Selected quad for the lemma: faith_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	apostle_n	church_n	creed_n	6,767	5	10.3283	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63112	Truth vindicated, or, A detection of the aspersions and scandals cast upon Sir Robert Clayton and Sir George Treby, Justices, and Slingsby Bethell and Henry Cornish, Esquires, sheriffs of the city of London, in a paper published in the name of Dr. Francis Hawkins, minister of the Tower, intituled, The confession of Edward Fitz-Harris, Esq., &c. the coppy of which paper is herewith printed for the readers clearer judgment in the case.	Treby, George, Sir, 1644?-1700.; Fitzharris, Edward, 1648?-1681. Confession.	1681 (1681)	Wing T2107; ESTC R11729	17,499	36

should upon pretence of his private Conference with a Papist Attainted of Treason publish in Print to the whole world for Truth That two Justices of the Peace and Two Ministers of Justice High-Sheriffs of the City of London have combin'd with certain Lords and Commons of the Parliament in a horrid Conspiracy against the Queen Duke of York and many Privy-Councellors and in wicked Practices against the Papists and endeavoured to prevail with Fitz-Harris to perjure himself by forming a plausible Story to confirm the Popish Plot. We say again That a Dr. of our Church should cause to be sent into all Kingdoms and Countries such black Scandals of so many Persons of Quality and Authority in our Kingdom to render them as much as in him is more infamous and odious than words can express at this we were struck with horror and so much the more when we consider that the Doctor was not ignorant that these pretended Words or Confessions of Fitz-Harris were contrary to his most solemn Oaths Sworn before the King's Ministers as well as before those Justices and that all the Commons of England in Parliament had by Order caused what he had so Sworn to be Published And the Doctor could not be ignorant that the whole scope of that Mock Confession was to throw the Odium of a Plot against the King's Person upon some Protestants and to discredit and prevent the prosecution of the Popish Plot. The Doctor also might with very little pains have satisfied himself by undoubted Evidence of the Falshood of several of the matters of Fact in the Confession and surely his Function as a Divine his Duty as a Neighbour and much more as a Christian required that he should in some kind have heard at least some of the parties accused in their own behalf to whom he might have had easie access before he had proclaim'd them to the world to be guilty of such infamous Crimes He cannot excuse himself for want of Time this Mock Confession was taking and forming as we can prove a Week at least before Fitz-Harris's Death And we have reason to think that the miserable deluded man understood many things in it as they were modell'd as little as he did the Doctrine of the Four General Councils which he owned for his Faith whosoever put it upon him But the Doctor took care that none of the parties accused might see the arrows intended to wound them till their good names should feel them and therefore kept his Confession in secret until the poor wretch was dead and cold that would perhaps have shewed the fraud with his last breath if he had been absolutely certain that it was to be his last but that the Doctor assured him of the contrary even very near his last hours in due time will be proved The Sheriffs at the Gallows remembred Fitz-Harris of his promise made to each of them in Newgate That if they did put him to death before he could discover to the Parliament what was yet undiscovered of the Popish Plot which he said he reserved for them he would leave it behind him in writing He answered them That he had left it with Dr. Hawkins The Sheriffs demanded of the Doctor that it might be read to the people whilst the man was living to own it but the Doctor only refused it not the Man how he was awed we know not then the Sheriffs demanded a Copy of it from the Doctor as their due as what belonged to Fitz-Harris but after some shuffling answers that he had it not about him and that a Great man had it he promised them a Copy but either he thought he was not bound by his promise or else he made no conscience of breaking the Bond. We doubt not but time will bring to light the whole contrivance of obtruding upon the world this Mock-confession and make it appear that Dr. Hawkins or Hawksworth knew that Fitz-Harris never intended it should pass for a true and real Confession if he died for the Treason And perhaps for that reason there was no one person of Quality or Authority about the Tower or any other of eminency and integrity called in all the days of its contrivance before whom Fitz-harris might own any article of the Confession though doubtless if there had been only fair dealing the Doctor must needs have desired it for his own safety and credit nor is it accountable why it was not done it may be also those two obscure men and the woman whose names are set to the Printed Paper as Witnesses knew no more what the Confession and Declaration was which Fitz-Harris protested to them he had made to Dr. Hawkins freely than the Sheriffs knew what the further discovery was of the Popish Plot which he also told them with his dying breath he had left with Dr. Hawkins no shadow of any such discovery having yet been produced by him but on the contrary this odious Sham-confession to perswade the world that the noise of Popish Plots hath been from the wicked practises of some Protestants We have only left to pray That the God of Truth may bring to light all the hidden works of darkness that no wicked device form'd against the Protestant Religion his Majesty and the Kingdom may ever prosper and let every good man say Amen FINIS The Confession of Edward Fitz-harys Esq I Edward Fitz-harys having been indicted of High-Treason for endeavouring to dethrone the KING was thereupon found guilty and Sentence of death passed upon me I the aforesaid Edward Fitz-harys do voluntarily and freely without any hopes to save my Life but as a dying man and to discharge my Conscience towards God and for the better satisfaction of the world make this Declaration following in the presence of God and unto Dr. Francis Hawkins Chaplain of the Tower of London I do profess and declare my Religion in the general to be that which hath been truly and anciently delivered in the first Four General Councils and in particular my Belief is that true Faith of a Christian briefly contained in those Three Creeds commonly called The Apostle's Creed St. Athanasius's and The Nicene Creed And I die a Member and in the Communion of Christ's Holy Catholick Church hoping for Mercy through the alone Merits of the Passion of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ I do also confess and declare as to the Crimes which I die for I was no further concerned in the Libel than as employed to give the King notice of what Libel or other Accusations there were against him and to this intent and no other I endeavoured to get this Libel which at length I did from Mr. Everard all written under his own hand and carried it to Mrs. Wall by whose means I conveyed all matters of this or the like nature to the King I told her I had a business of great consequence to acquaint the King with but she answered me That my Lord Sunderland being out there would be no Money