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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	evil_a	good_a	sin_n	7,176	5	5.3331	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95520	The answer to the rattle-heads concerning their fictionate resolution of the Round-Heads. Wherein is explained euerie particular therein contained against them, with many godly counsels to Doctor Little-wit: the composer of their former scurrulous and illeterate pamphlet.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653, attributed name.	1642 (1642)	Wing T428; Thomason E132_30; ESTC R19036	2,262	8

THE ANSWER TO THE RATTLE-HEADS Concerning their fictionate Resolution OF THE ROUND-HEADS WHEREIN Is explained euerie particular therein contained against them with many godly counsels to Doctor Little-wit the Composer of their former scurrulous and illeterate Pamphlet LONDON Printed for L. H. MDCXLJ THE ANSWER TO The Rattle-Heads Concerning their fictionate Resolution of The Round-Heads IF Truth and Peace Zacharies two Companions had met in you aswell as us this Controversie had never been The severring of these two hath caused this ill-composed aspersion upon us which we could bear and put up yea burie in oblivion but that zeal for the truth of Religion and our own defence commands the contrarie God knowes how unwillingly we put our hands to this unkinde quarrell Nothing so much abates the courage of Christians as to call their brethren in Christ adversaries yet we must do it as forced W● be unto those who have been the occasion and by whom this offence commeth Yet by how much the insultation of a brotherly enemy are intollerable being not onely privately but in publike print so much the more cause we see to answer directly their fictionate Resolution concerning us And since onely for necessary defence and Religious cause this task is undertaken we crave nothing of the Readers but Patience and Justice of God victory to the Truth As for favour we wish for none more then an enemy against himself And with this confidence we enter the Lists and turn my pen to an Adversarie God knowes whether more proud or weak Whereas you whose self-conceited witty expressions without all conscience have branded us with the ignominious title of a seditious and malignant head ignorance and obstinancie being your own phrases and therefore best beseeming your selves shew but the ardent flames of your cancred spleen towards us intending to hang us up on the hornes of the Altar of your Superstition which you do well in conceiving them to be too weak in bearing so heavie a burthen or we too wise to be intercepted by them To exhort and perswade in zealous manner is to no purpose you being already by your own confession past edification your varieties being Brothels in stead of Broths and Curses instead of Custards these being your luxurious fare wherein you offend God to please the Divell I could leave you in that case but that my conscience moves me further As for your learning and wits for which you study long to little purpose we affect it not neither any way disparage wee resolve rather to embrace with sincerity of affection what blessings shall be confer'd upon us through divine inspiration that we may speak when the spirit moves you may call us Round-heads 't is true I must confesse yours are a great deale more in fashion being set upon the square block of flat simplicity as for Prickears I do not admire at your expression therein your fortune being the Jack-dawes who envied the Peacocks for having such feathers as he wanted I fear me 't is too many of your cases by this the Proverb is proved true one Jack must imitate another But deare Brethten think you it is acceptable to God to jear us by Scripture is it not the Apostles own expression concerning the adding to the Elect that their bowels did earn to multiply the true church 't is even our cases wee do the like by their example I rather resolve out of zeale to move you to repentance then to touch too hard upon this your prophanenesse As for Smell-feasts I make no question but you are very well skil'd therein being better nosed then any Butchers Dogge in the Cittie As for your habit it is correspondent to your person and conditions your hat that sits hollow like a beepot to receive the foggie vapours of bottle Ale and Tobacco your doublet with a short waste shews your thrift who think the truth ●ll waste that is bestowed upon you your goodly long breeches so narrow and strait to your buttocks like an Arse-case may chance to make a paire of sleeves in the reversion So that generally wherein we exceed in antiquity you go beyond us far in simplicity and for our faith you do well to speak little of that having none your self And forasmuch as you have composed out of your obstupufied and dulled fancy certain tenents we will likewise prescribe to you the like number though differing in the matter being rather good counsell instead of your malevolent and invective aspersions I. THat your Scribes or rather Duces omnium malorum in the next of their witty indeavours composed according to Reason Learning Divinity Order Discipline Morality Piety and humanity a penitentiary Petition to God as also to acknowledge the wrongs done unto us II. That hereafter you be not so forward and ready to judge and pray into to condemne faults in others before the first perusall of your own III. That whilst you are in this world you provide by repentance fasting and prayer to prepare for the world to come and the Salvation of your soules IV. That you keepe your selves continent and chaste from the Cobler and Feltmakers wives unlesse the one make you pay too dear for selling your bever on your block-head and the other cause your pride to have a fall by the losse of a Lunsfords heele V. That you change your name of Cavalier by altering your profession of evill into good unlesse bravery and knavery bring on raggerie and beggery VI. That you fast and pray for your sins past giving thanks unto God for moving us to be the Agents to perswade you to repentance YOu come too late Sir 'T is vain to prate Sir Wee 'l pull the Miter from the Prelates Crown It is no boot Sir Though you stand too t Sir Hanging 's too good for you for they must down Your tricks are found out We have the ground out You cannot cheat the King if vve stand by Your Plots discry'd out And Troasons pride out Against the Honour of his Majesty Though Round-heads wink at Wee 'l make you stink at The hearing of your Bishops second Ditty Though now you laugh at And in Sack quaffe at Vs then I fear me ye vvill all beshit ye We shall confound ye If vve expound ye Although within the Circuit of a TUB Wee 'l cry have at ye Though ne're come at ye A word will make such Iades as you to s●rub Let chill cold take thy person Gallows freeze Earth take thy body Gug thy cloaths his fees FINIS