Selected quad for the lemma: act_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	king_n	parliament_n	supreme_a	2,829	5	9.2880	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67580	Some queries to the Protestants concerning the English Reformation, by J.W. Gent. Published with allowance; Considerations which obliged Peter Manby Dean of Derry to embrace the Catholique religion. Selections.	Manby, Peter, d. 1697.; Ward, Thomas, 1652-1708.	1687 (1687)	Wing W836A; ESTC R219537	3,936	11

the Scriptures according to his own Judgement of Discretion Whether Queen Elizabeth born of Ann Bolen Queen Katherine yet living can be thought Legitimate How admirable was the Wisdom of Henry VIII by expelling one Pope of Rome to raise up infinite Popes of his own Subjects By whose Authority did he Divorce his Virtuous Wife Queen Katherine His own or a Foreign If by his own why may not other Kings also put away their Wives at their pleasure If Mary his Daughter by Queen Katherine was Legitimate Heiress of the Kingdom then Elizabeth was not because it was not Lawful for King Henry to have two Wives at once If that Religion be Sacred that 's Established by Law why did Queen Elizabeth destroy the Catholick Religion Establish'd by so many Acts of Parliament Elisabeth Expell'd 14 Catholick Bishops from their Sees for refusing the Oath of Supremacy But how could they Swear her to be Head or supream Governess of the Church when they could not Swear she was Head of the Kingdom Did not Cranmer and his Reforming Associates steal their Liturgy out of the Roman Missal Ritual and Breviary Are not Protestants bound by their Oath of Supremacy to obey the King as Supream Governour as well in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Things or Causes as Temporal What mean they by these words As well in all Spiritual as Temporal Things or Causes c. But that Protestants are Sworn to yield to the King all manner of Obedience both Civil and Religious Are they not obliged therefore according to this Oath to become Catholicks with a Catholick King Calvinists with a Calvinist King Arians with an Arian I say according to this Oath because the King's Majesty is the only Supream Governour under Christ as well in all Spiritual as Temporal Causes Which words confess in the King a Spiritual as well as Civil Jurisdiction But whence does his Spiritual Jurisdiction appear without the Power of the Keys You will say the King is to be obey'd so far as we may by the Laws of God and the Kingdom Be it so then it follows that the King is not Supream Governour under Christ but the Laws of God and the Kingdom And what if Controversy rise between the King and his Subjects about the true Sense of Scripture Who shall be Judge the private Spirit or not Hence if I am not mistaken came the Rise of our late Civil Wars Why did so many Noble Men under Edward VI. and Q. Elizabeth so readily embrace the Reformation Was 't for Conscience-sake or the Lucre of Church-Lands Why do English-men so desirous of Novelties hate Popery Perhaps because Popery is no Novelty The Church of England is either Fallible or Infallible if Fallible as is confest by all then is she not Founded upon a Rock because she may Deceive and be Deceiv'd Whether Cardinal Wolsey did wisely by Demolishing Monasteries to Found Colledges The reason of this doubt is because the Tree of Knowledge was not the Tree of Life Is there not wanting in the Church of England a more correct Translation of the Bible Many material Errours being found in our present English Bible tending to Schism and liberty of the Flesh For instance Gal. 5.17 Dan. 4.24 where the Prophet speaks thus to King Nebuchadnezar Quamobrem Rex consilium meum placeat tibi peccata tua ele●mosynis redime Iniquitates tuas misericordiis Pauperum Which Text the present English Translation thus renders viciously enough Wherefore O King break off thy Sins by Righteousness and thine Iniquities by shewing mercy to the Poor Whereas it ought to have been Translated Redeem thy Sins by Alms-deeds and thine Iniquities by shewing mercy to the Poor Again how are St Pauls words to the Corinthians misrendred 1 Cor. 7.9 Quod si non se continent nubant But if they cannot contain let them Marry where this word cannot not being found in the Greek was devised in favour of the Flesh Likewise the words of Christ Matth. 19.11 are corrupted in favour of the Flesh Non omnes capiunt verbum istud sed quibus datum est All Men cannot receive this saying but such to whom it is given It ought to be all Men do not receive this saying Also the words of Job Chapter 7.1 and many other Texts especially Exod. 20.4 in hatred of the Picture of our Saviour Non facies tibi sculptile Which word Sculptile is by the 70 Interpreters Translated Idol as indeed it ought to be because God did not forbid Images but Idols FINIS