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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	new_a	old_a	testament_n	3,965	5	8.0680	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91975	The serpents subtilty discovered, or a true relation of what passed in the cathedrall church of Rochester, between divers ministers and Richard Coppin, to prevent credulity to the false representation of the said discourse published by the said R. Coppin from Maidstone goale. / By Walter Rosewell minister of Chatham in Kent.	Rosewell, Walter.	1656 (1656)	Wing R1943; Thomason E882_9	18,741	28

perverse things to draw disciples after them I cannot but fear that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Antichrist may succeed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Many Antichrists as in his first rise so in his resurrection amongst you and what my fears are concerning all the Churches of Christ not only through this other world but through the whole Protestant world if the removing of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That which lets do not make way for the Resurrection as well as the rise of Artichrist my conjectures fail me and if the loose Doctrine of unconscionable Liberty of Conscience prove not a back door to let in Antichrist Reverend Mr Cotton was deceived and so am I also yet with that transcendent Magazine of Learning and Piety Dr Usher I am of opinion that the prevalency of Antichrist will not be so much in a way of fraudulent seduction as in a way of violent and bloudy persecution The measure of Babylons sins will be made up in bloud before her finall ruine and just with God it should be so his Churches deserve it but wo be to the man by whom they are betraied and wo wo wo to Babylon her fatall downfall is at hand when the Antichristian Gentiles or Nations are angry the time of the Lords wrath comes Revel 11.18 and after the Everlasting Gospel hath been again openly preached and the downfall of Babylon clearly published wo to all wretched Apostates that comply with Antichrist You may reade their dreadfull doom Revel 14 6 7 8 9 10 11. Arm your selves with the patience of Saints that keep the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus as it follows ver 12. minde and meditate on what is added ver 13. For my part I have often by word of mouth warned you and now I am in a manner necessitated to write unto you concerning them that seduce you It is not long since I did publiquely face to face appear against one of them many of you being present and hearing with your own ears what passed between us little did I then think of appearing in Print against him having brought the Mole above ground and gotten him to appear naked in his own shape I supposed the least of the Flock the weakest Christian would be sufficiently Antidoted and armed against him able enough to deal with him yet since he hath told such a tale for himself as he hath done in Print wherein he impudently lies both against me and the truth I am perswaded to think it necessary in some respect though not to give a formall Answer to one that is Copiofissimè delirans as St Augustine speaks of a Maniche yet to draw up some true Narrative concerning this Seducer and what indeed passed between my self and him that not only you but others also may the better judge between him and me and that my testimony for the Truth may be as publique as his hath been against it Accordingly I have drawn up the following Narrative wherein my Conscience doth witness with me I have represented the truth and nothing but the truth whatsoever the adversary or any of his impure fraternity may grunt or bark against it I can appeal to many of your consciences also for whatsoever I have written concerning matter of Fact and for Judgement let all that are Godly Wise and Judicious judge of it I have yoked a pair of Seducers together that I might not white two wals with one brush as the Proverb is but that with one coal I might set a true mark on two white Devils whose most specious Opinions and Doctrines are as black as hell it self I shall therefore crave leave to present you with the ensuing Narrative and with my Judgement of the parties concerned in it and thus commend you to God and to the Word of his Grace I conclude what at present I have to say with the advice and doxology which you shall finde Jude v. 20 21 22 23 24 25. and so take my leave Resting Yours though not in person yes in affection inseparably WAL ROSEWELL TO THE READER READER THou art desired to take notice that when the following Narrative was drawn up Coppin was lying prisoner in Maidstone Goole his removall since by a Habeas Corpus with other things that have befallen him the Narrator is not concerned to take notice of them had he not abused the Narrator and the Truth in his Printed Pamphlet this Narrative had never been thought of When I first met with and read over his Relation I was resolved wholly to slight it as an impudent piece which refuted it self and could not do the least wrong either to the Truth or Me with any impartiall Reader which might possibly come to have the reading of it but when I considered that he had taken the boldness to present it to the Judges of Assises at Maidstone as a preparative to his supposed triall and that multitudes of Copies were dispersed in City and Country which might stumble some unstable souls ignorant of the Truth of Coppin and what had passed betwixt me and him I thought it my duty to draw up and publish this Narrative which now at length presents it self to thy view Christian Reader let me request thee to maintain in thy soul a holy revevence of sacred Scriptures with a sincere love of the Truth as it is in Jesus and then thou art safe for ever from the least danger of any hurt from this or any such like noon-day devill For not receiving the Truth in the love of it men are abandoned by God to beleeve such damnable lies and blasphemtes The truth is Coppins practicall impurities begin to break forth so notoriously that I hope is will awaken some at least of his seduced followers to be sensible of his Dogmaticall impieties and Heresies I am perswaded that as his Doctrines are the Doctrines of Nicolaitans Gnosticks and Borberits so his deeds are and will prove answerable Filthy doctrines and filthy practises being through the just judgement of God mutuall causes and effects one of another But we must all appear before the Judgement seat of Christ ere long Reader whoever thou art beleeve it minde it and prepare for it So I leave thee to judge of me and this Narrative as thou pleasest W. R. IT is now some four or five years since one Joseph Salmon came first into these parts and after some flourishing discourses made in Chatham Stroud Margrets and Rochester Parish-Churches at length he set up a course of preaching every Sabbath day in the Cathedrall at Rochester where his manner was to Allegorize the Scripture and make a nose of wax of it forcing some Allegoricall sense on the plainest Historicall and Doctrinall passages of Old and New Testament He decried all forms whatsoever in Religion not excepting the form of sound words 2 Tim. 1.13 he desperatly undermined the whole mystery of godliness and sowed the seeds of Ranting Familism yet mannaged his devillish designs so slily and cunningly that it