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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	church_n	doctrine_n	homily_n	2,580	5	12.0475	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58484	Remarkeable passages, first a prayer for the Parliament as also the Arch-bishop of Canterburies letter to the Arch-bishop of York and the Lord keeper to put in practice the Kings desires : with a petition to His Majestie, by divers noblemen and gentlemen estated in Ireland and now residing in London : also a new declaration from both Houses of Parliament.	Abbot, George, 1562-1633.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing R922; ESTC R13940	4,686	8

REMARKEABLE PASSAGES FIRST A prayer for the Parliament AS ALSO THE ARCH-BISHOP OF Canterburies Letter to the Arch-Bishop of Yorke and the Lord Keeper to put in Practice the Kings desires WITH A PETITION TO His Majestie by divers Noblemen and Gentlemen estated in Ireland and now residing in London ALSO A NEW DECLARATION FROM Both Houses of Parliament Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament that this be forthwith Printed Hen. Elsyng Cler. Par. D. Com Printed for W. G. 1642. Iuly 15. A PRAIER For the High Court of Parliament to bee read in such place of these Prayers after the Letany as the Minister shall think fit MOst gracious God We humbly beseech thee as for this Kingdom in generall so especially for the High Court of Parliament under our most Religious and Gracious King at this time assembled That thou wouldest be pleased to blesse and direct all their Consultations to the preservation of thy glory the good of thy Church the safety honour and welfare of our Soveraign and his Kingdoms Lord look upon the humility and devotion with which they are come in●o thy courts and they are come into thy house in assured confidence upon the Merits Mercies of Christ our blessed Saviour that thou wilt not deny them the Grace and Favour which they beg of thee Therefore O Lord blesse them with all that wisdom which thou knowest necessary to speed and bring great designes into action and to make the maturity of his Maiesties and their Counsels the happinesse and blessing of this Common-wealth These and all other necessaries for them for us and thy whole Church we humbly beg in the name and mediation of Iesus Christ our most blessed Lord and Saviour Amen The Arch-Bishop of Canterburies Letter to the Arch-Bishop of Yorke MY very good Lord I doubt not but before this time you have received from me the Directions of his most excellent Majesty concerning preaching and preachers which are so graciously set downe that no godly or discreet man can otherwise then acknowledge that they do much tend to edification if he do not take them up upon report but do punctually consider the tenour of the words as they lie and do not give an ill construction to that which may receive a faire interpretation Notwithstanding because some few Churchmen and many of the people have finisterly conceived as wee here find that those instructions do tend to the restraint of the exercise of preaching and do in some sort abate the number of Sermons and so consequently by degrees do make a breach to ignorance and superstition His Majesty in his Princely wisedom hath thought fit that I should advertise your Lordship of the grave and weighty reasons which induced his Highnesse to prescribe that which is done You are therefore to know that his Majesty being much troubled and grieved at the heart to hear every day of so many defections from our Religion both to Popery and Anabaptisme or other points of separation in some parts of this Kingdome and considering with much admiration what might be the cause thereof especially in the Raign of such a King who doth so constantly professe himselfe an open adversary ●othe Superstition of the one and madnesse of the other his P●incely wisedom could fall upon no one greater probability then the lightnesse affectednesse and unprofitablenesse of that kinde of preaching which hath been of late years to much taken up in Court University City and Countrey The usuall scope of very many Preachers is noted to be soaring up in points of Divinity too deepe for the Capacity of the people or a mustring up of much reading or a displaying of their owne wit or an ignorant medling with civill matters as well in the private of severall Parishes and Corporations as in the publike of the Kingdom or a venting of their owne distast or a smoothing up of those idle fansies which in this blessed time of so long a peace do boile in the braines of an unadvised people or lastly a rude or undecent rayling not against the Doctrines which when the Text shall occasion the same is not onely approved but much commended by His Royall Majesty but against the persons of Papists and Puritans Now the people bred up with this kind of teaching and never instructed in the Catechisme and fundamentall grounds of Religion are for all this Airy nourishment no better then abraiae tabulae new table-bookes ready to be filled up either with the Manuals and Catechismes of the Popish Priests or the papers and pamphlets of Anabaptists Brownists and Puritans His Majesty therefore calling to mind the saying of Tertullian Id verum quod primum and remembring with what doctrine the Church of England in her first and most happy Reformation did drive out the one and k●ep out the other from poisoning and i●festing the people of this Kingdome doth find that the whole scope of this Doctrine is contained in the articles of Religion the two bookes of Homilies the lesser and the greater Catechisme which his Majesty doth recommend again in these directions as the Theatres and proper Subjects of all sound and edifying preaching And so far are these directions from abating that his Majesty doth expect at our hands that it should increase the number of Sermons by renuing upon every Sunday in the afternoon in all Parish Churches throughout the Kingdom that Primitive and most profitable Exposition of the Catechisme wherewith the people yea very Children may be timely seasoned and instructed in all the heads of Christian Religion the which kind of teaching to our amendment be it spoken is more diligently observed in all the reformed Churches of Europe then of late it hath been here in England I find his Majesty much moved with this neglect and resolved if wee that are his Bishops do not see a Reformation hereof which I trust we shall to recommend it to care of the Civill Magistrate So far is his Highnesse from giving the least discouragement to sollid preaching or discreet or religious Preachers To all this I am to adde that it is his Majesties Princely pleasure that both the former directions and those reasons of the same be fairly written in every Registers office to the end that every Preacher of what denomination soever may if he bee so pleased take out Coppies of either of them with his owne hand Gratis paying nothing in the name of see and expedition But if he do use the paines of the Register or his Clarkes then to pay some moderate fee to be pronounced in open Court by the Chancellours and Commissaries of the place taking the direction and approbation of my Lords the Bishops Lastly that from hence forward a course may be taken that every Parson Vicar Curate or Lecturer do make exhibite of these his Majesties directions and the reasons for the same at the ensuing visitation of the Bishops and Arch-Deacons paying to the Register by way of see but two pence at the time