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duty_n	child_n	love_n	parent_n	6,450	5	9.2665	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07909	A vvatch-vvoord to Englande to beware of traytours and tretcherous practises, which haue beene the ouerthrowe of many famous kingdomes and common weales. Written by a faithfull affected freend to his country: who desireth God long to blesse it from traytours, and their secret conspiracyes. Séene and allowed, according to the order appointed in the Quéenes iniunctions.	Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1584 (1584)	STC 18282; ESTC S112941	79,185	110

in lamentable experience howe the Papistes haue shewed themselues so addicted to their superstition and so captiued to an vndue reuerence of their tyrannous Pope that they haue for it reiected the care of Countrie and of those to whome naturall duetie bounde them It is certaine that that Englishe man which can be contented for Papistrie to rayse or fauour rebellion in our Countrie to ioyne in conspiracie with Straungers to helpe to inuade and spoyle our Countrie to conuey the Crowne of our Country to a forreiner to agrée with them in faction that offer our Countrie to prey spoyle and conquest to submitte his faith to that Potentate that hath accurssed and giuen our Countrie their soules to the Deuill and their bodies landes and possessions to them that can catch them to beléeue or fauour them that spreade all vile dishonours against our Countrie to lyke well of his dooings and to holde that he dooth no more then he lawfully may doo which being an Alien a forreine Bishop shall take vppon him to extend his curse to the Prince of our Countrie and all the people thereof and that he hath power to discharge the Subiectes of the Realme from their faith and alleageaunce and hath authoritie to binde their obedience to whome he will and is able to giue Heauen to rebelles that shall venter their liues in wasting and destroying our Countrie He I saye that can yéelde his consent to these dooinges and thinkinges must néedes be a Traitour to his Countrie And such a one is euerie such English Papist as I haue described and can be none other if he holde the Pope for a true teacher and haue good opinion of the Popes doctrine and examples That clemencie and gentlenesse cannot reclayme them from trayterous mindes while they continue in Papistrie is as plaine and as true a fourme of spéeche as if a man should saye they must néedes be traytours so long as they remaine full of treason for treason and Papistrie are vnseperable whyle they be kept vnder euen as crueltie and Papistrie are vnseperable when they are gotten aboue Surelie he that regardeth not the highest duetie will neuer regard the meanest The duetie of the loue or feare of God cannot holde a Papist from blasphemie against God The duetie of faith and alleageaunce to his Prince cannot kéepe a Papist from treason to his Prince The duetie of déere loue to his naturall Countrie cannot withdrawe a Papist from assenting to yea and procuring the spoyle destruction bondage and alienation of his Countrie as I haue already prooued The duetie of kinde and naturall pittie cannot staye a Papist from murdering the féeble sexe nor the sielie tender infancie nor reuerend eldest age The duetie of familiaritie in youth of fréendshippe in grauer yéeres of continuall societie during all the life passed with heapes of mutuall commodities cannot pull backe a Papist from immanitie of Sacrificing his déerest fréendes The duetie of honour of Children to Parentes or loue of Parentes to Children remooueth not a Papist from vnnaturall crueltie The duetie of intire loue and fellowshippe betwéene man and wife holdeth no place in the heart of a Papist No duetie of kindred no estimation of Learning and Uertue no good respect that mooueth good men to loue and compassion once toucheth a stubborne Papist All these dueties we haue séene broken yea neglected and throwne awaie by Papistes And is there hope that clemencie can so farre winne them as to holde them in trueth to the Prince from whome they receyue it if oportunitie serue to bring them out of her daunger or her Highnesse into their daunger which God forbidde But let vs sée a little of their thankefulnesse Did euer those Papistes whose liues were saued by good Bishop Cranmers meanes who were brought vp who were defended who were auaunced who were shielded from harme and perill by him once requite him with one droppe of kindnesse And yet they spake him fayre in his prosperitie Auailed the great liberalitie of King Henrie the eight to rayse vp any kinde remembraunce in Papistes that were great in Quéene Maries dayes to staye them from the assenting to the captiuitie and daunger and séeking the blood of his most noble Daughter our most gratious Soueraigne Lady And yet during King Henries raigne they shewed a seruiceable face as if they would haue spent their bloods to kéepe wrong from him and his and did serue against Papistrie it selfe till their treason and Papistrie was ripe to be aduaunced A number lyke examples of their gentlenesse and kindnesse might be alleadged but because I would be bréefe these fewe shall serue at this time Of like trueth it is that Papistrie being an Heresie or rather a bondle made vp of an infinite number of Heresies must néedes haue the propertie of Heresie to flourishe with indulgence and lenitie We sée the lyke example in the sect of Arrians which vnder hereticall Emperours excéedinglie increased and being once condemned and restrained by punishment hath worne away to a fewe So farre as King Henrie the eight went in reforming Religion which was to abolishe the primacie of Rome out of this Realme a noble conquest with certaine grosse Idolatries did not the seueritie of his Lawes the awe of his person and the dread of due execution so holde downe those partes of Papistrie which he suppressed that they durst not once shewe themselues in his dayes And yet in the same time the gréeuous lawe of sixe Articles made against Gods trueth and sinisterlie procured by the Popish Clergie nor yet the earnest inquirie nor cruell executing of it by Bishoppes and other could holde downe the trueth of the Gospell but that it brake out more and more vpon them The reason is that Papistry and Christian trueth haue two seuerall endes trueth respecteth Heauen and Papistrie the world Whereby their aduentures and enterprises are commonlie diuers the Papist dare boldlie set vpon any mischéefe where he hath hope to auaunce his falsehood the Christian dare constauntlie abide any torment to giue witnesse of Gods trueth And such qualitie of Gods trueth haue the auncient Fathers described when one of them calleth the blood of Martyres The water to water Gods Garden an other sayth That they encrease with cutting downe and other in other manner haue expressed the same meaning But now being vnder a Christian Prince in dayes of rest blessed be almightie God and long preserued be her Maiestie the instrument of it as it is not méete that Gods Church after Iulian the Apostataes manner be persecuted to make it increase but holden downe with good discipline for manners that it growe not wilde and runne into wantonnesse so is not the Church of the Deuill to be maintained and multiplied with indulgence winking and slacknesse of correction but with good seueritie to be restrained that it growe not to such ranknesse as to choke the true Church in déede Mercie may haue her excesse and clemencie