Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	commandment_n	day_n	sabbath_n	21,308	5	10.2371	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93350	The Protestant informer, or Information to all Protestants: shewing the causes and end, of this unjust warre, plotted by Romish Jesuites, and now managed by English papists, and their abbettors against this Parliament, and in this all other Parliaments: proving by forepast proceedings, present actions and persons acting that: this warre is no new quarrell, nor caused by the militia but divellish malice, against the true Protestant religion, and lawes of this kingdom, to set up, and establish popery, and hath beene fifteene, or sixteene yeares last past, preparing. Also justifying this Parliaments proceedings, by nature, law, and religion, against the false calumniations of all malignants: with an exhortation, to courage, liberality, patience, and constancy, to the hazard of life, and fortunes: in defence of Gods true worship; your own rights, liberties, and this present Parliament; with confidence of a blessing, and victory, like Caleb, and Ioshua: for your God is with you. Published for information to the ignorant. By Gregory Thims Gentl.	Thims, Gregory.	1643 (1643)	Wing S4038A; Thomason E91_17; ESTC R13261	21,917	24

they sowed the seeds of popery through the whole kingdom which shewed they expected to have a crop of pure popery To bring this forward the power and professors of protestant Religion were disgraced and persecuted I will only give you a view of some particulars and you may Judge of the whole as the Geometrician did at the body of Hercules by his foot We can remember it is so lately that all our best Divines and honest Orthodoxe professors of Religion of the Laity were by Authority scoffed at and persecuted in the High Commission and all other Courts of that nature if it were but for going from a dumb arminian Reader out of his owne parish to heare an Orthodoxe Preacher All laborious Orthodox Preachers were pecked at and by some foule mouthes almost devoured I am sure very many suffered under the little Wren for he peckt up all those pretious plants out of his Diocesse Then Lectures were put downe in all places and afternoone-Sermons forbidden on the Lords day Books were also published and commanded to be read in all Churches giving liberty to prophane that Holy day contrary to the expresse command of God and against the enacted law of the kingdome all Ministers that refused to read these books were suspended thus good men were weeded out in all countries and all to displant religion and plant popery The Arminian Priests and Court-Chaplains cryed out against the Sanctifying of the Lords day called Sunday no Sabbath and denied the morality of the fourth commandement c. And these men would not be called Preachers nor Ministers names that Saint Paul gloried in but called themselves Priests the holy Table might no longer be called table but Altar and the standing of it was altered and it made a reall Altar ascended to by steps with bowing cringing and reverence to it Crucifixes set up Basons and Tapers were set upon it nothing was wanting of Popery but the name popery and the Idol Sacrifice of the Masse Nor was that Idoll altogether wanting for it was daily in Summerset-house Saint Iames-house and divers other places common to all that would go to it nor durst any man question those that went though they were seen to go every day Prieste frequented Papists houses in all counties and no man might question them if any by lawfull authority did apprehend a Priest they were checked for it and the Priest discharged by speciall command from the Queene or under some Privie Counsellors hands Court Chaplains and Bishops preached justification by works free will seven Sacraments and consubstantiation a faire way to transubstantiation with a number of other popish doctrines and maintained that there might easily be a conjunction between the Papists and us so it is plaine that we must have gone wholly to them for they professe they will not come one jot to us The presses were allowed to Arminians and the popish faction to print any popish tenents but forbid to the good Protestants none might preach against their positions much lesse print any thing for confutation of their errors or heresies upon paine of imprisonment fining suspension pilloring cutting off eares slitting noses banishment c more cruelty that hath beene inflicted upon any Protestant among the Turks when these and more have been questioned in Parliament our Parliaments were broken the evils increased Yea Parliament men were disgraced and imprisoned and because Parliaments would not give the kingdome money without redresse of these and other evils they devised wayes to rest by force great summes of money out of the subjects purse by illegall and unsufferable taxations First by loane and the refusers were imprisoned or put to intollerable charges by continuall attendance at the Councell-Table and many eminent Gentlemen died without mercy in the prisons others p●●sent into remote Counties Then Souldiers were billeted in all Counties and many Horses which their riders were sent for from beyond th● Seas to awe and subdue the kingdome and by strong hand to wrest from us our religion and lawes but divine providence by Feltons hand cut off the actor of that designe at that time Here observe and cleerely see that this warre is no new or sudden thing nor occasioned by the Militia as they now pretend but the same in effect that was intended fifteen or sixteen yeers agoe after this another Parliament was called voices were forced and illegall meanes used but when this would not serve to their purpose that Parliament as others was dissolved Then came other taxes for non-knight-hood who and what persons See the first Remonstrance of bo●h the Houses was brought within this taxation we all know and the multitudes that were imprisoned and made to attend the Counsell-Table we cannot forget After that came shipmoney a boundlesse and endlesse tax also taxes for compositions for Cottages for Forrest-lands Timber Woods c. Mighty exactions upon customes and Monopolies almost of all things of If this Parliament had not taken away those Monopolies and taxe● the kingdome had suffered as much by this time in their estates as they have by this wa●re except the spoile by plundering which is not the Parliaments fault necessary use thereby inhaunsing the prizes to the prejudice or the whole kingdome yea to the utter ruine of divers Trades and Corporations So that multitudes of Masters and Prentises cried out of the burthens which is now forgotten by them and no thankfulnesse is returned by them either to God or the Parliament Other cruell taxes were imposed upon buildings together with many other oppressions all against law and yet law could not helpe us all Courts of law and our Courts of justice were corrupted Iudges and great Officers bought places deer and sold their service in them deerer to make themselves gainers Besides many Iudges were displaced for doing Iustice or for refusing to judge unjustly the whole kingdome was oppressed all were wronged and all left without remedy Gunpowder and other ammuniti●n was taken from us and we left destitute of necessary defence Popery broke in upon us Parliaments were neglected Prerogative was set up and they began to promise themselves a speedy accomplishment of all their designes onely they had some feare that Sco●land might be some obstacle in their way as indeed it prove God infatuating their counsels to thrust upon the Scots their new Liturgy and Popish Canons before they had fully finished the worke in England though under a faire pretence of a glorious uniformity which our brethren of Scotland did not so well fancy as we nor did they give Land any great praise for the present but refused it though it was manifest that it was no worse then was contrived A great providence of God at Rome and from thence sent into England Then the little great Bishop like a Pope sent his commands by his Legats and Commissioners that they should receive that Liturgy but not obeyed the honest Scots were proclaimed rebels and traitors and and an army raised to