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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	bind_v	earth_n	remit_v	2,653	5	11.3806	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39933	Felo de se, or, The bishops condemned out of their own mouthes confessing their politick devices, and unjust practices, to settle and maintain their lordly dignities, and private interests, to the impoverishing and ruine of the nations wherein such idle and unprofitable drones are suffered to domineer : in a familiar discourse between the said bishops and their tenants, begun in 1660, the year of their unhappy resurrection, and continued to this present year 1668 : published for information of the people, who groan to be delivered from that yoke of bondage, which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear / by a mourner for the poor nations ...	Ford, Thomas, 1598-1674.	1668 (1668)	Wing F1512; ESTC R6792	44,620	44

they had not been there but for our wicked practices So that do what we can to remove these Fiends from us they will visit and dogg us up and down We do endeavour to stop their mouths with the best arguments we have as with our sacred Orders spiritual Titles holy Garments high and lofty Places and Honours great Revenues and Attendants the examples of our reverend Romish Ancestors from Phocus his days until the year 1641. and also the many Laws made to keep us in the saddle But all these Arguments are too short to help and comfort us yea we fear his Holiness's Pardon cannot stop the mouths of our roa●ing Consciences Besides we miscarry and are blasted in all we do we are the most unhappy Statesmen we will still be medling with State affaires but without good success our Counsels are such as God doth curse so that if our Rulers did but know and observe us how pernitious and mischievous we are to their Counsels and Government they would spue us out of their presence For were it not for us they would be much more happy and prospe●ous in their publick affairs more quiet and comfortable in their Government more generally beloved of their Subjects for we do divide the hearts of Princes from their Subjects and Subjects hearts from them by our pride extortion luxury superstition persecution and oppression So that it may be truly said There are hardly any publick evils or miscarriages in the State wher● we bear sway but we are the immediate Authors and causers of them Insomuch as you know it is a vulgar Proverb when any evil or cross happens to say The Bishops foot was there In fine We cannot live but in troubled Waters and therefore believe it there is no Satyrical Invective Printed and Published that thunders out the Peoples Groans and Burdens whether Spiritual or Civil but we are the Authors of it though like our Brethren on good Friday we fetch blood at our own heels in so doing and all to possess Supream Authority that the People are disaffected to the Government and therefore ought to be vassalized thus prevent we a right understanding betwixt our Rulers and the good People of the Land in whose amicable Tranquillity were it not for these cursed Stratagems our would unavoidably period By this time we hope all your Cases and Doubts are resolved and we promise you we have taken paines with you yea a great deal more than ever we shall do again Now we hope you will pay us the monies you owe us that we may suck out all the sweetness and comfort we can from it to support our miserable fainting souls we have need enough of it although we have many thousand pounds lying by us for if you do believe what we have told you you cannot but conclude we are the miserablest men upon earth and have nothing to support us but such earthly things you poor Country-men are in a far better case then we for your sins are not so great as ours who are your holy Fathers you have not so many to curse you and cry for vengeance against you nor so much innocent blood to account for as we have neither shall you be plunged under so great vengeance in Hell as we for you sin not against so much Light and Mercy as we O Tenants were it not for Hell and the Wrath of God what brave happy men were we could we make any shift to escape Hell we should be a more Jovial Crew than we are we would not at all trouble our selves about sinning were it not for suffering that follows sin troubles us not but we are terrified at the thoughts of lying in hell fire eternally Ten. We shall now dismiss your Lordships as soon as you have resolved us this one Case more which is Whether Tenants be bound to pay their Rents unless they be able Bish. Yes Tenants you must pay us our Rents the whole sum to a groat though you are not bound to do so to others because we are spiritual persons your holy and ghostly Fathers and if you detain rents from us after they are due you are guilty of Sacriledge you rob the Church and that 's an unpardonable sin in our spiritual Courts whatever sin else we can pardon yet be assured we neither can nor will pardon Sacriledge especially against our selves and if you be found guilty in our spiritual Courts and held there under our black curse you cannot so long be pardoned in Heaven You know we teach you that whatever or whosoever we bind on Earth is bound also in Heaven and whose sins we remit they are there remitted also Therefore we do not care nor mind how or where you get the money but we tell you that we must and will have it else you know what will follow if you be such fools to believe it Ten. Well we shall bring your rents next week for we will not trouble your Lordships to carry it home for we judge it will be too heavy for you to cary so far and think your eye-sight is much decayed with continual looking on money so that you cannot test right we fear you 'l mistake a shilling for six pence therefore we will send it ready told Bish. Very well we shall expect it then pray fail nor But Tenants pray tell us briefly what repute have we amongst men what do they report of us their spiritual Lords do they speak honourably of us or contemptibly do men reverence us or not we would know how the Country doth stand affected to us our Hierarchy and proceedings pray inform us for we know you can if you will Ten. We shall tell you what we do certainly know at least a little of it First We do assure you that you are generally loathed and abhorred there are not any in the Country whither rich or poor that do at all regard you or so much as own you no their hearts are set against you as against the enemies of God the Gospel and Nation and the immediate causes of the ruine and destruction both of their Souls and Bodies They do conclude and are not afraid to speak it that you are the greatest of all external judgments and plagues the heaviest and saddest judgements that God in justice punisheth Kingdoms withal For when Nations and Kingdoms rebel against God grow weary of his yoak and service slight and contemn his Gospel and Gospel-Ministers abuse their Christian Liberty grow formal and cold in their duties to God wax wanton with Mercies and quarrel with each other loath the honey-combes of blessed Ordinances and neglect to walk humbly with their God then God in wisdom and justice sends them such task-masters as you are to scourge and afflict them to take away their light and priviledges from them to turn their day into Night their glory into shame their joy into sorrow and their liberty into bondage their milk and honey into gall and wormwood the holy and soul-nourishing