Selected quad for the lemma: father_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
father_n	husband_n	mother_n	wife_n	20,403	5	8.3061	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06476	The Christian against the Iesuite Wherein the secrete or namelesse writer of a pernitious booke, intituled A discouerie of I. Nicols minister &c. priuily printed, couertly cast abrod, and secretely solde, is not only iustly reprooued: but also a booke, dedicated to the Queenes Maiestie, called A persuasion from papistrie, therein derided and falsified, is defended by Thomas Lupton the authour thereof. Reade with aduisement, and iudge vprightly: and be affectioned only to truth. Seene and allowed.	Lupton, Thomas.	1582 (1582)	STC 16946; ESTC S107762	169,674	220

say wee shame not to proclame triumphes vpon so base conquestes against our mother the Catholike Churche who hath borne vs and brought vs vp c. Wee neede not thankes bee to God bee ashamed of any triumphes that wee proclame and it is verye harde for you to prooue that wee proclame our triumphes openly but rather giue therefore prayses to GOD and 〈◊〉 there at in wardly And yet to say trueth we may 〈◊〉 proclame our triumphes then you may reioyce in yours for we triumphe not in burning our brethren in priuie conspiracies in sowing of sedition in rebelling against our prince and in procuring her death as you doe but our chiefe triumphing is in the growing of y t gospel in recouering lost sheepe in winning y t wicked in increasing gods kingdom Therefore to proclaime such triumphes as we do not were no such shame as you say And where it seemeth you meane the base conquest wee triumph in is the winning of master Nicols the conquest is not so base as you would make your Reader beleeue vnlesse you thinke it to be but a base conquest to couquere the Diiuel and to pluck a soule out of the clawes of Satan As before you counted master Nicols to bee but base 〈◊〉 so nowe you blow foorth that the winning of him is but a base conquest but as you thinke that our conquest therein is but small so I beleeue the conquest of the popes souldiers in Ireland not long since was not very great and whatsouer cause wee haue to triumph in this I am sure hee hath no cause to triumph in that And yet if your Pope haue 〈◊〉 much power as his procters pronounce and as much might as you and many woulde make him and if hee hath power ouer the Angels of God I maruell why hee did not then commaunde the Angels to come out of heauen into Ireland to fight for him and to vanquishe and kill the 〈◊〉 power there as well as God sent his Angels to destroy the hoste of Sennacherib that came against King 〈◊〉 to destroy Hierusalem I woulde faine knowe in what part of the Bible or the worde of God you haue read that your Romish Churche is a mother or in what place of the Gospell you can finde that your said Catholike mother of Rome hath or ought to haue any children in England Truely your mother of Rome may thinke that shee hath children in Englande but they that bee wise in England will not think they 〈◊〉 any 〈◊〉 mother in Rome They that take God for their father will not take your Church of Rome for their mother God the father of heauen is not able to doe more for his 〈◊〉 then your earthly mother of Rome is able to doe for her daughters Christe taught his Apostles to say Our father which art in heauen and not our mother of Rome which art in earth if your Church of Rome be our mother I 〈◊〉 then who begat vs on her who was our father for I hope you will not say that she is Hermaphroditus both man and woman so both our father and mother Surely shee is so contrary to God y t he is none of her husband neither wil he haue any such wife as regardeth not his sonue or contēneth his gospel as your mother of Rome doth altogether Therfore I know no meete husband for her vnlesse it be the Diuell who in my iudgement is the fittest husband for her that can be found for as she counteth herselfe Ladie Mistres of all the world so the Diuell is Prince a mightie ruler in y t world whereby it doth appeare if she haue any husband at al if she haue married w t her match as such a proud dame will 〈◊〉 loth to marry vnder her degree that the diuel is her husband then hee must needes bee father to all her children 〈◊〉 by this meanes you y t take the holy Churche of Rome for your mother must needs be inforced to haue y t diuell to your father Or els she must be vnmarried play y t Whoore so the best you cā make of it you proue your selues bastards your mother a whoore And to the intent you may perceiue y t your holy mother of Rome is more like a whoore thē a good womā the whoore of 〈◊〉 wherof S. Iohn in his reuelation doth write by y e iudgemēt of S. Hierome writing to Algasia is y e purple whoore of Rome who saith Nec vult c. Which is neither will he opēly say that the Romane Empyre should be destroied which they y t gouern it think it to be euerlasting wherfore according to the reuelatiō of S. Iohn in the forehead of the purple whoore there is writ ten a name of blasphemie which is Rome euerlasting And moreouer the place where this purple whoore shoulde sitte must needes be Rome for the angell doth plainly tell Saint Iohn y t the vii heades of the beast wheron y e purple whoore sitteth signifieth vii 〈◊〉 there is no Citie in al y e worlde y t is builded vpō vii hilles but only Rome in Italie wherby though you would avoid y t your mother y e Church of Rome is not the wife of the Diuell yet by no meanes it can be denied but that your holy mother of Rome is a strumpet and a very harlot according to the wordes of S. Iohn and so all her children must needes be bastardes And forasmuche as you counther your spirituall mother you must needes haue a spirituall father and because none can beget spiritual children on a spirituall harlot but the Diuell then whether you will or no though the Diuell bee not your Romish mothers husband yet he must needes bee hir paramoure and father to all her children Therfore as long as you take y t Church of Rome for your mother you must needs be y e bond bastards of y e Diuel wherefore forsake y t harlot your mother y e you may be the free children of God your father If you knew what a wicked cruell mother you haue of her you would not long bee her children for if shee may bee counted a wicked and cruell mother y t will allure her childe to steale whereby he shalbe hanged or els doth cut his throte if he do not steale as she willeth him then your holy mother of Rome is the most wicked cruell mother of all other for if you do rob God of his glory Christ of his merites as she doth teach you then you shalbe 〈◊〉 in the endles paines of hell and if you denie to do it shee will burne murther or kill you because you doe not as she willeth you Therfore y e great extremitie of them that are vnder such a mother wyll enforce them if they be wise to flie from her and humblie desire God to their father And where you say y e your holy mother of Rome hath borne