Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bishop_n	church_n	emperor_n	2,345	5	7.0417	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73761	The epistle congratulatorie of Lysimachus Nicanor of the Societie of Jesu, to the Covenanters in Scotland. VVherin is paralleled our sweet harmony and correspondency in divers materiall points of doctrine and practice.	Nicanor, Lysimachus, 1603-1641.	1640 (1640)	STC 5752; Thomason E203_7; ESTC R17894	65,738	81

to submit themselves obediently to follow their Leaders Covenanters inform for Pes●n●ive whom God at this time hath largely furnished with counsell and courage for the good of his Church and Kingdome The reason why they should follow them and not be carried away with the Kings Proclamations quia potestas civilis subjecta est potestati spirituals quando utraque pars est ejusdem reipub B●●● de 〈…〉 l●b 〈…〉 Christianae A fourth error which you with good successe have abolished that you deny the power of convocating and distr●ss●ng of Assemblies to belong to the Supreme Magistrate In the Protes●ation in July 1638. you maintaine your power of convocating Assemblies therefore in the 27. August 1638. it was well put in among your Instructions before the Assemblies VIII Instru●● that the ablest man in each Parish should be provided to dispute Depotestate supremt Magistratús in Eccclesiasticis praesertim in convocandis Conciliis It s your wisdome to assemble when hee commands you so long as it is conducible for your ends but yet you have power to assemble in a Nationall Assemblie in what place of the Kingdome you please S●●rat●●● 〈…〉 Socrates did smell too much of a Court Parasite while he said we make mention of Emperors throughout this History for that since they became Christians ●cclesiastical matters depend on them the greatest Synods have been and yet are called by their appointment He offended you who said that as Moses is custos utriusque Tabulae so is he custos utriusque tubae as the civill Magistrate is keeper of both the Tables so hee is keeper of both the silver Trumpets for war for calling of Assemblies and dismissing of them and that you would but blow the Trumpet of Sedition it without the Kings authority you should convocate Assembles either for peace or for warre The Marquesse of Hamilton was too presumptuous being called with the Kings Authoritie to discharge your last Assembly which as you said well was to raise Christ's Court and therefore it was not ill advised by one of you that seeing the Marquesse was faithfull to his Master the King so you ought to be faithfull to your Master the King of kings Jesus Christ and to defend his Royall prerogative above all the Kings of the earth In your answer to the Marquesse of Hamilious Declaration you affirme that your Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction is independent and in your Zions Plea you say that your Presbyterian discipline is the Scepter of Christ swaying his own house according to his hearts desire the soul the chief Commander in the c●mp Royall and your ●ravers sayes De dis●●p E ●cl s●●●g 142. Huic disciplinae omnes orbis Principes Monarchas fasces suos submittere parere necesse est There is a necessity that all the Princes and Monarchs should submit their Scepters and obey this discipline And your Mae Lellan whom some call a foole spake not foolishly while he preached that the King had no more to do to meddle with your Assemblies then you have to meddle with his Parliaments It was wisely then dont by you in rejecting any protestation or appellation from your Assemblie by the Bishops and their adherents to the Kings Majestie for such appellations ought not to be seeing there is none Supreme above your Nationall Assemblies And therefore as you have not hitherto regarded their protestation and appellation but have proceeded against them to deposition and excommunication so continue and be not dismaid though they should renue their protestations and appellations even in the words of Athanasius in protesting against and appealing from the partiall coun ell of Tyrus Athanas● polo● cap. 2. which appellation and protestation of Athanasius and the rest of the orthodox Bishops was in these words Because we see many things spitefully contrived against us and much wrong offered the Catholik Church under our rames we be forced to request that the debating of our matters may bee kept for the Princes most excellent person We cannot beare the drifts and injuries of our enemies and therefore require the cause to be referred to the most religious and devout Emperour before whom we shall be suffered to stand in our own defence and plead the right of the Church c. If those your Bishops flying to the King as Athanasius and the rest of the orthodox Bishops did to the Emperour shall procure an edict or command from the King as those did from the Emperor to charge you all to appeare before him to plead your cause you ought not to appeare as that miserable Synod of Tyrus did The Edict was so peremptory that they durst not resist The Edict was in these words Your Synod hath decreed I know not what in a tumult and uproare while you seeke to pervert truth by your pestilent disorder for hatred against your fellow Bishops But the divine providence will I doubt not scatter the mischiefe of your contention and make it plaine in our sight whether your Assembly had any regard of truth or not You must therefore all of you resort hither to shew the reason of your doings for so doth it seeme good and expedient to me to which end I willed this rescript to be sent you that as many of you as were present at the Councell of Tyrus without delay repaire to the place of our abode there to give an account how sincerely soundly you have judged that before me whom your selves shal not deny to be the sincere Minister of God in such cases c. I say then if you shall receive such a charge from your King you should not obey for in your sense that is To betray the Royall prerogative of your King Jesus Christ but returne the answer of Core Dathan and Abiram with ingemination We will not come n●m 16.12 14. J●r 2 31. we will not come or your Lords Lay-Elders may return that of Jeremy We are Lords We will no more come unto thee And if your King will not be content with your answer prosecute your begun course with all diligence and earnestnesse having begun in the spirit end not in the flesh but go on with that which they call disorders till you get the King in your power and then he shal know what subjects you will be If the people of one citie falling in sedition for matters of Religion so prevailed passed all power of resisting 〈◊〉 lib. ● c●p ●4 that Anastasius the Emperour was fain to come to an open place without his Crown by Heraulds to signifie to the people that he was readie with a very good will to resigne the Empire into their hands how much more may you who have many cities by cōtinuing your courses force your King to resigne his Crown of Scotland And howbeit the people of that citie seeing the Emperor in so pitiful a case were moved with the spectacle changed their minds besought the Emperour to keep his Crown

shall not be such enemies to it in time to come Moreover your pie fraudes have not a little advanced your courses for though the generall cause of all this uproare was pretended to be for defence of religion lawes and liberties yet to speake under the R●se it flowed from private causes and respects for not to speak of the contempt of Monarchy nor of private frettin● against Soveraignty by malecontents the course his Majesty was taking with the tythes to deliver the ministry and meaner sort of the Laitie from that which was counted bondage and slaverie made many fret to see themselves robbed of that clientely and dependance of the Cl●rgie and Laitie and of that power command and superiority which by the tye of tythes they did enjoy Some had their private quarrels against the Bishops many could not abide to see them preferred to be on his Majesties ounsell c. And a great hatred was working against them for being the chiefe instruments that the Ministers maintenance was augmented and many of the Tythes restored backe againe which made many thinke that in the end all the tythes and Church-lands would returne to the ancient owner whereby many would be brought to a poore estate if the tythes were taken from them and some who have made Churches their habitation would not have a dwelling place at all and some others being ambitious of preferment both in Church and Policie were no small causes of all this uproare Now howbeit from those and such like other motives this disorder hath come yet it s well dissembled by you in taking this opportunity to work your private intended ends by making the multitude believe that all is for defence of Religion Lawes and liberties which otherwise would be destroyed His Holinesse our Pope did never laugh more heartily than when it was told him that you made the people believe that the book of Common Prayer was penned at Rome and sent to the King and that it was nothing but the masse turned into English and that the King was a Papist and intended to change the Religion That your Bishops were Pensioners to the Pope and that all who would not subscribe your covenant are Papists truly he commended your Policie to catch children with wiles and men with lies The aspersions you have cast upon King Bishops and Anticovenanters will make you noble It 's a good policie still to complaine of Court and State and to prie into great mens lives to picke out some fault and to make faults where we finde none still with Absalom saying The men who have good and right causes 2 Sam. 15.3.4 have no man to heare them Oh that I were made Iudge in the land that every man which hath any s●it or cause might come unto me and I would do him justice Thus the silly multitude will lightly apprehend that you are blamelesse who doe so narrowly trie and crie out against the faults of others whom howbeit you do not wound yet in the vulgar opinion you do greatly staine and blot them Finally we have both suffered much of our enemies for our practise against Kings and Princes in cutting them away that are enemies to the religion We need not be ashamed to confesse that the armour wherwith such kings are killed are forged in our shop you know that Hackes and Coppinger who wrote to Scotland to Iames Gibson that he with the advise of the brethren might tell their opinion concerning the spirit that moved them the act that they had in hand to be done for the delivery of T. Cart wright out of prison and killing of all their withstanders That which Ravillack did effectu was no more praise-worthy than that which they did affectu all those our works are not to be accounted points of treason but onely sensible expressions of our Heroicall Zeale to the defence of Religion which ought to be more deare to us than Kings or Princes father or mother brother or sister all those cords must be broke and bonds cast from us when we see them to set themselves to take counsell against the Lords Annointed Such men of courage who put their life in their hand and cut off such wicked men ought to be so farre from being counted traitors that they should be rewarded for doing it as your Buchanan sayes Knox in his history of Scotland commends the privie murdering of the Cardinall of S. Andrewes perpetrated by Norman Lesley sonne to the Earle of Rothsey and Iames Melvin cals it a godly fact and propones it as an example to be followed by the posterity In your Zions plea and other papers you speak excellently of that Heroicall fact of Felton your Martyr Du. Buck. and pathetically exhort the Nobles of the Land to follow his footsteps saying God hath chalked out the way unto you God having offered himself to guide you by the hand in giving this first blow will you not follow home the sprinkling of the blood of the wolf if we can f●llow the Lord in it may prove a meanes to save us The counsell of Hushai to Absalom forteth well with this businesse that all Israel should be gathered from Dan to Beersheba as the sand on the sea in number who may with the ropes of their Prayers joyned to the power of your hands draw the city of their Babel into the river of destruction untill there be not one small stone found You have most zealously embraced this profitable exhortation and albeit your intended work tooke but small successe yet let not this interruption bequench your zeale nor cause your heroicall spirits to saile but be forward in this cause and let all your words be spoken by Talents that authority may see that you do not scare it Let our example encourage you and your example encourage us It was to this purpose manfully said by one of you Payne epist to F. Our zeale to Gods glory our love to his Church and the due planting of the same in this horeheaded age should be so warm and stirring in us as not to care what adventure we gi● and what censure Wee abide c. The Iesuites and Seminaries their diabolicall bolanesse he wrongs us in his epithet seing he followe● our way will cover our faces with shame It s true indeed so long as we are not able to resist and make out party good by strength of hand there is a necessity that we must suffer and like the poore man we must use entreaty for it s our wisdome to consider the times when we may be forward and when not Hence it was that in the dayes of Queene Elizabeth when your power was little that your answer was humble for when the State and Clergie of England charged your sort of men with faction sedition and schisme and iudged that if you were curbed betimes you would bring desolation on Church policie your answer was mild though it might seeme to your adversaries mixt with passion pride and