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enemy_n	good_a	seed_n	tare_n	1,657	5	12.7414	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10189	A looking-glasse for all lordly prelates Wherein they may cleerely behold the true divine originall and laudable pedigree, whence they are descended; together with their holy lives and actions laid open in a double parallel, the first, betweene the Divell; the second, betweene the Iewish high-priests, and lordly prelates; and by their double dissimilitude from Christ, and his Apostles.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1636 (1636)	STC 20466; ESTC S121078	71,933	128

〈◊〉 Law to spurre up yea precipitate the people to al manner of disorder the profanation of Gods owne sacre●… day to the ruine both of their soul●…s and bodies Yea the ouerthrowe of all pietie and Religon silencing suspending excommunicating yea suing such in theire Consistories and high Commissions who refuse to puplish it though there be no Law or Canon for it notwithstanding Gods Commaundements and many late examplary Iudgments from heauen ●…or which some Prelates threaten to binde God Allmighty himselfe to the peace and good behauiour at the next Quarter Sessions and Assizes expressly prohibit it Soe like are they in this particular to their Spirituall Father the divill in perswading enforcing men to fall downe and worship them and their Commandments against Gods owne heauenly Precepts 19. The divill is a great enemy to the purity of Gods word and ordinances and whiles men sleepe soweth Tares among the wheate and good seede to corrupt and mar●…e them Math. 13. 24. 25. 38. 39. So doe Lord Prelates who sophisticate pollute depraue yea marre the purity of Gods word worship Sacraments and other Ordinances with their Idolatrous Superstitious Antichristian Ceremonies vestments genuflexions additaments mixtur●…s and humane inuentions And whiles many of our Spirituall Watchmen are a sleepe and silenced they have sowne so many Popish Tares among our wheate that little else but Tares appeare now upon the ground by that time Harvest comes If men awake not the sooner we are like to reape nothing but a crop of these pernitious Tares insteed of wheate being already ledd by some leading Prelates like the Sirians by the Prophet Elishah into the midst of Samaria 2. Kings 6. almost into the uery midst of Roome like persons hoodwinckt before we are aware of it as all whose eyes God hath opened plainely se. 20. The divell hinders Gods Ministers to goe and preach the Gospell to the people that they may be saued 1. Thess. 2. 8. So doe the Prelates now by suspending silencing excommunicating imprisoning most of the best and powerfullest Ministers and forbidding them to preach unto the people that they might be saved Yea even in the times of Pestilence and mortallity to fill np their sinnes allway ●…or the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost 1. Thes. 2. 16. 21. Where the divill cannot hinder the preaching of Gods word altogether there he comes and steales it away presently out of mens harts and mindes as soone as it is sowen that so it may take no roote and bring forth no fruit at all Math. 13. 19. So Lord Prelates where they cannot altogether suppresse the preaching of the word doe just-like the divell indeavour pr●…ntly to catch and steale it out of mens hartes by giuing them liberty on the Lords owne day as sone as ever the Sermon is ended to fall to their May-games Morisses dancings sportes and pastimes practise condemned in expresse termes long agoe by Clemens Alexandrinus Pedagogil 3. c. 11. Tertullion de spect●… lib. Chrisostom H●…m 5. in Math. and by all Divines of note since their age tot his as Hellish Heathenish Diabolicall impious and pernitious depriving mens soules of the benefit of all Gods Ordinances and by prohibiting them to meete together to repeate their Ministers Sermons with their freinds neighbors and families punnissing them for Conventicles if they doe it contrary to St. Paules St. Chrisostoms Theophelacts Caesarius Arelatensis Bishop Iewells Dr. Boyes Mr. Iohn Sprintes Bishop Baglies and all other Diuines Doctrine that I ever read or heard of Yf not to the Canons 1571. p. 16. 1602. Can. 13 79 who much vrget his Repetition of Sermons as a necessary dutie on all Christians though of divers families A stupendious straine of Atheisticall profanenes and desperate impeity which no Prelates ever aspired to before these of this last impious age in affront of al the Prelates and Clergie of England in H. 8. his dayes who prescribe and vrge it much to these Nouellers eternall shame 22. The divi●…l to worke his owne divellish ends and designes will sometimes transforme himselfe into an Angell of light though he be still a divell in truth 2. Cor. 11. 14. So the Prelates the archest Hypocrites breathing will sometimes doe the like putting on a counterfeit vizard of pietie and holinesse to cloak their divelish designes seeming Angells of light in shewe when as they are still meere Divells incarnate in verity as appeares by seuerall Popes by Thomas of Becket Anselme Edward Thomas and William of Canterbury with divers of our anuncient English and late out landish Prelates whose lives are at large related in Antiquitates Ecclesiae Britanicae Malmesbury Godwyn in the 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13. Centuries of Magdeburg cap. 6. 7. 10. of each in Crantzins ●…is Metropolis Catalogus Testuum veritatis Auealini An Boiorum others who manifest Lordly Bishops in all ages to have been the greatest Pypocrites dissemblers Schizmatickes Atheists Traytors Rebells Villaines and Monsters of impiety under the pretence of Sanctity that ever had existence in the world as you may there read at leisure and in Doctour Iohn White his way to the true Church Sect. 55. n. 9 10. Sect. 57. n. 9 10 11. Sect. 38. n. 45 6. and Defence of the way c. 6. 23. The divell is a proud insolent domineering spirit falling as most hold by this sinne of pride and arrogance 1 Tim. 3. 6 7. Isay. 14. 12 13 14 15. Such and no other are the Lordly Prelates witnesse all stories present unanswerable experience and the common Proverbe As proud as a Prelate they being the most arrogant insolent domineering proud ambitious Luciferian generation of all the Sonnes of men trampling all others under their Lordly feet when as if they were Christs members or disciples they should bee the lowliest and humblest of all othes both in heart and conversation as hee was Math 11. 29. An infallible Character that they are none of his institution but the Divels whose pride they imitate equall if not transcend and which sinne no doubt will shortly ruine them Prov. 16. 18. as it did their father the divell 24. The divell entred into Iud●…s Christs Lord Treasurer Iohn 12. 6. 13. 29. and moved him for 30. peeces of silver to betray his M●…ster Math. 26. 14 15. Marke 14 10 11. Luke 22. 3 4 5 6. Iohn 13. 17 18 19. c. 18. 3. So these Lordly Prelates for hopes of honour money or preferments sell and betray even Christ himselfe his Word truth Gospell Saints members to the Pope yea the divell himselfe or any that will hire them to doe it Nay hundreds of them both at home and abroad have for lucre honour and money betrayed murdered deposed conspired and rebelled against their owne Soveraignes Emperours Kings and Princes such notable treacherous varlets have they beene in all ages as sundry Stories manifest at large yea in former ages and this present too they insinuate into mens heates with p●…omises and