Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	add_v	life_n	word_n	2,724	5	4.5602	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93568	The soundheads description of the roundhead. Or The roundhead exactly anatomized in his integralls and excrementalls, by the untwistling a threefold knott. 1. Who the roundheads be, or what a roundhead is in rerum natura, and his pedigree. 2. The reall causes producing a roundhead. 3. The properties and peculiarities of a roundhead. Now published to satisfie the whole world in the resolution of this monstrous beast, who and what he is, and by what markes he may be knowne and seene. Printed at the request of Gregory Scotch-marke (or thirteen-pence-half peny) inhabiting in Barber-surgeons alley, at the signe of the new fashioned Perriwigg: in the yeare of the roundhead his hopes confounded, 1642.		1642 (1642)	Wing S4722; Thomason E148_7; ESTC R3274	8,425	12

as the Church beleeves and will raile against and curse that and those which they understand not nor know not It being ever the propertie of prophane fooles to speake evill of that which is good and of them that professe goodnesse through their monstrous ignorance And they are driven like calves by every asse to the shambles of their owne destruction 5. Their actions is the next propertie and these are infinite innumber and all evill like themselves they are full of all manner of iniquitie-without measure themselves and they act all manner of iniquitie Against God goodnesse Religion and manners Their King and Countrey in generall The true worshippers and fearers of God First against God himselfe continually in rebellion against him yea open manifest rebellion refusing to be ruled and governed by his holy Law or to beleeve his heavenly Gospell but despising the one and slighting the other doe give themselves up to all manner of licentiousnesse committing iniquitie with greedinesse by their prophanenesse oaths uncleanenesse c. Against goodnesse ever railing hating mocking at goodnesse precisenesse or holinesse Against Religion Therefore are they so zealous for all false impure mixed popish worship and ceremonies As for the Common Prayer Booke which is a thing first invented and composed by the enemy of God and of Christ To wit Antichrist the Pope being extracted out of the mass-Masse-Booke a meere compound of errours confusion additions and substractions to and from the Scriptures mans invention and yet this offered to God as his worship against his expresse command That whosoever adds to his Word or takes from it shall have his name blotted out of the booke of life And that it is a vaine worship of God to worship him after or by the traditions of men against his expresse will who will have his worship both for matter and manner pure without mixture spirituall with out earthly invention or composute 〈…〉 set downe his whole mind and will how he will be worshipped and at what manner in his Word and Testament But a reason may be given why they are so zealous for their ignorant devotion in the Common-Prayer-book is because they are furnished from the Letany with oaths as by thy wounds and bloud by thy agony by thy death And from the Apocrypha Chapters in the Service-booke with lyes so they learne to sweare and lye for not any of them are converted to leave off swearing and lying but they are nourished and strengthened in their ignorance and superstition and prophanenesse by it and so for Bishops Altars Crosses and what not Against all good manners and honest conversation by their riotous drunken and prophane actions Secondly They are against the King and Countrey in generall The onely disturbers traytors and rebels in the State sowing discord and division in the hearts of all they can infect with their trayterous councells possessing the King with evill thoughts of the Parliament practising daily mischiefe against the honest and faithfull and loyall endeavours of this ever honoured religious Parliament but great hope is their mischiefe shall returne upon their owne pate by the wisdome and innocency and integritie of that gracious Assembly Thirdly Against the true worshippers and fearers of God by malicious lyes and slanders of them terming them fooles Roundheads Preachers in tubbs and by their execrations and curses of them But the curse that is causelesse shall not come nor the termes that are groundlesse shall not remaine upon good men But shall returne upon the pates of the first inventers And thus you have the Soundheads description of the Roundheads fully Anatomized FINIS