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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	day_n	lord_n	sabbath_n	1,964	5	9.6405	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56188	Philanax Protestant, or, Papists discovered to the King as guilty of those traiterous positions and practises which they first insinuated into the worst Protestants and now charge upon all to which is added, Philolaus, or, Popery discovered to all Christian people in a serious diswasive from it, for further justification of our gracious King and his honourable Parliaments proceedings for the maintenance of the Act of Uniformity.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1663 (1663)	Wing P4030; ESTC R7555	26,609	49

place they all speak with tongues and there come in those that are unlearned or unbelievers and they say that they are mad so that the great God is blasphemed Christian Religion is dishonoured Atheism is promoted and the world is ready to be shut up in unbelief 8. We our God our Church hath taught you a Religion that teacheth to deny all ungodliness and all worldly lusts to hate every false way to allow no evil inclination in our nature nor disorder or sin in our life A Religion that teacheth us to deny our selves to walk in a narrow way to mortific our lusts to abstain from all appearance of evil to walk circumspectly to live without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation to set God always before us and not allow our selves or others in the least evil The poor deluded souls of Rome endeavour by all means to set up a way that professeth to be a baud to sin whilst both in practice they tolerate open Stews and prefer fornication in some cases before marriage which is honourable among all men and the bed undefiled and gently blanch over the breaches of Gods Law with the name of venials and such favourable titles of diminution daring to affirm that venial sins are no hinderance to a mans clearness and perfection They would deceive you and themselves with a pretended power in the Pope to dispense with those sins which none can forgive but God They encourage one another and the vitiously inclined world to all excess of riot with a vain hope that sin may be bought and sold that pardon may be had for money and that riches will profit in the day of wrath So as Hell can have no Dives no rich men in it but fools and the friendless Devils indeed are tormentors there yet men can command Devils and money can command men We have taught you to fear an oath and to swear in truth righteousness and judgement and to speak the truth one to another for the peace and security of the world How can men live by one another unless they can believe what each speaks or swears to other But alas Rome would impose upon us a Religion shall I call it a Religion that allows jugling equivocations and reserved senses in our very Oaths O sad swear one thing mean another mock God and deceive the world Hear what Cardinal Ostatus reports of Pope Clement the eighth who said he urged that the King of France should joyn with Spain in the invasion of England but the Cardinal replyed that that King was tyed by an oath to the Queen of England whereunto the Pope answered and they say he is infallible that the oath was made to an Heretick but he was bound in another oath to God and the Pope and that Kings may allow themselves all things which make for their advantage Indeed saith he using the Duke of urbins words everyone doth blame a noble man that is not a Soveraign if he keep not his word but supream Princes may without any danger to their reputation make covenants and break them or betray and perpetrate other such like things What shall a Confessor do saith Franc. de S. Victoriâ an ingenious Papist and a learned reader of Divinity in Salamanca if he be asked of a sin that he hath heard in confession may he say that he knows not of it I answer saith he according to all our Doctors that he may But what if he be compelled to swear I say that he may and ought to swear that he knoweth it not for it is understood that he knoweth it not besides confession and so he swears true But what if he be asked upon oath whether he knew it in confession or no I answer saith he that a man thus urged may still swear that he knoweth it not in confession i. e. not so as to reveal it O wise cunning deep and holy perjuries unknown to our fore-fathers Yea which is worst of all they do obtrude upon the World so many idle Legends so many false Discourses so many lying Miracles so many pious Frauds as that they have shaken mens belief of all Antiquity such ridiculous and improbable things that they sure can hardly deliver them without laughter pleasing themselves to see how they deceive the world and their abettors cannot hear them without shame and confusion of face It 's a sad thing to see the wiser sort of the World read those stories on winter-nights for sport which the poor credulous multitude hear in their Churches with a devout astonishment Neither do they satisfie themselves with these false suggestions they have thrust upon the world but in conscience of their untruth they go about to deprave all Authors that may give evidence against them to outface ancient truths and to deface all monuments of Primitive belief and practice leaving nothing unattempted against heaven or earth that may promote their interest and disable us their innocent adversaries though thereby they blot out all Religion and suppress all truth We teach you to keep holy the Sabbath day prescribing the careful observation of this day and others as the onely means to keep up the life and power of Religion in the world But alas they turn not away their feet from the Sabbath from doing their pleasure upon God's holy Day they call not the Sabbath a delight the holy of the Lord and honourable neither do they honour it but upon it they do their own ways they finde their own pleasure and speak their own words 9. Our Church indeed preserveth teacheth openeth confirmeth and urgeth the truth yet so as your selves being judges and allowed a judgement of discretion she urgeth nothing contrary to Scripture Sense and Reason Yet if our Church were overthrown there are they that would overthrow with it Scripture Sense and Reason Not to mention their infinite vanities introduced to the Church which rob poor souls of the sound and plain helps of true Piety and Salvation they take from you one half of that heavenly which our Saviour left for his last and dearest Legacie to his Church for ever As if Christs Ordinances were superfluous or they were wiser than their Redeemer against express Scripture which saith Drink ye all of this Cup. They would have you mock God with a few Latine Prayers without faith ignorantly without comfort unprofitably expresly contrary to the 14 Chapter of the 1 Epistle to the Corinthians And lest ought should here be wanting to the affront of the Scripture and the setting up of the doctrine of Devils they forbid to marry yea they teach it is better to burn then to marry And when our Church hath taught you that all things are lawful that every creature of God is good and none to be refused all things being yours as you are Christs onely that you must admit three moderations of your Christian Liberty Sobriety Charity and Duty in obedience to your Soveraign forbidding