyer ād sword So it is the duty of the king and state to seek the conversion of of their subjects by the word of God and not their destruction by fier ād sword as the Pope and his Prelats doe teach whose vassals therin both Emperors and Kings as wel as people have bene a long tyme both to the destruction of thēselfs ād their subjects For who knoweth not that prelats and preists haue perswaded subjects to destroy their kings and princes as wel as kings and princes to destroy their subiects but 〈◊〉 pray thē both to take notice that the scrip saith he that destroyeth the Temple of God him wil God destroy Let not therfore kings princes nor subjects bee any longer perswaded to destroy one āother through the suttelty of Bs and their mi who most of thē onely seeke the security of their owne pōp and glory ād the stablishmēt of their spiritual thrones therin for so long as they may confirm that they passe not who perish whether king prince or people Againe therfore I humbly pray his Ma and par to repeale and make voyd al popish lawes and canons and to see the moral and Iucial law of god both firmly enacted ad carefully practised after the minde of Chr and then shal Christs spiritual throne be stablished in the hearts consciences both of king prince and people so as the Chu Christs spiritual kingdom shal increace in the knowledge of faith and obediēce therof with al loue peace ād charity one towards another And the cōmō wealth of his Ma King wil florish and prosper ād also his throne be constātly stablished both to him and his heyres through out al his dominions in a suer land of peace and love tho●e with and towards another to the glory of God and the cōfort of his Maj and of al his subjects ād also to a famous ād excellent glorious paterne of govermēt to al kingdōs natiōs ād contries round about as in the dayes of Salomō king of Israel For if the holi lawes of Gods word be practised and executed after Christs wil thē shal neither king prince nor people be destroyed for differēce in religion then Treason Rebelliō as wel as burn ban han and impri for difference in religion wil cease and be laid downe then shal not mē womē and youth be hāged for theft then shal not the poore lame sik and weake ones be stocked and whipped neither shal the poore stranger