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spirit_n	father_n	holy_a	scripture_n	10,125	5	6.0328	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96971	Wrens anatomy. Discovering his notorious pranks, and shamefull wickednesse; with some of his most lewd facts, and infamous deeds; both in his government of Peter-house Colledge, and domineering in three bishopricks, to his perpetuall shame and infamy.		1641 (1641)	Wing W3680; Thomason E166_7; ESTC R23423	8,190	16

Pope and Canterbury content but onely worshipping the Host or Sacrament which himselfe practised and performed in his own person as hath been proved before a Committee and bowing to the Altar which he and all his and many others did so that hereby he had almost done all that could be desired by the Jesuites or requisite for a reconciliation to Rome 5. His being made Bishop of Herefore THese things being so bravely performed and handled with such dexterity and admirable skill gave Canterburyes little grace such Archcontent to see his little bird so active nimble stirring and so reall he thought to requite him well both for his reward and encouragement and to animate others to follow his steps and likewise to enable him to doe more and greater service he plods with might and maine to advance this wicked Wren and the Bishoprick of Hereford falling then voyd he with all hast and speed procures him to be made Bishop and so he is immediately and now the little bird having done his Arch-grace so great and such illaudable service he is gotten into his Pontificalibus and so having him for his fast friend and ready to promote him higher he studies nothing more than to requite his Grace and to manifest his further deserts 6. His procuring Cosens to succeed him in the Colledge ANd to shew himselfe mindfull of his worke and watchfull care looking as well behind him as before he remembers what service he hath done in his Mastership of the Colledge and considers how conducible to the purpose it will be to leave his like in his place and after much debating with himselfe he can fearce finde in all England an ill lookt Machiavell bad enough to succeed him but Popish Cosens him he pitcheth upon he having lately playd his notorious pranks in silencing Ministers being visiter of Yorke and having long beene knowne to hold Popish opinions to have written Popish Bookes and to have playd many notable Popish parts and persecuted Master Smart and many others for reward of his deeds and furtherance of other services he shall be the man to succeed him he onely of all men in England shall be Master of Peter-house and indeed to say truth of all the wretches in England he is most like unto wicked Wren and cursed Canterbury and therefore let him take it and so farewell Fryer 7. His notorious Articles called Wrens Articles AND now this wicked Wren being in his Pontificalibus and having attained to the first step towards the long desired honour and splendour to which his ambitious minde aspired hoping at last to arrive at the very Fastigium of Arch-Prelacy if Gregory come not between his next businesse is to hold his Visitation which that he may doe it laudably to curst Canterburyes content he plods and ponders such mischievous and most abhominable Articles that he and the devill to helpe him could devise and these he intends to foyst upon the poore Churchwardens whom he knowes to be such handtamed slaves to the Prelates his predecessours that the stoutest of them all durst not disobey his Prelate-ships pleasure but nolens volens must obey though to the hazard of their soules or else if any should but so much as dare to refuse he should be beggard and undone by this cruell proud wretch and therefore he very well knowing their necessitated submission lays on load both for them and the Ministers verifying the old saying Set a beggar on horsebacke and beele ride boyond measure so this wicked Wren drawes such Articles as the wisest and learnedst Church-wardens in England could not possibly know how to answer in their presentments and thus he begins his projects 8. His harrowing the Diocesse of Hereford THese Articles though they were most odiously base and more than halfe devillish yet that poore ignorant Countrey durst by no meanes refuse them though they should all have sworne to betray their own Fathers such was the rage and insolency of this cruell proud tyrant and thus having received these Articles and taken the oath they all became Wrens sworne vassalls and bound in conscience upon their oathes to present unto him any man that should discourse prophanely as he esteemed it at meale-time touching Religion or the holy Scripture thereby to make men afraid ever so much as to mention Gods Word or any goodnesse and injoyning an impossibilitie of avoyding manifest perjury in the Church-wardens who could not possibly if they had beene so many Spirits have beene present waiting at so many severall mens Tables at once and likewise they were bound by oath to certifie by their presentment whether the Ministers expounded the holy Scriptures according to the sense of the a●ncient Fathers which was a taske requiring Church-wardens better learned than ever Bishop Wren was and rather requiring the Doctors of the Chaire to be Church-wardens and come to Bishop Wrens Visitations And thus it pleased the great wisdome of God to besot this doltish Asse as not to see his owne blind foolishnesse in these and many such like abnominable absurdities put upon the poore Church-wardens Which Articles with his other lewd and tyrannous demeanour made such havock in the Church vexed and molested the Church Officers grieved the people excommunicated presented molested so many innocent people suspended deprived banished begger'd so many honest able religious painfull Ministers that this miscreant wretch the devills Plow-Chu●le did even harrow up the whole Countrey so that he brought it into a most miserable case as ever did any Antichristian Prelate 9. His translation to Norwich THis wicked Wren having thus mischievously behaved himselfe in Hereford and having made such hurly burly and such stirres that all the whole Countrey was in griefe vexation and unquietnesse and having swept out by one villanous trick or other by one tyrannicall practise or other all the most painfull honest and lest Ministers and in their places brought in idle drones dumb curres idost Shepheards and Altar-cringing Asses and thereby having rendred the Countrey very flexible and tractable to Arminianisme Papisme Prelatisme or Atheisme partly by feare of his tyranny and cruell practises and partly by taking away their good and faithfull Shepheards who stood in the gap and would be ready to speake for the truth so that the Countrey might seeme very reducible to Popery for any succeedant and being become very disquiet and dangerous for himselfe so odiously hated to reside in it any longer under whose heavy burden and pressure the Countrey groaned in so short a time it was now become high time for that little devill curst Canterbury to bestirre himselfe for his Journeyman Wrens sake and to prevent a forcible detrusion or some such dangerous attempt he thought it best by a timely translation to take him away both to reward his diligent service by promoting him to a better place and to rid him of the cumbersome enterprises he had entred too far into having done all that could be done or desired in that place and also to