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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	charity_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	21	3	8.6277	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47310	The religious loyalist, or, A good Christian taught how to be a faithful servant both to God and the King in a visitation-sermon preached at Coles-hill in Warwick-shire, Aug. 28, 1685 : at the triennial visitation of my Lords Grace of Canterbury, during the suspension of the Bp. of Litchfield and Coventry / by John Kettlewell ...	Kettlewell, John, 1653-1695.	1686 (1686)	Wing K381; ESTC R16674	14,027	40

4 15 16 18. and Daniel would not omit his daily Prayers to God notwithstanding thereby at his utmost peril he broke Darius's Royal Edict Dan. 6. 7 ad 10. And when Christ had commanded the Apostles to go and preach to all Nations they would not desist when the Jews forbid it saying Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God judge ye Acts 4. 17 18 19. and the Primitive Christians those renowned Patterns of Loyalty though they would never raise Rebellions against their Princes yet stood out in a continual and invincible breach of their wicked Laws refusing obstinately either to Curse Christ or to Sacrifice to Idols when they were required thereto by their Heathen Governours When any Kings Laws run thus against Gods Laws non-compliance and holding out is a grace which the more resolved it is the better it is Nay that Boldness and undaunted Face in opposition which in case of lawful Impositions is a most criminal Impudence is in this case a peculiar Gift of the Holy Ghost which was beg'd by the Apostles when under the Threatnings of the Jewish Rulers they desired Grace to speak the word with boldness Acts 4. 29. which according to that Prayer was afterwards most eminent in themselves and the Primitive Confessors which God still bestow'd when he call'd men to suffer for him in after Ages and which I doubt not but he will still bestow when he shall please to call any Churches to suffer for him to the end of the World Thus are the things of Religion Gods things wherein all men are still to follow him though the Powers of the World being erroneously mislead should have the misfortune both to practise themselves and to injoyn their Subjects too to practice otherwise The onely Caution I think fit to be added in this case is that we do not make those things Religion which are not so as not Kneeling at the Communion not using the Cross in Baptism not joyning in a Form of Prayers and the like True Religion doth not stick at these and such like indifferent things For God makes Religion and he has no where forbid the use of them but may be served by them as truly and oft-times more becomingly than without them So that when our Governours require onely such things as these they intrench not at all upon Religion and the Rights of God but we may lawfully obey them and then we must do it If they command against him in that we are to desert them because we are to follow him in Religion But then we must take care that what we call Religion be not a point of mans Invention that it be some Article of the holy Scriptures and not of our own Fancy some thing which is a Religion of Gods and not of our own making Thus must we hold firm to God in things of Religion and therefore as the pretence of Religion must never lead any to be ill Subjects So neither when Princes happen to be mislead in Religion must the pretence of Loyalty ever draw them to err and be ill Christians When Subjects are most Loyal to their Prince in paying him all Honour and Obedience and submissive Carriage they must not embrace his Errours nor conform to his Opinion and Practice in Religion if they happen to be different from what the Scripture teaches This is no act of disloyalty to a Prince to be true to Almighty God and both to believe and practise as he would have us All Loyalty to the King must consist with true Religion towards God since the King is onely God's Vicegerent This was the belief of our Saviour Christ and of his Apostles and of all the Saints and Servants of God in all Ages And it will always be the opinion of every man whose Conscience is not debauched with Atheistical Principles but knows he has a God as well as a King to serve Having thus stated what are the things of God and what the things of Cesar and shown how the pretended care and zeal for the one can never exempt us from the other I shall now very briefly exhort you to a careful observance of what has been delivered and so conclude Since God and the King then must both have what belongs to them and God who is most jealous of his own Honour will not have mens Zeal even for that to transport them against the just Rights of Cesar let me exhort all that hear me to have a watchful eye to both these and that what God has put together they would not set asunder Be careful to give God all the Honour that is due to him and to do it with Constancy Zeal and Affection But when you are most zealous for the Honour of God be careful to preserve an inviolable Duty to your Prince too who is Gods Vice-gerent Shew your selves hearty and steady Protestants that is Gods Cause wherein you may and should be zealous but at the same time be sure to shew your selves good Subjects and good Christians Let not your Zeal for Protestancy bereave you of your Loyalty or Christianity and make you forget either your Duty to your Governours or that Charity which you owe your Neighbours even those who are most opposite in Religion to your selves This is to act by a Primitive Spirit like sincere Servants of Christ and true Members of the Church of England to whose Eternal Honour it may be said that the Clergy and true Members of it beyond what is ordinary in other Churches are careful to shew such a just and well-governed Zeal for Almighty God as dare not fly in the Face of the King or be unchristianly violent against their Brethren for Gods sake They are and by their Principles should be zealous against Popery But at the same time they are zealous against Rebellion and Disloyalty one of the most mischievous things in Popery and against all unchristian usage and uncharitableness to men of different Perswasions which the unbridled Zeal of Papists and Sectaries too commonly transports them to And then as for you my Reverend Brethren who are intrusted with the Ministry of Religion let me particularly recommend the things of God and Religion to your care that you would labour to make men true to God that they may be true to the King for Gods sake Stir them up not onely to like Religion or to be Luke-warm which God told the Church of Laodicea was loathsome but to be concerned and zealous in it And that they may not be all Heat without Light nor their Zeal outrun their Knowledge endeavour to possess them with right Notions of it letting them see that Religion lies in Faith and Practice in Believing all the Articles of the Creed and Keeping the Commandments and Laws of God Suffer them not to place Religion in little things to embrace Shadows for a Substance and to think either to please or displease God by such frivolous and