Selected quad for the lemma: scripture_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	church_n	faith_n	primitive_a	3,297	5	9.1069	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73201	The present state of Spaine. Translated out of French; Estat d'Espagne. English.	Sergier, Richard, attributed name.; Lewkenor, Lewis, Sir, d. 1626, attributed name.	1594 (1594)	STC 22997; ESTC S125625	22,718	65

which you shall cary newe in your cloake bagges Who shall then bee the man so miserable that will admit in our Fraunce such people whose very name is so ill receaued and odious that to name them only skarreth the little children and maketh them affrayde Alas Take heede Frenchmen it be not reproched you before God how ye haue chaced away your owne brethren to lodge among you barbarous people take heede that this curse fall not vpon your heads to be called iustlie Vipers who teares out the entrals of your own mother that is to say of your own natiue country beleeue that euerie one that wold ruine the building of Fraunce shall remaine buried in the ruines But if the lawes do punish a man for hauing slaine a man who is his like by how much more strong reason shall those be punished who do not only kill a man but procure the entire death and destruction of a kingdome The king of Spaine who here to fore said that we must come to no tretie of peace with our king being swarued from the faith ceased not in the mean time and giueth not yet ouer to assay by all meanes to make peace with his subiects of Holland and Zeland who are Lutheriens Caluinists or Anabaptistes He offreth to leaue them their free exercise of religion to let them haue their citties and gouernments in the same estate wherin they possesse thē demandeth only at their handes that they woulde but acknowledge him for their king But those States ful wel knowe to whom they appertaine and what manner a thing the Spanish domination is that this nation doth applaud as doth the Crocodile when she wil cast forth her venome or bite witnes be the poor Earls of Aignemont of Horn put cruelly to death notwithstanding their seruices done for the reducing of countries into his obedience the faith to them promised The death also procured by poison as is said to the poor Lord of Montigny the end of the poore Marquesse of Bergues and of al the Nobility which by one or other meane they race and root cleane out King Henry the fourth can wel tel how to defie all their false drifts he mistrusteth their cunning cariages for all their sending him the portraite of the infant He may too well knowe how when Ferdinando of Arragon the last Philip Archduk of Austria were in treaty of the mariage of Madam Claudi of Fraunce with Charles the fifth the father of this Philip nowe rayning and after the mariage concluded sworne and confirmed at Blois the king of Fraunce Lewes the twelfth his Lieutenants mistrusting nothing the Spainards ranne vppon them defeating two French Armies the one in Calabria vnder the Conduct of the Lord d'Anbigny the other at Cirignolla lead by the Duke of Nemours the Lord Lewes d'Armignac the chiefe commanders of the Spaniards alledging for all excuses that they had heard of no prohibition giuen them from their maister to make warres At this present the king of Spaine being of the age of sixty 7. yeares and aboue vnlustly of his person as he is doubtles seeth himselfe at the period of his subtilties cannot tel by what meanes to keepe that which he hath purloined from others his faire promises vapour away to nothing his mind is bewrayed and his counsels discouered Hee seeketh to helpe himselfe with the feebler side in Fraunce to the end to keepe vs stil in war for feare least the weaker parte through want of means should abandōn the war hee would make vs knocke one another on the heades that he may make his preie on vs afterward He goeth about to cut our throats with our own kniues and to ouerthrowe vs with our owne weapons because by his hee knoweth he cannot do it He entertaineth the warre in our country for feare least wee set vpon him in his owne And if that parte which he taketh should become the stronger he would incontinent war vpon it He is not yet come to sollicite as they call them the Huguenotes of Fraunce to rebell against King Henrie the fourth and to wage warre vpon him Let then all Princes and Potentates take heed of the enterprises and counsels of so charitable a neighbour And you Frenchmen learn to be wise by your owne harmes I adiure you all by the honour and respect you beare vnto God by the faith loue and loyaltie you owe to King Henry the fourth giuen by God vnto Fraunce sonne to your predecessor Kings issued from the loynes of S. Lewes and by the charity yee owe to your countrie and to the safetie of your selues of your wiues and of your children and to the conseruation of our religion Temples and Fortunes cease among your selues this peeuish rebellion if as yet it haue place in anie of you and reduce it to a due obedience which onely can make next after the grace of God spring againe vpon vs the blisse of our fathers and the peace and tranquillitie of their golden ages Some preach that religion is in great ieopar die that many of the fathers in the primitiue Church are dead for the catholick faith and that we must die for the same I grant it but they must giue vs the Scriptures as they are vnderstood We are already to die when they shal force vs to renounce our Sauiour Iesus Christ to sacrifice vnto Idols Then and no otherwise ought death to bee endured in this case so haue those fathers receaued it we will die before we will bee other than followers of the true Catholike and Apostolike religion Our fathers in the church fled in time of persecution none of them haue resisted kings in armes finding it better to suffer then to reuolt Our Lord also counselled his Apostles to flie in time of persecution from one cittye to an other and not to make any resistance by armes And ye the Lords of the Cleargy knowe ye that the doctrine which God hath giuen vs to you principally as a pledge of his grace hall neuer gette his perfect and resplendent brightnesse as long as these bloudy warres shall trouble the sweete streams flowing from so goodly a fountain O how the league doth well shew it selfe to be come from the lowest cauernes of hell sith it putteth diuision namely among the Catholikes who being vnited together might liuely haue set vpon the Heritikes and by faire war cut off many thousands of them Knowe that you haue neede of the materiall sword which is that of the kinge to make you liue in safety rest and iustice and to maintain this our religion which is the trew soule of the body of our estate And sure needefull it is to conserue the kingdome in his entire body without diuiding it into his mēbers for fear least by the cutting off of som one principall this soule take his flight away Behold I pray you the fruit of the preachings of some amongst you and possible albeit not all moued with a good