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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	duke_n	king_n	portugal_n	3,685	5	10.6982	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96976	Meditations upon the marks of the true Church of Christ: or, Motives of credibility in behalf of the true religion: and, the easiest way to finde it out. / By H.W.	H. W.; Wilkinson, Henry, 1610-1675,	1655 (1655)	Wing W36A; Thomason E1666_1; ESTC R208388	95,687	283

is the ordinary sequel punishment of schisme witnes England from the Church of Rome and so by denying due Allegiance to that See they became by the judgments of God to be made subject to the Turk To the See of Rome therefore all these Nations in point of Religion were then subject Adde to these Italy Spain Sicily France Scotland and England which were all under the same obedience After the death of that holy Pope new Nations came in with their voluntary subjection to the Roman See apace Flaunders with the other Low Countryes and adjacent places and Germany with its adherent Provinces and after these Denmark and Sweathland Russia Norway Poland Hungary and Transylvania All these Kingdoms and Countries with their Kings and Princes became voluntary subjects to the See of Rome and so persisted many hundred years till Luthers licentious doctrine began to seduce Germany and to give occasion of new heresies and many revolts both from their tenporal Princes their Spiritual Prelats and their true and Antient Religion Such is the nature of heresy Consider secondly how far the limits and bounds of the Roman Religion extend themselves in these our dayes all Italy Venice Sicily Spaine and Portugal with many other adjacent Hands are intirely Roman Catholick France excepting some places hath every Towne and Province of the same Religion of the seventeen Provinces the far greater part is intirely Catholicke and of Germany more than three parts are Faithful professours of the same Roman Faith as also of Poland and Hungary add to these the many hundred thousands of Roman Catholicks mixt promiscuously amongst other Sectaries in England Holland Sweathland Denmark the revolted Townes in Germany and Switzerland and other the like places And then Consider whether this be not that mark of Magnitude and far extended bounds promised by the Prophets to Christs Church Let us passe further And first into Affrica all which Simon Lathus the Protestant sayes the Jesuits have filled with their Idols he means that they have planted the Roman Religion every where in it From thence let us passe over the main Ocean every way and further then ever any earthly Empire went to the East Indies to the west America to the north in Japan and to the south in Brasil and from thence into the furthest and vastest Kingdom in the world China into all these have the Roman Priests advanced the royal Standard of Christs Crosse Fables which had the liberty to attribute to their Heroes and Baccus and Hercules what feats and travails they pleased never fained so much as these men have really affected in their extending the dominions of the Roman Faith Caesar and Alexander never went near where these are now Preaching Christianity nor had the old Roman Empire near so great Dimensions of longitude and latitude as the Spiritual Empire of the Church of Rome now hath and it dayly gets ground and continually dilates it selfe for these more then Herculean labourers there find still plus ultra O that our natives of England were but spectators awhile of the infatigable and succesful labours of these Roman Priests they would see in them most clearly these signa Apostolatus those signes of Apostle-ship signes of truly Apostolical men which would make them have an other manner of opinion of them and the Religion they all preach But one thing more is most worthy of a mature consideration and that is that the Roman Catholicks in these foreign Nations are not confined to a private exercise of their Religion as Catholicks in England are but there are whole Townes yea Countryes and those many intirely Catholick and without any mixture of Infidels and in these there are Churches many and richly adorned and Collegies as at Goa Mexico and in many places besides in which the studies of Humanity Philosophy and Divinity are taught And in this posture are Catholick affairs in these many and vast Nations converted to Christianity by Roman Priests Hence we infer that it was thee Rome and thy Faith to which these large promisses of Nations for thy inheritance were made for in thee only they have bin performed And since the bounds of the earth are given to thee who can deny but they were promissed to thee The third Point Consider now and make a survey of the greatest and most populous Sect now extant in Europe But if the distinction of Sects be taken from the different body of Articles or different number of points of Faith as really it must there will be no proportion or degree of comparison betwixt the Roman Catholicks and any one Sect left For he that will hold that the number of Roman Catholicks in Holland or England is as Copious as any one sect taken according to this true distinction of sect from sect in either Nation holds a very probable opinion But take all Sects now on foot amongst Christian Countries Conglobate them all into one by aggregation yet their dominions would not out reach yea equalize the above mentioned bounds of the Roman Church Look upon the compendium of the earth either the Map or Globe and your eye will satisfy your understanding in this point As for great Personages amongst Sectaries What and how many Magnificent Benefactors hath any of these Sects or all together had As for the Religion of the Roman Catholicks Kings indeed hath been its nursing Fathers Queens its nursing Mothers such were Constantine and Hellen such were Lucius Ethelbert Inas Ethelred Oswald Alfred Edward and many others in England such were Lewis in France Richardus in Spaine Casimer in Poland Stephen in Hungary Wenceslaus in Bohemia Canutus in Denmark Henry and many of the house of Austria in the Empire In fine such were Cimegundis Blanch the Elizabeths of Hungary and Portingal with many more of that sex O royal souls be ever Crowned with Glory for managing your earthly Crownes so well towards the maintaining of the Church of Christ Well did you know that to serve Christ was to reigne and that so to reigne was the means to reigne eternally The great ones which ruled where Sectaries swarmed such were the Duke of Saxony the King of Denmark Queen Elizabeth the Palsgrave the Landgrave of Hesse the Prince of Orange the King of Sweathland what Universities what Bishopricks what Abbeyes what Churches Chappels and Altars have they founded yea rather what have they not destroyed Now confer dominions parallel Princes and compare Religions together and then chose according to equity and prudence The fourth Point Out of what hath been here handled make these reflections in order to thy Spiritual profit First that since large extent of limits hath been promissed to Christs Church and since it is patently apparent that only the Roman Church hath this Amplitude none but it can be Christs true Church Secondly that since the Scriptures in the first point cited with other places in Isay and Daniel as also the great promisses made by God to Abraham and