Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	ecclesiastical_a	king_n	temporal_a	3,017	5	8.3913	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75464	The anti-covenant, or a sad complaint concerning the new Oath or Covenant: presented in a letter to a dear and intimate friend, with earnest request for his advice and prayers. By a true loyall subject, and lover of the Parliament.	True loyall subject and lover of the Parliament.	1643 (1643)	Wing A3489; Thomason E60_10; ESTC R23546	44,797	58

being suspected that they had done it for some evill intent or purpose should swear only that they doe in their consciences believe that they did it for such or such an end most fair and just their very swearing so would cause more suspition of them then if they had held their peace and said nothing 7. Quaer How dare any man sweare or declare in the presence of Almighty God c. that he doth in his conscience believe that the forces raised by the two Houses of Parliament are raised and continued for their just defence and for the defence of the true Protestant Religion and liberties of the Subject against the forces raised by the King when so to sweare or declare is to sweare and declare in Gods presence that he doth in his conscience believe that the forces raised by the King are raised and continued for the subversion and ruine at least for the extream damage and detriment of all the same things And what a hard case is it that a man must be put to such an oath as to sweare not only that he doth believe well of both Houses of Parliamen but also that he doth believe so much evill of a good King as were He the worst of Kings worse could not be thought of Him all things considered Why perhaps there may be some of so loyall and just thoughts towards their Sovereigne and yet withall of so charitable and reverentiall thoughts towards both Houses of Parliament as to thinke that the forces on each part were raised and continued for the same ends and they those three mentioned only most unhappily differd in the meanes and wayes of accomplishing those ends And what shall these poore souls do when they cannot satisfie the Parliament by taking this oath but they must thereby abandon all loyall thoughts of their King Lord be thou their Directour It followeth in the oath as an inference inforced from the last thing believed and sworne I do here in the presence of Almighty God declare vow and covenant that I will according to my power and vocation assist the forces raised and continued by both Houses of Parliament against the forces raised by the King without their consent Concerning which part of the oath that I may still keep withing the prescribed bounds of a lawfull oath I desire these Quaeries may be cleared 1. Quaer What is here meant by Vocation that so we may swear in judgement knowing what we swear whether are we to understand by Vocation that ordinary course of life or externall profession whereunto God doth ordinarily call men and where he doth externally place them as when some are called to be Pastors and Teachers in the Church others to be fed and taught some are called to be Masters others to be Servants some are called to be Husbandmen others are called to be Tradesmen c. or whether by Vocation here may not be understood some extraordinary calling by secret inspiration divine revelation or the like as certainly some such calling must be presupposed or else I cannot see what warrant they can pretend for the assi●ting any forces against their Sovereigne This Quare I could not baulke because the using of this expression According to my Vocation is not any where to be found that I know of any oath that hath been taken in this Nation though the other limitation According to my power hath been usuall in most or all our promissorie oaths which makes me to think that some Divine or other was the framer and contriver of this new oath or at least had a great hand in it howsoever it was pretended to have been suddenly framed by some Members of the House of Commons upon the discovery of the great designe and being called to that calling his conscience minded him somewhat of the unlawfulnesse and unseemlinesse for a Minister of the Gospel of peace to be an assistant in war especially in such a war or else rather he thought that the adding of this limitation According to my vocation would excuse him both from contributing much money to the warre as also from hazarding his owne person in it as some of their furious brethren to their shame and confusion have done so that he did but in his preaching and by his praying those two glorious but now prophaned and blasphemed Ordinances intice and stir up others thereunto But then I cannot but still wonder why the Lords should each of them sweare According to my vocation c. I believe if one should aske any of their Lordships what vocation he is of he would not take it well though for the House of Commons we know divers of them are of severall vocations and so this limitation might become them well enough 2. Quaer How any man that professeth himself to be either of the same judgement with the Church of England and with the glorious Martyrs and renowned Divines and other learned Worthies that have since the Reformation lived in this Church or of the same judgement with any other of the reformed Churches and the most renowned Members thereof can swear in Judgement that he will assist any forces raised by Subjects against the forces raised by their Sovereign when it hath been so fully and amply declared by all those Churches and by their chiefe Worthies successively in all times that t is altogether unlawfull for any Subjects to take up Armes against their Sovereigne though a Tyrant though a persecuter of the Gospel though never so wicked and ungodly as is to be seen in our owne Homilies against Rebellion in the Acts and Monuments of our Martyrs in the Harmony of Confessions of the reformed Churches in Luther Calvin O●●lampadius Z●●inglius Buder Peter Martyr Capit● Bullinger and many other forraigne Divines as also in multitudes of our most famous and pious English Divines whose testimonies with the testimonies of many others I am credibly informed had been long since for the satisfaction of those that question it faithfully published by an orthodox Divine now a prisoner in Ely House had not some of the House of Commons prevented him by seizing upon his book w●ilst it was in the Presse as fearing all such information of the people 3. Quaer How any man that hath taken either the oath of Supremacy or the oath of Allegiance or the late Protestation can without perjury ipso facto sweare that he will according to his power assist the forces raised and continued by both Houses of Parliament against the forces raised by the King seeing all those three oaths are so flatly and fully contrary to this part of this oath of all the rest as first in the oath of Supremacy we sweare That we did testifie and declare in our consciences that the Kings Highnesse is the only supreme Governour of this Realm c. and as well in all spirituall or Ecclesiasticall things or causes as temporall and if so the just power of raising forces and other power of the sword doth only