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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	authority_n	church_n	king_n	2,752	5	4.0125	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47906	The reformed Catholique, or, The true Protestant	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1679 (1679)	Wing L1289; ESTC R20504	23,451	38

Spottswood observes gave him more quiet and security for the future His Majesty was no sooner enter'd upon the Government of England but he was Assaulted in 1604. with the same sort of People and at a Conference at Hampton Court this Question was put How far an Ordinance of the Church was Binding without offence to Christian Liberty Whereupon the King gave this short Answer Let 's have no more of these Questions but Conform at your Peril So that they gave him no further trouble upon that subject And this was Queen Elizabeth's Case too to the hazard both of her Life and Government till by that severe Act against them of the Thirty-fifth of her Reign she gave her self ease for the remainder of her Life What did the Late King gain by his Indulgence to the Scots in 1637. but farther Indignities and Contempt First the Service-Book and Canons were their Grievance then the Five Articles of Perth though establish'd both by the General Assembly and Parliament The High-Commission next and then the Bishops Session in Civil Judicatories His Majesty gratifies them in every point Insomuch that they had nothing further to complain of but that the King would not Abolish Episcopacy and admit the Authority of their Lay-Elders upon which point they brake out into an Open Rebellion After this upon the Interview of the two Armies at Berwick when the King had them absolutely at his Mercy upon their Supplication for a Treaty he Trusted them again and concluded upon a Pacification of which the Covenanters did not keep so much as one Article Upon his Majesties Return to London he passes the Triennial Bill Abolishes the Star-Chamber and High-Commission-Court Passes an Act for the Continuance of the Parliament and in fine denys them nothing but his Crown and his Blood and then by Virtue of what he had given them already they took away the rest and stript him of his Friends his Authority his Revenue and his Life They minister great cause of suspicion in their very stile and scruples Why do they run so much upon Ambiguities As the settling of Religion in its due Latitude a due and necessary Reformation sound Belief Principles Congruous to a National Settlement the Kings Just Rights Importance of Interests Stated Order in the Church c. What is all this but a jumbling together of so many Amusements to pass a Colourable Pretence upon the People And it signifies just nothing but what Construction they shall think fit to allow it If they would offer any Pertinent Intelligible and Practicable Proposition and say what Injunctions they would have abated what Parties they would recommend for these qualifications where to find them and who shall judge of them If they would State their Demands and say This is all we ask and then rest there If as they plead for all Dissenters they would produce some Common Instrument or Commission to shew that they are Authoriz'd by all to Solicite in their Names and to treat upon such or such Points and to go no further the business might be brought yet to some rational Issue As their Stile is exceeding Dark and Mysterious so are their Scruples of an Extraordinary Quality too They cannot kneel at the Sacrament but they can hold up their hands at the Covenant they can dispense with the Oath of Allegeance and yet make a scruple of disclaiming the Solemn League They can swallow a Schism or worse and yet a Ceremony choaks them Add to all this many of those very persons that promoted our former Troubles this very way are now at work again upon the same Pretension and may without breach of Charity be suspected to have the same design and to remain in a state of Impenitency if they have not manifested their Repentance by some Open Recantation For according to the Casuists Publique sins require Publique Confessions It is an Ill sign too for a man to leap upon the sudden from matter of Conscience to Reason of State and in the same breath of a Petitioner to become a Reformer It would seem a strange thing for a man to request a special favour from the Master of a Family and at the same time to put affronts upon his Domesticks and to tell him that his Servants were all of them a pack of Rascals which is not much from the point now in hand We have had abundance of Advice to the Free-holders of England toward the Choice of this next Parliament as Sober and Seasonable Quaeres Englands great Interest the Free holders Choice and twenty more and all of them agreeing in the general Heads one with another They tell us who are fit to be chosen and who not The former such as will remove and bring to Justice evil Counsellors Corrupt and Arbitrary Ministers of State Detect and Punish the Pensioners of the former Parliament in the face of the Kingdom and they must chuse such as will secure us from Slavery The People are directed on the other side not to chuse a man that has been reputed a Pentioner no Court-Officer or whose Employment is durante bene placito no Ambitious men or Non-residents that live here in Town and seek Honours and Preferments above This is the Counsel of Englands Grand Interest And methinks in these Qualifications there is both too much and too little As to the point of Evil Counsellors Corrupt Ministers and Pensioners he should have done well to have advis'd them all manner of Caution and Circumspection for fear of mistaking their Men. This was the way that brought the Earl of Strafford and the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury to their Ends under the Notion of evil Counsellors too though perhaps the most necessary Instruments that ever this Nation enjoy'd for the Common good both of King and People So that as it is a great Service to bring Corrupt Ministers to Publick Justice it is yet a lewd Method to make the Rabble the Executioners and to punish Male-Administration by Sedition For in this Case the Good and the Bad fall indifferently without distinction and instead of drawing here and there a piece of Rotten Timber toward a Reparation they fall foul upon the main Pillars and Supporters of the House so that all falls into Ruins And then the mark of a Reputed Pensioner goes a little too far for it lies in the power of two or three Malevolent Tongues to make any man so They that made the last King a Reputed Papist shall much more easily make any of his Majesties Subjects pass for Reputed Pensioners The total Exclusion of all Court Officers or Bene-placito-men is yet worse For this sets up a direct Opposition betwixt the King and his People as who should say Trust no body that wears any Token of the Kings favour And the same reason disables him as well to any other Trust whatsoever So that the Kings Countenance is a kind of Incapacity And it is the same thing with those he calls Ambitious Men as if any Application