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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
end_n	lord_n	receive_v	supper_n	1,604	5	9.1492	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38667	The Established test in order to the security of His Majesties sacred person, and government, and the Protestant religion against the malitious attempts and treasonable machinations of Rome.		1679 (1679)	Wing E3344; ESTC R229328	28,913	58

her self and repair to the Church and continue there during the time of Divine Service according to the Laws and Statutes in that behalf made and provided shall within the first Year next after the end of this Session of Parliament or within the first year after that he or she shall after this Session of Parliament so conform him or her self and repair to the Church as aforesaid and after the first Year once in every Year at the least receive the blessed Sacrament of the Lords Supper in the Church of that parish where he or she shall most usually abide or be within the said Year wherein by the true meaning of this Statue he or she ought to receive And if there be no such parish Church then in the Church next adjoyning to the place of his or her most usual abode The forfeiture for the first year twenty pounds for the second Year forty pounds and for every Year after threescore pounds And the Officers are therein by rewards incouraged to present the Monthly absence of all Recusants from the Church and for default of performing their duty are to be fined as in the Statute more largly appears Were this Statute with a little variation fitted for our Circumstances and duly put in Execution it would be impossible but that all Recusants must in a small time be detected and by consequence those dangerous Jesuits and Seminaries whose whole design is to contrive plot and execute their horrible Treasons against both Church and State and unless people can be brought to comply with their own Interest as well as duty the Excellent Method of that Law will be wholly impracticable and it will be impossible to effect or attain the end for which it was so wisely intended for so long as such numbers of people who call themselves Protestants shall wilfully absent themselves from their Parish Churches under the shew of Religion and by their Example so many who have no Religion at all but perfectly out of Idleness looseness and debauchery shall stay at home or do worse abroad these Traytors and Conspirators will expect and find Security by pretending to be dissenters and so long as there are so many who never regard any Laws of God or Men Civil or Ecclesiastical which enjoyn them to receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper these will also pass undiscovered among the throng for it is all one to a Jesuit whether he pass for a separatist Libertine or Atheist so long as he believes himself a good Catholique and so long as thereby he has the opportunity of concealment and thereby to prosecute the main Affair of propagating the Popish interest and Religion by the Ruine of Protestants and Protestant Religion And therefore in the second place I wish that all people would seriously reflect with themselves at whose door the guilt will lie if by their means mischief either publick or private overtake us If the glorious Light of the Gospel the Lamp of Eternal Truth should come to be extinguished by the Superstitious darkness of Rome if by the Subversion of England the whole Protestant Cause should suffer and be ruin'd as in all probability if that Bullwork were blown up it must or however suffer a persecution as Sharp and cruel as all those ten of the Primitive ages put together the Pagans being nothing so ingenious and wittily Cruel as the Jesuits if Millions of souls should by a false Religion come to perish Everlastingly if our streets and fields should blush with the blood of Massacred Protestants our houses be reduced to ashes and our miserable posterity with such as should survive the Common Rage and desolation should be made and sold for bondslaves certainly there must be a strict account given to Almighty God by whose default all this came to pass he gives us the means of securing our selves and if we neglect the fault and guilt will be wholly theirs who do obstruct it our blood will be upon their heads who hear the Trumpet and see the Sword coming and are so far from taking or giving the All-arm that they joyn with ours and their own Enemies if they be not secret Papists and put a Sword into their hands to slay us when God to whom vengeance belongs shall make Inquisition for blood he will not forget the cry of the poor he will not forget those who have been the occasions no more then those who were the Actors of cruelty and how it is possible for those who obstruct the discovery of Popish Priests and Jesuits not to be in the sight of God and men guilty of all the Miseries and mischiefs which may be occasioned by their concealment I must protest my self to be utterly ignorant If there can be found any persons so incredulous as not to be apprehensive of these dangers from them and who may that way think to evade the necessity that lies upon them to contribute their utmost towards this Discovery I will in short endeavour to convince them from Former Examples Let the horrible Massacre in France be remembred in which according to the Relation even of Popish Historians there perished near a hundred thousand Protestants of all Ages Sexes and Conditions among which twenty Lords of Eminency twelve hundred Gentlemen persons of great Condition in the City of Paris besides what fell in other places The subtile Contrivance and deep dissimulation with which it was managed and the Exquisite and ingenious Cruelty with which it was Executed may sufficiently Instruct us what we are to trust to from such Murderers as glory in what is the shame and reproach of humane Nature and render the most propitious and merciful Divinity a cruel and sanguinary Being while they pretend to please and do him acceptable service by such bloody sacrifices as even heathens generally by the light of mere nature thought he abhorred and who encourage one another in mischief as if the Heavenly Paradice were an Aceldama and to be purchac'd with the price of blood making such actions of ●orror and Cruelty as even exceed belief meritorious performances capable to enrol them in the Catalogue of their Calender Saints though we know none shall ascend the holy Hill but they who have clean hands as well as a pure heart If this were not sufficient to convince us at the expence of our neighbours that which comes nearer to us is the Rebellion and Massacre of the English Protestants in Ireland the fatal Flambeau which kindled our English Flames the Cruelties which were then exercised are beyond Expression and belief three hundred thousand souls perished by most cruel deaths according to computation and God onely knows how many more who could never be brought into account and both in this and the Parisian Massacre how many of those who escaped the barbarous Rage of these merciless Butchers perished afterwards with cold hunger nakedness and all the hardships that attend the miserable Condition to which they were exposed Whither to fly they knew not