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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	jesus_n	12,126	5	6.1739	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75606	The arraignment and tryall with a declaration of the Ranters also, several sentences proceedings at the sessions in the Old-Baily, and Councel of War: their protestations and the hanging of one up by the thumbs; with divers penalties to be inflicted upon others. The dancing and revelling of Dr. Buckeridge and his wife, and other gent. dancing all in white, in Berkshire, and their Christmas carol. A dispute between a Ranter in Bridewel, and one that came to see him; with his creed and pater noster: and the names of the false gods they worship. As also, a list of many of the Ranters, from whence they are derived: and of many hundreds of them in England.		1650 (1650)	Wing A3748; Thomason E620_3; ESTC R206376	5,455	8

things were made by nature that mans soul dieth with his body that the Scriptures are meer lies and tales c. Another of them taking a piece of boiled beef betwixt his hands and tearing it in his hands gave part thereof to one of his companions using these words in derision of the blessed Sacrament the Body and Bloud of our Lord Jesus Christ. A she Ranter said openly in the hearing of many a friend of mine acciden●●ly one of them that she should think her self a happy woman and a superlative servant of Gods if any man would accompany with her ●arnally I shall compare the actions of these and others of their crew with some that we read of in former times which came nearest in opinion and practise to them In the year 353. there were discovered a sort of people that came out of Affrica calling themselves Donatists as some of these do which held many strange opinions and though adjudged to be the greatest Hereticks of that time yet they held forth to the people that none were pure but themselves And in the ninth year of the Raign of K. Hen. 2 Anno 1163. there came into England one Gerrard a Germain with many others which denied Matrimony and both the Sacraments as many of these do and Christ himself This Gerrard himself had some learning but the rest were ignorant persons which he misled they were examined and found guilty and received sentence as obstinate Hereticks for they were marked or stigmatized in the forehead after that they were all sharply whipt which punishment they seemed indeed to receive with more joy than these of our time and by the command of the King and state they were afterwards turned out of prison and people were forbidden either to harbour or relieve them so that with the extremity of the cold of winter and want of food and harbour they all died miserably starved with cold and famished with hunger There came also into England in the time of Edward 3. Anno Dom 1349. out of Holland Zealand and parts adjacent about 120 persons with an opinion that a man might take as many wives as he was able to maintain and if there were any Resurrection it was by virtue of the motion of the Planets yet these last were not so brutish as they in our time for they acknowledged something of God and met together at certain times to hear exhortations from those which were esteemed to be best gifted amongst them and were called Stoicks in reference to the place where they sualy met together for Stowy in the Greek language signifieth a Porch In the 11 year of Queen El●zabeth there sprung a people in England which called themselves the family of love which held forth an opinion that women ought to be common both sects saluted one another at their first meeting as the Ranters now do they spent their time in pleasure and prophanesse for which two of them did pennance at Pauls-Crosse and there confessed and detested their wicked and damnable heresies In the 33 year of Queen Elizabeth Anno 1591. One Edward Coppinger and Henry Archington repaired to the house of one John Walker at Broken wharfe London where they found a Northamptonshire young man named William Hacket to whom the said Coppinger and Arthington said that they were come to anoint him King but Hacket replied that they needed not so to do for he was already anointed by the Holy Ghost and the said Hacket caused Coppinger and Arthington to believe that he was Jesus Christ and some of the Ranters do at least in substance affirm that they are Christ so they proclaimed him in London and at last for these blasphemies and other things proved against him he was hanged in Cheapside In the 16 year of the Reign of King James one John Trusk stood in the Pillory at Westminster for strange and blasphemous opinions concerning Christ and the Sabbath as these Ranters have which esteem every day like and make a scoff at such as go to hear or pray some of them saying that they can make as good a Pater noster as the Lords Prayer is c. I shall now come down to the times of our present memory which is hardly able to record how many they are and the hellish opinions they have fomented and the heighth they are grown unto notwithstanding the diligent care which the civil Magistrate and Officers of the Army have had from time to time to punish and suppress Blasphemers and such as walk inordinately of which might be instanced above an hundred late examples all which might be particularly recited were it necessary in this place to be inserted which being not held fit I shall onely remaind you of some few that are last and proceed to such as were this Sessions tryed in the Old-Baily Claxton was a trades man and having attained some measure of knowledge a bold spirit and utterance he would have taken on him to become a teacher but he soon after fell into such excesse of ryot that he came within the compasse of being punished by the Civill Magistrate by whom he was committed to Bridewell where doubtlesse for many moneths together he hath participated of the custome of the house which is a punishment not inferiour to those that were inflicted in former times on such kind of offendors an officer of the army in Scotland holding strange opinions of Jesus Christ was cashiered in dishonour and is not to presume to come into the army any more on perill another officer which held that sin was no sin had his sword broken over his head and for ever cashiered I have also heard of one more to the honour of the Court-Martial let it be spoken which for the height of offcutes proved against him hath sentence first to be hung up by the Thumbs for a good space of time and after he is cut down to be openly whipt and about three weeks or a moneth since a souldier for his ranting as it s called was whipt at a Carts tail from Pauls Church to the Royall Exchange Collins Shakespear Waddleworth and the rest that were taken in Moor-lane and carryed to Bridewel shewed blisters to the Justices and a king backs and promise amendment for the future divers others that were since taken were brought to the Sessions who acknowledge now they smart that there is a heaven and a heil yet lest they should return with the Dog to the Vomit and the Swine to the wallowing in the Mire it is not amisse that they should tast a few more of the Prodigals husks without which there is litle hopes of a through Reformation and bec●use such as are able to speak wisely before wise men deserve 〈◊〉 gre●●●er punishment if they are found fools among the ignorant And in ●eg●rd some of them were convicted of their evil-words and uncivil behaviour they are bound to the good behaviour for the time to come and they are to be whipt and receive further punishment if they be taken again As for Cop who wrote the Plying Roll and some other of the principal Ring-leaders to whom much of what hath been lately set forth touching matters of Blasphemy do relate are charged in a more capital nature of offending and will be brought to their tryal in due time Therefore I shall conclude with a List of the Ranters before mentioned A List of the Ranters tried as followeth Jo. Collins Jo. Gerrard Ed. Copinger Hen. Arthington F. Ket Jo. Ask. T. Shakespear M. Waddleworth Jo. Webb Eliz. Trule Jane Waggle and many others The last thread which is to be wound upon this bottome is a relation which we have out of Berkshire concerning one Dr. Buckeridge who after he had preached publickly in the Pulpit ame down and went home to his house and found his wife and some other women clothed in white with which it appeared that he was well pleased for that himself forthwith changed his habit into the like similitude and joyned company with them and so danced together in their white array and were apprehended by some Gentlemen of the Country A Christmas Carol. They prate of God believe it Fellow-Creature There 's no such Bug-bear all was made by Nature We know all came of nothing and shall passe Into the same condition once it was By Natures power and that they grossely lie That say there 's hope of immortality Let them but tell us what a soul is then We will adhere to these madbrain sick men FINIS