Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	distinction_n	mortal_a	venial_a	4,934	5	12.1153	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05463	The complaint of England Wherein it is clearely prooued that the practises of traitrous papists against the state of this realme, and the person of her Maiestie, are in diuinitie vnlawfull, odious in nature, and ridiculous in pollicie. In the which they are reprooued of wilfull blindnes, in that they see not the filthines of the Romish gouernment: and conuinced of desperate madnesse, in that they feare not the mischiefe of Spanish inuasion: the former whereof is exemplified by the Popes practises both here in England, and abroad in other countries: the later by the Spaniards outrages, in his exactions raised vpon Naples, and his tyrannies executed in the Indies. Lastly the necessitie, equitie, and benefits of the late proceeding in iustice are set downe; with a friendly warning to seditious papists for their amendment; and an effectuall consolation to faithfull subiectes for their incouragement. Seene and allowed.	[Lightfoot, William].	1587 (1587)	STC 15595; ESTC S108556	45,440	70

his shirt in the bloud which so soone as he had at vnawares put on he was therewith poysoned In like case the Pope indeuouring to despoile the Church of England of her dignities by incrochement and intrusion and to curtoll the prerogatiue of the royall state by vsurpation had in a happie houre both the check and the mate giuen him wherupon he almost in vtter despair of filling vp so great a breach hath scattered abroad his lying spirites to inueigle our malcontent Romanistes to reuolt from obeysance warranting them by force of his absolution as by Nessus bloud to rectifie all imaginarie and supposed iniuries wherewith they shal find themselues neuer so little agreeued and thus doe they you I meane practise to execute this deuise but thanks be giuen to our mercifull God to your own subuersions The differences are what Dianeira did was vpon ignorant zeale what you doe is vpon pestilent rancour Hercules imbraced strange loue contrarie to dutie but her Maiestie tendereth you farre aboue your desertes But least I might be thought to compose clamorous inuectiues against the Sea of Rome not sufficiently poized with their iust moments of reason I wil alledge some specialties for the confirming of my assertion As touching the scope of their doctrine because it is a matter not wholie incident to the meannes of my caparitie and somewhat without the compasse of this discourse I purposely relinquish it Howbeit if I should descend to the discussing of particularities I coulde challenge him of many scismaticall points built vpon humane tradition and repugnant to the veritie of holie Scriptures For howe hath hee infersed his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to continue the wodden worshipping of images to the whiche I may not vnfitly applie the poeticall Ironie which is vsed against the Egiptians that adored Onions and Garlike as the Papists do trees and stocks O sanctae gentes quibus innascuntur in hortis Numina O holie people they whose Gods Within their Gardens grow How hath he multiplied Mediatours making some of saluation others of intercession derogating from the office of Christ to maintain the inuocation of Saints whereas the Scripture precisely designeth one saying There is one God 1. Tim. 2. and one mediatour betwene God and man which is the man Iesus Christ How hath he foisted in his distinction of mortall and veniall sinnes to prop his Purgatorie that is now so ruinous for lack of reparation We are taught in Gods worde that all sinnes are venial in Christ except the sinne against the holie Ghost which is therefore called of Saint Iohn 1. Iohn 5. Rom. 6. Marc. 3. a sinne vnto death and all mortall in theyr owne nature For the wages of sinne is death And all sinnes shal be forgiuen vnto the children of men and blasphemies wherewith they blaspheme but hee that blasphemeth against the holie Ghost shal neuer haue forgiuenes but is culpable of eternall damnation These may serue to giue you a taste séeing it stands not with my purpose to frame any cōtrouersial treatise but ye may gesse the beast by his paw In generall this is to be obserued in their doctrine that they when they are had in chase they haue so manie muces inturninges winding corners and starting holes that but for the tracke of their footing it were hard to ouertake them In their intricate sophisines inexplicable quiddities they play like the fish called the Cuttle which when the fisherman is readie to lay hand vpon her casteth forth a slimis blacke humour like vnto inke which darkening the vpper face of the water causeth the fisherman to fayle of hys ayme and by that meanes she escapeth and I may say of them as Cesar sayd of the Scithians whose maner it was to lurke in vncouth thickets Difficilius est inuenire quàm superare It is an harder matter to find them out then to ouercome them Touching his gouernement it is nothing else but a mightie faction of men and armed power of Princes bending their forces directly agaynst the Gospell of peace Howe intollerable is his ambition that arrogateth to himselfe Vniuersalitie trusting to draw not onelie Iordan like the Behemoth but the foure quarters of the world into hys mouth Iob. 40. And yet behold his shamelesse hipocrisie The Pores ambitious pride shadowed with a show of humility who claiming supreme iurisdiction in al causes and throughout all Countries yet vaileth bonnet and abaseth hys stile calling himselfe seruum seruorum Dei Of which dissembled humilitie this Distich was compiled not altogether vnworthie the rehearsal Roma tibi quondam suberant Domini dominorum Seruorum serui nunc tibi sunt Domini Which is Time was O Rome when Lords of Lords to thee did becke and bowe Time 's past and seruantes seruantes are thy Lordes and maisters now Hath he not always vnder a colour of pietie and religion broched most impious and least religious practises So that long since the Germanes perceiuing hys iugling howe he fostered contentions cloked murthers wincked at heresies and dispensed with all crimes how capitall so euer if he might thereby either dilate his segniories or furnishe his treasurie reiected his pretensed aucthoritie and marking howe outragiously hee set vp his bristles and whetted his tuskes against such as crossed his deuises anathematising them with the horrible cursse of Shimei and ratling out his excommunications against them they both sharply reprooued and openly derided his Bulles before the which he was accustomed to prefix the name of the almightie most blasphemously making it to leade the waye to his diuelish execrations so that it became amongest them a common byworde In nomine Dei incipit omne malum all mischiefe beginnes in Gods name And to gleane a fewe eares out of a full sheafe I will set downe some seuerall examples In the tyme of Gregorie the ninth sprang vp the diuision of the Guelfes and the Gibellines the Guelfes bolstering out the swelling insolencie of the Popedome and the Gibellines assisting the iust title of the imperiall maiestie Through the whiche occasion moste tumultuous vprores and deadly warres were arreared the furie wherof being scarse calmed allaied within one hundred yeares after hath left a perpetuall memorie to the world How the fable of Elses Goblins first came vp by those tearmes of elfes goblins that are at this day more generally knowne then rightly vnderstood During which faction Boniface the eight aspired to the Sea who beeing maliciously inflamed agaynst the families of Columne and Vrsini because they fauoured the Gibellines wrought them all possible despite in putting theyr bodyes to the sword their houses to the sacke and theyr goodes to the spoyle And so irreconcilable was this his wrath that on Ashwednesday whē he sprinckled ashes on his Cardinalls heads cōming to Porcherus Archbishoppe of Genna who was of the Gibellines whereas he had vsed these words to the others Memento homo quod cinis es in cinerem