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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	catholic_a	church_n	faith_n	6,104	5	5.7683	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02568	The peace of Rome Proclaimed to all the world, by her famous Cardinall Bellarmine, and the no lesse famous casuist Nauarre. Whereof the one acknowledgeth, and numbers vp aboue three hundred differences of opinion, maintained in the popish church. The other confesses neere threescore differences amongst their owne doctors in one onely point of their religion. Gathered faithfully out of their writings in their own words, and diuided into foure bookes, and those into seuerall decads. Whereto is prefixed a serious disswasiue from poperie. By I.H.	Azpilcueta, Martín de, 1492?-1586.; Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.; Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint, 1542-1621. Disputationes de controversiis Christianae fidei. English. Selections.	1609 (1609)	STC 12696; ESTC S106027	106,338	252

pretious blood J speake not of some rude ignorants your very booke of holy Ceremonies shall teach you what your holy fathers doe and haue done That tells you first with great allowance and applause that Pope Vrban the fift sent three Agnos Dei to the Greeke Emperour with these verses Balsame pure Wax and Chrismes-liquor cleare Make vp this precious Lamb I send thee here All lightning it dispels and each ill spri'ght Remedies sinne and makes the heart contrite Euen as the blood that Christ for vs did shed It helps the child-beds paines giues good speed Vnto the birth Great gifts it still doth win To all that weare it and that worthy bin It quels the rage of fire and cleanely bore It brings from shipwracke safely to the shore And least you should plead this to be the conceit of some one phantasticall Pope heare and be ashamed out of the same booke what by prescription euery Pope vseth to pray in the blessing of the water which serues for that Agnus Dei If you know not thus he prayeth That it would please thee O God to blesse those things which we purpose to poure into this vessell of water prepared to the glory of thy name so as by the worship and honour of them we thy seruants may haue our heynous offences done away the blemishes of our sinnes wip't off and there by we may obtaine pardon and receiue grace from thee so that at the last with thy Saints and elect Children we may merite to obtaine euerlasting life Amen How could you choose but be in loue with this superstition Magicke blasphemy practised and maintained by the heads of your Church 2 A Religion that allowes iugling Equiuocations reserued senses euen in very oathes Besids all that hath beene shamelesly written by our Iesuites to this purpose Heare what Franciscus Victoria an ingenuous Papist and a learned reader of Diuinity in Salmantica writes in the name of all But what shall a Confessor do saith he if he be askt of a sinne that he hath heard in Confession May he say that he knowes not of it I answere according to all our Doctors that he may But what if he be compelled to sweare I say that he may and ought to sweare that he knowes it not for that it is vnderstood that he knowes it not besides confession and so he sweares true But say that the Iudge or Prelate shal malitiously require of him vpon his oath whether he know it in confession or no I answere that a man thus vrged may still sweare that he knowes it not in confession for that it is vnderstood he knowes it not to reueale it or so as he may tell Who teach and do thus in anothers case iudge what they would doe in their owne O wise cunning and holy periuries vnknowne to our forefathers A Religion that allowes the buying and selling of sinnes of pardons of soules so as now Purgatory can haue no rich men in it but fooles and friendlesse Diuels are tormenters there as themselues hold from many reuelations of Bede Bernard Carthusian yet men can commaund diuels and money can command men A Religion that relies wholly vpon the infallibility of those whom yet they grant haue been and may be monstrous in their liues and dispositions How many of those heyres of Peter by confession of their owne records by bribes by Whores by Diuels haue climed vp into that chaire Yet to say that those men which are confessed to haue giuen their soules to the diuell that they might be Popes can erre while they are Popes is heresie worthy of a stake and of hell A Religion that hood-winkes the poore Laity in forced ignorance least they should knowe Gods will or any way to heauen but theirs so as millions of soules liue no lesse without Scriptures then if there were none that forbids spirituall food as poyson and fetches Gods booke into the Inquisition A Religion that teaches men to worshippe stockes and stones with the same honour that is due to their Creator which practise least it should appeare to her simple Clyents how palpably opposite it is to the second commaundement they haue discreetly left out those words of GODS Law as a needelesse illustration in their Catechismes and Prayer bookes of the vulgar A Religion that vtterly ouerthrowes the true humanity of Christ while they giue vnto it tenne thousand places at once and yet no place flesh and no flesh seuerall members without distinction a substance without quantitie and other accidents or substance and accidents that cannot be seene felt perceiued so they make either a monster of their Sauiour or nothing A Religion that vtterly ouerthrowes the perfection of Christs satisfaction If all be not paid how hath he satisfied If temporall punishments in purgatory be yet due how is all paid and if these must be paid by vs how are they satisfied by him A Religion that makes more scripture then euer God and his ancient Church and those which it doth make so imperiously obtrudes vpon the world as if God himselfe should speak from heauen and while it thunders out curses against all that will not adde these bookes to Gods regards not Gods curse If any man shall adde vnto these things God shall adde vnto him the plagues that are written in this booke A Religion whose patrons disgrace the true Scriptures of God with reproachfull tearmes odious comparisons imputations of corruption and imperfection and in fine pin their whole authority vpon the sleeues of men A Religion that erects a throne in the Conscience to a meere man and giues him absolute power to make a sinne to dispense with it to create new Articles of faith and to impose them vppon necessity of saluation A Religion that baffoules all temporall Princes making them stand bare-foote at their great Bishops gate lye at his foote hold his stirrup yea their owne Crownes at his Curtesie exempting all their Ecclesiasticall Subiects from their iurisdiction and when they list al the rest from their allegeance A Religion that hath made wicked men Saints and Saints Gods Euen by the confession of Papists lewd and vndeseruing men haue leapt into their Calender Whence it is that the Pope before his Canonization of any Saint makes solemne protestation that he entends not in that businesse to doe ought preiudiciall to the glory of God or to the Catholicke faith and Church And once Sainted they haue the honour of Altars Temples Inuocations and some of them in a stile fit onely for their maker I know not whither that blessed Virgin receiue more indignity from her enemies that denie her or these her flatterers that deifie her A Religion that robs the Christian heart of all sound comfort whiles it teacheth vs that we neither can nor ought to be assured of the remission of our sinnes and of present grace and future saluation That we can neuer know whether we haue receiued the true Sacraments of

God because we cannot know the intention of the Minister without which they are are no Sacraments A Religion that rackes the conscience with the needlesse torture of a necessary shrift wherin the vertue of absolution depends on the fulnesse of confession and that vpon examination and the sufficiency of examination is so full of scruples besides those infinite cases of vnresolued doubts in this fained penance that the poore soule neuer knowes when it is cleare A Religion that professes to be a bawd of sin whiles both in practise it tollerates open stewes and prefers fornication in some cases to honourable Matrimony and gently blanches ouer the breaches of Gods Law with the name of venials and fauourable titles of diminution daring to affirme that veniall sinnes are no hinderance to a mans cleanenesse and perfection A cruell Religion that sends poore infants remedilesly vnto the eternall paines of hell for want of that which they could not liue to desire and frights simple soules with expectation of fained torments in purgatory not inferior for the time to the flames of the damned how wretchedly and fearefully must their poore Laicks needes die for first they are not sure they shall not goe to hell and secondly they are sure to be scorched if they shall goe to heauen A Religion that makes nature vainly proude in being ioyned by her as copartner with God in our iustification in our saluation and idly puffed vp in a conceit of her perfection and ability to keepe more lawes then God hath made A Religion that requires no other faith to iustification in Christians then may be found in the Diuels themselues who besides a confused apprehension can assent vnto the truth of Gods reuealed will Popery requires no more A Religion that in stead of the pure milke of the Gospell hath long fed her starued soules with such idle Legends as the reporter can hardly deliuer without laughter their abettors not heare without shame and disclamation the wiser sort of the world read those stories on winter euenings for sport which the poore credulous multitude heares in their Churches with a deuout astonishment A Religion which least ought should be here wanting to the doctrine of diuels makes religious prohibitions of meat and differences of diet superstitiously preferring Gods workmanship to itselfe and willingly polluting what he hath sanctified A Religion that requires nothing but meere formality in our deuotions the worke wrought suffices alone in sacraments in praiers So the number be found in the chappelet there is no care of the affection as if God regarded not the hart but the tongue hands while he vnderstāds vs cared litle whether we vnderstand our selues A Religion that presumptuously dares to alter and mangle Christs last institution and sacrilegiously robbes Gods people of one halfe of that heauenly prouision which our Sauiour left for his last and dearest legacy to his Church for euer as if Christs ordinance were superfluous or any shaueling could be wiser then his Redeemer A Religion that depends wholly vpon nice and poore vncertainties and vnproueable supposals that Peter was Bishop of Rome that he left any heires of his graces spirit or if any but one in a perpetuall and vnfaileable succession at Rome That he so bequeathed his infallibility to his chayre as that whosoeuer sits in it cannot but speake true that all which sit where he sate must by some secret instinct say as he taught That what Christ said to him absolutely ere euer Rome was thought of must be referred yea tyed to that place alone and fulfilled in it That Linus or Clemens or Cletus the schollers and supposed successors of Peter must be preferred in the Headship of the Church to Iohn the beloued Apostle then liuing That he whose life whose penne whose iudgement whose keyes may erre yet in his pontificall chayre cannot erre That the golden line of this Apostolicall succession in the confusion of so many long desperate Schismes shamefully corrupt vsurpa●ions and intrusions yeelded heresies neyther was nor can be broken Denie any of these and Poperie is no religion Oh the lamentable hazard of so many Millions of poore soules that stand vpon these slipperie tearmes whereof if any be probable some are impossible Oh miserable grounds of Popish faith whereof the best can haue but this praise that perhaps it may be true A Religion that hath beene oft dyed in the blood of Princes that in some cases teaches and allowes rebellion against Gods annointed and both suborneth treasons and excuses pities honours rewards the actors A Religion that ouerloades mens consciences with heauy burdens of infinite vnnecessary traditions farre more then euer Moses commented vpon with all the Iewish Masters imposing them with no lesse authority and exacting them with more rigour then any of the royall lawes of their Maker A Religion that cozens the vulgar with nothing but shadowes of holines in pilgrimages processions offerings holy-water latine seruices images tapers rich vestures garish altars crosses censings and a thousand such like fitt for children and fooles robbing them in the meane time of the sound and plaine helpes of true piette and saluation A Religion that cares not by what wilfull falshoods it maintaines a part as Wickliffes blasphemy Luthers aduise from the diuell Tindals community Caluins fayned miracle and blasphemous death Bucers necke broken Bezaes reuolt the blasting of Huguenots Englands want of Churches and Christendome Queene Elizabeths vnwomanlines her Episcopall iurisdiction her secret fruitfulnes English Catholicks cast in Beares skins to dogges Plesses shamefull ouerthrow Garnets straw the Lutherans obscene night-reuels Scories drunken ordination in a Tauerne the edict of our gracious King Iames An. 87 for the establishment of Popery our casting the crusts of our Sacrament to doggs and ten thousand of this nature malitiously raysed and defended against knowledge and conscience for the disgrace of those whom they would haue hated ere knowen A Religion that in the conscience of her own vntruth goes about to falsifie and depraue all Authors that might giue euidence against her to out-face al ancient truths to foist in Gibeonitish witnesses of their owne forging and leaues nothing vnattempted against heauen or earth that might aduantage her faction and disable her innocent aduersary Lo this is your choice if the zeale of your losse haue made me sharpe yet not malicious not false God is my record I haue not to knowledge charged you with the least vntruth and if I haue wronged accuse me and if I cleare not my selfe and my challenge let mee be branded for a slanderer In the meane time what spirituall phrensie hath ouertaken you that you can finde no beauty but in this monster of errors It is to you and your fellowes that God speakes by his Prophet O ye heauens be astonished at this be afraide and vtterly confounded saith the Lord for my people hath committed two euils They haue forsaken me the fountaine of liuing waters to digge them pits euen