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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	woe_n	work_n	world_n	57	3	3.8645	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21016	Certaine arguments and motives of speciall moment propounded to the consideration of our most noble King and state tending to perswade them to abolish that unhappy and unhallowed government of our church by bishops, and in stead thereof to set up the government of the Lord Iesus Christ and his holy ordinances in their purity and power.		1634 (1634)	STC 739; ESTC S5086	18,494	38

Subject more then would suffice to pay to our King two or three Subsidies every yeere And what becommeth of all this It maintaineth a company of idle Belly-gods and a number of ungodly and ungratious persons which are unprofitable burdens of the earth and are onely whips in Gods hand to scourge and chastise his people withall whose service when the Lord hath used a while for that purpose hee wil then most certainely throw his Rods into the fire Esay 10.5.12 And if in the meane season our most wise and judicious King would bee pleased to sqeaze them and to take from them that thick clay wherewith they are overladen hee should do a worke acceptable to God and such as wherein his soule might take a great deale of comfort here and which would much further his reckoning in the day of the Lord Iesus when hee shall come with power great glory to judge both the quick the dead 6 His Majestie shall do a worke of singular charity and mercy to the soules of these Bloud-suckers if hee will bee pleased in compassion and commiseration of their deplored and desperate condition to pluck them out of those pestilentiall places which they do unjustly usurpe and most tyrannously abuse to the provocation of the wrath displeasure of the great God of heaven to the opening of the mouthes of the enemies of the Gospel who by the exorbitancies and insolencies of these proud men take occasion to blaspheme and speake evill of that sacred truth which wee professe and to traduce and maligne our government to the dishonour of our nation and the disgrace of our King and countrie both at home and in foraine parts Most certaine it is that if they bee let alone in their course they go on desperately in a way that leadeth to death the issue whereof will bee hell and eternall woe and misery in another world whereas if their prefermets with which they are even fatted and glutted above measure might bee taken from them and they put upon the worke of the Ministery which they were bredde and brought up to it might please God that that might bee a meanes to pluck them out of the fire and to save the soules of some of them if amongst that cursed company there be any that belong to the election of grace whereof I confesse there is a great deale of question to bee made For the most of them do maliciously and despitefully oppose the truth and do with a high hand set themselves against the good waies of God do most furiously and fiercely persecute all those poore Christians that set their faces towards Sion and indevour to walke with their God in the truth uprightnes of their harts will not bee drawne for feare or favour to conforme themselves to those shamefull corruptions in doctrine and discipline which they multiply daily presse hotely upon men without either feare or witt to the ruine of our Church and the supplanting and undermining of our most holy heavenly Religion the bringing in of which not many yeeres since cost a great deale of bloud And as for those few of them in whom there is any sparke of goodnes the eye of whose understanding is not yet quite put out that which they in the course of their government do against the truth and servants and cause of God they do it against the perswasion of their owne harts and against the checks of their consciences which pursue them so close and do so terrify affright them that without all boubt they can have little or no peace at all having such an adversary within them as will never suffer them to bee quiet but is still accusing tormenting them whether they sleepe or wake Which made one say wittily long agoe that of our Bishops the best were the worst because that which they did they did cleane against the haire and knew right well that they sinned against God in the doing of it which is a fearfull aggravation of their iniquity Hee that was Bishop of London when that lamentable havock and spoyle was made amongst our Ministers about the beginning of King Iames his raigne after that hee had in the Consistory suspended and deprived some of the Ministers of London was the whole night following in such a heate and sweate it beeing then a cold season of the yeare about the beginning of February that although there was a good fire in his chamber they which attended him plyed him with hote clothes as fast as they could possibly warme them at the fire bring them to him lying then in his bed yet could they not all that night with all that they could do coole him and dry up his sweate as some yet alive can testify who then waited upon him in his chamber Hee was so perplexed and terrified with the thoughts of that which hee had done that hee could take no rest nor did hee ever claw it off but died very quickly after it Within a few daies after for hee lived not many hee said openly at his table that the Persecutions of those times were worse then those in Queene Maries daies One who sate at the table with him then a Deane now a Bishop hearing him say so spake to him in latine prayed him to forbeare such speeches telling him that if they came to the Kings eare they would bee ill taken For answere whereunto hee said againe in english with a great deale of vehemency and earnestnes that the present Persecutions were greater and farre more grievous then those in Queene Maries dates were hee gave his reasons for it For then saith hee men were quickly dispatched out of the way whereas now they are forced to live in misery and a languishing life every man knoweth to bee a lingering death Then men were permitted to speake freely for themselves whereas now at the first dash saith hee the Oth is tendered to them which if they refuse to prison they go without any mercy or pity no baile will serve the turne What would this man have said if hee had lived to see these times A strange kinde of creatures these Bishops bee they are neither fish nor flesh nor yet good red herring as the old Proverb is A man cannot tell what to make of them Papists they would not bee thought to bee yet many of them are little better Good Protestants surely very few of them bee Those amongst them which bee not downe-right Papists looke shrewdly that way maintaine many of their grosse and absurd opinions and make no bones to affirme openly that there is not such a distance betweene them and us but that wee may meete them in the midway nor such a discrepance difference betwixt their religion and ours but that they may bee easily reconciled if men were peaceably minded And accordingly some of them have mediated most shamefully both in Pulpit and in Print for a Pacification