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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	call_v	signify_v	word_n	1,913	5	4.1167	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54178	No cross, no crown, or, Several sober reasons against hat-honour, titular-respects, you to a single person, with the apparel and recreations of the times being inconsistant with Scripture, reason, and practice, as well of the best heathens, as the holy men and women of all generations, and consequently fantastick, impertinent and sinfull : with sixty eight testimonies of the most famous persons of both former and latter ages for further confirmation : in defence of the poor despised Quakers, against the practice and objections of their adversaries / by W. Penn ...	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1669 (1669)	Wing P1327; ESTC R15257	90,375	122

it enduce us to repute men from any external condition but from their inward frame and disposition of minds it is hereby that we pronounce men noble or base with God not to serve sin is to be free and to excell in vertue is to be noble God hath chosen the mean and contemptible of this world whereby to humble the great ones besides it is a folly for any to boast his Gentility since all are equally esteem'd by God the ransom of the poor and rich cost Christ an equal expence of Blood nor is it material in what estate a man is born the New Creature hath no distinctions but if we will forget bow we all descended from one Father we ought at least perpetually to remember that we have but one Saviour But since I am ingaged against these fond and frothy Customs the proper effects and delights of vain and proud minds let me yet add one much more memorable passage as it is related by the famous Casaubon in his Discourse of Use and Custom where he briefly reports what past between Sulpitius Severus and Paulinus Bishop of Nola but such a one as gave all to redeem Captives he brings it in thus He is not counted a civil man now of late years amongst us who thinks it much or refuseth to subscribe himself Servant though it be to his equal or inferiour yet Sulpitius Severus was once sharply chid by Paulinus for subscribing himself his SERVANT in a Letter of his saying Take heed hereafter how thou being from a Servant called into Liberty dost subscribe thy self Servant unto one who is thy Brother and Fellow-Servant for it is a sinfull flattery not a testimony of humility to pay those honours to a man and a sinner which are due to the one Lord one Master and one God This was the sence those times had of the Customs and Fashions so much now reputed amongst people that call themselves Christians and their Successors 't was then a Sin 't is now an Accomplishment 't was then Flattery 't is now Respect 't was then fit to be severely reproved and now alas it is to deserve severe reprove not to use it O monstrous vanity O gross impiety how much alas how deeply have those who are called Christians revolted from the plainness of the primitive dayes and practises of holy men and women in former Ages and are become degenerated into the loose vain proud and wanton Customs of the World that knows not God to whom use hath made these things condemned by the Scripture Reason and Example almost natural and so insensible are they of their bad effects that they not onely persist to practise them but impudently plead for them and as impiously make a very mock of those who cannot immitate them I shall proceed to what remains yet further to be proved against those other Customs the not conforming whereunto makes us so much the Stumbling-block and foolishness of this inconsiderate and wanton Age. CHAP. II. Twelve Reasons for Thou not You to a single Person Reason I. WORDS are but as so many marks set and imploy'd for necessary intelligible mediums or fit means whereby men may express their minds and conceptions to each other from whence comes Society and Commerce Reason II. Though the World be divided into many Nations which for the most part have singly a peculiar Language Speech or Dialect yet have they ever concurr'd in the same numbers and persons as the Radix or ground of all Arithmetical distinction in matters and proper signification of their minds as for instance I love Thou lovest He loveth are of the singular number importing but one whether in the first second or third person also We love Ye love They love which are of the plural number because in each is implied more then one which undeniable Grammatical Rule might be enough to satisfie any that have not forgot their Accidence for if Thou love be singular and You love be plural and if Thou love signifies but one and You love many Is it not as proper to say Thou love to ten men as to say You love to one man or why not I love for We love and We love instead of I love doubtless it is the same though most improper and ridiculous Reason III. Because there is not another word extant in any Language to distinguish betwixt one and many singular and plural Reason IV. If it be improper or uncivil speech as tearmed by this vain and ignorant Age how comes it that Roman Authors should be of such esteem in all your Schools and Universities that use no other Reason V. Is it not very absurd that Children should be whipt at School for missing Thou for You or as having made false Latine if they place one number for another and yet that we must be if not whipt Clubb'd or at least reproached and laugh'd at when we use the same propriety of speech Reason VI. It is neither improper nor uncivil but the contrary because used in all Languages Speeches and Dialects through all Ages as for example It was Gods Language when he first spake to Adam called the Hebrew also the Egyptian Sodomitan Garrarite the Assyrian the Caldean It was the Language of Ahasuerus who reigned over 127 Provinces 't was Babilons In a word there 's not a Book extant of all the Oriental Tongues that doth not prove and evidence the matter And now amongst the Turks Tarters Muscovites Indians Persians Italians Greeks Spaniards French Dutch Germans Polonians Swedes Danes Irish Scottish Welch yea all subdivided Dialects so numerous as well as we of England have no other word to signifie One from Two Singular from Plural then Thou for but One and You for never less then Two by which its evident that Thou is no upstart nor improper but the only fit and absolute word for to be used in all Languages to a single person Because otherwise all Sentences Speeches and Discourses may be very ambiguous uncertain and equivocal If a Jury or Judge pronounce a Verdict or Sentence three being at the Bar upon three differing occasions You are guilty and to die or innocent and discharged who knows what they mean whether but one or but two or if all three and in all common discourse it holds the same nor can this be avoided but by Circumstances and many unnecessary circumlocutions and as the preventing of this was doubtless the first Reason for its institution so cannot that be justly discussed till the Reason be first removed which can never be whilst two are in the world Reason VII Because it was first ascribed in way of Flattery to proud Popes and Emperors immitating the Heathen homage to their gods thereby ascribing a plural honour as if one Pope had been made of many Gods and one Emperor of many men for which reason You only to be used to many became first to be spoken to one Reason VIII Supposing You to be proper to a Prince yet not to