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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bishop_n	power_n	rome_n	1,714	5	6.7340	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05633	A more full answer of John Bastwick, Dr. of Phisick made to the former exceptions newly propounded by another wellwiller to him, against some expressions in his Letany, with his reasons for the printing of it. All set downe as more articles superadditionall vpon superadditionall, against the prelats. This is to follow the Letany as a fourth part of it.; Litany. Part 4	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.	1637 (1637)	STC 1575; ESTC S104510	13,880	12

is this That the breeding of the Kings and Noblemens childeren and the most illustrious Families through the Kingdome should be put into the hands of Preists and such men who as they are by nature and education men that never saw farther then a Cloister at Cambridg or Oxford never knew what Heroicall and Princely vertue was 〈◊〉 never came where either breeding religion or ●●d maners came the Vniversities themselves ●●ing corrupted by them and and educated to su●●●stition or prophanesse and contempt of religion And yet notwithstanding these men I say should be made the tutors of Kings and Nobles children who ●●ght to be brought up by learned and truely religious Gentlemen that have been bred up in Princes Courts and are lovers of learning piety and vertue 〈◊〉 all which those monkish fellowes are meere stran●●●rs and are as fit to bring up Princes as a cow is 〈◊〉 a saddle for besides their deficiencies both na●●●all and morall they are a very ignorant society for the most part not knowing well themselves ordinary literature so that they are commonly ridi●●lous to other Nation I must confesse I thinke ●his to be one of the principall banes of the Nobi●●ity and that they know no more in learning and States policy which is their art and therefore if they will follow a poore mans counsell I would wish them all never to let a Preist or a Prelat breed ●heir children for all the Prelats and Preists are ●●●bs of the beast and his image and they bring up ●he Noblemen and Princes in the hatred of true re●igion and all them that feare the Lord and brand 〈◊〉 with Puritanisme and adapt them onely to super●itious observations and make them beleeve that ●e hath religion enough that can bow at the name ●f Iesus or crouch to the Altar or turne to the East ●●d doe such other performances with hearing of a ●●ttle service and that all those that are not affected ●ith this superstition are enimies of Church and ●ute and so they make these worthy heroes but ●●eir executioners and butchers to torment and af●ict the poore people wheresoever they have power The truth is The Prelats are the cursed enimies of ●he Lord Iesus Christ and his Kingdome neither is 〈◊〉 any rayling to call a spade a spade the Scripture ●alls their predecessors the Scribes Pharisies and High Preists a generation of vipers the Sonnes of the Devill c. and therefore by the same authority wee may call them by the same names for they are their successors and the of-spring of Antichrist who is the enimy of the Lord Iesus Christ and by consequent no lawfull authority but an usurping power that is an enimy to all Government appointed by God himself and therefore they are not within the compasse of those Saint Iude speaketh of being worse then Satan who when he was there rebuked let the Angell bury Moses but the Bishop of Rome will keepe whole Kingdomes from buriall six yeares together and the Prelats have the same power to doe the same wickednes yea they are not onely not so obedient to God as the Devill but they are greater causes of rebellion against God and therfore worse then the Devill and ought more to be detested for the Devill in tempting to sin and bringing mē to evill he hath buth a simple suggestion But the Prelats they have a double power for they can both suggest evill and constraine us to doe it as all Kingdomes Nations know very well who groane under the heavy burden of their unsupportable tyranny and therefore I do absolutly conclude that there is no sinne in saying the Prelats are the little toes of Antichrist and in calling the Pope of Canterbury VVILLIAM the DRAGON and his Legatus a latere the Bishop of Yorke the ABBEY LVBBER OF THE NORTH for they are enimies all of God and the King and of all the Saints and Servants of God And therefore to draw now to a conclusion I could wish that all the world in our dayly LETANY would pray with mee from plague pestilence and famin from Bishops Preists and Deacons Good Lord deliver us Fare you well Yours most infettered In Lymbo Patrum IOHN BASTWICK Heare ends the fourth part of my LETANY the other foure are to follow as also some of my Latine books are shortly to come out Nihil agunt Episcopi sine typho sacriligae superbia sine inflata cervice arrogantiae sine contentione lividae invidiae 〈◊〉 asancta humilitate a pace Catholica a charitate Christiana Bishops do nothing without the haughtines of sacrilegious pride without the swollen necke of arro●●●cie without the contention of wan envy far from holy humility from Catholicke peace from Chri●●ian charity FINIS