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religion_n	world_n	worldly_a	year_n	47	3	4.0560	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78467	Certaine considerations touching the present factions in the Kings dominions.		1648 (1648)	Wing C1697; Thomason E466_3; ESTC R205217	8,885	13

would presently be setled or if it were not the Scots would be ready to see it done by power Now these people who cordially and candidly never entred into nor since adhered to a reall fraternall union and interest with the Scots yet pretended nothing lesse and at this time are become the most ungratefull Enemies both of Covenant and Covenanters will I suppose by all the world be esteemed the true Fomenters and Authors of this second War which themselves conscious of their own provocations and hypocrisie did look for and expect with Armes in their hands For it is not the first act of force but of injustice fraud or dishonesty that legitimates the commencement of a Nationall Warre being a Tryall wherein God himself is made the Judge And will in the end I doubt though for the present through his secret appointment the face of things looke otherwise have worser effects in this Nation then we now think of which God divert Of the two Synods of England and Scotland THe Synod of England I take to be a company of men set apart by the House of Commons to make all Divinity give obedience to the resolutions of Parliament and to consult of nothing but proponente Senatu as in the Councell of Trent the Pope got the reines of that Councell into his hand by procuring all things to be treated proponentibus Legatis What they have been about these many yeares is kept secret but when the businesse of the Treaty came into discourse they quickly resolved all of them but four to be against it And the House of Commons made it one of their reasons for offering the three Bils before a Treaty because otherwise such godly Divines who are placed by the Parliament shall be put out and scandalous Ministers restored to their places By this we know what Trade they are of and how they get their living But in the mean while they are but viatores having not arrived to their end of power nor it may be to their end of profit The Synod of Scotland otherwise by a more majesticall name called the Generall Assembly are Comprehensores being arrived to the very 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Presbytery and something too high for the Civill State They enjoy by a strange surreptitious usurpation a power equall to the Pope and exercised only by more persons They indict themselves take cognizance of the Orders in Parliament and Committes of Estates admonish and censure the Magistrate And indeed do every thing but what they should do Preach the Gospell of Peace Both Synods agree to disturb the Peace of both Kingdomes and blow the people into Rebellions and Tumults for which they are notable Instruments Which the Parliament well knew when they set their Synod at Westminster to write a Letter to the Generall Assembly in Scotland that they might thereby lay an ambush at the back of the Scots Armies which were entred into England But whether either of these Synods would ever agree except in this one thing of troubling the Kingdomes if they might be suffered to confer Notes is a great question though at this present upon concurring principles of worldly power and profit they care not how they engage all the world beside in the highest guilt and extreamest miseries Therefore though there was not much Religion yet these was not much impertinency in his speech that said There was no way to end the divisions in England but to forbid all Preaching for one whole year For I may with the sighes and groanes of a Christian heart speak it That let us look back upon all Ages since Christianity began to enlarge it self upon the world and we shall finde that most of the Warres therein have been raised by the professors of it and are owing to those that call themselves the Clergy and Ministers of Christ which agrees with his own prophesie in Mat. 30.34 discoursing upon the Commission he had then given his Apostles I came not saies he to send Peace on earth but a Sword And is verified from the perversnesse and instability of our natures not in the quality of his most holy and peaceable Gospell What a tragicall audit would it be to hear summ'd up all the lives of those Christian people that perished in the zealous Wars of the Holy Land and yet that holy Father the Pope had designes of his owne in the businesse the reducing of the Grecian Church into his subjection with the three Patriarchs of Jerusalem Antioch and Constantinople and making the Easterne Church a Chappell of ease to the Westerne of Rome and besides Spirituall jurisdiction had an eye also on Temporall profits for while the Emperour was doing his errand and waging War in the Holy Land he encroached on the Emperours Temporalties in Italy Neither were the rest of the holy Clergie idle for having kindled in others the fire of Zeale they presently fell to warme themselves at it and to buy the Estates of such Noblemen and others as sold them to set themselves forward into the Holy Land Godfrey sold the Dukedome of Bovillon to the Bishop of Leige and the Castle of Sartonsi and Monsa to the Bishop of Vendune And when the successe of the Christian Armes had reduced Jerusalem and Patriarchs were set up they fell presently to claiming of the Cities and Lands and terrifying the Princes with Sacriledge saying those voyages were undertaken not onely for restoring the Churches Liberties but her Lands After these things the Popes found out other arts to divert the Crusa do's for the Holy Land upon Christians themselves as upon Greece and against the Albigenses in France upon the same Indulgences and Pardons he did those to the Holy Land And this also he called the holy War the war of Crucifix the Army of the Church What other wars enmities and civill discords have been stirred up in severall Nations by the instigation of the Church of Rome to support her ambition or avarice let Histories declare at large How they have agreed since among themselves that broke away from the Church of Rome because they could not agree with her I could wish were blotted out of the Histories of latter Ages We see Obedience to Princes is no better taught then it was before All Kingdomes are set on fire by the same Principles and differ only in the delivery by other Persons The Doctors of Rome Wittenberg Geneva Euric can sit in their Studies if the good Spirit of God prevent them not and Slay more men then ever Alexander or Cesar did And if any one should ask me why Prayers and Teares were thought in the primitive times the Armes of the Church and only lawfull Weapons against unbelieving Princes enemies to God and Christ and now Pistols and Swords when we live under Christian Kings and Governours I can only say that this is a secret wrapt up in the Cabinet of the Divine Councell whereby God hath appointed for the disciplining of the world that one Age should