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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	altar_n	angel_n	golden_a	2,087	5	10.8116	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02310	An answer, to a little book call'd Protestancy to be embrac'd or, A new and infallible method to reduce Romanists from popery to Protestancy	Con, Alexander.	1686 (1686)	Wing C5682; ESTC R171481	80,364	170

Arians but not the Doctrine of Transubstantiation no more than the Doctrine of the Son's Consubstantiality with the Eternal Father Which is Spirit and Life imparting to the worthy Receiver of the Eucharist the Spirit of God or an increase of his Grace which leads to Eternal Life It gives no occasion of Idolatry or Hypocrisie by teaching that the Accidents are not to be Ador'd but the Body of Christ under them And that we ought not to come to it upon the account of pleasing Men but moved by our Faith of Christ's Real Presence there by a Love of him and a hope of Happiness from him 7. We rely on Saints not as Mediators of Redemption yet Moses Act. 7. is called a Redeemer Lytrootees but of Intercession that the Merits of Christ may be applyed to us We rely not on any thing we add our selves to them it being so small as the Church witnesses in Her Prayer for the Sunday of Sexagesime O God who sees we confide in no Action of our own grant mercifully c. acknowledging when we have done all we can we are but useless Servants to God tho' enabled by the Grace of Christ not useless to our selves 8. Our Divine Worship is pure without any vain Devotion or Honouring of that which should not be Honoured but not without many Sacred Ceremonies which serve to make us we being sensible Creatures sensible of inward Graces for warrant of which we have upon Record Ceremonies used by Christ and since he is the chief Agent in our Sacrifice why may not he use Ceremonies by his Vice-Gerents as well as by himself 9. We Adore God in Spirit and Truth endeavouring to make our minds joyn with our outward Sacrifice to the true God moved often by the Picture of Christ Bleeding on a Cross to morn with him and rue our by past Actions which were cause of so excessive a Torment and grief to him But not so Foolish as to think there is any Divinity in the Picture or Vertue in it to do us good Also Conscious to our selves of our own unworthiness by our hainous offences we go often to God by the Meditation of the most Blessed Virgin and other Saints in Credit with him warranted sufficiently by Eliphas Iob. 42. and the Centurion's Example Luke 7. v. 7. The one being Commanded by God to do so and the other praised by CHRIST for so doing If you ask me how the Saints in Heaven know I am praying them I ask how do they know the conversion of a Sinner upon Earth Luke 16 v. 7. if they know when I convert my self to God can't they as well know when I am praying Again how did Samuel know the thoughts of Saul Sam. 1. c 9. v. 20. and how knew the Prophet Ahijah the wife of Ieroboam 1 Reg. 14 They knew by Gods Revelation to them and so does God reveal to Saints in Heaven things which regard them upon Earth and this belongs to the felicity of their state to hear our Prayers present them to God and obtain from him favours to us Because he will this way Glorifie them for Glorifying him upon Earth according to his promise 1 Sam. 2. v. 30. Thus we Read Apocal. 5. v. 8. That the 24 Elders had Golden Vials full of Odours which are the Prayers of Saints To wit of Holy People upon Earth which the 24 Elders presented to God as the Angel offerd up the like having a Golden Censer upon the Golden Altar which was before the Throne Apoc. 8. v. 3. 10. Our Ecclesiastical Discipline is conform to that of primative times not because we say so for Protestants say as much for theirs but because R. Catholicks speak now as they spoke then and do now as they did then St. Ambrose L. 5. Epist 33. ad Marcellam his Sister saies at a certain occasion I begun to say Mass caepi Missam facere St. Augustin L. 9. Confes chap. XI sayes his Dying Mother desired him to be mindful of Her at the Altar and in the 12. chap. he sayes He did not Weep in his Prayers while the Sacrifice of our Redemption viz. of the Mass was offered for his Dead Mother Her Corps being set down beside the Grave If a Protestant Bishop should Write thus to his Sister at ten a Clock I begun to say Mass what would she say Certainly my Brother 's not well he is raving and if another should relate that his Protestant Mother desired him to Pray for Her after her Death you would fay without doubt she had lost her Judgment Why Because we do not Pray for People after their Death By this you see Protestants do not speak nor do as they spoke and did in primative times then their Religion and Ecclesiastical Discipline is not conform to that of primative times 11. Our Vows against which our Adversary so eagerly inveighs altho St. Augustin thinks our Vows should be kept by those Words of his Ser. 10. de Diversis If it displeased God sayes he speaking of the Sacriledge of Ananias and Saphira to withdraw of the Money which they had Vowed to God how is he angry when Chastity is Vowed and is not performed for to such may be said that which St. Peter said of the Money Thy Virginity remaining did it not remain to thee and before thou didst Vow was it not in thy own Power For whosoever have Vowed such things and have not payed them let them not think to be condemned to Coporal Death but to Everlasting Fire are the great helps our Church-men have to serve God in all freedom of Spirit for not owing the use of their Body to a Consort their Spirit is not drawn from Heaven in that violent way to the Earth nor have they their mind entangled with those cares which must needs attend Wise and Children Here I leave my Adversary wishing him most happy and for a Fare-well I mind him of these Words of our Saviour to St. Paul Act. 9. v. 5. Durum est tibi contra stimulum calcitrare FINIS ANSWER TO THE POSTSCRIPT I Reduce the substance of what our Adversary in his second Edition saies to the Reader and in his Post-Script to 6. Propositions and add to every one its Answer 1. He has changed his Title and calls now his Book Protestancy proved safer than Popery Answer Then Popery is safe for the quality which is found in the comparative is also in the positive tho' in a meaner Degree Hence in his Opinion to Live and Dye in Idotry as he thinks we Catholicks do is a safe way to Salvation Let the Reader consider to what absurdity our Adversary brings himself 2. He saies his Book is a new Method because the Methods hitherto made use of by Learned Protestants for the Establishment of Protestancy have been for the most part negative Answer All those Learned Protestants who have endeavoured to prove that the Protestant Religion is conform to the Word of GOD did not they endeavour to prove