Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	bless_a	body_n	life_n	4,371	5	4.4076	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78584	The character of a Presbyter, or Sr. Iohn anatomized.		1660 (1660)	Wing C1983A; Thomason E1030_12; ESTC R208918	5,299	11

THE CHARACTER OF A PRESBYTER OR Sr. IOHN ANATOMIZED LONDON Printed for John Calvin at the Presbyters Head in Pauls-Church-Yard 1660. THE CHARACTER I Will first present him in Grosse and then give you him in his Anatomy but I am afraid he will stink before I have read through every part of him Let us then unkennel the Fox and we shall find him no better than a Crablouse crept out of Luthers Codpiece when he unbutton'd to Katharin● Bora the immediate issue of Perjury as being begotten by that Monke-professed on that professed Nun which may be the reason perhaps he hath kept his Covenants so well ever since From Saxony the Vermin crept to Geneva where that Bears Whelp was licked by Sodomitical Iohn into Deformity and if you will not believe my Geography that Sodom stood where now Geneva doth when Calvin lived there I have his Back though not his Hand to shew for it where the Oxford Doctor may read the meaning of that hard word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 You may know the Beast by his Brand if he be found in our Enclosure I would have him put into the Pound He is one of Pharaohs Lean Kine that signifies no lesse than Famine and Death He was sent amongst us as a plague and we swarm no lesse with them than Egypt did with Frogs and Flyes If you please that other Judgement of God the General Darkenesse more resembles this Child of new light who thinks forsooth that the Day breaks first in at his window but let me tell you he that follows his Dark Lanthorn had need to call aloud hang our your Lights But because the man is apt to take pet I will grant him some resemblance to that Courtly Creature and call him an Ignis Fatuus that leads the passenger into Bogs and Waters a piece of Rotten Wood or a Glittering Gloworm a meer Quasi and no more Fewer Taylors goe to the making of a Man than of these Inches of Theologues to the constitution of a Divine and yet they will say you a Grace of an Ell long London measure He is just as much a Parson as I in my black Coat or you in your Gray for he wears both Disguises Let the Stature of his Body be what it will you must take the dimension of his Knowledge not as we do those Giants of old in Learning by the Cubit but as we measure the poor Pigmyes of these times by the Span. Neither indeed can we expect that he should be strong timber for the edifying of Gods Temple who was plucked up as soon as he was planted in the Nursery of the Academy A Senior he is the first day of his Matriculation and thinks himself a Sophy before he arrives to a Sophister This fond conceit of his improvement makes him like a carelesse Child forsake the Lap of his Mother before he is so much a substantive as to stand by himself He thinks not that that largenesse of his Head is nothing but the Rickets a Disease and not Discipline he would not else sure set up the Trade of Preaching before he had served out his apprentiship in the University We must suppose him then fluttering in his flying Coat and Pearching in the Puipit where we shall find him a pretty Parrot that hath just learned to speak His excellency lyes in praying ex tempore that is out of all time for you shall be sure to have him as long as a Cart-rope as if he thought God measured his devotion by the length and strength of his Lungs or as if he thought that God who is all Ear did not hear him who is all Mouth in tautologising so often Ah Lord O God! His Sermon that we may give it its due is a Noted one or a Sermon of Notes taken up in Grosse at the University or some Forein Congregation and disburst in the Retayl to his own Parishioners I grant he hath taken some pains in wire-drawing it into words at length which he before penned in Stenography or short hand whence we may collect That our Learned Sir John can Write and Read and able if need requires to make use of the Benefit of the Clergy Trace him in his Doctrines and you shall find him to tread very much awry He is an absolute man for absolute Reprobation and damneth you and me before we were born or were so much as capable of doing God or man the least injury I say by Gods revealed will I may be saved if I do as God commands me and he says by Gods secret will I am damned thus he makes God one of his own Antipodes to tread contrary to himself and though his Motto is semper idem he would have him to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to speak one thing and to mean another as if he was one of Gods privy Council or as if he and not St. Peter kept the Keys of Heaven And if they make so bold with God himself no wonder then if they invade the Liberties of his Vicegerents and maintain that a Subject may prescribe Laws to his Prince and depose him if he does not observe them this was the Dagger which stabbed so many of the Scotish Kings and this the Axe which struck off the Head of Ours and for our late civil dissentions thank Buchanan and Knox they led up the Van in the Villany and our Presbyter brought up the Rear He hates with a perfect hatred the English Prelates with all their Hierarchy and counts his Ordination as good as theirs He is a meer Sloven in his Devotion and would have no heads bare in the Church but what are so in reverence to his own little Grace no knee to be bowed except it be to ask him forgivenesse The sight of a Picture he can by no means endure when his self is no more but the Picture of a Preacher He can't away with the superstition of the Holy Font because it can't walk and wait upon his idlenesse to the Pew door but will celebrate the Sacrament of Baptism in the common Bason he last washed his dirty hands and face in If you saw his Congregation receiving the venerable Body and Blood of our blessed Saviour you would think the good People were set down to make a sober meal of it to refresh their hungry Bodies rather than their Souls nor dares he Holy-man administer those heavenly Viands without a severe scrutiny into the lives of the Communicants and though God of his mercy hath invited all yet none must be admitted but those to whom the Comptroller of Gods House doth please to give a Ticket as if he forsooth who so much hates the Catholick Doctrine had a months mind to become their Confessor when indeed 't is only to pick a hole in his Neighbours Coat to discover his nakednesse that so lying but at open-ward he may wound him at his pleasure For my part if he should tell me I had not my wedding Garment on and so not fit