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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	body_n	heaven_n	place_n	9,023	5	5.0953	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58811	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, and Court of Aldermen, at Guild-Hall Chappel, upon the 5th of November, 1673 in commemoration of Englands deliverance from the Gun-powder treason / by John Scott, Minister of St. Thomas's in Southwark.	Scott, John, 1639-1695.	1673 (1673)	Wing S2065; ESTC R15382	20,135	39

cutting them off by the Spiritual sword but by the tares cannot be meant persons of wicked lives for then the Text would forbid the punishment of evil doers by not gathering the tares cannot be meant the not cutting them off by the Spiritual sword for then the Text would forbid the Church to excommunicate either wicked livers or obstinate Hereticks And therefore of necessity by the tares must be meant persons of evil Opinions and by the not gathering them the not destroying them by the Temporal sword and this Interpretation is very much favoured by the reason that is given of the Prohibition least ye also root up the wheat with them as if he should have said as for external wickednesses I freely leave them to the lash of humane Judicatures the rectitude or obliquity of them being far more discernable then of inward speculations and Opinions but I will by no means trust you with the punishment of Errors least through interest passion or mistake you should exterminate the Truth with it for you being so fallible and apt to err it is impossible but sometimes you must miss the mark mistake the wheat for tares and hit the Truth though you aime at Error Having thus shewed you how contrary it is to the spirit and genius of Christianity to destroy mens lives upon the score of mere Opinion or Religion I shall now conclude what I have said with one inference from the whole Use From hence I infer the Antichristian tyranny of the Church of Rome who hath fleshed her self with so many slaughters and dyed her Garments so deep in the blood of Christians upon no other score but only their differing from her in some at least disputable and harmless Opinions because upon her bare word they could not believe propositions which to them seemed contrary to sense and reason and Scripture and their Faith had not stomach enough to digest the most fulsome absurdities and swallow the grossest contradictions Blessed Jesu that ever a Church pretending to be thy Spouse should be so forgetful of thy mercies as to spill the blood of so many thousands of Christians upon no other account but because they could not believe her absolution such a Philosophers Stone as to turn attrition into effectual Repentance and a few words of a Priest such a powerful charm as to conjure a man to Heaven in an instant and because thou hast made holiness the sole condition of eternal life durst not depend upon confraternities stations and priviledge-Altars Dei's little offices amulets and such like hallowed baubles because they could not worship Images and pray to God and Saints in the same form of words and durst not run from Scripture to uncertain traditions and from ancient traditions unto new pretences from reasonable services into blind devotions from believing the necessity of inward acts of piety and devotion into a dangerous temptation of resting upon the Opus Operatum the meer numbring of so many Beads and saying of so many prayers that ever Christians should be destroyed by Christians for not believing all those monstrous absurdities which transubstantiation implies that Christs body may be in a thousand places at the same time that it may stay in a place while it is going from it be both in and out of the same place in the same moment that it may come from Heaven to Earth and yet never stir out of Heaven nor be any where in the way between that his whole body is in each crumb of each consecrated wafer and that without being lessened all its parts are crouded up into one single attom and lye all within the compass of a Pin's head though it be 4 foot long that though it be whole and entire in every crumb and there be 10000 of these crumbs in 10000 distant places yet doth it not multiply into 10000 bodies but still remains one and the same now what greater tyranny can there be than to destroy and massacre men for not believing such a mass of palpable contradictions and yet for these and such like causes it is that Rome hath so often washed her barbarous hands in Protestant blood imbroiled the Christian world and by the terrour of her awful thunder-bolts scared Subjects into Rebellion against their lawful Soveraigns and Soveraigns into persecution of their natural Subjects of the truth of which I could give you a thousand forein instances but in complyance with the time and occasion I shall rather chuse to confine my self at home to destroy mens lives upon the score of Religion was a practice never known in England till the time of Henry the 4th who being an Usurper and so liable to many enemies both forein and domestick sought to endear the Pope to him who was then moderator of Christendom by sending him as a token of his love and duty the blood of his enemies and for many years after this was the yearly sacrifice our English Monarks were fain to offer up to the Roman Idol and whensoever through their own weakness they either feared or were forced to flatter him they had no other way to appease the angry Demon but by causing their children to pass through the fire to him and glutting his thirsty vengeance with their blood but when afterwards our English Monarchs threw off the Roman yoak and would no longer be the Popes Leeches he immediately issueth out his Bulls and excommunications to alarum their subjects into a Rebellion against them for immediately upon Queen Elizabeth's coming to the Throne Pope Paul the 4th refuseth to acknowledge her pretending this Crown to be a fee of the Papacy and that therefore it was audaciously done of her to assume it without his leave and because she would not turn out immediately when her great Landlord had given her such fair warning Pope Pius the 5th takes out a Writ of Ejectment issueth out his Bull and deposeth her in which he thus expresserh himself Volumus jubemus ut adversus Elizabetham Angliae Reginam subditi arma capessant it is our will and command that the Subjects of England take up Arms against their Queen upon which followed the Northern Rebellion and sundry private attempts of the Papists to murder her Afterwards Pope Gregory the 15th having two Bastards to provide for one of his own and another of the Emperours he bestowed the Kingdom of England upon the one and that of Ireland upon the other but neither of these prevailing Sixtus the 5th curses her afresh and publishes a crusade against her and bequeaths the whole right of her Dominions to Philip the 2d King of Spain but when neither the Popes bounty nor the blessings of his successors nor the Spanish Arms nor Italian Arts could prevail against God's providence which till the end of her daies pitched its tents about her Pope Clement the 8th seeing there was no other remedy resolved to let her go like a Heretick as she was and to take more care that another Heretick might not succeed