Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	church_n	pope_n	rome_n	5,434	5	6.6788	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13493	The sculler rowing from Tiber to Thames with his boate laden with a hotch-potch, or gallimawfry of sonnets, satyres, and epigrams. With an addition of pastorall equiuocques or the complaint of a shepheard. By Iohn Taylor.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1612 (1612)	STC 23791; ESTC S118270	25,111	50

him Christ did not dye For he did suffer onely for their sinne Who were insnared in the deuills Iynne And as for him that neuer had transgrest T were good to hang him now hee 's at the best Epigram 9. IT is an Art beyond the worke of Nature The Pope should be Creator and a creature Betwixt the Pope and God there 's one thing od For though God all things made the Pope makes God Epigram 10 REligion's scatter'd into diuers sects One likes one way for many sound respects Others like that way others like another And what likes t'one is loathed by the tother Yet each man deemes his own opinions right And each gainst other beares inated spight Amongst the rest the Romane Catholike Who scornes that his Religion sayle should strike To any since from it two vertues springs That they may eat their God and kill their Kings By which maine maximes they doe strongly hope To the worlds Period to vphold the Pope Epigram 11. IT is no wonder though Romes regall sway Is by a Shepheard ruld with Lordly fame For antient records truly doth display How Romulus the Shepheard built the same And how his brother Remus and himselfe In Tybers ruthles waues ydrencht and duckt When infant misery was all their pelfe A rauening wolfe most mother-like they suckt From whome doth spring as from a flowing gulfe Romes Priest and Prince a Shepheard and a Wolfe Epigram 12. TVmulteous thoughts within my breast doth struggle To thinke how finely popish Priests can iuggle And make the world beleeue a wafer Cake Is that Creator that did all things make Or that the sinne-polluted bald-crownd Priest With coniurations can create his Christ When our beliefe doth plainely testify He sits at Gods right hand in maiesty From whence in humane forme he will not come Till quicke and dead shall all abide his dome What fooles are they then thinkes the priest Baker With impious hands makes their immortall maker Epigram 13. NOt all the sophistry of Aristotle Cannot perswade me but the Pope did erre When he and 's sonne mistooke the poysned bottle 〈◊〉 error sure what euer they inferre O' t had bene good then both for him and 's heire He had bene halterd fast in Peters Chayre Epigram 14. THe warlike Emperors before Christ come Subdude the world both sea land to Rome Then afterwards the Heauens their Bishops wonne By preaching truly Gods immortall sonne Heauen Earth and Sea being taken in the prime What rests now for the Popes this latter time Since of the heauens and earth they loose their part They will haue hell despight the deuils hart Epigram 15. CHrists Church in no wayes is the Church of Rome For Paul sayes in the latter times should come Apostats that the 〈◊〉 should quite for sake That lyes and fables should Religion make Affirming meats and matrimony euill Which Paul doth call the doctrine of the deuill Then since the Pope and all his shaueling rout What Christ commaunds they wilfully thrust out I with my betters must conclude this doome The Deuils deere drab must be the Church of Rome Epigram 16. O Yes if any man would know a place Where God himselfe hath neither power nor might Where as th' almighty neuer shew'd his face Where words 〈◊〉 swords can neither talke nor fight O such a placeles place is Purgatory Created by the Pope without Gods leaue To 〈◊〉 his Antichristian glory And all the world with cunning to deceaue Where as the Pope hangs drawes condemnes iudges Commits acquits sets free or casts in thrall Whether he thousands sends on heapes like drudges For in this no place he is all in all And like a mighty three crownd priestly Prince With threats and bans he so the world bewitches In sending thither and recalling thence He gaines himselfe the Deuill and all for ritches Epigram 17. THe Pope hath charge of heauens immortall keyes And triple-headed Cerberus obeyes His triple Crowne and who so ere he please He 〈◊〉 to hell for paine or heauen for ease He can commaund the Angells and the Fiends What pleases them for him or for his friends Like as a dog doth feare a flitch of bacon So his great name Heauen Earth and Hell hath shaken Epigram 18. VVHo dares affirme the Popes of Rome are Proud Amongst the Heretickes himselfe must shroud Or who dares say they 'r giuen to Auarice In selling heauen and hell for summes of price Or who dares speake such words of trechery To say the Pope is giuen to Letchery Or who is he dares be so impious To say his holynes is Enuious Or 〈◊〉 for feare of euerlasting scath Dares once accuse his holynes of Wrath Or who is he that dares once veresy The Pope doth vse excessiue Gluttony Or who dares say that like a droane or moath Like an vnpreaching Priest he liues by Sloath He that against him this dares iustifie Is a plaine Protestant and such am I. Epigram 19. MAy it be calld intollerable pride For man to sit in the Almighties seate Or on mens shoulders pompously to ride To terrifie the World with thundring threate To weare a three-pilde Crowne vpon his head To haue both Kings and Princes at his becke Whose Horse by mighty Potentates is 〈◊〉 Who proudly footes vpon the Emperors necke If trickes like these for pride may be alloud Then I conclude the Pope must needs be proud Epigram 20. IF it be couetous for gripple gaine To sell 〈◊〉 Heauens the Earth yea God himselfe To dispossesse Kings from their lawfull raigne To cram his coffers with vnlawfull pelfe To pardon sinnes for money more then pitty Nay more to pardon sinnes that are to come To maintaine whores Stewes in Towne and Citty Who yearely payes the Pope a countles sum Who takes great interest puts great sums to vse T is couetousnes I thinke without excuse Epigram 21. IS it not 〈◊〉 sensuall appetite The 〈◊〉 to make a Strumpet of his Childe Or is not Letchery an Epithite For him that hath his fathers bed defilde For him that hath deflourd Virginity That hath defilde the Damsell and the Dam 〈◊〉 respect of Consanginity That like a Wolfe hath spoyld both Ewe and Lamb This may be tearmd incestuous Luxury And yet his Holynes not wrongd thereby Epigram 22. HE like a God that gouernes in the world That 〈◊〉 each mans honor but his owne He that sedition through the earth hath hurld Whose Enuie hath great Kingdomes ouer throwne He that vngraues his foe that 's once intombd For Enuy that he wrongd him whilst he liu'd And after death is 〈◊〉 doombd To be of liueles senceles 〈◊〉 depriu'd If this be true none will deny I hope That Enuy is ingrafted in the Pope Epigram 23. HE whose fierce Wrath with bloody rage doth swell That takes delight in slaughtring Gods elect He that is sworne the Champion of Hell That Wrath and Murder onely doth effect