Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	able_a	zeal_n	zealous_a	23	3	8.2031	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42953	The demeanour of a good subject in order to the acquiring and establishing peace	Goodwin, Thomas, 1586 or 7-1642.	1681 (1681)	Wing G975; ESTC R22752	33,660	45

Calamities which followed It is I know a much applauded discourse That for the King to please his Subjects to Rely upon their Love and cast himself wholly upon their affections are the only means for him to establish Peace and attain to the height of Formidable Grandure No Prince being so powerful and Rich as he that winneth and so Ruleth in the Hearts of his People But while they urge this to him what in the mean time do they make their King whom they would suppose not to know this and how far it is true For if the constant exercise and practice of Religion Justice and Clemency be not Princely Obligations sufficiently commanding all dutiful and grateful returns from reasonable and good Men Subjects who are not these will never nor ought by any endeavours to be otherwise wonne because the Prince who would gratifie unreasonable Men in so doing knoweth himself to offend against the Rules of Peace God is thereby made angry and good Men to mourn and innumerable must the mischiefs be which will of necessity follow If those Acts of Magnanimity do not Influence them a descent from his Majesty which will render him less Honoured will not purchase him more Love Those bold Men from whose ill representations the most Heroick Vertues are Traduced need not much use of Art to bring compliances under contempt For they must either be assented to through want of Judgment or Tumultuarily Forced And in either Case new Breaches will be made and former made wider Subjects who shall find the advantage they have gotten over their Prince cannot as I said Love him the more because they will less Reverence him neither can they think themselves safe who must alway expect Revenge either of the Blemish left upon reputation then which nothing hath a deeper impression when discovered or the undutiful carriage which hath presumed to take his Throne lower then his Ancestours But still the thoughts of Religion seem to urge an extraordinary care by reason of the manifest dangers said to threaten it And indeed the concerns thereof are so transcendently high that they justly demand all our skill and utmost vigilancy to be employed for its preservation Peace with present and the hopes of our future welfare being all enjoyments which are Religions Blessings Neither can any man truely love his Prince his Neighbour or himself who liveth indifferent and carelesly contented with any thing that beareth that Name whether true or false because such an one hath somewhat which he prizeth at an higher rate in the enjoyment whereof if disturbed or in danger of disturbance he will not scruple as he shall be able to act to the violation of Vnion Nothing certainly more conduceth to Peace then an earnest Zeal for Religion which seeth the State enervated by every Faction that maketh Eruptions in the Church and dareth object all its powers to its exclusion Nevertheless this Zeal must be according to knowledge and the power it useth must be lawful otherwise when it is erroneous and blind it is also head-strong and outragious and so is an adversary to Peace and when it transgresseth the limits of the power the Law prescribeth it undertaketh to defend Religion by Impiety And how acceptable that persons services are who bringeth to the Altar Offerings of Abominations is easie to judge Now the most undoubted powers of contending against Faction and Innovation which every man is allowed and enjoyned equally to use are devout Prayers and Innocence of life Which if duely practised by the professed Children of the Church would alone make her Victorious and prevent all solicitous Counsels of disappointing her Adversaries And it is to be feared that the greatest difficulty is in daring to use and confide in the successes of these best defensive Armes yet if these be not chiefly relyed upon other means afford little or no help When therefore I hear so much daily said of Religion and its Preservation and see these most necessary coercives of attempts upon it so altogether slighted by them who seem most Zealous I cannot sufficiently admire why they undertake so great a work who are most ignorant how to effect it Especially strange it is to observe so much action and fury both condemnable the first for want of Commission the later as contradictory to the Principles of Christianity And to all that are serious the event is foretold when these Agents for Truth are considered for they are either men destitute of Piety having not so much as the Form or else such as proceed to exalt her in the very methods which they condemn in others as tending to her depression By the joynt assistance of most Atheistical Debauches and notorious Hypocrites we are great with expectation of a glorious Church I confess I do not so much wonder at the impudence of the principal Conductors as that many pretending to be and fortunately esteemed Men of Sobriety should be led aside with an opinion and hope of these Mens counsels notwithstanding apparently pernicious For neither Peace nor Religion can stand upon these frames made up of materials unlawfully and unskilfully cast together and disagreeing from what they are to support Religion is not to be modelled by every man who fancieth himself a Workman for that purpose nor if that established by Law happen at any time to be erroneous or deficient in some parts may Subjects without especial Commission for that very end attempt alteration or amendment Every man is bound to be well satisfied of the Truth of what himself professeth but must abstein from what is the Office of Supream Authority only unless that be pleased to impower him to inquire into and correct what shall merit a rectifying inspection Otherwise although they should be never so urgent Religion tolerateth not a relief of her necessities by private mens invading the Kingly Power and Prerogative It is Disobedience from which she will not own assistance Subjects may desire and pray and some few of the wisest and most remarkably Loyal may modestly and privately Petition their King that he would graciously remedy and prevent such evils as the Church susteineth or feareth But in either case they ought evidently to shew the complaints to be of inconveniencies really incumbent and their jealousies to be just and weighty otherwise they give him just suspition of their either Wisdom or Integrity that they are themselves ensnared by ill designing men or would ensnare him No Assembly of men although met together in Council by his Majesties especial Command are to meddle with matters of Religion more then concerneth Piety in the practise any farther then their Master recommendeth it to their care to consider of it and report to him the results of their Consultations To Act Vote or Resolve herein without his leave and direction is to disown his Authority in matters Ecclesiastical and make themselves a Supream Constitutive Power If some very meek Addresses be as I said before modestly and privately made of their