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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	civil_a	ecclesiastical_a	king_n	2,836	5	4.0953	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17585	Quæres concerning the state of the Church of Scotland	Calderwood, David, 1575-1650.	1638 (1638)	STC 4362; ESTC S118326	6,560	16

which must be bestowed upon these idle functions and supestitious Ceremonies If the Abbeyes be recovered out of Noblemens hands I perswade my selfe they will eyther bee converted to the maintenance of Deanes Canons and Prebendaries Organs Copes and other unlawfull uses orels in time be restored to the old Crowes to builde their nests in againe VII IF there were a time of Conformitie to bee graunted which wee will never graunt yet is this a fit time when the reformed Churches abroad are in so great hazard and some presently under the fiery tryall When the Antichrist and all his adherents hath resumed fresh courage to prosecute their bloudy designes hoping wholy to extirpate true Religion out of Europe is it time to conforme to them to take on the badges of their profession Will not this encourage the enemie and discourage our friends VIII IF the Antichristian governement before described and the many superstitions be not matters of weight but trifles which they shall never be able to prove with sound and solid arguments why are we persecuted for them Is it a small matter to turne a Minister out of his Office wherein hee hath served many years to send him and his familie wife children to begge their Bread so farre as in them lyeth For having dedicated themselves to the service of GOD and spent their former time in studies they are unable to make shifts as Artizans and Tradesmen can doe Was there ever a persecutor since the dayes of Christ who with one breath did both persecute and pronunce the cause wherefore he did persecute to be a trifle Our persecutors then are worse by many degrees then the Ethnicke Hereticall or Popish persecutors and consequently the worst that ever were Our case is yet the more to be pitied that we are denyed the protection of Law when we would flie to the Sanctuarie of Iustice we are shut backe like unworthie beasts and no more pitied then if we were dogges left or redelivered into the hands of mercilesse Tyants who have given testimonie out of their own mouthes of the loyaltie and good behaviour of those whom they have persecuted IX AFter so many Quaeres and expostulations in all humility and reverence to the honorable the true and native estates of Parlament Nobles Barronnes and Burgesses not regarding that bastard estate of Prelates I would demand two things First Why they suffer the high Commission a court not established by the Statutes of the realme thus to tyrannise over the church over dutifull and loyall Subjects fyning confyning suspending depriving warding and directing the Lords of Secret Counsell to banish or to give our letters of horning against Ministers or other Professors for not conforming to Popish ceremonies against their conscience The Parlament is the highest court of the realme and therefore should provide that no strange court be set up to oppresse the Subjects without their approbation and consent and therefore it is not only our Quaere why it is not but our request that it may be put downe For it is the strangest the most tyrannicall and lawlesse court that ever came in this Land lyker to nothing then to the Spanish Inquisition where unto it will turne in the end to the full as Papistrie increaseth That one or two Archbishops with two or three associats Ecclesiasticall or civill persons such as they please to assume to themselves being nominate in the Kings Letters Pattents should judge in all Ecclesiasticall causes and inflict both temporall and spirituall censures and punishments according to their pleasures is contrarie and repugnant to the word of God For spirituall power neither Prinees nor Parlaments may give to Ecclesiasticall or civill persones neither are Ecclesiasticall persons capable of the power of the Temporall Sword Seeing then neither the one nor the other can be lawfully done this high Commission so much grieved at in our neighbour church should not be suffered to have place amongst us Next I demand in all humility reverence Why acts of pretended and null assemblies are ratified in Parlament and Statutes made where with our pretended Prelats make snares to entrap their brethen where with they countenance their tyranny Was ever the generall Assemblie convocat in time of Parlament or their advice and information sought since these alterations began In England howbeit the Prelats sit in the upper House as Barrons yet they have besides a convention of the Clergie which is called the convocation House which representeth almost our generall Assemblie for they have no other whose advice was never neglected no not in time of Poperie What hath our church deserved as thus to be neglected and misregarded and the report advice consent and vote of Prelats to be taken who are both judge and partie in this cause The Acts of that corrupt and pretended assembly at Glasgow were not only ratified and confirmed but also under name of explanation enlarged and Bishops exeemed from the judgement and censures of the generall assemblie Shall the like be done now for that pretended null assemblie holden last at Perth God forbid that the honorable Estates should make so light account of their own credits among the reformed churches