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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	church_n	err_v	1,967	5	9.6697	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96061	A century of reasons for subscription and obedience to the laws and government of the Church of England, both ecclesiastical and civil. With reasons against the covenant Justifi'd by scripture, confirmed by the laws of the kingdom, the right and power of kings, ecclesiastical and human authorities, with an harmony of confessions. [T]o which is annexed the office and charge belonging to the overseers of the poor, &c. [By] W. Wasse school-master in Little Britain near unto Christ-church.	Wasse, William.	1663 (1663)	Wing W1030A; ESTC R231143	60,180	186

that truth I once believed to be in them and of no power to convince the Church of England doth err either in Doctrine or Discipline which while I did believe I did not conform in any Circumstantial supposed error but was a Non-conformist with you upon the Reasons Scriptures and Authorities by you Urged Preached and Printed yet have I not at any time knowingly risen up against the Powers that commanded and enjoyned Obedience as they are Powers but upon the grounds aforesaid which grounds I have considered upon in more ripe judgment and find them not to be sufficient to warrant disobedience to the Higher Powers or to joyn with you in your determined Non-conformity having the eyes of my understanding better enlightned by the Divine goodness by Scriptures Reasons and Authorities the Confessions and Professions of the Churches abroad the Laws and equitable Constitutions of the Kingdom of which I am an unworthy Member besides what I have learnt from your own Writings of which formerly I was ignorant From all which Grounds Reasons Scriptures Authorities Writings c. I see not any cause to make further appeal nor know not of any higher search that can be made for the discovery of the truth Now that ye may the rather weigh and consider of what I have here offered to publick view after the satisfaction given hereby to my own conscience know that I am not a person under any temptation neither have I any Ecclesiastical Promotion to lose nor one that hath ever sought after or doth seek after Honor Advancement or to be preferred in the world though I might have had it for Swearing subjection unto an Usurping Power no I am a person studying to get my daily bread with hard labour labouring under great unthankfulness unjust and vexatious sutes and all-devouring scandals not mounted upon the uncogged wheels of prosperous fortune no the Plutoes of the world sons of violence rapine and spoil have cogged every spoak in my wheels I mean men who by force and power and other unjust practices have possessed themselves of all I have and have possessed it for more than ten years without an accompt or restitution which puts me in mind of an Historical Example not utterly to be despised of them The example of injustice is reported by one Antonius de Florentia an antient Doctor who tells us of a certain man that would not make restitution of his unjust gain alleging if he should do so his Children might beg or be sent to the Hospital The Father dieth in the same estate his eldest Son succeedeth and likewise will not restore The younger Brother demandeth his part of those goods and restoreth after the rate of his portion the rest that remained he gave to the poor and entred into the state of a solitary life Shortly after the elder Brother dyeth whereupon was shewed to the younger Brother living in chast contemplation this Vision following He seeth his Father and his Brother in torment one cursing the other the Father saying the Son was the cause of his damnation because it was for the love of him and enriching of him that he did not make restitution The Son he cursed and said that his Father was the cause of his damnation because he left him these ill-gotten goods the keeping whereof hath wrought his perdition Let such as have gotten ill-gotten goods in their possessions or are intangled with the iniquity of them apply this Example before it be too late and consider of Thespesius Fable in Plutarch He Fableth an infernal Vision of Souls like Vipers hanging on together did bite and gnaw one another Ob memoriam injuriarum in vita actarum Remembring old grudges and wrongs done in their life time here on earth keeping their hatred for ever Ovid. nec mors mihi finiet iras Though we be dead our malice shall not die I am sure such Caitiffs are of that Family who at the hour of death Lavat remittunt culpam non poenam Odia inimicitias quasi per manus liberis suis tradunt haeredes paterni odii Senec. They say I forgive all and in the Will and Testament bequeath their hatred and malice by Tradition to the hands of their sons and make them heirs of their fathers hatred Et astutam vapido servant sub pectore vulpem They appear in Sheep's cloathing but inwardly they are ravening Wolves Tuta frequensque via est per amici fallere nomen Tuta frequensque licet sit via crimen habet A safe and common way it is by friendship to deceive But safe and common though it be it 's knavery by your leave Now I return to our purpose I find it recorded of Dionysius Hallicarnasseus who was never advanced to Magistracy in the Roman Re-publick that he hath Written farr more truly the History of the Romans than those which Flourished amongst them with Riches and Honour So I hope you shall find from an Obscure person more of the truth concerning our established Government and reasons for the same than you have ever heard delivered or seen Written by most in Honour and Esteem amongst you Many of them being like the Franciscans of Old who at the beginning professed Conscientia losing a Syllable and Honesty with it fell to Scientia and now having lost two Syllables remain pure Entia Stocks and Images Such as these may well despise and reject these Reasons as of no worth and disdain to read them much more to own them and in hatred of my Name consider my Person and not the Weight that is to be found in every sentence in them though of so great concern as wisely improved would put a stay to the Reeling steps of many thousand Ignorant Unstable and All-concluding Souls What I have Written is necessary though by disowning of your Principles I seem to savour of Levity and Inconstancy but my reward is with me I know and am prepared for the Slanderous tongues of an Ungratefull and Miskenning world I reckon not what becomes of me or my credit in this World or what I have that is most dear unto me so God may be Glorified in me and by me it is not what men can Speak or may Write will dismay me it were better their pains were bestowed about their own Everlasting peace as others had better in former times to have bestowed the Labour they took to prove and perswade the Church of England did err in taking care they themselves had not erred in Doctrine and joyned Practice with it Departing from the Truths of God Rejecting the Book of Common-prayer and Teaching others so to do with great Judgment purposely framed as I believe out of the Grounds of Religion which we profess and hold for Agreement sake and that Scandal might be avoided in our Christian Divine Worshipping of God By means of which in former times great Mischiefs were presaged which came to pass in our days besides Perjury which did accompany all our Evils to

of all Subjects unto Our Dread Soveraign Lord King Charls the Second of whom and of whose Government I cannot Write too much but may Err in this that I have Writ no more The Everlasting Arms of Divine Power be under Him and the Never-dying Favours of His All enduring Love rest upon you upon all Loyal and Royal Hearts and His well-placed Subjects of Honour and Obedience which is the daily Orison of Right Honourable and Right Worshipfull His Majestie 's Most Loyal Subject and Your Devoted Servant W. Wasse TO THE READER Christian Reader IT is not possible for any Man to make a true and constant Profession and Confession of his Faith except he understand the Doctrine of the Church aright and exercise his Conscience therewith Then such men as have not the understanding of the Articles of the Doctrine of Christ expressed in the 39. Articles of the Church of England in some good degree and measure are nothing else but Vain Bubbles which suddenly swell start up and fall away of themselves And if any man will stand in doubt of them he is justly counted not to be a Man but the Monster of a Man and without all Wit it being the property of a good and sober Wit not to love Cavillations knowing that two times four makes eight and the Excess brings nothing but Disorder and Amazement What these Articles be are plainly Comprised in the Creeds of the Apostles of Nice and Athanasius and these we judge and believe do agree with the perpetual meaning of the Prophets and Apostles Writings Now sith that there is but one Truth and more than one there cannot be and this Truth we Have Hold and Profess Then whatsoever varyeth from that one Truth must needs be no Truth for Truth agreeth with Truth Reader art thou a Christian I suppose thou art canst thou say the parts of thy Catechism I think that there is no Christian will be so wickedly rude as not to know so few Heads Now let those Heads of the Catechism be unto thee instead of a most sure perfect Rule to examine to try and to judge all Religious and all Doctrines by For it is certain that the Catechism is a short Sum of all the whole Bible and containeth all that is required of Necessity unto Faith and unto our Salvation But what I write or have written I know not how it may please I have made it my Study rather to please God than Man whether I shall offend I know not with much doubt I have changed some Words and fear if I take others I may take worse what ever the Pains be I have taken I cannot pass the Strife of Tongues neither the Malice of Ungratefull and Irreligious Spirits nor yet Jerks of the False Government and the No-Government Faction who as they have so still will endeavour to Disturb my outward and my inward Peace by False Malicious Scandals Lying Reports and Accusations whereby they have and still may promise themselves Concealment of their Ill-contrived Enterprises Like the Artians of old the better to bring in their damnable Error concerning the Deity of Christ which Athanasius withstanding and holding fast his Judgment in the truth of the Deity of Christ they forged Lies and Accusations against him of dishonesty with a woman and cutting off a man's hand as Eusebius relates Christian Reader that these Reasons have been kept from the Press twelve months beyond my first intentions hath been by reason of some proud and ignorant persons whose Lives were notoriously tainted as the Judgments of others are notably corrupted who withstood me to my face Yet have I this hope that they are not so long in coming forth as to hinder thy profit and satisfaction who yet remainest full of doubt concerning our Governours and sure established Government nor yet too late for the confirmation and strengthning of those who doubt not of the one nor the other Remember we are all under one Head and why not all of one Heart Seek not thy own honor profit or private estimation amongst men but the Peace of the Kingdom with the Salvation of Souls and the work is done without any danger of failing from the Land of Uprightness Read and consider what thou readest pray that thou maist understand and believe the Truth and the Truth will make you free which is the hearty prayer of Your Christian Faithful Remembrancer of your Duty and Allegiance W. WASSE March 20 1662. TAlem nobis Hierarchiam si exhibeunt ir qua sic emineant Episcopi ut Christo subesse non recusent ut ab illo tanquam unico capite pendeant ad ipsum referantur in qua sic inter se fraternam societatem colant ut non alio modo quam ejus veritate sint colligati tum vero nullo non Anathemate dignos fateor si qui erunt qui non eam reverenter summaque obedientia observent Cal. de Neces Reforman Ecclesiae If they would bring unto us such an Hierarchy wherein the Bishops shall so rule as that they refuse not to submit themselves to Christ that they depend upon him as their onely Head and refer all to him and so embrace Brotherly Society that they are knit together by no other means than his truth then surely if their shall be any that shall not submit themselves to that Hierarchy reverently and with the greatest obedience that may be I confess there is no Anathema of which they are not worthy Calvin in the Treatise of the Necessity of Reforming the Church If then it hath pleased Gratious Princes for expression of the Honor which they gave to God in the Honor given by them to our holy Function to grace us with eminent Titles and Rights can any Christian man be so foolishly spightful as to think because we are Lord-Bishops that we challenge to be Lords of our Clergy I would these Maligners should know that with High Titles we can bear as humble minds as those that pick that quarel and are so little transported with these Puffs of Style that we account it according to our Saviour's prescription our greatest glory to be Servants to the Souls of the meanest Drudges in the Family of our God Bishop Hall in his Episcopacy of Divine Right Imprimatur Geo. Stradling S. T. P. Rev. in Christo Pat. D. Gilb. Episc Lond. à sac Domest Ex Aed Sab. Feb. 26. 1662. A CENTURY OF REASONS For Subscription c. Con. Toledo Can 2.636 THE Decree of the B B of Spain assembled in a National Council at Toledo against Perjury and Treason Whosoever amongst us shall from this time forward violate the Oath which he hath taken for the safeguard of this Country and the preservation of the King's Majesty Whosoever shall attempt the King 's Death or Deposition Whosoever shall by Tyrannical presumption aspire to the Royal Throne let him be Accursed before the Holy Spirit before the blessed Saints let him be cast out of the Catholique Church