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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	church_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	105	3	8.6686	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11511	The free schoole of vvarre, or, A treatise, vvhether it be lawfull to beare armes for the seruice of a prince that is of a diuers religion; Quaestio quodlibetica. English	Sarpi, Paolo, 1552-1623.; Bedell, William, 1571-1642.; Brent, Nathaniel, Sir, 1573?-1652.	1625 (1625)	STC 21758; ESTC S116734	27,201	78

bee not vnited vnder the obedience of the Church of Rome yet are they Christians and not Idolaters or Infidels And the Maxime which the flaterrers of the Court of Rome doe endeauor to sow the propagate That Heretickes be worse than Idolaters is finely accommodated to the temporall and worldly interests of the Ecclesiastickes but no way conformable to the sacred Scriptures nor to the Doctrine of the antient holy Fathers And my Soule trembleth within mee to thinke that hee should bee held more tollerable and lesse abhominable That calleth Christ a seducer and a false Prophet than he that inuocates him as God and is baptised in his holy name and receiues his Sacraments and confesseth that it is the onely Name vnder Heauen by which mankinde may be saued And if in some antient Writers any passage shall bee found that may seeme to fauour those opinions it was because such Heretickes denied the Diuinitie of Christ and thereby laboured to ouerthrow the very foundation of Christianitie by reason whereof they were rather a Sect of Infidels than Heretickes But it cannot be vnderstood of these who confesse him to bee God and by this confession acknowledge the ground of our saluation yet to take away this cauill too see here examples in the particular of Heretickes and Infidels together Vnder the Romane Empire in the time that the Princes professed the Christian and Catholicke Romane Faith Histories both Ecclesiasticall and others do swell with examples of the greatest and deuoutest Emperours that haue made leagues and held amitie with Infidell Princes and Hereticall also It is most certaine that Constantine who so well deserued of the Catholicke Church did for the defence of the Empire make Conuentions with Tartars and Vandals who were Idolaters with Heretickes hee could not because as then they had no territory and bestowed places on them to dwell in amongst the Prouinces of the Romane Empire And in those times it is well knowne how aboundantly the Church flourished with holy men zealous of the purenesse of Religion and yet you shall not finde that any of them did euer reprehend or teach that it was not lawfull to make such confederacies the which doth inuincibly argue the approbation of all the holy Catholicke Church Afterwards Valentinian was created Emperor who was not only a Catholicke but also an exceeding fauourer of the Church and of the Bishops and Prelates of the same At the same time was his brother Valens Emperor in the Eastern parts who was an Arian hereticke and persecuted Catholicks yet was there euer vnion confidence confederacie betweene these two brethren the one an Hereticke and the other a Catholike for the common defence and offence of the enemies of the Empire The Emperours Theodosius Arcadius Honorius and Valentinian made many Conuentions with Gothes Alans Gepides Vandals and French part of which were Infidels and part Heretickes and yet there was none so hardy to reprehend those leagues as a thing vnlawfull although there then liued those great Fathers and zealous Doctors the Luminaries of the Holy Church who out of their zeale to truth feared not to reprooue euen Emperours to their faces and to tell Empresses of their faults and defects There liued in those dayes Ambrose Ierome Austine Chrysostome Leo and other most renowned Bishops of Rome Patriarckes Archbishops Bishops and Chiefetaines of the holy Church whose workes and writings remaine with vs and it can neuer bee found that they reprehended these Confederations And therefore of necessitie wee must confesse that their silence in this Case when the other errours of the Emperors were exagitated by them with infinite zeale doth demonstrate herein the consent of the whole Catholicke Church After the death of the aboue named Emperours the Kingdome of the Gothes began to take roote in Italy and continued a long time These were Christians but Arians who were the most pernicious Sect of Heretickes that euer infested the Church for they fought against the very person of Christ whose Diuinitie they denied and shooke the Article on which as on a ground-worke Christian Religion is built and that is the Article of the Blessed Trinitie notwithstanding which the Emperours of Constantinople who were Catholickes were for the most part in peace and league with them and the Popes themselues were their subiects and yeelded them obedience Yea one of the Popes was sent in Embassage by them about affaires of State and yet he made no refusall of such imployment and it cannot be proued that any Writers or Holy men of those times did blame those Catholicke Princes for that they held friendship with kings that were hereticall and infected with such monstrous falshoods This labour would be endlesse to particularise in all the examples which might be alleaged in this argument After that the power of a Temporall Prince was in the persons of the Popes of Rome ioyned in Jtaly to the Pontificall Dignitie in which time they haue framed so many Lawes as in the Decretals in the sixt and in the Clementines and Extrauagants are comprehended that there is not a matter of State in which by extension of their authoritie they haue not opinated and decreed yet doe wee not want examples of the like Confederations as may easiely bee seene in the Histories of those times George Podibras was an Hussite Hereticke and so held by the Church of Rome and for that cause he was pursued by Pius the second with Censures This example is obseruable because it will so flatly shew that there were treaties and leagues then handled notwithstanding the matter of Religion Now in the yeare 1463 the Emperour Fredericke the third being inuested with a dangerous siege in Vienna called him to his succour and made conuentions with him of mutuall assistance and these were approoued by the Pope himselfe who hereupon left to prosecute him with Censures And Iulius the second in the yeare 1510 seeing himselfe in danger at Bologna by the vicinitie of the French armie receiued into the citie to his ayde Chiappino Vitellio with sixe hundred light horse a squadron of Turks whom hee much entrusted with his person And in the yeare 1558 Paul the fourth did hire and pay many Protestant Grisons who euen in Rome it selfe performed diuerse actions contrary to the Catholicke Religion and all was told the Pope who auouched openly that they were Angels of God sent for his defence and that to preserue a mans selfe it was lawfull to vse the seruice of all sorts of persons And hee gaue an authenticke document hereof when the third of September in the yeare 1557 hee spake these expresse words to some that quipped him for this It would haue beene lawfull and laudable too to call in Turkes Moores and Jewes for our defence And it is a matter without doubt that hee did indeede actually treate with the Turke To this day the House of Austria hath amitie and league with the Protestant Princes of Saxony and others and giues and takes ayde from them