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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	die_v	hour_n	life_n	4,496	5	4.6534	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12254	Phōsphoros or A most heauenly and fruitfull sermon, preached the sixt of August. 1615 At the translation of the right Reuerend Father in God, the Archbishop of St. Andrewes to the sea thereof. By Mr. William Covvper B. of Galloway.	Cowper, William, 1568-1619.	1616 (1616)	STC 5932; ESTC S114580	30,693	94

chiefe Church men answerable to Romish Cardinals hath Tundos honourable and chiefe men in the Clergy created and confirmed by himselfe those haue power to giue Priesthood vnto others they appoint fastings to the people when vpon religious dayes they goe in pilgrimage these properly resemble Cardinals and Antichristian Prelates who receiue such power from the Beast as he pleaseth to impart vnto them Next vnder them are Bontu Vnder them againe inferior Cleargy men such as Monks c. with these are Iaponian Monkes and haue no authority vnlesse their supreme head confirm them by his Bull and letters testimoniall these haue ample Abbacies Coenobia Abbacies sayth hee like vnto ours they haue an Altar in the midst of their Temple wherein the image of Amida carued in timber Images worke is set vpon a rose curiously carued also of timber worke very pleasant to behold they haue great Bibliothees and Bibliothees a common house wherein they eate al together they haue sounding Buildings instruments of brasse wherby Bells they are wakened to their houres of prayer from midnight to morning before their Altar in the Temple they sit in seates of their Queere opposite one to another rehearsing their matine prayers At the breake of Matutine songs day euery one of them spendeth an houre in priuate meditation when their nobles haue mo children then they can prouide for they enter them into the Order of Brontii Many mo like these In these and many other haue the Iaponian great similitude with the Italian recordeth he which were long to recite now but all of them as cleerely resembling the manner of the superstitious Roman worship as one egge is like to another And yet sayth he these Brontii vnder pretext of chastity and holinesse are in life and manners most profane and filthy they are of all men most greedy and haue innumerable wayes to empty the purses of people make gaine to themselues they sell vnto the simpler sort multa Chirographa many hand-writs by which the common Namely in the comfortlesse comfort they giue their people in the houre of death people sufficiently fenced against euill spirits they borrow siluer which in the life to come they promise to repay with double vantage and for surety they giue their hand-writ to him from whom they got that when he dyes hee may carrie it with him ad inferos a very image of that vile nundination whereby our popish Priests make merchandise Reuel of the soules of men and steale from them their goods by Masses Pardons Indulgences and such like trumpery whereby the poore blinded people beleeue to be eased of the paines of Purgatory This I say among many other How the Iesuite Frankē was moued by this consideration arguments mooued that Iesuite to a certaine iealosie and suspition of the Romish religion that it was but carnall which will best appeare by his owne words Haec multa eiusmodi alia cum ex literis illis a nostri ordinis hominibus scriptis cognouissem obstupui scilicet tamque cohorrui quam si ex astris in terram relapsus fuissem Occurrebat enim menti meae subito nihil nostrae inueniri posse religioni similius quare vehementer timendum esse ne omnis haec nostra spiritualis viuendi ratio non diuina sit sed humana tantum Philosophica quod eam vel idololatrae ethnici homines Euangelij luce carentes assequantur quidem tales Ethnici qui natura moribus ingenio nostris Europaeis ingeniosioribus Italis puta Hispanis persimiles dicuntur quiuis tam vt intelligat a similibus naturis ingenijs simillimas inuentas constitutas esse religiones These and many more like these when I vnderstood by certaine To thinke that the Iesuiticall deuotion was not diuine but humane letters written from some of our owne society I was astonished yea I quaked and trembled as if I had fallen from heauen to the earth for it sodainly strook in my mind that nothing could be found in the world liker our religion wherefore it is greatly to be feared lest all this kinde of spirituall life which wee liue be not diuine but humane onely and philosophicke because the very idolaters and Ethnicke men wanting the light of the Euangel haue attained vnto it and such Ethnicks who in nature manners and ingenie are said to be very like our more ingenious Europaeans Italians namely and Spaniards so that any man may easily vnderstand that of the like natures and ingenies the like religions haue been inuented and established And he addeth yet more Quid quod apud eosdem Iaponios non nostra tantum religio sed Yea not the Iesuitical only but the whole Religion Romane is from an Ethnicke Spirit tota ferme Ecclesia Romana Ethnico spiritu fundata constitutaque cernatur nam aquam habent lustralem multas magnas indulgentias Brontii populo in con cionibus perseueranti Caenobia ipsorum ditanti proponunt globulos etiam habēt precarios quos permulti Iaponii non solum priuatos inter parietes sed in publico totaque vrbe fere semper manu percurrunt But which is more sayth he not our religion only namely Iesuiticall but almost the whole Roman religion may bee seene among these Iaponians founded Holy water Indulgences prayers on beades and such like vsed among people who know no God and established by an Ethnick Spirit for they haue their holy water they propose great indulgences to such as perseuere in their religion and enrich their Abbacies they haue beades for prayer which many of the Iapoponians vse not only within their priuate houses but in publicke throughout the whole Towne they are almost alway turning them ouer with their hands But to leaue this digression Best remedy against such is the light of Gods word if it be followed and returne againe to our purpose let vs remember that the soule and life of all true religion is the wholsome word of God and that no shadow of whatsoeuer sanctity or seuere life should moue vs to embrace any religion which cannot bee warranted by the word Let no man spoyle you through Philosophie Col. 2. 8 Verse 21 22 23 and vaine deceit through the traditions of men As touch not taste not handle not which are after the cōmandement doctrines of men which things haue indeed a shewe of wisedome in voluntary religion They are neither successors to S. Paul nor Peter who follow not this light and humblenesse of minde and in not sparing the bodie neither haue they in ones estimation to satisfie the flesh and to the end we be not diuerted frō true religion with the shew of religion let vs keepe in minde that warning of S. Peter wee haue a most sure word of prophecy whereunto yee doe well that ye take heede as vnto a light that shineth in a 2. Per 1 19 darke