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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	pure_a	religion_n	undefiled_a	1,985	5	11.7434	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

several disguises yea an whole Colledge of them sate weekly in counsel in or near Westminster some few years since under Conne the Popes Nuntio on purpose to embroyle England and Scotland in bloody civil wars thereby to endanger shake subvert these Realms and destroy the late King as you may read at large in my Romes Master-piece published by the Commons special Order An. 1643. who occasioned excited fomented the first and second intended but happily prevented wars between England and Scotland and after that the unhappy Differences Wars between the King Parliament and our three Protestant Kingdoms to bring them to utter desolation and extirpate our reformed Religion We conclude this Importunity with the Prayer on the 5 th of November for your Majesty O Lord who didst this day discover the snares of death that were laid for us and didst wonderfully deliver us from the same Be thou still our mighty Protector and scatter our enemies that delight in bloud infatuate and defeat their counsels abate their pride asswage their malice and confound their devices Strengthen the hand of our gracious King Charles and all that are put in authority under him with Judgement and Justice to cut off all such workers of iniquity as turn religion into rebellion and faith into saction that they may never prevail against us or triumpth in the ruin of thy Church among us But that our gracious Soveraigns Realms being preserved in thy true Religion and by thy merciful goodnesse protected in the same we may all duly serve thee and give thanks in thy holy congregation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PHILOLAUS OR Popery discovered to the People In a serious Disswasion from it Dear Country-men and beloved in the Lord Jesus YOu are so conscious of your Duty to Kings so obliged to their Government so faithful to their Person so regardful of the peace and happiness you enjoy under them every one under his own Vine and under his own Fig-tree and so sensible of the Misery of rebellion disturbance and confusion that we need not use any other argument to disswade you from Popery than this That it is a Religion written in many of your dread Soveraigns sacred blood a Religion whose prime Article as some of them say is Treason a Religion managed by conspirators and advanced by those who are born for the overthrow of States and Kingdoms who turn the World upside down We know your souls abhor these courses and detest these villanies but this is not all this way threatneth not onely your Kings but your selves endangereth not onely Their lives but your souls It 's not onely a great inconvenience that hindereth your peace and settlement in this World but a mischief that may hinder your Salvation in the next We hope indeed that you have received the truth of your own Religion in much assurance that you are rooted and grounded in the Faith Since you have scarched the Scriptures which the Papists kept from you and finde that these things are so Since you have felt the power and comfort of the Truth in your souls Since you finde it owned by Gods wonderful dispensations in the World whereby it 's great and doth prevail and seated in your hearts by his Spirit Since you see it eminent in the lives of many good men and confirmed by the death of as many excellent Confessors and Martyrs who vouch it with their last breath and seal it with their dearest blood Since you know it 's owned by the Church of Rome its self which hath nothing which we may call a Religion but ours viz. The Scriptures the Lords Prayer the Creed and the Ten Commandments c. to which they have added their own idolatrous superstitious idle and vain inventions which is all the Religion they have differing from us We are perswaded that you will not easily be moved from the the hope of the Gospel Yet that we may according to our duties assist our gracious Soveraign and endeavour to establish your hearts while he is establishing your Religion that while he with the advice of his great Council by a serious Law restrains you from Popery for fear we by serious motives may refrain from it for conscience sake The scandals given you are many the seducers are numerous their insinuations are plausible their temptations are taking you many of you are weak and we the Lord forgive us have been too careless and almost asleep while the Enemies sow Tares among us therefore we must leave with you a few plain words that you may have always before you Yea that they may be in your heart that you may teach them diligently to your children that you may talk of them when you sit in your house when you walk by the way when you lie down and when you rise up Many may write to you with more profoundness none write to you with more sincere servencie and earnest desire to save you and we are very sensible that while exact learned writings are taken up onely by learned men it is necessary that there be some plain discourses written whereby the truth may with evidence be conveyed to you 1. We taught you who are our joy and crown who we hope will be our rejoycing in the day of our Lord Jesus we taught you a Religion pure and undefiled before God which consists in solid virtue serious holiness an exact conversation led soberly righteously peaceably and Godly in this present World a Religion perfect right pure sure faithful holy just spiritual lively operative heavenly that enlighneth the minde sanctifieth the heart reforms the life frames a man after Gods own image in righteousness and true holiness We taught and do teach you a truth which is after Godliness a Mystery of Godliness a Religion that may make you wise to Salvation through Faith which is in Christ Jesus which may be profitable for Doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness that you may be perfect and throughly furnished unto all good works in whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any virture if there be any praise Alas The Papists having nothing besides the Scripture which we have as well as they which yet you shall not read but vain shadows of holiness a gross form of godliness which they cozen the Vulgar with consisting in Latine-service Images Tapers Rich Vestures Crosses Sentings Holy-water Offerings Prostrations Processions Pilgrimages and other bodily exercises that profit nothing whereas that true godliness which you profess is profitable for this life and for that which is to come They can teach you nothing but their own vain and useless inventions whereby they make void the Commandments of God nothing that may settle the heart establish the conscience satisfie the soul weaken sin strengthen grace promote your comfort or secure your eternity 2.