Selected quad for the lemma: faith_n

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
A68512	A warning agaynst the dangerous practises of papistes and specially the parteners of the late rebellion. Gathered out of the common feare and speche of good subiectes. Sene and allowed.	Norton, Thomas, 1532-1584.	1569 (1569)	STC 18685.7; ESTC S113364	44,769	112

alway to be noted that the Prince is so not a priuate but a publike person as no attempt against her safetie can or ought to be accompted a priuate cause The full proofe and larger explication of these conclusions though it be easy as a thing which not onely all conuenientie of reason affirmeth but also dayly experience laieth before all mens eyes that haue a frée consideration not accombred with corrupt zeale and affection so yet surely were it a méete thing to be handled by some such man as could adde thereto such ornaments of speche such strength of eloquence and pith of persuasion as myght not onely be vnderstoode beleued but be felt mouel Here any most excellent orators special-vertues might be well employed A fit argument sure it were to shewe witte and knowledge but specially truth and good meaning But till some fitte person shall take in hand to bestow his more profitable trauayle that way let vs yet for vnlading of some of the abundance of our entier deuotion for Gods truth for her maiestie and our countrey haue some remembrance of the particularities thereof For the first article that defineth papistes that accuseth thē of treason to God to kings and to realmes if it be well weyed it can not but quickly be séene for vndouted truth Though it be true that euery one that holdeth any one error or article of doctrine that the Pope teacheth varying from the worde of God is in that article a papist as for example the heresie of transubstantiation the blasphemie of popish masse or any such other yet compt I not euery such a one wholy a papist within compasse of this article that is vnder title of a traitorous 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 diocesces as it hath proudly claimed vsurped and that Christians are bound to referre their fayth vnto it and to hang vpon the Popes determinations Many men otherwise good honest subiectes are not yet purged of all errors wherwith Rome hath infected them must haue their tyme to be better instructed But those that are perfect Papistes that publish the Pope to be head of the church which yet in dede is no member of the true church and would haue vs with an implicite bond faith to depend vpon that sea for that reason will refuse by all lawful meanes to confesse the right of Princes in their kingdomes ouer all their subiectes they be perfect traitors in deede yea and the learned sort of them be wilfull heretikes traitors For though in the darke tymes when controuersies of religion were not brought into searching the streame of error caried men awaye without douting yet since that by debating the light hath bene euidently opened and men haue sought and throughly examined the matter there is no learned papist but he knoweth he mainteineth error and in defending and spreading the same he defendeth and spreadeth and so directly aduisedly wilfully and maliciously putteth in execution to his vttermost power hye treasons against God against kinges and kingdomes Against God I cal them treasons though our law the iudge of ciuil treasons in England haue no such name because the nature of the offence so properly receaueth that title and also the vsuall name of hye treason in iure gentium in the common law of nations and in other languages doth so playnely expresse it Hye treasons are in their true nature offences against hye maiestie that is either to the destruction of the persons or denyall and defacement of the iust dignities and authorities of those that beare the name of maiestie and to whom the hyest dutie of obedience faith and alleageance extendeth And therefore is treason called Crimen lesae maiestatis the crime of violating or abating of maiestie Greater maiestie than the maiestie of God can not be therefore hyer and verier treasons then against God can not be His person can not be destroyed or touched his dignitie honor glorie and authoritie may be sclaundered and blasphemed and his subiectes that is mortall men may be withdrawen from their due obedience and drawen into rebellion against him And this I say is hye treason to God to violate or abate the maiestie of God and this do papistes For though God be king of the whole world and so is rightly called the Lord by vniuersall name yea euen of deuilles yet is hys chirch hys more proper and certaine kingdome whereby he is more restrainedly and aptly called our king and our father and so more fitly called our head in respect of the body which is his chirch and not the rest of the worlde In this kingdome hys hyest dignitie is to be the onely head thereof which the Papistes take from him and deriue it to their Pope And though with gloses they excuse it that theyr Popes take it not from God 〈…〉 vnder God as his vicars yet must they be admonished that wythout sufficient deputation and warrant from the kyng himselfe which the Pope hath not the subiect to thrust himselfe into gouernance of the kingdome is hye treason where he that being a stranger would seke to conquere it were but an enemy And so is it rightly to be sayd that the Turke is to God an enemy and the Pope is to God a traytor and all his adherentes principall traytors for treason admitteth no accessaries Also one great part of Gods maiestie standeth in making of lawes to gouerne his kingdome that hys shéepe shall heare hys voyce and no strangers Against which poynt of maiestie as it is hye treason to publish lawes and proclamations in ciuile kynges names against their wyll so are papistes hye traytors in publishing and receauing lawes proclamations and decrées from a climing and vsurping tyrant to bynde Gods subiectes the chirch wythout the wyll and warrant of God Also rebelliously to burne destroy tread downe or deface in great contempt the commissions and lawes of temporall kynges is an hye offence against maiestie and therefore papistes that dishonor and discredit the word of God and destroy the bookes thereof are hye offenders agaynst hys maiestie Also hie treason it is for the subiect to leuie warre agayst hys soueraigne and to destroy hys lande hys faythfull subiectes and true liege people And therefore Papistes in their persecuting and murderyng of Christians with open hostilitie haue shewed themselues hye traytors to the vniuersall King of Christians Also where the counterfaityng of princes handes and coynes and the clipping and abating the value of their true coynes and the vttering of such forged and abated coine is hie treason what lesse name than hye treason agaynst God can we geue to papistes that haue counterfait the writing and coynes of God and geuen out false commissions false patentes and false charters in stede of his worde that clippe from the dignitie