Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	abolish_n	destroy_v	great_a	17	3	2.0871	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78664	Aurea dicta. The gratious words of King Charles I. of glorious memory: for the Protestant religion of the Church of England. / Collected out of [Eikon basilike].; Eikon basilike. Selections.	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1682 (1682)	Wing C2150A; ESTC R225066	8,372	22

AUREA DICTA THE Gratious Words Of King CHARLES I. Of Glorious Memory For the Protestant Religion OF THE Church of England Collected out of ΕἸΚῺΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΉ If once the Goodness and Equity of the Prince comes to be truly understood by the People the Authority of the Faction is extinguished Dec. Def. OXFORD Printed by L. Lichfield for John Barksdale Bookseller in Cirencester Anno Domini 1682. AVREA DICTA The Gratious Words of King Charles the First For the Protestant Religion of the Church of England Collected out of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I. Vpon His Majesties calling the Parliament 1642. THe odium and offences which some mens rigor or remissness in Church and State had contracted upon My Government I resolved to have expiated by such Laws and regulations for the future as might not only rectify what was amiss in practice but supply what was defective in the Constitution no man having a greater zeal to see Religion setled and preserved in truth unitie and order than My self whom it most concerns both in piety and policy as knowing That no flames of civil dissentions are more dangerous than those which make Religious pretensions the grounds of Factions I resolved to Reform what I should by free and full advise in Parliament be convinced to be amiss and to grant whatever my Reason and Conscience told me was fit to be desired I wish I had kept my self within those bounds and not suffered my own Judgment to have been overborn in some things more by others importunity than their arguments my Confidence had less betrayed my self and my Kingdoms to those advantages which some men sought for who wanted nothing but Power and Occasion to do Mischief But our Sins being ripe there was no preventing of God's Justice from reaping that Glory in our Calamities which we rebid him of in our Prosperity VI. Vpon His Majesties Retirement from Westminster I can be contented to recede much from my own interests and personal Rights of which I conceive my self to be Master but in what concerns Truth Justice the Rights of the Church and my Crown together with the general Good of my Kingdoms all which I am bound to prese●ve as much as morally lies in me here I am and ever shall be fixt and resolute nor shall any man gain my Consent to that wherein my heart gives my tongue or hand the lye nor will I be brought to affirm to men what in my Conscience I denyed before God VIII Vpon His Majesties Repulse at Hull I desire always more to remember I am a Christian than a King For what the Majestie of one might justly abhor the Charity of the other is willing to bear what the height of a King tempteth to revenge the Humility of a Christian teacheth to forgive keeping in compass all those impotent passions whose excess injures a man more than his greatest Enemies can For these give the Malice a full impression on our Souls which otherwise cannot reach very far nor do us much hurt IX Upon raising Armies against the King The bill against Root and Branch was brought on by tumultuary Clamors and Schismatical Terrors which could never pass till both Houses were sufficiently thinned and over awed To which partiality while in all Reason Justice and Religion my Conscience forbids me by consenting to make up their Votes to Acts of Parliament I must now be urged with an Army and constrained either to hazard my own and my Kingdoms ruine by my defence or prostrate my Conscience to the blind obedience of those men whose zealous superstition thinks or pretends they cannot do God and the Church a greater Service than utterly to destroy that Primitive and Apostolical and Anciently Universal Government of the Church by Bishops Which if other mens judgment binds them to maintain or forbids them to consent to the abolishing of it mine much more who besides the grounds I have in my judgment have also a most strict and indispensable Oath upon my Conscience to preserve that Order and the Rights of the Church To which most sacrilegious and abhorred Perjury most unbeseeming a Christian King should I ever by giving my consent be betrayed I should account it infinitely greater misery than any hath or can befall me XI Vpon the Nineteen Propositions Many of them savour very strong of that old leaven of Innovations masked under that name of Reformation which in my two last famous Predecessor's tune threatned both Prince and Parliaments but I am sure was never wont so far to infect the whole mass of the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdome however dispersed among the Vulgar Nor will I consent to more than Reason Justice Honour and Religion perswade me to be for Gods Glory the Churches good my Peoples welfare and my own Peace I will Study to satisfy my Parliament and my People but I will never for fear or flattery gratify any Faction how potent soever XIII Upon the coming in of the Scots The Coming again of that Party into England with an Army only to conform this Church to their late new model cannot but seem as unreasonable as they would have thought the same measure offered from hence to them Nor do I know any such tough and malignant humours in the constitution of the English Church which gentler Applications than those of an Army might not easily have removed Nor is it so proper to hewo ut Religious Reformations by the Sword as to polish them by fair and equal disputations among those that are most concerned in the differences whom not force but reason ought to convince Wise and Learned Men think that nothing hath more marks of Schism and Sectarism than this Presbyterian way both as to the ancient and still most universal way of the Church-Government and specially as to the particular Laws and Constitutions of this English Church which are not yet repeated nor are like to be for me till I see more rational and Religious motives I think my self so much the more bound in Conscience to attend the Church's Good with the most judicious zeal and care by how much I esteem the Church above the State the Glory of Christ above mine own and the salvation of mens Souls above the preservation of their Bodies and Estates Sure the Church of England might have purchased at a far cheaper rate the truth and happiness of a reformed Government and Discipline if it had been wanting tho it had entertained the best Divines of Christendom for their advice in a full and free Synod which I was ever willing to and desirous of that matters being impartially setled might be more satisfactory to all and more durable XIV Vpon the Covenant Altho I am unsatisfied with many passages in that Covenant some referring to my self with very dubious and dangerous limitations yet I chiefly wonder at the design and drift touching the Discipline and Government of the Church Nor can I see how they will reconcile such an innovating Oath and