Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	church_n	doctrine_n	reform_a	3,582	5	9.8202	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44760	The trve informer who in the following discovrse or colloqvie discovereth unto the vvorld the chiefe causes of the sa[]d distempers in Great Britanny and Ireland / deduced from their originals ; and also a letter writ by Serjeant-Major Kirle to a friend at VVinsor.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.; Kirle, Robert.	1643 (1643)	Wing H3122A; ESTC R30343	38,453	46

ground in Wales and thousands of Papists armed in Lancashire divers reports of this nature were daily blown up and though the Authors of them were worthles mean futilous persons yet the reports themselves had that credit as to be entertain'd and canvas'd in the high Court of Parliament But these false rumours produc'd one politicke effect and it was the end indeed for which they were dispers'd they did atemorize and fill the peoples hearts with feares and so dispose of them to uproares and to part with money Peregr I know there be sundry sorts of Feares there are Conscientious Feares there are Pannik Feares there are pusillanimous Feares and there are politck Feares The first sort of Fear proceeds from guilt of Conscience which turnes often to phrensie The second sort of Fear may be call'd a kinde of Chymera 't is some sudden surprizall or Consternation arising from an unexpected strange accident Pusillanimous Fear makes a mountain of a molehill and proceeds from povertie of spirit and want of courage and is a passion of abject and degenerous mindes and may be call'd cowardise and this Fear is alwayes accompanied with jealousie Politicke fear is a created forg'd Fear wrought in another to bring some Designe about and as we finde the Astronomers the comparison is too good do imagine such and such shapes and circles in the Heavens as Zodiak Equinoctiall Colures and Tropiques with others though there be no such things really in nature to make their conclusions good so the politician doth often devise and invent false imaginarie Feares to make his proceedings more plausible amongst the silly vulgar and thereby to compasse his ends and as the Sun useth to appear farre bigger to us in the morning than at noon when he is exalted to his Meridian and the reason the philosophers use to give is the interposition of the vapours which are commonly in the lower Region through which we look upon him as we finde a piece of silver look bigger in a bucket of water than elsewhere so the politician uses to cast strange mists of fear and fogges of jealousie before the simple peoples eyes to make the danger seem bigger But truly Sir this is one of the basest kindes of policie nor can I believe there be any such politicians amongst the Cabalists of your Parliament who pretend to be so busie about Gods worke A glorious Reformation and you know there is a good Text for it that God needeth not the wicked man He scornes to be beholding to Lyers to bring about his purposes But I pray Sir deal freely with me Do you imagine there was a Designe to bring in the Masse again Patr. The Masse You may say there was a plot to bring in Mahomet as soon to bring in the Alchoran or Talmud as soon for I dare pawn my soul the King is as cordiall a Protestant as any that breathes under his three Crownes which besides his publike deep Protestations and his constant quotidian exemplary open practise many other convinceing private reasons induce me to believe and it is in vain to thinke the Pope can take footing here to any purpose without the Kings leave You know as well as I Sir that of all the Reformed Churches in Christendom the Lutheran retaines most of the Roman both in his positions and practise and comes much nearer unto him than we do yet I have observed that from the first day of his Reformation to this He is as averse and as farre off from Rome as the rigidest Calvinist that is and shall I thinke because there are some humble and handsome postures and decent vestures revived in ourChurch for they were never abolished because the Communion Table stands in the East end where it ever stood since Christianitie came in all our Cathedrals which should be a rule to all interiour Churches which yet the Seperatist cries out to be an Innovation because her Majestie hath a few simple Capuchins fewer than was allowed by the Matrimoniall Capitulations whither to retire sometimes Because Schismatickes were proceeded against with more care and the Government of the Church borne up lately with more countenance shall I believe that the Pope must presently come in shall I believe the weaknesse of our Religion to be such as to be so easily shaken and overturn'd Yet I believe there was a pernicious plot to introduce a new Religion but what I pray not Poperie but Presbyterie and with it to bring in the Doctrine of Buchanan and Knox for civill Government and so to cast our Church and State into a Scots mould Peregr Indeed I heard the English much censur'd abroad for enslaving as it were their understanding and judgement in points of Religion to the Scot whom they made Christians and Reformed Christians first and now for the English to run to them for a Religion and that the Uniformite should proceed from them they having disdain'd us formerly what a disparagement is it thinke you to the Anglican Church This with other odde traverses as the ecclipsing the glorie of the King and bringing him backe to a kinde of minoritie the tampering with his conscience I will not say the straining of it so farre the depriving him of all kinde of propertie the depressing of his Regall Power wherein the honour of a Nation con●●sts and which the English were us'd to uphold more than any other for no King hath more awfull attributes from his Subjects as Sacred Soveraigne Gracious and Most Excellent Majestie nor any King so often prayed for for in your morning Lyturgie he is five times prayed for whereas other Princes are mentioned but once or twice at most in theirs I say this with interception of letters some incivilities offered Ambassadors and the bold lavish speechees that were spoken of the greatest Queenes in Christendome and his Majesties late withdrawing his Royall protection from some of his Merchant-Subiects in other Countries hath made the English loose much ground in point of esteeme abroad and to be the discourse I will not say the scorne of other people They sticke not to say that there is now a worse maladie fallen upon their mindes then fell upon their bodies about an age since by the Sweating sicknesse which was peculiar only unto them and found them out under all Climes Others say there is a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} amongst them that they are turn'd to Wolves as you know it is a common thing in Lapland and that the old Adage is verifyed in them Homo homini Lupus Nay our next neighbours give out that the saying was never truer then now Rex Anglorum Rex Diabolorum Nor is it a small disrepute to the English that the word Cavallier which is an attribute that no Prince in Christendome will disdain and is the common appellation of the Nobilitie and Gentry in most parts of the world is now us'd not only in Libels and frivilous Pamphlets but in publike Parliamentary Declarations for a terme of