Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	doctrine_n	faith_n	scripture_n	4,706	5	5.7256	4	true

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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

Minister that shall offend and transgresse against duty or quarrell with the whole number of the ministry but it behoveth His Majesty to have Bishops and over-seers under him that may be answerable for such bounds as the law and order of the country hath limited and appointed unto every one of them And that they having accesse unto His Majesties Parliament and Councell may intercede for the rest of the brethren of the ministery propound their griefs unto His highnesse and the Estates and receive His Majesties favourable answer therein The which form doth preserve a godly harmony unity peace and concord in the estate and a solid order in the Church As contrariwise the pretended equality divides the same and under pretext of equality makes some of the most crafty and sutable dealers to be advanced and enricht and in pretending of purity to seek nothing but their own ambition and advancement above the rest of the simple sort And notwithstanding that His Majesty hath re-establisht the said estate it is not His highnesse will and intention that the fore-said Bishop shall have such full power as to do within his Diocesse what he pleaseth For as His Majesty cannot allow of a popular confusion wherein as the proverb witnesseth Nulla tyrannis aquiparanda est tyrannidi multitudinis that is No tyranny can be compared to the tyranny of a multitude having power in their hands So on the other part His Majesties will is that the Bishops authority in any grave matter be limited and circumscribed to 13. of the most ancient wise and godly pastours of his Diocesse selected forth of the whole Synodal assembly of the Province by whose advice or at the least the most part thereof the grave and weighty affayrs of the Church may be conducted and governed to the glory of God and quietnes of the realm Further it is His highnesse will and expresse commandement that their Bishops and Commissioners twice in the year to wit ten days after the Pasche time and the sixt day of September hold their Synodall assemblies of every Dioces for the keeping good order therein And if any be refractory or a contemner within their bounds of the good order of the Church they may be declared unto His Majesty and punisht in example of others according to their deservings Neither is it His Majesties meaning or intention that such Bishops or Commissioners as shall be appointed shall receive their onely and full Commission of His Majesty without admission ordinary by such as are appointed to that effect in the Church but having His highnesse nomination presentation and commendation as lawfull and only patron they to be tried and examined that their qualities are such as they are able and sufficient to discharge their cure and office and if it shall happen any of the said Bishops or Commissioners to be negligent in their Office or to be scandalous or offensive in their behaviour life and manners in any time comming it is not His highnesse will that they shall be exempt from correction notwithstanding of any priviledge of His highnesse Estate counsell or Parliament but their labours travails diligence and behaviour to be tried in the generall assembly not consisting of a confused multitude as it was before but of such worshipfull persons as is heretofore prescribed in His highnesse own presence or His Majesties deputies to that effect Last His Majesty giveth Commission to the said Bishops or Commissioners at their visitations to consider in what part of the country the exercise or interpretation of the Scriptures by conference of a certain number of the ministery within that bounds may be most commodiously in the fifteen days For as His Majesty inhibits all unlawfull conventions which may engender troubles and contentions in the Country so His Majesty is well affected to see the ministery encrease in knowledge and understanding and by all means to fortifie and advance the same wherein His Majesties commandement is that a grave wise and sage man shall be appointed President who may have the oversight of that bounds and be answerable therefore to the Bishop his Councell and Synod and he to be respected reasonably for his paines at the modification of stypends that all things may be orderly done in the Church peace and quietnesse maintained in the realm and we delivered from the appearing plagues and the blessing of God continued to the comfort of our posterity And in the mean time His highnesse inhibits and expresly commands under the paines contained in His Majesties Acts of Parliament and all other pains arbitrall at His Majesties sight and counsell That no Minister take in hand to convene themselves for the foresaid cause without the appointment and order taken by the said Bishops or Commissioners whereby His Highnesse may be certainly enformed that the foresaid Ministers convene not to meddle with any civill matters or affairs of Estate as was occasioned before but onely to profit in the knowledge of the Word and to be comforted one by another in the administration of their spirituall Office which His highnesse wisheth them faithfully to discharge and then to call to God that His Majesty may in a prosperous reign enjoy good and long life and continue and increase into the fear of the Almighty The Kings Majesties intentions HIs Majesties intention is by the grace of God to maintain the true and sincere profession of the Gospell and preaching thereof within this Realm 2 His Majesties intention is to correct and punish such as seditiously abuse the chair of truth and factionsly apply or other wise bewray the text of the Scripture to the disquieting of the Estate and disturbing of the Commonwealth or empairing His highnesse or Councels honour 3 His Majesties intention is if any question of faith or doctrine arise to convocate the most learned godly wise and experimented Pastors that by conference of Scriptures the verity may be tried and heresie and schism by that means repressed 4 His Majesties intention is that for keeping good order in every Parish certain to be censors of manners of the rest be appointed at the visitation of the Bishop or Visitor who shall have His Majesties authority and Officers of Armes concurring for the punishment of vice 5 His Majesties intention is to maintain the exercise of prophesie for the encrease and continuing of knowledge in the Ministery in the which a wise and grave man selected by the Bishop or Commissioner at the Synodall assembly shall preside and render an account of the administration of that bounds where the exercise is holden For which cause some respect of living shal be had to him who sustaineth the burden 6 His Majesties intention is not to derogate unto the ordinary judgment of matters of the Church by the ordinary Bishops their Councels and Synodes but if any of them do amisse and abuse their callings to take order for the correcting amending and punishing thereof 7 His Maj. intention is not to hinder or stay any godly or solid order grounded upon the word of God and order of the primitive Church but that the Ministers of the word meddle only with their own calling judg not temerariously of the state 8 It is His Maj. intention that the Presbyteries consisting of many Ministers and Gentlemen at Landwart or otherwise be no further tolerated within this Realm but the exercise and jurisdictions of the Churches to be in the hands of the Bishop or Commissioner and their Councels or Synods 9. His Maj. intention is that the Bishops or Commissioners convene not any generall assembly out of the whole realm without His Maj. knowledge and license obtained thereunto which upon supplication His highnesse will not deny that an uniform order may be conserved in the whole realm the Bishops their diligences there tryed and examined and the complaints of every particular heard and discussed 10 It is His Majesties intention to assist this assembly himself or by a Nobleman of his Councell his Deputy 11 It is his Maj. intention that when any parish findeth necessity of a Fast they intimate the occasion to the Bishop or Commissioner their Councell that they may understand that the cause is lawfull Likewise the Bishop of the Diocesse finding lawfull occasion may with his Councell prescribe a publike humiliation there 12 It is his Majesties intention that a generall Fast throughout the whole realm shall not be proclaimed but by His Majesties commandement or by that generall Councell wherein His Majesty or His highnesse Deputy be present 13 It is His highnesse intention that the Bishops in the Realm in every Diocesse with their Councell preside into the Ecclesiasticall government but as is said with a Councell that both tyranny and confusion may be avoided in the Church 14 It is His highnesse intention that Commissioners be directed universally throughout the whole realm to establish a godly order and that his Majesties Commissioners take order presently for the translation of such Ministers whose travels they esteem may more conveniently and profitably serve in another place FINIS