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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	henry_n	king_n	pope_n	16,586	5	6.9376	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58328	Animadversions by way of answer to a sermon preached by Dr. Thomas Kenne, Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, in the Cathedral Church of Bath, on Ascension-Day last, being the fifth day of May, 1687	Reed, John, Father.	1687 (1687)	Wing R665; ESTC R36704	18,505	40

your Lordship be pleased to observe how in that most wicked time of the Synagogue speaking out of that Chair which Christ commanded to be obeyed they answer truly in matters of Faith and their chief Pastors Prophesie and why Because Christ commanded that Chair to be obeyed and did not he command the Church built upon the Rock to be obeyed also Witness these words of St. Matth. 18th Chap. 17th Vers And if he neglect to hear the Church let him be unto thee as a Heathen man and a Publican Whence it is to be gathered that the Church of Christ cannot err in her spiritual Jurisdiction rogavi pro te Petre ut non deficiat fides tua As for my part I will never allow that Church to be the Church of Christ that owns her self fallible and this I am ready to Sign and Seal with the last drop of my Blood. The Protestant Church did and does still own her self fallible therefore it cannot be the Church establish'd by Christ on the Rock This shou'd be enough to oblige your Lordship to make it your sole business to find out truth and embrace it there is none that values his Eternal Felicity but will think it well worth his while it being that only unum necessarium so much recommended by our Saviour in his Gospel But all this my Lord might be answer'd much breifer in saying your Lordship mistook hugely in the Supremacy the Protestants of England give their King which you said to be only civil and politick as that of King Saul in the Jewish Church Read if you be pleased the Oath of Supremacy and you will find that the King is made in effect what the Popes pretended to have been heretofore in this Realm The Popes never pretended any civil or temporal Jurisdiction in England but a Spiritual one only which is the very Jurisdiction King Henry the Eighth super-added to his Temporal Power which was never done by any Christian King in England before nor elsewhere that ever I heard or read of Your Lordship therefore must allow a spiritual Supremacy in the King it is the only genuine sense it can have and not at all to be contradicted For alas If Supremacy were nothing then to own a Supream politick or civil Power in the King there is no Roman Catholick this day in his Dominions that wou'd loose any preferment either spiritual or civil on that accompt For we are not such fools as to expose our selves to suffer so many rude persecutions and undergo the loss of so many considerable imployments of both kinds for not taking the Oath of the Kings being Supream Politick and Civil Head of the Churches of all his Realms That I am very free to take my self tomorrow if I cou'd but share with your Lordship in the fat of your double Benefice Nay without any Spes lucri I swear with all my heart that I know no other Supream Politick or Temporal Power in all his most Sacred Majesties Dominions but what is in his Royal Person alone and do beseech God Almighty to bless and preserve Great James our Sovereign King Lord and Master on the Throne of his Royal Ancestors till he sees his Subjects in general and each individual person of them swear and protest the same and maintain to the loss of their Lives and Fortunes that true Allegiance due by the Laws of God and Nature to his most Sacred Majesties Civil and Politick Supremacy obedite prepositis vestris And so in paying to Caesar what is due to Caesar they 'll pay to God also his own due This is enough for that Point of your Sermon let us come now to the Controversie of the last Part which was with much vehemency against the Real Presence I thought indeed that matter had but little or no relation at all with the words of your Text God is gone up with a shout the Lord with the sound of a Trumpet But your Lordship knows best your own Reasons which I leave to your self and come to my Matter which is to refute your Objections and explain the Roman Catholick Doctrine concerning the Real Presence seeing you wedged that Mystery into your Discourse without any relation to your purpose I did no sooner hear your solemn protestation against this holy Sacrament then immediately I supposed you were an Abjurator ready to swear point-blank that Christs most sacred Humanity is not really and substantially on our Altars in Vertue of the Sacramental words For I saw you exhorted with passion your People not to be tottered by every blast of wind that shall say Christ is on this Altar or Christ is on that Altar for Christ is actually in Heaven and shall continue there till he comes to judge at the end of the World. As for this Point I answer first that if your Lordship means to perswade your poor People that he is not really present on your own Communion Tables you may swear it confidently and so may I too for I own no power in you to bring him nor intention to make use of any power to possess his most sacred Humanity really in your Communion Bread And it is our Roman Catholick Doctrine that without characterical power and lawful intention he cannot be really present on our Altars and much less on your Tables seeing you renounce all such power and intention But to say and swear his real Presence not to be on our Altars after Consecration done by a lawful Priest legally intentioned is the greatest fit of rashness in nature for none can say it with truth nor swear it without a most sacrilegious Perjury and that according to your own Rule of Faith which is Scripture expounded by every individual person of sound judgement There is nothing more rash nor that can come nearer madness then to say there is none of found Judgement nor ever has been amongst so many Learned and Eminent Roman Catholick Doctors who are and have been ready at all hours to maintain that most holy Mystery to the effusion of the last drop of their Blood as many have done rather then forswear themselves in denying the most positive Article of Faith we have in Scripture And no Protestant ought to find fault with this Doctrine seeing their Judgements give them that they can most favourably expound Scripture for the mystery of the Real Presence as you will see by so many positive Proofs drawn out of the Gospel But I wou'd fain know first what you are at concerning this Mystery I am mistaken if you did not intend to perswade your People that Roman Catholicks pretend to have Power by vertue of the Sacramental Words to bring down Christ Jesus his most Sacred Humanity on their respective Altars and rob the Saints in Heaven of the beatifical sight of that Sacred Pledge in which consists the plenitude of their Eternal Joy and Happiness For you exhorted your Auditory with such eagerness to stick to their Principles and not to be tottered here and