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	sovereign_a	12,705	5	9.8164	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39341	A clergy-man of the Church of England his vindication of himself for reading His Majesties late declaration. With allowance.	Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.	1688 (1688)	Wing E665; ESTC R214796	1,656	2

A CLERGY-MAN OF THE Church of England His Vindication of Himself for Reading His Majesties Late DECLARATION With Allowance THo' my Averseness from all appearance of Opposition to Our Most Reverend Metropolitan and the Reverend Bishop of this Diocess made me Resolve as I acquainted a Learned man in Answer to a Letter I lately received from him that I would not Publish any thing upon ●…ion of this Great Controversy yet upon Second Thoughts of My Duty 〈◊〉 Our Gracious Sovereign and the Regard I ought to have to My own Reputation in reference to that Apostolical Injunction Let no man Despise 〈◊〉 I now Resolve to make known to the World what Reasons I had to 〈◊〉 the DECLARATION I receiv'd it from the hands of the Totness-Apparitor without the Least doubt or scruple but that it came from my Lord Bishop of Exeter I read it the Sunday after I receiv'd it The Saturday following I receiv'd a Letter from the Apparitor acquainting me that it was my Lord Bishops Pleasure that I should not Read the DECLARATION Since that time I have often said that I shall not make the least scruple to Read it again if I shall receive an Order so to do from the KING or the Bishops And yet amongst a Multitude of the Foulest Calumnies imaginable that have been rais'd against ●…e upon this Occasion this is one that I am so vext and disquieted in mind for ●…aving read this DECLARATION that I am like to be quite Distracted ●…rough Anguish that ever I did such a thing This is so Prodigious a Lye at GOD is my Witness I never had the least Inclination to Repent of it ●…ave written to several Learned men of the Church of England that in a ●●ere Desire to keep a Conscience void of Offence both towards GOD 〈◊〉 towards Men I resolv'd to submit to this Order upon these and the 〈◊〉 Considerations That Our Sovereign Lord the King has a Right to Declare or make known his Mind as to any Matter whatsoever to every ●…e of his Subjects And Consequently that he has a Right to Constrain ●…l Priests and Deacons to be his Instruments to make his Mind known by ●…eading any DECLARATION c. I was prompted to these thoughts my Remembrance of those words of St. Gregory which I took special 〈◊〉 of Twenty years since St. Greg. Regist L. 2. Ep 62. Greg. Gregorius Mauricio Augusto Ego quidem Jussioni Subjectus eandem Legem per diversas terrarum pa●… transmitti feci quia Lex ipsa Omnipotenti Deo minime concordat ecce per 〈◊〉 gestionis meae paginam serenissimis Dominis nunciavi Utrobique ergo quae d●… exolui qui Imperatori Obedientiam praebui pro Deo quod sensi minime t●… Since I am subject to Your Command I caus'd the Law you had sent me 〈◊〉 be dispers'd through diverse parts of the World and because the Law it self i●… so agreeable to the Will of Almighty God behold I have declar'd the same by 〈◊〉 Paper which suggests my Reasons And by doing so I have in both regards pa●… Duty I ow'd while I both perform my Obedience to the Emperour and 〈◊〉 known my sentiments in relation to God. I suppose all the Learned Clergy of the Church of England know w●… saying this is If the Exemption from Obedience be not as Eviden●… 〈◊〉 the Command to Obey it must needs be Sin not to Obey This I 〈◊〉 fastly Believe and therefore I am Resolv'd by the Help of God to do 〈◊〉 thing that His Majesty shall Command Me unless I find it to be of s●… nature that I shall be ready to Declare to His Majesty and All the W●… that I am so Confident that the performance of such an Action wou●… 〈◊〉 Contrary to the Law of God Declar'd in the Holy Scriptures or to 〈◊〉 Law of the Land or to some Canon or Constitution Ecclesiastical that I 〈◊〉 be ready to lay down my Life in Testimony that my refusing to do 〈◊〉 the King Commands is not in Disobedience to Him but in True ●…ence to the King of Kings And with this Resolution I Pity all my ●…mies and I Desire my Friends not to be Troubled when they hear M●… Bitterly Censur'd and Revil'd but to Consider that some of the Rep●… that are Dayly cast upon Me make Me expressly Conformable to th●…●…ferings of Our Blessed LORD of whom it was said He hath a Dev●… 〈◊〉 is MAD why hear ye him Edmund Ellis Rector of East-Alling in Devon. FINIS LONDON Printed and Publish'd by Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall 1●●●