Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	church_n	pope_n	rome_n	3,603	5	6.4643	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91253	The Quakers unmasked, and clearly detected to be but the spawn of Romish frogs, Jesuites, and Franciscan fryers; sent from Rome to seduce the intoxicated giddy-headed English nation. By an information newly taken upon oath in the city of Bristol, Jan. 22. 1654. and some evident demonstrations. / By William Prynne of Swainswick, Esq;.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1655 (1655)	Wing P4046; Thomason E843_6; ESTC R203279	28,912	41

principal inventers erectors of Actors Rulers Speakers amongst our Quakers and other New sects then their pretended * See G. Emmot his Northern Blast with Gilpins Book both relenting Quakers extraordinary sudden extravagant Agonies Trances Quakings Shaking Raptures Vis●ons Apparitions Conflicts with Satan Revelations Illuminations instructions in new divine Mysteries and Seraphicall Divinity where of they pretend they were wholly ignorant before being illiterate persons their intimate familiarity and immediate communion with God Jesus Christ in and after their agonies and extasies their extraordinary callings Missions Messages to such and such particular orders sects places persons their sudden speaking understanding of severall languages which they pretend they never learned but got by inspiration all which are the very same in form and substance with those ridiculous lying Enthusiasms Impostures Cheats Agonies * See VVierus de Praestigiis Daemonum l. 1. c. 01. 17. in J● Gerson de Probatione Spirituum Revelations Visions Raptures Illuminations Inspirations Apparitions c. of Popish Saints Fryers Priests Jesuites Nunnes recorded in the lving Legends and lives of their Romish Canonized SAINTS by Capgrave Surius Lippomanes Ribadeniera Mafeus and other of their fraternity especially in the Lives of St. Francis Ignatius Loyola the Founders of the Franciscans and Jesuites orders the principall actors speakers amongst the Quakers and other late Enthusiasts if fully examined and of St Dominick for men and of St Katherine of Sienna and St * Imitated by some women Quakers Briget of Sweden for women Out of this St Briget Life and Revelations printed in Folio at N●remb●rg An. 1524. most of our Male and Female Quaker Extravagant new Revelations and Impostures are extracted as those who will but compare them may at first discern And though they conceal their Jesuitisme and grossest points of Popery from their Disciples at first baiting their hookes only with pleasing Novelties shewes of Superlative Sanctity and * Se G. Emm●t his Northen Blast p. 1. 13. 14. The perfect Pharise p. 9. 10. 11. 14. 29. 35. c. invectives against our Ministers Ordinances Church Tithes Presbyterian Government and the like that so they may more easily catch the silly people yet they discover their Jesuiticall Positions and Popish Doctrines more openly by degrees at last as Evangelicall perfection Justification by our own inherent righteousnes and holinesse c. crying them up for new Gospel Light amongst the ignorant vulgar and crying down our Protestant Ministers ordinances sacrements the Articles of our Creed Church Liturgies Gods Ten Commandements the Lords Prayer our Churches and sometimes the Leter of the old and New Testament as Popish and * The Jesuites Popish Priests and Fryers condemned our Minister sheretofore as unlawfull Ministers because they derived not their ordination from the Church of Rome now they turne the scales and affirm them to be no lawfull Ministrs but Antichristian and popish upon this false pretext That they derive their ordination and Ministery from the Pope and Church of Rome Antichristian as the Fryers and Jesuites did heretofore in their Books and Discourses in their very language And it is evident by some late instances that they are Anti-magistratical as well as Anti-ministeriall Yea that these * Sec John Gilpins and others printed Relations concerning the Quakers in the North. Quakers use inchanted Potions Braclets Ribons Sorcery and witch craft to intoxicate their Novices and draw them to their party As Simon Magus bewitiched the people of Samaria with his Sorceries Acts. 6. 9 11. and other seducing false teachers bewitched the foolish Galatians that they should not obey the truth Gal. 3. 1. which Enchantments Sorceries Charmes Fascinations and Exorcismes are very frequent amongst Popes and Popish Priests Monkes Fryers Jesuites as you may read at large in Joannes Wierus de Prestigiis Daemonum Incantationibus Basile 1568. especially l. 2. c. 7. l. 5. c. 2 3. c. Platina Benno Cordinalis Baleus and others in the lives of Popes Silvester 2. Benedict the 9. John 20 and 21. and other Popes who were all most infamous Magicians Sorcerers and Inchanters by which black arts they got the Papacy And Del Rio his Disquisitio Magie and John Jee his Foot out of the Snare London 1624. will prove the Jesuites and Priests in England are still accustomed to them to win and seduce their Proselytes Whence we finde this Scripture expression concerning Romish Babylon Revel 18. 23. By thy SORCERIES were ALL THE NATIONS DECEIVED Now for our Quakers others better instruction I shall inform them by way of Caution of these considerable particulars relating to their Agonies Inspirations and Revelations 1. That the * Joannes Wierus de Praestigiis Daemonum l. 1. c. 11. P●trus Thyaraeus de Demoniacis et obsessis pars 1. c. 3. to 9. pars 2. c. 25. 27. Georgius Pistorius de Demonum ortu Officiis Illusionibus c. Isagoge Basiliae 1563. Devil by Gods permissions frequently doth cause and produce by his owne immediate power extraordinary strang Convulsions Contractions Distortions Agonies Tremblings Quakings Shakings Motions Jestures of the Bodies Members Joints Nerves Muscels both of Men and women when where and in what manner he pleaseth as we see by common experience in such persons as are either possessed by the Devill himselfe or bewitched by his Instruments and by the Convulsions Trances Quakings Shakings gestures of Witches Sorcerers and other acted or possessed by the Devil of which we have many examples in History experience one recorded in the Gospel it self Mar. 9. 17. to 28. 2. That it was the usual practise and custom of Devils heretofore by their Idolatrous Pagan Priests prophets to give answers in their temples oracles to their worshippers in Greece other places which of later times and at this day is likewise frequent amongst the Pagan Idolatrous Indians by human voyces Nods antique Gestures affictis sub inde gestibus FURENTIUM nonnunquam EBRIORUM alias TREMENTIUM aut RIDICVLAE GESTICVIANTIBUS as * De Praestigiis Daemonum l. 1 c. 1. p. 63. Joannis Wierus relates out of Strapo Geogr lib. 16. Their Priests who were and are * See Purchas Pilg. l. 8. c. 6. l. 9. c. 6. Wierus de praestigiis Daem l. 2. c. 3. usually Witches and Sorcerers when they prophecied and gave answers to the people being cast into strang reall or feigned Extasies Trances and Quaking fits using sometimes the Gestures of Mad-men somtimes of Drunkerds other times of QUAKERS TREMBLERS and of ridiculous Antiques oft times Howling SHAKINGS THEIR BRESTS foaming at the mouth and falling downe in a swown as some of our Quakers do now as if they had the falling sicknesse the Devil in seeming entring into and acting in them as you may read at leisure in Wierus and Mr Samuel Purchas his Pilgrimage l. 9. cap. 5. l. 8. cap. 6. and elswhere in his Voyages Whether our Quakers Shaking Fits Convulsions Tr●nees Agonies running * As William