Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	church_n	civil_a	punish_v	1,086	5	8.9722	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16618	A protestation of the Kings supremacie Made in the name of the afflicted ministers, and opposed to the shamefull calumniations of the prelates.	Bradshaw, William, 1571-1618.	1605 (1605)	STC 3525; ESTC S120445	7,812	26

penitencie then are they to deny vnto him the pledges and seales of of the Church to wit the Sacraments If this cannot humble him but that he continue obstinate in that sinne then they are by the mouth of the Minister in Congregation the whole Church consentinge freely therto denounce him to be no MeÌ„ber of the Kingdom of Heauen and so forbeare to haue any further charge ouer him vntill God shall worke the grace of Repentannce in him in this manner they are to proceed against all apparent and Euident crimes only as Murder Adultery Theft Blasphemie Ribaldery Lying Slandering Profanation of the Sabothes contempt of Diuine Worship Disobedience to the Ciuil Magistrate c. Nether ought the Extreamest of the Ecclesiasticall Censures any whit hinder the course of iustice that the Ciuill Magistrate is to excercise against the same crimes for if a Traytor himselfe should bee penitent the churche ought to forgiue him and lovingly to imbrace him as a Sonne but the Magistrate ought to execute him If he should be obstinate in that crime As the Magistrate ought to cutt him off from the Ciuill communion of men so ought the Congregation of which he is a Member cutt him of from all spirituall CommunioÌ„ with them If any one of the Ecclesiasticall Officers themselues shall sinne he is as subiect to the Censures of the rest as any other member of the congregation If they shall all sinne scandolously either in the execution of their Office or in any other ordinarie manner Then the Congregation that chose them freely hath as free power to depose them and to place others in their roome If the Congregation shall erre either in choosinge or deposinge of her spirituall Officers Then hath the â—uill Magistrate alone power and authoritie to punish them for their fault to compell them to make better choyse or to defend against them those Officers that without iust causes they shall depose or depriue 27 Wee hould that those Ecclesiasticall Persons that make claime to greater power and authoritie then this Especially they that make claime Iure Divino of power and Iurisdiction to medle with other Churches then that one Congregation of which they are or ought to be Members Doe vsurpe vpon the Supremacie of the Ciuill Magistrate Who alone hath and ought to haue as we hould and mainetaine a power over the seuerall Congregations in his Dominions And who alone ought by his authoritie not onely to prescribe common Lawes and Canons of Vniformitie and consent in Religion and worship of God vnto them all But also to punish the offences of the seuerall Congregations that they shall coÌ„mitt against the lawes of God the policy of the Realme And the Ecclesiasticall Constitutions enacted by his authoritie 28 Wee hould that the Kinge ought not to giue this authoritie away or to committ it to any Ecclesiasticall Person or Persons whatsoeuer But ought himselfe to be as it were Archbishop and generall Overseer of all the Churches within his Dominions And ought to imploye vnder him his Honorable Counsell his Iudges Leiftenaunts Iustices Cunstables such like to oversee the Churches in the seuerall diuisions of their ciuill Regiments visiting them and punishing by their ciuill power whatsoeuer they shall see amisse in any of them Especially in the Rulers and Gouerners 29 For as much as no people are more hated persecuted and wronged of the wicked world then the true Churches of Christ Wee hould that no people in the Earth stand in more neede of the ciuill magistrate then they And that it is the greatest outward blessing they can inioye in this life to liue vnder the Protection of their Swords and Scepters and the greatest cause of mourning when the same shal be bent against them And we hould those churches to be no true churches of Iesus Christ That livinge in any cuntry shall refuse Subiection to the ciuill Regents and Gouerners of the same be they in respect of Religion never such Paganish Infidells 30 Wee hould it vtterly vnlawfull For any christian Churches whatsoeuer by any armed force or power against the will of the ciuill magistracie and State vnder which they liue To erect and sett vpp in publique the true worship and service of God Or to beate downe or Suppresse any superstition or Idolatrie that shal be countenaunced and maintained by the same Onely Every man is to looke to himselfe that he communicate not with the Euills of the times induringe what it shall please the State to inflict and seekinge by all honest and peaceable meanes all reformation of publicke abuses Onely at the hands of Ciuill publicke Persons And all practises contrarie to these we condemne as Seditious and sinfull 31 All that we craue of his Maiestie the State is that by his and their permission and vnder their protection and approbation It may be lawefull for vs To serue and worship God in all things according to his revealed will and the manner of all other reformed Protestant Churches that haue made seperation from Rome That we may not be forced against our consciences to staine and pollute the simple and synere worship of God prescribed in his word with any humaine Traditions and Rites whatsoeuer but that in Divine worship we may be actors onely of those things that may for matter or manner either ingenerall or speciall be concluded out of the word of God Also to this end that it may be lawefall for vs to exhibite vnto them and vnto their Censure a true and Syncere Confession of our faith containyng the maine Grounds of our Religion vnto which all other doctrines are to be consonant as also a Forme of DiviÌ„e worship and Ecclesiasticall Gouerment in like manner warranted by the word and to be obserued of vs all vnder any Ciuill punishment that it shall please the saide Maiestie State to inflict vnder whose authoritie alone we desire to exercise the same and vnto whose punishment alone we desire to be subiect if we shall offend against any of those Lawes and Canons that themselues shall approue in manner aforesaide And our desire is Not to worship God in darke corners but in such publicke places and at such convenient times as it shall please them to assigne to the intent that they their officers may the better take notice of Our offences if any such shal be committed in our Congregations and assemblies that they may punish the same accordingly And we desire wee may be subiect to no other Spirituall Lords but vnto Christ nor vnto any other Temporall Lords but vnto themselues whom alone in this Earth we desier to makeour Iudges Supreame Gouerners Overseers in all causes Ecclesiastical whatsoeuer renouÌ„cyng as Antichristian all such Ecclesiasticall powers as arrogate and assume vnto themselues vnder any pretence of the Law of God or man the saide power which we acknowledge to be due onely to the Ciuill Magistrate 32 So long as it shall please the King and Ciuill State though to the great derogation of their owne authoritie as wee may haue occasion hereafter to proue to maintaine in this Kingdome the State of the Hierachie or Prelacie We can in Honour to his Maiestie and the State and in desire of peace be content without envie to suffer them to inioye their State dignitie to liue as brethren amongst thos ministers that shall acknowledg spiritual homage vnto their spirituall Lordships paying vnto them all temporall dueties of Tenthes such like yea and ioyning with them in the service and worship of God so far as we may doe it without our owne perticular coÌ„municating with them in those humaine Traditions and Rites that in our consciences we iudge to be vnlawfull Onely we craue in all duetifull manner that which the very Law of Nature yeldeth vnto vs that for as much as they are most malicious Enimies vnto vs and doe apparantly thirst either after our blood or the Shipwracke of our faith and consciences that they may not henceforth be our iudges in these causes but that wee may both of vs stand as parties at the barre of the ciuill Magistrate to bee tried in those differences that are betweene vs and that when they shall publickly maligne or flander vs or our cause it may be lauful for vs in a dutiful sober peaceable modest manner without personall reproche or disgrace in as publicke manner iustifie our selus then insteed of that sillie mockseruice to the King of wearing a linnen rag vpon our backs or making a Christes Cross vpon a babies face wee shal be readie to performe and yeald triple homage service tribute vnto him shall think our liues all that we haue to vile to spend in the service of him and the Ciuill state vnder him FINIS

be Members of the CommoÌ„ wealth yeâ— that the Churches seuerally or ioyntly haue no power to force him or any subiect against their will to any service vnto them or to any religious ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ whatsoeuer No nor to be so much as a member of any Church 16 Wee hould that the King ought not to be subiect to the Ecclesiasticall Censures of any Churches Church officers or Synods whatsoeuer but onely to that Church and those Officers of his owne Court and Houshould vnto whom in reuerence of their Religion and of the spirituall Graces of God he sees shinynge in them he shall of his owne freewill subiect and commit the Regiment of his soule in whom their can be no suspition nor feare of any partialitie or vniust or rigorous dealing against him 17 Wee hould that if any Ecclsiasticall Gouerners call them by what name you will shall abuse their Ecclesiasticall authoritie in the execution of their Censures vpon any man whosoeuer That the King and Ciuill States vnder him haue power to punish them seuerely for it much more if they shall abuse it vpon the Supreame Maiestie himselfe 18 If the King subiecting himselfe to Spirituall Guides and Governers shall afterwards refuse to be guided and gouerned by them accordinge to the word of God and lyuinge in notorious sinne without repentannce shall wilfully contemne and dispise all their holy religious Censures that theÌ„ thes Gouernors are to refuse to administer the holy things of God vn to him and to leaue him to him self and to the secreat Iudgment of God and wholly to resigne and giue ouer that spirituall charge tuition ouer him which by calling from God and the King they did vndertake And more then this they may not doe And after all this Wee hould that he yet still retaineth and ought to retaine in tierly solidly all that aforesaide supreaÌ„e power and authoritie ouer the Churches of this Dominion in as ample a manner as if hee were the most Christian prince in the world 19 Wee acknowledge King Iames to be our onely lawfull Soueraigne and vnto him to be due all the aforesaid Supremacie wee renounce abiure allopinions doctrins practicies whatsoeuer repugnant or contrarie to the same as Anabaptisticall Antichristian And wish they may be seuerely punished 20 Wee never refused obedience to any Lawes or commaundements of the King or State whatsoeuer but onely to such as we haue proued or are readie to proue if we might be heard with indifferencie to be contrarie to the word of God And we are readie to take our Solemne Oathes before the Throne of Iustice that the onely cause of our refusall of Obedience to those Canons of the Prelates for which we are in present so extreamly afflicted is meere conscience and a feare to sinne against God And that if by due forme of reasonnyng we may be conuinced in our consciences of the contrarie we are as willinge as any Subiects in the Realme to Obey and Conforme 21 Wee refuse Obedience onely to such Canons as require the performaunce of such Acts Rites of Religion as are reiected and abandoned of all other reformed Churches as Superstitious disorders Such as are speciall mysteries of the Romish Antichristian Idolatrie Such as haue been controuerted in the Church euer since the last breakynge forth of the light of the gospell out of the cloude of Popery in Luthers time Such as all Protestant writers defendors of our Faith beyond the Seaes and most of our owne CountrimeÌ„ haue either in generall or par ticular condemned as vaine idle and vn profitable Such as all the faithfull and painfull Pastors of this Realme and in a manner all States degrees of the same woulde be content were remoued and sweept out of the Church and for which few or none are zealous but the Prelates and their adherents 22 We deny no authoritie to the King in matters Ecclesiasticall but onely that which Christ Iesus the onely Head of the Church hath directly and precisly appropriated vnto himselfe and hath denyed to communicate to any other creature or creatures in the world For we hould That Christ a lone is the Doctor of the Church in matters of Religion and that the word of Christ which he hath given vnto his Church is of absolute parfection containyng in it all parts of the true religion both for substance and ceremonie a perfect direction in all Ecclesiasticall matters whatsoeuer Vnto from which it is not lawefull for any Man or Angell to add or detract 23 We are so far from makyng claime of any supremacie vnto our selues and thos eccliasticall officers which we desire that we exclude from our selues them as that of which we are vtterly vncapable all Princely Lordlie state pomp power whatsoeuer houlding it a sinne for any whosoeuer to excercise no not by conmission from the magistrat any authoritie ouer the bodie Goods liues libertie of any man whosoeuer for any crime or offence whatsoeuer So that any one of the basest and most inferior Ciuill officers in a Kingdome hath and ought to haue in our iudgement more authoritie and power ouer men then any or all the Ecclesiasticall Officers in the same kingdom or in the whol world Yea we hold that the highest Ecclesiasticall Officer in the Church ought to be as subiect vnto the basest Ciuill officers in the Kingdome as the meanest Subiect in the Kingdome And that they ought not by virtue of their office to chalenge any freedome or immunity at all from any Ciuyll Subiection whatsoeuer belonging to any common Subiect 24 Wee consine and bound all Ecclesiasticall power within the limitts onely of one particular Congregation houldinge that the greatest Ecclesiasticall power ought not to strech beyond the same And that it is an arrogating of Princly Supremacie for any Ecclesiasticall Person or Persons whosoeuer to take vpon theÌ„selues Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction over many Churches much more over whole Kingdomes and Provinces of Christians 25 We hould it vtterly vnlawfull for any one Minister to take vpon himselfe or accept of a sole Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction over so much as one Congregation And therfore we hould that some of the sufficientest and most honest and godlie men in the Congregation ought to be chosen by the Heades of Families to be adioynded in ComissioÌ„ as Asistants to the Minister in the Spirituall Regiment of the soules of that Congregation of which he is the Pastor 26 We hould that these Ecclesiasticall Officers being so chosen by the Church or Congregation are to exercise over the said Congregation only a Spirituall Iurisdiction and power consistyng in a careful oversight of the outward behavior of the Members of their Church That it be not scandalous offenciue and vnbeseemynge Christians And if any Member shal be delinquent they are brotherly to admonish him shewing him the nature of his crime by the word of God And if after two or three admonitions he sheew no tokens of sorrowe and

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