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A36913 Luthers Alcoran being a treatise first written in French by the learned Cardinall Peron, of famous memory, against the Hugenots of France, and translated into English by N.N.P. : the page following sheweth the particular contents of the booke, which consisteth of symbolismes, parallells, identities. Du Perron, Jacques Davy, 1556-1618.; N. N. P. 1642 (1642) Wing D2638; ESTC R480 118,976 240

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liberis familia vacant The Turkith Priest● haue wyues and all their care and imployment as about their wyfe their Children and family Yea the Turks are so great enemyes to Virginity as that the former (2) Septemcastr c. ●3 Historian and others (3) Richerius lib. d● moribus Tercerum dedi●ated 10 Francis king of France thus record of Mahumet Mahumetes multum vrget ne quis maturâ atate eutra matrimonium degat Mahumet much presseth that not any of full and ripe ago should liue out of the stace of Matrimony Mahumet further teacheth as another Historian recordeth That Veluptate● (4) Cuspin do Religione Turearum corperis futarae faelicitati minime obsunt The pleasures of the Bedy are 〈◊〉 hinderances to future felicity whi●● is included in the eight Azoara of the Al●●ran touching multiplicity of wiues Well now my deare Countrimen of France Is not all this good Hugen●tis●●● or Prote●tancy Let vs examine the Particulars And first touching Marying of Priests or of Ministers among those or that Reformed Religion What Minister among them almost this soub●●le protexte vaile de la gloir● d● Die● vnder the recture forsooth of Gods glory who is not matried And how ready are they wrongfully to detor● in defence of their Mariage those Words of the Apostle Honorabile (5) Hebr. 1● Connubium in omnibu● A wife indeed is so inseparable a Character of our new Ministers as that a Minister without a Woman is but Halfe himselfe and wanteth that which conduceth to the 〈◊〉 or perfect accomplishment of his function So much doth the Flash dominere in these good men who vaunt themselues to be All-spirit who indeed liuing in flesh do also liu● after the flesh Now touching the aduancement of mariage in all persons without exception and depressing of Virginity with Mahumet and Sergius I● is most strange to obserue what the pens of your chiefe Professours haue left written The first broaches of the vnsavery Vessell of your Religion thus balanceth Matrimony with Virginity saying If we (6) Luther tom ● Wi●temberg ad cap 7.1 Corfol 107. weigh the Nature of Matrimony and single 〈◊〉 vnmaried lyfe in themselues Matrimony is 〈◊〉 Gould and the spirituall state of single lyfe as Dunge To whome subscribeth Whitakerus saying Virginity (7) Whita●● contra Comp. rat 8. is not absolutly good but only in some respect and manner And hence it is that the forsaid Luther more fully thus expresseth himselfe● He that (8) Luther tom 7. Epist ad Wolfgengum fol● ●0● determineth to be without a Woman let him lea●● of the name of a man and become a plaine Angell or spirit A goatish assertion Concerning the other point aboue mentioned where Mahumet decreed that if we will belieue the Alcoran the Pleasures of the Body are no lets to future felicity It is the very doctrine of Luther inuested in other words who ascribeth so much to Fayth as that no corporall Pleasure how vnlawfull soeuer or any other sinne can preiudice a Mans Saluation His words are these Tam (9) Luther com 1. Wittemb de Captiuie Babyl fol. 74. diust est Christianus c A Christian is so ●ith as that though otherwise he would notwithstanding he cannot loose his Saluation by any s●nne how great seeuer except he will not belieue And hereupon Luther further thus catechizeth his Schollers No (10) Luther in his Sermons worke is dirallowed of God except the authour and worker thereof be disallowed With whom the fornamed Whitaker●s accordeth in these words full of incirement to sinnet Si (11) Whitak de Eccles contra Bellarm. controuer 2. quaest 5. quis actum fidei babet ●i peccatae non nocent Thus fortably to these mens Ghospell no pleasure or sinne as Mahumet toucheth can hinder mans future Happines Thus much of these formes Points And of this last point more fully hereafter The 22. Symbolisme Concerning the coniunction of Ecclesiasticall supreme Authority with temporall Authority CHAP. XXII TO come to other Symbolysms and Agreements betweene Mahumet your Grand-Maisters Mahumet to his temporall Authority adioyned spirituall Authority making himselfe supreme (1) Cuspin in Mahumeto Head of his Church if so I may call it and by force and violence of such his authority proposed to his subiect● and vassa●s only such point● of fayth ●nd not any others to be belieued which he had caused to be set downe in the Alc●ra● Thus making his sword his M●yses or some new Euange●ist to ordaine what was to be belieued and what not And do not most of our Protestant writers maintaine the same spirituall Authority in secular Princes And do not the said secular Princes put the same in execution True it is that diuers of your Religion teach That the first Popes were but as Tu● tours only so to speake of the st●te of th● Church during the time other Infancy But to the Temporall Prince they affoard at most absolute Primacy and Soueraig●●ys ouer the Church Heare what Muscul●r who seemeth that il abi●● pri●●n tincture de Mahumet he hath receaued some dye from Mahumet herein writeth of this point saying Confidenter (2) M●scul in loc com de Magistrat pag. 570. 520. asserimus omnens eam potestatem c We confidently auer that all that Power by the which Authenticall Lawes bynding the Consciences of subiects are constituted whether they be called Ciuill or Ecclesiasticall Lawes do neither belong to the Church that is to the Multitude of the faythfull neither to the Ministers of the Word of God but only to the Magistrate to whom is giuen Soueraingty and Command ouer the subiects And according to this doctrine almost all Protestant Princes in most Coūtter where they reigne do challenge to themselues an vnappealable soueraingty supremacy in all Ecclesiasticall Causes The first example whereof they tooke of King Henry the eight of that Name King of England Who was the first as elswhere is shewed in this Treatise that dared to vendicate to himselfe Supreme spirituall authority prescribing what Articles of fayth should be belieued and what not as is auer●ed by some Catholike Writers (3) Sanderus de Schismate Auglicano of that Nation And here we are to obserue that as Mahumet and temporall Protestant Princes did indifferently erect themselues Heades of the Church within their owne Ditions dominiōs So also what places of Scripture Protestant Princes by misconstruing of them may alledge in warrant of this their assumed Exoticall authority the very same Text of holy Writ may Mahumet with as much reason produce with them in defence of his pretended Ecclesiasticall Primacy Thu● for example Mahumet may alledg in behalfe of himselfe through the same construction of them which the Protestants giue these Texts besides others following Omnis (4) R●m ●● Anima Potestati sublimi●ri subdita esse debet idque non propter iram sed propter conscientiam Euery soule ought to be subiect