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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	catholic_a	church_n	communion_n	2,376	5	9.1446	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64349	An answer to the letter of the Roman Catholick souldier, as he calls himself in a letter from C.D. to A.B. the examiner of his Speculum : the souldiers letter is added at the end.	Tenison, Thomas, 1636-1715.; Ward, Thomas, 1652-1708. Roman Catholick souldier's letter to Dr. Tho. Tenison.; Wharton, Henry, 1664-1695.	1688 (1688)	Wing T687; ESTC R18438	5,779	14

AN ANSWER TO THE LETTER OF THE Roman Catholick Souldier As he calls Himself In a LETTER from C. D. to A. B. The EXAMINER of his SPECULUM The Souldiers Letter is added at the End. Imprimatur An Answer to the Letter of the Catholick Souldier c. in a Letter to A. B. H. MAURICE LONDON Printed for Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCLXXXVIII AN ANSWER to the LETTER OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC SOLDIER As he calls himself In a LETTER from C. D. to A. B. the Examiner of his Speculum SIR THis is an Age of Wonders Just before you left me Mr. Pulton's Half-sheet Friend found out the Substance of an Author under the Species of a Publisher and more than that he crouded Six Conferences and those no very loose ones into his own Nutshell Now in your Absence the Author of the Ecclesiastical Prospective-glass has wrapt up your Speculum Examin'd in a little bit of course Paper and then another Compendious Gentleman who advises Pulpits in Matters where his Own Party transgress has in a few Lines confuted D. T 's printed Sermon of Discretion in giving Alms without regard to the First part of that Title In your absence I take upon me to wait on these Gentlemen and my first Visit shall be to the Catholick Soldier But why the Catholick Soldier as if any Christian Soldier as such was not Catholic For every Christian is as Christian Catholic or Orthodox and a Member of that Church which is therefore called Catholic or Universal not because in every Age 't is all over the World for some Roman Doctors say it may subsist in one Woman but because it is not limited as the Jewish Synagogue to One People but admits Men of all Nations and Conditions upon the Terms of Baptism into its Communion And that is true Catholic Communion This Gentleman has I perceive a Talent in giving Names he is Mr. Pulton's Common-place-Man and he gives his Book the pretty Name of Prospective-glass and that you may purchase it as of the choicer kind he calls it Ecclesiastical Nay that he may shew himself an Extraordinary Man in this way of giving Names he has Christened his own Father and his Christian Name is Calvinist and his Sire-name Presbyterian His first is a little unlucky for whilst he throws at his Father about the black Decree some imagine that he hits S. Austin Seing now he is so very bold with his Father D. T. they say do's not take it amiss that he is bold with him Yet as Familiar as he is 't is well he speaks not in commendation of him for some must be ill Men before others will praise them But let us see what Name he gives D. T. and how well he has hit the Matter Why as Mr. Pulton borrowed from his Speculum so now he borrows from Mr. Pulton's Remarks and D. T. is Titus and a Bar or two beyond him For what Reason I pray For these Evidencing Words The Author they say was in the way of being bred a Scholar in Cambridge but he is now a Military Man. Now this he thinks is a scandalous Untruth and he thus confutes it 1. He turns D. T 's Words into other Words and then makes his own Sense out of them You write an Epistle to your A. B. in which you tell him and the World That I was a Cambridge-Scholar But to say It is a Report is not to say The thing is so and to be in the way of being so is not actually to be so And many a Boy that is in the way at Sedburgh or elsewhere is dropped before ever he gets to S. John's He is a notable Turner already what would he be if in stead of a Catholic Soldier he should one day become a Catholic Priest He that can already turn a Looking-glass into a Prospective-glass would then turn a late Author into S. Cyprian For he has still a mighty mind to put the Book de Coenâ Domini upon S. Cyprian and to make the Men of the Third Century to live with those after the Twelfth All this for the due joining Oh but secondly 't is plainly said not only that he was not in the way os being bred a Scholar but that he was turn'd from Black to Red. He has consulted some infallible Interpreter and these Words must needs signifie he who now wears a Soldier 's Coat wore a Clergy-man's black Coat before Here is Wonder again D. T. has admitted him and put him into Orders by virtue of a Phrase But has not Mr. Ward heard a Roman call'd a Red-letter'd Man as well as a Catholic And is it not proper to say of such a one who leaves either Common-Prayer or Directory That he is turn'd from Black to Red without converting the Colour of a Calendar into that of a Coat If it be let him that observes such Decency in his Words be a Censor of Phrases Tho' the Doctor meant as I have said for that was the Account he gave of the Expression before the Soldier oblig'd him with his Letter yet there is another Account which may be given out of the Sage Author of Hudibras which I produce without the least Reflexion upon either of the Professions for I heartily honour them Now their Honour being left untouch'd let this little Author make what Application he pleaseth Thus then that Sage Author somewhere in his Poem And like to Lobster boil'd the Morn From Black to Red began to turn Now according to Mr. Ward 's no-Protestant Logic the Inference should be this The Morning was a Divine and wore a black Coat and by and by turn'd Soldier and wore a Red one His second Argument is as convincing He could not be a Scholar because he turn'd Roman before he was Nineteen Years old As if they could not be design'd in the least thought of their Father for Scholars before the Clock struck the third Quarter before Nineteen Ay but in his third Argument he says his Father had never the least thought of sending him to Cambridge or any other Protestant University and here 's your Catholic indeed He is already like a Saint or an Angel for he can know his Fathers thoughts his least thoughts tho' as little as F. D's Mustard seed If it was not in his Fathers thoughts I wish it had for then he might have learn'd better Divinity than in his Speculum and better Manners than in his Duel and Letter He would have been taught not to have reproach'd his Father publickly for withdrawing his kindness because he embrac'd the Catholic Faith. Nor revil'd him as a Calvinist or Presbyterian which Names whatsoever they signisy are us'd by him as terms of dishonour But his last Argument will do the business effectually he is musing about Mr. Pulton's way of Certificates as Mr. Pulton took his way of Quotations If he had he says but time to write into Yorkshire to send Letters into the North as