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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	church_n	earth_n	triumphant_a	4,427	5	11.4398	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56192	The Popish royall favourite: or, a full discovery of His Majesties extraordinary favours to, and protections of notorious papists, priestes, Jesuites, against all prosecutions and penalties of the laws enacted against them notwithstanding his many royall proclamations, declarations, and protestations to the contrary: as likewise of a most desperate long prosecuted designe to set up popery, and extirpate the Protestant religion by degrees, in this our kealme [sic] of England, and all His Majesties dominions. Manifested by sundry letters of grace, warrants, writings under the Kings own signe-manuall, privy-signet, his privy-councels, and Secretary Windebanks hands and seals, by divers orders and proceedings in open sessions at Newgate, in the Kings Bench, and elsewhere ... Collected and published by authority of Parliament: by William Prynne, of Lincolns Inne, Esquire.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1643 (1643)	Wing P4039A; ESTC R220569	95,274	89

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And in the French Mercury Tom. 9 Which Letters and Articles of the Spanish Match layd the foundation stone of all his Majesties ensuing favours to Romish Recusants Priests Iesuites and most punctually discover his good affection and inclination to the Roman Party if not to that Religion ever since manifested towards them and abundantly detected by the premises I shall here insert the same as I finde them lately printed in French and English by others The Popes Letter to the King when Prince of Wales and in Spaine MOst Noble Prince Salutation and light of the divine grace Forasmuch as great Brittaine hath alwayes beene fruitfull in Vertues and in men of great worth having filled the one and the other world with the glory of her renoune She doth also very often draw the thoughts of the holy Apostolicall Chaire to the consideration of her praises And indeede the Church was but then in her infancie when the King of Kings did chuse her for his inheritance and so affectionately that we beleeve the Roman Eagles have hardly outpassed the Banner of the Crosse. Besides that many of her kings instructed in the knowledge of the true salvation have preferred the Crosse before the Royall Scepter and the Discipline of Religion before covetcousnesse leaving examples of Piety to other Nations and to the ages yet ●o come So that having merited the Principalities and first places of blessednesse in Heaven they have obtained on Earth the Triumphant ornaments of true holines And although now the State of the English Church is altered we see neverthelesse the Court of Great Brittain adorned and furnished with morall Vertues which might serve to support the Charity that we beare unto her and be an Ornament to the name of Christianity if withall she could have for her defence and protection the Orthodox and Catholike truth Therefore by how much the more the Glory of your most noble Father and the apprehension of your Royall inclination delights us with so much more zeale we desire that the gates of the Kingdome of Heaven might be opened unto you and that you might purchase to your selfe the love of the universall Church Moreover it being certaine that Gregory the great of most blessed memory hath introduced to the English people and taught to their Kings the law of the Gospell and the respect of Apostolicall Authority We as inferiour to him in holinesse and vertue but equall in name and degree of dignity it is very reasonable that we following his blessed footesteps should indeavour the salvation of those Provinces especially at this time when your designe Most noble Prince elevates us to the hope of an extraordinary advantage Therefore as you have directed your journey to Spaine towards the Catholicke King with desire to allie your self to the house of Austria We do much commend your designe and indeed doe testifie openly in this present businesse that you are he that takes the principall care of our Prelacy For seeing that you desire to take in marriage the daughter of Spaine from thence we may easily conjecture that the ancient seedes of Christian Piety which have so happily flourished in the hearts of the Kings of great Brittaine may God prospering them revive againe in your soule And indeed it is not to be beleeved that the same man should love such an alliance that hates the Catholique Religion and should take delight to oppresse the holy Chaire To that purpose we have commanded to make continually most humble prayers to the father of lights that he would be pleased to put you as a faire Flower of Christendome and the onely hope of Great Brittain in possession of that most noble heritage that your Ancestors have purchased for you to defend the Authority of the Soveraign High Priest and to fight against the Monsters of Heresie Remember the dayes of old enquire of your Fathers and they will tell you the way that leads to heaven and what way the temporall Princes have taken to attaine to the everlasting Kingdome Behold the ga●es of Heaven opened the most holy Kings of England who came from England to Rome accompanied with Angels did come to honour and doe homage to the Lord of Lords and to the Prince of the Apostles in the Apostolicall Chaire their actions their examples being as so many voyces of God speaking and exhorting you to follow the course of the lives of those to whose Empire you shall one day attaine Is it possible that you can suffer that the Heretiques should hold them for impious and condemne those that the ●aith of the Church restifies to reigne in the heavens with Iesus Christ and have Command and Authority over all Principallities and Empires of the earth Behold how they tender you the hand of this truely happy inheritance to conduct you safe and sound to the Court of the Catholique King and who desire to bring you back againe into the lap of the Roman Church Beseeching with unpeakeable sighs and groares the God of all mercy for your Salvation and do stretch out to you the Armes of the Apostolicall Charity to imbrace you with all Christian affection You that are her desired Sonne in shewing you the happie hope of the Kingdome of Heaven And indeed you cannot give a greater consolatiō to al the people of the Christian Estates then to put the Prince of the Apostles in possessiō of your most Noble Island whose authority hath bin held so long in the Kingdome of Brittain for the defence of Kingdomes and for a devine Oracle which will easily arrive and that without difficulty if you open your heart to the Lord that knocks upon which depends at the happinesse of that Kingdom It is of our great Charity that we cherish the praises of the Royall Name and that which makes us desire that you and your Royall Father might be stiled with the names of Deliverers and Restorers of the ancient and paternall Religion of Great Britaine which we hope for trusting in the goodnesse of God in whose hands are the hearts of Kings and who causeth the people of the Earth to receive healing to whom we will alwaies labour with all our power to render you gracious and favourable In the interim take notice by these Letters of the care of our Charity which is none other than to procure your happinesse and it will never grieveus to have written them if the reading of them stir but the least spark of the Catholique Faith in the heart of so great a Prince whom we wish to be filled with long continuance of joy and flourishing in the glory of all vertues Given at Rome in the Pallace of S. Peter the 20. of Aprill 1623. in the Third yeare of our Popedome TRes-Noble Prince salut lumiere de la grace divine Com●e ainsi soit que la grand ' Bretagne ait tousiours este abondante en vertus en personna● ges de grand merite ait remply l' vn l' autre