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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	father_n	holy_a	sin_n	6,442	5	4.4152	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87434	Le dragon missionaire, or, The dragoon turn'd apostle being a dialaogue between a French Protestant-gentleman, and a French dragoon, wherein the new-way of convverting hereticks by dragoons is very lively and truly represented : to which is annexed a letter of Monsieur Jurieu to a French gentleman of quality, upon his dragonary conversion / translated out of the original French ; suppressed in the the late reign, but now re[pr?]inted ...	Jurieu, Pierre, 1637-1713.	1686 (1686)	Wing J1201; ESTC R43871	21,022	27

of the fearful and of those who l●ve or make a lye of Idlaters and Apostates is in the Lake of fire Rev. 22.15 Matth. 10.38 Mark 8.38 Do not deceive your self by seeking out sig-leaves and pretences in abjuring our Religion you have abjured true Christianity the pure Gospel of Jesus Christ for our Religion is nothing else You have grieved the holy Spirit God grant you have not quite extinguisht it you have weakned the Kingdom of God up●n earth and strengthned that of his Enemy you have afflicted scandalized and made a rent in the Church of God and you have fortified the Synagogue of Satan and made it to rejoyce By becoming a Papist you have condemned your Teachers and Preachers for Schismaticks and Hereticks and have judg'd them worthy of all the fires of this world and of that of Hell to boot You are entred into Communion with those who but an Age ago washed their hands in the blood of your Fathers and who daily do the same in the blood of your Brothers You have left the Communion of Christ and are gone over to that of Antichrist from the Church to Babylon from the Spirit of God to the unclean Spirit from the worship of God to that of a Wafer and many other Idols You have rejected the Authority of Holy Scripture for to subject your self to that of Papacy and from a Child of God which you were are become the Slave of men Tremble at the thought of the sin you have committed and by no means excuse it you have to do with a God who cannot be deceived neither will he be mocked who is jealous of his Truth and of his Glory and who will not endure his Truth to be detain'd in unrighteousness nor his Glory to be given to graven Images I am surpriz'd with horrour when I consider the deplorable state to which you have reduc'd your self I see you destitute of your true Brethren and faithful Pastors and encompassed with false Brethren and devouring Wolves observ'd and beset by the World which every where lays her snares for you and enchants you with her delusions betray'd by your own heart tortur'd and wrackt by your Conscience if a Lethargy hath not seiz'd it domineer'd over by your own vanity your avarice sensuality and infirmity tyranniz'd over by Clergy by the Souldiers by Officers of Justice and all your Superiours loaden with all the Chains of Popery and fast lockt and taken in the snares of the Devil I see you in the very way to the sin against the Holy Ghost upon the brink of the Grave and Hell And had it not been better to have suffered a thousand Deaths for the Cause of God than cowardly to cast your self headlong into this miserable condition by your Apostacy And is it not better for you to expose your self yet to all sorts of dangers and miseries than to truckle any longer under this insupportable burden of Evils We offer up Day and Night most ardent Prayers to God that he will be pleas'd to snatch you thence and be not you wanting to employ your utmost endeavours to get loose and give your self no rest till you have given glory to God edified his Church and return'd your Conscience to that happy state in which you wish that the Eternal Judge might find it when you shall be obliged to appear before his Tribunal Let this be your great and onely Work Jan. 1. 1686. I am SIR Your most humble Servant and most Sincere Friend FINIS

pleaseth A Spirit who when it pleaseth him walks on the Ti●er the Pau and the Thesin goes a Foot rides on Horse-back in a Coach or in a Chariot may be shut up in a Portmantle a Packet of Letters or any thing you please Spirit of Submission of Faith and of Blind Obedience Spirit Roman Catholick enter thou into this Body and Soul possessed by the Devil of Calvinism in the Name of St. Francis of St. Dominick and of the Patriarch Ignatius Loyola G. Ah Sirs cast as much Holy Water as you please upon me but don't beat me with the Sprinkler D. We do this that the Water may the better enter into your Body and extinguish the Fire of Heresy G. Nay if you be resolved to kill me with blows at least let me not languish under your hands but dispatch me forthwith I beg of you D. Not so we are forbid to kill you but we shall so plague you if you be not presently converted that Death will seem sweet to you in comparison of the Sufferings we are prepareing for you They place the Gentleman before agreat Fire and hold his feet to the burning Flames and so burn them by degrees the violence of which Suffering makes him fall from himself bringing him to the fire again they demand of him whither he be willing to go to Mass D. What are not you yet converted and will not you go to Mass G. Ah Sirs how would you have me to go now you have burnt my Feet and Legs D. We will either carry you or cause you to be carryed G. O Lord Jesu have pitty on me and strengthen me D. I find we must once more approach you to the Flame that you may be more enlightned They bring him to the Fire as before and begin again to burn his Feet he faints under the extremity of the Torture and saith G. Take me away and do with my Body whatsoever you please D. What shall we carry you to Mass G. Whither you please to a Mosque if you think good D. Did not I tell you I would do a Miracle here and that I would convert you whither you would or no. The Glory of all be render'd to the Great King of Dragons to his Holy Father Confessor and all other Subordinate Instruments in this Great Work A LETTER OF MONSIEVR JVRIEV To a French GENTLEMAN Upon his Changing his RELIGION SIR I Have been so afflicted and astonished with the stroak of your Fall that tho' I feel my self obliged to reach you my hand for to raise you again yet have I not been at liberty to do it till now I begin only a little to recover my self from my Astonishment but my Affliction still continues and will till you return from whence you have gone astray I know Sir that you have been surprized and that for your overthrow there hath been employed the Name the Orders and Soveraign Power of the King the Ability the Caresses the Instances and the Authority of his greatest Ministers the Numbers the Force the Quartering and Havocking of Souldiers the Disguisements condescention and credit of the most famous Prelates the example of Cities and whole Provinces And last of all the fairest promises and the most terrible threats and that besides all these you have flatter'd your self with many other thoughts not necessary for me to dive into And indeed upon the review of all these it is no more a matter of so great astonishment to me that such a throng of extraordinary Objects have surprized and dasht you out of Countenance a less thing often does it But now that your surprize and terrour ought to have ceased you ought also to recover your self from the disorder into which they have cast you Let us Sir in cold blood and at leisure consider a while and take a view of the Religion you have forsaken and of that which you have newly embraced That which you have forsaken acknowledges no other Father but God nor other Head besides Jesus Christ nor other Spirit but that of the Father and the Eternal Son The onely Object of all its Devotions of its Faith Love Hope and acknowledgment the onely Source and foundation of its Joy and Salvation is the said ever blessed and adorable Trinity It hath no other Rule of its Doctrine Maxims and Conduct but the Holy Scripture Its Ministers attribute no other power to themselves except that of Teaching the Gospel and to press the Observance of it by their Word and Examples as meer Teachers and Directors without pretending to any power over the Consciences Bodies or Estates of their Disciples Nay more than that recommending very carefully to them to examine whatsoever they hold forth to them by the Rule of Holy Scripture and forbidding to believe them any further than they find them conform to the same To this purpose they neither speak themselves nor make God speak to his People but in a known Language and with all their might continually press the reading and study of the Holy Word In a word the Religion you have renounced is nothing else but the sincere and true Profession of the Gospel That which you have now embraced is quite of another Nature for to give you a Draught of it in little It is a Religion of which the Pope is Father and Head and Rome the Mother and Nurse Concupiscence its Spirit and Heart a Wafer its God the Worship of Creatures its Devotion it s own Authority the highest Law whose Ministers are Lords and absolute Princes and its Votaries so many Slaves which are continued in Slavery by hiding the Law of God from them by speaking to them in a Barbarous Tongue by prescribing to them a superstitious Worship and frighting them with the Fantasmes of this World and that which is to come And to speak to you more frankly and to call things by their own Names the Father Bridegroom and Head of the Church of Rome is the Antichrist her Mother is Babylon and her Spirit is the Spirit of Lyes of Murder and impure Lusts her God is an Idol her Worship Idolatry her Soveraign Power Tyranny her Ministers Tyrants and her Votaries so many unhappy Wretches whose Liberty Repose Estates yea Bodies and Souls are sacrificed to that Cruel and Insatiable Beast of the Revelation The Bounds I have set my self of keeping within the narrow compass of a Letter will not allow me to enter upon any ample Demonstrations and large Deductions of what I have just now in few words hinted yet they leave me room enough to convince you if any love of Truth or desire of your own Salvation be left with you I take or granted as an avowed Truth that the Pope is the Head and Father of the Church of Rome wherefore nothing remains for me to prove but that He is the Antichrist and this I 'le endeavour with this one Argument which contains as many more as it consists of Parts and is of unquestionable Truth If the Characters which