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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	church_n	england_n	reform_a	4,212	5	9.5265	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96928	A vvord to the true blew Protestants, or, those of the thorough reformation		1683 (1683)	Wing W3573; ESTC R230917	3,217	4

A WORD TO THE True Blew Protestants OR Those of the Thorough REFORMATION Countreymen I Wish I could call you Friends too you who call your selves True Protestants the best Reformed the true Sons of the Church of England the only illuminated and knowing in the Sacred and Divine Laws I have long doubted within my self whether you have maugre all your boastings and vain pretences either Conscience of Religion But now you have satisfy'd my Doubts and you have confirmed it to Me and all the World you have not a grain or spark of either Nay you have given Demonstration that you have renounced Heaven and are become Strangers to the living God that you have lost your Humane Nature and are Metomorphosed into the worst of Animals O Horours Who ever could have believ'd it that such Villanies could possibly be acted in any place but Hell or that it were possible for any thing less than Devil to Think Design and Perpetrate such Bloody Villanies O Unhappy England What hast thou done to brood such Vipers in thy Bosom which gnaw thy Bowels suck thy blood and make their way to wanton Lust and Liberty through thy very Heart Was it not enough to have barbarously Murdered the Father but you must drink the Blood the Sacred Blood of His Royal Sons 'T is now Ten years and upwards you do confess you have thirsted for it and now at last you had decreed had not Heaven by Miracle prevented it with your poyson'd Ponyards to have broached those Sacred Vessels which are Sealed with the Hand of the Almighty which makes it Sacriledge even to entertain a Thought of hurting Them But you like Canibals were resolv'd to devour Them and with your Blunderbusses Tear them in pieces Is this your Religion Is this your blessed Thorough Reformation To subvert Governments by bloody Massacres and Murdering Princes and through an Ocean of Innocent Blood to swim in the Islands of Arnarchy and a damn'd Commonwealh Where once more you should become Brewers Slaves or mad with Envy and fond Ambition you would eat up one another Was it for This your Godly House of Commons Voted a Pardon to any Villain who should Murder the King Was it for This they would have him Disband his Army Give away the Militia into their Hands Call over His Army from beyond the Seas and strip Himself of all his best Friends Was it for This His Royal Brother Queen and all the Loyal Party must be Banished as a pack of Raskals and bloody Traytors Yes for this it was And to give you a fair opoprtunity of perpetrating the blackest and horrid'st Conspiracy that ever yet was thought on For This it was you were so buisy in stripping your Royal Master of all His Imperial Prerogatives For This it was you denyed Him both Money and Friends For This it was a Sham Popish Plot was by the Instinct of the Devil malitiously by you invented to amuse the people and stir them up to Rebellion whilst all the Engines of Hell were at work really to act all those Hellish Treasons which were by you charged upon the Papists It was for This that Hell was ransak'd and the damnedst wretches hurried thence and by you hired to work the Destruction of the Innocent O horrid Villains What have you to say for your selves Does your Religion teach you this Is This the way of Reforming Church and State Are These the Fruits of your Thorough Reformation Are These Monsters the best Productions of your Sanctify'd Tribe the True Blew Protestants Villains Had you no other Name to assume to your selves than that of Protestant Why by these your Black and Hellish proceedings you have blasted the very Name of Protestant and every honest man will be ashamed to own it Why rather did you not call your selves Papists and as such with your last breath declare your selves then had you bravely managed your business you had left an Eternal Infamy on their Name and Religion which you so much hate and abominate and you had confirmed the World that the same men who contrived and carried on the first Plot are the great supporters and managers of this Hellish Conspiracy But to call your selves Protestants Hell Why rather did you not tell the World you were Turks Infidels Barbarians Athiests For such you are or worse Protestants you are not We disown you unless you will make the Name of Protestant such a general term as that it shall include all these I have named because they all equally protest against the Church of Rome I tell you what you True Blew Protestants you Thorough Reformers of the Church you have made your Religion had you any to stink above ground For this bloody Design was not contrived and carried on by a few desperate Villains as was the Powder-Plot No here 's a Damn'd Conspirary laid barbarously to Murder your King and His Royal Brother and then charge it upon the Innocent upon the Loyalists and They and their best Friends are to attone for your Villanies Treasons and Murders They must as Guilty be made one Sacrafice to your unnatural Revenge Now all this I say was not only to have been acted by some few profligated Wretches who were Strangers both to Conscience and Religion but by the Unanimous consent of all the considerable Dissenting Party of three Kingdoms By these very Men who had nothing but Lord Lord in their Mouths when nothing but the Devil and Revenge was in their Hearts Speak What Answer will you make to what you are charged with I fear you have not so much Grace left you as to make you blush when you see your Villainous Designs detected but rather that you grieve they have not succeeded according as You and Hell had conspired But come for once be ingenious at least when you come to the Gallows confess the Truth and according to your wonted practices glory in your Diabolical Machinations say with your Scottish Brethren those Rebels who were executed in Scotland for Treason Murder and Rebellion that you hate Monarchs and Monarchy refuse to pray for the King and Royal Family and tell the World that it is the greatest Trophy of your Religion to overthrow and destroy both Monarchs and their Thrones Imitate that great Hero of yours the grand Traytor Russel Pray all of you after you have owned your own Guilt confessed the Treason that no more of the Kings Enemies may die Give advice to the Sanctified Tribe you leave behind you how better to manage the next Conspiracy and go forth of this life praying that the Innocent may be persecuted still as those Traytors who have gone before you to Tyburne to make some little attonement for their Hellish Treason have done Now what can we expect would be the effect of such Prayers as these But that a Divine Vengeance may fall upon this Kingdom Horrour and Confusion ever attend you and your Hellish purposes Is this the Fruits the Effects of your Zealous Cant and Whining to prey upon the innocent and suck the Blood of your Natural Sovereign is this your acting according to Law why then let us fly into the Desarts where nothing but Monsters and Savages inhabit for here we are not safe Nay Im confident the Tygers Bears and Vultures will be more gentile kind and tender-hearted towards us than you would be were we once within your Claws Monsters boast no more of Religion Nay do not so much as name it least you prophane that Sacred Name with your unsanctify'd Lips for 't is as clear as Demonstration you have none at all But if you do impudently pretend to any shew but any man of Reason your Works for by these you are to be known and he shall tell you that Belzebub is the only God you serve your Prophets are no other than those of Baal and your Teachers the Imps of the Devil who have with their ignorance and Rebellious Principles hurried you into Confusion and brought you to the very gates of Hell It was a fine Spectacle was it not which we beheld the other day an unfortunate young Gentleman in the prime of his age usher'd up to the Scaffold by one of thefe Wolves in Sheeps cloathing where he behaved himself as if he had had no other business than to make his Congees with a Boon Grace to put his Wigg and Crevat-string in order to have seen his gestures you would have sworn he had been going to a Ball or to Court a Mistress rather than to appear before that All-seeing Eye of Heaven that great All-knowing Judge and searcher of the Secrets of Hearts there to give a just account of all the Actions of his life And then with his last Breath to proclaim his Innocency after the horrid guilt was manifestly proved against him and with his own Tongue had confessed the Fact But these are the Fruits of such Godly Educations Now if any thing but the Devil would be Educated by such Doctors as these or profess himself a Member of such a Diabolical Sect as these True Blew Protestants are he deserves to be beg'd for a Fool or hang'd for a Villain Printed by N. T. at the Entrance into the Old-Spring-Garden 1683.