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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	false_a	true_a	worship_n	4,780	5	7.8086	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69606	The life of Dr. Thomas Morton, late Bishop of Duresme begun by R.B. secretary to his Lordship ; and finished by J.N., D.D., his Lordship's chaplain.	R. B. (Richard Baddeley); Naylor, Joseph.; Nelson, Joseph.	1669 (1669)	Wing B382B; ESTC R37053	34,218	206

defiling of their Virgins the Plundering of their houses of whatsoever was either for profit or pleasure These he confessed were great Temptations neither did he know how to rest his perplexed soule but onely by admiring adoring and approving Gods Righteous Judgements condoling and condemning their own wickedness Sed supra haec omnia malè eum habuit c. Above and beyond all these was the sad reflection and cutting consideration that after he had by Forty years continuall Preaching and Writing happily quashed and sopited so many blasphemous and damnable Heresies as had long infested and infected Gods Church He feared a resurrection of them all again and that a Sluce and inlett would be opened for their re-entry and tolleration In that regard he desired much rather to be dissolved then to live and to behold the extermination of Gods true Religion and the introduction of a great many false ones And this even this in these unhappy times was the case and condition of this our learned laborious and Orthodox Prelate who of all those Iliads of evills and mountains of miseries which have fallen upon these fate-blasted and starstricken Kingdoms esteemed none equall nor any whit comparable to their spirituall infatuation their being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 stricken by God with a vertibility and vertigo in Religion none of all Gods Judgements not Sword not Plague not Famine no nor all put together being of equall consideration with the extirpation or suppression of the true Religion together with an indulgence and tolleration of false where every man is left like another Micah and may Judge● 17. 5. without impunity make unto himselfe both Gods and Priests nay Religions and Worships as many or as meane or cheape as himself pleaseth We know that an English-man in former times was wont to be drawn beyond Seas by way of a jeare to shew his inconstancy and sickleness in his apparrell with a bundle of Cloth upon the one Shoulder and a payre of Taylors Sheares hanging on the other to cut out a new fashion for himselfe every moneth or week as his fancy should leade him for the clothing and apparrelling of his body But now alas he may be Pictured more scornfully and yet God knows more properly and truely in respect to his Religion which is or ought to be the apparell of the soule with a sheet of blanck Paper in the one hand and a Pen full of Inke in the other to Write every day what Religion he most fantieth Papist or Protestant Presbyterian or Independent Quaker or Dipper Arrian or ●theist Anabaptist or Adamite or what is most in fashion or sway with the times These wretched times having dealt with that quondam darling of Heaven the truely so called Protestant Religion as many hot-spuris and importunate Suitors dealt Plutarch with a faire but unfortunate Lady because she was so faire for because no one of them could engross or enjoy her wholly to himself they most barbarously resolved to cut her in pieces and to enjoy her peice meale amongst them And thus even thus have the Schismaticks and Sectaries of these broken times handled the Orthodox Protestant Religion and her chiefest nourcing Mother the Church of England not long since the glory or envy now the scorne of all her neighbour Sisters they having sliced and slit her into so many Sects Heresies and Schismes as there are Points in the Compass or Moons in the Year that so they may have as Saint Hilary said the Arians had their Menstruam fidem their Monethly R●ligion and in conclusion none at all For as among the Heathens the plurality of Deities and making of many Gods did marr the true one so among Christians the multiplication of many Religions will be found in the end the ready way to destroy all Religion and e●e men are well aware to huisher in Atheisme and pro●anation And this was indeed that great and cheife sit-fast that did peirce and perplex our Orthodox Prelates righteous soule to see the regularly yea and why not compleatly reformed English Church whose Doctrine and Discipline he had vindicated and defended both by Preaching Conference and Writing against the Papist and Pu●itan and other Sectaries by the space of sixty odd years together to see her expire and breath out her last and that not without as much infamy and disgrace as some of her unnaturall brats could possibly lay upon her And for a close of all her miseries to behold her dead Corps tantum-non buried as Jehoakin's was with the buriall of an Asse Sepulturd insepulta as Tully termes it this this was in truth the very Cordolium which did sting him to the quick For as the externall and adventitious accruments wherewith some former pious Princes have nobly and royally endowed and enriched the Church others less pious or rather impious had ignobly dispoiled her of their Predecessors bounty And others again most pious and provident endeavoured the securing of what was left with the hazard of no less then their own ruine All which are demonstrations that the Churches Temporalties are no less then Anathema's things highly prized with all good men yet these compared with her Spiritualties that is the purity of Religion and Orthodox worship for the loss of the one is in no wise comparable to the loss of the other the dilacerations and distractions of the Church by Heresies and Schismes in her Spiritualls much more discomposed and divided the meek spirit of this holy man then did the devastation of all his own Temporalls though they not mean ones by Plunder and Sequestration And of the truth of this I can give a signall testification upon my own knowledge For when he was advertized at Durham house in the Strand London by a Member of Parliament old Sir H. V. that the saile of Bishops Lands as well as Deans and Chapters was that day resolved and concluded by both Houses and was therefore advised by that Gent ' to Petition in due time for his livelihood to be granted unto him some other way then by that 800. per Annum formerly Voted unto him which yet all he never enjoyed how did he behave himselfe upon this no welcome information did he be wray any discomposure or passionate perturbation did he like good old Eli upon the sudden news of the Arks Captivity and the sudden departure of the Glory from Israel did he sink or fall down and suffer a totall deliquium of Spirit No I my self can witness he did not but like that invincible man of Vz who had not his paralell on the face of the earth like that hëroick and heavenly Soule he gathered up his spirit in dispite of that cutting and affl●ctive message and with heart and hand and eyes lift up to Heaven he three times repeated that Seraphicall ejaculation of holy Job The Lord hath given and the hath taken away The Lord hath given and the Lord hath taken away The Lord hath given and the Lord hath taken away