Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	king_n	lord_n	people_n	7,099	5	4.7514	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01990	The character of a Williamite		1690 (1690)	Wing C2002A; ESTC R176357	1,551	1

The Character of a WILLIAMITE HE is One who being lately Bug-bear'd out of his Wits fancies himself still haunted by the frightful Ghost of Popery He is always in Company tormenting a Man's Ears with some dismal Story and tells you more Romantick Lyes than ever stood on Popish Legend for the Holy Promotion of Protestant Religion Three times a Day at least he says over little Chiswell's News-Book with much more Devotion than his Prayers and by a strong Faith and the hungry Fryars Blessing Be thou Fish enters it into his Creed He piously commends Treachery and Rebellion to THE LORD' 's DOING and will not be satisfied unless Providence work another miraculous Defection to make IT MORE MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES He derives his venerable Name from a Rigid Presbyterian and by consequence does not hold himself obliged to Solemn Oaths or any Sacred Tyes whatever He has entertained so deep a Love for the Second Commandment that he is willing to part with any of the rest in Exchange for it Under pretence of rooting out Idolatry from off the Earth he encourages Children to commit Paricide and in bold Defiance to the Fifth Commandment Prays That their Days may be long in the Land He roundly maintains the Doctrine of Passive Obedience by quietly suffering his Lawful Sovereign to be drove out of his Dominions by Troops of Treacherous Subjects and Crueller Strangers With David he sometimes complains on a sudden Gripe of his Spirit That ye have not kept the Lord 's Anointed but it is only because ye have given him a fair Opportunity to recover his own just Rights again As appears by his late strange Defending the King's Title that is by taking a New Oath of Allegiance to the Usurper with a formal Declaration that has no other meaning in it that I know of than ●●at he will stand by the Present Unlawful Possessors of the Crown with his Life 〈…〉 Fortune though it be against the plain Dictates of his Conscience He wipes 〈…〉 Mouth in Innocency and crys I had no hand in the Expulsion of my Prince but 〈…〉 trusts in God he shall never see the Restauration He views the Miscarriages of 〈…〉 ●nfortunate Master through a magnifying Glass but turns the Prospective to 〈…〉 on the woful Miseries have attended his own Creatures unnatural Invasion He never speaks of the Bishops being sent to the Tower without Horror and Amazement but is now very well contented to have them Suspended and Doubts not to see them Deprived for their malignant Scrupling to Perjure themselves in their own Preservation He is a mighty Stickler for the Liberty and Property of the Subject and yet tyrannically commands us to make a New Covenant with the Government for what all the Laws of the Land have already assured us is Meum and Tuum And all this to give us no better a Title to our Estates than One has to the Crown he wears which is to last so long as we give the Dutch Task-makers leave to Lord it over our Souls and Bodies He confirms every Body in the Belief that Things are too far gon ever to think of King JAMES's Return into England and at the same Time has a Disturst he may prove no Conjurer And therefore represents Him as a Common Enemy the Hater of his People and scares you with Fire and Fagot and the Lord knows what to call in your help to fulfil his malitious Prophecy You will find him Flattering and Fawning upon every little Seclary and has quite worn off that stiff rugged Humour of admitting none into his Communion but upon the Terms of Christ's Institution that he is now willing to depart from all the Antichristian Rites of Decency and ever since he has heard of the Restitution of Presbyters into the Church of Scotland begins to talk with a great deal of Indifferency about his very Episcopal Ordination well knowing the Reforming Spirit of our Governours Nay he is grown so Gentle and Complying that he has laid aside the distinguishing Character of the Church of England I mean his Loyalty as a Title too Invidious and Unsafe for a Protestant Church to glory in and does now without a Blush own himself as Religious a Rebel as the greatest Fanatick Zealot in England to hold the Faith in Unity of Spirit in the Bond of Peace Nam quis Peccandi finem posuit sibi quando recepit Ejectum semel attritâ de fronte ruborem