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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	believe_v	church_n	interpretation_n	3,657	5	10.5181	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87471	Regales aphorismi or a royal chain of golden sentences, divine, morall, and politicall, as at severall times, and on several occasions they were delivered by King James. Collected by certain reverend and honourable personages attending on his Majesty.	James I, King of England, 1566-1625.; Stratton, W., editor.	1650 (1650)	Wing J143; Thomason E1408_1; ESTC R202612	37,307	219

a foundation of truth so had the Papists the Bible but they have all added so much that the first truth is almost lost 33 Doctor Baily holding conference with the King touching the Popes arrogancy alluding to Christs answer to his Apostles He that desireth to bear rule let him be the least among you and therefore the Pope doth sometimes colourably term himself Servum Servorum c. To which the King replies that by such argument or inference he could prove the Pope to be humbly minded to which the Doctor answered that he did not always so account himself save onely when he had purpose to delude or deceive otherwise he esteemed himself Dominus Dominantium c. His Majesties determination on the point was that the Popes calling himself Servus Servorum c. was rather in a more strict and peculiar sence as that he was Servus Petri c. sive Mariae Virginis c. and so by consequence Servum Servorum Dei c. towards all other Dominum Dominantium c. So likewise to be a professed Catholick is to be a Christian but to be a Roman Catholick is it which marreth the matter It was the reproof of the Donatists which were accounted Catholicks but confined their profession into one corner of Affrica So also the Romanists whereas the true Catholick is universal 34 That whereas our Saviour saith It is as easie for a Camel to passe through the eye of a needle as for a rich man to enter into the Kingdome of Heaven c. The Pope perverteth that saying for that none shall have no Pardons but such as pay for them so consequently the rich are more easie to enter into Heaven than the poor because the one can have pardon when he will but the other is not able to purchase it and thereupon his Majesty concluded the Pope to be justly called a Merchant of mens souls as it is set forth in Revel 18. c. 35 That it is a Maxime in the Romish Religion declared by most of their own writers That the Pope may if he will at one Masse free all the souls out of Purgatory His Majesties inference on this position was with abnegation of the Popes Charity and admiration of his unparalel'd cruelty that being granted to have power so to do doth not nor may not apply his will unto it If it were possible for one man to free all the world from hell ought he not to do it c. 36 God never fails of his Word but where he threateneth ill to man as in punishing Ninivie but always performs where he promiseth good that or better as he promised to Abraham and his seed everlasting earthly blessednesse and instead of that gave them heavenly 37 Not onely the Deliverance of the Jews till they came to the land of Promise but even their daily Preservation was miraculous for there was never any noted plague in Ierusalem though it stood in a hot Climat which had it been would have endangered the whole Nation it being to assemble thither twise every year of necessity 38 Men are often in arguing carried by the force of words further asunder than their question was at first like two ships going out of the same Haven their journies end is many times whole Countreys distant 39 Cowardize is the mother of Cruelty It was onely Fear that made Tyrants put so many to death to secure themselves 40 That fashion among the Romans of killing themselves was falsly called Fortitude for it was onely to prevent the power of Fortune when indeed Virtue lies within quite out of her reach Nor can any man be overcome but of himself and so most truly were they when they fled to Death for a refuge against Death 41 It is easier to reclaim a man from any Heresie than to convert an Atheist to the Truth For to believe is the first degree common to all Religions and an Atheist is to be brought so far before he come to chusing 42 All Gods miracles are above Nature but never against Nature for that were to destroy his own work which he cannot do but he may excel it Therefore the miracle of the Papists Transubstantiation being against Nature is false 43 Types are the Images of the mind which God allowed the Jews to keep them from Images of the sence and to shew them that his worship was to be in Spirit and Truth 44 The Church at Rome fell at first from her purity into infirmities then into corruptions then into errours and lastly into abominations God still punishing sin with sin 45 Most Heresies have proceeded from mingling Philosophy with Religion from that and Policy have all the Papists errours risen when Christ tels them that flesh and bloud cannot inherit the Kingdome of Heaven 46 We cannot conceive Eternity but by Faith we cannot understand what God is and of that ignorance comes all sin for surely if we knew him we would not offend him 47 Men as often fall out about small things as great because after the first contradiction they maintain themselves not the thing 48 Before Christ came it was enough for the Fathers to beleeve onely since they must beleeve and understand both 49 Those Princes which seek to secure themselves by bloud shall find that the more they kill the more they have need to kill 50 The Church is to be beleeved in the interpretation of the Scripture but not directly against it for when it differs from that it is no longer the Church 51 There are three kind of Wisdoms that use to be in Kings A sanctified Wisdom A Wisdom which oftentimes strains it self to a lesse evil so to avoid a greater And a Wisdom of falshood the first is both lawfull and necessary the second is lawfull but not necessary the third neither 52 All Governments howsoever in their Constitutions in their practise tend to a Monarchy And wheresoever the better sort of the people bear rule there is always some one that resembleth a King amongst them yea though in the State of Venice the Duke is but as it were a dead name yet were it impossible that their Common-wealth should long uphold it self without him 53 That a Monarchical Government by secular Kings and Priests is the onely Ordinance of God and the Republicks but onely a depraved institution of man for depraved ends as appeareth manifestly by the whole current of Scripture even from Adam to the primitive Church after Christ c. 54 That God in his wisdom approved no fitter nor safer means to rule his people but by such an institution 55 That from the beginning there was instituted heads over every Family over the good bad as Seth his posterity Cain Lamech even to the Deluge after that the 12 Patriarks were as secular Princes as free as I am here and more too for they had potestatem vitae necis in themselves without any Jury after them the Judges and so absolute Kings with a promise