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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	duke_n	king_n	york_n	1,205	5	9.9855	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43743	The Protestant mirrour, in proper postures and principles: or, The careful resident, and the careless non-resident	Hieron, Samuel, 1576?-1617.	1681 (1681)	Wing H1943B; ESTC R213455	3,987	1

with God and the advantages it hath by his hand Is God amongst us Israel wants water Amalek waits to give battel and this great straight made that great State fall a chiding of God and one another Is God amongst us The place was called for this Massah Meribah i.d. striving and chiding The bigger Bodies are with the greater difficulties they move now when great difficulties make great impatience towards God and towards one another this and not our straights indangers all I know nothing wherein a wise Christian hath more cause to fear himself that his love nor his zeal is not so servent as it hath been The Ship-wrack'd CLERK Whose Heart was gone to Rome before his Head Drawn to the Life by his own PENSIL That the Presbiterians were such Persons as the very Devil Blush'd at them and that the Villain Hamden grudged and made it more Scruple of Conscience to give Twenty Shillings to the KING for supplying his Necessities by Ship-Money and Loan which was His Right by Law than to raise Rebellion against Him And that the Presbiterians are worse and far more Intollerable than either Priests or Jesuits That a Presbiterian Brother qua talis was as great a Traytor by the Statute as any Priest or Jesuit whatsoever Mr. Thompson in his Preaching inveyed bitterly against Subscribing Petitions for Sitting of this Parliament saying That it was like the Seed of Rebellion and like to Forty One and that the Devil set them on work and the Devil would pay them their Wages saying That before he would set his Hand to such Petitions he would cut it off yea cut them off Mr. Thompson comes to this Informant Mr. Rowe and claps his Hands on his Shoulders saying Hah Boy had Queen Elizabeth been living you needed not to have been Sword-bearer of Bristol The said Rowe asked him why He replyed She loved such a lusty Rogue so well as he was and he would have been very fit for her drudgery at White-Hall Mr. Thompson said Jan. 30. 1679. in the same Sermon There was a great noise of a Popish Plot but says he Here is nothing in it but a Presbyterian Plot for here they are going about to Petition for the Sitting of the Parliament but the end of it will be to bring the Kings Head to the Block as they have done his Father Mr. Thompson speaking concerning the Meeters in private said He would hale them out and fill the Goals with them and hoped to see their Houses afire about their ears in a short time and this he the said Thompson doubled again and again Thompson said If he were as well sattisfied of other things as he was of Justification Auricular Confession Penance Extream Vnction and Crisme in Baptism he would not have been so long separated from the Catholick Church And further affirmed That the Church of Rome was the True Catholick Church Further he hath heard him say The King was a Person of mean and soft Temper and could be led easily to any thing but yet a Solomon in vices but that the Duke of York was a Prince of a brave Spirit would be faithful to his Friends c. And that in Discourse he commended the Romish Clergy for their single Life and is himself so and did at the same time Vilify and Rail at the English Clergy for Marrying saying It was better for a Clergy-Man to be Guelt then to Marry and that the Calvinists in France were Lecherous Fellows c. He further said in the Pulpit at St. Thomas's That after Excommunication by the Bishop without Absolution from the Spiritual Court such a one was surely Damned and he would pawn his Soul for the Truth of it O! when such Clergy at the Dreadful Day Shall make their Audit when the Judge shall say Give your Accompts what have my Lambs been Fed Say do they all stand Sound is there none Dead By your Defaults come Shepherds bring them forth That I may Crown your Labours in their Worth O what an Answer will be given by some We have been Silent Profit struck us Dumb To say the Truth Great Judge they were not Fed Lord here they be but Lord they are all Dead Ah Cruel Shepherds could your Conscience serve To Fleece your Flock and then to let them Starve Finis LONDON Printed for Tho. Cross Seignior in Harp-Court neer Fleet-Bridge 1681.