Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	john_n	king_n	lancaster_n	3,233	5	11.4353	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86113	The right of dominion, and property of liberty, whether natural, civil, or religious. Wherein are comprised the begining and continuance of dominion by armes; the excellency of monarchy, and the necessity of taxes, with their moderation. As also the necessity of his Highness acceptation of the empire, averred and approved by presidents of præterit ages, with the firm settlement of the same against all forces whatsoever. / By M.H. Master in Arts, and of the Middle Temple.	Hawke, Michael.	1655 (1655)	Wing H1172; Thomason E1636_1; ESTC R202383	79,995	208

saith he undoubtedly to observe that the Royal Power is not only conferred on you for the Government of the world but especially for the rule and safeguard of the Church And as another Demetrius Comatenu Clap. ib. Solo sacrificandi excepto ministerio reliqua Pontificalia privilegia imperator repraesentat The ministeriall exercise of sacred duties onely excepted the Emperour representeth all other Pontificall priviledges who is to dispose and order the affairs of the Church a relique of which in these corrupted times still remains of which Mr. Herbert Herbert Hen. 8. fo 291. maketh mention that the Emperour must first put on the habit of a Canon of Sancta Maria Dellate in Rome and after that of a Deacon before he can be compleatly invested in his Imperial Dignity And heretofore the Popes when they were installed Pier. de Moulin b. d. l. foy paid to the Emperour as their Soveraign Prince for their investiture twenty pounds in gold and were by the Emperour punished and deposed as subjects to the Emperour As Constantius the Son of Constantine the Great chased Pope Liberius out of Rome and substituted Faelix in his place Whence it is probable the English Maxime as many other dimaned Rex est persona mixta cum sacerdote The King is a mixt person with a Priest in whom is comprised both Jurisdictions as well Ecclesiastical as civil which caused William the Second to urge the said priviledge of the Emperours against Anselm desiring to be an Arch-bishop conspiring to have his Pale from the Pope as Mathew Paris historizeth it Rex Willielmus Secundus allegavit quod nullus Archiepiscopus aut Episcopus Regni sui curiae Romanae aut Papae subessent praecipus cum ipse omnes libertates haberet in Regno suo quas imperator vindicabat in imperio King William alledgeth that no Arch-bishop or Bishop should be subject to the Pope or the Court of Rome especially seeing he should have all the liberties in his Kingdome which the Emperour challenged in his Empire which was to chose Popes and Bishops when he would Yet though the Scepters of Kings and Princes were primitively free by all right and honored with the Supreme authority in all causes whatsoever yet hath the Pope in these later daies blown up with boiling ambition through the lenity and piety of Princes involated on their Rights and Liberties and not only arrogated to himself Ecclesiastical Supremacy but encroached also on the civill Jurisdiction claiming to himself the deposing of Princes and disposing of their Kingdomes Bellar. either in ordine ad bonum spirituale in order or relation to a spiritual good or else in regard of his Pastorall Authority from Christ under which notion he conceiveth all the world to be subject to him Azorius In quo alii sunt actu ut Christiani alii potestate jure ut Pagani In which some are actually subject to him as Christians and others in possibility and right as Pagans and by such subtil relations is he maintained to be Totius orbis Dominus The Lord of all the earth Europ spe And to that purpose doth he take upon him the highest place of honor far above all Princes and Monarchies of the world Pier. de Moulin praef ib. Buck de le foy setting the Emperours at his feet ordaining and declaring that all Kings ought to kiss his feet and that there is no other name under heaven but that of the Pope Thus doth he labour to mancipate the divine liberty of Princes to his humane inventions and usurped Dominion and as Christs Vicar which title he affects would be reputed Lord of all the world whereas Christs Kingdome was not of the world An insufferable tyranny imposed on this Royal freedome of Princes which the Pope from the times of Gregory the seventh hath injuriously usurped and for the space of two hundred and threescore years nothing hath been more frequent with him then the Excommunications of Kings and Emperours and the Oblations and Donations of their Empires and Kingdomes Pier. de Moulin b. d. l f 7● unless of such who have by might maintained their rights and liberties against his usurpations whence proceeded infinite bloody wars above one hundred battels and the surprizing and sacking innumerable Cities Clap. de arc imp f. 32. from whence proceeded the common Proverb as by Guichardine is observed Caesares timere odisse proprium est Ecclesiae It is proper to the Church to feare and hate all Princes John White in the way to the Church and that truly for the Pope hath excommunicated deposed and murthered forty several Princes And I deem it neither exorbitant nor impertinent to give you a tast of some of his notorious and abominable tyrannies and primarily of that against John King of England whom for maintaining his priviledge in nominating the Arch-bishop of Canterbury to the Monks of that Convent Innocent Third he menaced to excommunicate and interdict his Kingdome and the King in requitall threatned to abolish the Popes authority and to expell the Clergy which they both acted but the Pope not only excommunicated him but conferred his Kingdome on the King of France to conquer it at his own charge and perill by whose invasion he was inforced to renounce his rights and liberties and to subscribe to the Popes tyrannical demands who gave him Absolution upon condition to yeeld himself Vassal to the Pope Math. Par. and his Kingdome fewdary to the Church of Rom and that he should pay yearly a thousand mark in silver as an obligation of his servitude And most presumptuous was the arrogancy of Julius the Second God Hist Hen. 8. f. 1. who was more like to Julius Caesar whose name he assumed then to Peter whose Successor he pretended to be but indeed was like to him in nothing more then in cutting of Malcus his ear of whom the Poet pithily Gunterus Jam nec ferre crucem Domini sed tradere Regna Gaudet Augustus mavult quam praeses haberi To bear the Cross of Christ he doth not now rejoyce But to give earthly Kingdomes is his heavenly choice He deposed the King of Navarre and gave his Kingdome to Ferdinand King of Castile the which he obtained and his Successors as yet retaine who having Spain on the one side and the Pyrenaean Mountains on the other was unequal to the Popes fury and the Spanish force He also vain-gloriously enterprized to crush and suppress Lewis the XII King of France God Hist Hen. 8. to which designe he invited many Princes and more especially Henry the Eight King of England into a confederacy against him but Lewis swifter then opinion marched with all celerity to Ravenna and in one battel defeated him and his Allies Primum Pontificium fulmen à Gallis removit Barr. and boldly assembled a Councel at Pisa against him and rounded his French Crowns with this inscription Perdam Babylonem

the Lord hath poured on him cannot believe he will leave him but compleat and accomplish this wondrous work in him For the great works of the Lord are contrary to the conceits of men and though extraordinary miracles be ceased yet the divine power is alwayes assistant to the ordinary power of nature by which many times are produced extraordinary acts above the reach of humane apprehension which is apparent in the various and marvellous victories obtained by him in the name of the Lord of Hosts whose providences among us are not to be out matched by any story And if we impartially and judiciously examine the present postures of the State we shall clearly see the Lords workmanship shining in it according to the power of nature or rules of policy For though the malignant and incessant enemy is sedulous in forging stratagems to its disturbance and distraction yet is it by the divine finger so firmly founded on the faithfull and pious affections of the more potent party that they are presaged before conceived and prevented before perpetrated For though there remain in it many factions of which the Royal and Papistical party are most seditious and both numerous the one containing in number forty thousand fighting persons Europ Spec. and the other perhaps more yet are the first by their just censures of sequestrations discouraged and by their late compositions so obliged that they tremble to enterprise any publike act against the State unlesse such as are fugitives whose estates are exposed to sale and no way considerable As also the second is much diminished by their recantations and acceptance of the oath of abjuration Many and some of the chiefest preferring the blessings of their estates before the curses of Rome and both the lesse perillous because irreconciliably divided as Opposites in Religion which hath a potent sway over the minds of men and besides are unarmed and upon any pregnant suspition safely secured either by transporting them into forraign Islands or by removing them to remote places according to the antient custome of the Romans who were wont so to dispose of their seditious Delinquents The considerable party only remaineth which generally profess themselves Protestants and concord for the most part in the principal Doctrine of Salvation by Faith in Christ though they otherwise vary concerning some disputable questions and less material and are the less turbulent b●cause permitted severally without restraint to exercise their consciences Besides most of them are by strong and Politique tyes linked unto the State either by publique imployments or private interests many of them having at a considerable rare purchased the Revenues and Lands of the late King Praelates or Delinquents that though some of them through envy or other sinister conceit distast the present proceedings and others vary among themselves concerning some niceties of Religion yet will they upon any turbulent or seditious occasion as one man unite their forces to repell the common enemy Compellit in unum commune periculum etiam inimicissimos Ar. Pol. l. 5. c 5. as common dangers use to d●aw and force together the greatest adversaries and not to expose themselves and estates to the cruelty and tyranny of merciless Invaders and the rapine and spoil of a necessitous and ravenous rabole of desperate male-contents who suborn furious Emissaries to scatter the seeds of discord and sedition in every place which may make all things opportune for their rebellious incursions of which we have received an ocular testimony in the last tumultuous hurley-burley which was but momentary by reason that the Royal Party for fear of future censures were dismaid and the confiding party by rewards and interests incited whereby that tempestuous sedition was suddenly suppressed and like a thundering storm after a clap or two vanished into vanity So stable is the settlement of this State founded on the rock of a confident and trusty party with the true-hearted Militia that the impetuous winds of commotions and outragious tempests of rebellions cannot shatter or shake it but the more violently they beat upon it the more miserably are they dissipated which is opposite to the conceit of the Royallists who are led with a fond hope that the inheritance of the Crown is indissolubly entailed to the issue and cannot be cut off whereas succession was lately invented to avoid competition and interregnum and hath often been interrupted by arms and that Gordian knot cut in pieces by the Sword As Canutus with his Sword did cut off the right of Edmond and was by it crowned King of England and so by it did Stephen disinherit Maud the right heir and in the bloody wars between the Houses of York and Lancaster wherein fourscore of the Royal blood perished he who had the sharpest sword carried the Crowne and as Baron Thorp of all those five and twenty Kings and Queens which have since William the Conquerours time ruled among us there were scarcely seven of them who could pretend legally to succeed their former Predecessors either by lineal or collateral title and it is malum omen Turselius to the Royal Issue that such Princes as have been for tyranny expelled by their Subjects have never been remitted though they had stronger forces to attempt it Though Tarquinius Superbus had valiant sons to second him Florus and the redoubted King of Porsenna with a proud Army to assist him and force Rome to his subjection yet were they ignominiously repelled and for fear forced to retreat And after that he through the powerful Alliance of Manlius had drawn into a confederacy with him thirty several Potentates to restore him to his Royalty yet were they by the Dictator Aurelius Posthumus vanquished and forced to flight and the Tarquinian hopes thereby utterly frustrated The like was attempted by Hippias the brother of the Tyrant Pisistratus for his tyranny slain by Harmodius and Aristogiton who endeavouring to vindicate his brothers slaughter was expelled Athens and thereupon procured Darius with formidable forces to invade Athens in his behalf and for his restitution yet were they by the invincible virtue of Milti●des profl●gated and two hundred thousand of the enemies destroyed Atque horret animus meus memoria repetere and it makes my heart tremble and bleed to remember how many horrible and deadly battels which the large and copious pen of Livy is scarce able to repeat the late King and Prince have undertaken to regain their forfeited and lost Royalty wherein they have been continually discomfited to the destruction of the one and exclusion of the other and to the lamentable ruine of a great part of the Nobility and Gentry Quicquid delirant Reges plectuntur Achivi Quae igitur intemporiae illos tenent What kind of phrensie therefore possesseth these men who being not void of reason will not be instructed by experience the Mistress of unreasonable creatures for the Fish escaping the hook will carefully beware of the fatal bait And as the Satyrist