Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	affect_v	zeal_n	zealous_a	41	3	8.5294	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33201	A persuasive to peaceableness and obedience, seasonable and proper for these times being a sermon preached at Bury Saint Edmunds in Suffolk, on July 29, 1683, in the time of the assizes held there / by Nicholas Clagett ...	Clagett, Nicholas, 1654-1727.	1683 (1683)	Wing C4371; ESTC R108	23,636	57

themselves This is what the discontents of Factious people do commonly bring them to in the issue when they are past hopes of gaining their ends any other way When Persons of Loyalty are put into all the places of Authority and they only who are true to the Throne are intrusted with Publick Offices and the Church and State are the most firmly established then no wonder if a Party of Male-contents be driven to the desperate resolution not to sit down quietly by the Government but to put themselves upon the last Extremities Whenever then the Constitution of Affairs quite spoils a design you have very earnestly pursued take heed that you harbour no angry discontents in your breasts nor espouse the discontents of others nor joyn with Malevolent men in disloyal expressions of your displeasure at the Government but study a quiet submission to the present condition of things believing rather whatever point you have lost which you could wish to have gain'd that what is order'd and disposed by God and your Superiors will prove best in the end 4. Through want of Gratitude towards God for all the blessings of the Government men become ready for unquietness under it when men have no due sense of the Divine Mercies vouchsafed them no marvel if they should prove so voerseen as to offer to bereave themselves of them even by an Act of their own As for our present Government if we either consider what it is in it self or compare it with what we see elsewhere in the world we must judge it to be the best and happiest of Constitutions whence I infer That if people were duly thankful to God for National Blessings here in England and knew when they were well the King and Government were as safe as possible but if men have no Sense at all of the happiness of a Constitution nor ever look up to God with Grateful acknowledgments of it I cannot much wonder if they should become so weak as to be for trying Conclusions by a Change Wherefore as the Case is with us would you study this Quiet viz. to be as Loyal to the King as you ought to be study then to be as Thankful to God as you should be 5. A distrusting of Gods Providence and care of us for the Future and an impatience to be at an end of some present fears is another thing disposing men to unquietness Upon a prospect of ill times that may come some must up and be doing themselves to prevent them by all manner of means even by the Diabolical ones of Treasonable Associations Assassinations and Insurrections Popery may come in and that is to be kept out and pray God it may but God forbid that we should offer to keep it out the same way by which the Papists have attempted to bring it in To conspire against the Prince and to strike at the Government is going horridly to work to keep out Popery and I believe this Evil will hardly ever be prevented by means of this sort we had better Exod. 14.13 stand still and see the salvation of the Lord than think of saving our selves by villanous and treasonable Devices men had better leave the matter to God and stay his leisure and trust in his care of his Church which he hath somiraculously manifested in all Ages than go about to shew themselves Zealous Protestants by being Traiterous Subjects Study then to be quiet by learning to rest and depend upon God for the Future and to acquiesce chearfully in his Providential Disposal of things without having any wicked designs against the Government to prevent what is feared 6. A boisterous and misguided Zeal for Religion disposes men to be seditious and unquiet and makes them ready for Treason or Rebellion This I cannot omit mentioning since it proved so Fatal to this poor Island in the Late Times and was the great cause of the many Troubles and Confusions under which the Land groaned And indeed never are men more violently bent to be disorderly and unquiet nay to attempt horrible things than when they are carried away with a false and fiery Zeal for Religion For when the Religious Phrensie is at the height and mens heads run upon the goodness of a Cause wherein they are perswaded Gods Honour is concerned they are commonly intemperately hot in the service of such a Cause insomuch that no place is left for a Deliberate Prudence and careful Consideration but they are ready to embrace all Motions and to engage furiously in any Enterprizes that look that way till at length perhaps the Zeal for Religion ends in a Damnable Plot and the Hot Religionists are the Horrid Traitors And such is the madness of that kind of Zeal when men are most acted and pusht forward by it that they think they are zealous for God while they forget what he hath commanded and forbidden and that they are his Busie and Godly Servants when they are quite and clean gone beyond the bounds of their Duty Study then to be quiet not by laying aside Zeal for Religion for it is a good thing always to be zealously affected in a good Cause but by taking care that your Zeal for Religion be the true Gospel Zeal that it steer right and be well guided do not suffer it to make you undutiful to your Governours troublesome to the State or Rebels to your Prince for it can never be a right Christian Zeal that puts men on to these ill things and therefore do not think of shewing your Zeal for God by breaking his Laws of being irreligious for Religion and of playing the Devil for Gods sake but let your Zeal for Religion appear to be right and true by its imploying you most of all in the practice of all the known Duties of Religion by its making you constant and resolute there nay couragious enough to die for Religion if need be and then moreover be as stirring and industrious as you can in the Cause of Religion to promote its interest in the world where you can do it lawfully and prudently but study to be quiet withall let your Zeal as to its actings be kept within the limits of Peace and then be as wise and busie for God and a good Cause as your zeal prompts you to be Jam. 3.17 The wisdom that is from above is peaceable and so is the Heavenly zeal too 7. Contempt of the Government is another thing which makes men unquiet under it and ready to do all they can to subvert it And this disposedness to be unquiet is too apparently in those people that will flock together contrary to the Laws when they know they are forbidden to assemble in Multitudes because the Government is jealous of them and hath reason enough to be so especially since the Old open Rebellion and the New close Conspiracy And by this time I suppose we see sufficiently what little reason the King hath to suffer and persons to be Orators to great Assemblies