Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	apostle_n	church_n	succession_n	1,709	5	10.1649	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87463	A declaration made by King James, in Scotland; concerning, church-government, and presbyters.; Declaratioun of the Kings Majesties intentioun and meaning toward the lait actis of Parliament. English and Scots.	Adamson, Patrick, 1537-1592.; James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1646 (1646)	Wing J132; Thomason E506_27; ESTC R202599	10,166	12

appoint no Bishop in times to come because they had concluded that estate to be unlawfull And notwithstanding that which they would have dejected in the Bishops they concluded to erect in themselves desiring that such Commissioners as they should send to Parliament and Councell might be authorized in place of the estate whereby it should have come to passe that whereas now His Majesty may select the most godly learned wise and experimented of the Ministery to be on His Majesties Estate His highnesse should have been by that means compelled to accept such as the multitude by an odd vote of the most unlearned should have appointed which could not tend but to the overthrow of the realm whereof that Estate hath been a speciall stay After they had discharged Bishops they agreed to have Superintendents Commissioners and Visitors but in the end they decreed that there should be no difference amongst the Ministers and imagined that new form of Presbytery whereof we have spoken before Neither was there any other apparance that they should have stayed from such daily alterations in the Common-wealth which could not but continually be disquieted where the law of conscience which they maintained by the sword of cursing was subject to such mutations at the arbitrement of a number whereof the most part had not greatly tasted of learning After the foresaid assembly was accustomed not only to prescribe the law to the King and State but also did at certain times appoint generall Fastings thoroughout the realm especially when some factioners in the country were to move any great enterprise For at the Fast all the Ministers were commanded by the said assembly to sing one song and to cry out of the abuses as they termed it of the Court and State for the time whereby it is most certain great alterations have ensued in this land untill at the good pleasure of God and his blessing towards His Maj. the pretext of the last Fast was discovered and His highnesse delivered from such attempts whereby His Maj. hath been justly moved to discharge such conventions which might import so prejudicially to His Estate but especially His Maj. had no small occasion Whereas the same assembly being convened at Edinburgh the day of did authorize and avow the fact perpetrate at Ruthuen in the taking of His highnesse most noble person The which deed although His Maj. with the advice of His States in Parliament hath counted to be treasonable the said assembly esteeming their judgement to be the soveraign judgment of the realm hath not onely approved the same but ordained all them to be excommunicate who would not subscribe and allow the same So the Acts of this Assembly and the Acts of Estate directly in civill matters with which the Assembly should not have medled it behoved His highnesse either to discharge himself of the crown or the Ministery of that form of assembly which in very deed in it self without the Kings Majesties license and approbation could not be lawfull Like as generall Councels at no time could assemble but by the command of the Emperor for the time And our King hath no lesse power in his own realm then any of them had in the Empire yea the Bishop of St. Andrews had not in time of Popery power to convene the Bishops and Clergy out of his own Diocesse without license impetrate before of His hignesse most noble progenitors of good memory and the causes thereof intimated and allowed Notwithstanding that His Maj. intention and meaning may be fully understood it is His highnesse wil that the Bishop or Commissioner of any Diocesse or Province or part thereof shall at their Visitation appoint in every parish according to the greatnes thereof some honest vertuous and discreet men to concur and assist the Minister and to have the oversight and censure of the manners and behaviour of the people of that Parish And that there be any notable offence worthy of punishment that the Bish and Com. be advertised thereof who shall have an Officer of arms to concur with his decree for the punishment of vice and execution to follow thereupon that they who contemn the godly and lawfull Order of the Church may finde by experience His Majesties displeasure and be punisht according to their deservings And further his Maj. upon necessary occasions which may happen by divers manners of wayes amongst the Clergy upon humble supplications made to his Highnesse will not refuse to grant them licence to convene to wit the Bishops Commissioners and some of the most vertuous learned godly of their Diocesse where such Ecclesiasticall matters as appertain to the Uniformity of Doctrine and conservation of any godly order in the Church may be intreated and concluded in his Maj. own presence or some of his Maj. honourable Councell who shall assist for the time where if necessity so require a publique Fast throughout the whole Realm may be decreed and by his Maj. Authority proclaimed to avoid the eminent displeasure and danger of the wrath of the Lords judgments which is the right end of the publike Humiliation and not under pretext thereof to cover such enterprizes as have heretofore greatly disquieted and troubled the Peace of this Common-wealth THe XX. Act ratisieth and approveth and re-establisheth the estate of the Bishops within the Realm to have the over-sight and jurisdiction every one in their own Diocese which form of government and rule in Ecclesiasticall affairs hath not only continued in the Church from the days of the Apostles by continuall succession of time and many Martyrs in that calling shed their blood for the Truth but also since this Realm embraced and received the Christian Religion the same estate hath been maintained to the welfare of the Church and quietnesse of the Realm without any interruption while within these few yeers some curious and busie men have practised to bring in the Ministry an equality and purity in all things aswell concerning the preaching of the Word and ministration of the Sacraments as likewise in discipline order and policy The which confusion his Maj. finding by most dangerous experience to have been the Mother and Nurse of great factions seditions and troubles within this Realm hath with the advice of his Highnesse Estates maturely and advisedly concluded the said pretended party in discipline order and policy in the Church to be no longer tolerate in this Country but the solicitude and care of my Churches of one Diocese to appertaine to the Bishop and Commissioner thereof who shall be answerable to His Majesty and Estates for the right administration and discharge of the office of particular Ministers within the bounds of their jurisdiction For as it becommeth his Majesty as Eusebius writeth of CONSTANTINE the Great to be a Bishop of Bishops and universall Bishop within his realm in so far as His Majesty should appoint every one to discharge his duty so His highnesse cannot his country being large and great take him to every