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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bishop_n	matter_n	rome_n	1,644	5	6.7338	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48761	Animadversions on the Scotch covenant Wherein all may receive satisfaction as to the illegality of it, and be easily perswaded to the renunciation thereof. By J. L.	J. L.	1662 (1662)	Wing L26; ESTC R216515	18,797	31

charge of subjecting Kings to their modell But you go on to tell us how Subjection of Kings to Bishops is still reteined in England now let the Auditor look for some rare reasons for which he may prepare either his laughter or pity or both For the anointed the King ergo he is subject to them Hear as good an Argument the Marquis of Argyle the grand Patron of the Covenant set the Crown upon the Kings Head Page 21. will you say therefore the King was subject to him I will not say what he and you would have made him but a better Providenc hath delivered him out of those storms and a little time will discover the hidden things of that mischievous League The latter part is as good and to the same tune And swear him to the maintenance of their Prelaticall Dignity you are much out for they present nothing but what his Ancestors ever voluntarily engaged themselves too by Oath and do not force an Oath upon him of their own devising The Oath is not of their imposing but of his own free taking and thereby he engageth himself to nothing but what is by Law established not urged by violence and threats and arms And what if he doth engage by Oath to preserve the Rights of the Church is the matter so hainous Yes Bishops are Limbs of Antichrist You say much but you prove little will you make the Apostles Limbs of Antichrist Nam Alexandriae à Marco Evangelista usque ad Heraclam Dionysium Episcopos Presbyteri semper unum ex se electum in excelsiori gradu collocatum Episcopum nominabant Hieronymus ad Evagrium Epist 85 was Mark Bishop of Alexandria a Limb of Antichrist or Peter at Antioch or Rome or James at Jerusalem or Polycarp at Smyrna what have all Ecclesiastical Writers agreed together to lye in a matter of Fact delivering to us the succession of Bishops in the most principal Sees I will not say much to this the Cause hath been handled by many Learned Pens which either you have not read or if which prejudice St Hierom to whom you attribute more then all the Fathers because you think he doth least to Bishops yet if he might determine the Controversie in his Epistle to Evagrius he would give it against you Et ut sciamus traditiones Apostolicus sumptus de Veteri Testamento quod Aaron filii ejus atque Levitae in Templo suerunt hoc sibi Episcopi Presbyteri Diacani vindicent in Ecclesia Epist 85. I will add no more but look beyond Calvin yet anointing and Bishops must Be put together to the door never to come in again Yes they may and never ask a Scotch Minister leave you must not alwayes think to reign as Kings and censure as you please coupling Popery and Prelacy together without any distinction on purpose to make all that be of that judgement in the same condemnation with the Papists and so fit for your Sequestration and Violence But though he cast out the Ceremony of anointing yet he undertakes to tell us presently after how they are anointed of the Lord Because by the Ordinance of the Lord their Authority is sacred and inviolable Take heed you break not the Ordinance of the Lord for we shall have occasion afterwards to see how sacred and inviolable you make it in your opinion and practise Then you commend unto us in the same Page The spirituall Vnction which you say is common to Believers and then That few Kings are so anointed There are but few Kings therefore there cannot be many so anointed when the whole number is so small but let me tell you there are many Rebels and not one of them is so anointed Anon after you come to reckon up the Enemies to the Authority of Kings and we could enlarge your Catalogue with another name to the third sort who you say are such Who rise against Kings in open Rebellion as Absolom and Sheba who said what have we to doe with David the Son of Jesse To your Tents O Israell For at the first beginning of Rebellion amongst us by Tumults a Treatise bearing this very Title wast cast into his Majesties Coach and by whom they were excited to this is evident so they are Rebels open Rebels and Enemies to the Authority of Kings by their own Description Page 7 Page 7. You say the Photinians allow Kings in Profession but they are against the Exercise of their Power in the administration of Justice I have heard of a Northern People that crowned their King and so allowed Kings in Profession but would suffer him to doe nothing so they denied the Exercise of his Power in the Administration of Justice Are not these Photinians in Mr. Robert Douglas judgement A few lines following he makes a profession That they are far from cutting off a lap of that just power and greatnesse which God hath allowed to the King and we have bound our selves by Covenant not to diminish You mean I suppose not to diminish id est more then the Covenant doth Now in the next place when he comes to the principal Verb the Covenant that Covenant which was between God and the King he refers you to the sum of it 2 Kings 23 3. which conteins nothing we can except against But what is this to their Covenant he after mentions and the particulars of it In Josiahs you meet with none of this muster of Popery Prelacy Superstition Heresie Schisme and Prophanenesse nothing of Incendiaries Malignants or the like or engaging to alter other Nations and reform them These Men if they meet with but the word Covenant they think it is a Blank which they may fill up with what they please and then Christen it with the title of a Scripture Covenant I shall refer him for this to Oxford Reasons which when my Scotch Minister can solidly answer we will take it into further consideration and till then lay it by Now then let him boast what he will how much Scotland hath preference before other Nations for their making a Covenant if they get but as much more by it as they have already gotten a blew Bonnet will buy all Page 8 The 8. Page is such a bundle of Calumnies that I am willing quickly to skip over this Dunghill for the scent is very offensive to any good Subject or modest temper Nothing here but of Dissembling Kings the sins of his Fathers House the House of our King hath been much defiled with Idolatry Complaints of a prophane Court in England If this be to preach there is none of our Tub-men that will not doe it as well for they can make any thing idolatrous or prophane as well as he I even Learning too and I doubt if they had their minds it would be Idolatry for some men to eat their meat Page 9 But in the close of this Page and in the 9. he comes to the Covenant between the King and the People in which he saith