Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	church_n	common_a	prayer_n	12,094	5	6.5173	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11921	An aunswere to the proclamation of the rebels in the north 1569.	Seres, William, d. ca. 1579, attributed name.	1569 (1569)	STC 22234; ESTC S117150	5,289	22

¶ An Aunswere to the Proclamation of the Rebels in the North. 1569. ¶ Imprinted at London by Willyam Seres Cum Priuilegio An Aunswere to the Proclamation of the Rebelles O Lorde stretch out thy mightie hande against this raging route And saue our Prince our state land which they doe go aboute For to subuert and ouerthrowe and make this Realme a pray For other Nations here to growe what so like fooles they say ¶ You doe imagine I suppose your selues Princes to be Or else your stile should not be so to sende it out with WE The Princes phrase ye take in hande O well disposed men A Traytor first that worde to spake and he that rulde the Pen. ¶ Hir faythfull subiects ye protest your selues in wordes to bée But marke I pray you how your déedes doe with your wordes agrée Can you hir loue and eke obey as subiectes in their guise When you against hir will and minde with force of armes doe rise ¶ To all the olde and Catholike that be of such religion As you be that be franticke madde and foolish of opinion You write that they your minde may know and you their minde againe Whether they meane to take your part and so in fielde be slaine No faithfull man you may be sure will lyke your crooked style Also your trayne if they be wise will lyke it but a whyle Chorath Dathan and Abiram or else Achitophell With Absalon Adoniah of their olde faith ye smell In déede your olde religion is waxen stale for age Ye meane to make it new againe with mightye Rebels rage You shall haue much adoe be sure though you thinke nothing so You haue to long a time sit still and suffered truth to growe When God and Prince is ioynde in one for to defende the truth And you against them stande in fielde marke then what it ensuth The ruine of the contrarie must néedes with speede be séene For troubling still the flocke of Christ and such a quiet Queene ¶ What Nobles are they that ye haue with you to take your parts They may be Noble well by name but farre from Noble harts Belyke ye would make men in doubt that some doe beare the face To loue their Prince and yet at neede to turne into your case O hatefull men vnto the blouds that haue alwayes bene trewe If you haue such then name them out from Iudas line the Iewe That they with spéede may hang themselues for treason to their Prince O doubtfull denne that so blowth out a poysonde musing stinche Such as you be hir noble grace hath trusted ouer long For nowe you thinke that in the fielde for hir ye are to strong It may be so the Nobles mo both fathers and their sonnes Be puissaunt men to beare a Crosse out of the noble Nortonnes ¶ You say your faythes is promised in this your enterprise Eche vnto eche to further forth your meaning good and wise What fayth is that what doe you meane when fayth to Prince is broke You meane to pull your neckes from tye of gentle Princes yoke And set your selues at libertie and eke your rowte so rude So that to royall dignitie eche shall himselfe intrude For this ye may right well beleue not woorst in all your ranke but thinkes himselfe as good as ye and lookes for as much thanke ¶ You say hir Grace is led by such as wicked are and euill By whom I pray you are ye led I may say by the Deuill Whome would ye poynt to leade hir Grace if ye might haue your choyse The Pope I thinke your Father chiefe should haue your holy voyse And then she should be led in déede as Lambe for to be slaine Wo worth such heades as so would sée hir Grace for all hir paine But this I would ye should me tell when she came to hir throne What was she then of age or wit giue aunswere euery one Was not hir age so competent and eke hir head so wise As none that heard or did hir knowe could more in hir deuise Yea you your selues I dare well say at that same present houre Of all the Princes farre or néere tooke hir to be the flowre And had she not then will and powre hir Counsaylers to chuse To take in whom that she thought good and whome she would refuse If ye should point hir Counsaylers the case were very straunge No marueyle though in deedes ye roue when so in wordes ye raunge And yet good Sirs this is well knowne that nothing hath bene ment And done in matters of the Church but by the Parliament Wherein the Nobles of the Realme the Bishop and the Lorde And Commons all gaue their consent and thereto did accorde The booke that called is by name the booke of common Prayer Was sent to you by these afore though you would it appaire By bruting forth that peruerse men seducers of the Quéene Hath set it out O simple men what shall I of you deeme Doth not the act that is set out speake to you in this wise Haue you not read and séene the same and now the same denies Will you that be but priuate men attempt for to put downe The thing that was authorised by hir that weares the Crowne What gappe make you to breache of lawes if this your fact be good No Parlament no Prince shall rule but shedding still of blood If men may rise against their Prince that all things doth by lawe Then call for Captaine Cobler in and wayte vpon Iack Strawe ¶ Ye saye ye feare the noble bloud it should be made awaye And ye your selues will doe the same of others that you saye ¶ By force ye say ye will redresse the things that are amisse Where had you that out of what schoole shew me then where it is For in your wordes there is inclosde that will the Quéene or no You will set vp that she put downe that ye so meane ye show If ye be subiects as you say where learned ye to force But this ye meane I doe suppose with hir to make a Corce ¶ The mother Church you will defende What children call ye these When trayterously themselues they bende their Mother to disease But like it is the Mother that ye meane to prop with power The spouse of Christ that she is not but Antichristes whoore For sure I am the Church of Christ did neuer knowe this way In any place at any tyme their Prince to disobay What fathers of the fayth ye bée all men may easily iudge Who is so blinde that cannot sée how causelesse ye doe grudge ¶ The auncient customes of the Church you say you will restore The liberties that she hath had she shall haue as to fore You speake but for to make hir smoyle such libertie to haue The Prince and Realme againe to spoyle of that that once they gaue The Monke the Fryer and eke the Nonne