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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	earth_n	high_a	lord_n	11,163	5	3.8462	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19246	The weather-cocke of Romes religion: with her seuerall changes. Or: The world turn'd topsie-turuie by papists	Cooke, Alexander, 1564-1632.	1625 (1625)	STC 5661; ESTC S108625	12,246	18

THE WEATHER-COCKE OF ROMES RELIGION WITH HER SEVERALL CHANGES OR THE WORLD TVRND TOPSIE-TVRVIE BY PAPISTS LONDON Printed by George Purstowe for Iohn Marriot and are to be sold at his Shop in Saint Dunstanes Church-yard in Fleet-streete 1625. THE WORLD TVRN'D TOPSIE TVRVIE BY PAPISTS IN old World The Bishops of Rome preached painefully and ordinarily as may appeare by the Homilies which are extant vnto this day vnder the names of Leo the First and Gregory the First But à multis seculis vix quisquam ex Romanis Pont. reperitur è Cathedra docuisse It can hardly bee proued that any one Bishop of Rome for many of these hundred yeeres last past were seene in a Pulpit as Ioh. Mariana confesseth In old World The Bishops of Rome were Censu pauperrimi eruditione diuites Poore in purse but rich in wisdome and goodnesse But nunc aliquoties contingunt Rom. Pont. aerario locupletissimi Apostolicis opibus hoc est sacrâ doctrinâ pietate nudissimi In these latter dayes wee haue many Bishops of Rome rich in purse but as poore in learning and piety as Iob of wealth in his greatest misery as Erasmus witnesseth In pontificibus nemo hodiè sanctitatem requirit No man in these dayes lookes for honesty in a Bishop of Rome as Mussonus confesseth In old World All Bishops and such Presbyters who were of any speciall note for their honesty and learning were called Popes as Lindan Onuphrius Duaren and Baronius confesse Saint Cyprian Bishop of Carthage Saint Austin Bishop of Hippo Saint Athanasius Bishop of Alexandria were called Popes But now the Bishop of Rome claymes it in his sole right to be called Pope Gregory the Seuenth about the yeere 1073. a little after the Diuell was let loose made a Decree to that purpose prouiding Vt Papae nomen vnicum esset in vniuerso orbe Christiano nec liceret alicui seipsum vel alium eo nomine appellare That there should bee but one man in all Christendome called Pope and that no man should dare to style himselfe or any other with the name of Pope In old World The Bishops of Rome were styled by other Bishops with such Titles as argued good fellowship among them and no superiority in one ouer another Saint Cyprian tearmed Cornelius Bishop of Rome frater Collega Coepiscopus Brother Colleague and fellow Bishop The Bishops assembled in Councell at Sardica speaking of Julius Bishop of Rome gaue him no other titles than that of Brother Colleague which they gaue indifferently to Athanasius Asclepas and all other Bishops to whom they writ and of whom they had occasion to speake In like manner the Bishops of Constantinople vsed Damasus Bishop of Rome Brothering him and Colleaguing him as they did others to whom they writ as well as to him But now the Bishop of Rome is called Vniuersalis Episcopus vniuersalis Pastor o vniuersalis Iudex Prorex Coelestis q Vice-deus Deus mortalis Opt. Mar. Supremum in torris numen u Caput totius Ecclesiae u Pater Ecclesiae x Sponsus Ecclesiae y Mater Ecclesiae z Rex regum Dominus dominantium The vniuersall Bishop the vniuersall Pastor the vniuersall Iudge the Vice-roy of heauen a mortall God the best and the greatest the highest power on earth the head of the whole Church the father of the Church the Churches husband the King of Kings and Lord of Lords In old World The Bishops of Rome stood not vpon superscriptions of Letters but receiued such as were sent vnto them how euer they were indorsed But now they haue made a Decree in consistory Ne post hac ab vllis Principibus missae recipiantur literae quae debitis Titulis non sunt inscriptae That no Letters be receiued from any Prince vnlesse they giue the Bishop of Rome his due titles In old World When Emperours writ to the Bishops of Rome they prefixed their owne names before the Bishops and when the Bishops writ to the Emperour they set their names after the Emperours But hic stylus impraesentiarum in Rom. Curia exoleuit This manner of writing is out of vse in the Romane Court in our dayes In literis ad nos missis nomen tuum nostro praeponis in quo insolentiae non dicam arrogantiae nomen incurris In the letters which you sent vnto vs you set your owne name before ours whereby you incurre suspition of insolency I will not say arrogancy saith Pope Adrian to Fredericke the Emperour And Falsum-praesumi rescriptum in quo non legatur summi Pontificis nomen ante caetera That is supposed to be a false writ in which the Popes name is not set in the first place saith a Popish Lawyer In old World They who writ vnto the Pope vsed words of the singular number thou-ing hint as they did others But Pope Adrian tooke that in great snuffe at the hands of Fredericke the Emperour And since that no man dares thou the Pope In old World The Pope of Rome acknowledged the Emperour for his Lord and Master But in these latter times the Popes of Rome haue taught the Emperour to acknowledge them for his Lord and Master In old World euen till Gregory the First his time by Bell. his confession Imperator dominium temporale in vrbem Rom. habebat The Emperour had the temporall gouernement of the Citie of Rome But now the Pope 〈◊〉 taken it into his owne hands The Emperour hath not so much as a Goose-gate in the Citie of Rome In old World the Popes were not wont to giue armes as Princes and Noble-men did Veteres Pontifices talem morem non leguntur habuisse The ancient Popes had no such custome saith Azorius But about the yere 1040. this custome was taken vp and is continued Vt Ro. Pont. insignibus Gentilitijs vterentur saith the same Azorius In old World till Siluesters time Cardinalium nomen non legimus wee reade not so much as of the name of Cardinall as Azorius confesseth yet now the name is common In old World there were Cardinals in other places as well as at Rome There were Cardinals at Rauenna at Pisa at Millan at Naples in Italy at Compostella in Spaine at Pauls Church in London But now as the Bishop of Rome hath robb'd other Bishops of the name Pope so hath hee robb'd other Cardinals of the name Cardinall Pius 5. in suo deplomate Anno 1568. penitùs hoc nomen in omnibus alijs Ecclesijs praeterquam in Rom. extinxit solummodo Cardinalis nomencompetere voluit Cardinalibus S. R. E. à Papacreatis Pius the 5. in his Bull bearing date 1568. hath cryed downe the name Cardinal in all other Churches but in Rome and he hath decreed that such onely as are created Cardinalls of the Church of Rome by the Pope shall be called Cardinals as is witnessed