Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	call_v	church_n	doctrine_n	3,420	5	6.3621	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43563	The character of a rebel a sermon preached at Market Harborow, on the 26th of July, 1685, being the day of thanksgiving appointed for His Majesties victory over the rebels / by Thomas Heyricke.	Heyrick, Thomas, d. 1694.	1685 (1685)	Wing H1752; ESTC R10745	14,677	38

the people coming for Justice See thy matters are good and right but there is no man deputed of the King to hear thee And then presently subjoyns what Justice he would do if he was King There is nothing more conduces to the grandeur and honour of a Prince and the safety and peace of a People Nothing more ingages Subjects to Allegiance and love to a Prince than the due execution of Justice it being the Basis upon which the happiness of both is founded and we in this Land have reason to bless God that not onely from the Constitution of our Government but from the Temper of our Prince a King of Justice Integrity and Faithfulness we are almost the onely Nation in the world where Justice and Equity are impartially dispensed and no mans Right either by Fear Flattery or Bribes given away So that if we be not happy 't is not the fault of the Government but of our selves since there is nothing doth make a Land more fruitful in Blessings and ought to make a People more pure from Pollution and Defilement than when they are watered with the true Dew of Heaven Justice When judgement runs down as waters and righteousness as a mighty stream Amos 5. 24. Yet have we those in our Israel as well as David had in his that to carry on their mischievous practices vent all the Scandals that it is possible for venomous Wit and Malice for men possessed with the Devil who hath his name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from Defamation to invent or Tongues set on fire of Hell to vomit out against the Government we for one Shimei in David's time having a thousand What viperous Pamphlets have they spread What poison'd Invectives things that seem beyond the invention or malice of men have much of the Fiend in them and can be nothing but the venom of that old Serpent by their falshood shewing their Original from him who was a Liar from the beginning And it is strange to consider after so many visible Mercies of God to our King and Religion and so many Judgements on Rebellion with what a brazen Forehead they yet continue their unparallel'd Forgeries which yet visibly shews the weakness of their cause for as that which is founded on Truth which is eternal and never alters is built on an immovable Rock which nothing can shake So that which is grounded upon falshood which hath no real existence but in mens imagination and continually changes must needs of it self come to ruine So that though nothing of truth can possibly be gathered from their Reports they being all but the effects of Malice Discontent and the spirit of Lying yet this we may learn that since the defaming of Government is one chief Artifice of a Rebel commonly forerunning Sedition since those are but the flying Troops that scowre the way for the gross body of Rebellion that follows we ought to be very careful of those that invent or spread or with delight and joy listen to those pestilent reports they are hidden Rebels and want onely means or opportunity not will There is Fire though covered with Ashes and how dreadful one spark may prove when it hath matter to work upon every one can judge and what care those that are in Authority should take to suppress them the meanest capacity can understand Secondly Rebellion is usually carried on with a pretence of Religion 't is in it self ugly and detestable a fearful hideous and deformed Monster and therefore clothes it self in the venerable and Sacred garb of Religion Thus Absalom when he had laid the Scheme of his unnatural Rebellion and every Agent and Instrument was ready that he might have a fair pretence to leave the Court he speaks to his Father in the 7th verse of this Chapter I pray thee let me go and pay my vow which I vowed to the Lord in Hebron Surely there is no evil act the Devil can put a man on more irreligious or unnatural than Rebellion more against the Law of Nature of God and of Man and so needs all possible Artifice That it is irreligious we shall easily assent to if we consider the manifold dehortations in Scripture from it the character that gives of it to be as the sin of Witchcraft and by Moses Law a Witch was not suffered to live Exod. 22. 18. and that sin which is enmity toward God is called by that odious name If we consider the many positive Commands both in the Old and New Testaments to Obedience Subjection and Loyalty the Principles and Practices of the Primitive Christians and the Doctrine of the Church of England which allows of no pretence for Rebellion and will not that any Interest Provocation or Oppression should cancel that eternal Obligation and Bond of Loyalty That Rebellion is no less unnatural than irreligious every one may know that considers that the whole Nation in a Politick capacity is but one Body and that Rebellion is an unnatural War between the Members and the Head and that it is the proper action of an Epileptick or raging mad-man with his own hands to wound tear and beat himself not to recount that the King is the Father of the Country and Rebelling against him is not onely casting off our Allegiance but of that natural Duty and Affection we owe him And if according to the Law of Moses a stubborn Son that would not obey the voice of his Father and Mother was to be ston'd by the Congregation Deut. 21. 18 21. what can these unnatural Rebels deserve Rebellion therefore being thus justly odious to omit many other aggravating Circumstances an Enemy to Religion and Reason to Piety and Policy the Laws of God and Men. It is no wonder if the mischievous policy of Rebels clothe it in a good garb to make it acceptable to take away the irreligion they pretend Religion and upon an odious thing they put a good name and the unnaturalness of it they molifie and sweeten with the delightful sounds of Liberty and Property and so carry their Proselytes away with noises shapes and shadows for realities shows and Pageants for substantial Blessings the reason and consideration of the Rabble being not in their Brain but in their Eyes and Ears Thirdly All the Nobility and chief of the Land were with David v. 18. And all his servants passed on before him and all the Cherethites and the Pelethites and the Gittites all the Nobility and men of Military order And to make it the more remarkable it is said they were those that came with him from Gath the true old Royalists they were his Companions in banishment they were after-sharers of his Prosperity and now again the faithful Attendants of his Adversity which doth shew that true Loyalty is no sudden fit of Passion took up for Interest Gain Honour or Glory but an eternal Principle an inherent Vertue engraven deeply in the Soul writ like the Laws of the Medes and Persians not to be softned or melted