Selected quad for the lemma: church_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	council_n	faith_n	trent_n	4,913	5	10.4664	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49221	The French king's decree against Protestants, prohibiting them the exercise of their religion, &c. to which is added a brief and true account of the cruel persecution and inhumane oppressions of those of the reformed religion to make them abjure and apostatize : together with the form of abjuration the revolting Protestants are to subscribe and swear to, and a declaration of his Electoral Highness of Brandenburgh ... : also a letter from Father La Chese ... to Father Petre ... / newly translated from the French.; Edit de révocation de l'Edit de Nantes. English	France.; Friedrich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg, 1620-1688.; La Chaise, François d'Aix de, 1624-1709.; Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.	1689 (1689)	Wing L3117; ESTC R2440	33,019	41

have received His Majesty must also by the same Declaration profess in Conscience that if complyed with he will not only keep his Word to maintain and protect the Church of England but will also confirm his Promises by such Laws as the Protestants shall be contented with This is the true Politick way for by his granting all they cannot but Consent to something His most Christian Majesty has with great success experienced this Maxim and though he had not to struggle with Penal Laws and Tests yet he found it convenient to make large Promises by many Declarations for since we must dissemble you must endeavour all you can to perswade the King it is the only method to effect his Designs I did also in my last give you a hint of its importance as well as the ways you must take to insinuate your selves dextrously with the King to gain his good will. I know not whether you have observed what passed in England some years since I will recite it because examples instruct much One of our Assisting Fathers of that Kingdom which was Father Parsons having written a Book against the Succession of the King of Scots to the Realm of England Father Creighton who was also of our Society and upheld by many of our Party defended the Cause of that King in a Book Intituled The Reasons of the King of Scots against the Book of Father Parsons and though they seem'd divided yet they understood one another very well this being prcticed by order of our General to the end that if the House of Scotland were Excluded they might shew him who had the Government the Book of Father Parsons and on the other hand if the King hapned to be restored to the Throne they might obtain the good will by shewing him the Works of Father Creighton So that which way soever the Medal turn'd it still prov'd to the advantage of our Society Not to digress from our Subject I must desire you to read the English Book of Father Parsons Intituled The Reform of England where after his blaming of Cardinal Pole and ●ade some observations of Faults in the Council of Trent he finally concludes That suppose England should return as we hope to the Catholick Faith in this Reign he would reduce it to the State of the Primitive Church and to that end all the Ecclesiastical Revenue ought to be used in common and the Management thereof committed to the care of Seven Wise Men drawn out of our Society to be disposed of by them as they should think fit Moreover he would have all the Religious Orders forbidden on Religious Penalties not to return into the Three Kingdoms without leave of those Seven Wise Men to the end it might be granted only to such as live on Alms. These Reflections seem to me very Judicious and very suitable to the present State of England The same Father Parsons adds That when England is reduced to the True Faith the Pope must not expect at least for five years to reap any benefit of the Ecclesiastical Revenue but must leave the whole in the hands of those seven Wise Men who will manage the same to the benefit and advancement of the Church The Court goes this day for Marli to take the Divertisements which are there prepared I hope to accompany the King and will entertain him about all business and accordingly as he likes what you hint to me in your Letter I shall give you notice I have acquainted him with his Britannic Majesties Design of Building a Citadel near White-Hall Monsieur Vauban our Engineer was present after some discourse on the importance of the Subject his Majesty told Monsieur Vauban that he thought it convenient he should make a Model of the Design and that he should on purpose go over into England to see the Ground I have done all I could to suspend the Designs of our Great Monarch who is alwaies angry against the Holy Father both Parties are stubborn the Kings natural Inclination is to have all yield to him and the Popes Resolution is unalterable All our Fathers most humbly salute your Reverence Father Reine Ville acts wonderfully about Nismes amongst the New Converts who still meet notwithstanding the Danger they expose themselves to I daily expect News from the Frontiers of the Empire which I shall impart to your Reverence and am with the greatest Respect Paris March 7. 1688. Yours c. FINIS ☞

the Cry of this poor Sufferer and seeing what he had done seemingly blam'd him for it and said He was a Bungler and then to his Host Come your Hair wants Cutting too and you shall see I will do it much better than he hath shav'd you And thereupon begins in a most cruel manner to pluck the Hair Skin and all off his Head and flea'd that as the other had done his Chin. Thus making a Sport and Merriment of the extream Suffering of these miserable Wretches By these inhuman and more than Barbarous means it is that they endeavour to overcome the most resolved patience and to drive People to Despair and Faint-heartedness by their Devilish Inventions They refuse to give them Death which they desire and only keep them alive to torment them so long till they have vanquish'd their Perseverance for the Names of Martyrs and Rebels are equally odious to their Enemies who tell them The King will have Obedient Subjects but neither Martyrs nor Rebels and that they have received Orders to Convert them but not to Kill them Sir I beg your Pardon for having so long Entertain'd you with these more than Tragical Passages and that you would not be wanting to recommend the Condition of these Poor Destitute Afflicted and Tortured Persons to the Bowels of Compassion of our Heavenly Father that He would be pleased not to suffer them to be Tempted above what he shall give them Grace to bear Which is the Hearty Prayer of Your Faithful Friend T. G. Since the First Publishing of This some further Particulars representing the Horror of this Persecution are come to hand which take as follow THey have put Persons into Monasteries in little narrow holes where they could not stretch their Bodies at length there Feeding them with Bread and Water and Whipping them every day till they did Recant They plunged others into Wells and there kept them till they promised to do what was desired of them They stript some Naked and stuck their Bodies full of Pins They tyed Fathers and Husbands to the Bed-Posts forcing their Wives and Daughters before their Eyes In some Places the Ravishing of Women was openly and generally permitted They pluck'd off the Nails and Toes of others They Burnt their Feet and blew up Men and Women with Bellows till they were ready to Burst In a word They exercised all manner of Cruelties they could invent and in so doing spared neither Sex Age nor Quality The Profession of the Catholick Apostolick and Roman Faith which the Revolting Protestants in France are to Subscribe and Swear to IN the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost Amen I Believe and Confess with a firm Faith all and every thing and things contained in the Creed which is used by the Holy Church of Rome viz. I Receive and Embrace most sincerely the Apostolick and Ecclesiastical Traditions and other Observances of the said Church In like manner I receive the Scriptures but in the same Sense as the said Mother Church hath and doth now understand and Expound the same for whom and to whom it only doth belong to judge of the Interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures And I will never take them nor understand them otherwise than according to the unanimous Consent of the Fathers I profess That there be truly and properly Seven Sacraments of the New Law instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ and necessary for the Salvation of Mankind altho' not equally needful for every one viz. Baptism Confirmation the Eucharist Penance Extream Unction Orders and Marriage and that they do confer Grace and that Baptism and Orders may not be reiterated without Sacriledge I receive and admit also the Ceremonies received approved by the Catholick Church in the solemn Administration of the forementioned Sacraments I receive and embrace all and every thing and things which have been determined concerning Original Sin and Justification by the Holy Council of Trent I likewise profess that in the Mass there is offered up to God a true proper and Propitiatory Sacrifice for the Living and Dead and that in the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly really and Substantially the Body and Blood together with the Soul and Divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ and that in it there is made a change of the whole Substance of the Bread into his Body and of the whole Substance of the Wine into his Blood which change the Catholick Church calls Transubstantiation I confess also That under one only of these two Elements whole Christ and the true Sacrament is received I constantly believe and affirm that there is a Purgatory and that the Souls there detained are relieved by the Suffrages of the Faithful In like manner I believe that the Saints Reigning in Glory with Jesus Christ are to be Worshipped and Invocated by us and that they offer up Prayers to God for us and that their Reliques ought to be honoured Moreover I do most stedfastly avow that the Images of Jesus Christ of the Blessed Virgin the Mother of God and of other Saints ought to be kept and retained and that due Honour and Veneration must be yielded unto them Also I do affirm that the power of Indulgences was left to the Church by Christ Jesus and that the use thereof is very beneficial to Christians I do acknowledge the holy Catholick Apostolick and Roman Church to be the Mother and Mistress of all other Churches and I profess and Swear true Obedience to the Pope of Rome Successor of the Blessed St. Peter Prince of the Apostles and Vicar of Jesus Christ In like manner I own and profess without doubting all other things left defined and declared by the Holy Canons and General Councils especially by the most Holy Council of Trent and withal I do condemn reject and hold for accursed all things that are contrary thereto and all those Heresies which have been condemned rejected and accursed by the Church And then Swearing upon the Book of the Gospel the Party Recanting must say I Promise Vow and Swear and most constantly Prosess by Gods Assistance to keep intirely and inviolably unto Death this self-same Catholick and Apostolick Faith out of which no Person can be Saved and this I do most truly and willingly profess and that I will to the utmost of my Power endeavour that it may be maintain'd and upheld as far as any ways belong to my Charge so help me God and the Holy Virgin. The Certificate which the Party Recanting is to leave with the Priest when he makes his Abjuration IN. N. of the Parish of N. do Certifie all whom it may Concern That having acknowledged the Falseness of the Pretended Reformed and the Truth of the Catholick Religion of my own Free will without any Compulsion I have accordingly made Profession of the said Catholick Roman Religion in the Church of N. In the hands of N. N. In Testimony of the Truth whereof I have Signed this Act in the presence of the