Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	law_n	liberty_n	parliament_n	4,902	5	6.1958	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27115	The royal charter granted unto kings, by God himself and collected out of his Holy Word, in both Testaments / by T.B. ... ; whereunto is added by the same author, a short treatise, wherein Episcopacy is proved to be jure divino.	Bayly, Thomas, d. 1657?	1649 (1649)	Wing B1514; ESTC R17476	64,496	181

his owne Religion or to be of his own opinion those are things which we ought not to have much lesse to Fight for for then let us not blame every panim that bakes his cake to the Queen of heaven or every ignorant votary who creeps to his own Image or makes his own Idoll for in this kind of Liberty we do but sacrifice unto the net wherein we see our selves caught and burne incense to the drag that hales us to destruction Christians are not to be at such liberty loose Christians are but lost men true Christians will be contented to be bound up in the unity of the same spirit and the bond of peace if the bond be broken the sheaf of corn is but so many loose eares and no way fit to be carried into the Lords barne if we be sons and daughters let us belong all to one house if we be servants let us be all of one family if we be lively stones let us be all of one building if we be severall grapes let us be all of one cluster if we be severall clusters yet let us be all of one vine if we be saints let us have a communion for this is it which is called the communion of Saints this is it which is called Religion which commeth of the word Religando which signifieth to bind Wherefore for a man not to thinke himself bound to those Articles which the Church proposes is to be of no Religion and to fight for this is to fight for nothing and if by Liberty of the Subject you mean liberty from oppression I know not any man or woman of any quality or condition what soever that knows what belongs to any such thing except it be some few who have liberty to do what they will with all the rest If we fight for the property of the Subject I beleeve the Subjects have so altered the property of their goods that had they but their old properties restored they would not think it good sighting for a new their expectations being so much deceiv'd that instead of fighting for the property of the Subject they rather see themselves subjest to have all things in common If we fought for the Laws of the Land whose Laws are they are they not the Kings will he not maintaine the foundation of his house from sinking will he not maintaine his leggs under him are they not supporters of that body politick whereof he is the head nay doth he not maintaine himself when he maintaineth them for the King and his Lawes may be compared to God and his word both inseperable for as God is the word and the word is God so the King is the Law as the life thereof and the the Law is the King as the body of that soule wherefore there needed not any fighting against the King for this except it be by those who would be Kings themselves And for priviledges of Parliament I remember to have read of Jack Cade in the Reigne of Richard the second who comming up as far as London-stone and resting himselfe thereon vowed that within three daies there should be no other Law but what did proceed out of his mouth now if it stand with the privilidges of Parliament to have a few Jack Cades relying on their London-stones to tell them what they must doe and they will have if it stands with the priviledges of Parliament to have Tumults to drive away their King Armies to awe themselves Countries to send up their Inhabitants in multitudes with Petitions in their hats cudgels in their hands and threatnings in their mouths so that the King was faine to slash the Citizens from White-Hall and then the Parliament the Country-men from Westminster-Hall then they have fought to some purpose but suppose that the Parliament did really Fight for all these particulars so did the King too so that the King may safely expostulate with His Parliament as S. Paul did with the rest of the Apostles are ye fighters for the Protestant Religion so am I are you for the Liberties of the Subject so am I are you for the Laws of the Land so am I are you for the properties of estates so am I are you for the priviledges of Parliament so am I and in all these things I have laboured more abundantly then you all where lies the quarrell then it must consist then in nothing but this that they do not believe one another in that they both fight for one and the same thing the meanes of reconciliation is taken away for should they differ in their grounds the Law may be Judge between them reason may be judge the world may be judges but rebus sic stantibus instead of having reason to fight we do but fight against reason both contend for the same power like the two women that contended for the same child Solomon judg'd the child to belong to her who would rather part with it all then have the child divided Now the Parliament would have this powerfull child divided half to the King and half to themselves the King rather then so is contented to lose all in whom there is most affection and pitty in him is the right of true parentage but because there are no Solomons in this age let us go the down-right way to worke The two Houses gave out that they fought in defence of the Kings Person Crown and Dignity do ye beleeve them don't ye believe the King did the Parliament said they ●ought only to bring him to his Parliament was the Parliament at Holmeby house or was it at Carisbrook-Castle in the Isle of Wight was he in honour or was he dignified by being there have they not fought then all this while upon a false ground have not they given themselves the lie and will you believe them still but instead of being instructed by Solomons divided child they divided their Solomon O Country-men do but remember what ill luck the Nation hath had by imprisoning their Kings when they had imprisoned the old Lyon and the young within their grates the 3 Henry and his son did they not like the inclosed wind make the whole Land shake had not the whole Kingdom a shrewd fit of an ague then did they not lik● fire too close beseiged with clouds sally out in thunder and lightning to the terrour and destruction of all thos● who stood in the way what successe● had the imprisonment of Edward 2 upon his imprisonment followed his deposement and the murder of his person was a consequent of the deposement of his dignity but what becam● of those who did it is there one remaining of the name of Mortimer was not that Mortimer who was the cause of his Imprisonment beheaded were not all those who had a hand in it condignly punished Nay was not the immediate heire of this too much conniver at his fathers sufferings and too ready accepter of his fathers office imprisoned deposed and murdered in like manner and what