Selected quad for the lemma: doctrine_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
doctrine_n	article_n	church_n	creed_n	2,425	5	10.1630	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89046	E.M. a long imprisoned malignant, his humble submission to the Covenant and Directory: with some reasons and grounds of use to settle and satisfie tender consciences. Presented in a petition to the Right Honourable the Lords assembled in Parliament, in Whitsun-week, in the year, 1647.	E. M.	1647 (1647)	Wing M17; Thomason E393_27; ESTC R201607	5,118	8

E. M. A long imprisoned Malignant HIS HUMBLE SVBMISSION TO THE COVENANT and DIRECTORY With some Reasons and Grounds of use to settle and satifie tender Consciences PRESENTED IN A Petition to the Right Honourable the LORDS assembled in Parliament in Whitsun-week in the Year 1647. Eurip. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Printed in the Yeare 1647. To the Right Honorable the Lords assembled in the high Court of Parliament The humble Petition of E. M. Prisoner in the Right Honourable the Lord Peters House in Aldersgate-street Sheweth THat whereas your Lordships humble Petitioner upon Remonstrance of his case that hee hath been these five years Prisoner to this Honourable House in which time having suffered the often Plunder of his goods to the very clothes on his backe and Sequestration from any benefit of livelihood or maintenance and being unmarried is thereby excluded from plea to so much as any fifth part did thereupon prefer his humble Petition that your Lordships would be pleased either to allow him some necessary sustenance out of his owne Estate or such liberty upon Baile to appeare before this Honourable House upon any terme to be limited by your Lordships whereby he might be enabled to seeke and find some end of his extreame miserie either by some poore honest life or death In answer to which Petition your Lordships were pleased to returne that for maintenance out of his owne Estate it was not in your Honourable power to allow it and for liberty upon Baile your Lordships were ready to grant it but only upon condition of his taking the Covenant before-hand Hereupon your Lordships humble Petitioner makes request first of all that he may present to your Honourable Remembrance that there was a Convocation of this Church representative summoned and called by the same Authority together with this present Parliament now sitting and that the Members of that Convocation by the Statute of 8. Hen. 6. are to enjoy the same immunities as touching their Persons and personall Attendants from imprisonment that any Peeres in the House of Lords or Members of the House of Commons for themselves and theirs doe challenge to that effect May it then please your Lordships to give your humble Petitioner leave to present to your honourable Notice that himselfe is actually at this time a Member of that Convocation howsoever he shall not insist any further upon this then your Lordships please but submits both this and the law and Statute it selfe to your honourable arbitrement and pleasures how far it is to be regarded or superseded and craves onely leave of your Lordships that he may without offence expresse his sense and minde in certain considerations upon the sole condition whereon his liberty and livelihood at this present depends 1. First he findes this Covenant for many intrinsecall inordinations in the same which by divers learned men have been worthily and weightily pressed and may further be amplified and noted as your Petitioner is ready to declare whensoever by your Honours he shall be thereunto required so opposite to his Religion Faith and all his duties to God and man that daily he doth humbly beseech Almighty God to strengthen him with grace that he may endure and embrace any extremity of torture or death rather then in any sense of his own or others take or seeme to have taken that which for ought he can any wayes informe himselfe and other meanes of information in this long and strict durance he can have none must needs run him into a desperate hazzard of all the good he can hope for in this or any other world 2 Next he desires to present to your honourable considerations that those Recusants in this Kingdom who professe themselves of the Communion of the Church of Rome are very seldome if at all pressed or urged by any House or Committee to their great commendation be it ever mentioned to that Covenant upon supposition that they are so farre honest and true to their owne soules and consciences that they will never sweare that which is inconsistible with their Faith May it then please your Lordships to consider that the Church of England as it stood established by divine and humane Lawes and still stands to all those men upon whose consciences Lawes have any obligation wherein your humble Petitioner was made a Member of Christ hath received such sensible impressions of Gods grace as obliges him to perseverance therin against all the temptations of the World the Flesh or the Devill May it please your Honors to consider assuredly to beleve that this our Church of Christ may by Gods Grace breed nourish men every whit as honest and true to their soules and consciences and as constant to their Faith and Principles as your Lordships conceive the Church of Rome doth where notwithstanding Dispensations and mentall Reservations we are sure we may say without offence to any man are more impetrable and allowable then with us And therefore may it please your Lordships to vouchsafe that Christian men of this our Church wherein your very Lordships have held and professed Communion may finde so much credit and countenance from your Honours as those of the Church of Rome daily doe and may be thought possibly so farre true and fast to their Principles and Faith that they cannot admit their soules into a Sacrament and Covenant wholly destructive to their Religion and indeed more individually and immediately penned meant and intended by the Authors of it against their Church Doctrine and Government then against the Church of Rome there being no mention therein of any singular thing proper to the Church of Rome but either common to us with them or proper to us alone 3. May it likewise please your Honours to consider that all our late Parliaments in England and most of all this wherein your Honours are now sitting have professed alwayes great severity and made strict inquisition against all men that should intend practice or endeavour by word or writing any alteration of Religion or Innovation in Doctrine or Worship as a capitall offence and indeed what phantasie can be more derogatory and contrary to all Christian Religion then that men should be of any Religion that in these last days is to be set up wherefore when your Petitioner daily sees and considers men that endeavour professe Print and practice Innovations and Alterations in the Church Doctrine Worship and Government in the very Creed in the 39. Articles of our Confession in all the Ecclesiasticall Canons Muniments Ceremonies Sacraments and in the whole substance of Religion the Publike Service of God and Liturgy of the Church sealed in the blood of so many Martyrs and setled by the sanction of so many Parliaments And when he sees such men goe about every where not onely with indemnity and without question but also rewarded with Preferments Immunities Priviledges for their Apostacie from that Faith which they have so often subscribed preached practised and whereunto before God