Selected quad for the lemma: doctrine_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
doctrine_n	doubt_n	part_n	use_v	4,423	5	9.3660	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38258	Eikōn basilikē, The pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his solitudes and sufferings; Eikon basilike.	Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1648 (1648)	Wing E268; ESTC R18840	116,516	280

plentifull Estates they got and enjoyed under My Government in peaceable times which yet must now be blasted with all the odious reproaches which impotent malice can invent and My self exposed to all those contempts which may most diminish the Majesty of a King and encrease the ungratefull insolencies of My People For Mine Honour I am well assured that as Mine Innocency is clear before God in point of any calumnies they object so My reputation shall like the Sun after Owles and Bats have had their freedome in the night and darker times rise and recover it self to such a degree of splendour as those ferall birds shall be grieved to behold and unable to bear For never were any Princes more glorious than those whom God hath suffer'd to be tried in the fornace of afflictions by their injurious Subjects And who knows but the just and mercifull God will doe Me good for some mens hard false and evill speeches against Me wherein they speak rather what they wish than what they believe or know Nor can I suffer so much in point of Honour by those rude and scandalous Pamphlets which like fire in great conflagrations flie up and downe to set all places on like flames than those men doe who pretending to so much piety are so forgetfull of their duty to God and Me By no way ever vindicating the Majesty of their KING against any of those who contrary to the precept of God and precedent of Angels● speake evill of dignities and bring railing accusations against those who are honoured with the name of Gods But 't is no wonder if men not fearing GOD should not Honour their KING They will easily contemne such shadowes of God who reverence not that Supreme and adorable Majesty in compar●son of whom all the glory of Men and Angels is but obscurity yet hath he graven such Characters of divine Authority and Sacred power upon Kings as none may without sinne seek to blot them out No●●hall their black veiles be able to hide the sh●ning of My face while God gives Me a heart frequently and humbly to converse with him from whom alone are all the traditions of true glory and majesty Thou O Lord knowest My reproach and My dishonour My Adversaries are all before thee My Soule is among Lyons among them that are set on fire even the Sons of Men whose teeth are spears and arrows their tongue a sharp sword Mine enemies reproach Me all the day long and those that are mad against Me are sworne together O My God how long shall the sonnes of men turne My glory into shame how long shall they love vanity and seek after lies Thou hast heard the reproaches of wicked men on every side Hold not thy peace lest My E●emies prevaile against me and lay mine Honour in the dust Thou O Lord shalt destroy them that speak l●es the Lord will abhorre both the bloud-thirsty and deceitfull men Make my righteousnesse to appeare as the light and mine innocency to shine forth as the Sun at noone day Suffer not my silence to betray mine innocence ●or my displeasure my patience That after my Saviours example being reviled I may not revile againe and being cursed by them ● may blesse them Thou that wouldst not suffer Shimei's tongue to go unpunished when by thy judgements on David he might seem to justi●●e his disdainfull reproaches give me grace to intercede with thy mercy for these my enemies that the reward of false and lying tongues even hot burning coals of eternall fire may not be brought upon them Let my prayers and patience be as water to coole and quench their tongues who are already set on fire with the fire of Hell and tormented with those malicious flames Let me be happy to refute and put to silence their evill-speaking by well-doing and let them enjoy not the fruit of their lips but of my prayer for their repentance and thy pardon Teach me Davids patience and Hezekiah's devotion that I may look to thy mercy through mans malice and see thy justice in their sin Let Sheba's seditious speeches Rabshekah's railing and Shimei's cursing provoke as my humble prayer to thee so thy renewed blessing toward me Though they curse doe thou blesse and I shall be blessed and made a blessing to my people That the stone which some builders refuse may become the head-stone of the corner Looke downe from heaven and save me from the reproach of them that would swallow me up Hide me in the secret of thy presence from the prid● of man and keep me from the strife of tongues 16. Vpon the Ordinance against the Commo● Prayer-Booke IT is no news to have all Innovations ushered in with the name of Reformations in Church and State by those who seeking to gaine reputation with the Vulgar for their extraordinary parts and piety must needs undoe whatever was formerly setled never so well and wisely So hardly can the pride of those that study Novelties allow former times any share or degree of wisdome or godlinesse And because matter of prayer and devotion to God justly beares a great part in Religion being the Soules more immediate converse with the divine Majesty nothing could be more plausible to the People than to tel them They served God amisse in that point Hence our publique Liturgy or Formes of constant Prayers must be not amended in what upon free and publique advice might seem to sober men inconvenient for matter or manner to which I should easily consent but wholly cashiered and abolished and after many popular contempts offered to the Booke and those that used it according to their Consciences and the Lawes in force it must be crucified by an Ordinance the better to please either those men who gloried in their extemporary veyne and fluency 〈◊〉 others who conscious to their owne formality in the use of it thought they fully expiated their sin of not using it aright by laying all the blame upon it a totall rejection of it as a dead letter thereby to excuse the deadnesse of their hearts As for the matter contained in the Booke sober and learned men have sufficiently vindicated it against the cavils and exceptions of those who thought it a part of piety to make what pro●ane objections they could against it especially for Popery Superstition whereas no doubt the Liturgy was exactly conformed to the doctrine of the Church of England and this by all Reformed Churches is confessed to be most sound and Orthodox For the manner of using Set and prescribed Formes there is no doubt but that wholsome words being knowne and fitted to mens understandings are soonest received into their hearts and aptest to excite and carry along with them judicious and fervent affections Nor doe I see any reason why Christians should be weary of a wel-composed Liturgy as I hold this to be more than of all other things wherein the Constancy abates nothing of the excellency and usefulnesse I could never see any