Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	france_n	king_n	lewis_n	8,252	5	10.8817	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25653	The Antichristian principle fully discovered in a brief and true account of all the hellish plots, bloody persecutions, horrid massacres, and most inhumane cruelties and tortures, exercised by the papists, on the persons of Protestant dissenters from the Church of Rome, for the cause of religion only, as well as abroad as here in England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the very beginning till this present year, 1678 ...		1679 (1679)	Wing A3485; ESTC R38626	46,886	49

shapes and disguises They are rich and full of coyn to cary on all their designes and to bribe the covetous They know how to satisfie all Scruples and to please all humours they creep into all Courts and are in all places They are dilligent in their wicked vocation and 't is their whole study and employ how to propagate the greatnesse and power of Rome and to subvert all that oppose them They inculcate into the ears of their people dangerous doctrines and establish in their mindes wicked principles They tell them that Princes not professing the Romish Religion are absolutely fallen from their title and authority that they are no longer Princes but Tyrants and Usurpers and that the Pope may excommunicate them and that being so excommunicated their Subjects ought not to obey them but are absolved from all tyes of allegiance that they ought to be thrown out of the seat of their Authority the Scepter ought to be wrung out of their hands and that 't is a meritorious act to depose or to kill such Princes that the clergy are exempt from the Jurisdiction of Secular princes and are not bound to their Laws That the Pope of Rome hath the full and chief power and command over all throughout the whole world even in Civil matters That the Magistrates of this nation are Heriticks and therefore not to be accounted Magistrates nor obeyed And that after the Bull of their holy Father the Pope is pronounced against a Nation that all that shall be then acted shall be accounted null and void That faith is not to be kept with Hereticks and that the Pope hath power to absolve all vows promises oaths how strictly so ever made or done with many others of this stamp whereby they alienate the hearts of subjects from their Princes and place all the bonds of Duty on the Pope These principles well planted in the Hearts of the people have caused so many risings and Rebellions in England How did they persecute King John and at last poyson him in Swinstede Abby what commotions raised Thomas a Becket that proud and stubborn Prelate against King Henry the 2d so that he made him weary of his life and to commit murther to be rid of him How many other Rebellions have they stirred up and promoted in this Land and what Seas of Blood have they shed and how many thousand Martyrs have they destroyed here and elsewhere They exceeded the rage and cruelty of the Heathen and abominableness of the Barbarian they murthered more and shed more blood then all the 10. persecutions There are reckoned in France only in the persecutions of the Waldenses and Allbingenses to have been slaughter'd a Million of people and in less than 30 years 150000 Christians to have been made away by the Inquisition 'T is to bring us again to this pass that these sort of men struggle with all dissiculties that we may fry with sire and fagot and that they may again sit here as cruel Lords and masters that make them so industrious to animate the blind and ignorant people to their own destruction Queen Elizabeth having sent them all packing with all their trinkets of Superstition and establisht her Reformation and Religion many penal Laws were industriously made against them that they might not be able to do hurt and mischief which if put in execution are sufficient to keep them under but the indulgency of our Prince hath taken off the sharp edge of their execution in hopes to oblige them to a fidelity and compliance and to live in peace and quiet but 't is impossible by these means to subdue them whilst their Priests have the opportunity to distill their dangerous principles into their minds they think 't is better to obey their earthly God the Pope than their Lawfull King and Governour and to rise in Rebellion at the command of their Ghostly Father than to live in quiet under an Heretical Prince as they call all such as submit not their power and Authority to that of Rome Pope Pius the 5th Gregory the 13th and Clement the 8th all sent over their Breves and Bulls from Rome against the Queen which roar and thunder forth excommunications Anathema's and Curses against her and her Subjects In which they take from her all her Royal titles Dignities and Rights to the Kingdom of England and Ireland declaring her illegitimate and an Usurper absolving all her Subjects from their Oaths Faith allegiance and obedience to her Foulis Hist Popish Treasons and Life of Q. Elizabeth 〈◊〉 threaten all of what condition soever under danger of the wrath of God not to assist her in any wise but to imploy all their power to bring her to condign punishment promising ample reward to all those who shall lay hands on this proscribed woman and shall punish her and to be paid out of the Treasury of the Church and a full pardon of all their sins who shall engage against her But when they saw these would not effect their desires and that her subjects were too faithfull in England Suintilla King of Spain deposed by Childerick King of France murthered 665. Childerick the third King of France deposed Charls le gross Emperor deposed Henry the 4th Emperor deposed by Pope Gregory the 7th Lewis the King of France interdicted they proceed to secret and horrid machinations to take away her Life from which she was still preserved by miracalous providence Their many wicked attempts against the Life of this blessed Queen may be fully seen in several printed Books largely shewing the manner of their proceedings there my intent only is to put my Countrymen in minde of the continual practises against both Prince and people in this Nation and elsewhere and whereever they dissented or opposed the wicked and Tyrannical Power of Rome 'T was these very men agitated by these their divillish principles of King-killing that violently took away the Lives of the two Henrys the 3d. and 4th of France the one by the hand of Ravilliac the other by that of James Clement a Jacobin encouraged by the Jesuits set on by the Pope and the case resolved by the Prior of his Covent that if he undertook it not for private revenge but inflamed by the Love of God for Religion and the good of his Country he might do it with a safe Conscience and not only so but he should merit much before God and without doubt if he should dye in the Act his Soul should immediately ascend into the Quiers of the blessed This was the good councel of this Holy Father and for which he was afterwards torn to peeces by 4. horses but Clement accounted a Martyr and his murtherous act extolled openly in France both in their Sermons and printed Books These are the monsters of men that would do the like to every Prince that opposes their Lusts Witness their murthering of the Lord Darnly the Father of King James of the Prince of Orange and of others