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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	king_n	power_n	supremacy_n	2,252	5	10.5244	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96350	The first centvry of scandalous, malignant priests, made and admitted into benefices by the prelates, in whose hands the ordination of ministers and government of the church hath been. Or, A narration of the causes for which the Parliament hath ordered the sequestration of the benefices of severall ministers complained of before them, for vitiousnesse of life, errors in doctrine, contrary to the articles of our religion, and for practising and pressing superstitious innovations against law, and for malignancy against the Parliament. It is ordered this seventeenth day of November, 1643. by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning printing, that this booke intituled, [The first century of scandalous, malignant priests, &c.] be printed by George Miller.	White, John, 1590-1645.; England and Wales. Parliament. aut	1643 (1643)	Wing W1777; Thomason E76_21; ESTC R19192	42,473	60

thou art that fixest thine eye on this display learne by the evills which thou readest to bewaile the greater evills in this sinfull Land which thou yet dost not know b The following Centuries will make a more full Discovery of the wickednesses that are among us When malice hath spoken its worst and done its utmost then shalt thou cleerely understand what I daily see and certainely know that the great services and paines of the Parliament have no other scope but divine glory the Churches reformation and the Kingdomes safety Consider sadly and seriously of these things and the Lord give thee and me understanding of these times to know what Israell ought to doe in the same and let us without feare of the hand of violence or foote of pride set hand and heart and shoulder and all to the perfect cleansing of the house of the Lord and advancing his Sion to a perfection of beauty and setting up his Christ upon his Throne to rule over us in all things according to his own mind and then expect with fulnesse of assurance that he will speedily make all his enemies his foot-stoole and ease himselfe and us of all his adversaries Which is the prayer of him that desireth to spend himselfe and be spent in the service of the King and Kingdome JOHN WHITE THE FIRST CENTVRY OF Scandalous and Lewde MINISTERS 1. THE Benefice of Iohn Wilson Vicar of Arlington in the County of Sussex is sequestred for that he in most beastly manner divers times attempted to commit buggery with Nathaniel Browne Samuel Andrewes and Robert Williams his Parishioners and by perswasions and violence laboured to draw them to that abhominable sinne that as he shamed not to professe they might make up his number eighteene and hath professed that he made choice to commit that act with man-kind rather then with women to avoide the shame and danger that oft ensueth in begetting Bastards and hath also attempted to commit Buggery with a Mare and at Baptizing of a Bastard child blasphemously said openly in the Church That our Saviour as he was in the flesh was a Bastard and usually preacheth That Baptisme utterly taketh away originall sinne and that the sinnes committed after Baptisme are only by imitation and not by naturall corruption and hath in his Sermons much commended Images in Churches as good for edification and that men should pray with Beades and hath openly said that the Parliament were Rebels and endeavoured to starve the King and that whatsoever the King commands we are all bound to obey whether it be good or evill and hath openly affirmed that Buggery is no sinne and is a usuall frequenter of Ale-houses and a great drinker 2. The stipend of Iohn Aymes Curate of Lowis in Kent is sequestred for that he is a common drunkard a common haunter of Ale-houses and a common swearer and hath affirmed the Parliament to be a Round-headed Parliament and that their heads should be all shortly chopt off and wished that the King might grind them in pieces like a Potters vessell and for above 15. weekes hath altogether deserted his Cure 3. The Benefice of Charles Forbench Parson of Heny in the County of Essex was sequestred because he is a common swearer oftentimes breaking forth into fearfull Oathes and Imprecations and very carelesse of his pastorall function and wholy neglecteth the observing of the monethly Fast setting his men to plow himselfe also working on those dayes in the fields and hath affirmed that the Earle of Strafford was no traitour and that he was put to death wrongfully by the Parliament 4. The Benefice of Stephen Withers Parson of Kelvedon in the County of Essex is sequestred for that he hath sollicited oftentimes the Wife of Philip Glascomb to commit adultery with him and divers other women affirming it to be no sinne to lie with them And hath not only practised Altar-worship but urged his people to receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper at the railes and in his Church read the Booke for prophanation of the Sabbath by sports and will not suffer his people to have above one Sermon on the Lords day though at their charge and hath expressed great malignity against the Parliament 5. The Benefice of Emanuel Vty Doctor in Divinity Rector of the Parish Church of Chigwell in the County of Essex is sequestred for that he affirmed that there hath beene no true Religion in England these forty yeares and that he loved the Pope with all his heart peremptorily maintaining that whatsoever men of holy Orders speake they speake by Divine inspiration and that if the Devill himselfe would have holy Orders put on him he would be inspired by the holy Ghost and hath denied the Kings Supremacy and exalted the Power of Bishops above the Authority of the Prince affirming them to be the head of the Church and blasphemously broached That the Command of the Arch-bishop of Canterbury was to be equally obeyed with the Word of God and hath declaimed against the Authority of Parliament and affirmed That Parliament-men are Mechanicks and illiterate and have nothing to doe to intermeddle in matters of Religion 6. The Benefice of Edward Cherry Rector of the Parish Church of Much-holland in the County of Essex is sequestred for that he usually boweth twelve times towards the East when he goeth into the Chancell and his Sermons which were rarely above one a Moneth mostly tend to the upholding and pressing of that and the like superstitious innovations and hath refused to give the Sacrament to those of his Parishioners that would not come up to the railes to receive it and hath taught in his Sermons That Baptisme washeth away originall sinne and that all men may be saved if they will and have free-will thereunto and hath been very often drunke and affirmed that a man may more lawfully play game and drinke in an Ale-house on the Sunday then on any other day and hath published a very scandalous Libell against the Earle of Essex Earle of Warwick and Earle of Holland and hath affirmed That he never knew any good the Parliament did unlesse it were to rob the Country and pick their purses and hath deserted his said Cure for above a yeare last past leaving the same wholy unsupplied and is reputed to have betaken himselfe to the Army raised against the Parliament 7. The Benefice of Thomas Thrall Vicar of the Parish Church of S. Mary Mount-thaw London is sequestred for that he hath neither Preached nor Catechized on the Lords day in the afternoone nor suffered his Parishioners to have any to performe the same though they have desired it at their own charge And is a common haunter of Tavernes and Ale-houses spending much of his time there and hath been often drunke and not only read the Booke for sports on the Sabbath in his Church but hath stirred up his Parishioners thereunto and countenanced them with his presence at Cudgells and the like other sports on that day