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	scripture_n	tradition_n	15,184	5	9.5685	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52226	News from the sessions-house the tryal, conviction, condemnation and execution of Popery for high-treason : for betraying the kingdom and conspiring the ruin, subversion, and death of the Protestant religion : with her last speech and confession at Tyburn.		1689 (1689)	Wing N1014A; ESTC R218861	5,444	4

NEWS from the Sessions-House THE Tryal Conviction Condemnation and Execution OF POPERY FOR High-Treason IN Betraying the Kingdom and Conspiring the Ruin Subversion and Death of the Protestant Religion WITH Hee last Speech and Confession at Tyburn A Commission of Oyer and Terminer being issued forth for the Tryal of Popery the Judges repaired to the Bench and the Court being set after Proclamation made for silence the Tryal thus proceeded Clerk of the Crown Jayler set Popery to the Bar. Popery hold up thy hand here thou standest Indicted by the name of Popery late of the City of Rome in the Province of Babylon not having the fear of God before thine Eyes but being moved by the instigation of the Devil didst of thine own free will voluntarily create make and devise several damnable Principles and Diabolical Practices contrary to the Word of God pernicious to mankind and repugnant to human Society and thou the said Popery to further thy aforesaid devices the duty of thy Allegiance not weighing didst as a false Traytor against our Sacred and most Illustrious Prince Counterfeit his broad Seal and thereby with Force and Arms didst Seal up his Majesties Laws both Civil and Divine and instead thereof didst Command Obedience to thy Devilish Intentions and the aforementioned Popery thoroughly to accomplish thy aforesaid designs didst with Force and Arms aforesaid Usurpatiously endeavour to exalt thy self in the said City of Rome equal with God Blasphemously saying thou couldest Pardon Sins Damn c. And thou the said Popery didst with the Devil combine by his Assistance to allure entice and enforce Kings Queens and Princes to retain thy Damnable Religion to the utter destruction of their faithful Subjects and whereas many Royal hearted Christians ejected and opposed thy Erroneous Principles thou the said Popery didst Savagely and Inhumanely Invade their Nations Assassinate Kings Murdered thousands Burned their Cities Robbed their Houses against the Peace of our Soveraign Lord the King his Crown and Dignity and against the Laws and Statutes made and provided in that Case What sayest thou for thy self Popery Art thou Guiley of these Treasons Rebellions Murthers c. whereof thou standest Indicted or not Guilty Pop. Not Guilty Cl. of Cr. Culprit How wilt thou be Tryed Pop. By God and my Country Cl. of Cr. God send the a good deliverance Cl. of Cr. Popery these men that thou hast here called and personally appear are to pass between our Soveraign Lord the King and you upon Tryal of your Life and Death if therefore you will Challenge them or any of them your time is to speak as they come to the Book to be Sworn and before they are Sworn Cryer call Holy Scriptures Popery My Lord I except against him there is a sufficient Gentleman stands by pray let him be put in his place L. C. J. What is his Name Pop. Good-works L. C. J. You must not be your own chuser but that you may have as fair Tryal as can be he shall be one No other being challenged the Names of the Jury that were sworn are as follows Righteousness Evangelists Sacraments Good-works Hope Faith Charity Protestantism Impartiality Judgment Fathers Mercy Cl. of Cr. Cryer Count these Righteousness Cryer One and so the rest Twelve good men and true stand together and hear your Evidence Cl. of Cr. Cryer make Proclamation Cryer O Yes if any will give Evidence for our Soveraign Lord the King against Popery Prisoner at the Bar let him come forth and he shall be heard for the Prisoner stands at the Bar upon his deliverance Cl. of Cr. You Gentlemen of the Jury look upon the Prisoner at the Bar and hear his Cause he stands Indicted by the name of Popery late of the City of Rome in the Province of Babylon upon his Indictment he hath been Arraigned and there unto hath pleaded Not Guilty and for his Tryal hath put himself upon God and his Country whose Country ye are your Charge is to enquire whether he be Guilty in the manner and form that he stands Indicted or not Guilty Att. Gen. May it please your Lordship and you Gent. of the Jury Popery stands here Indicted of Great and Hainous Crimes yet not greater than hath been by him committed it is not unknown to us that he is of the Race and Progeny of Cain and his Murthers are greater than have been perpetrated by any since the Creation of the world that he might the more plausibly Commit his Villanies he hath shaded himself under the serene Veil of Christianity what name so lovely as Jesus yet whose operations so odious as Jesuits he hath also stiled himself with Istud nomen Blasphemiae Universal which he says he derived Successively from Saint Peter tho' it will puzzle his greatest Doctors to prove that Peter was ever at Rome Thus having strengthned himself in Iniquity Usurping over Kings and Princes bringing people and Nations into Thraldom and Slavery thought Nature had given him a perpetual writ of Ease and made every part of the Christian world feel his Tyranny But as the Jews who sold Christ for thirty pieces of Silver came at last themselves to be sold thirty for a penny so shall he know that the Arm of Vengeance hath been long lifted up that it may now fall down the heavier upon him To prove the Indictment we might call many witnesses but we shall call only some principal ones and first Sir Naked Truth who hath been greatly persecuted by him Cl. of Cr. Cryer call Sir Naked Truth Cryer My Lord here is the Gentleman which was thrust out from being one of the Jury desires to know whether he may give Evidence against the Prisoner at the Bar L. C. J. Who Holy Scriptures Cryer Yes my Lord. L. C. J. Holy Scriptures what can'st thou say against the Prisoner at the Bar Holy Script My Lord Popery now Prisoner at the Bar hath broached many damnable Heresies contrary to the word of God and particularly that it is not a Rule of Faith but as a Nose of wax to be turned which way the Church pleases whereas the word of God saith that all Scripture is given by Divine inspiration yet he wickedly prefers his own Carnal Traditions before it as also his Principles are directly against the Ten Commandments Against the first in making a God of the Bread in the Sacrament Against the Second in bowing down thereunto Aeainst the Third by profane Swearing by God and the Saints Against the Fourth in preferring his Saints days which are of his own Institution before the Sabbath which is of Divine Against the Fifth in declaring that Children of his Religion owe not Obedience to their Parents which are not of the same Against the Sixth in maintaining the lawfulness of Robbing Plundering and endeavouring to Ruin by Firing Houses or otherwise all those that are not of his Opinion Against the Seventh in setting up and allowing of common Stews c. Against the Eighth in bloody and inhuman