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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
doctrine_n	church_n	faith_n	protestant_a	2,183	5	9.3322	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25380	A gentle reflection on the modest account, and a vindication of the loyal abhorrers from the calumnies of a factious pen by the author of the Parallel.	Northleigh, John, 1657-1705.; Andrews, John, fl. 1734-1735.	1682 (1682)	Wing A3121; ESTC R9495	25,676	20

two late Villains that preach'd Rebellion at the very place of Execution no doubt 't was with a great deal of Submission they made two several Insurrections one of which was but lately dispers'd at Bothwel-Bridge they submissively murdered the Bishop of St. Andrews and very lately with a great deal of Dissenters Humanity mangled and mutilated the poor Souldiers These are many I hope and strong Evidences of their bad Carriage whereas you have not given one single Instance of their good Your business in the next Paragraph is to make the discover'd Association a Popish Hobgoblin too a Mormo conjur'd up at White-Hall or to use your own expression The keeping Hounds in full cry with a Red-Herring out of their own Kitchin trail'd through the Kingdom to make a noise A pleasant Metaphor I confess in comparing a piece of Rebellion with a Red-Herring somewhat a more apposite Allegory even upon this account because both are great Commodities in the Dutch Common-wealths but I fancy my Lord could your Party but have kept this Herring close and drying in their own Chimney till the Nations Palate had been a little better disposed to relish such a salt Bit the Dogs that would have follow'd the scent then I am afraid would have shown themselves a thirsty sort of Blood-Hounds and took some of the King 's best Subjects for their Prey but now this dried Fish has took a little Air and rank Treason stunk and offended the whole Kingdom 't is no wonder if your Party won't allow the Dish to come out of their Kitchin when it looks as if it had been drest in Hell and had the Devil for its Cook Your Lordship has not carefully perused those Proceedings at the Old-Baily neither is to be imagined how you should impartially when you seem to be so much prejudiced or else you would find the Impudence to lye on your side in making the seizing of the Paper questionable the words of Mr. Gwin are as positive as the Case could admit which are plainly these It was certainly there for there I found it I don't know as to the particular Paper but all in that Bag were there vid. page 34. Now your Lordship won't allow it to be positive Evidence because not to the particular Paper But suppose my Lord one of your Irish Witnesses should transport hither a Ship-load of his Country Cattel to stock your Lordships Mannor would you not believe him if he swore they all came from thence and it was unlikely any other Breed should leap up in the Voyage And sure that Gentleman may pass for a more competent Witness than a common Bug-trotter The Messengers seiz'd a whole bundle of Colledge's infamous treasonable Ballads had it not been positive Evidence if they had sworn only to the whole Bundle as well as if to the particular Ballad produc'd in the Court But you can't have the Patience or Heart to examine the Parallel it being the woful Case of a dissenting Protestant But then you will take the pains to consider this there were Bundles of Letters found in Coleman's Study two or three of which were only used in his Tryal would your Lordship have had that sort of Traytor escap'd too had the Witnesses been only able to swear to the Papers in general that they found and not to the very particular one produc'd I don't know in what English Reports your Lordship has met with Monsieur Fouquet's Case which is a French one I am sure your Honour would be loth to be tryed by their Arbitrary Laws when it can hardly abide the Test of ours And whatever you think I fancy the State is higher concern'd against him that endeavours to subvert it than him that only defrauds its Exchequer And yet the one you see has been kept a long time Prisoner in the Bastile though the other quickly got out of the Tower And as for those Laws of Nature and Reason you urge on your part sure they are never so irrational to befriend a man suspected for unnatural plotting against his Prince and the Father of his Country which was the thing then in question but it s being a loose Paper and unsubscribed will that exempt a man from being questioned especially in Matters of Treason where there are no Accessories but every Concealer a Principal Were not some of the Jesuits questioned for Papers unsubscribed and Langborn partly condemn'd for receiving Commissions never produc'd found or like to be heard of And these Parallel Instances I don't urge as an extenuation of their Guilt who merited death by the Law but to shew your foul Reasoning and prejudic'd Argumentation in making that sort of Evidence light and empty in your Friends Case though only to put him upon his Tryal when you thought it full and weighty in your Enemies even for their Sentence and Execution The detestation of a damnable piece of Treason your Lordship calls A Popish Clamor and Abhorrence Are they all Papists my Lord that protest to defend his Majesty If so your own Party will be libel'd too in that Accusation who most of all make such Protestations though they least intend it And if they must be Papists that vow to preserve the present Government of Church and State your Lordship by such Doctrines will draw more Proselytes to the Romish Faith than ever did Priest or Jesuit or to use your own words have given a greater Blow to the Protestant Religion than all that ever went before you for such wild Positions and unreasonable Censures will make all to be of that Communion who love their God and their King or are willing to commence good Christians and loyal Subjects But not withstanding all your malicious Accusations is it to be prov'd there were any Roman-Catholicks that promoted these late Abhorrences or any single one that sign'd such an Address though they were ready perhaps to do it and can shame some of our Protestants whose Religion truly gives no such Dispensations for Treason and Rebellion and consequently should make them better Subjects Yet some of those spent their Blood for our late Soveraign when so many of ours lost it in fighting against him and also 't is unadvisedly objected that the Papists should be concern'd in these Abhorrences for that would make them more Friends to your Party than any other in affording you Matter for aspersing all those as such with whom they subscribe and only give your Lordship and your Crew a Pretence for such scandalous Suggestions But the mischief of it is they do no great service in such a forbearance since we deal with an Accuser as subtil and malicious as that primitive one the Devil and who would blast his Enemies Reputation were they all Angels But my Lord there are a number of as great and better Subjects than your selves who have better thoughts too concerning the late Abhorrencies and are so far from bering troubl'd at what they have done or perswaded to forbear by your unjust censuing and