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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	king_n	prince_n	queen_n	3,203	5	6.8163	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59621	Antapologia, or, A discourse of excuses setting forth the variety and vanity of them, the sin and misery brought in by them, as being the greatest bar in the way to heaven, and the ready high way to hell : being the common snare wherein most of the children of men are intangled and ruined / by Jo. Sheffield ...	Sheffeild, John, d. 1680.	1672 (1672)	Wing S3061; ESTC R11053	145,253	322

Brats of Popish Superstition 7. Next comes Antiquity and looks to 7. Antiquity be heard with some Reverence and respect Thus it hath been time out of mind that which hath been good is good still our Fathers did thus before us Answer Then let us to Mass again from thence to Judaism thence to Paganism for that is the elder Religion of the three Let us to our Mast and Acorns again for that is the elder Diet. Paganism was the Mother or Nurse of many Popish Rites and Customs borrowed from the Heathens as their holy Water Lustrations Lights Images tutelar and local Saints c. True it is Popery is ancient so is Error so is Sin The fall is more ancient then the Gospel which was brought in upon it Mahumetism is ancient too can plead a thousand years standing breaking out much about the same time with Popery Six hundred years after the Incarnation But Judaism is before both and Paganism elder then them all if ancientry must carry it But there is an Antiquity senior to them all Idverum Tertull. quod primum That which was from the beginning saith the Apostle 1 John 1. 1. Thither we appeal thither we provoke To the Law and to the Testimony To Christ Esay 8. 8● and to his Apostles we will refer our selves to decide all the Points in Controversie between us and Rome And I think it is as equal a motion that which Christ and the Apostles taught shall go for the best Religion be it Popish or Protestant as that once The God that answereth by fire shall be 1 Kings 18. 24. acknowledged the true God whether Jehovah or Baal when there was such halting between two Opinions as there is now adayes by too many If therefore the Papists can shew us out of the Old or New Testament their Pope's Supremacy Purgatory plurality of Mediators Pardons Invocation of Saints Image-worship praying for the Departed their Opus operatum Transubstantiation Elevation Adoration Circumgestation of the Host forbidding Marriage to Priests or Ministers c. We shall promise to subscribe the Tridentine Creed and confess our Error and return into the lap of Rome But if they be not to be found there let them cease to accuse us of Novelty Lutheranism or Calvinism and accuse us of Petrinism Paulism Scripturism or Christianism if they please So that in fine all the great flourish that Papists boast of Antiquity is but like that of the Jews to Jeremy We will be of our Fathers Religion Jer. 44. 16. Thus did our Kings Princes and our Fathers offering Incense to the Queen of Heaven It was not their ancient Fathers in Moses's Joshua's Samuel's dayes or in the best Kings David's Solomon's but after the Defection in Jeroboam's dayes and under the degenerating Kings Ahaz Manasseh Ammon Zedekiah c. 8. Tradition succeeds Antiquity and 8. Tradition pleads for its continuance and the observing such things as have been handed to them by their Guides and Elders Therefore did the Pharisees quarrel with Christ and his Disciples charging them with too little respect to the Tradition of the Elders And our Saviour chargeth them again with too little or no respect to the Commandments of God Their traditional Corban Mat. 7. 9. had expunged the fifth Commandment As the Papists Image-worship after the II. Nicene Council hath justled out the Second Commandment and made but an caetera of it The Samaritan woman Joh. 4. 20 22. pleaded hard with our Saviour for their old Worship Our Fathers said she worshipped in this Mountain But you Jews anathematize us and tell us Jerusalem is the only place of Worship Our Saviour tells her Ye know not what ye worship But we do For salvation is of the Jews you have Tradition we Scripture We may say the like to the Papists you have Tradition but give us Scripture or we can't expect Salvation in your Church you have Tradition for auricular Confession Purgatory extreme Unction Invocation of the Saints the blessed Virgin especially c. But where is the Scripture all this while Quod non scribitur non creditur 9. But universality makes a great noise 9 Universality and pleadeth next Why should not we do as do the most what our Fore-Fathers Kings Priests People all do is safe for us to follow Just as good Divinity as his was Loyalty who said Whom God by his permissive providence and all the people choose for King him will I follow though they had a rightful David for their Soveraign 2 Sam. 16. 18. and the other a rebellious Miscreant The Jews might have disputed Christ out of the World by this argument Do any of J●h 7. 48. the Rulers or Pharisees believe in him but this people that know not the Law are accursed The greater part is most an end the worst Where was universality in Noah's Lot's Elias's dayes when each of them were left alone The godly have been ever almost over-born with numbers The Ephesians Acts 19. talked of no less then all Asia and the World besides for their Diana Elias was opposed by four hundred Prophets of Baal One Athanasius against the whole World So Luther had Pope Emperour Cardinals Bishops Priests all against him Christ's is still a little Flock Luke 12. 32. The loose Protestant would bear down the serious by this account the Papist the whole Society of Protestants the Mahumetan the Christian the Pagan all Learned Brerewood divides the World into thirty parts and finds Christianity to have but five Mahumetism six and Paganism hath the other nineteen parts The whole World was once all Pagan another while Arrian since Antichristian when all that dwelt on the Earth worshipped the Beast but a small Remnant whose Names were written in the Lambs Book of Life in Red Letters but in the Popes Registry in Black The World was never so happy as to be all Christian What it may be in those last dayes prophesied of Esay 2. 1 2. I know not When the Mountain of the House of the Lord shall be exalted on the top of the Mountains and all Nations shall flow to it 10. To this of universality I may subjoyn 10. Singularity his opposite singularity and the excuse made thereupon would you have me singular like no body stand alone Shall I presume that I have more wisdom piety conscience then all the World This Luther confesseth was a great stumbling-block to him when he discovered first the gross Errors of Popery what shall I be wiser then all the World what is become of our Fathers Had I not better Cum Platone errare quam cum aliis recte sentire Had I not better subscribe to the received Doctrines and Opinions of School-men Universities Councils then hold a private belief of my own But Noah was content to be singular though it is likely the World condemned him sufficiently in their Censures He is said to condemn the World upon a true