Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	father_n	king_n	write_v	2,556	5	6.1002	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31245	The truth and excellence of the Christian religion, with the corruptions and additions of the Romish Church a discourse, wherein the pre-eminence of Christianity is demonstrated above the religion of Jews or heathens, and the contradiction of popery to its main articles : and that religion prov'd in many instances to be a mixture of heathenish superstitions, and Jewish ceremonies : with a short vindication of Christian loyalty, and a brief historical account of Romish treasons and usurpations, since the Reformation / by a hearty professor of Reformed Catholick Christianity.	S. C.	1685 (1685)	Wing C126; ESTC R22983	60,383	154

coldly affected to the Catholick Cause who hath not been scar'd by the Thunders of the Pope and Rebellions of his Subjects I might instance in the Fredericks and Henry's of Germany who were harass'd with continual Civil Wars and Confusion in the two Henry's of France one whereof Henry the third was Murder'd by Jaque Clement and the act commended in a set Oration by Pope Sixtus quintus and that execrable Murder compar'd to the Incarnation and Resurrection of our Lord and the Virtue and Courage of the Fryer to that of Judith and Eleazer The other Henry the 4th was as barbariously Assassinated by Ravilliac But I shall confine my self to our own Land and briefly show how these men have turn'd our English World upside down Here I might instance in King Henry the 2d and King John who were both scar'd by the Popes Thunderbolts into mean Submissions below the Dignity of Crowned heads and the latter at last poyson'd by a fawning Monk But I shall only mention their villanous Practices since the beginning of the Reformation When King Henry the 8th first renounc'd the Popes Supremacy Pope Paul the 3d Curses and Damns that King and his Parliament Cites them to appear before him in sixty Days and upon their refusal ratifies this Excommunication Prohibits them any Christian Burial and declares them eternally Damn'd deprives that King of all his Dignities and commands his Subjects to take up Arms and compel him to Repeal the Law he had made When Queen Elizabeth came to the Crown 't is well known how Pope Pius the 5th deposed her and the Northern Rebellion and many secret Plots by Poyson Gun-powder c. are to be read in our Chronicles but when these designs prov'd unsuccesful Pope Sixtus quintus Publishes a Croisade against her and perswades King Philip to War against her and crowns his Fleet with the Title of the Invincible Armado but the immediate hand of Heaven dispers'd their Ships by Tempest and thus confuted their proud conceits and gave a Demonstration to the World that infallibility dwelt not at Rome which made the Spanish Admiral swear he thought Jesus Christ was turn'd Lutheran but the Spanish King said more soberly He sent his Navy to fight against men and not against God to whose immediate Providence he attributed that Defeat After That Queen's Death they us'd many Artifices to prevent King James his coming to the Crown Pope Clement the 8th sent two Breivs into England one to the Clergy and another to the Laity not to suffer any but a Catholick tho never so near in Blood to Succeed and Father Parsons writ a Book to invalidate his Title tho they had before Proclaim'd Mary Queen of Scots the lawful Heir to the Kingdom But when these attempts met not with their desir'd Success they enter'd into that black unheard-of Conspiracy of the Powder-Treason and tho now they pretend this was only a Plot of Cecil's to render them odious yet we have full Confirmation of their Guilt and may be assur'd the Pope would have resented the welcome News of this Islands Reduction tho by so bloody a means to the Romish See with as much joy as he since did the hopes of rooting out this Northern Heresie when he wept for joy And the 5th of November would have been as great a Festival in their Calender as now it is in ours Nor were they less restless in their designs against King Charles the I. 'T is well known how they design'd to Murder that King which was discover'd to Sir William Boswel at the Hague They fomented our differences inflam'd the Spirits of men and acting their parts in several Disguises were the great Authors of our Civil Broils and Confusions When that King was Imprison'd by his unnatural Subjects 't is now publish'd to the World * See this and more instances in Dumoulins Answer to Phil. Ang. how a consult of Priests and Jesuits met at London and in a Letter to the Drs. of the Sorbon at Paris sent this Question viz. Whether considering the present posture of Affairs it were for the interest of the Catholick Cause to cut off that King who remain'd obstinate in his Heresie It was answer'd in the affirmitive and resolv'd at Rome by the Pope and his Council That it was not only Lawful but Expedient It cannot be deni'd that too many profess'd Protestants did ingage in that barbarous Villany but they had suck'd these poysonous Principles not from any Protestant Confessions of Faith but Romish Canons and Decrees Protestants disown such Principles 't is therefore an unreasonable thing to accuse the whole Party because of some Delinquents But such Practices are authoriz'd and encourag'd by Popish Councils as agreeable to their Religion We may be assur'd the Ax that cut off our Sovereigns head was whetted among the Romish Philistines and whatever spurious Protestants join'd in that or in any Treasons of the like nature since that time they were so far Papist and belong not to us but them 'T will but be needless labour to mention their secret Conspiracies under our present Sovereign the World hath been so fully inform'd about them And I hope there is as little necessity of proving that such Practices are disown'd by the Christian Religion For must we pay unto Cesar the things that are Cesars And is Rebellion and Treason the Tribute we owe him Must every Soul be subject to the higher Powers And are Plots and Conspiracies the best Testimonies of our Allegiance Are Consecrated Knives and Daggers any of our Gospel-Artillery and these Instruments of Death our Weapons of Righteousness Surely that Religion that thus practically own Rebellions is far different from what it was in the Apostles days and it will be no Slander for us to say These are the men that have turned the world upside down I now proceed to consider IV. What useful Inferences may be gather'd from our past Discourse 1. Hence we may see the excellence of the Protestant Religion The Scripture is the sole Rule of our Faith and Manners pure and uncorrupted Christianity reformed from the abusive Additions of the Romish Church is our Religion We profess to own nothing as part of it but what is as to the essentials summarily contain'd in the Baptismal Covenant and more explicitely in the Creed Lords Prayer and ten Commandments and as to the Integrals in the Old and New Testament So that whatever is said in the former part of this Discourse to prove the excellence of the Christian Institution doth equally confirm the excellence of the Protestant Faith which is the very same with naked Christianity We believe the imcomprehensibility and spirituality of Gods Nature and dare not entertain any Images of him no not in our very Imaginations Angels we Reverence as nobler and more excellent Beings than our selves but dare not pay them that Adoration which the Jealous God will not give to another The Virgin Mary we account blessed among Women but dare not