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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	church_n	holy_a	relic_n	1,462	5	10.0599	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20820	Abjuration of poperie, by Thomas Abernethie: sometime Iesuite, but now penitent sinner, and an unworthie member of the true reformed Church of God in Scotland, at Edinburgh, in the Gray-frier church, the 24. of August, 1638	Abernethie, Thomas, fl. 1638-1641.	1638 (1638)	STC 72; ESTC S100404	27,560	50

to other cures for their wounded soules than to the meritorious blood of that immaculate Lambe who taketh away the sins of the world Away then away depart from me all yee workers of iniquitie away yee that flee for cure of your Souls to your Ladies Saints good works reiterat false sacrifices in the Masse relicts crosses holy water pilgramages processions works of supererogation indulgences and pardons working of true and false sacraments ex opere operato and to an infinite number of idolatrous rites and ceremonies forged by the ancient Pagans and Popes ancient and moderne away I say for I tell you except yee repent of these your idolatrous courses yee shall all likewise perish Away and see that with Paul yee rejoice in nothing but Jesus Christ and him crucified Remember that it is momentanie which delighteth and eternall which tormenteth Take heed that when yee shall compeere at that great day with your souls ulcerat by your idolatrous superstition crying for cure that Christ the only Physitian of souls answer you not I never knew you depart from me yee that worke iniquitie Or as hee sayeth in another place Depart from me yee cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels Now God of his goodnesse open your eyes and let you understand the intolerable wrongs which yee doe to his divine Majestie his Church and your owne souls that doing unfeined repentance yee may efchew his fearfull judgements I come now to the third efficient cause calledinstrumentall or second cause whereby God wrought this wonderfull cure in me If any man expect here of me the decision of that philosophicall question of Gods concourse with the second causes for the production of their effects being necessare for the understanding of that contraversie de authore peccati of the author of sin I pray him excuse my brevitie and addresse himself to the interpreters of Aristotles treatise de causa efficiente But to our purpose No man can doubt but the Lord as he is infinitely mercifull in the conversion of sinners so is he infinitely wise and rich in the externall meanes which he imployeth for that use I speak not of the internall meane of the conversion of a sinner which according to Divines is gratia praeveniens and gratia excitans a preveening and stirring up grace quae operatur in nobis sine nobis which worketh in us without our help as Augustine affirmeth Of these externall meanes wee have many in sacred records Christ healing some with a look only the Lord turned and looked upon Peter c. and Peter went out and wept bitterly Others as the woman diseased with the issue of blood by touching his garment receaved present health both of body and soule Some by his divine conference as the Samarit an woman Others by the example of his wonderfull patience and miraculous passion as the thief upon the crosse Some by touching and feeling his pretious wounds as the Apostle Thomas Others by extraordinarie courses as the Apostle Paul Neither need we enquire for any reason of these proceedings of Christ but that that the Apostle giveth when he cryeth out O the depth of the riches both of the wisdome and knowledge of God how unsearchable are his judgements and his wayes past finding out for who hath beene his counsellour As for the externall meane or instrumentall cause of my conversion to GOD and recovered health of my soul it was truely the reading of holy Scripture after this forme It fell out some three yeers ago or thereabout in Cathnes that after I had ended my ordinarie superstitions as Breviarie Masse Beeds and suchlike trash I used commonly to read a chapter of the Bible and one day reading these words of Paul Beware least any man spoile you thorow philosophie and vaine deceat after the traditions of men after the rudiments of the world and not after Christ and so foorth to the end of the chapter I was presentlie seazed with a doubt against Poperie that the Apostles admonition was that Gods children should beware of them and that the same time I was illuminate with an extraordinary light whereby comparing the words of the Apostle with their doctrine and actions I was convicted in my minde to define Poperie to bee a superstitious masse of policie under pretext of religion And examining more narowlie I found these foure points philosophie vaine deceat or sophistrie traditions of men and the rudiments of the world to be the foure pillers wherupon that Babylonish tower of Rome doth stand or else the foure wheeles whereupon that fyrie cart of superstitious masses and heathnish idolatrie is drawn thorow the world and will be drawn till it please God to consume that Man of Sin with the spirit of his mouth and destroy him with the brightnesse of his coming I might and minde Godwilling heereafter demonstrate that all the contraversies betweene papists and us may bee easily brought to these foure monstruous heads of poperie but for the present I will only indicat some few Their transubstantiation is grounded upon that Logicall treatise of the Quantitie where they destroy the nature of quantitie to build their breadie god their justification by works and their free will are built upon that physicall question of Gods concourse with the second causes in Aristotles treatise of the efficient cause That high question of predestination upon the foreknowledge of good works standeth upon the decision of that Logicall question de futuris contingentibus of contingent things to come their fundamentall ground of all papistrie the popes hierarchie is built upon Aristotles politicks and taught in the Jesuits morall philosophie Moreover their popes infallibilitie is but vaine deceit and sophistrie as likewise their absolute necessitie of baptisme dispensation with solemne vowes judging of Gods word and the like In a word their five bastard sacraments with all their superstitious rites and ceremonies sacrifice of the masse for the quicke and the dead canonization of saints invocation of angels and saints departed worshiping of images relicts and crosses dedication and consecration of churches altars and dayes baptizing of bels and ships blessing of holy water and sprinkling of it upon men and beasts to gaine moneyes as at Rome on S. Antonies day is done to all the horse and beasts in the countrey whereby the monks get that day to entertaine them well in their leacherous idlenesse till that time twelve month All these I say and the rest of that stinking tr●sh depend and hang upon these three pillars vained ceit or sophistrie traeditions of men and the rudiments of the world which to blinde poore soules maketh them bring in that new found distinction of Gods word written and unwritten And as for their philosophie for by that which I have above-mentioned their owne great pillar Albertin a Jesuite hath set out three volumes in folio where he showeth all their scholastick Divinitie