Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	wonder_v	word_n	write_v	18	3	4.7653	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14210	The Romane conclaue VVherein, by way of history, exemplified vpon the liues of the Romane emperours, from Charles the Great, to Rodulph now reigning; the forcible entries, and vsurpations of the Iesuited statists, successiuely practised against the sacred maiestie of the said empire: and so by application, against the residue of the Christian kings, and free-states are liuely acted, and truely reported. By Io. Vrsinus ante-Iesuite.; Speculum Jesuiticum. English	Beringer, Joachim.; Gentillet, Innocent, ca. 1535-ca. 1595, attributed name.	1609 (1609)	STC 24526; ESTC S118919	126,713	245

reduced to their pristinate forme and integrity then no longer should wee behold the Christian people turmoyled in discords no Princes murdered no oaths of allegeance impugned no equiuocation iustified nor Turkish inuasions so powerfully maintained But of these abuses and many more mentioned by mine Author and still maintained but not with auncient obstinacie for want of this implored reformation let him that hath a stomach to bee informed read the Apology brought out of Spaine and printed at Antwarp in the yeare 1527. There in order shall hee finde as much as followeth the summe whereof drawen into heads shall suffice for this present 1 The Breues of Clement the seuenth wherein hee loadeth Caesar with as many calumniations as his witte could deuise and those most false and forged 2 The aunswere of the Emperour Charles the fifth vnto these forgeries 3 The second Breues of the Pope wherein vppon repentance that hee had falsly accused Caesar hee sendeth vnto his Nuncio to forbid him the deliuery of the former Breues 4 The answer of Caesar to these second Breues 5 An Epistle of Charles Caesar vnto the Colledge of Cardinalls desiring them that in case his Holinesse did continue either to denie or differ a generall Councell that they themselues would proclaime it Now that wee haue fully informed you how this halfe-deplumed Estritch hath notwithstanding opposed against the two last Emperours Ferdinand and Maximilian and not at this day feareth not to bee troublesome vnto their successour Rodolph As also how his patience hath beene nettled by the transaction of Passauia and the Edicts of peace deuised ratified and proclaimed by these three late worthy Emperours It shall not for a perclous vnto your wearied mindes I hope proue a loathing seruice if I shall in order recite vnto you at what warde his Holinesse at this day lieth considering that hee is not able any longer to set father against sonne and sonne against father in open action Prince against Prince and people against Prince and Prince against people These practises are reuealed and absolute now must they erect and but once erect an order to purpose An order that must commit all villanies and his Popeship not seene therein an order that must studie Matchiauell entertaine intelligence and able in it selfe to negotiat in Princes affaires without posting and reposting to the view of the world for their dispatches to Rome an order of all orders that euer were deuised the most cruell and truly bestial the bane of mankinde and the fire-brands of Christendome Of whom if any worthy pen would take the paines to indict a Legend the world should soone perceiue that they to the vnderpropping of this declining sea within these few yeares haue committed as many forgeries villanies and seducements to warre and murder as their Masters before them haue done in many Ages So furious are their humours so irregular their consciences to worke pleasing seruices to their politique Monarch Bound they are to auert whatsoeuer they shall thinke or know preiudiciall to the Romish sea Bound they are as much as in them lieth to hinder the propagation of the Gospel Then their calling being such their seruice such and such their vowes let vs learne amongst many of their actions by some few what peace in religion is to be expected from such persons that hereafter we may be able to discerne the man by his speech as the Lion by his clawes Notes of priuate passion HE that playeth the Prologue is Conradus Brunus attired in his third booke cap. 1. pag 305. oppugning railing and annihilating the Transaction of Passauia and the peace granted thereupon a peace so religiously ratified by such and so many hand-writings and so solemnly sworne vnto by such iust honourable and worthy personages At his first entrance you shall know him by his brazen face and now you shall heare him speake The Edict saith hee is friuolous void and at no hand to be obserued His reason because a Catholique ought not liue peaceably with such Heretiques for so should they neuer be offended nor abolished Yea so much the rather were the association so ordered to be abhorred and abominable for that a Catholique meeting one of them should be adiudged to haue assented to the peace But to offend them with whom there is no communion can be no breach of peace as whom the Lawes of the Empire doe subiect vnder a curse and expose to offence without punishment Finally whom all diuine and humane constitutions would haue to be vtterly extirpated The next that presenteth himselfe is Paul Windich in his booke de Haereticis extirpandis pag. 324. And hee termeth this religious peace to be nothing but a breathing a delay or a toleration pag. 327. He saith that in his minde he can but wonder at the madnesse of the Sectaries For foolishly auouching and so often babling out the Decrees of the Diets for the free exercise of their religion If I should stand to present you with Melchion Hosius and Posserinus who wrote whole discourses vnto Henry and Stephan Kings of Polonia to take into their serious cogitations the extirpation of the Euangelicall professors I should but weary you with words Two lines shall suffice With the Protestant Polonians the assurance giuen vpon Faith is at no hand to be obserued for that an oath ought not to be the bond of iniquitie Iames Menochius the Lawyer Consil 100. Num. 225. excuseth the Romane Emperor Sigismund in that he violated his safe conduct As concerning the which ouersight the impudent assertions of the Iesuits of Treuers are worthy the relation published in a certaine booke intituled The Concertation of the Catholicke Church Printed 1583. pag. 4. Husse did require safe conduct of Sigismund Sigismund signed it but the Christian world viz. the fathers of the Councel of Constance being Sigismunds superiors did disalow it Simanch a Bishop of Pacia that lying spirit blushed not to affirme in his Catholique Institution Cap. 46. Num. 52. That at no hand faith was to bee kept towards Heretiques no not vpon oath And therefore it was iustly decreed That against the tenor of the oath Husse and Ierome of Prage were burned and a Canon prouided That an oath made towards an Heretique was not to be regarded And at last concludeth That as warning thereof ought often to bee giuen so is it very necessary that it be often re-iterated and at no time to be silenced as often as any mention of this peace is obiected O! Why should I offend the chast cares of any good Christian with such infernall stuffe Smally hath he profited in the schoole of Gods word that in his owne conscience is not able to decide controuersies of much more cunning cariage then any of these In regard whereof I will here cease and affirme That in knowing of one you know all such is their malice in seruice of the Romish sea towards Emperor Kings Princes and free States Let him that hath a mind to bee further