Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	ambassador_n	king_n	send_v	1,522	5	5.9615	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36088	A Discourse concerning the grounds & causes of this miserable civill war wherein Ireland is exhausted, England wasted, and Scotland likely to be imbroyled, and wherein not only liberty but religion is endangered, &c.		1644 (1644)	Wing D1587; ESTC R15277	28,919	40

because they honour Calvin and are averse from the Pope The name of Protestant also is to be appropriated to the King the Nobilitie the Prelates and Vniversities meerely because they hate the Gentry and Commonalty or the Generality therof more then they hate Papists and lastly the Papist and the Protestant that they may be more fully incorporated both of them shall be gratified and their Vnion solemnized as it were with the ruine of the third and most Potent party of the Kingdom This was that great and godly worke which was so magnified by Doctor Heylin and and other Court Chaplaines of late this was that rare bloudy machination which his Grace of Canterbury and the other Grandees of our Church recommended to us as the pious inclination of the times and as a more beautiful restoration of the Gospel then that which Luther and Calvin labour'd to advance Rome had not such pregnant hopes of regaining England fifty yeares agoe for then as a great Romanist complained opposition was made not onely by a puritan-City and a puritan-Parliament but a puritan-Queene also It should seem the City of London was puritanicall from the beginning and so was the Parliament in which two is comprized all that is noble and worthy in the kingdome of England but who would imagine that so inconsiderable a party as the Papists and semi-Papists were in Queene Elizabeths dayes should dare to asperse not only the whole kingdome but even the Queene her selfe and who can wonder if in these times London and the Parliament have new brands of disgrace worse then that of Puritane fixed upon them The King himselfe now appearing against them if they could not goe unbranded when that unparallell'd Lady professed with them yet we cannot ascribe this so much to the policy of the Clergy as the blockishnesse of the Laity that the Hierarchy prevailes so far for if whole Cities whole Parliaments whole Nations are to be conquered with the meere calumnious words of Puritane Roundhead Anabaptist c. Who is able to stand before them can it be imagined that the same faction should forbeare to call us Round-heads which upbraided Q. Elizabeth as a Puritane especially when by their comming upon the King they have gotten that advantage now Which then they had no hopes to get nor can it be imagined that that party will fall from its preferment and hopes rather then to satisfie so sottish a generation it will take the paines to invent one reviling term of scurrility surely the world for these many ages has had better experience both of the malice and subtilty of Rome 3 Thirdly the meanes used for the effecting of this reconciliation and for the sure transacting and close carrying of it on are now to be considered The King it should seeme thought that without all scanda●l he might receive an Embassadour from the Pope as well as from other Catholick Princes and upon the proposition of the same by Panzani himselfe to the Queene and to some others of power about the King by Panzani's friend the thing seemed very reasonable so that the Nuntio to be sent over were no Priest howsoever for more privacies sake it was ordered that the Nuntio should addresse himself to the Queen and not to the King immediately and that the pretended businesse of his addresse should be to mediate a reconciliation betwixt the Regulars and Seculars in England This would better blinde the jealous Puritanes and make the true intent of the negotiation the more involved and the case of Dr. Smith the Bishop of Chalcedon expelled by the persecution of the Iesuites for claiming jurisdiction as Vniversal ordinary in England served well at this time for a specious colour Reason of state none could be alledged for any intercourse betweene England and Rome therfore the Church affairs must be the subject of our Embassie the Iesuites and the Seculars were imbroyled in some contestation t was for the benefit of Rome to appease the heat of it Without all doubt the Romish Councell De propaganda side would not entertaine agents from us to settle union betweene Calvinists and Lutherans or betweene Remonstrants and Contra-Remonstrants but we that have no such councell nor no such designe instead of nourishing enmity amongst our adversaries allay it and in stead of allaying enmity amongst friends nourish it Nothing can more cleerely shew that the Court of England stands not disaffected to the prosperity of Rome then this endevour of making atonement betwixt the opposite Champions of that religion and yet this was but the shell of the designe the kernell had more mischiefe in it for we may understand by our Venetian that Panzani out of his great circumspection and finenesse having matured the businesse of generall reconciliation so well for the further covering of his true designe he did apply himselfe after to his pretended negotiation And therefore upon the 22 of November 1635 almost a yeare after his arrivall here procured some accord betwixt the Seculars and Regulars though the Iesuites would not come in The truth is the Iesuites were then the principall body of the Regulars governing them as they do still also the best families of England nay the very Court it selfe and so they not submitting to the accord 't was but nugatory and a meere umbrage to all the world except the phlegmaticall dull English Nay it is sufficiently proved by our Venetian that all pacification betwixt the Iesuites Regulars is impossible wherupon if Con comply with the Iesuites it is the same thing as if he did abandon the Seculars and it is to be doubted that the businesse of Religion will be rather hindered than promoted thereby And what greaterinstance need we of the Iesuites predominance in Eng. than this that notwithstanding the distast of Canterb. and his deare confident Chichester they can excite the Popes ordinary here nay without all regard to the Colledge of Sorbona to the Popes own interest they dare inveigh not only against the person of some but against the function of all Bishops Wherefore the accommodation betwixt Seculars and Regulars being so useles to Protestants so hopeles to Papists we must not doubt but some designe of more consequence was obscured under that pretext for when we heare that the Pope and Cardinall Barbarini dispatched so many persons of such quality hither that the King stood bare at their audience and manifested so much grace in their reception and that the Q● and all the great Lords and Ladies with extraordinary presents and frequent visits both given and taken studied to do such honor to them the matter in hand cannot seem ordinary T is true the Arch-bishop would not personally treat with Panzani Windebank his creature was to intervene therin neither could Panzani treat with the Archbishop but by Franscis a Sanct Clara his friend on the other side but this was meerely for secrecies sake for we know well what factions soever were in our Court Panzani was