Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	new_a	old_a	testament_n	3,965	5	8.0680	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94126	A Supply to a draught of an act or system proposed (as is reported) by the committee for regulations concerning the lavv: wherein are provisoes against several inconveniences which may befall the free-people of this nation thereby, unless seasonably by the Supreme Power, or otherwise prevented. To which is added, a short treatise of tithes, shewing their original rise, to whom due, how they have been disposed of from age to age; with seasonable proposals for the future preservation and advancement of religion and learning, and setling a competent maintenance for ministers and true labourers therein, for perpetual quiet of the nation. Published by divers officers and souldiers of the Commonwealth and Army, being the second part of their antidote and tendered to the same consideration.	Leach, Edmund, of London,	1653 (1653)	Wing S6192; Thomason E693_7; ESTC R203687	32,930	42

and use for it And it is thought the more necessary and convenient that this old way the true Labourer to have his just hire convenient to continue for the preservation of Learning which otherwise will decay and the way of true instruction of People in the Christian Religion and the Law fall and with it which God forbid the quiet of this Nation which is doubted will indanger the ruine and destruction of the People here And if Councell should be so restrained would it not be an Occasion of the neglect of Learning and Study and yet to doe as some ignorant Lawyers or Advocates do in the Country where small Fees be allowed in minding nothing but contriving their own Gain and not at all regarding their Clients good in taking such small Fees for every single Question and another such Fee for the same if they forget the Resolution of such Councellor or Advocat in going out of his door and returning again to ask of him the same Question And how long together have any Nation where any such usage hath or Self seeking men only have been governing by Laws made on a sudden continued in Quiet And if Physicians should be so limited and constrained would they regard their Patients or leave them to beggerly Mountebank and Quacksalvers to perish under them And if Counsellors Attorneys and Clerks should as antiently in the times of our Ancestors receive according to their Deserts as after all such unlawfull combinations and practises in Monopolizers abolished they have used many of them having deserved five pounds when others not five shillings and yet have took much more for doing little than the best Deserving have done for doing much Then would not all manner of Learned and Iudicious Practisers which attained to considerable Learning and Iudgment in the Law few or none of which have been heard of to be other than Honest or any Dishonest to bend their minds in studying for any such thing for if those of such Profession according to their respective Numbers should not be as they have been more honest than any Professions of like Number they would soon be found out and by many Degrees sooner than any other of any other Profession and be accounted the worst of Men as formerly willingly give Advice to some Clients that is to say such as have formerly gratified them according to their Deserts without any Fee Gratuity or Reward whatsoever asking or accepting if tendered And have not such learned and judicious Practizers almost alwayes done so when it hath not been like that the Client should have any Benefit in those things for which they have asked Advise And will not such Counsell Clerks and Attorneys thereby grow and proceed to be expert in the Law as formerly and be a means of preservation of the Antient Laws of this Nation being grounded at the first upon the Old and New Testaments according to the Direction of Papa Eleutherius Bishop of Rome to noble King Lucius of this Nation of Britain and first Christian King in the World in his Christian Epistle in answer to the Message sent by King Lucius to him for the Roman Lawes to govern the people of this Nation by putting him in mind that when he was at Rome where he was trained up in the Christian Religion during his youth among the Christians of the Primitive Church in the second Century after the passion of our Saviour with his Christian Brethren there he received the Old and New Testaments advising him that out of the same he his People would take a Law to Govern by intimating to him that thereby he should govern well that so long as he should govern well he was K. otherwise cease to be King And after continued accordingly in the time of Constantine the Great a Native and King of this Nation and first Christian Emperour in the World the Grounds of which Laws have ever since continued by Custom according to the Word of God and so long alwayes accounted good but otherwise not good and so adjudged from time to time And when antiently any thing hath appeared to the Great Counsel here in their judgemēts according to the Light which they had in those times to be introduced into the Laws contrary to or dissenting from the Word of God the same hath been abolished rejected and the Laws according to their Abilities amended and reformed from time to time and all things savouring of Heathenism rejected and not all our Lawes abrogated and laid aside and New made on a sudden which neither could nor can be suitable to the well being of this Nation in many years And to alter or change Fundamentall Lawes here on a sudden excelling others before corruptions crept in may be dangerous to this Nation which hath so long been well governed in Peace and Quiet beyond other Nations may bring the People here to the same Condition as others and subject to the same Calamity and as much threatned to Ruine as Others and therefore is it not convenient that the antient and main Fundamentals of the Lawes of this Nation agreeable to the Word of God may be preserved and those things thereunto dissenting abrogated to continue the same not only from being a Scandall but that the same may be a Precedent to other Nations for their and our Union for a perpetuall Peace and quiet living of them and us in Amity for their and our preservation in the Christian Religion against all Opposers whatsoever For effecting whereof omitting all which may stop stay smother or bury in obscurity any good things hope is in the honourable the Committee of this present Parliament for consideration of the Proceedings in the Law c. to perfect after serious consideration and mature Deliberation had of things proposed in their Judgement necessary to be Enacted before they present the same with their many good things which as is said they have in readiness to the Supreme Authority of this Nation the Parliament of England being few things new invented can be perfect at the first that the same may remain as a Memorial untill the coming of our Saviour Christ in Glory And that as this Nation hath been honoured with the first Christian King Emperour in the World so it may with the true and purest Reformation of Christian Religion and most quiet Government A short Tract of TITHES To whom Due c IN the Infancy of the Church after the Passion of our Saviour till about the end of the lives of the Disciples and Apostles all things were common among some * But that was onely voluntary in times of great Tribulation of Christians when they close adhered to the Apostles for advice and protection and there is no Command for the continuance thereof neither ought the same to be drawn into Example for any such purpose since Christians have had the Government among themselves and not under Heathenish Persecution yet many unstable people in this Nation would have