Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	exceed_v	righteousness_n	scribe_n	2,764	5	11.0489	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64897	God in the mount, or, Englands remembrancer being a panegyrich piramides, erected to the everlasitng high honour of Englands God, in the most gratefull commemoration of al the miraculous Parliamentarie, mercies wherein God hath been admirably seen in the mount of deliverance, in the extreme depth of Englands designed destruction, in her years of jubile, 1641 and 1642 / by ... John Vicars.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1642 (1642)	Wing V308; ESTC R4132	108,833	120

souls in citie and countrey stood in need and had our Prelates stood in the heighth of their quondam pride and crueltie they must not have stir'd out of their own Parishes to seek it elsewhere but their souls must have starved and died for lack of it or else have been poysoned with base Arminian stuffe and dregs of Poperie thereby to suffocate and choak their poore souls and spirituall understanding and to make them like themselves fit fuell for the increase of the flames of hell Such I say was their soul-killing crueltie and tyrannie For why in those dayes of the ruffe of their pride they had familiarly and most easily yet with Romish craft and subtiltie under a pretence forsooth of too-abstruse and profound and dangerous points not fit to be handled in pulpits by ordinarie Preachers but by their grave Bishops Doctors Deans and such-like rare seraphicall rhetoritians Schoolmen and masters of high-Commission Sentences nor in all Churches but in Cathedrals forsooth and that not at all times but at Easter and Whitsuntide and such like solemn Festivals under these pretences I say they had by their exorbitant Ecclesiasticall power and jurisdiction easily but impiously prohibited all pure and powerfull preaching on deep points of o●l-saving-grace as free justification by faith predestination certainty of salvation finall perseverance and such like discountenancing yea punishing all those that thus preached or opposed their Popish-Arminian Doctrines and advancing and preferring none but their own Arminian faction rotten-hearted Prete●ses apt to be turn'd with every wind of false-doctrine meer temporizers altar ●ringers fellows onely fit to make Romish-jades to carry Popish-packs to Lambeth Fair and soul-crushing burthens on their basebacks and mercenarie shoulders But now see I say O to heavens eternall praise and glorie be it spoken and to our unspeakable comfort how our good God by his blessed Parliament hath freed our Pulpits Churches and our consciences too from the soul-devouring corruptions of these Clergie-caterpillars no better than Romish-locusts who are most blessedly blown away with the Eastern-wind of Gods vindicative indignation against them And instead of these that did so besmear deface and defile Truths most amiable countenance and sacred beautie the Lords gracious out-casts who had formerly been checkt and chid and churlishly forced out of the Kingdom by our Prelates pride and insolencie more worth than thousands of their Pontifick train and constrained to expose their lives their wives children and estates to all the miseries which Sea and Land could threaten or bring upon them are now most happily call'd home again O iniurious holy Fathers thus unworthily to use thus irreligiously to abuse Gods so precious iewels and to prize their beggarly Popish ceremonies before such holy Saints of God who shined so illustriously both in their lives and learning By which so blessed change and overture for the best Truth durst now shew her fair face in every pulpit and speak plainly and home and needed not as formerly to be shrouded under secret shelters or creep into corners for fear of pernicious persecutours yet thus it was ●ea thus it familiarly was practised by our Prelates to their indelible shame and infamie be it spoken witnesse their hideous High-Commission-Court a Court of everlasting ill-savour which indeed I may fitlier call a Spightfull rather than a Spirituall Court which at the first as a reverend and eminent divine well notes was ordained like the dogs in Romes capitoll to fright and scare away Romish Jesuiticall theeves and enemies of the Church but hath all along for the most pa●t sorely bitten and barked against honest men onely especially in these our later dayes and driven them from the Church A Court I say which made no scruple familiarly to slay both the souls and bodies of Gods most dear and precious servants not onely in those hot Marian-flam●ng dayes but even in these our more modern times wherein our Prelates and their pragmaticall Pontifician Sycophants did so crake brag of their soft smooth fatherly government of the Church O how many soules and bodies hath that accursed Court shut up in dark dungeons or els made poor waveringmindes turn Apostates for fear of their Harpeian-pawes to crush and squeez them out of their meanes and livelyhoods to the utter undoing of them and theirs The wickedness of which Court may more fully yea more foully appear by our taking notice of the limmes and members of it who from the very head to the foot of them are a pack of irreligious profane and most loose-lived nominall Protestants at large yea generally atheisticall scoffers at sinceritie in Religion and the power of godliness which indeed was a paradox meer mysterie to them w ch they never were nor would be acquainted with Certainly all that rightly know them know how piously to discern and to judge between light and darkness can truely testifie with me this truth that it is exceeding difficult if not impossible to finde one among them all that is truely and cordially pious even the best of them ascending onely to the happiness of a meer civill-honest man in my best observation of them for these fortie or fiftie years and what their happiness therein is if it ascend no higher our blessed Saviour Christ himself will to their little comfort tell them namely that if their righteousness exceed not the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees they shall never enter into the Kingdome of heaven But now blessed for ever blessed and praised be our just and glorious God this wicked Court together with that other illegitimate and spurious off-spring of our Lordly Prelates I mean their Oath Ex Officio an elder bratt of the other Babylonish-brood and no lesse replete with accursed Conscience-torturing Snares than the other to break the backes of mens and womens estates consciences and earthly comforts by racking the very Soules and wracking the bodies by imprisonments of both Sexes that were consciencious and would not obey their wicked injunctions And in no small measure also was this Court and Oath together with their perjurious and vile Visitation-Articles a most miserable vexation to poor Church-Wardens all over the Kingdome who by these netts were entangled and by their most unjust 〈◊〉 and unlawfull injunctions were made a prey to their p rnicious practises and thereby also made forges and a●vills for the Prelates to hammer all their torturing taxations on Gods peoples Consciences But now I say both this wicked Court and those their bastard-bratts are by Gods good providence and great mercie condemned to return to their Stygian-Patrons from whom they had their first rice and Originall And O I could wish with all my heart that in ●ternam rei infamiam That-Sentence were set on this Court or that roome of Lambeth-House where it was constantly kept which is mentioned in the prophecie of Daniel namely that it might be made a jakes