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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	blood_n	body_n	holy_a	11,079	5	5.1892	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18107	The vindication or defence of Isaac Casaubon against those impostors that lately published an impious and vnlearned pamphlet, intituled The originall of idolatries, &c. vnder his name, by Meric Casaubon his sonne. Published by his Maiesties command.; Is. f. vindicatio patris. English	Casaubon, Meric, 1599-1671.	1624 (1624)	STC 4751; ESTC S107684	28,694	88

iudgement about some certain Rites and Ceremonies which as occasion serued he wrote and inserted into his Ephemerides from whence what hee thought of all others in that kinde may be easily coniectured Octob. 31. An. 1610. Diem sacram non malè posui Dei beneficio sum enim inuitatus bodiè ut interessem sacris quae factasunt ad consecrandos Episcopos duos Scotos Archiepiscopum Scotiae Vidi illos Ritus Impositionem manuum Preces in eam rem O Deus quanta fuit mea uoluptas Tu Domine Iesu serua hanc Ecclesiam Catharis qui ista rident da bonam mentem God be thanked I haue spent this Holy day well For I was this day inuited to be present at the sacred s●lemnities of the Consecration of the Arch●ishop and two other Bishops of Scotland I saw the Cerem●nies the Imposition of hands and the Prayers made for that purpose O God what apleasure it was to me to behold it Preserue thou this Church O Lord Iesu and turne the hearts of the Puritans that deride such things as these Ian. 4. An. 1611. Gratias tibi Domine quod hodi● ad sacram mensam sum admissus Corporis Christi sanguinis● factus sum particeps in Ecclesiâ Anglicanâ cuius Formulam heri diligenter meditatus admodum probaui ordinem agendi mir● laudaui prae receptâ apud alios consuetudine Thankes bee to thee O Lord that I was this day admitted vnto thy Holy Table and made partaker of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Church of England the Forme of which Administration hauing read it ouer yesterday I did highly approoue and commend aboue that custome which others vse And not onely these things which concerne the Church of England but those also wherein hee had to doe with our Aduersaries alone doe sufficiently argue for his defence Euen by his whole manner and genius of writing euery body may knowe that the booke is none of his For who cannot tell with what great moderation and mildnesse Casaubon was euer wont to treat of Controuersies in Religion insomuch that many preposterous Puritanes out of their ignorant and mad zeale did blame him for it and from thence tooke occasion to suspect him more then they had reaso● to doe But this was the way that hee tooke and hee perswaded himselfe it was the best and safest way that could bee taken both for the finding out of trueth and the redresse of error to follow that path which meeknesse and moderation either led him or went along with him in without all affection or partiality either way supposing that such as tooke any other course did put pace in a dangerous and slippery path and put others further out of their way that were gone astray one from another Now if a man should run through the whole rout of Nouellers and diligently make inquiry into their writings I think there could not one bee found for furie and malice and b●tternesse against his Aduersaries to bee compared with this Counterfeit-Casaubon then whom neuer was any man more childishly and fondly in loue with his owne fancie or more bent to his faction It is but a small matter that he hath rail'd a little more bitterly then became a modest man against such things as were worthy of blame but so infinitely to bely his Aduersaries and to put such forged crimes and calumnies vpon them was vnsufferable specially in such an vndertaker for the Trueth of Christ Such manner of dealing with Aduersaries though it may be pleasing to some hotte fiery Zelotes whom learning neuer taught any modesty yet wiser men cannot but condemne it as being fitter to spoyle then to helpe or defend a good cause For if there be● strict Lawes prouided against such colluding pleaders that pretending to helpe a man do of purpose leaue out that which should most make for his cause and bring nothing but false allegations for his defence so to betray his right to his Aduersaries● what is to bee done with such vndertakers of Controuersi●s in Religion that either of purpose or through grosse ignorance let passe those Arguments that be solid and of greatest moment and come in with such idle poore reasons as euery childe may answer and blow away Ought not the same Law when the case is the same to be made against these men as betrayers of an honest and good cause What readier way then theirs can be imagined wholly to alienate our Aduersaries mindes from vs that being ouercome with the truth on our parts began somewhat to incline vnto vs Caius Fabritius is highly commended vnto vs by the writers of old times for his vertue and magnanimity in scorning to accept of that victory in a doubtfull battell which was offered him by the perfidie of a trecherous fellow And is it not a shame now adayes that Christians contending with Christians about the Trueth of Faith should vse lesse faith and conscience one towards another then the Pagans themselues were wont to doe who regarded nothing but their owne wordly praise and honour Can there then be any body so iniurious to Casaubon or so quite bereaued of his owne iudgement as to thinke these things that smell only of a furious Sycophant and a most impudent Calumniator could come from him Frō him I say Whose mildnesse and moderation in matters of Religion is so euident in all his writings that to take any paines to prooue it were but to waste time and to light a candle in the Sunne And howsoeuer it befits not the modestie of a sonne to contend about the learning of his Father yet I hope I may haue leaue without the breach of good manners to say that hee was no meere Blocke or such a one as had no good learning at all ●n him which let but be once granted mee and I doubt not of the good successe I shall haue in vindicating his name and estimation from these Hucksters handes that put this booke vpon him A booke which is so full of excessiue ignorance and stupiditie that whereas euery thing in it except a few scraps taken from others argue a most vnlearned writer there are many things besides which I wonder how they could come from a man that was sound in his senses if yet he is to be thought sound in his senses whom this pestilent madde puritanisme hath once possessed But I suppose the Reader expects that for the better confirmation of what we say we should produce some Examples out of the Booke it s●lfe concerning these things wherewith we haue all this while charged the Author of it It remaines therefore that we briefly runne the Booke ouer rather pointing at the places then vndertaking any refutation of them IN the first part of his Booke hee reckons vp all such things which either happened by occasion or were directly ordained by God in the olde Law hauing some mysticall or typicall signification in them as the Trees of Life and Death of