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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
A57315	A true prospect for the bishops, priests & deacons and all other within the jurisdiction of the Church of England who are professors of the common prayer, through which they may see how far they are short in faith, principle and practice of divers sound truths therin specified : also the proper right of the Quakers to divers good things therein vindicated and pleaded for ... / published by Ambrose Rigg.	Rigge, Ambrose, 1635?-1705.	1663 (1663)	Wing R1499; ESTC R25100	19,344	24

it being wholly departed from him by reason of transgression so that he was only a slave in Satans kingdome wholly led captive at his will where death and darkness only was which got dominion over him and then he became a degenerate plant of a strange Vine unto God and brought forth fruit in which God had no delight therefore he hid his face from him so that man could not find him nor his power and glory Then the Lord in love and tender compassion to his stock and race did raise up Moses his faithful servant to testifie unto his righteousness though one not elloquent but of a slow speech as he himself testifieth Exod. 4. 10. yet him he chose to go unto Pharaoh King of Egypt to declare his power and glory to man again from which he was seperated by transgression by whom he gave forth his righteous Law John 1. 17. as a flaming sword which turned every way upon man in his fallen state under the power of which he was to remain till the promised seed was come to break the head and power of the Serpent which had thus captivated man unto his will as is abovesaid For the recovery of which the Lord raised up many faithful witnesses to testify unto his power as Isaiah Ier. Ezeck Dan. and the rest yet in their dayes did the false Prophet appear who violated the Law which Moses had given forth and sought for their gain from their quarter as many do now and could never have enough Isa 56. 11. and Ieremiah cryed woe unto the Pastors that did destroy and scatter the sheep of the Lords pasture who cryed peace unto them who despised the Lord as such doth now Ier. 23. 1. 17. and Ezek. said they fed of the fat and cloathed of the wooll but they killed them that were fed unto such he cryed woe Ezek. 34. 1. 2. 3. and Hosea said they were like troops of robbers Hosea 6. 9. and Micha said they built up Zion with blood and Ierusalem with iniquity Micha 3. 11. 12. and said the best of them was as a bryer and the most purest of them sharper then a thorn hedge Mic. 6. 4. and Christ said in Matt. 7. Do men gather grapes of Thornes for so he described the false Prophets who did rent and tear the wooll from his Lambs which he had chosen even as they do at this day bearing the same mark as the same doth at this day and for this purpose was the Son of man manifested to convince man of all his ungodly deeds words and thoughts and to make him an instrument of his glory again and to restore him into that freedome which he lost by transgression out of the curse death and darkness into which he was cast and for the full perfecting of this great work did the Son of God lay down his life which life after it was offered up was manifested in mortal flesh and raised up many from the Graves in which they had long laid dead by reason of sin and by the vertue thereof many was brought into unity with God and the full enjoyment of his presence again as man had before he fell and was more then conquerors over death darkness and him that had the power thereof though into this state they came through many and great tribulations which they sustained from them in whom the seed of enmity did rule who alwaies hated and persecuted them wherever they appeared as a cloud of witnesses in the Scripture of truth doth testify hereunto In that estate did the serpent appear as a beast having great power and made war with the Lamb and the Saints of the most high and overcame them and power was given unto him over all kindreds tongues and nations Rev. 13. 7. to impose what kind of worship as he would then he set up the whore spoken of in Rev. 17. who made all Nations drunk with the wine of her fornication yea the Kings of the earth also was made drunk with her cup verse 2. Since which time all nations hath gone a whoring from the Lord and hath worshipped the beast and received his image through imposition being forced by violence into that which the Lord was not found in so then a dark and gloomy night overspread the whole earth which endured many generations in which many stumbled and fell and went astray like lost sheep and were made a prey upon by the Owles of the desert who then croppe out and ravened for their bellies and sought to the Kings of the earth who was made drunk as aforesaid to exercise Lordship over the consciences of thousands which was granted them then they invented divers kinds of punishments for them who would not worship the beast and receive his image Rev. 13. 15 16. till the earth was wholly voyd both of the knowledge of God and his power and then the night came over the earth wherein no man could work then the Devil wrought in darkness and filled the earth with his power and violence till Popery was fully rooted and sprung up into many great branches and brought forth much cursed fruit as fire faggot inquisition racking and renting of the persons of men and women to set up and maintain the beast in his throne who had got power over all the kindreds of the earth in which dominion he long stood and magnified himself in the greatness of his strength saying who is like unto the beast and who is able to make war with him In this power he stood compleat in this Nation untill the dayes of King Edward the 6th whom the Lord raised to do mighty and notable acts against this monster insomuch that he utterly abolished his power and worship in that way and form as it then stood and erected another more near unto the truth and way of God as he then judged and called it the Common Prayer which he established by Law enjoyning all his Subjects to a conformity thereunto into which the Priests readily crept though such as formerly had read the Mass because it was like to bring them in some gain yet notwithstanding there was a thirst in thousands after righteousness and the way thereof yea even in the contrivers of the aforesaid book though now the Merchants of Babylon doth make a trade thereof for dishonest gain who neither desireth righteousness nor the way thereof So here I shall pass by all the vain Superstitions in he said book which hath no ground in the scriptures for my principle aim is in this discourse to instance only those things which are of weight and concernment which is the sound truths laid down and inserted in this book which is collected out of the scriptures and many things prayed for in that book which the Priests say now cannot be received nor attained to as hereafter I shall make appear So that if any should question us who are called Quakers why we come not to hear them read the Common Prayer or persecute us for not