Selected quad for the lemma: doctrine_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
doctrine_n	church_n	england_n	reform_a	3,931	5	9.9167	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41803	An admonition for the fifth of November	Grascome, Samuel, 1641-1708?; Grascome, Samuel, 1641-1708?	1690 (1690)	Wing G1565; ESTC R28672	4,749	12

to direct Tyranny is hateful from whatever Hand it proceeds it is not the better but the worse for being Protestant the Insult is greater and the Indignation ought to be so when we see our selves oppress'd by those who declare the loudest against Oppressions and depriv'd of our Rights and Liberties by those who pretended to defend them Providence is always just and wise even when the Success does not answer our Expectation but we are neither if we judge by Events Time has convinc'd us of our Want of Wisdom it were happy for us had we as lively a Sense of our Injustice With what Face can we speak to an All-knowing God of our extreme Dangers since they who raised the Alarm and made the loudest Noise with their Fears allow now their Turn is served that the Stories which gave us those Apprehensions were most of them Forgeries and the real Dangers were brought upon us by the treacherous Counsels of the Men whom OUR PRETENDED DELIVERER afterwards employ'd and rewarded for betraying their too honest and credulous Master Had we then a Foreigner for our L d and King one who kept up not a chimerical but a real separate Interest from ours who had other Subjects and Dominions more belov'd amongst whom our Treasure was exhausted No K. James made his Subjects rich as well as himself and lost his Crown because he wou'd not enter into Alliances to the Detriment of his own People If we had a Standing Army it did not consist of FOREIGN MERCENARY TROOPS but of natural born Subjects Foreign Soldiers were not maintain'd at home whilst our Countrymen were sent abroad to perish in our Neighbours Quarrels A French League was then only pretended we are bound in it now with a Vengeance to the utter Ruin of our Trade and tamely contribute to the exorbitant Power both of France and Germany The design of our Enemies did indeed succeed SUNDERLAND and others had the Reward of betraying their Country as well as their Prince and Benefactor The Confederates also had theirs in drawing us in to bear the Expence and Burthen of their Quarrels Whatever Attempts were made or pretended to be made formerly by our Enemies to bereave us of our Religion and Laws sure I am the Nation feels by sad Experience that we are not at present delivered from such sort of Attempts which are but too likely to succeed in the Hands of our PRETENDED FRIENDS But to wave Facts and come to Principles The Doctrine of the Cross or Patient Submission to our Lawful Sovereign when unlawfully oppress'd without daring to resist tho' it shou'd be in our Power to do it succesfully lest we incur Damnation as it is a Christian Doctrine in fpite of all the Sophistry and Scurrility of profane Wits the Gates of Hell can never prevail against it The Reformed Church of England is peculiarly distinguish'd from other MODERN CHURCHES as yet under Corruption or more imperfectly reform'd by teaching and inculcating this Doctrine as ancient as Christianity it self And tho' some of her Members like St. Peter may have fallen thro' Weakness and violent Temptations it is to be hoped they will like him recover themselves and rather part with their Transgressions than their Principles For alass who can say I am free from Sin The Weakness of human Nature renders us Objects of the divine Compassion and mutual Forbearance But it is the Property of Devils and those whom they have hardned to persist in their Iniquity and add Sin to Sin Now that Resistance was used at the REVOLUTION cannot well be deny'd it was contended for by the famous Managers and is gloried in by the greatest Advocates of the Revolution And whatever Schemes they may proceed upon whatever Arguments they may urge in their own Defence who would not be thought to relinquish their Passive Principles by complying or if they please submitting to what was tranfacted by other Hands tho' the learned may think themselves able 't is certain the common People even the more intelligent Part of the Congregation know not how to reconcile that Doctrine with the Prayers for the 5th of November Can we think it unlawful to resist King James in private among our Friends and thank God that we had no Hand in dethroning him and yet in publick bless God for the safe Arrival of the Man who did it and for making as we say all Opposition fall before him till he by the Assistance of rebellious Subjects had possess'd himself of our lawful Sovereign's Throne and so became our King and Governour Is not this as solemn an Approbation of the Revolution and all the Methods that were taken to accomplish it as can be made and such as is utterly inconsistent with the Doctrine of Passive Obedience Let us lay our Hands upon our Hearts and seriously consider what Service our Excuses and Evasions will do us at the dreadful Tribunal of the righteous God Can we excuse our selves from being Partakers at least in other Mens Sins and from giving Countenance and Encouragement to a Wickedness which we profess to abhor But if Principles of Religion will not perswade us to juster Measures if the Honour of our Church and Nation has no Effect upon us let us at least regard our mere temporal Interest which drew us at first into the Snare and consider how the just Judgment of God has pursu'd us in our own Way and punished us by our very iniquity Do but allow Atheism Arianism c. as bad as Popery and we must needs own 't is too notorious to be deny'd that the very Evils we were at a Distance afraid of are by our Methods of Prevention brought upon us Our Impatience wou'd not bear any thing from our Lawful Prince to whom we owed Subjection and we tamely bear every thing from an Us r whom in Duty Honor and Interest we are oblig'd to oppose The Necessity we formerly pretended in Breach of the Laws our Oaths and Duty is now real and urgent and the Measures it puts us upon tho' ever so extraordinary are even Lawful too inasmuch as they are enter'd on in our own Just and necessary Defence against Thieves and Robbers against unlawful Usurpation We have all the Reason in the World to throw off our Stupidity and Cowardice and Manfully to exert our selves to deliver our Church and Nation from impending Ruin our selves and our Posterity from those Evils which are so much the more shameful and intolerable in that we brought them by our Transgressions upon our own Heads Now is there any Way to escape but by returning to our Duty to God and the King FINIS