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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	believe_v	faith_n	jesus_n	17,223	5	6.3565	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74667	An answer to Monsieur de la Militiere his impertinent dedication of his imaginary triumph, to the king of Great Britain to invite him to embrace the Roman Catholick religion. / By John Bramhall D.D. and Lord Bishop of London-Derry.	Bramhall, John, 1594-1663.; La Milletière, Théophile Brachet, sieur de, ca. 1596-1665. Victory of truth for the peace of the Church.	1653 (1653)	Thomason E1542_1	53,892	235

Purgatory by your learning are past the fear of Hell Nor can this petition be any ways so wrested as to become appliable to the hour of death This prayer is not for the man but for the soul separated nor for the soul of a sick man or a dying man but for the souls of men actually deceased Certainly this prayer must have reference either to the sleeping of the souls or to the pains of Hell To deliverance out of Purgatory it can have no relation Neither are you able to produce any one prayer publike or private Neither any one indulgence to that purpose for the delivery of any one soul out of Purgatory in all the Primitive times or out of your own antient Missals or records Such are the Innovations which you would impose upon us as Articles of Faith which the greatest part of the Catholick Church never received untill this day Moreover though the sins of the faithfull be privately and particularly remitted at the day of death yet the publike promulgation of their pardon at the day of judgement is to come Though their souls be alwaies in an estate of blessedness yet they want the consummation of this blessedness extensively at least untill the body be reunited unto the soul and as it is piously and probably believed intensively also that the soul hath not yet so full and clear a vision of God as it shall have hereafter Then what forbids Christians to pray for this publick acquittall for this Consummation of blessedness So we do pray as often as we say thy kingdom come or come Lord Jesus come quickly Our Church is yet plainer that we with this our Brother and all other departed in the faith of thy holy name may have our perfect Consummation of blessedness in thy eternall kingdom This is far enough from your more gainfull prayers for the dead to deliver them out of Purgatory The Authority of the Pope Lastly concerning the Authority of the Pope It is he himself that hath renounced his lawfull Patriarchall Authority And if we should offer it him at this day he would disdain it We have only freed our selves from his tyrannicall usurped Authority But upon what termes upon what grounds how far and with what intention we have separated our selves or rather have suffered our selves to be separated from the Church of Rome you may find if you please in the Treatise of Schism I cannot choose but wonder to see you cite St. Cyprian against us in this case P 27. who separated himself from you as well as we in the dayes of a much better Bishop than we and upon much weaker grounds than we and published his dissent to the world in two African Councils He liked not the swelling title of Bishop of Bishops nor that one Bishop should tyrannically terrifie an other into obedience No more do we He gave a primacy or principality of order to the Chair of St. Peter as principi●m unitatis so do we But he beleeved that every Bishop had an equall share of Episcopall power so do we He provided a part as he thought fit in a Provinciall Councill for his own safety and the safety of his flock so did we He writ to your great Bishop as to his Brother and Collegue and dared to reprehend him for receiving but a letter from such as had been censured by the African Bishops In St. Cyprians sense you are the beam that have separated your selves from the body of the Sun you are the Bough that is lopped from the Tree you are the stream which is divided from the Fountain It is you principally you that have divided the unity of the Church You collect as a Corollary from our supposed principall of the right and sufficiency of private judgement Whether humane Laws bynd the Conscience inlightned by the Spirit that no humane Authority can bind the conscience of an other or prescribe any thing unto it I have formerly shewed you your gross mistake in the premises Now if you please hear our sense of the Conclusion Humane Laws cannot be properly said to bind the Conscience by the sole authority of the Law-giver But partly by the equity of the Law every one being obliged to advance that which conduceth to a publick good thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self And especially by divine Authority which commands every soul to be subject to the higher powers for conscience sake not prudentially only The question is soon decided just Laws of lawfull Superiors either Civill or Ecclesiasticall have authority to bind the conscience in themselves but not from themselves How shall we beleeve that it is not you but God that represents these things to his Majesty P. 34. 69. The Author a little Enthusiasticall that addresseth them to him by your mouth that calleth him that stretcheth out his hand to him that hath set these things before his eyes in Characters not to be defaced What That his Majesty should turn Roman Catholick Are they like Belshazars Characters and are you the only Daniel that can read them we do not see a Cloven tongue upon your head nor a Dove seeming to whisper in your ear Be not too confident left some take it to be a little taint of Anabaptism perhaps you have had as strange phantasies as this heretofore whilst you were of a contrary party Be it what it will be you cannot offer it to his Majesty with more confidence or pretend more intimacy with God or to be more familiarly acquainted with his Cabinet Counsail than a Scotch Presbyter And yet your self would not value all his confidence at a Button Wise men are not easily gained by empty shews or pretenses that signifie nothing but the pretenders vanity nor by enthusiasticall interpretation of occurrences It is onely the weight of reason that depresseth the scale of their judgement and makes them to yield and submit unto it Howsoever it be God or you that represent these things to his Majesty you tell us that the end is to reduce him from those errors which he sucked in with his milk which in the dayes of peace and abundance it had been difficult for him to discover But now his eyes and his ears do see and hear those truths which make it evident to him that God hath condemned them to reduce him to the Communion of the Church wherein you promise him all manner of blessings Who told you of his Majesties new Illumination or what have you seen to beleeve any such thing when you dare avouch such gross untruths of himself to himself how should he credit your private presumptions which you tell him as a new Mercury dropped down from Heaven The Romanists require submission to their Church as necessary to salvation You tell us that it is necessary for every one to adhere to the true Church which is the keeper of saving truth That is true but nothing to his Majesty who hath more right already in the