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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	worship_n	worship_v	zeal_n	28	3	8.1186	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33919	A short view of the immorality, and profaneness of the English stage together with the sense of antiquity upon this argument / by Jeremy Collier ...; Short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage	Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.	1698 (1698)	Wing C5263; ESTC R19806	126,651	310

Angelica after some lewd raillery continue the Allegory and drive it up into Profaness For this reason the Citation must be imperfect Sr. Samps Sampson 's a very good Name for your Sampsons were strong Dogs from the Beginning Angel Have a care If you remember the strongest Sampson of your Name pull'd an old House over his Head at last Here you have the Sacred History burlesqu'd and Sampson once more brought into the House of Dagon to make sport for the Philistines To draw towards an end of this Play Tattle would have carried off Valentine's Mistress This later expresses his Resentment in a most Divine manner Tattle I thank you you would have interposed between me and Heaven but Providence has laid Purgatory in your way Thus Heaven is debas'd into an Amour and Providence brought in to direct the Paultry concerns of the Stage Angelica concludes much in the same strain Men are generally Hypocrites and Infidels they pretend to Worship but have neither Zeal nor Faith How few like Valentine would persevere unto Martyrdom c. Here you have the Language of the Scriptures and the most solemn Instances of Religion prostituted to Courtship and Romance Here you have a Mistress made God Almighty Ador'd with Zeal and Faith and Worship'd up to Martyrdom This if 't were only for the Modesty is strange stuff for a Lady to say of her self And had it not been for the profane Allusion would have been cold enough in all Conscience The Provok'd Wife furnishes the Audience with a Drunken Atheistical Catch 'T is true this Song is afterwards said to be Full of Sin and Impudence But why then was it made This Confession is a miserable Salvo And the Antidote is much weaker than the Poyson 'T is just as if a Man should set a House in a Flame and think to make amends by crying Fire in the Streets In the last Act Rasor makes his Discovery of the Plot against Belinda in Scripture phrase I 'le give it the Reader in the Authors Dialogue Belind. I must know who put you upon all this Mischief Rasor Sathan and his Equipage Woman tempted me Lust weaken'd And so the Devil overcame me As fell Adam so fell I. Belind. Then pray Mr. Adam will you make us acquainted with your Eve Rasor unmasks Madamoselle and says This is the Woman that tempted me But this is the Serpent meaning Lady Fanciful that tempted the Woman And if my Prayers might be heard her punishment for so doing should be like the Serpents of old c. This Rasor in what we hear of him before is all Roguery and Debauch But now he enters in Sackcloth and talks like Tribulation in the Alchemist His Character is chang'd to make him the more profane And his Habit as well as Discourse is a Jest upon Religion I am forced to omit one Line of his Confession The Design of it is to make the Bible deliver an obscene Thought And because the Text would not bend into a Lewd Application He alters the words for his purpose but passes it for Scripture still This sort of Entertainment is frequent in the Relapse Lord Foplington laughs at the publick Solemnities of Religion as if 't was a ridiculous piece of Ignorance to pretend to the Worship of a God He discourses with Berinthia and Amanda in this manner Why Faith Madam Sunday is a vile Day I must confess A man must have very little to do at Church that can give an account of the Sermon And a little after To Mind the Prayers or the Sermon is to mind what one should not do Lory tells young Fashion I have been in a lamentable Fright ever since that Conscience had the Impudence to intrude into your Company His Master makes him this Comfortable Answer Be at peace it will come no more I have kick'd it down stairs A little before he breaks out into this Rapture Now Conscience I defie thee By the way we may observe that this young Fashion is the Poets Favorite Berinthia and Worthy two Characters of Figure determine the point thus in defence of Pimping Berinth Well I would be glad to have no Bodies Sins to answer for but my own But where there is a necessity Worth Right as you say where there is a Necessity a Christian is bound to help his Neighbour Nurse after a great deal of ProfaneStuff concludes her expostulation in these words But his Worship Young Fashion over-flows with his Mercy and his Bounty He is not only pleas'd to forgive us our Sins but which is more than all has prevail'd with me to become the Wife of thy Bosom This is very heavy and ill dress'd And an Atheist must be sharp set to relish it The Vertuous Amanda makes no scruple to charge the Bible with untruths What Slippery stuff are Men compos'd of Sure the Account of their Creation's false And 't was the Womans Rib that they were form'd of Thus this Lady abuses her self together with the Scripture and shews her Sense and her Religion to be much of a Size Berinthia after she has given in a Scheme for the debauching Amanda is thus accosted by Worthy Thou Angel of Light let me fall down and adore thee A most Seraphick Compliment to a Procuress And 't is possible some Angel or other may thank him for 't in due time I am quite tired with these wretched Sentences The sight indeed is horrible and I am almost unwilling to shew it However they shall be Produced like Malefactors not for Pomp but Execution Snakes and Vipers must sometimes be look'd on to destroy them I can't forbear expressing my self with some warmth under these Provocations What Christian can be unconcern'd at such intolerable Abuses What can be a juster Reason for indignation than Insolence and Atheism Resentment can never be better shown nor Aversion more seasonably executed Nature made the Ferment and Rising of the Blood for such occasions as This. On what unhappy Times are we fallen The Oracles of Truth the Laws of Omnipotence and the Fate of Eternity are Laught at and despis'd That the Poets should be suffer'd to play upon the Bible and Christianity be Hooted off the Stage Christianity that from such feeble beginings made so stupendious a progress That over-bore all the Oppositions of Power and Learning and with Twelve poor Men outstretch'd the Roman Empire That this glorious Religion so reasonable in its Doctrine so well attested by Miracles by Martyrs by all the Evidence that Fact is capable of should become the Diversion of the Town and the Scorn of Buffoons And where and by whom is all this Out-rage committed why not by Julian or Porphirie not among Turks or Heathens but in a Christian Country in a Reform'd Church and in the Face of Authority Well! I perceive the Devil was a Saint in his Oracles to what he is in his Plays His Blasphemies are as much improv'd as his Stile