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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	charles_n	king_n	lewis_n	2,106	5	10.5351	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65948	Constantinus redivivus, or, A full account of the wonderful providences, and unparallell'd successes that have all along attended the glorious enterprises of the heroical prince, William the 3d, now King of Great Britain, &c. wherein are many curious passages relating to the intrigues of Lewis the 14th, &c. carried on here, and elsewhere, never printed before, &c. / by Mr. John Whittel ...	Whittel, John.	1693 (1693)	Wing W2040; ESTC R8794	75,261	226

some choice golden Lewis's Art fully brandisht before their Eyes by a French Emissary And these plausible advices which so tickled him in his most sensible part prevail'd on him to Act in all things just the reverse of what he had sometime before been counsell'd by those who best understood and had all along when believed most successfully pursued and carried on the interest of that universal Sovereignty which they would have perswaded him to court gently but his hot Jesuited Councellors would needs have him attempt to ravish which impotent and ill tim'd Essay has now so much alarm'd the Coy Lady Vniversal Monarchy that if we mistake not having providentially untwisted her self out of his Arms and got clearly out of the reach of his violence she will not admit his cringing Addresses any more For looking not without cause upon both the Protestant and the Pope though most opposite in Principles to be most mighty obstacles in his way to universal Sovereignty the one as being perfectly inform'd in the knowledge of the truth in Jesus Christ and zealously affected to the Defence both of their Natural and civil liberty as Men and Subjects and of their Spiritual privileges as Christians and the other pretending not only a kind of Sovereignty over a great part of all Princes Subject of the Roman Communion namely the Clergy both Secular and Regular and all religious Persons and by them a dangerous rivalling influence over all the rest of their people But also holding as t' were the Balance of power in his own hand even in temporal matters between all Popish Princes and States and being no less intress'd for maintenance of himself and successors in that Power and Figure to hinder the growth of any one Prince to an excessive Grandeur than the Protestant were for the preservation both of their Civil and Religious Liberties and therefore having agreeably enough to the rules of Policy resolv'd equally upon the removal of both these dangerous adversaries by totally destroying the Protestants and casting Popery it self into a new Model that might dispose the whole body of Christians both Clergy and Laity to such a tame and supple temper as might make them alike susceptible of his intended universal Yoak Thus it pleased the Almighty Being to make him the very chiefest instrument himself in breaking the neck of these his greatest and ambitious Designs by leaving him to the infatuating delusions of new Jesuited Advisers whereby he forsook the more sure Maxims of his old sagacious Counsellors Richelieu Mazarin and the Le Telliers and to drive Jehu-like and rashly to attempt to do all at once what should have been enterpriz'd at very different Seasons and those wisely tim'd one after the other For at the same time the poor Protestants were so hotly persecuted and barbarously handled the Pope's Authority was then as briskly attack'd not only in the business of the Ragalia but in several other more fundamental points importing no less than the utter ruin of the whole Machine of that Ecclesiastical Monarchy insomuch that this great haughty Monsieur thought himself doubtless some prodigious Giant that could reach both poles at once with each arm one viz. That of the Northern Heresie as they term it and the Southern Supremacy and snapping them off short to make the World turn thence forward upon the sole Axle tree of his Arbitrary and imperious will as sufficiently appeared not only by the proceedings of the Sorbonne of the Assembly of the Clergy of Paris and of the French Kings chief Advocate Mr. Talon and by the strange acting of Mr. Lavardin at Rome it self and the writings of Mr. Maimburg The Writings and Actings of all which against the Authority of the Sea of Rome were hardly ever out-done by those they vainly call'd and at the same time persecuted as Hereticks but also by many odd Theses and Positions then maintain'd in several places up and down that Kingdom whereof these were some viz. I. That as Princes had the Power of nominating other Bishops to the Sees vacant in their Dominions so the greatest Prince in Christendom had a right of ●●●●●inating the greatest Bishop namely the Pope II. That the Election of a Pope by the private College of Cardinals was an Innovation III. That the Kings of France having some time delivered the Popes from the oppression of the Lombards and founded the new Empire of the West acquired thereby not only a right to chuse future Popes but that they are thereby still the only Rightful Emperours the eldest Sons of the Church and the greatest of Christian Princes Which by the way would be a stronger Argument to prove both the Empire Kingdom of France and the Election of the Pope c. to belong to the young Duke of Lorrain than to Lewis the 14th that young Prince being Lineally descended from Charles the great whose race that of the present French King supplanted IV. That the residence of the Pope is not fixed any more to Rome than it was formerly to Antioch but that it ought to be in the capital City of the greatest Christian Prince pro tempore or in such other place as he shall approve of V. That the French King in his Right may if he please divest the Cardinals of Rome of the right of Election of Popes or disown such as they shall choose and make an Arch-Bishop of Paris or any other prelate Pope that such Pope so nominated would be a true Successor of St. Peter though he should dwell at Paris or elsewhere and have no temporal Dominions and that he ought to be own'd as such by all other Roman Catholick Princes because nominated by the Successor of Charles the great and a Prince no less great in Power than he who was the restorer of the Papal Authority VI. That as the Temporal Dominions of the Pope were at first given him by French Kings they may be forfeited and taken back again and that for the peaceable enjoyment of them the Pope ought to grant freedom of Quarters to the French Kings Ambassador at Rome as an acknowledgment of the Sovereignty of him of whom he holds them and that he ought not to grant the like privilege to any other Ambassador These and many other such like Theses there were about the Pope's Power and Authority in Spirituals as well as Temporals whereby they allow'd him little more than what is granted by some Protestants and what any other Patriarchs do enjoy as is deducible from their own Writings in this you may see an Image of the new Popery intended by the French King who by this appears to be only so far for Popery as will serve his own turn to make both Pope and Papists his Vassals or Slaves what other meaning had he when he treated the Nuns of the Society so severely called the Nuns of the Infancy of Jesus and threw Madam Mondeuville into Prison for mediating c. Such is the favour he designs to afford them if ever in