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	england_n	reform_a	4,212	5	9.5265	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58462	A message of peace in a letter consolatorie and consiliatory to a neighbor minister for resolution in severall queres, but principally about the use of the liturgie together with a friendly letter sent to Sir Edward Deering about the time of his commitment, by way of answere to his last speech : as also, concerning the liturgie and church-discipline / .	T. R.	1642 (1642)	Wing R88; ESTC R8133	4,374	8

high degree of blasphemy yet considering the basenes of the man and the inferiour nature of the words spoken your forbearance I verily think will be your best course We know the worke is Gods those Worthies are about Magnalia Dei the high acts of God and do you wonder that the dogs do barke the Divels no doubt do gnash their teeth at them but our Prayer to God and hope is such that neither Rome nor Hell nor men nor Divels as hitherto they have not so never shall they have power although to barke yet not to bite them To the rest of your Letter I respit the Answer till the next opportunity I am your very friend T. R. A Copie of the Letter which was sent to Sir Edward Deering SIr upon my perusall of your last Speech in Parliament I tooke to my selfe an humble purpose of signifying to your worthy selfe some animadversions and notes unto which the severall particulars of your Speech occasioned me In the first place I shall be bold to say ingenuously that I heartily am sorry that the bias of your judgement in hoc die after such a Meridian light shining upon us both from abroad in the reformed Churches and at home in so many judicious elaborate and learned Treatises formerly and of late should seeme so much to sway to that side which will certainely expose your late Honourable esteeme in the heartss of judicious and good men to a great at ●east diminution and distemper I humbly conceive very many things in your Speech doe labour of a very great measure of affection I shall be bold to instance in some few for all It is surely true that much of late hath beene written and said to and fro on both sides about a right administration of Discipline and worship and truely Sir mee thinks out of that diversitie of what hath beene spoken and written the Parliament hath a very faire overtùre given them to discover and find out the truth which without it would be of more difficultie to them It is your owne way in your Parliamentary affaires and in all Iudicatures concerning Episcopacie so much hath beene cleerely evinced against it and nothing of any weight for it that I shall say nothing at all in that particular Onely I shall beseech you to consider whether it can possibly be believed that amongst any sort of Protestauts especially the conscien●cous party for the conceit of some giddy silly people is inconsiderable there be any that do protest against the 3. undoubted signs of a true visible Church If you meane purity of Doctrine Sacraments and Discipline I know for my part none that are quoad esse at any doubt in the former two as concerning our Church and for the latter I know no man of a right judgement that can acknowledge it for other then such as it is Romish and Antichristian Sir I doe not doubt but that upon search some may be found even amongst us that deny very Trinitte of Persons and of what number the Arminian Socir●ian and other hellish Popish errors are I know you are not ignorant But if these or any other of the like nature should now presse into your presence either in word or writing I doubt not your name in your Honourable House will shew it selfe in a sodaine suppression of them Concerning the Liturgie I shall say nothing much hath beene judiciously said about it but I am heartily sorry that such words as these should ever have fallen from the learned lips of Sir EDWARD DEERING That the Church of England in her publike Prayers nay her Offe●ture may be as a babbler at all adventure a brainlesse stupid and an ignorant conceit of som● Sir Edward Deering if conceived Prayers be a brainlesse stupid and ignorant conceit of some and not most proper to the publike ministration of an able Misistery I will not Say that noble Lords eyes that lately spake in the House of Peeres on this Subject but better eyes of multitudes then his or yours doe faile them Sir I conceive you are and are not a competent Iudge in this matter Sir I heartily wish with you for a Nationall Synod well tempered with Learning and Pietic that the wavering judgements of unsettled mens winds might be rightly directed about aswell the Doctrine of the Sabbath as other matters of right worship and Ecclefiasticall Policie which by reason of the want of a present publike competent determination thereof suffer much in the minde of very many Sir I shall now humbly desire but thus much of you even that what I have written ex animo amore may not be taken in any sinister or exasperate sense Onely I desire you to be pleased to remember that you now stand in a publike designation of a most considerable trust reposed in you by God and your Countrrey impartially without passion prejudice or affection for your part to contribute your best abilities to make up the hedge in the thorough Reformation of the Church and Kingdome that so the Church of England may by your blessed means become that which it never yet was the glory of the Reformed Religion which is the humble and hearty dayly prayer of him who is Your unfained wel-wishing Friend T. R. Ian. 21. 1642. Follow Peace with all men and Holines without which no man shall see the Lord Looking diligently lest any man fall from the grace of God lest any root of bitternes springing up trouble you and thereby many be defiled Hebr. 11. God of his infinite mercy quench all unkindly heat in all your Honourable Assembly FINIS