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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	world_n	worldly_a	yoke_n	18	3	9.4238	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37498	The tryal of spirits both in teachers & hearers wherein is held forth the clear discovery and certain downfal of the carnal and antichristian clergie of these nations / testified from the Word of God to the university-congregation in Cambridge by William Dell ; whereunto is added A plain and necessary confutation of divers gross errors delivered by Mr. Sydrach Simpson in a sermon preached to the same congregation at the commencement, Anno 1653 ; wherein (among other things) is declared, that the vniversities (according to their present statutes and practices) are not (as he affirmed) answerable to the schools of the prophets in the time of the law, but rather to the idolatrous high places ...	Dell, William, d. 1664.; Simpson, Sidrach, 1600?-1655. A plain and necessary confutation of divers gross and antichristian errors.	1660 (1660)	Wing D933; ESTC R219079	121,760	168

Nature to wit Aristotle who doth truly reign in the Universities as Abaddon and Apollyon that is a Waster and Destroyer of the Church For we have said that an Angel signifies a Teacher or a Doctor in the Church And certain it is that Aristotle who is Dead and Damned is at this day the great Doctor of all the Universities rather then Christ for He reigns alone being exalted by the Authority and Study of Thomas reviving Freewill and teaching Moral Vertues and natural Philosophy to wit the three-headed Cerberus or three-bodied Gerion Behold the first Wo which the Church hath from the Romish Antichrist by the Ministry of Saint Thomas and They whose duty it was chiefly to have prohibited and extinguished these things they chiefly have erected and established them Thus Luther word for word in the forenamed place He also in his book De abroganda missa privata speaking of the Idol Moloch faith thus Moses and Jeremy have described the Worship of this Idol to be after this manner That they did burn or offer to Him their Children in the fire supposing that hereby they did perform the greatest and highest Service to God inasmuch as after the example of Abraham they do not spare their own Children though they do this not only not being called as Abraham was but also without Faith and in the highest Wickedness and therefore the Psalmist testifies Psal. 78. That they offered not their Children to God but to Devils For whatsoever is not done by the Call and Command of God is not done to God but Devils who suggest this though it be done under Pretence of the Name of God Now hereby saith he I conceive the Universities to be represented in which the best and choicest Part of Christian Youth is offered as it were in Burnt Sacrifice to God that there they may be instructed and be made as it were wholy Divine For the Common People believe there is no Place under Heaven in which Youth can be better instructed so that even Religious People have recourse hither For to learn any Thing out of the University is to learn Nothing but to have studied in the University is to know all Things There all Divine and Humane Things are believed to be taught for no man sends his Son hither with any other Opinion then this that he can no where be better sent They think they perform the Highest Service to God that they offer their Sons to be formed according to the Instruction of Godliness that thereby they may become profitable and useful Ministers Preachers Governours who may wholly become Gods own Portion and be useful both to God and Men. And hereto appertains the name Moloch which signifies a King or Kingly because this kind of Study doth honour them with Degrees and Promotions and renders them fit and able to Govern Others For we see that all that are preferred to Governments are taken out of Universities and he that is not a Graduate or Member of an University is not qualified for Preferment or to be set over any People but let the Ass first be crowned to wit with a Degree and then let him reign And Parents do not see and They that do see do not regard that Youth are usually here destroyed through rude and vile Manners none commonly forbidding them Yea Fornication Luxury and other manifest sins do but mildly destroy them but that they are indued and possessed with Philosophical Heathenish Humane Wicked and Impious Opinions this is the fire of Moloch which no tears can sufficiently bewail seeing through this they especially are devoured and perish who are the most studious and modest Youth in Universities So great is the Fury of God upon this Valley of Tophet and Hinnom that they perish more grievously who learn most and live modestly then they who learn nothing and are corrupted with lusts For These learn Nothing which is to be unlearned again seeing they know they do Evil whereas the other suck in Poyson which happily or never they do vomit up again holding that for Good which is Evil and instructing Those with the like Opinions whom they take to teach And to these Pits of Hell it is to be imputed that the Sun of the Gospel is obscured with the Smoak of the Pit for out of this Smoak proceed those Locusts which possess all Chairs and Pulpits and administer all Governments that Satan from the beginning of the World could devise Nothing in all the World more strong and pernicious to waste Faith and the Gospel then Universities Neither was it meet that this Evil should arise but in the End of the World when the World through the prevailing of Sin being loaden with the Wrath of God should draw near to Hell and Damnation For the miserable People must needs hear those Things taught and delivered out of the Pulpits which those Molochites have learned in the Universities And they have learned nothing but the Highest Blasphemies of God Neither is it lawful to have any where any other Pastor then These In Jeremiah that Valley is called Gehinnom from whence Christ took that word Gehenna which what it signifies I do not well know but it seems to me to come from Janah which signifies to eat up or to pill or waste as Tyrants or Usurers do pill and suck out the People so that Gehinnom is the Valley of pilling or wasting the People For These being set over the People as Shepherds ought to feed them with the Word of Life and They in stead thereof do insensibly waste and devour them in their Body Goods and Soul with the pestilent Doctrines of Universities And such Teachers do the Universities those Synagogues of Perdition give us Thus Luther These now are Luthers own Words which I have made legible to English Men. Wherein it is manifest that He condemns the Universities in the very Institution and Constitution of Them and chiefly in their Chief Studies Humane Learning and School-Divinity and also as to that gross Popish Opinion that they are the Fountain and Nurseries of the Ministry and that None are fit to Teach or so fit to Teach as Those that have been educated in Them Yea though these be Raw Foolish Ignorant Fellows yet being University Graduates must they be set over Towns and Parishes and the miserable People must not only hear Them and their doltish Doctrine brought from the Universities but also must be constrained by Secular Power and Laws to pay them well for such Pains which tends only to the ruine of their Souls for ever and no Hand is yet strongly and resolutely stretched out to deliver the People from this intolerable Bondage For the Necks of the People of the World have never endured so grievous a Yoak from any Tyrants as from the Doctrine and Domination of the Clergy For Worldly Tyrants have only afflicted mens Bodies and Temporal Estates which reacheth but to this short Life but these spiritual Tyrants the Clergy or false