Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	believe_v	church_n	remission_n	3,695	5	9.7921	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57374	A discovrse of the originall and fundamentall cause of naturall, customary, arbitrary, voluntary and necessary warre with the mystery of invasive warre : that ecclesiasticall prelates, have alwayes beene subject to temporall princes ... / by Sir Walter Rawleigh ...	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.	1650 (1650)	Wing R158; ESTC R9599	18,812	70

War the wrongers of his people Then the losse of his People did amount unto In such cases it is reason that he satisfy himself and let the people whereto commonly they are apt rest contented with the sweetnesse of revenge But when victory makes large amends for all it Royally becomes a Prince to satisfy those for whose satisfaction he undertooke the Warre For besides the purpose it were now to teach how victory should be used or the gaines thereof Communicated to the generall content This being only brought into shew that the profit thereby gotten is a stirring provocation to the redresse of Injuries by the sword As for the redresse of Injuries done unto Princes themselves it may conveniently though not alwayes for it were miserable injustice to deny leave to Princes of mainetaining their owne honour be referred unto the third motive of Arbitrary Warres which is meere Ambition This is and ever hath been that true cause of more Wars then have troubled the world upon all other occasions whatsoever though it least partake of nature or urgent necessity of State I call not here alone by the name of Ambition that vaine glorious humour which openly professeth to be none other and vaunts it selfe as an imperiall vertue for the examples are not many of that kind But where occasion of Warre is greedily sought or being very slight is gladly entertained for that increase of Dominion is hoped thereby we should rather impute the Warre to the scope at which it aimeth then to any idle cause pretended The Romans feared lest they of of Carthage by winning Messana should soone get the mastery over all Sicilie And have a faire entrance at pleasure into Italy Which to prevent they made a Warre upon the Carthaginians this feare I call Ambition Had they not trusted in their own Armes hoping thereby to enlarge their empire but being weaker and more afraid indeed they would have feared lesse For Colour of this Warre they tooke the Mamertines A Crewe of Theeves and cut throats into their protection Whom being their associats they must needs defend But had not their Ambition been mightier then their Justice they would have endeavoured to punish these Mamertines and not to protect them Innumerable are the like examples Know ye not said Ahab that Ramoth Gilead is ours He knew this before and was quiet enough till opinion of his forces made him looke into his right And of this nature though some worse then other in degree are claims of old forgotten tribute or of some acknowledgements due perhaps to the Ancestors of a vanquished King And long after challenged by the Heirs of the Conqueror broken titles to Kingdomes or Provinces Mainetenance of friends and Partizans pretenced wrongs and indeed whatsoever it pleased him to alleadge that thinketh his owne sword sharpest But of old time perhaps before Helen of Greece was borne Women have been the common Argument of these Tragedies As of late Ages in our parts of the world since the names of Guelf and Ghibeline were heard The right of St. Peter that is the Popes Revenews and Authority This last and other of the same kind I know not how patiently they will endure to be ranged among Ambitions quarrels For the Warre that hath such foundation will not only be reputed free from worldly Ambition Just and honourable But holy and meritorious having thereto belonging Pardon of Sins Release from Purgatory And the promises of the life to come As may be seen in the Popes Crociata The truth is that the Saracenes affirme no lesse of the Warres which either they make against Christians or which arise between themselves from difference of Sect. And if every man had his due I thinke the honour of devising first this Doctrine That Religion ought to be inforced upon men by the sword would be found appertaining to Mahomet the false Prophet sure it is that he and the Caliphes following him obteined thereby in a short space a mighty Empire which was in faire way to have inlarged untill they fell out among themselves Not for the Kingdome of Heaven But for Dominion upon Earth And against these did the Popes when their authority grew powerfull in the West incite the Princes of Germany England France and Italie Their chiefe enterprise was the Recovery of the Holy Land In which worthy but extreamely difficult action it is lamentable to Remember what abundance of noble Blood hath been shed with very small benefit unto the Christian State The Recovery of Spaine whereof the better part was then in Bondage of the Saracens had been a worke more availeable to the men of Europe more easily mainetained with supply more aptly serving to advance any following enterprise upon Kingdomes further removed more free from hazard and Requiring lesse expence of Blood But the honourable piety of the undertakers could not be terrified by the face of danger nor diverted from this to a more commodious businesse by any motives of profit or facility for the Pulpits did sound in every Parish Church with the praises of that voyage as if it were a matter otherwise far lesse highly pleasing unto God to beare Armes for defence of his truth against prosecutors or for the Deliverance of poore Christians oppressed with slavery then to fight for that selfe same Land wherein our Blessed Saviour was borne and Dyed By such perswasions a marvellous number were excited to the Conquest of Palestina which with singular vertue they performed though not without exceeding great losse of men and held that Kingdome some few generations But the Climate of Syria the far distance from the strength of Christendome And the neer Neighbourhood of those that were most puissant among the Mahometans caused that famous enterprise after a long continuance of terrible War to be quite abandoned The care of Ierusalem being laid aside it was many times thought needfull to represse the growing power of the Turke by the joint forces of all Christian Kings and Common-wealths And hereto the Popes have used much perswasion and often published their Crociata with pardon of sins to all that would adventure in a worke so Religious Yet have they effected little or nothing and lesse perhaps are ever like to doe For it hath been their Custome so shamefully to misuse the fervent zeale of men to Religious Armes by converting the Monies that have been Leavyed for such Wars to their owne services and by stirring up Christians one against an other yea against their owne naturall Princes under the like pretences of serving God and the Church that finally men waxed weary of their turbulent spirits And would not believe that God was carefull to mainetaine the Pope in his quarrells or that Remission of sins past was to be obteined by Committing more and more grievous at the instigation of his suspected holinesse Questionlesse there was great reason why all discreet Princes should beware of yeilding hasty beliefe to the Robes of Sanctimonie It was the Rule of our Blessed