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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	age_n	church_n	time_n	2,142	5	3.6322	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33486	The converted capuchin, or, The recantation of Father Basil after he had continued nigh forty yeares a fryer of that order and perswaded many Protestants to the Romish-beliefe : with his answers to those reports framed against him since he left his convent at Roüen to be one of the reformed church at Sedan / English according to the French copy.; Declaration du sieur François Clouet, cy-devant appelé Père Basile de Rouen, où il déduit les raisons qu'il a eues de se séparer de l'Eglise romaine. English	Basile, de Rouen, d. 1648?	1641 (1641)	Wing C4738; ESTC R23037	16,013	23

word had I been wicked as this man writes and had desired to live in dishonest liberty I should have remained whence I came rather then came away For having had the meanes to practice them among them I should have had much more meanes to continue them there then in the condition I now am The Fourth Calumnie THe last slander in the Letter aforesaid containes the most untruth as it is the most outragious and uncivill t is thus If the Church and our Order in particular used not the more purity and holinesse of life he would never have escaped us to have cast himselfe into Ministeriall bonds who have furnished him with what he sought a glut of his sensuall delights among them and a promise of assistance and protection in his vices This poore man must be pardoned for it appeares either he sinnes through ignorance or that his passion hath blindfolded him He shewes you that he knew not how I made my retreat nor how Ministers behave themselves upon those occasions for he never came so neere to know so much His Sword was somewhat of the shortest But to shew that he speaks as a man ignorant and to instruct them that desire to imitate me behold here the method I kept to atchieve the quiet of my conscience by a true conversion After I had a long time striven with the troubles and pricks of conscience which tortured and grievously afflicted my heart and urged my departure from the Romish Church where I observed the Hierarchicall and Priviledged ready to devoure one another and thousands of superstitions I addressed my selfe to the Father of Lights after whose heavenly assistance the reading of holy Scripture and the bookes of Mr du Moulin among the rest his Novelty of Popery and Buckler of Faith gave some stay to my tired soule and guided me in framing my last resolution But because I could not put it in execution without knowing what Order I ought to keepe of some one of the Religion nor was acquainted with any body at Roüen to whom in this case I might addresse my selfe I made use of the occasion of my going to Bresse neare Mount S. Michel whereof I have spoke before By the way I saw a Gentleman of the Religion at whose house I was halfe a day and learned from him how to comport my selfe therein I finished my voyage and a moneth after my returne to Roüen I went from the Covent without either seeing speaking or writing to any Minister whatsoever True it is that while I stayed a little at Roüen after my going from them I had the honour to see two Ministers who gave me the visit at my lodging but our discourse was so short that I had no leisure but to unfold my purpose and they to tell me I must prepare to beare the Crosse of Jesus Christ in professing the true Religion and that if I quitted the Monastery to finde more freedome or means to comply with evill appetites I was very ill bestead I was indeed extreamly comforted I went forth of Rouen at shutting the gate and in day and a halfe arrived at Paris whence I am hither come in the only protection of the Almighty Who report mee a man engaged in wenching or wiving shall accuse themselves of this sinne next Easter I regard not his prate as being usual among the Papists upon the like occasions See how the Ministers have furnished me with what satisfaction I sought not of my senses but my poore soule which sighed after its deliverance I would prolong the discourse to make apparant the cheats of this Detractor who speaks of the Ministers as of men who have furnished me with what I sought for among them sensual and beastly satisfaction and promised protection for my vices But because I cannot do it without I set forth the vertues I observed in them since I frequented them and knowing that their modesties would not approve it I will content my selfe with this onely since it is fit something be said That I observed nothing in their words and actions which did not tend to my spiritual edification and folly perswaded me that they are altogether free from that the Romish rabble doth like it selfe injuriously put upon them I protest I never saw any of them go from house to house to prattle with and court young maids and joyne under pretence of giving ghostly counsel if Ministers go abroad it is to visit the sick comfort the afflicted treat in consistory of the means for reliefe of the poore or else somewhat very beseeming their being or their callings when they goe from home I see them not laden with gay shewes Crosses Agnus Dei kneaded with relicks holy graines mother Lewis's crosse nor Medals nor any of that which they call Aucupia Monachorum Friers toyles to catch those who snatch at them wch nets they reach forth principally to those of the femall sex as the simpler and more enclined to superstitious devotion They cannot complaine of Ministers that in their common talke we never heare them use the Name of God so vainly in good or bad as divers Seculars have noted in the vaine discourses of Monks and complained thereof Nor doe we see them complement with wenches and women three or foure houres together in their portalls as doe the Friers but above all the begging ones The Ministers intents of discourse with any women are examined and if they give an ill example it is not borne with I marvell not that the Holy Ghost infuseth into them such profound notions of holy Writ and that it bestowes upon them such excellent illuminations in Divinity as the Professors of this University deliver unto all that will come to heare them I can never forget what I noted from one of them who handling in his Lecture the Commandement Thou shalt not commit adultery I never saw so grave a stayednesse in words nor so much carefulnesse in discovering this subject which gave mee occasion to detest the Romish Casuists and among other Sanchez a Jesuit who in a sordid manner turnes to and againe the filth that comes along with this uncleannesse for there is nothing foule or base in the most execrable excesses of beastlinesse and sensuality which is not tossed to and fro in his imagination and found in his most prodigious and horrible booke of Marriage See now what in my conscience I knew of them in whose bande they say I am cast Hee to whom this invective against them and my sele is written can judge of these impostures and of the truth of what I assever who forsooke the reformed Church at threescore yeares of age and therefore had time enough to be well acquainted with the behaviours of Ministers What this reverend Sir addes in his letter the Huguenots of Rouen themselves say if I had been an honest man I had not left the Capuchins is a lye by which he makes himselfe a laughing stock and abuseth him he writes to by making a baby