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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	bishop_n	church_n	time_n	3,265	5	3.4917	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31885	An ansvver to the articles against Master Calamy, Master Martiall, Master Burton, Master Peters, Master Moleigne, Master Case, M. Sedgwicke, M. Evans, &c. and many other painfull divines who were impeached of high treason by His Majesty : first answering particularly the articles themselves, then shewing the mis-information of His Majestie by the bishops, concerning the same : expressing the great care and vigilancy of those theologians which they have and doe daily undertake with great zeale for the rooting out of popery the confounding of Rome and for the erecting the pious truth and sincerity of the holy gospel of Christ.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1642 (1642)	Wing C226; ESTC R23084	1,933	7

AN ANSVVER TO THE ARTICLES AGAINST Master Calamy Master Martiall Master Burton Master Peters Master Moleigne Master Case M. Sedgwicke M. Evans c. and many other painfull Divines who were impeached of High Treason by His Majesty First answering particularly the Articles themselves then shewing the mis-information of His Majestie by the Bishops concerning the same Expressing the great care and vigilancy of those Theologians which they have and doe daily undertake with great zeale for the rooting out of Popery the confounding of Rome and for the erecting the pious truth and sincerity of the holy Gospel of CHRIST London Printed for William Bond and are to be sold over against the White Horse in Grubstreet 1642. DOCTRINA PARIT VIRTVTEM AN Answer to the Articles against Master Calamy Master Marshall Master Burton Master Peters Master Moleigne Master Case Master Sedgwicke Master Evans c. and many other painfull Divines who were impeached of High Treason by His Majesty WHere vertue flourisheth there malice strives to confound and emulation to subvert This Hell-nourished malice has been entertained in the hearts of some malignant and ill-affected Members to the Church and in their inveterate spleene they have endeavoured to eradicate that Basis or firme foundation of faith which was laid in Christ by zealous Divines I need not speake too obscurely for my meaning includes the Bishops who have envyed the prosperity of Religion a long time and have diligently aboured to supplant the same by preposterous introducement of Popery Ceremoniall superstitions and Canonicall innovations And who soever that was zealous for the truth and did in any manner oppose them in their Prelaticall institutions was either prosecuted by them in the extreame severity of justice and that sometimes extended too beyond its limits or else suspended by them tam ab officio quàm ábeneficio Thus they tyrannically insulted over the Church and without any let or contradiction usurped whatsoever pleased themselves best They have often times deluded the King with calumnious and Parasiticall suggestions and by that meanes under a pretence of his protection have surreptitiously inserted divers things unknowne to His Majestie But they themselves being found too vitiously delinquent by the Parliament were many of them arraigned of High treason and committed to the Tower where they maliciously first forged Articles of High treason against Master Pym the Lord Kymbolton c. and withall directed the same unto His Majestie with a stupendious Declaration concerning them and implored his consent unto them But they were intercepted in that frustrate expectation then they moulded second Articles of high Treason against Master Calamy Master Marshall Master Burton Master Case Master Sedgwicke Master Evan c. with many other painfull Divines intimating againe to His Majestie that they were Traitors and were great disturbers of the Church who did not onely substract or at least laboured to induce the people to substract lawfull obedience to His Imperiall Crowne but also did derogate obsequious loyalty both frō His Royall dignity in postponing him behind the Parliament But give me leave gentle Reader to discusse the verity of the thing and to answer these poore or at least false subjections against them As for the first Article their actions can sufficiently testifie to the contrary for rather then disturbers of the Church they have laboured to extract all divisions and disturbances from it endeavouring to regulate the free power and authority thereof according to the holy word of God as it is specified or at least prototypically presignified in the Scriptures For their substraction of Loyalty from the Crowne and their labouring to induce the people to substract their dayly practise in their preaching can apparently nullifie for they have always pressed and exstimulated the people with great fervency of affection to all possible obedience to his Majesty and all requisit loyalty to his imperiall Crowne And seeing these two have beene found false and erronious the other consequently must be an untruth for they have laboured to bring the people to become obsequious reciprocally and mutually as well to the King as Parliament so that by subsequent conclusion no post-position can be found inclusive in them But I suppose that it was the Bishops sole malice to misinforme the King having an intestine envy against them For because they would have introduced Popery and these laborious Divines did beat it downe to the confusion of Rome and its adherents therefore they have laboured by all possible meanes if they could to supplant them and subvert their intentions But alas God is more powerfull than the Divell men in authority may triumph and usurpe too much arrogancy over their brethren for a time but at length the same machination which they intended against others shall fall on their owne heads For these painefull Divines have not onely zealously opposed those Romish innovations which lately began almost to flourish in our Church but have likewise laboured with all sedulity care and vigilancy to reduce the same to the sincere truth of the holy Gospell of Christ Yet notwithstanding they have beene opprobriously scandalized by the Prelates and their adherents having invective aspersions cast upon their innocuous names the reason no man can perfectly enucleate unlesse their intents were to bring the Church to an Anarchie for if the pillars of the Church be shaken yea taken away the structure can no longer remaine and the foundation it selfe will be everted Yet in spite of all their malice they are defended from the Tyrannicall mindes and intentions of the Bishops and will maugre all their wolvish resolutions be preserved from their nefarious machinations against them yet envy is a most insufferable torment and greater than any Tyranny therefore I will conclude with that sentence in Latine Episcoporum Invidia Siculi non invenêre Tyranni Majus tormentum FINIS