Selected quad for the lemma: scripture_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	ghost_n	holy_a	trinity_n	2,581	5	9.6972	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56191	A pleasant purge for a Roman Catholike to evacuate his evill humours consisting of a century of polemicall epigrams, wherein divers grosse errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome are discovered, censured, refuted, in a facetious yet serious manner / by William Prynne ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1642 (1642)	Wing P4038; ESTC R5059	135,316	198

Saints heare her cry On Popish Monkes Players Prayers and Merits OUr Church hath some who worke not but still play Romes more who worke not but yet always pray Prayer's no worke with Rome to merit by Vnlesse with gold you will her prayers still buy Her Prayers therefore are Players and doe play Not worke but when men wage them for to pray How can they merit then by workes who play Still and no worke doe for which God can pay Men over-pay them for their prayers still here God than cannot owe pay them any arreare They should be double payd if God and men Should both reward them wher 's their merit then On Romes taking away the Scripture Cup and Second Commandement from the People LAickes reade Scripture fie it is not fit Rich Rome might soone lose all her wealth by it Her Popes Canons then must both dismount Her Faith Workes Pardons be of no account Her Monks Nunnes Fryers Abbots Prelates then Would soone be banisht and cast out by men Better the people lose their soule heaven all Than Romes Popes Prelates Monkes catch such a fall Christ oft commands all Scripture day and night To search reade meditate that so they might Obtaine Eternall Life The Pope saith nay And from Lay-men the Scripture takes away He is not here true vicar unto Christ But Anti-christian and true Antichrist The Second Commandement Cup and Scripture Popes steale from people too Theeves are they sure Of highest ranke in that they stollen have What Father Some and holy Ghost men gave For robbing Men and the whole Trinity They then deserve Lawes deaths eternity I wonder Papists dare their soules once trust With these Arch-theeves to God men so unjust They will not trust theeves with their coine I feare Their Soules than Money are to them lesse deare On the Romish Masse MAsse is a wonder it s a Sacrifice For quicke and dead and for all maladies In Man or Beast a rare receit and cure A sicke Man Beast Asse Oxe Cow Hog is sure To be releast from any Malady If you a Masse for them of Priests will buy Physitians Farriers will be now undone All sickemen beasts to Priests for cure will run They neede no other Physicke but a Masse Which you may buy for Oxe Cow Horse Hog Asse Or any Creature else all which must pay Priests well for Gratis they will no Masse say On the Popes two Swords POpes have two swords to smite one hooke to keepe No wonder they more slay than feede Christs sheepe On the Popes two Keyes POpes hold they keepe the Keyes of Heav'n and Hell Some doe oppose I like it very well Sith they locke Heavens straite gate fast up to all Their flocke but ope Hells wide wherein they fall On kissing the Popes feete OTher folkes Lips are kist onely Popes feete Their breath is Poyson but their Shooe is sweete Vnder their lips doth Addars poyson lye They therefore will have none their lippes come nigh On the Pope being Peters Successour SOme say that Popes succeed to Peter I Confesse it both their Master Christ deny Peter but thrice They oft and so preceed In sinne Him they in Place not Grace Succeed But are they Peters Successors alone Th' are Judas Simons too it s ten to one On the Popes Non erring whilst he sits in Peters Chaire POpes cannot Erre in Peters chaire whilst set T is true for sure They nere once sate there yet No wonder then if they nought else but Erre Sith they in his un-erring chaire sat ne're On the Popes not Erring ALL Error is from Rule Popes will have none To judge doe live by but themselves alone They cannot then once erre because not stray Quite from themselves unto Gods Rules and way On the Popes not sinning and Erring as Popes but as Men. THe Pope as man not Pope may sinne and Erre Why doth not then the Pope the Man deterre From sinne and Errour Can he not this doe The Man the Pope may make sinne and erre too And if the Man for sinne and Error goe To Hell I feare the Pope too must doe so On the Popes not Erring and on falling from Grace POpes cannot erre yet they may totally Away from Grace fall yea and finally By Romes owne Doctrine which they oft times doe To prove her Doctrine by their practise true It is no errour thus to fall from grace Since Popes herein Romes doctrines footsteps trace I wonder not at Romes Apostasie Her practise else her Doctrine would belye Now both accord and she falls quite away From faith grace truth that none once question may Or doubt her Doctrine which was questionable But thus confirm'd it must be true and stable On the Popes Pardons and mortall sinnes MAy men buy Pardons and for mortall sins Pardons are truely veniall then not sinnes But yet at Rome alone for God Kings all But Popes hold Pardons free not veniall On the Popes being Christs Vicar Generall upon Earth THe Pope on Earth's Christs Vicar Generall He 's nothing then Christ here had nought at all But be he something t is in Earth or Hell Not Heav'n Christ lets no Vicar ne're him dwell Who being still present both in Heav'n and here Popes are his Vicars but in Hell I feare On Popes Pardons of Sinnes THe Popes doe Pardon sinnes I thinke so too All which men for them None they against them doe All against God against themselves not one What can is not what cannot they is done On the Popes being head of the Church POpes are Supreame heads of the Church by due But of the false Church onely not the True The true Church hath but one head Jesus Christ The false but one the Pope true Anti-Christ On Romes Sinnes Curses and Pardons AT Rome all 's Veniall some say I say no Her Sinnes and Curses doubtlesse are not so The first are mortall last not sold but free Bestow'd all is not veniall Rome in thee On the Pope and his Cardinals CArdinalls hinges are the Church the dore Which hanges on them O Pope thy fate deplore If the Church on them onely hanged be Nought but an Halter 's left by them for thee Thou mayst goe bang thy selfe therewith for they Not thou the Church uphold support and stay On the Popes being Christs Vicar IF Popes Christs Vicars be his flocke to teach Why do they not like him than feed and preach They are his Vicars but to sheare his sheepe When they should feed them they are fast asleepe Christ but one Vicar can have here He many To doe his Office he then is not any Either the Pope must doe his worke alone Or if by Vicar he must make but one Else Christ may chance to make more Vicars too By his example and so him undoe Unlesse he tye Christs hands from making any