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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nation_n	cup_n	drink_v	fornication_n	1,286	5	11.0334	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45737	The foundation and rise of many of the practices, customs, and formallities of the priests, lawyers, and people of England examined, and found to be from the pope and his authority in some queries to the priests, lawyers, and professors, for any of them to answer : in order to the purging of themselves (if they can) from being truly adjudged the practisers and upholders of the Popes superstitions innovations, institutions, and imposings, since the time (and against the practises) of the Apostles, and pure primitive church / by a member of the true Church that is in God, in whose name and behalf this is printed, by me, Thomas Hart.	Hart, Thomas, 1629-1704.	1659 (1659)	Wing H963; ESTC R10271	22,097	31

does not all hear your Garments stink of popery was not the Pope the first rise of all this who ravened from the Spirit since the Apostles where is your freely-received freely give is the gift of God to be sold for money to be compared or equalled or measured with earthly things oh ye are in the gall of bitterness did ever any Minister of Christ quarrel for out ward things and cast people into prison till they dye as the Priests of this Nation do keep people in prison because they will not give them maintenance keep some in prison till they die oh abominable make all your Names stink through all Nations are not your Priests and Ministers of the Nation National Priests that puts in prison those that cannot pay you Tythes and put in your mouths and you will keep them in prison till they die as some of you have done who have kept in the prison till they die are not you here as bad or worse than the Spanish for do they in Spaine keep any in prison till they die do they keep them in prison because they cannot give them maintenance or because they cannot bow to their Worships Now you that cast people into prison because they cannot pay you your Tythes and will not let them come out till they die how or wherein do you differ from the Papists Inquisition and how and who was the first author of this did Christ send you forth to do so and this work or the Apostles give you a command to do so nay you will cast them in prison and put them in prison and take trebble damage of them or three or four times the value for whom you do no work and are not Ministers too does the Papists so and cast them into prison till death what is this but like a Spanish Inquisition and the smell of popery and not the smell of a Christian are not you in this from Christ and the Apostle apostated nay is it not worse than a Spanish Inquisition for there they are carried before a Court and have a tryal and judgement but here the Priests can send to she Lawyers for a Writ and by that the Magistrate Will take their bodies and put them in prison and there keep them without either hearing trial or judgement weeks months and years yea till they die in prison Querie 12. Who made the Priests and your Ministers did not the Bishops And who made the Bishops did not the Pope and Cardinals And so has not the Pope been the Chanel that you all came out at in the Apostacy and is not he the Key and the Door you all came through which all these Tyths Temples Priests making of Priests Colledges Names after the Saints to dayes to your houses has run through his Channel and opened with his Key the Popes Key and set up by his authority Now if you do say and argue that the Pope though he was in error might make Ministers and you do succeed from the Apostles with whom Christ said he would be to the end of the world through him I say no you cannot succeed from the Apostles through him for he being Apostated inwardly ravened from the Spirit of Christ and gone from the Apostles and got the sheeps cloathing that is the outside but inwardly a ravening Wolf that is ravened over most part of Nations and he having inwardly ravened gone from the Apostles having got the Sheeps cloathing Christs and the Prophets and Apostles words the outside from him in this you are Successors as your fruits have declared who has the outside as he has the Sheeps cloathing but inwardly ravening Wolves ravening up and down for your prey and would destroy such as cannot put into your mouths and are contrary minded to you and give you Maintenance and give you Tyths which neither you nor the Pope are the Successors of the Apostles whom he would be with to the end of the world for such Christ said should come that if it was possible should deceive the very Elect in the 7. and 24. of Matthew which Paul Peter and Jude saw was come and coming and John saw already in the world and went forth from them so Mark went forth from the Apostles so not Successors such as had the Sheeps cloathing which all that dwelt upon the earth went after and all Nations came to drink the cup of Fornicat on which should make war against the Saints and overcome them them that kept the testimony of Jesus the spirit of Prophesie them that ravened from the Spirit which all the world went after and them that a welt upon the earth worshiped and here came up the first Beast and second Beast and all his Names and Heads and Horns which all that dweit upon the earth wandered after and the cry has been who is able to make war with him so these that inwardly reigned whored went forth from the Apostles with all that dwelt upon the earth went after and all Nations drunk the cup of Fornication the Kings of the earth these preached not the Gospel though they had the Sheepsclothing which were ravened from the life these were the deceivers of the World and the Nations And again the beast and false prophets should be taken and the downfal of Babylon and the great Whore judged and the Saints and the Lamb get the victory and the everlasting Gospel come to the preached to them that dwell upon the earth again for all that dwell upon the earth had worshipped the beast and drunk the cup of Fornication the Whores cup which Christ said should come which inwardly ravened which has had the Sheeps clothing these has not been the successors of the Apostles which went forth from them that is clearly seen which all Nations of the world went after and drunk their cup and so I challenge you all to answer and declare against you all to be the Popes successors and whether or no you and they be not of the stock which Christ said should come in wardly ravening got he Sheeps cloathing which went forth from the Apostles which all Nations came to drink their cup and so whether or no amongst you are not all the names heads and horns one pushing against another and whether or no you are not all wrastlers against flesh and blood and creatures you are striking them and beating them and prisoning them for your bellies yea to death did ever the Apostles do as you do prison men hale men before Courts Session Assizes prison them to death for their bellies as you do are not you here of them which serve not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own bellies which the Apostle saw amongst the apostates do not you prison them and prison to death for Tythes successors which coveted no mans silver nor gold nor apparel but gave freely do you walk in the Sheeps steps the Apostles steps that Christ saies to freely ye have received freely give Now I say you are the Popes