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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	believe_v	faith_n	implicit_a	1,688	5	13.6300	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43631	The naked truth. The second part in several inquiries concerning the canons and ecclesiastical jurisdiction, canonical obedience, convocations, procurations, synodals and visitations : also of the Church of England and church-wardens and the oath of church-wardens and of sacriledge.	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1681 (1681)	Wing H1822; ESTC R43249	69,524	40

Christian Burial And all this exemplified by the R.R. Father in God Lancelot Andrews late Lord Bishop of Winchester But above all those Admirable Collections the greatest wonder is how any Man durst Print and revive as he does the Proclamation of King Charles I. wherein the Proceedings of His Majesties Ecclesiastical Courts and Ministers are Proclaimed to be according to the Laws of this Realm Indeed when that Proclamation was put out They were so The Star-Chamber and High-Commission Court being then in being and 1 Eliz. 1. not repealed but in force But now the Case is alter'd and these Courts and that Law that founded them is taken away sure the structure then built upon it must follow the same fate and the Church left but with just the same Jurisdiction Ecclesiastical they had in the days of Queen Mary a little before the 1 Elizabeth 1. which by their own Confession was taken away from them as aforesaid And therefore It is high time surely That these Doubts were clear'd and resolv'd that both the Bishop's Jurisdiction might not be so precarious as it is And also that the People might know at length How much of the Canon-Law and How many Canons or whether any Canons be in force at this Day and when and for what Ecclesiastical matters they are lyable to be Excommunicated and Goaled or whether the Wisdom and Piety of the Realm does not think it most fit to make the same use of this same two-edged Sword as the Ancient Jews did of Goliah's Sword which was carefully preserved in the Temple and laid up behind the Ephod and never to be made use of but by David himself and not by every Whipster that knows not how to wield it no nor by David neither but in Cases of Vrgent Necessity The Apostle Paul that had the Gift of Discerning of Spirits and therefore never drew this Sword in a wrong cause as now adays but against the Enemy of Christ onely never drew it neither but Twice and that against Horrible Sinners An Incestuous Person and Blafphemers And therefore though Excommunication was in use in the Church whilst the said Gifts of Discerning of Spirits were frequent and onely against Notorious Offenders and Offences yet Quaere Whether every Commissary and Lay-Vicar-General though he has a Priest by him sometimes for fashion-sake did ever wield this sharp-Weapon or draw it upon every Occasion as when the Register's Fees and Sumner's Fees are not paid especially in these Days when Men may justly scruple whether they ought to obey their Processes as not being in the King's Name and under the King's Seal as the Law enjoyns 'T is sad thus to send Men to Satan because they do not pay the Knave a Groat especially when the Sumner does not Cite Men according to Law and to make Appearance before a Court too that does not pretend to Sit by His Majesties Commission nor by Vertue of their Original Constitution and ordinary Jurisdiction from the Pope This to Assert would make them incurr a Proemunire what can they say for themselves The Apostle Paul did many things that we cannot do our Blessed Saviour did many things which would be sin in us to Attempt to do He walk't upon the Waters he Fasted 40 Days and 40 Nights he commanded his Servants to take away a Man's Ass and Colt tyed we may not Attempt these things they are above our Skill And so I fear it is beyond our Skill and Abilities to wield and draw sheath and unsheath that Goliah's Sword of Excommunication Especially when Men offend onely our Interests and not the Law of the Land and yet it is often brandished against this sin of Sacriledge Sacriledge and by those many times that do not or will not know what Sacriledge is Nay I have heard some Men speak great Words against the King and Parliament in Hen. 8. time and against all Parliaments ever since that Alienated or consent to Alienate these Abbey-Lands and Nunneries as if they would smite them with this Thunder-bolt of Excommunication as guilty of Sacriledge if they durst It was as safe for Naboth and his Vineyard to lye conveniently and next Hedge to Ahab's as sometimes to have had Lands bordering upon St. Petèr's Patrimony why so what can't St. Peter or his Pretended Successors do Oh! this Religion this Engine of pretended Religion this Dart of Excommunication when 't is out of the Magistrates keeping shall wound and mawl them wonderfully Ask the Excommunicated Venetians when Dandalus their Ambassador came with a Rope about his Neck to beg their Peace ask the poor Duke of Ferrara if this be true Let the King Command a Becket or a Woolsey to his Allegiance They will be his Humble Servants with a Salvo honore Dei And say others in omnibus nisi rebus Christi so that these kind of Religious Bigots always keep in Reserve a Starting-Hole a Loop-Hole a Sally-Port always ready and open when their Forces and occasion calls to Attempt against the King's Supremacy especially when their Humours are cros't or their Pride Affronted or their Revenge unappeas'd or their Covetousness unglutted And 't is a hard matter to Glut it The Popish Religious Houses had once a third part of the Land and were they Glutted Bishops and Arch-Deacons have enough to live on without sharing with and pareing every Benefice in the Diocess yet though they know not how they came honestly and lawfully by their Procurations Synodals and Visitations though it be against Law Conscience and Compassion for the Rich thus to pinch the Poor yet take it from them And 't is a hundred to one if they do not plead Jure Divino for the Tenure and cry out Sacriledge Sacriledge Of the Church of England Quaere What it is THere 's nothing more ordinary than for People to say in these days of Part-taking and distinguishing who Men are for I am for the Church of England Whereas there is not one of a Thousand understands what he means or who he means in saying so In the Days of Popish Prelacy Men were Taught to believe as the Church believes meaning as the Clergy believes So that for Salvation they needed no further Knowledge or Insight than a blind Implicite Faith in the Church that is in the Clergy To see with Clergy-mens Eyes to believe as they pleas'd to prescribe to be led thus by the Nose to Heaven was the Divinity of Old And so a Man did but follow his Nose in the dark no matter for Eyes The Arch-Deacons those oculi Episcoporum together with the Bishops they could see and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Oversee for us all 'till at last the Church had no other Members but Head and Eyes a monstrous Church sure And though the Holy Apostles and Elders had as good Eyes one would think as these Pretenders and pretended Successors yet they never had the Forehead that those Men put on who confine and Monopolize the Church of Christ to themselves alone