Selected quad for the lemma: prayer_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prayer_n	affection_n	form_n	word_n	2,073	5	4.8584	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96798	A witty ansvver, and vindication to a foolish pamphlet, intituled New orders nevv, agreed upon by a parliament of Round-heads. Or, Old orders old, newly vampt by a Parliament of rattle-heads. Confirmed by the brethren of the malignant party now assembled at Rattle heads Court, a way-bit from Yorke. With the ignorant rashnes of Mr Short-breath, a damnfied companion, Mr Speaker of the House. Avowed by Nicholas Periwig, alias no eares, Cler. Parl. Ratle.	Periwig, Nicholas.	1642 (1642)	Wing W3235; Thomason E151_22; ESTC R15034	3,927	8

did ever know it by the multitude of our good works which no man living did ever know or can ever number and lastly by the miser-like penury of our good wordes and the prodigality of our Oathes Thus being knowne to be Rattle-heades by these manifold signes and tokens that this Rattle-heads Court be our generall meeting place 8. That we have all pictures of Saints Cherubims c. because they are pretty bables to feede our delighted eyes and fancies and to keepe off our mindes from hearing the word preacht 9. That any Rattle-head being the world's beloved may and shall have authority by Us the Parliament of Rattle-head to fight sweare damn● lye slash and kill in any place whether it be in Saint George's Fields at Westminster with drawne swords at Grocers Hall in a warlike manner at Kingstone upon Thames at Yorke with naked swords crying in the streets who 's for the King or marching towards Hull in an Hostile manner or lastly whether it be in taking a purse in the Kings high way which we must confesse we doe exercise sometimes for recreation's sake telling the parties so pillaged that the Parliament have ordered that all money should be disposed to pious uses and that the King wants money therefore it is necessary that their monies should be disposed to the Kings pious uses c. or in reading the Cupidinean Lecture to a Yorkshire maid under a hedge or lastly whether it be a Welch escape from the Taverne the reckoning being unpaid provided onely that it be not in an Ale-house for that tends to the advancement of small-beere-prose and the introducement of Heresie therefore the escape is more commendable from a Taverne being the mother of Popery c. 10. That in our prayers we need not pray for salvation or the forgivenesse of sinnes but onely for the King Queene Prince State and especially for Bishops Universities without the helpe of the spirit onely the Lords praier and any other forme of praier being used though we understand not one word thereof 11. That damnation bee never preacht to Rattle-heads because it is vanity to tell men of that which they know already 12. That instead of Matrimony if any Cavalier taketh affection to any Citizens wife he may exercise his talent as the spirit shall enable him without any further circumstance 13. That in the buriall of the dead prayer is as needfull as requisite therefore it ought to be used as well as auricular confession 14. That our Children I meane our illegitimate ones bee baptized at eight daies old at the farthest and their Godfathers and Godmothers shall like some vapouring Courtiers make large and ample promises of their regeneration though they performe nothing 15. That the booke of Common prayer bee in reverent estimation amongst us and that we be fill'd so full with the fat of that porrage that we shall need neither preaching teaching or any other instructions whatsoever but only that 16. That all things be common amongst us whether it bee a purse by the high way a Citizens wife or an escape from the Taverne which is common 17. That we receive the Sacrament kneeling to the Crucifix 18. That none shall weare short hare for as soldiers are knowne by their colours so we are knowne to bee Rattle-heads by our long haire 19. That our diet be very sumptuous and costly and if our monies be deficient and our purses cannot reach to such delicious curiosities that it may be lawfull to run on the Cooks score till the debt grows Old and at length till we conjoine them both and become a Cook-old 20. That all learning Order Discipline and the Universities be in venerable reputation amongst us although we doe neither follow or be instructed by either 21. That every yeare there shall bee the Rattle-heads Army here celebrated and if no Antagonist be found to march against us then we will encounter with Venus or at least with some of her Meritrician sect howsoever we will have an Arminian to bee our Captaine agreeable to our dispositions and wee are all in an Army for the Anagram of Arminian is In an Armi. 22. That who soever shall not agree and condiscend to the due observation of each particular Order by us here establisht shall be held as Puritans enemies to the Sate of the Rattle-heads and worthy to be renounced suspended or excommunicated and never to be readmitted into the society of the malignant party or God-dammefied Companions FINIS