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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	church_n	doctrine_n	err_v	4,912	5	9.7791	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07909	A vvatch-vvoord to Englande to beware of traytours and tretcherous practises, which haue beene the ouerthrowe of many famous kingdomes and common weales. Written by a faithfull affected freend to his country: who desireth God long to blesse it from traytours, and their secret conspiracyes. Séene and allowed, according to the order appointed in the Quéenes iniunctions.	Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1584 (1584)	STC 18282; ESTC S112941	79,185	110

his shéep both such as they haue destroyed and such as they may destroie by any possibilitie héereafter Item that all aduises to great personages to perswade neutralitie or an entertaining of contrarie sides in Religion with vncertainty of countenaunce and fauour is the waie to supplant assured safetie to make sure enimies and vnsure fréendes to lye open to parasites and traitours to be vnknowne to other and to be vnable to discerne what other be to them Item that timerous policie is the wurst policie that may be whatsoeuer the cause be good or bad and wurst of all it is in best causes Wherein as her Maiestie hath neither want of constaunt magnanimitie nor cause of feare so is it méete that her enimies haue no stomacke to contemne her nor by excesse of clemencie to misconstrue her goodnesse as lacke of daring Item that by the great nouelties and alterations of times that haue happened within our memorie there is risen a cōmon policie among the people to ioyne to strong and safe sides whereby they are aliened from the fearefull and therefore it is to be prouided that there be a boldnesse of safetie to serue the Quéenes Maiestie truelie and zealouslie and an assurednesse of daunger to her enimies Item by boldnesse and sharpe execution vpon enimies the fréendes are encouraged and contrariwise if the daūgerous traitour be not remooued the true Subiect may be left in perill and thereby the rest of good Subiects disabled or at least discouraged to venter so farre againe and the fréedome of consultation in the meane time for preseruing the Prince impeached Item that it is as truelie saide Improbum hominem praestat non accusasse quam absoluere It is better not to meddle with a daungerous naughtie man then to let him goe for what were it else but to set an house on fire and run away by the light Item that occasions and ●●tte oportunities ouer slipped are not recouerable Item that many times it is as small an offence to giue a warrant to kill a true man as to pardon a murderer or a traitour as a wise Shéepheard will rather giue leaue to a Hunter to kill the best Lambe in his flocke then to let goe a Fore or a Woolfe Item that the liues of Kinges and Princes are the liues and soules of their Kingdoms and Common weales whereby they are to consider that in being prodigall of their owne safeties in excesse of clemencie to traitours or in securitie of exposing their personnes to perilles Largiuntur ex alieno they be liberall of that which is not their owne to giue Item that no Traitour is more perillous then he that wresteth the Lawe to raise an vnderminer of the Princes Crowne to her daunger Item that he is iustlie to be suspected that shall practise with any vaine deuise of pacification or coullored clemencie to rebate or blunt the edge of the Princes sword or so to tye it in the scabberd that it may not be drawne for her defence as if such qualifiers hiders and cloakers should séeke to abuse that most reuerend and holie figure of Maiestie to no good end or other end then God ordained it Item that God cannot well take it if he be lesse zealouslie serued then the deuill that there be lesse feruencie shewed by truelie learned Princes for auauncing of Gods honour against his enimies then hath béen by abused and deceiued Princes for setting vp of the kingdome of the deuill and Antichrist Item that Gods commaundements of placabilitie and forgiuenesse extend to our owne enimies but not to his enimies against reuenge of priuate displeasures and not against seueritie and sharpe execution in cases of Gods honour and Common weales wherein is alwayes to be noted that the Prince is so not a priuate but a publique person as no attempt against her Maiesties safetie can or ought to be accounted a priuate cause The full proofe and large explication of these conclusions though it be easie as a thing which not onelie all conueniencie of reason affirmeth but also daylie experience laieth before all mens eyes that haue a frée consideration not accombred with corrupt zeale and affection so yet surelie were it a méete thing to be handled by some man as could adde thereto such ornamentes of spéeche such strength of eloquence and pith of perswasion as might not onelie be vnderstoode and beléeued but be felt and mooue Héere any most excellent Orators speciall vertues might be well imployed A fit argument sure it were to shewe wit and knowledge but speciallie trueth good meaning But tyll some fit person shall take it in hand to bestowe his more profitable trauaile that waie let vs yet for vnlading of some of the aboundaunce of intire deuotion for Gods trueth for her most excellent Maiestie and our Countrie haue some remembraunce of the particularities thereof For the first article that defineth Papistes that accuseth them of treason to God to Kinges and to Realmes if it be well weied it cannot but quicklie be séen for vndoubted trueth Though it be true that euerie one that holdeth any one error or article of doctrine that the Pope teacheth varying from the word of God is in that article a Papist as for example the heresie of Transubstantiation the blasphemie of popishe Masse or any such other yet count I not euerie such a one wholie a Papist within compasse of this article that is vnder the title of a traiterous Papist But such a one as holdeth all the Popes doctrine to be true that the Romane Church erreth not that it hath rightfully such superioritie and primacie in others Kingdomes and Dioceses as it hath proudlie claimed and vsurped and that Christians are bound to referre their faith vnto it and to hang vpon the Popes determinations Many men otherwise good and honest Subiectes are not purged of all errors wherewith Rome hath infected them and must haue their time to be better instructed But those that are perfect Papistes that publishe the Pope to be head of the Church which yet in déede is no member of the true Church and would haue vs with an implicite and bonde faith to depend vpon that Sea and for that reason will refuse by all meanes to confesse the right of Princes in their Kingdomes ouer all their Subiectes they be perfect traytours in déede yea and the learned sort of them be wilfull Heretikes and Traitours For though in the darke times when controuersies of Religion were not brought into searching the streame of error carried men away without doubting yet since that by debating the light hath béene euidentlie opened and men haue sought and throughlie examined the matter there is no learned Papist but he knoweth that he maintaineth error and in defending and spreading the same he defendeth spreadeth and so directlie aduisedlie wilfullie and maliciouslie putteth in execution to his vttermost power high treasons against