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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	church_n	faith_n	word_n	3,077	5	4.1931	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22462	The copie of a double letter sent by an English gentilman from beyond the seas, to his frende in London containing the true aduises of the cause, and maner of the death, of one Richard Atkins, executed by fire in Rome, the seconde of August 1581.	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.	1581 (1581)	STC 888; ESTC S112708	11,224	24

had not staied them who gaue counsel and tooke vpō them rather to deliuer him owt of hand to the Inquisition and thither was he brought the same houre the howse of the office and the commissaries lodging not far of Thither also was the foresaid Confessor of the Englishe College with one other called to be interpretors to bothe partes in the examination of the Heretike where as wel for his said notorious Sacrilege committed as for diuers damnable speaches and opinions which he auouched and in which he persisted euen before the sacred office they proceded against him according to the holy Canons had bene straight committed to the secular power and executed the people instantly vrging that the Citie might be deliuered of that monster and expiated of so impious an act by the death of the malefactor had not the good Cardinall of S. Seuerin of his charitable compassion humbly asked of his holines and obtained some daies of delay for the poore Caitife that all meanes possible might be assaied for his repentance and saluation He was conuicted of a number of hereticall articles ouer and aboue all the heresies of the new Englishe Churche as that the Pope was a deuil that there was no Sacramēts that there ought to be no authoritie or superioritie of one man ouer an other among the faithfull that a Christian man should not sweare at all neither in iudgement nor otherwise that there should be no holy daies at all that none should beare or vse weapē that his heade being couered he would not nor ought not put of his cap to any man because honor was due to God alone that a man should not pray but in secret not kneeling but prostrate or groueling that none could be saued but such as suffred persecution that both the people of the Este vnder the Turke and the Catholikes in England not with standing their errors might be saued because they suffer persecution that 〈◊〉 persecution was a proofe sufficient of the trew Church of the elect For all which sond absurdities and other his fantasies he alleaged scriptures continually as the Caluinists do and applied them with like grace that is as iust as Germans lippes yet not lacking vulgar sleightes shiftes euasions and winding of wordes to auoide the Scriptures and reasons wherewith he was pressed by the learned of the nation that earuestly dealt with him for conuersion from such pernicious illusions of the deuil Mary within two sentences and ●rtē with one breath he would contradict him 〈◊〉 affirme and deny and start from one hole to an other for all the world like the protestāts ●oft horse in England that will passe you such answers without a bait to any Catholik booke that commeth in his way When we asked him how he knew that booke which he bare about with him to be gods worde or to be treuly translated or to haue that meaning for which he so often and so confidently alleaged it seing he was not learned to examine the translation or sense thereof but should yeld to the learned in such matters and giue ouer his owne fantasticall singularities The more learned quoth he the more damnation that you liue not accordingly but are of ill life as the protestants and puritans be that this booke is gods word well translated I am warrāted by the spirit When we opposed to his particular spirit the generall spirit promised to the Catholik Church he answered that him self was the church and often that he knew no man to be of his faith but him self that the Church could not be seene nor knowē to any sauing to God alone being the hid cōpanie of the elect onely And some times that he was not assured whether him self was of the Church or no other whiles that the Church was in heauen onely euer since Christes Ascension specially sith the kinges of the earthe be came Christians and endewed it with rich●●● for which they should be damned euery 〈◊〉 as all other riche men should likewise 〈◊〉 That the sword was put into their handes by God as vnto wicked persons that so wickednes according to the scripture might ha●● the ouer hand which sentence euen so translated he often vsed and the elect be persocuted by them and by that persecution be faued yet notwith standing sodenly he would tourne his talke and alleage out of the old testament that princes should vse their sword against malefactors and contrary streight out of the new that no man should strike with the sword When we cited S. Paule against him he answered by the authoritie of S. Peter that in Paules writings many things were hard which the ignorant abused cite him Peter I am quoth he Christes disciple not Peters Being demaunded of the number and force of the Sacraments some time he affirmed there was none no count to be made of baptisme or the supper Christs passion only to be a Sacrament otherwhiles he said all the workes of the Iust were Sacraments and that it was a small matter what faith a man were of so that he liued well and that euery Iust man was a priest and might minister all Sacraments pray and do what els he list to saluation that him self somtimes as a sinner could not pray at Other times that he could pray fast and tame his fles he He affirmed that most part of the world specially the learned should be damned for that they did not reproache and charge openly he kinges with their faults as he had done the Quene of England and that he was ordeined of God to do it as Iohn Baptist and the prophets were and that he wold speake to the three tirants specially the Turke the Pope he Quene whom he lightly named together where vnto whē some replied that he should shortly see it was not the spirit of trew prophesie but the suggestion of the ennemie that droue him to these folies for that he was not to be hāged as by the figure of the galowes on his coate and by his wordes he prophetically professed but should be bourned for an Heretike to which he said nothing neither was any whit moued by the reasons praiers persuasions or teares of the godly priests and fathers that dealt with him cōtinually for seuen daies together during his imprisonment in the inquisition nor shewed all that while any signe of distraction otherewise then by that phrensie which is incident to heresie and pitiful execation and obduration of hart whereat not only for the compassion of the wretches damnable miserie but also for the dishonor of our contrey we all excedingly sorowed seing the strangers measure the common condition of our state in England by the brutishe calamitie of this one sauage man of whose opinions iust say they though al there be not because heretikes neuer agree yet being all a like out of the Church of God they are neither lesse sure of damnation nor lesse subiect to fantasie nor more ledde by reason and religion