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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	france_n	king_n	navarre_n	2,337	5	11.6087	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46846	The Jesuite and priest discovered, or, A Brief discourse of the policies of the Church of Rome, in preserving itself, and dividing of Protestant states and kingdoms in which is plainly demonstrated, the effects of their political operations upon us at this day, in respect to religion, and matters of state : together, with the necessity of their banishment.		1663 (1663)	Wing J703; ESTC R39013	11,218	15

THE JESUITE AND PRIEST DISCOVERED Or A Brief DISCOURSE OF The Policies of the Church of ROME in Preserving it Self and Dividing of Protestant States and Kingdoms In which is plainly Demonstrated the Effects of their Political Operations upon Us at this Day in respect to Religion and matters of State Together with the necessity of their Banishment London Printed 1663. The Jesuite Discovered THe Policy of the Church of Rome consisteth principally in dividing it Self into Divers and Sundry Orders which are provided to retain all Humors in Mankind By this She maketh Her Interest strong and powerfull and preserveth Her self from ruine without which She could not have continued to this Day or bin able to act any thing to the hurt or detriment of the reformed Churches First As to the diversity of Orders amongst them their only Policy to those who despise the Wealth of the World and that can content themselves with Poverty are the Mendicants their Prelates abound in Riches their Hermits and Capuchins for severity of Life their Cardinals for Pomp and Glory their Jesuits for Learning and all manner of Sciences their Popes and Prelates exercising Soveraignty and Princely Command They take especial care to ingage and ravish all manner of Humors On the one side of a Street you shall have a Nunnery or Cloister of Virgins on the other side a Sty of Courtizans One day you shall have them all in Masks with all manner of Obsceneness and Folly that can be imagined or the corrupt nature of man desire the day following they will be all in Processions whipping themselves untill the bloud commeth On one Door you shall have Excommunications throwing Souls and Bodies to Hell on another Door a Jubilee or full Discharge of all Villanies Murthers Fornication Drunkenness Swearing Forswearing Poysoning in a word all manner of sin Leudness and Impiety They were led to this Policy by the hand of Confessions by that means they come to discern the nature of Mankind in general They do not hold it safe to restrain any of these Humors lest it should cause Eruptions and make their Subjects seek some other way for to vent them in so that these Orders are as Sinks to receive the Humors They have not the sword of the Spirit to destory Vice nor the Word of Truth to convince of evil Doing therefore they must trust to carnal Policy For the more growth sin hath among them the more the Church increaseth in Riches for that all punishment upon the matter and pardons are Pecuniary The wayes they have to ravish all sorts of affections as is said before are well nigh infinite there being not any thing either Sacred or Prophane no Vertue or Vice almost nothing of how contrary condition soever which the Church of Rome maketh not in some sort or other to serve Her turn that each fancy may be satisfied and each appetite find what to feed on Whatsoever their Wealth can sway with its Lovers or voluntary Poverty with the despisers of the World what Honour with the Ambitious what Obedience with the Humble what great Imployments with stirring or Martial spirits as the Orders of Knights that of Rhodes St. John of Jerusalem those now of Malta that of the Knights of St. Morris and St. Lazare amongst the Savoyards established by Pope Alexander the fourth 1644. the Knights of the Order of the Dog and Cock in France The first were to wear a Collar full of Stags heads with the Image of a Dog to hang thereon to signify fidelity these followed Philip the first King of France in his Wars Those of the Cock signified watchfulness and had a Cock for their Blazon for that the Antients accounted it to be a Bird of Mars The Order of the Knights of the Ginit in France The Order of the Knights of the Leli in the Realm of Navar The Order of Knights of St. Mary in Jerusalem of St. John of Accon and of St. Thomas of St. Saviour in Arragon Knights of Mountjoy in Syria The Order of Knights of the Glorious Virgin in Italy The Order of the Knights of the Golden fleece in the Houses of Burgundy and Austria with above 200 more Orders of Knights too large here to be mentioned These Orders are for their Metall'd and Active spirits Also they have their perpetual provisions for their Heavy and Restive Bodies in their Cells What content or pleasure nature can take in Pass-Times and Jollities What contrariwise the Austere mind in Discipline and Rigor What Love either Chastity can raise in the pure or Voluptuousness in the impure or dissolute What allurements are in knowledg to draw the Contemplative or in Actions of State to imploy the Polititian What Miracles with the Credulous What Visions with the Fantastical What Ceremonies can do with the Superstitious What Prayers with the Devout What dispensing with breach of all Rules with Men of lawless condition In sum whatsoever the Heart of man can desire he is fitted with in the Storehouse of the Church of Romes Politicks for himself to pursue or at least to Adore or Reverence in another This is the main Wheel on which the Church moveth and keepeth fast Members of all sorts so that by this means of providing for the several Humours of the Members it enjoyeth the more quiet in it self and becommeth able to oppose and disturb the Reformed Churches They have other strings to their Bow besides this aforementioned which is indeed the chief The one is their Miracles Another is their keeping the Laiety in Ignorance For their Miracles the numbers are infinite that they reckon upon but they are all of the same stamp and Impression with these viz. the representation of the Virgin Mary with the Babe their Eyes to move at certain times it is performed by Engine work secretly contrived to cheat the people into a belief of their Fopperies the lifting up the hand of the Image of the Virgin in imitation of blessing the People and the like Her Image giving Milk on the Day of the Nativity conveyed by small Tinn Pipes at a great distance begot the admiration in the people and an Implicit faith of all these wonders A subtil Jesuite shall make his abode five or six years more or less being blind at least seem so to be by Dying the inner skin of the Eye by a water distilled from a certain Herb not fit to be mentioned here or seem Lame or Leprozed or otherwise by Guzmonds Art of raising an artificial Leprosy now used among some Beggars to move compassion in the Charitable When he is well known he shall come and implore the aid of such a Saint Immediately he shall be as whole as a Fish and his sight shall be restored then that Saint is repaired unto far and near offerings come plentifully Thus they contrive to enrich the Church and if it chance that any Bath or Spring break forth of the Earth that passeth thorow any mineral and is of Physical use as all