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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	holy_a	life_n	6,877	5	4.4602	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04410	An exact and sound discovery of the chiefe mysteries of jesuiticall iniquity	Bargrave, Isaac, 1586-1643.; Micanzio, Fulgenzio, attrib. auth.	1619 (1619)	STC 14529; ESTC S113297	14,943	128

esteeme in nothing to distast any mā to deceiue Princes to oppresse the poore to extort from Widdowes their estates to ruinate most noble Kingdomes nay many times by their intermingling with alimportant businesse to cause iealousies and despight among Christian Princes Now as there woulde follow a great inconuenience if that part which were last formed by Nature as an instrument to serue the rest that are more noble should attract vnto it selfe all the purest blood and vitall spirites because this were the way vtterly to dissolue the whole So it is as inconuenient that the religion of the Iesuites planted into the bodye of the holye Church as an instrument for the conuersion of Heretickes and the reduction of sinners to Repentance should bring within theyr owne power all the most waighty and important affayres of Princes Prelates and extracting from them the verie life and spirit of their interest should conuert them vnto their owne commoditie Because from hence both priuate and publike peace is disturbed manie deprest which were worthy to bee exalted and many exalted which were worthy to bee deprest with a thousand other inconueniences that would follow vpon it I could adduce many Reasons taken from experience it selfe to demonstrate what an ingordgious ambition the Iesuites haue to encrease their greatnes but it shall heere suffice to make it knowne from Father Parsons owne words recorded in a Booke of his composed in the English tongue and intituled The Reformation of England Where hauing first blamed Cardinall Poole and hauing also obserued many wantes and imperfections in the Councell of Trent at length hee concludes That when England should returne to the Romish Catholike Fayth he would reduce it to the forme and state of the Primitiue Church making common all Ecclesiastical goodes and assigning the charge of them vnto seauen Sauij or Wise men which should bee Iesuites and who should make distribution of goods at their pleasure Nor is it his will nay he forbiddes it vnder a greeuous penaltie that any religious person of what order soeuer should return into England without their License resoluing that none should enter there but those who should bee maintained by Almes But as it ofte falls out that selfeloue so blinds the wisest man that hee beecomes the vnwisest it is most ridiculous which the same Father subioynes in that place When England sayth hee shal once bee reduced to the true Faith it will not bee conuenient that the Pope at the least for fiue yeares space should looke to receyue any fruite from the Ecclesiasticall Benefices of this Kingdome but remit all into the hands of those seuen Sauij who shoulde dispense them as they conceiued best for the good of the Church This being his designe that the first fiue yeares being past by some other inuention of which they are verie full they woulde re-confirme the same priuiledge for fiue yeares more and so onward till they had vtterly excluded his Holynesse from England Now who seeth not heere as in a Table the Couetousnesse and the Ambition of the Iesuites naturally described together with the desire they haue to make themselues Monarches And who seeth not with what cunning they endeauor to promote their own interest procuring it eyther from others good or ill What should I say more of them In the time of Gregory the thirteenth did they not make it their request that they might bee inuested of all the Parish Churches in Rome That they might there lay a foundation of their Monarchy And that which they could not get in Rome haue they not finally obtained in England where not long since they haue chosen an Arch priest one of the Iesuites in Voto who in sted of protecting the Clergy like a rauening Wolfe persecutes all such Priestes as are not dependent vppon the lesuites driuing them to termes of desperation and depriuing them vnder a great penaltie of mutuall communication so that by this time almost all the English Romish Clergy are Iesuites in Voto nor do they accept any into their Colledges who hath not past his worde to become a Iesuite so that when that kingdome shall returne to the Auncient Faith England will bee like to giue a beginning to an absolute Iesuiticall Monarchy because al the Ecclesiastical reuennews all the Abbeyes Benefices Bishopprickes Archpriestships other dignities shall be conferred only by the Iesuites I here let passe manie things as the pretentions which they make concerning other mens estates howe iealous they are of their welfare and desirous of their prosperitie as the fauour which they endeauour to gaine from Princes by making them beleeue that their subiectes are most deuote to theyr religion and consequently that they are able to make them well affected to the person of theyr Prince Such euident thinges as these I leaue for euery one to obserue and with four brief considerations I will conclude this present Discourse First that men of such high spirit and such reaching designes are alwayes louers of noueltie euer searching for it and begetting it because without some new raised motions it is impossible they should attaine their ends And therefore the Iesuits cannot be helpfull to anie Prince that eyther loues peace or the conseruation of his own estate since they are more likely to be the cause of much trouble and commotion nay haply to put in compromize his whole state if he fauor not their party or bee not partially gouernd by their counsell Secondly if these who haue not temporall iurisdiction are able to cause such great and so prodigious disturbance in the World what thinke you would they doe if one of them should by chance be created Pope First hee would stuffe the Consistory with Iesuites by that meanes perpetuate the Popedome to them and then directing themselues by their insight and interest of State and hauing the Arme and power of the Pope they would be enabled to put in danger the estate of many Princes especiallie of those who are neigh bors and confiners Thirdly it would be the design of that Pope if he could by any meanes to inuest their order of some Citty or temporall Iurisdiction with the which they would afterwardes make way for a thousand other designes whichthey could neuer effect without the damage of other Princes Fourthly when the Consistorie shoulde be entirely Iesuited the whole patrimony of Christ wold be in their hands and as one that hath the dropsie the more he drinkes the more he thirsts so their Ambition growing with their greatnes wold occasion a world of trouble Now because ther is nothing more subiect vnto change then matter of State these fathers with all their power and cunning would endeuour to alter the course of affairs that they might finally in duce the forme and proiect of their own gouernment and by that means absolutely immonarchize thē selues They haue had it long in their heads to gaine into theyr society the sonne of some Prince vvho should absolutely inuest the companie of his state and this they had long since attained if some others wisely spying out their design had not preuented them But hadde they once obtained that they would without anie difficulty haue made themselues Patrones of the state Ecclesiasticall and as they are very inuentiue subtle they woulde afterward haue foud out a thousand waies howe to enlarge it Thus they wold haue wanted no meanes that might make thē masters of their proiects and if nothing els would haue done it the ielousies which they would haue raised in the mindes of their confining princes would haue don thē no small seruice It is therefore most necessary that for the preseruation of publike peace for the maintainance of states for the increase of the holye Church and for the common good of the vvhole world that Paul the fifts Holinesse together with other Princes shold set bounds and limits to this society whose desires are so extremely inordinate least haply that followe which was anciently effected by the Dauidi whose courses the Iesuites seem to imitate who were not destroyd til the time of Claudius the Emperor And when I shall bee commaunded to write my opiniō concerning an opportune remedy howe to rectifie these fathers without anie hurt to them but indeede to their great good desiring rather to make them Monarches of soules which are the treasurie of Christ then of the world or of the profite of the world which is nothing else but vile dung J am readie to perform it with charity and with all that ability which it shal please God to bestow vpon me Laus Deo FINIS