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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	acknowledge_v	church_n	zion_n	23	3	9.1699	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58699	The religion established by law, asserted to conduce most to the true interest of prince and subject as it was delivered in a charge, at the general quarter sessions of the peace, held at the borough of Newark, for the county of Nottingham, by adjournment for taking the oaths of Supremacy, &c., according to the late act of Parliament July 21th 1673 / by Peniston Whalley Esq.	Whalley, Penistone.	1674 (1674)	Wing S1535; ESTC R183102	23,556	38

THE RELIGION Established by Law asserted to conduce most to the true Interest of Prince and Subject As it was delivered in a Charge at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace held at the Borough of Newark for the County of Nottingham by adjournment for taking the Oaths of Supremacy c. July 21th 1673. According to the late Act of Parliament By Peniston Whalley Esq I. Esdr 3.12 Truth overcometh all things LONDON Printed for John Place at Furnivals-Inne-Gate in Holbourn and Thomas Bassett at the George near Cliffords-Inn in Fleet-street 1674. TO THE READER I Did not intend to have given thee the trouble of an Epistle very well knowing that men are not to be perswaded by Argument to like any thing of this nature that they have an aversion from But that on Sunday Aug. 24. 1673. a day as famous in our English Kalender as the French A Quaker came to discourse with me There were present at the Discourse the chief Constable of the Hundred the Parson of the Town an eminent Physitian besides others about executing the penal Laws wherein he had a five shillings concern I askt him the reason of his opinion knowing that he had been a rational Country-man before he fell into those fopperies He replyed That he had a call from above and the words were Obey the Lord and from that hour he turn'd Quaker and I have reason to believe with as much resolution as any man of any perswasion in the world Now I do not see but it s as good an authority as St. Benets single Testimony of seeing his Sister Scholasticas soul go to Heaven Nay it is as good an Authority and as argumentative as the Independents unintelligible notions about Conversion Sanctification and Grace for they arise but from a self-satisfaction within them as they say which is no more to be urged to a stranger then my Quakers voice nor is this the single saying of this Quaker but if it be inquired you will have the like account from most of them and therefore for ought an indifferent person can judg as good or better authority witnesses Viva Voce being alwaies of more credit then Here-say evidence then the many Revelations about the immaculate conception now made an Article of Faith Cited by Stil or Bell armin's vision to prove auricular confession or Urban the 4th instituting of the Feast of Corpus Christi in confirmation of Transubstantiation upon the Revelation of a certain woman or old Symon Stockes Revelation from the Blessed Virgin for the habit of the Carmelites or as John 19th instituting the Feast of all Souls 1004 upon the dream of the Abbot Odilo Ex Becanth in prol 4 Lib. Sect. who dreamt that he heard the Devils roar for the Souls taken from them by Masses and Dirges By this thou mayst easily see that most of the many differences betwixt Us and the Romanists with the Independents and their Adherents are resolved into Revelations and Fancies and so of no more Authority to indifferent persons than the Enthusiasms of the Quakers But the Church of Rome can by no means fall justly under such a censure considering she is as we say a true Church and acknowledged by all to be ancient and how all along she has been like Syon a City that is at unity in it self but that unity will not be much admired when this short Ecclesiastical History of twenty years commencing 1030 is considered In the Church sate Benet the ninth twelve years Benet is deposed and Silvester the third comes in by Symony and is expelled by Benet and he by the people Ros Chron. he resigneth to Gregory the sixth so now three Popes in Rome all deposed at Sutrium and Clement the second chosen who flyes into Germany and is poysoned Benet again eight months And is not here a blessed harmony for fifteen years Then Leo the ninth succeeds five years but least I should enlarge my volume to the rate of a Play and so undo the Stationer I will only tell thee that I gave it in Charge because I thought it my duty and Printed it because it may from my hands be more indifferently lookt on as one known to have no worldly Advantage by the Church then from a known or suspected Divine who will by prejudiced men which are now too many be looked upon as partial and so may have a better effect then ordinary for though the world generally be Sermon-proof yet possibly it may not be Charge-proof and that encouraged me to make this venture Yet because of a thing like a text which like one of your old fashioned Sermons chimes in every Paragraph some to discredit it will according to their scoffing way call it a Preachment well be it so it was neither preached in a Church nor according to the Liturgy and so consequently a Conventicle a name amongst many so sacred that it apologizes like Corban amongst the Jews for omitting the duties of the fifth commandement and so then there is no great fear of well coming of but let all conventicles take Example a thing more revered now than Precepts and assert the Laws and Religion established as I have done and it s very probable they may get a bill of comprehension and in the mean time his Majesties Justices I believe will be unwilling to disturb them Gentlemen THis being a time that the true Sons of our Church might devoutly wish for but could not Morally few months ago hope so soon to have seen wherein as by a Touch-stone gold is distinguished from baser mettals the true Protestant Religion from Fanaticism and Popery it may not be improper to say something to you by way of Preamble of Religion and the rather because you know there are so many professions all pretending to an Equal and Apostolical Right Now to enable you the better to distinguish I lay this down for a just and true measure of it That Religion is the best and safest that most magnifies God and likewise most advances a peaceable Christian conversation amongst men I shall not say much of the former at present considering that all professions equally pretend to it but make the main subject of my discourse concerning the latter Our blessed Lord and Saviour left this for a standing rule to his Church Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you even so do to them By the strict following of which so much advancing a Peaceable Conversation amongst men she triumph't o're the Roman world in less than three hundred years notwithstanding the opposition of all her Legions The Professours of Christianity amongst us may be reduced to five heads Quaker Independent under which may be comprehended all the Rabble of Sects as Familists Anabaptists Fifth Monarchy men c. for Independency is like a Mathematical line divisibilis in semper divisibilia Presbyterian Church of England and Papist Now when I have set forth the Principles and Practices of all severally it will not