Selected quad for the lemma: faith_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	build_v	church_n	rock_n	7,063	5	9.4065	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93101	The times displayed in six sestyads: the first [brace] a Presbyter, an Independent. The second [brace] an Anabaptist and a Brownist. The third [brace] an Antinomian and a Familist. The fourth [brace] a Libertine and an Arminian. The fift [brace] a Protestant and eke a Papist. All these dispute in severall tracts, and be divulgers, as of truth, so fallacie. The sixt [brace] Apollo, grieves to see the times so pester'd with mechanicks slavish rimes.	Sheppard, S. (Samuel).	1646 (1646)	Wing S3170; Thomason E365_10; ESTC R201251	10,214	25

somwhat heavenly and derived from God Thus much by the way Arminian There 's no man shall Perswade me but man has an Innate will Power of himself to commit good or ill I 've set before thee fire and water chuse Saith God ev'n which thou wils which plainly shews Mans power 's of himself to take or leave To take the good or else the ill receive POPE PIVS had a vision on a day As after Dinner on his couch he lay A glorious Angel did before him stand Bearing a graven Schedule in his hand On the right side was in a figure placd The heaven of heavens with the Almighty gracd While all his glorious angels standing round Loud Allelujaes to the THRONE resound On the left hand was ORCVS plac'd where sate Grim Pluto placed in a throne of state Foshiond of burning brasse the Damned Crew Howling in flames their forepast Acts did rew Just in the midst betwixt both these there stood A man wel shapt and of proportion good Before whom hung a tablet in which words Of letter Capital this sense affords Behold o man before thee two ways lie The one to joy tother to miserie Doth lead chuse which thou wilt therefore t is sure Man may his sorrow or his blisse procure By his own inclination Ergo I Will in this my opinion Live and Die THE AUTHOR Ah do not so trust not to thine own strength For fear it plunge thee in Abisse at length The end of the fourth Sestyad The fifth Sestyad The Argument A Papist on Pilgrimage he went Meets with a true beleeving Protestant Twixt whom there divers propositions bee As bout the Masse and popes Supremacy Til in the end they both agree as one And do extol the true Religion Papist Holy Saint Christopher be thou my guide And ayd my speed that I by eventide May arive safely at Saint Francis shrine That holy Francis that by ayd divine Conversing in the solitary wood Making wild fruits and water be his food O be propitius Protestant See it is my chance To meet with one will give me cause to advance Gods truth above the unwritten veritie Worshipful Pilgrim all hail to thee That wrapt in errors dost thy journey take Bare footed while the sirly thorny brake Often draws blood Papist By Saint Sebastian I now have met a * A Protestant so termed by them because they place their cheif confidence in the Act of faith SOLIFIDIAN Why thou deluded how long wilt thou bee Unto the holy Church an enemie And still persisting in thy w●●●●ed state Dye as an Heretick excommunicate By Christs Vicegerent Protestant My good pilgrim hold Enough and each too much thou now hast told I me not deluded but with setled faith I tye my selfe to what the Scripture saith Which in no place mentions the papall throne That Septred Kings must yeeld subjection To mytred Bishops that false power do vaunt That Christum simulant contrachristum pugnat Nor do I weigh how me the pope shall handle No though he curse me with bel book and candle Papist The ayres infected O that I had now Some holy water for to crosse my brow O sire I blasphemy have heard thou soul Who art infected so with errours foul T is hard to cure thee Protest Nor do I desire Thou shouldst as my Physitian gaine thy hyre Which will be more then all the world affords My precious soul Papist Although to bandy words With thee an Heritick were fond and Vaine Yet so I see th art learn'd I le not abstain But I wil converse a while know then that Rome Is the most ancient Church where martyrdome Diverse Apostles did receive and there By Christs appointment is S. Peters chair Where Christs Vice-gerent Peters seat doth fill And what he doth Comand even Christ doth wil He cannot erre in ought for on this stone Christ builds his Church all opposition Shall not prevail against him every state Al Kings on Earth to him subordinate He to the glorious fun I may compare Kings to the Moon who of his lustre share Protest I hear toomuch although t is truth Rome was Once cald the mother Church but truth did passe From Rome drove thence by erring fallacies By ground less fables superstitious lies When Gods love was relinquisht and instead Thereof was mans traditions honored Nor is the Pope to sit in Christ his throne For Christ himself doth rule his Church alone Nor can we find by what our Savior said To Peter that on him alone he laid A charge to rule his Church but when he spake To Peter he did the rest his Partners make And not on Peter but upon his faith Christ builds his Church when on this rock he saith I le build my Church and whereas you compare The Pope unto the Sun you grosly erre But rather we ful aptly render may The Pope as Moon for as one wel doth say Fratri contraria Phabe Ibit obliquum big as agitare per orbem Indignata diem poseit sibit totaque discors Machina convulsi turbabit foe dera mundi The Moon disdeigning of her rule by night Would needs rule Phabus Carr the day to light And by this civil and unnatural Jarr Inforced natures bands to fry in Warr. Even so at first the Aspiring Popes of Rome When they would Kings as wel as Priests become Layd claim and urgd it their Prerogative For to dispose of Crowns and those did strive For to make frustrate Their so il Intent They presently deprivd of Government And then being seated in the Suns bright Carr They streight involvd all nations in VVarr And now the sole Incendiaries be For to set Crown and Crown at enmity Papist I do find something in me prompts me now The Popes usurped power to disavow Protestant This man of sin doth hold the world in hand He holds his Papal power by Christs command And lest the vulgar should into it pry He doth lock up the sacred Verity And feeds the peoples minds with outward glosses VVith pleasant musick Images and Crosses VVith Pilgrimages Offerings and Oblations VVith holy Rood days and such recreations VVith holy-water wafer cakes and challices VVith Copes Mitres Crosiers such like sallacies Bewitch the people so they blindly run To all excesse of Superstition Again that he his Priests may magnifie To win them honor in the peoples eye They re told when once the words of consecration Are uttred just upon the elevation Of the bread God 't is very Christ even hee VVho for their fins did suffer on the tree O horrid that a mortal should create Even his Creator Papist I now see the state That I am in is wretched and by thee O happy friend I am converted see I am not as I was I here lay by This weed of shame and now intirely I VVil be a Protestant Protestant If so Thy tongue and heart in equipage do go Come follow me and thou wilt find there 's none Of true Belief but