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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	apostle_n	ghost_n	holy_a	1,615	5	4.9281	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29287	The break-neck of presumptuousnesse in sinning applyable unto the occasions of these times.		1644 (1644)	Wing B4338; ESTC R20115	14,349	33

necessary part thereof The second in dealing thus with sacred Scripture which maketh the lye utterly Sacrilegious Two others are discerned in the Devils consequence one in his pretentions thus If thou be the Sonne of God c. to wit that thereby thou mayest manifest thy dignity and speciall interest thou hast in the favour of God The second in his intention If thou be the Sonne c. that by trying conclusions he might work his own destruction Let us begin with his lye It is no newes to heare that the Devil can lye whom Christ thus branded saying that he is a lyar and the Father of lyes as if lying were a property essential unto him who no sooner heard this questiō Who shal deceive Ahab but instantly answered as if this were an office peculiar unto himself and said I will be a false speaker in the mouth of all Ahabs Prophets But the manner of this lying is worth inquiring into The tenour of the Text which he cited runneth thus He namely God Will give his Angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy wayes they shall hold thee up in their hands that thou dash not thy foot against a stone But the Devil omitteth that clause to keep thee in all thy wayes whereby is meant the wayes of his own revealed ordinances as all the Psalmes speake which were directory words and made against the Devills temptation of seeking extraordinary and hazardous wayes of mans own will He did thereby intend therefore a lying delusion as many expositours Ancient and others have observed and the Devil being as Christ hath said the father of lyes every one that liveth in the world will acknowledge that he hath had an innumerable off-spring therein Now the manner of lying is twofold one close by that equivocation which is called mentall reservation which we may call Jesuiticall because of their more special profession and practise thereof instructing every Priest when he is examined by a Magistrate and in danger to be discovered that being asked Art thou a Priest he may answer slily I am no Priest reserving this notion in his minde to tell it unto you Which Jesuiticall art and subtilty in the Priests answer we discerne here to have been Satanicall in this Devilish temptation by his concealment of the former words of the Psalmes As for example thus He hath given his Angels charge over thee not uttering the next words In all thy wayes could not but reserve in his minde a purpose of not telling it unto Christ For it is impossible but that he who omitteth words lest they should be told hath the same cōception in his mind But they tell it and print it in their books that this kind of answer by reservation is no lye Let us therefore try this out of Gods book Ananias having sold his possession for a piece of money and laid it down at the Apostles feet to be distributed in common craftily kept back a part thereof to whom Saint Peter said Why hath Sathan possessed thy heart to lye to the Holy Ghost Now lying is not without some expression of words which must have been to this question Thou Ananias hast thou sold them that possession but for so much and he answering but for so much and concealing a part could not but conceive in his mind a selling it but for so much for ought that Peter should know which as we have heard from Peter himselfe came from the Devil and therefore was as I said a Satanicall lye And I leave it that I may come to that which is open direct and flat lying which is commonly practised amongst men and may be called as Bernard termeth every brazen faced sinne Daemon meridianus We reade of distinct and peculiar Nationall sinnes as being more predominant in some countryes then others some branded with the infamy of Drunkennesse some of Gluttonie some of Venery and the like some have become Proverbialls for lying whence we have the Graeca fides the faith meaning faithlesnesse of the Grecians Punica fides the faith of the Punicks and fides Cretensium the Cretians faith to which we may adde if we consider our proficiency in forging lyes in the compasse of three yeares I speake to our shame our fides Anglicana whether Privata or Publica exceeding the three former put them all together when as still our to morrow doth give yesterday the lye So epidemical is this leprosie amongst us I returne to the Text It is written So then this we speak of is used by the devil in his false allegation of the said Scripture aggravating the lye to make it sacrilegious The devil saith the Apostle can translate himselfe into an Angel of light this he doth most whensoever under the colour of singularity and of newly devised strictnesse of manners and opinions he seduceth men into new heresies and schismes as is taught us Col. 2. 23. But yet can there be any transformation more delusive and sacrilegious then this the perverting of the right sense of Scripture whether by false glosses or and that especially by abusing the sense of Scriptures by omission of words and circumstances which contradict the intention of the Objectours upon which point come wee now more especially to insist Many houres would not suffice to rehearse the many Romish sophistries in this kind of abusing of Scriptures in every controversie but I have singled out one onely most pertinent for the present time which is their doctrine of Subjects taking up Armes against Soveraignty for restoring of Religion and calling it a just cause for justifying of their former Irish and now English Popish Rebellions which may give you a cleare scantling how to judge of the rest Thus beginning with this their Maxime That the power of all Government is alwayes resident in the people and therefore for Religions sake they may make their Insurrections at pleasure Their first Scripture is out of the 1 Pet. 2. 13. where speaking of a King he saith he is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a creature of man or humane creature which we say is most true in constituendo in constituting a King or any forme of Government But rege constituto the King being constituted and established the power of Government by the ordinance of God is in the Governour and not in the people and therefore they wittingly conceale that Peter having said of the creation of a King that it is Humane addeth presently he being once authorized an injunction upon the people saying Submit your selves unto him How during their owne wills nay for he subjoyneth for the Lords sake So that now he is not mans creature but Gods who immediately putteth an obligation upon them of obedience unto him This is the first point and for proof of this our Exposition we have the testimony of S. Paul where that which S. Peter called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} humane creation he entituleth it expresly {non-Roman} {non-Roman}