Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	act_n	king_n	parliament_n	3,039	5	6.6283	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95578	Religions enemies. With a brief and ingenious relation, as by Anabaptists, Brownists, papists, Familists, Atheists and Foolists, sawcily presuming to tosse religion in a blanquet.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653, attributed name.	1641 (1641)	Wing T503; Thomason E176_7; ESTC R14891	3,943	9

And whose Office and Authority which they have from and under the King as from Gods Lieutenant is such that they by imposition of hands alwayes have done and doe as occasion requires ordaine Ministers for the Church for the preaching of the Word to the people for prayer for them and for the true and due administration of the Sacraments to them and also by their power to maintaine Order and Decencie in the Congregation and in their Jurisdictions and charge to admonish reprehend and excommunicate all obstinate and erroneous offenders and in fine advance the Word of God and make it propagate and to trample on tread downe and suppresse all Heresies sects schismes and needlesse and impertinent innovations that might any way disturb the peace of the Church Thirdly the Physitian is to be honoured because hee is Gods Instrument for the health and preservation of the body but as much as the soule which is immortall is in value above the body which is fraile transitory and mortall so far is the holy Function of a sincere and painfull Divine who is a physitian for the soule to be preferd before any Physitian for the Body And fourthly the Lawyer is to be reverenced and esteem'd for he is or should be the rule square guide and rectifier of all our temporall Actions a righter of wrong a true and impartiall Decider and Judger of all matters of debate and controversies amongst men concerning our houses lands debts touching estate or losse of limbe or life and all these are comprised under the title of the goods of Fortune in which were not the Lawyer expert the Law it selfe is but a dead letter and of no Force or Vertue Now as much as goods and all outward meanes which are called the goods of Fortune because they are uncertaine here to day and gone to morrow are short of the estimation of bodily life and health so much is the Lawyer below the Physitian in use or estimation But men being constant in nothing but in wavering inconstancie doe in a perverse and preposterous manner begin at the wrong end and as they doe make more account of body goods and Fame then they doe either of their soules or everlasting happinesse so much they esteeme the Physitian and the Lawyer above the Divine I confesse them all to be as worthy of Honour as they are endued with Honesty and each of them to be held in as much regard and Reverence as their paines and studies shall merit for their true service to God and man yet with Mary I humbly desire to make choyce of the better part which shall not be taken from mee Luk. 10. and 41.42 In the meane space amongst mutable and contentious spirits Religion is made a Hotch porch and as ir were tost in a Blanquet and too many places of England too much Amsterdamnified by severall opinions Religion is now become the common discourse and Table-talke in every Taverne and Ale-house where a man shall hardly find five together in one minde and yet every one presumes hee is in the right The Booke of Common prayer which was established by Act of Parliament by that good and godly King Edward the sixth and after re-established by another Parliament by that unparaleld and peerlesse princesse Queen Elizabeth and continned since in the happy Raignes of two gracious Kings in the Church of England for the service of God these ninetie yeeres yet one would have it to be cast out now holding it a false worship another is angry at the vestments and habits of the Ministery one will not kneele another will not stand one will sit downe one will not bowe another will not be uncovered one holds all good manners to be popery another that all decencie is superstitious another that railes are Romish which is false for the papists have no railes in their Churches nor any thing so convenient One foolishly assumes and presumes to save himselfe and some of his Neighbours too by his good workes another will be saved by a bare and lazie Faith that will doe no worke at all and thus religion is puft and blowne to and fro with every wind of doctrine and as it were tost in a Blanquet but of this more largely hereafter in another part which will suddenly be printed till when and ever it shall be my hearty prayers that as there is but one Shepheard that God in his gracious goodnesse and mercie would make us all one sheep f●ld FINIS