Selected quad for the lemma: saint_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	day_n	lord_n	sabbath_n	3,982	5	9.9491	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41016	Sacra nemesis, the Levites scourge, or, Mercurius Britan. disciplin'd, [Mercurius] civicvs [disciplin'd] also deverse remarkable disputes and resolvs in the Assembly of Divines related, episcopacy asserted, truth righted, innocency vindicated against detraction.	Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645.	1644 (1644)	Wing F593; ESTC R2806	73,187	105

uniting of all christians in the faith first given to the Saints and the doctrine of the primitive Church yet he could never en●ure those who went about to sodder the Roman and reformed religion and to bring Christ and Anti-christ to an enterview neither would he ever be brought to varie in his practice a nailes breadth from the canons of the Church of England and rubrick of the Common Prayer 4. After the scene was turned and many who before had layen in obscuritie were brought upon the stage who like the statues of Brutus and Cassius eò praefulgebant quod non visebantur did shine the brighter the more they were hid The Doctor among others was chosen by 390 votes to be a member of the Assemblie and among many other of eminent parts and worth was designed by the whole house of commons to answer a popish Priest which he did accordingly and was in so fair a way that if his conscience had been a Lesbian rule and would have bowed that way where preferments are now offered he might not only have held both his benefices but expected such farther priviledges as the chief of the Assemblie now enjoy But when a covenant was tendered wherein he must of necessitie proclaim his ingratitude to the world by swearing to endeavour the ruine of those upon whom under God he built his chief hopes and intangle his conscience in evident perjurie by swearing to break all his canonicall oaths necessitie constrained him to break off from the Assemblie and for this cause he is now in bonds and stript of all his ecclesiasticall preferments and temporall revenues nudus nudum Christum sequitur and followes his naked Saviour himself also stark naked But to leave off this sad and melancholie discourse and come to the beneficiall positions and sattin cassock thou talked of and game at gleek thou shouldest have said noddie a game at which thou playest at as well Sundays as working-days For beneficiall positions I know none held by the prelaticall clergie as your schismaticall laicks tearm them save this which the Apostle hath delivered that godlinesse is great gain and hath the promises of this life and the life to come but I can tell you of fruitfull doctrines and beneficiall uses raysed by your Enthusiasts as namely that usurie after it hath been with a barber chyrurgion and hath its teeth pluckt out is very lawfull and that those of your sect alone have a right to the creature and that the wicked have no right or title to any thing they possesse and that therefore when you plunder any Malignant you steal not but take your own from them and agreeable to your positions is your practise you make no bones to devoure widows houses under colour of long prayers like vultures you hover over dead corpses and thereout suck no small advantage if any rich man be going the way of all flesh some of your fraternitie must be sent for with all speed to pray his soul ex tempore into heaven and after you have perswaded him to set his house in order for he must dye and not live and he is going to draw his last will and testament you will be sure to have a ●inger in it or rather a claw or naile to scrape and scratch something for your selves under the title of pious legacies SECT. XIII Of ministeriall habits recreations on the Lords day and how the Brownists and sectaries prophane the Christian Sabbath HAst thou yet any better stuff in thy shop Britanicus besides the large mourning weed beg'd artificially at the last funerall of a saint Yes a sattin cassock surely a decent garment for a grave divine especially on high dayes what wouldst thou have the reverend clergy to weare wouldst thou have them go in cuerpo like your new England and Holland theologues or in a rocket liued through with plush or taffata as some of the Assembly men flaunt it or in a short jacket much like the riding coat of Davids Embassadors which was cut off at o● sacrum the huckle bone Here Brit. thou playst the base cynick ●alcas fastum Platonis thou tramplest upon Plato's pride but remember what Plato repli'd calcas fastum sed alio fastu thou tramplest upon the pride of some of the clergy in their apparell but thou dost it in a worse kind of pride As for card-playing I need not gle●k it with thee for we are at play already thy earnest is nothing but jests and those very scurrilous and ridiculous and therefore either to be scorned or retorted upon thee in sober sadnesse The Doctor is no player at cards or dice nor approveth at all any recreations on the Lords day but such as like Aarons golden plate in his miter have holinesse stamped on them As for those of thy precise sect they indeed will not for a world play a game at cards or tables on the Lords day after evening prayer but they do far worse they take away morning and evening prayer both and jear out the sacred liturgy of the church if thou art come to thy self Brit. and hast thy wits about thee prethee tell me is it not better playing a game at tables on the christian sabbath wherin a wooden man is taken up without any losse or hurt or at chesse in which there is an image of men set in battail array there to cast the bloody die of war on that day to kill to pillage to plunder of the two I had rather see latrunculos on that day then latrones chesse-men then pressed-men notwithstanding to chuse you rifle houses and sequester malignants on that day your city magistrates and Officers will not suffer a poor waterman to rowe on the Thames yet they permit the souldiers in all the courts of guard and forts and ships to drink and swell all the day a physitian may not passe over the river to save the life of the body not a divine to save the life of the soul yet they account it a sanctifying of the sabbath to beat up drums and presse souldiers to kill men on that day O precise hypocrisie or rather hypocriticall precisenesse A devout father sharply reprooving the evill conversation of some christians in his time told them to their faces gentes agitis sub nomine Christi you act the parts of Gentiles in the habit of Christians but I may truly say of you Iudaeos agitis sub nomine Christi you act the parts of Iewes in the habit of Christians Iewes I say in the rigid observation of the Sabbath of Iewes in venting your spleen and malice against Christ by excluding his prayer out of your liturgie by defacing his name Iesus wheresoever you see it written in golden characters or wrought in cloth of gold or tissue or stampt in holy vessels calling it the Iesuits trim or ga●b by inveighing against keeping the feast of the nativity resurrection and ascension and terrifying those that in a religious compassion fast