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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	false_a	know_v	true_a	4,114	5	4.5846	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31689	The Character of a fanatick in general, by what other name however he may be more specially distinguished		1681 (1681)	Wing C1973; ESTC R9206	3,661	6

THE CHARACTER OF A FANATICK in General By what other Name however he may be more specially distinguished HE is a person of a more exercis'd Faith than Understanding one govern'd by Instinct nor Intellect and who like those of old never thinks he has enough of the Deity till beside himself You may call him if you please a Perpetual Motion or restless Whirligig ever twirling from bad to worse or the Ignis Fatuus of Divinity carried about with every wind least considering whence it cometh or whither it goeth as even such likewise is every one that is born of him It may be thought the Prophet had somewhat like him in his eye in that Wheel within a Wheel for of himself he never was but ill turn'd off from another like those imperfect dough-bak'd Creatures produc'd by the Sun on the Banks of Nile so that his Generation is founded in Corruption and his Extraction of the same Parentage with Monsters not created nor intended but produc'd His Principles are like the Chaos a confused Lump of every thing and nothing or a Gallimaufry of Negatives nor this nor that nor t'other but what he is no man knows no not the Angels in Heaven nor himself to boot this only excepted that he is more party-coloured then Joseph's Coat and patcht together of more pieces then a Taylor 's Cushion Nor is his Practice much unsuitable to his Principles he puts on Religion as a Cloak not a Carment and so makes his Impostures with Holiness to the Lord Thus Absalom pretends a Sacrifice when his business is Rebellion and Herod a Worship when his design is Murder Nor with much wonder the Florentine hath taught him He that would gain by Deceit must first acquire a Credit by at least a shew of Integrity and he that would practice upon the People must follow the old Rule of Finge Deum such influence have solemn looks and Verily Verily upon the Multitude who have little other to pass them for Men than Speech and Figure Hence is it that he puts off his Tinsel for Standard and the Maggots of his own Fancy for Divine Inspirations That he obtrudes his Enthusiasms for Visions and justifies Homer that even Dreams are of God That he takes a Holy Pride to himself and says to the rest of the World Stand off That he calls the common Infirmities of Mankind Crying sins National sins bow-dy'd sins black and blue sins and his own Mormoes meer Slips and Failings That he can see no sin in Jacob nor iniquity in his Israel of God That he calls them the only Holy only Chosen only Godly only Precious only Spiritually-discerning people puts a discriminating Shibboleth on others as Formalists Carnalists dry Moralists wither'd Fig-trees Outside-men Negative-Holiness-men Opus operatum-men Will-worshippers Laodiceans Lukewarm Professors and what not That he talks of nothing but New Light and Prophesie Spiritual incomes Indwellings Emanations Manifestations Sealings and the like Spiritual gibberish and canting to which also the zealous twang of the Nose adds no small efficacy that he runs counter to all things in Power and treads the Antipodes to every thing commanded though for no other reason perhaps but because commanded for it may be observed that the Lords prayer was not so absolutely thrown out of the Kirk till recommended by its own Directory In short that he calls subjection in matters of Religion a tying up the Spirit and all Injunctions even in things indifferent a manifest invading the Sanctum Sanctorum and now the great cry is Persecution for Conscience nothing in his mouth but destitute afflicted and the common corollary but not forsaken Alas alas the habitations of Jacob are swallow'd and the places of the Assembly taken away A bow is bent against the daughter of Judah and the breach of the Virgin of Sion is like a great Sea Whereas on the other hand let him be as in the years past and that Sun once more shine in his Tabernacle this success new models his Conscience and like Aaron's Rod he swallows up every thing that lies in his way even Princes must lay their hands on their mouths and the Nobles not speak again to his words The poor distressed is become Hogen Mogen and the Servus Servorum a Dominus Dominantium The little Flock claims a Kingdom ex condigno and the Chosen generation sets up for a Royal Priesthood In short this little Horn takes a mouth to himself speaking mighty things and his language is Overturn Overturn Overturn And now he makes his Doctrine suitable to his Text and owns above-board that Dominion is founded in Grace not Nature that the Goods of this World are properly the Elects that himself and his Knipperdolins are the only Israelites and all the rest Egyptians that the New Jerusalem must be propagated as the second Temple was built with the Sword in one hand and the Trowel in t'other or as the Abbot in Henry the third's time gave it in Absolution to the Earl of Leicester Gladium Spiritualem sine Gladio Materiali nihil posse What shall I add He looks as terrible as an Army with Banners and declares Quis suscitabit eum was personally meant of his Tribe And yet this man has followers and those of the honourable Women too not a few for to say truth his Conversation is much after the rate of that before the Floud the sons of God among the daughters of men Devotion in all places whether true or false being most natural to that Sex 't was the Devil's policy to our first Parents for well he knew to beguile Eve was the ready way to hook in Adam And thus he proves a Stumbling-block to the Wives and a Rock of offence to the Husbands In brief like the Dragon in the Apocalypse his Tail draws a third part of the Stars and casts them to the Earth the reason is obvious Fortitudo ejus in Lumbis ejus virtus in umbilico Ventris But to proceed His Profession is like his Allegiance a meer Fucus yet so laid on one at first sight could not but judge it natural His Common-place Polyanthea and Concordance and the height of his School-Divinity the Assemblies Catechism His Prayer a Rhapsody of holy Hickups sanctified Barkings illuminated Goggles sighs sobs yeas clocks gasps and groans not more unintelligible then nauseous However to give him his due he prays heartily for the King but with more distinctions and mental reservations then an honest man would have taken the Covenant From hence as out of a third Heaven he falls by head and shoulders into his Preachment which what other is it then a wild career over Hill and Dale till the Afternoon Chimes stop him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thump upon Thump Yelp upon Yelp Doctrine upon Doctrine Rule upon Rule Reason upon Reason Text upon Text Proof upon Proof Direction upon Direction Motive upon Motive Sign upon Sign Token upon Token Effect upon Effect and Uses more then innumerable And here likewise