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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	pope_n	spiritual_a	temporal_a	1,731	5	8.4440	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54760	Dr. Oates's narrative of the Popish plot, vindicated in an answer to a scurrilous and treasonable libel, call'd, A vindication of the English Catholicks, from the pretended conspiracy against the life and government of His Sacred Majesty, &c. / by J.P., gent.	Phillips, John, 1631-1706.	1680 (1680)	Wing P2083; ESTC R21048	60,667	56

by meer Divine Right the Pope is supream and sole Monarch of the World and that all Monarchs and Princes are his Vassals which includes his authority in temporals as well as spirituals Insomuch that the Legat of Pope Adrian told Frederick Barbarossa to his face That he held his Empire at the pleasure of the Holy Father which if they did not believe for Gospel and that they were not tyed in greater Bonds of allegiance to the Pope than to their native Princes they would never so often have revolted and renounc'd their fidelity to their Soveraigns as they have done upon every trifling Excommunication from the See of Rome And it would be a ridiculous vanity for the Pope to assume to himself a power of depriving Princes of their Kingdoms which is a supream authority in temporals if he thought the people did not believe themselves bound to obey him in temporals as well as spirituals 'T is the fear of temporal accidents not the spiritual Fulminations that has scar'd so many Princes and brought the Empire of Germany almost to a morsel of Bread But this same Vindicator and his crew are such a parcel of obstinate willful Vermin that they will believe nothing in the World either of History or Reason that makes against them be it never so certain never so plain All the rest of this Chapter is nothing but ribble-rabble as wide from the purpose as Dan from Bersheba Now we are come to the Contradictions and Lyes CHAP. II. A Discovery in the Address to the Reader 'T IS very true here is a prodigious yelping and bawling a hideous Black Sanctus of Lyes and Contradictions Contradictions and Lyes beyond all the yells and dins of Green-Hastings and Mackarel But now I think on 't I can tell what 's the matter the Jesuits are ringing all their Bells backward to raise the Country upon Dr. Oates And yet after all this confounded noise enough to startle all the wild Beasts in a Lybian Forrest the Vindicator tells us not a word what a Lye or a Contradiction is as if that men of sense were such silly Partridges to Cowre under the Lowbells of Jesuitical clamour These Jesuits are a pack of Knaves that must be look'd after 'T is a Thousand pound to a Nutshell but that this deceitful Vindicator may have arraign'd and condemn'd for Lyes and Contradictions those things which are not so and that for Perjury which deserves no such sentence And therefore for the better discovery of the Vindicator's fraud it will not be amiss to produce the several definitions of Contradictio Mendacium and Perjurium that so the Vindicator's pretended accusations being brought to their several Tests the juggles of this St. Omers Pamphleteer may more easily be made apparent A Lye then is that by which a false thing is signified either in word or deed with an intent to deceive A Lyar is one that delights to speak a Falsity which he knows to be so or a Truth which he believes to be false On the other side he is no Lyar who tells a thing that is false which he verily believes to be true he may be said to err not to tell a Lye Now in this first Chapter he tells us the Deponent says The Narrative was presented to His Majesty the 13th of August last and sworn upon the Sixth of September These like a great Knave for 't is fit he should have as good as he brings he calls Two Great Lyes for as to the first he says the Narrative contains things averr'd to have happened upon the 3 4 6 7 and 8 of September following And what of all this The Narrative was presented privately in August at what time and till the Eighth or Ninth of September following the Deponent remained undiscovered To the next he answers That the Dr. and Sir Edmund-bury Godfrey assure it was sworn the Twenty-seventh of September That is false for the date of the Certificate which he carps at is only the date of Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey's Certificate that it was sworn before him not when it was sworn But suppose these passages had been both false where is the intent of deceiving that made them Lyes The intent of deceiving must have lain in the falsity of the Narratives being actually presented or actually sworn to which being really true the error of a trivial circumstance is but one of your Little Piccadillo's as you call them And now Mr. Vindicator are not you a pitiful idle inconsiderate both Fool and Knave in a vindication of the English Catholicks from so horrid a crime as they lye under which should have been weighty and great so unworthily and Porter-like to give a Gentleman the Lye to posterity upon such silly illiterate pitiful and low-conceited inadvertencies as these Give me leave to tell you Sir you have hitherto shewed us nothing but the symptoms of your future folly and duncery and whereas you are pleased to bespatter the Deponent with such Lackey-like and slovenly Language Dispeream si tu Pyladi prestare matellam Dignus es aut porcos pascere Perithoi CHAP. III. Containing his Informations from Spain IN this Chapter the Vindicator pretends to tell us of abundance of Lyes For as yet I meet with neither Contradictions nor Perjury Observe now how he makes them out He denies that Strange the Provincial Keines Langworth Harcourt and Fenwick did write a Treasonable Letter to Suiman at Madrid concerning the contriving and plotting a Rebellion in Scotland And yet you see there was a Rebellion in Scotland soon after which makes it shrewdly suspicious or in plain English altogether credible But what 's his Reason Because there was never any such Letter How does he prove it By the Attestation of Strange himself the very first person accused of the Plot in the Doctors Narrative And then again he says It never was the practise of the Iesuits that many should sign their Names with the Provincial Neither does the Doctor say any such thing He says they wrote the Letter that is they were present at the Writing of it which is the same thing So that the Attestation of M. K. R. S. C. B. and the rest of his several confederate Iesuits was only a trifle of supererogation He denies that Morgan Wright and Ireland were imployed to preach as Presbyterians to the disaffected Scots c. How does he know all this Because no English Iesuit was ever sent into Scotland Wright was infirm and went into England for his health As if England had not been in his way to Scotland But he was recall'd shortly after How long that might be God knows considering how the Jesuits are able to stretch such a Whitleather word as shortly And as for Morgan and Ireland they never were out of England Just as he denied his being in London because he was in the liberties of Westminster He denies that the Dr. broke up those Letters at Burgos and read the Contents His Reason Because he has told ye there