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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	body_n	bread_n	consecration_n	9,959	5	11.0641	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31361	An epistle to King Charles the II sent from Amsterdam in Holland, the 28 of the 10 month, 1660 wherein is contained certain orders and laws there, concerning the liberty granted to those which cannot take up arms, nor swear, which laws there do yet continue : as also several arguments shewing that the people called Quakers are no popish recusants, who are cast into prison for not swearing : with advice & direction to King Charles, that his tendernesse may appear likewise to tender consciences, who keep to their yea and nay, that if they break their yea and nay, they may be punished as for breaking an oath / William Caton.	Caton, William, 1636-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing C1513; ESTC R22831	9,863	16

wherein the Oath of Supremacy is contained This also is wrested and made as a snare to the people before mentioned when no places of Office are conferred upon them neither do they nor none of them that I know of receive thy Fees nor Wages and therefore not of those to whom the Oath of Supremacy is to be tendred For they are known to be credible men that feareth God and are absolutely against all Treasons Plots and treacherous Conspiracies whatsoever both against Thee and all men whose Yea is as much to them yea more than many mens Oaths are to them that will Swear wherefore they might well be confided in and credited for of their fidelity and innocency the Nation hath had much proof already So that if it were not more out of malice to them than out of love to Thee or jealousie of them these Oaths before mentioned would not be so frequently tendred to them by those that act in Thy Name who might easily be prevented from troubling this peaceable people in this matter by a few lines from Thee being issued forth as an Order to the contrary by Thee and thereby a stop might be put in part to the prosecution of that wickednesse which is in the hearts of many in Authority at this day against this innocent people who I do assure Thee are no Popish Recusants and this I shall endeavour to manifest clearly to Thy understanding by some few plain and simple yet sound Arguments as First If they were Popish Recusants then would they own a mortal man to be the head of the Church and the Church to be under the obedience of the Pope of Rome but they own Christ Jesus only who is immortal to be the head of the Church and it to be wholly under his obedience and not under the Popes of Rome and therefore are they no Popish Recusants Secondly If they were Popish Recusants then would they swear and take oaths before Magistrates if it were required of them but they will not swear in no wise though thereunto required by Magistrates though they suffer for it but do abide in the Doctrine of Christ who said Swear not at all and him they chuse to obey rather than Magistrates that require to Swear and therefore are they no Popish Recusants Thirdly If they were Popish Recusants then would they how to Images worship them and honour them that are the works of mens hands but they bow to no Image neither do they worship or honour any Image which is made with mens hands in the likenesse of any thing in heaven above or in the earth beneath And therefore are they no Popish Recusants Fourthly If they were Popish Recusants then would they own a Purgatory after this life but they testifie against such Doctrine and do not believe any such Fables therefore are they no Popish Recusants Fiftly If they were Popish Recusants then would they own Temporal Bread and Wine after Consecration to be the Body and Blood of Christ but they believe and know that his Body which is meat indeed and his Blood which is drink indeed i● Spiritual and Incorruptable and so not external bread and wine which will corrupt and decay after Consecration as before and in this particular also they differ from the Romish Catholicks and therefore are they no Popish Recusants Sixthly If they were Popish Recusants then would they observe dayes and holi-dayes and times as Christmasse Lent Easter c. but these do they observe no more than other dayes and times and therefore are they no Popish Recusant● Seventhly If they were Popish Recusants then would they use Crosses and Crucifixes with Beads and such like frivolous things and they would also mark themselves with the signe of the Crosse upon their foreheads upon their mouths upon their breasts and from one side to the other but Crosses Crucifixes and Beads they reject as the works of mens hands which cannot make their worship any thing more acceptable unto God neither do they at all mark themselves with the signe of the Crosse as Popish Recusants do therefore are they no Popish Recusants Eighthly If they were Popish Recusants then would they pray for the dead and unto the Saints that are dead that they might pray to God for them that are alive in the flesh but they do not pray for them that are outwardly dead nor unto the Saints that are dead but unto the Lord alone in the Name of Christ who giveth life and breath and therefore are no Popish Recusants Ninthly If they were Popish Recusants then would they once a year at the least confesse their sins unto a Popish Priest upon their bended knees before the Virgin Mary the Arch-Angel Iohn Baptist Peter and Paul and before all the Saints as Popish Recusants imagine and then would they pray unto these before mentioned for them to pray unto God for their Absolution and after they had done thus would they receive an Absolution from the Priest c. but they confesse their sins unto God who is able to remit and forgive them and not unto Priests before the Saints that are dead neither do they receive Pardons or Absolutions from any mortal man of or for their sins and therefore are they no Popish Recusants Tenthly If they were Popish Recusants then would they observe the Commands of the Church of Rome which are chiefly these five viz. First That the Saints dayes be sanctified and kept holy Secondly That they hear Masse Thirdly That the Feast dayes be duly observed Fourthly That Confession of sins be made at the least once a year to the Priest And finally that the Sacrament be received at or about the time of Easter But these Commands and Institutions of the Church of Rome they renounce as superstitious traditions of men with many more of their Ceremonies and Rudiments And therefore are they no Popish Recusants Eleventhly If they were Popish Recusants then would they respect mens persons as they Papists do and have them in admiration because of advantage Twelfthly If they were Popish Recusants then would they wrestle with flesh and blood and would put such to death as they judged to be Hereticks that were not of their mind But the weapons of their warfare are not carnal but spiritual and therefore do not they wrestle with flesh and blood but are absolutely against the taking away of any mans life for his judgement or opinion in matters of Religion And therefore are they no Popish Recusants Thirteenthly and finally if they were Popish Recusants then would they go on pilgrimage hold up Temples Tythes Altars Nuneries Reliques Indulgences Inquisitions then would they like unto the Romish Catholicks believe whatsoever the Church of Rome believeth but in life and Doctrine so well as in matters of faith do they differ from the Church of Rome and that not only in the things before mentioned but also concerning their seven Sacraments and their Baptizing of Infants and in many more things And