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duty_n	heart_n	lord_n	soul_n	3,745	5	4.9226	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83961	Englands faiths defender vindicated: or, A word to clear a most foul, damnable and scandalous aspersion, which hath been cast upon that patient and suffering Prince, Charles II. By some villanous and seditious persons, that he should have renounced the Protestant religion, and Church of England, and have embraced Popery. Published out of Christian and loyal duty, by a person who hath been faithful ever since he could discern the light from darkness.		1660 (1660)	Wing E2964; Thomason E1017_17; ESTC R207999	5,484	8

ENGLANDS Faiths Defender VINDICATED OR A Word to clear a most foul damnable and scandalous Aspersion which hath been cast upon that Patient and Suffering Prince CHARLES II. By some villanous and seditious persons That he should have renounced the Protestant Religion and Church of England and have embraced POPERY Published out of Christian and Loyal Duty by a Person who hath been faithful ever since he could discern the light from darkness PROV 6.16 17 18 19. 16. These six things doth the Lord hate yea his soul abhorreth seven 17. The haughty eyes a lying tongue and the hands that shed innocent blood 18. An heart that imagineth wicked enterprises and feet that be swift in running to mischief 19. A false witness that speaketh lyes and he that raiseth up contentions among brethren London Printed for Charles King 1660. ENGLANDS Faiths Defender VINDICATED c. Christian Countrymen OUt of that measure of light the Lord hath been pleased to afford me in these gloomy and dayes of dismal darkness I think my self bound both in Conscience and Duty as a Subject and as a Christian to witness against such Diabolical devices as may be scattered abroad to the dishonor of God our poor exiled innocent long-suffering Prince and of Christian Religion it self that the devices of the Devil may not alwayes be seducively prevalent but that the misled people may have some light to clear them of damnable doubts As now of the falsity of the ensuing which without doubt in its coming forth in such damnable colours hath much terrified the Souls and tender Consciences of many of Gods people I therefore have taken upon me this ensuing to Vindicate that true and fundamentally grounded-Protestant and Defender of the Faith and Church of England CHARLES the Second King of England Scotland France and Ireland c. Give me leave then and I hope without offence I may answer for the absent if not I le presume for it cuts my very Soul to hear such notorious Scandals cast upon that most innocent Prince which would pass for currant should none rise up to reprove the backbiters But let them hear what the Apostle saith 1 Pet. 2.1 Wherefore laying aside all maliciousness and all guile and all dissimulation and envy and all Evil speaking Then now that the men of the Times who under pretence of Holiness Zeal and Religion have subverted this late glorious Church and State and brought it to nothing but a ruined heap of innumerable Calamities Now that God in some measure hath opened the eyes of the people to discern their wicked detestable infernal and out of measure sinful actings now that they see their Plots discovered and that they fear some dolefull Ca astrophe to Crown their perniciously publick destructive Labours the Counsels now on foot portending an unlucky Omen towards them they have gone to consult with their Master who hitherto hath still backt them on to all their damnable Designs who now seeing there is no probability left in them to advance his Kingdom here hath forsaken them to run for a space at their chains length upon that Stage wherein they have Acted with a Devillish Plaudite so many direful Tragedies that they may receive the shame and derision of the Multitude until such time as the hand of an earthly Executioner shall recommend them to the Stygian Charon according to the Poets Seeing thus he hath cancelled their Commissions and denied them his assistance they call a Grand Convention to see what they can doe and hope by the strength of their own Arguments that they shall dive out of the Hell of Hells within them to remount the Saddle which of late hath given them so scurvy a turn on the dirt and nothing is so conducent to the affair in this extremity but to give out this What are the People possessed with some Infernal that they will re-admit of that Religion which at the price of so much Blood Treasure and other perillous hazards hath been expunged this Commonwealth Know they not the blindness and ignorance of the Papists and that it is a sure way to Perdition and will they make that Apostate great Papist grown Charles Stuart their King Surely the Lord hath left them and given them up to a state of Reprobation Well we will wash our hands and the guilt of their Souls be upon their own heads Thus vent they their damnable Forgeries which bear no other impression than that of Hell But God will confound their hellish inventions and bring to light their works of darkness God revealeth the hidden works of darkness and bringeth to light the counsels of the wicked What saith the Psalmist doth the wicked man do behold he travelleth with iniquity and hath conceived mischief and brought forth falshood c. Psal 7.14 15 16. And 1 Cor. 1.19 The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God for it is written He catcheth the wise in their own craftiness Dear Friends Examine your selves and your own Consciences will tell you that the wisdom of these Hyyocrites is a lie and their hopes shall perish Reason with your selves my following Arguments which I shall presently lay down and I am confident you will signe them as a confirmation to your troubled Souls That he is no other than a true Protestant according to the Church of England and I presume if occasion should require he would expose himself to the Martyring Stake for the Defence of the true Protestant Religion and Church of England and therefore deserves the Title of his Predecessors Defender of the Faith I could offer many Arguments though I question not but these two which I shall here insert will be sufficient proof to clear the point And because I am loth to presume too much upon your patience I thus lay down my first Argument to prove that Charles the Second King of England c. is a true Protestant viz. That notwithstanding his being born a Prince to all the Dignities and Honours of the Crowns and Scepters that his Predecessors have swayed His being Banished from all these and all the Pleasures and Delights of fruitful England of which he had had some small smach before his perpetual determined Exile That he should be forc'd to fly for Refuge to Strangers hurried and tossed upon the restless wheel of Fortune from one place to another out of one perillous danger into another nothing but fears and dangers encompassing him on every side Notwithstanding his Eleven years banished residence to light amongst the chiefest Upholders of Popery and on the other side ballancing with these the large Promises have been made to him by most Polish Potentates the Pope himself for establishment of him in his Throne and Dignity provided he would renounce his Religion and imbrace Popery weighing his Adversity and Prosperity together And notwithstanding all these things that yet he should stand firm and immoveable to his first Principles denotes his undoubted Resolution to live and die for the Church and Protestants