Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	church_n	power_n	synod_n	3,603	5	9.6685	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62781	To the King's most sacred Majesty and Clemency and to the great wisdom and piety of both Houses of Parliament, most humbly offered to consider, 1. Whether it be not more expedient now to enact a total suspension of all former laws, as to the sanguinary and mulctative penalties only, than any execution of them against recusants taking and subscribing the following oath? ...		1660 (1660)	Wing T1558A; ESTC R219580	3,836	1

or Civil censure or penalty or any sentence either of suspension of exercise or of total deposition or deprivation or translation of the Rights Royal or Soveraignty of the Crown or any other Sentence or Judgement Decretory or Declaratory of what kind or quality soever given or to be given by the Pope either as Bishop in Ordinary of the particular See of Rome or as he is or is said to be in all or some Cases Bishop and Prince too in Extraordinary of all other Sees and of the Universal Church and World or by any of his Predecessors or Successors or any Authority Spiritual or Temporal or mixt of both proceeding or derived from him or his Apostolick See or by any other Bishop or Bishops or any Congregation or Synod whatsoever of Bishops and other Ecclesiasticks or by any Power derived from such or their Sees or by any other Church-power or pretended Church-power of what Religion or Assembly soever or by any Power or pretended Power Temporal and Civil or Natural and Inherent of the people against his Majesty and Royal Authority or any of his Majesties Predecessors or lawfull Heirs and Successors and notwithstanding any Absolution from Dispensation in or Declaration against this Oath or the Allegiance promised therein or the Sacred Natural or Legal tye of either granted or made heretofore or to be granted or made hereafter by the Pope or any other person or persons or Power or pretended Power Spiritual or Temporal whatsoever and notwithstanding also any Obligation or pretended Obligation of any either Canonical or Universal Obedience to another whether simply promised or solemnly vowed to him or of any strict Fidelity and Obedience to the Pope in particular however sworn or of any Oath of Confederacy Association League or Solemn League and Covenant and finally notwithstanding any other pretence or cause or thing conceivable I will during life bear true Faith and Allegiance to his Majesty and his lawfull Heirs and Successors and him and them will defend to the utmost of my power against all men that is against all private Conspiracies and Attempts and all publique Hostilities Invasions Insurrections Rebellions and other endeavours whatsoever that shall be against his Majesties person or Royal Authority or his lawfull Heirs and Successors their Persons Crowns and Dignities or the State and Government be such Conspiracies Attempts Hostilities Invasions Insurrections Rebellions or other endeavours contrived framed or carried on under what pretence or for what cause or patroniz'd by what Foreign or not Foreign Power or Authority Person or People or State or Church or Religion whatsoever And that I will use my best endeavours to disclose or make known to his Majesty and to his lawfull Heirs and Successors or his or their Ministers all the Treasons and Treacherous Conspiracies against him or them or his or their Royal Estate or Government which shall come to my knowledge or hearing And I do further swear that I do from my heart abhor detest and abjure as impious and against the Word of God this damnable Doctrine and Position That Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope may be deposed or killed by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And that likewise I do from my heart renounce not only all other Doctrines and Positions of the same horrid nature but also all which either formally or virtually directly or indirectly or by necessary consequence are against any part or thing profest in any part of this whole Oath or against the entire lawfulness thereof in point of Catholick Faith Christianity or Conscience And I do acknowledge this Oath to be administred unto me by good and lawfull Authority and I do protest against all Doctrine and Authority to the contrary as far as contrary in this point or in any other Antecedent or Subsequent point of this whole Oath And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and declare and this Oath I take and make according to the common sence and understanding of the words without any equivocation mental reservation or any other mental or vocal evasion whatsoever contrary to the common sence and understanding of the words And I do make this Recognition and Acknowledgement heartily willingly and truely upon the Faith of a Christian So help me God and these holy Gospels of God