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

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94817	A treatise in iustification of the King.		1643 (1643)	Wing T2091; Thomason E88_6; ESTC R22270	7,323	16

how could we so soon have lost and torn the unity of the Faith from the bond of Peace do we not all beleeve in one God worship one Trinity and rely upon one Mediator and acknowledge one way to Heaven and shall the garbe and apparrell wherwith we walke this voyage the gesture whereby we worship this God the Dialect wherein we pray to this Mediator set us at a greater distance of affections than if we were Turkes Infidels and Pagans doth God more delight in contentions about Ceremonies Gestures words than in the peace of his Church or shall the wearing of a Surplice signing with a Crosse or bowing with a knee be able to divorce Christ from his Spouse God forbid Oh then I charge you yee Daughters of Jerusalem and you that wish well unto Sion by the Roes and by the Hindes of the Forrests That yee awake not this his Spouse this his Beloved untill she please let us not like the dogge in Esops-Fables quarrell for the shadow and lose the bone where the marrow is while we seek to purifie the Ceremony let not the substance perish while we would settle the Church let us not cut the throat of the State which is the guard of the Church who will poure a Vessell of pure Oyle upon the floure because the out side of the Caske is not eye-pleasing or who will cast away jewels because the Cabinet wherein they are suits not with his fancy Oh then let as binde up the breaches of Sion least the Cloud depart from between the Chernbins and the Arke fall into the hands of the uncircumcised Kings are Magistrates and let it be our Religion to obey those Magistrates God hath not given them the sword in vain and let not us feele the power thereof for our disobedience Thus shall we follow the steps of our fore-fathers the Apostles and Fathers in the Primitive Church who chose rather to glorifie their faith by suffering under than resisting the power of Magistracy though Tyrannicall It is not the height of your zeal if not guided with knowledge can excuse you for then the Jews might have had a fair plea for their crucifying Christ the Apostle testifying they did it through ignorance and yet we what a curse hath dogg'd them and their Posterity to this day If the King were a Tyrant the case might be otherwise but t is a thing knowne to all the world that His Majesty hath given abundant satisfaction for the past unhappy accidents in this government and so solemnly protested for the future to be guided by the knowne Lawes of the Land and to defend the truth of Religion the Liberty of the Subject and the priviledge of Parliament What shall any man plead for himselfe at the high Tribunall of the Almighty that shall dare to take Weapons in his hands against his Anointed let him flatter himselfe how he please with his zeale dote as he will upon his imaginary fancy and think his infidelity in and to his Prince an argument of his faith to God yet miserable will his end be who shall perish in such an attempt and into the Congregation of suchlet not my soule come In a Remonstrance bearing date the 15. day of Decem 1641. The dissolution of the Parliament in 4. Caroli is mentioned and the imprisoning of divers Members of the House after it was dissolved not permitting their wives to come unto them even in their time of their sicknesse enforcing some to put in security of good behaviour before they were released still continuing the imprisonment of those which refused to be bound which might have been perpetuall if necessity had not brought another Parliament to relieve them of whom one dyed by the cruelty and harshnesse of his imprisonment and his blood still cryes either for vengeance or repentance of those Ministers of State who at once obstructed the course both of His Majesties justice and mercy And to speake truth without Faction or any Seditious intent are there not many at this time imprisoned in the same manner as is complained of in that Remonstrance being consined to that unwholsome air which the mercifull narrow grate can afford them and that no sooner received but corrupted with the filthy stenches of those nasty prisons nay are there not some in these times committed and their wives according to the words of that Remonstrance not permitted to come unto them nay is not Sir George Whittmore an aged man and of equality sent to Yarmouth or some other prison farre distant from this place and from his wife and children and if his estate should miscarry through his absence or his aged selfe by reason of that cold and hard passage hee may meet with before his arrivall would not that cry for vengeance or repentance of those Ministers of State that sent him or caused it I accuse not the Parliament neither can I harbour the least suspition of their justice but sure I am that it is possible they may lend some of their authority to those that may abuse it For that Aldermans offence I question it not but I am confident an Imprisonment neerer home would have beene more mercifull nay to speake farther are not now many prisoners denyed to be bayled according to Law I speake not this invectively against the Parliament but rather declare it to them for peradventure they may not know it that they may remedy it and though convenience cannot be offered for a speedy triall of some that are accused because there are now such urgent occasions yet for those that are baylable by Law for safety of their estates and their security that they must then give would be as cautious and as much awed by that as they are by being in prison I know not what the rules of State pollicy are but I know it was the saying of a good man that policy may governe the World and nature policy but Religion should govern both policy and nature may be her councellors but shee is the Soveraigne they may bee used at some time with commendation but she at all times with necessity and approbation I speake not this either to perswade any man to desert the Parliament cause or to incense the KING against them neither will I take upon mee to acquitt either side from errors but consider them to be all Mortalls and will ever pray that both King and People may remember their duties one to the other and that either one side or other may be so sensible of whose duty it is to give the first stoope that so by some divine assistance there may be an utter cessation of armes in this cause t is said in the English-Gentleman pag. 36. that such is the misery of ambitious spirits whose ends are without end limiting their desires to no other period then sole Soveraignty that they flatter themselves in their vanity as Pigmalion with his Image or Narcissus with his shadow reposing more confidence in their owne valour Themistocles or Parsanias