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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	authority_n	power_n	supreme_a	1,645	5	8.3158	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34540	Rome in her fruits being a sermon preached on the fifth of November, 1662, near to the standard in Cheapside : in the which sermon the author sets up his standard in opposition to the fruits and practices of Rome, and likewise answers in brief a late pamphlet, entitled Reasons why Roman Catholicks should not be pe[r]s[e]cuted / by Richard Carpenter.	Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?	1663 (1663)	Wing C626; ESTC R5572	26,955	38

ye now boast every day of twenty strange Things which I have received from person's of Trust and have in deposito but will not name for fear of poysoning the people as ye do Yet thus much The Head of us though he be most honourably grateful to you for your service upon what Ground soever it was performed yet is not of your Feather I go not in chase of preferment St. Hierome thus puts the last stamp upon the S. Hier. ep ad Paulin. soft Heart of Paulinus to whom he writes Facilè contemnit omnia qui se sempèr cogicat esse moriturum He doth easily contemn and with a violent hand throw under him all things who thinks he stands alwayes with one foot in his Grave I speak with a deliberate meditation upon the hour of my death and the day of Judgement when he was in Germany Brussels France my most innocent Necessities carried me to all these places in all which I saw the most noble Things done by him in the profession and Exaltation of Protestant Religion that any Princely Soul could act and particularly in France I saw a young person and the same high-born freed by his most zealous Commands from eminent and iminent danger of Popery and all this in his lowest ebbs and when Popish Princes highly courted him in order to his Restitution Those people have hearts steeped in the Gaul of bitternesse yea in the poyson of Dragons that will not believe the right Sterige of mens hearts untill the men be open'd and they see their entrals Away away scatter no more suspitions and false Rumours I should gladly meet with a Papist that can speak Truth of High or Low It is truth which Tertullian speaketh of Tert. in Apologet cap. 7. lying Fame Quae nec tunc quidem cùm aliquid veri affert sine mendacii vitio est detrahens adjiciens demutans de veritate which neither then truly when it proposeth a true Thing is without the scar of a Lye drawing from putting to and changing the truth And be a little more humble and peaceable in your Carriages the very hopes of a Toleration had so transported you that a Minister could scarcely passe in the streets by your Shops but reproached and abused by you Yea I was present the other day when a Jesuit having crept into a House and standing by a fire Ansatus with his arms hook't up to his sides professed against the Master of it being a Minister that he had more to do in his house than he Whither will these people drag us if they be suffered It is my Road when an insolent Sect is most high and proud to catch at the very Head of it I wrote against Presbyterians and Anabaptists when they took their turns at the Helm and for the divine Right of Episcopacy when humane Helps were depressed I have a Sigh coming and a Groan after it that Vshers a word or two O that unwise ewe which gave suck to the forsaken whelps of a wolf that afterwards destroyed her her young all the flock His last Reason he says is rather a Request than a new Reason And my Answer shall be like i● Our Church-Governours are desired to consider whether a Toleration of Papists would not encrease their Power And I likewise m●st humbly desire them to consider whether it would no bring their P●wer to the Grave and there leave it Secondly They are entreated to consider whether their first Consecrators were themselves truly consecrated that they may be reverenced by Papists according to their Character and obeyed accordingly and I most humbly desire them to consider That this is a Desire in the Ayr where Aristophanes his Birds built a City Aristoph in Av●b for the Papists believe it not Thirdly Protestants are beseeched to lo●k upon them as their Fellow-Souldiers in defence of their Kings and I most humbly desire all men to consider that it was both our Duties and requisite that both we and they should know and keep the Conditions of a just War whereof the first is Auctoritas legitima a lawful Authority which is the Authority of a Prince or of a supream Power Because Princes and supream Powers have no common Tribunal at which they may a●cuse other supream Powers and Princes Secondly causa justa a just Cause which is The repulsing of notorious and great Injuries the repulsing of which is a more eligible Good than the Good lost by the evil of War that the Prince may defend the people subjected to him now greatly damnified by the Enemy Thirdly Intentio bona a good Intention the End of War being ut in pace vivamus that we may live in peace Fourthly Modus debitus a due manner Christoph Marcellus Orat. habitâ in Concil Lateran sub Julio 2. Sess 4. which enjoynes the taking off all possible care that the Innocent be not endamaged In this their Desire it is question'd whether any Roman-Catholick hath been false to his Majesty and I humbly desire the Protestants to consider that much may be said in this businesse above what hath already passed in the stream I have heard extraordinary Things from a great Statesman of France and an other of Italy in the Bastille And had not the two Filli olei according to the Hebrew and the Vulgar Latin Sons Zach. 4. 14. of Oyl as they may be called out of the Prophet Zachary the one by Land and the other by Sea done their Duties stange and prodigious Things had followed We are the God of patience and consolation be blessed set in joint and I will not blab abroad my Secret Answerably to Aquila Aquil. Theodot Sept. Syr. Arab. Antiochen Arab. Alexandr and Theodotion they are Filii Splendoris or Claritatis Sons of splendour or Clarity The Septuagint Syriack and Arabick of Antioch deal out Filii pinguedinis Sons of fatnesse The Arabick of Alexandria filii Misericordiae Sons of Mercy Oyl being a Symbol of Mercy God Reward them in his infinite Mercy who rewardeth every one according to his works and fruits and God preserve his Majesty and grant that as he is set above us so he may walk with God and before us by a most perfect Example Amen Laus Deo Liberatori Praise be unto God our Deliverer FINIS