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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	authority_n	king_n	kingdom_n	1,417	5	5.6187	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64760	The dovvnfall of the pretended divine authoritie of the hierarchy into the Sea of Rome from some arguments and motives, to the finall extirpation of that unlawful government of the prelacy : as having no foundation in the Scriptures, but onely in that filthy dung-hill of by V.N.V.	V. N. V.	1641 (1641)	Wing V14; ESTC R1331	28,994	45

wherein it s as possible for them to bring forth good fruit as for an Apricock to grow in a dunghill Wee have Christs assurance for it A corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit the tree still signifies the office not the person for it s spoken of false Prophets and tryall of them by their fruits Doe men gather grapes on thornes or figges on thistles still shewes it to be the office of those false Prophets where Christ never ordained any good fruits to grow and therefore none to be expected but of a corrupt tree corrupt fruit Therefore every tree which brings not forth good fruit shall be hewen downe and cast into the fire Mat. 7.16 to 20. This good fruit as wee shewed even now is fruit unto holinesse We will try then the fruits of this tree of Episcopacy and the severall branches of its offices and we finde them all taste of the dunghill soyle they are rooted in and receive their proper nourishment from and are no fruite unto holinesse For wee doe finde by wofull experience that the fruits of their offices and government hath filled the Land with all prophanenesse and sinning with greedinesse in all licentiousnesse and therefore unholy offices an unholy government which not onely countenance sincks of sin and wickednesse but live in and are maintained by the vices of men as the hire of whores selling of sinnes and filthinesse commutations of pennance and oppressions of his Majesties Subjects and disabling them for King and Countryes service This is the chiefe maintenance of their offices which if once with the Canon Law that warrants these practices were taken away we should quickly see this great Amphitheater of Prelacy moulder downe and fall into the dunghill from whence it arose and then one faire flood of Justice from this honourable Parliament would soone sweep away all the filth together and clense the Land of these corrupt and contagious offices The seats of their offices their Cathedrall Cities and Pallaces are very donnes of all filthinesse and prophanenesse the most uncleane birds in the Countrey resort to dwell under their shadow as having there libertie to live in all licentiousnesse The name of holinesse there is as a Jew to an Egyptian an abhomination their Abbeyes Deaneries and Episcopall Seas are like the A●phaltites pitchy sulphurious Lake nothing that favours of or breaths holinesse can live there Their Courts and Judgements-seats are so many batteryes against holinesse thundering and flaming out fire and smoke from their Canons and murthering pieces at the very name of or persons that looke after holinesse as the mortall enemies of their dominion and government against which if a man let the least word fall presently ex officio excommunicate him ipso facto ere he stirre from them he shall not have a warning peace to be gone but a whole battery of Canons discharged upon him in such heate and rage fire and smoke of their fulminations as he shall scarce know what ground he stands on till for change of ayre he be hald away to a stincking prison to complaine to the bare-walls Oh if he be a Puritane that 's condemnation in the abstract enough to rid the Land of him yea the world too if they get their opportunitie And for their language in the exercise of their offices they speak half in the language of Ashdod Nehem. 13.24 like the mingled people Jere. 50.37 of many religions yea of any save the true because that 's no friend to them and their functions But because they boast so much of their descent from Christ and his Apostles but are found lyers Apoc. 2.2 We will by their leave take a walke further through their Orchards and taste of their ripest fruits and try what soyle they taste of whether the fruits of the functions of Christ and his Apostles or of Antichrists functions and offices 1. When Christ was to leave his deare Disciples in a troublesome world he left his peace with them for a Legacy Ioh. 15.27 to comfort them in all their troubles and commands them to love one another because the world would hate them as it hated him Ioh. 15.17 But these Prelates by their vexatious offices suffer Christs Ministers and servants to have little peace and lesse love hate them Cain-like even to the death but a Papist is a brave companion for them at Table in Coach in counsell and familiaritie in all their affaires as Blackwell the Priest said long agoe I wonder said he of what religion your Bishops are us they persecute because we are Papists but they hate a Puritane and of the two they love us the better and how that love is encreased shews they are birds of the black feather like the Raven that after she once got out of the Arke never returned so as soone as ever one of these Prelates is got into a Bishops Sea they are flowne out of the Church the infection of the fowle nest like the plague of Leprosie strikes them some sooner some later so as they take to their wings and flie home to Rome the resting place of their ambitious minds and who can blame them for it is the nature of the office to be like and love their mother and not rather help them forward to her Sic canibus catulos similes sic matribus haedos Virgil. Of this their flight to Rome see it clearly in their endeavours of reconciling us to their Mother and others of them not so skilfull in the art as forward in the flight labouring openly to reduce us wholly to Rome Ex professo tanquam ex officio as the very nature of the office so to doe to beget and bring forth many children to their mother ther 's some plaine dealing in these if they doe not turne with the winde which now troubles them in their flight and work For as birds nodding their heads let us see which way they are flying so the Prelates and their sonnes of the Church by their nodding Eastward let us see their ayme is Rome-ward And when in this late Episcopall quarrell with the Scots by their sole instigation they saw a necessitie of open flight to the Popes and Papists ayde or lose their fat Bishopricks expecting this faire season for their flight they were so ready for it as they had their excuses ready before hand That if Popery came into England againe the Puritanes were the cause of it * Prelate of Duresme as Tenterton Steeple is the cause of Goodwin Sands 2. Christ would not meddle with the Magistrates authoritie in dividing the Inheritance Luk. 12.13.14 as without compasse of his office his kingdome was not of this world Ioh. 18.36 These Prelates are wholly worldly must be chiefe in Parliaments in the Kings Councells in chiefe offices Lord Chancellour Lord Treasurer c. and oversway all the affaires in Court and Countrey as if by their pretended divine Authoritie they had full Commission from Christ to divide the world amongst them and