Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	bishop_n	common_a	prayer_n	2,849	5	5.9146	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11656	An information to all good Christians vvithin the kingdome of England, from the noblemen, barrons, borrows, ministers, and commons of the kingdome of Scotland, for vindicating their intentions and actions from the unjust callumnies of their enemies	Church of Scotland. General Assembly.	1639 (1639)	STC 21905; ESTC S116850	5,686	14

AN INFORMATION to all good Christians vvithin the Kingdome of ENGLAND from the Noblemen Barrons Borrows Ministers and Commons of the Kingdome of SCOTLAND for vindicating their intentions and actions from the unjust callumnies of their enemies EDINBURGH Printed by IAMES BRYSON ANNO DOM. 1639. AN INFORMATION To all good Christians c. THE work of reformation now renewed and farre advanced in this Kingdome hath in the whole progresse met with all the opposition which the subtil malice of Romes emissaries our adversaries could plotte But God hath hither-to disappointed all their intentions and turned Achitophels wisedome into folly And now when they cannot beat down the walls of IERUSALEM they labour to undermine it with calumnies according to the damnable maxime calumniare audacter semper aliquid haerebit like Tobias Sanballat and such like will not be wanting to oppose mightily the building of Ezra and Nehemiah by saying to the King Why is the rebellious citie builded The same steps are now traced by the authours of novations in this Church who taking the advantage of their opportunity which we want to our great regrate and being greatly assisted and stirred up by some of their own coat perniciously and popishly affected do there-upon presume to whisper unto his sacred Majestie and spread abroad in the neighbour Kingdome of England most untrue and damnable aspersions by and attouer the particulars layed to our charge in the Proclamation 18 of December which are largely answered in our Protestation already published venting with equall impudence and malice that we do only pretend religion but do intend to shake off the most lawfull yoke of authoritie by changing the forme of civill government to invade our neighbour kingdome of England and inrich our selves by the spoils thereof Although our conscience bear us testimonie against these untruths and make us think charitably that no men understanding rightly Religion and Policie will grant belief unto these aspersions forged against the bodie of a Church and Kingdome yet being certainly informed that the authours of our novations and the arch-enemies of reformation have laboured to poyson his Majesties sacred Ears with those imputations and dispersed the same with open mouth among the subjects of England we were forced to vindicat our innocencie and wyp away all impressions which those challenges might make in the beliefe of any first by our Supplication given into the Lords of secret Councell 31 of Ianuary and now by this our answer and publick declaration to the world whereby wee take GOD to witnesse that Religion is the only subject conscience the motive and reformation the aime of our designes For attaining whereof wee have never strayed from the humble and loyall way of petitioning his Majestie for legall redresse but doe yet according to our bound duetie beg the consummation of our happie beginnings by the holding of the Parliament for the ratification of the acts of the Assembly indicted by his royall authority and as we have often hereto-fore professed in our Supplications religiligiously sworn in our solemne Covenant with GOD Almightie and publickly declared before GOD and men in all our Protestations made in the view of heaven and earth that we had never the least intention to cast off our duetifull obedience unto his Majesties most lawfull authoritie So we do hereby renew the same and solemnely declare that our loyall breasts have never harboured any thought against our gracious Soveraigne his Person and government to whom wee daily and earnestly pray the KING of Kings to grant long and happie reigne over us and when he shall bee crowned with immortality that there may not want one of his Seed rightly to rule us and to sit upon his throne so long as the Sun and Moone indureth For wee acknowledge that hee is the Lords Vicegerent swaying the Scepter of this Land transmitted to him by succession of so many royall Ancestours as none other King in the world can parallell the same and none other Nation compare with us in the glorie of Antiquitie under that lawfull subjection to one Line of native borne Princes which we will never deface by any unnaturall and impious cogitation against the Lords Anointed but heartily wish that shame and confusion may be printed upon the face of his enemies and that wee might bee happie in the occasion to expose our lives and fortunes to the greatest hazard for maintenance of the Person and authoritie of our dread Soveraigne and increase of his honour Let mercie and truth preserve the King As for our intention to invade England we attest the everliving GOD who is conscious of our most secret thoughts that we never had any such designe or motion to offend or wrong in the smallest measure any other Nation much lesse our neighbour Kingdome living in one Yle under one King with as li●le controversie and as much affection as hath been betwixt two Nations once at variance but now happily reconciled and tyed together by most strait bands which we desire rather to increase then diminish by any act of unjust hostility And albeit we be confident that the inprobabilitie of this challenge will stop the way of all credite to it yet to confound these reporters in their malice we will shortly relate our regrats and fears our desires and resolutions with that freedome and sinceritie which may evidence our brotherly respect to the subjects of England and controll the false surmises of intentions against them we regrate together with our dear Christian brethren of our neighbour Nation that we should have so evident and sensible experiences of the dangerous plots set afoot and intertained by the Church-men of greatest power in England for introducing novations in Religion by corrupting the Doctrine changing the Discipline daily innovating the externalworship of GOD preaching publickly and maintaining points of Arminianisme and heads of poperie defending and advancing preachers and professours of that judgement and allowing books stuffed with that doctrine fyning confyning and banishing all such as in conscience of their duetie to GOD labour to oppose the doctrine discipline or worship of the Kirk of Rome by their incroaching and usurping upon the Kings Majesties prerogative tyrannizing over the conscience goods and estates of persons of all qualities within that Kingdome And not being content to keep within their own precinct did induce assist and incourage the pretended Arch-bishops and Bishops of this Kingdome to presse not only a conformitie of this Church with that of England in matter of ceremonie but also with the church of Rome in the points most substantially erronious as appeareth by these books of common prayer and canons found to bee a masse of popish superstition doctrine and tyrannie which was confessed to have been first plotted then corrected and interlined in England sent down to their associats the pretended Arch-bishops and Bishoips of this Kingdome to bee printed and pressed upon the whole Church here without order or consent as the only forme of divine