Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	angel_n	earth_n	whole_a	2,731	5	5.0951	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87434	Le dragon missionaire, or, The dragoon turn'd apostle being a dialaogue between a French Protestant-gentleman, and a French dragoon, wherein the new-way of convverting hereticks by dragoons is very lively and truly represented : to which is annexed a letter of Monsieur Jurieu to a French gentleman of quality, upon his dragonary conversion / translated out of the original French ; suppressed in the the late reign, but now re[pr?]inted ...	Jurieu, Pierre, 1637-1713.	1686 (1686)	Wing J1201; ESTC R43871	21,022	27

she puts upon her new Converts The same Spirit is the Author of so many horrible Slanders wherewith they blacken the Church of God and his faithful Servants It is he hath establisht that Maxim That Faith is not to be kept with Hereticks that Equivocations and mental Reservations are lawful and that the Pope hath power to dispense with the most inviolable Oaths that may be From the same Source have been derived all those Perfidious dealings with the Protestants in France by Repealing the most solemnly sworn and ratified Edicts and by publishing others quite contrary to them Neither is the Spirit of Cruelty and Murther less in vogue in the said Church Who can enumerate all the Barbarous Cruelties committed by the Holy Office of the Inquisition as they are not ashamed to call it the bloody Wars Massacres Poysonings Assassinations and Butcheries which that Religion hath and still doth put in practice in the four parts of the World or those only she hath been the Author of in Germany Bohemia Hungaria France the Low Countries England Scotland Ireland and Italy The Protestants of France formerly have been and are now at present a most sad and convincing Instance of this Truth The Cruelty of this Religion appears also by her condemning to Hell universally all other Christian Communions whatsoever and in that there is not the least Article she professes to which she hath not annexed an Eternal Anathema against all those who shall dare to contradict or deny it And for the Spirit of Impurity it hath so perfectly got the Mastery and Dominion over that Churche that it even reigns in those places which one would believe should be the Refuge of shamefac'dness and Chastity I mean even in Rome the Holy and throughout the whole Patrimony of the Church in their places for Confession in their Mon asteries of the one as well as the other Sex in the habitations of their Clergy throughout whole Spain which is so Emphatically Catholick and throughout whole Italy which one would think should not approve nor tolerate any such filthiness as being the own Country and Seat of the Holy Father and his Holy Court. And that no man may here alledge that these Disorders are not Authorized nor approved of it is most notorious that the Pope draws a yearly Revenue from the Publick Stews which are solemnly established in all the Cities of his Dominion that the Casuists even the most famous and of greatest Authority with that Communion do favour the practice of the most detestable and unnatural filthiness which the Spirit of Uncleanness can possibly suggest to men yea all the Popish Divines do declare with a loud voice that it is better for their Clergy to burn in the fire of all sorts of Uncleanness than to be Married But this Communion is not only guilty of Corporal filthiness and impurity but also of that which is Spiritual that is Idolatry For according to what was said before the very God of that Religion is an Idol What God is it which she serves and to the Worship of which she will compel and force the whole Earth To whom doth she Erect her Altars Consecrate her Festivals her Offerings her Vows and Prayers To whom doth she betake her self upon all occasions whether Ordinary or Extraordinary To whom doth she address her most solemn Adorations Is it not to the God of the Mass even to a God which the Priest makes every day of a little Water and Flower after he hath mumbled four or five Latin words over it and which he devours after he hath made it And this God can it be supposed ought else but an Idol And must not a man be deprived of the light of Sense and of Reason and of Faith before he can in the least doubt of it But to convince the most prepossed of this Truth from their own Principles is it not agreed upon by all that the Object of the Worship of true Religion cannot be doubtful or uncertain For they are false Religions which worship that which they know not as our Lord said of that of the Samaritans and is it not true and incontestable that the Object of the Worship of the Roman Church is uncertain and doubtful Is any one assured nay is it possible that any one should be so that J. C. is really present in the Species of the Eucharist since that depends upon the intention of the Priest that celibrates Mass according to the express decision of the Council of Trent And who can be certain that this or that Prie●t had the intention of fixing him there or that he had it not and supposing he had the intention who can be assured that his intention is acomplished and that our Saviour in obedience to the same hath indeed hid himself under the Species of Bread and Wine And if this Object be thus uncertain the Religion of Rome must needs be so likewise Again if this Object be doubtful it can never be the Object of Faith nor of true Devotion it cannot be the Deity nor indeed any thing else but a meer Idol But alas this is not the alone Idol which Rome Adores she hath as many more of the number as there are Angels yea Saints and Saintesses in Heaven and as there are Popes Crosses Images and Relicks upon earth for she bestows Religious Worship upon all these in the sight and ken of the whole World and consequently she cannot but be guilty of Idolatry and that in so high a degree that she may justly boast of worshipping the vainest of all Idols for never were any more vain than her Wafers are and of having raised Idolatry to that pitch beyond which no farther advance can be expected for there is no Instance in all the Records of Time of a more transported and besotted Dovotion than that which she hath for that piece of Paste Now tho' all this be indeed prodigious and amazing yet behold here another Instance which is no less surprizing and unaccountable which is That the Romish Church hath erected her self for an Idol and Object of her own Adoration and which she imposeth upon others to worship as God For she attributes to her self Infallibility and a Soveraign Independence and Authority Characters which are the Propriety of God alone She imposeth her Decisions as so many Divine Oracles and will have them received for this sole reason because they seem good in her Eyes She hath the boldness to maintain That all the Articles of Faith depend upon her Authority that it is from her we hold the Greatest Mysteries of our Christian Religion as that of the Trinity of the Incarnation Grace c. She raiseth her Authority so far above that of the Holy Scriptures that she maintains the Holy Scriptures to have no other Authority but what she gives to them and that without Her we are no more obliged to believe the Word of God than that of Mahomet which is Bellarmins own Comparison In a word