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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	holy_a	scripture_n	4,755	5	5.8970	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67840	A friendly conference between the suffering saints for conscience-sake, the Jacobites, met together at the --- Tavern particularly R.L., R.F. and A.S., my Lord Bp. of Salisbury (promised to be so by K. James when he returns) and other precious ones there assembled at least to consult about and read prayers for the dethroning of the best of kings and restoration of the worst : with a postscript concerning a late declaration of Mr. Lobb and others against Crispionism.	Trepidantium Malleus.	1699 (1699)	Wing Y80A; ESTC R26417	18,240	33

propriis perjuriis obruta c. R. L. The Devil take them and their Prayers too I had rather go to Mass than to the Common Prayer as now read They that thirsted for the Blood of the Monmouthians because Resisters thirst for ours as Non-resisters they can blow hot and cold These turn-coat weathercock temporising Rogues when they read Prayers twice a day for King James That he might live long in Health and Wealth and that God would strengthen him to vanquish and overcome all his Enemies would presently go out and say God send the Prince of Orange else we are all undone I believe I should say in my Conscience but that I have lost it or never had it that the Turkish Mustees are honester Men than the now Bishops Clergy-men and Gentiemen that swear to the Usurper Had we been Resisters they would have hang'd us as such had King James prevail'd and now for being Non-resisters they would hang us as such seeing the Usurper hath prevail'd The Devil choak them for no Prayers nor Oaths can do it The Phanaticks are Angels in comparison of them If ever King James return I would as willingly cut their Throats if he gave me a Commission as ever the Catholicks in Ireland by a Commission from his Father that glorious Martyr-maker of blessed Memory did cut the Throats or worse of the Protestants there Before G I would not spare a Man of them no tho I knew the Rogues would read any Prayers take any Oath preach any thing as opposite to their late Prayers Oaths and Preaching especially in their profane ungodly God-provoking Fast days and Thanksgiving days as the two Poles in the Heavens one to another We are all of one mind in this never to take the Sacrament living or dying rather than receive it of such Jeroboam's Priests Mr. I profess Gentlemen you talk at such a wicked rate that would make a Jew Mahometan or any sober Pagan to blush You have talkt as if the Blessed Saviour of the World were as very an Impostor as Benchocab or Sabbata Sevi I believe the Truth and Authority of the Holy Scriptures and wish you did too Were you willing to be convinced I would ask you 1. Whether you believe this World had once a beginning and shall in time have an end Hath it been more millions of Years of Ages than are Drops of Water in the Sea or Sand on the Sea-shore and can all Men give but an account of one poor six thousand Years or shall it continue so 2. Did not some cogitative contriving Being make all these things in their beauty order and use for some end All things were made for Man Man for God who hath made no Creature but him capable of the knowledg of himself or thoughtful of a Life to come 3. Are not Scripture-Accounts of the twelve Tribes the Passover confirmed by what we see and know to this day About the Passover you know who in a little thing against Deism hath lately improv'd 4. Are not the certain Discoveries we have of Apparitions Witches evident proof of Devils and after Punishments 5. Is not the postibility much more the probability much more the certainty of a Life to come enough to awaken Men to the greatest activity for God and against Sin 6. Ask your selves whether you did not long ago resolve to live the Life of Brutes and then set your heads to work to help you to Notions that you might hope to die their death Do you not hate Convictions and dread them as Men a Ghost Is it reason enough to grow desperate and say Things may be otherwise 7. Do not Men when they die wish they had liv'd the Life of the Righteous Do you not believe if you were sure now to die you would wish so too and give us all that counsel you laugh at from me 8. Doth not a holy useful Life make Men Men or God-like Creatures and a sensual blaspheming Life make Men as Beasts or Devils 9. I dare appeal from your Mouths to your Consciences whether you do not by day but often by night when out of company or business pronounce that Man happy in your thoughts who hath gotten above the tyranny of filthy Lust Drunkenness Whoredoms Oppressions c. and that Man most miserable that hath not but like your selves is captivated by them 10. After all Attempts to dispute your Souls into Mortality and Christ and Heaven into a Fable do you not find that good kind Spirit of Grace yet to court you as if he would take no denial that you often resolve on a Reformation then this day when that comes then at another time Wherefore I pray you after so long a time whilst it is yet call'd to day turn you turn you why will you die The case is not desperate tho dangerous I know Can the Ethiopian change his Skin or the Leopard his Spots or you do good which are accustomed to do evil I doubt as they scoft at Jesus and the Apostles and thought them besides themselves so may you deal with me but Charity bids me hope the best and I pray R. L. Shut the door shut the door else if any true hearts should come in they will think here is a Phanatical Meeting and that we are all turning Diffenters and so Williamites on a sudden R. F. We all no doubt have had our time of being Priest-ridden for my part I have made an Agreement with my self long ago that I will be so no more and I believe so have you done If there be a Heaven I am sure I shall never go there and if there be a Hell I am sure that will be my Portion and therefore I will trouble my self no further A. S. I am sometimes almost perswaded to be a Christian indeed But O Mr. H. I wish you were altogether perswaded to be such R. L. I would desire him if he take your advice to take mine too If he resolve to be a good Christian let him resolve never to be Bishop of Salisbury For a good Christian and a Bishop are seldom if ever known to meet in one Man And seeing you talk of Religion which mars all Conversation it is time to break up the Meeting A Plague on 't should I stay longer I know not but I may catch the Infection and talk if not think like a Phanatick too Farewel I hope our next meeting will be a better one than this that is a more jovial one I believe all Preachers publick Chears and you among the rest You preach'd as I printed for Money or as he that was promis'd ten Pounds left by Madam Cheswell the greatest Whore in this City to preach her Funeral Sermon but on this condition that he should commend her He undertook it and in the close of the Sermon said All was well for she was be gotten well born well liv'd well and died well for she said he was begotten in Camberwell was born in Sbadwell her Name was