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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
doctrine_n	church_n	false_a	teacher_n	2,669	5	9.2889	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70059	The coppy of a letter sent from Iohn Lord Finch, late Lord Keeper, to his friend Dr. Cozens with a commemoration of the favours Dr. Cozens shewed him in his vice-chancellorship : unto vvhich is annexed a good admonition to Protestants.	Finch of Fordwich, John Finch, Baron, 1584-1660.; Cosin, John, 1594-1672.	1641 (1641)	Wing F1551A; ESTC R10215	2,255	9

THE COPPY OF A LETTER Sent from IOHN Lord FINCH late Lord Keeper to his Friend Dr. COZENS WITH A Commemoration of the Favours Dr. Cozens Shewed him in his VICE-CHANCELLORSHIP UNTO VVhich is annexed a good Admonition to PROTESTANTS Printed in the yeare 1641. A COPPY OF a LETTER sent from IOHN Lord FINCH to Doctor COZENS Dr. Cozens THe Quotidian familiarity of our Religion did heretofore contabulate our mindes together and did at this present time suggest mee to recall our affinity And although the impetuous novercation of ambiguous Fortune have digested you from that feare of Honour to which you were promoted yet I have not buried our former acquaintance in oblivion but have beene very sensible of your misery For you know I my selfe was subject to the same Destinie and if I had stayed any longer they would have put the poore Finch in the Cage and have made me sing Prick-Song there but I had more wit then to stay for I did presuppose that there was a tempestuous storme arising And kinde Doctor if you had taken my course you might have likewise escaped the danger that now hangs over your head But I deplore the vicissitude of your malignant fate yet I remember that Apothegmaticall sentence of the Lyrian Horace Vt sementem feceris ita metes For had not you sowne such Antichristian seeds of Popish introduction into the Church you should never have reaped this harvest of misery For my part I was Eagle-winged and as soone as I perceived that Limetwigges were layd for me I did erect my selfe and by the expansion of my nimble wings escaped those snares into which you are fallen But I beseech you Sir let me recall our inveterate Counsell by the fresh recordation of memory What do's your Chappell retaine its former ornaments Do's the Crucifixe remaine and doe the Pictures and graven Images a dorne it still as in my time Do's the Altar stand still or doe not nefarious persons wish you facrificed thereon Do's the Triple Crowne which you erected in Saint Maries illustrate still the vulgar speculation Sir if the tumultuary imprecations of the Vulgar doe oppose you yet macerate not your selfe neither let passion conquer your captive thoughts for t is a true Apologization Quod tibi facere non vis alteri ne feceris But you did contaminate that sentence too much by the unjust exulceration of Eclesiasticall Innovations Remember me to the Arch-bishop and desire him to put my good counsell in execution that he shall Excommunicate both Houses before they divorce him from his Spouse but alas I feare his Cannons do requoile and his Founders miscarrie therfore set them be new Cast Remember me likewise to Bishop Wren and bid him straine for it for he will be made to sing a note above Elie. Remember me likewise to Kilbert and Abell who I thinke are grown weary of two pound in a Tun but I thinke if their Hogsheads were pierced that you would have wine at six-pence and twelve-pence againe Remember me to Iudge Crawly and tell him that I wonder that Noverint universi should condemne him with such celerity Remember me likewise to the Gentleman in the cut-finger Gloves and let him know that I understand that Casus noster venit ad non suite jam Remember me to the Physitians for they have strong stomakes and can digest a summe without feare or prejudice of censorious Momus Remember me to all Lawyers and tell them that I understand their Obligation is contrary to their condition I thinke their lines had some pernitious diseas either the running of the reines or the French pox for they straddled as wide as any French man Remember me lastly to all the Taylers and tell them that they have better luck then Pontificians for they doe daily invent new fashions and are commended for it for which you are taxed But loving Doctor perhaps my pen doe seeme too remisse wherefore I will contract my selfe in a compendiary Epitomy of my thankes unto you for all your favours shewne mee since the last time I was at the Vniverfitie for leting me kisse the Virgin Maryes Picture and the Popes-head and for innumerable other Curtesies all which if I should expresse I should not only dilate my selfe in a too deveous expansion but likewise transgreffe the limits of your patience therfore the few admonitions and salubritie of Councel which I derove unto you briefly shal be these First That whither soever the tempestuous Winde hurrieth you would remember to keepe your head warme Secondly Although you climed up to that Honour upon other mens necks have a great care that you come downe with your own Reject not my good Councell neither contemne my affectionate desire Thus beseeching you to see the Remembrance to my Friends fully executed I commend you to Destinie desiring you to accept the will of Your ingaged and obsequious friend IOHN FINCH Good councel to PROTESTANTS SInce Pontificians cannot have their plots Full executed whom the righteous Sc●ts Doe utterly detest since Papists all Shall by the sacred sword of Iustice fall Let Protestants Religion true professe And fully from impietie digresse For loe Here Baal's irreligious Priests Nefarious Prelates and all Atheists Are now abjected by the Parliament Whom GOD for Malefactors punishment Hath piously clected and hath made Them Authors Honest men that in their Trade May prosperously flourish from base fees Projects and impious Monopolees With their exactions which did lately make The thred-bare Commons of the land to shak Learne therefore by their punishment to hate All wicked Heresie which now of late Did overspread the Church with Cannons base With Ceremonies and a Popish face Of Innovations but to him above Be thankes immortall to Tri-une Iehove Let us extoll his all-disposing power Who all our enemies will thus devoure False Iesuits repent false Prelates mourne False Doctors houle who heretofor did scorn True Doctrine bewayl the numerous crimes Which ye did introduce in former times But to the Protestant this I will say Prophets and Teachers false do not obey Confirme thy faith and then if Envy durst Presume to snarle let envy snarle her worst Yet still confirme thy faith and do not yeeld As a weake Coward to her sanguine field Stand firme do let her fret fume some fall Stark mad yet stand thou firm whilst in her gall Of malice the base Bedlam taint stink In her polluted and contagious sinke Of all iniquitie if she chance to harme Thy stedfastnesse yet stand thou still more For God who pulleth down each wicked shrin Will set up true Religion more divine FINIS