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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	england_n	king_n	pope_n	3,876	5	6.8205	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88532	A looking-glas for the Presbitary government, establishing in the Church of England. Or, A declaration of the revolution of the times, pithily composed and seasonably recommended to the view of all sorts of people, but principally to the judicious reformers of the church and state. Look in this glasse you'l not think't strange, England once more receives a change. Of Scotlands government, you'l have a view, and Englands Presbitary which is new. As in a glasse you here may see, the king: the kingdomes misery. The crown resign'd, religion suffers, by pride, ambition, and selfe lovers.		1644 (1644)	Wing L3030; Thomason E21_40; ESTC R1040	8,199	17

A LOOKING-GLAS FOR THE PRESBITARY GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHING IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND OR A Declaration of the Revolution of the times pithily composed and seasonably recommended to the view of all sorts of people but principally to the Judicious Reformers of the Church and State Look in this Glasse you 'l not think 't strange England once more receives a change Of Scotlands Government you 'l have a view And Englands Presbitary which is new As in a Glasse you here may see The King the Kingdomes misery The Crown resign'd Religion suffers By Pride Ambition and Selfe Lovers LONDON Printed by B. A. 1645. A LOOKING-GLASSE For the PRESBITARY GOVERNMENT Establishing in the Church of EEGLAND AS I consider the matter which I have to write me thinks it hath the rare nature of a Looking-glasse to shew and represent that which is behind aswell as that which is before wherein I doubt not but to gaine the better acceptance if I avoid these things which are commonly knowne and have often sounded in your eares Before the Conquest the Pope had no supremacie in England but all the intercourse and Commerce between the See of Rome and this Kingdome was in these three partticulers First it was confessed that the English were converted unto Christianity by the meanes of Pope Gregory about the yeare of our Lord six hundred Secondly the Kings of England paid Peter-pence to Rome which in the old English were called Almespence and were distributed among the poore impotent persons which should come out of England to Rome which was paid upon this reason The Pope taking upon him to be a dispenser of spirituall gifts and that the Mother-Church of the world that Church received all into it viz. the halt blind sick c. And for that the Conclaves of Rome were not onely thirsty after mony but loath to bee pestered with the frequent resort of poore people into the City without having meanes from the severall Countries from whence they came for their releife and maintenance they found out this way not only to defray that charge but to bring a great Revenue into the Popes Treasury Thirdly the Bishops and Abbots had sometimes deeds of privile●ge and confirmations to their Seas and Abbathies from the Pope of Rome but before Henry the seconds time the Bishops took no oath to the See of Rome neither was the Popish Lithurgie or the Cannon Law of any use before his dayes in this Kingdome for Pope Gregory saith it was not necessary that the Roman Lithurgie should be followed in this Kingdome any other m●ght serve but in Henry the seconds time Thomas Becket Arch-Bishop of Canterbury practised to inlarge the power of the Pope for which hee being killed in a preposterous manner though the King de●●ed to have any hand in the fact yet to bee reconciled to the Clergie he granted all their demands and what priviledges they desired So that the death of Be●ket ●n the seventeenth yeare of Henry the second Anno 1171. was the birth-day of the Canon-Law Notwithout cause did then the Pope Canonize Becket and appointed for him a holiday in England yet Caesarius the Monk questioneth whether Becket were saved or not Thus was the King led away by a Popish Clergie faction insomuch that now and not before they plead exemption from temporall jurisdiction and yet are made temporall Iudges being Sheriffes of Counties and Bayliffes of Hundreds which makes Graftshood Bishop of Lincolne break forth into these words That for a Divine to medle in a sequeler Court is as if a Bird in the Ayre should with the Mouldwarp work in the earth The Pope having by this meanes gotten such strong footing in this Kingdome no meanes was left unattempted to inthrall this Island in stronger cords of bondage and servitude which was the easier to effect for that King Iohn sought rather to please the Faction then to regulate the Lawes ●f the land because he was a usurper and of so weake c●pacity that as hee had no right to the Crowne so hee cared not to wrong the whole Kingdome both in not defending their Liberties and resigning his interests therein surrendring the Crowne to the Pope to his dishonour and perpetuall infamy Thus was the Crowne of our King taken from him and laid at the feet of the Holy Father with which at this day his Miter is laurel'd about These growing evils begat the warres betweene the King and his Barons temp●re Henry the third in whose raigne Mounford a Frenchman was the only favourite of the Kings delight and now were the Reines of Rule put alone into the hands of the Kings halfe Brethren Adam Guido Godfrey and William these Ministers doe what they list they fill upon the places of Iustice and being strangers put out English men and exacted of whom and how they pleased set prizes on all offices and ruled the Law with their owne breasts keeping the subject from complaining to the King and these strangers seemed not to have been invited hither but to have entred the land by Conquest And this we see is the capacity of Government in a King when it falleth to be a prey to such lawlesse Minions for they generally take warrant from Princes weaknesse of licentious liberty This King being thus drawne away from his Commons was brought into such want that hee first sold his Lands then his jewels and pawneth his Crowne and when hee had neither credit to borrow having so often failed the trust he made nor morgage of his own laid to pawne the jewels of Saint Edwards shrine and afterwards was forced to breake up his house and with his Queen and Children Cum Abatibus Prierihus humilia satis hospitia quaerunt et prandia The State was managed by soure and twenty Commissioners so that he had left himself neither election of publique officers nor private attendance and was forced to exile his halfe brethren under his owne hand in writing and the King himselfe being taken prisoner at the battell of Lewis was brought to see his errour and misfortune and afterwards by a happy concurrence with the Commons was re-established in his Throne and raigned many yeares after in glory and tranquility Although upon the setling of those distractions the Adversaries to the publike weale of this Kingdome received such a stroke that they were able to act little for many yeares after yet were they alwayes plotting and contriving against this State by secret Iesuiticall and Domestick plots and raising Iarres and open commotions abroad witnesse the continuall warres between England and Spaine in the dayes of Queen Elizabeth of happy memory and the Irish rebellion at the same time all which troubles were hatched by the Spanish and Jesuiticall faction at home which at her Majesties first entrance to the Crowne though for wisdome and vertue was the Phenix of her sex had so cunningly insinuated with her sacred Majesty that they had almost at the very morning of Knowledge which indeed is the constant