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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	disciple_n	lord_n	servant_n	4,835	5	7.3594	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46726	Popery, a great mystery of iniquity proved in a sermon preached in the parish church of Newland, in the county of Glocester, on Wednesday the 22d. of December, 1680, being the fast-day appointed by the Kings proclamation ... / by Thomas Jekyll ...	Jekyll, Thomas, 1646-1698.	1681 (1681)	Wing J534; ESTC R34478	25,313	42

POPERY A Great Mystery OF INIQUITY PROVED In a Sermon Preached in the Parish Church of Newland in the County of Glocester on Wednesday the 22d of December 1680. being the Fast-Day appointed by the Kings Proclamation AND Now Published for the sake of such secure Protestants that will hardly believe there is a Popish Plot or that ever it should take effect By THOMAS JEKYLL M. A. Preacher of the Gospel there Mat. 10.25 It is enough for the Disciple that he be as his Master and the Servant as his Lord If they have called the Master of the house Beelzebub how much more shall they call them of his houshold Gal. 4.16 Am I therefore become your Enemy because I tell you the Truth LONDON Printed for Jonathan Robinson at the Golden Lyon in St. Paul's Church-yard 1681. TO THE Right Reverend Father in God ROBERT Lord Bishop Elect OF GLOCESTER May it please your Lordship ALthough the preaching of this Sermon occasioned very great Clamors against me by those from whom I little expected any such thing and of whom I thought I had deserved better yet I am not in the least sorry for it upon my own account not only because I am well enough assured of my own innocent and Just intentions in it but also because it hath given me an opportunity of being known to your Lordship in which tho' at the first I may perhaps appear under the notion of a Criminal yet I do not in the least question but that your Lordship 's great Judgment and Integrity will easily acquit or justly Convince and Censure me either of which I hope I. shall bear with Modesty and Submission and therefore I am the more bold to appeal to your Lordship as my proper Ordinary by whom alone I ought to be ordered and to whom as I have already sworn so I am resolved to perform Obedience in all things that relate to the Dignity of your Lordships Place in the Church or the Duty of my own and therefore am My Lord Your Lordships obedient Son and Servant in the Gospel THO. JEKYLL Newland Jan. 29 1681. To the Right Worshipful the Master and Wardens and Assistants of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers in London May it please your Worships SInce I had the honour of being presented by your Worships to be Mr. Jones's Preacher at Newland I have had the opportunity and satisfaction of being fully assured of the faithfulness and integrity in the management of all his Trusts in these parts and not only so but I have also had the profitable experience of many great and extraordinary kindnesses from you in somuch that as I have always admired and commended your Justice in the one so I hope I shall ever with all gratitude acknowledg your goodness in the other as a particular Testimony of which I beseech your Worships to accept of this present Dedication of the following Sermon which tho' it was baited into the World by the loud Clamors that were rais'd against it yet it comes voluntarily to your Worships to make an humble offer of it self to your serious perusal and Service and the Author is the more bold to send it on that particular errand that you who are his worthy Patrons may at once have some account how he spends his time and what grateful apprehensions he hath of your noble Favours too and if in this he may be any ways serviceable to your Faith he will be the less concerned at what others say of himself for tho' his Credit and Reputation are always dear to him yet he is well contented to be reviled and reproached so the interest of Christs Truth and Gospel may be advanc'd especially if he may any ways contribute thereunto on your Worships behalf for he is resolv'd always to endeavour and Pray for the Peace and Prosperity of all your worthy Society because he is Your Worships most Obliged and most Humble Servant in the Gospel THO. JEKYLL THE PREFACE WHen Craesus's Dumb Son saw a private Soldier about to kill his Father his Affection and Loyalty forc'd him thro' all the Difficulties of a natural Impediment to cry out in his defence No wonder then if in far greater dangers one who Blessed be God hath no such defect cannot hold his Peace especially too when the Duty of his Place would make it highly Criminal to be Silent I had been sufficiently assured by all the publick Testimonies of the Nation both in Church and State that there had been a damnable Plot Contrived and carry'd on by the Papists for many Years to destroy the King Subvert the Government and Root out the true Protestant Religion and when at the opening of this last Parliament the King was pleased to recommend the farther Discovery and Prosecution of the Plot unto them as one chief thing for which he called them together and for the encouragement of their zeal in it told them that he thought not himself as yet safe from the dangers of it I thought I had no longer any reason to believe what I heard a Gentleman then and now too in Authority say about two years since to above an hundred People whom he had gathered about him to that purpose That tho' there had been a Damnable Plot yet it was then so far discover'd and prevented that it was impossible it should ever take effect and therefore next to the imploring the Divine aid I thought it my Duty as the most proper business of my Calling and the best service I could do my Country to Preach up Loyalty to the King and to assert the truth and Justice of that Royal Supremacy that is yielded to him by this Church and Realm and to give such an account also of the pernitious Principles of Popery as should both arm and caution the minds of those I had to do with against the taint and dangers of it and I was the more encouraged in this design not only from what I had heard abroad but also from what I had seen and observ'd my self about home how much the men of that perswasion were indulg'd and coutenanc'd and those that appear'd zealous and brisk against them Brow-beaten and threatned and therefore the last Fast-day I took occasion to lay open and discover those depths of Satan that Mystery of Iniquity from whence both our Fears and Dangers did proceed and because I hinted at some particular things that had been done to the incouragement of that Faction I was in a very rude manner clamour'd against about the Country and very severe remarks were made behind my back both upon my Person and Sermon all which I heard of but took little notice being very unwilling to believe any such things till at last the Vicar of the Parish came to me and told me he was sent by a Justice of the Peace to ask me whether I did not mean him by two expressions in that Sermon Of fetching away Arms by night and giving Oaths in a Chimney-corner I must confess