Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	law_n	lord_n	word_n	3,240	5	4.1297	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11271	A goodly dysputacion betwene a christen shomaker, and a popysshe parson with two other parsones more, done within the famous citie of Norembourgh. Translated out of [the] Germayne tongue into Englysshe. By Anthony Scoloker.	Sachs, Hans, 1494-1576.; Scoloker, Anthony, fl. 1548.	1548 (1548)	STC 21537.7; ESTC S117736	15,831	48

then is it not lawfull For a lay man to reprehende a spirituall man Parson I shomaker ought to meddle with greasing of his lether and clouting of his showes and not with holy scripture Shomaker Howe can ye proue that by scripture / that a Christen man may not rede wryte and search in the scriptures For Chryste sayth search the Scriptures for she beareth witnes of me And the psalmograph sayth also Blessed is the man that studyeth nyght and daye in the lawes of the lord And Peter sayth also Prepare your 1. Petri. 3. selues to answere euery mā / the grounde requyreth the hope whiche is in you and in lyke maner Paule teacheth the Ephesians to fyght agaynst the assaultes of the deuell with the swerde of Gods woorde Ephesi 6. Oh lord howe were it possyble for vs to resyst if we knewe nothing of the scripture Parson Euen lyke a heape of gise in the water Shomaker Mocke at your pleasure The Iewes knowe theyr lawe by roote or wythoute the boke shal not we that are Christians know the gospell of Iesus Chryst whiche is the power of God to as manye as shal be saued / as Paule sayth 1. Corin. 1. Parson Yea thou shalt know it as Christ hath tolde The scribes and pharizees haue set thē vppō Moses seat What so euer they Math. 22. teach you ●oke you do the same which signifieth the dayly preachīges / doth not this suffise the laye people Shomaker Ther is also written in the same chap. They laye heauy ād vnbearable burdens vppō mennes neckes ād such sygnifye the tradicions and commaundemētes of men wherby ye dryue and oppresse vs laye people bryngyng vs in heauy consciens / wherfore shulde we then folowe you parson How cāst thou proue that by scripture Shomaker Chryst sayth in the be fore named chapter Wo be vnto you ye hipocrites ād pharizees that shut vp the kyngdome of heauen for the people / thou wylte not entre into it thy selfe nor yet suffre any other to enter parson Yea that was spoken to the priestes of the Iewes and not to our priests Shomaker Mary Syr ye haue fyrst taken the name of pharizees vppon you Which sytte vppon moses seate etc. Although it be spoken of the Priestes of the Iewes as the ●●ueth is euen so it also spoken of you For your workes beare witnes / thou eatest the widdowes houses / as the text further doth declare in good fayth six domine you haue taken your selfe by the nose Parson Fye on the. Howe do these horeson lutherians reioyce and laughe in their fyst when they can fynde some sayings out of the scripture / they trouble and vexe one therwith without ceasyng Shomaker Syr I pray the be not discontented fo● in good fayth I speake of a good zeale Parson I am not angry but I am bounde to tell it the it becōmeth not the laye People to meddle with the scripture Shomaker Chryst sayth Beware of false prophetes Math. 7. and Paule to the Philippi iij. take hede Philipi 3. If we myght not be suffered to rede the scriptures how shulde we thē know these thynges Parson The same apperteyneth to the papistry as Paule sayth to Timoth. 1. ye shall correct the seducers with all extremitie Shomaker Yea they do it not but do manifestly agaynst it as it daylie doth apere parson Let them care for that Shomaker No syr not so / we wyll not esteme it so lyght / it they wyll not then muste we take hede that we folow not them / for no man shall beare an others burden parson Saye what ye lyst it apperteyneth not to the laye people to meddel with the scripture as Paule saythe 1. Cor. 7. Let euery 1. Cor. ● man walke accordynge to the lordes callyng Howe sayest thou nowe thou woldest haue scripture and now I haue scriptured the I trow Shomaker Yea paule speaketh that of the outward conuersacion and lyuinge of boundemen and Fremen / as in the same Chapter it is clearley specifyed But here doth he forbid no man to searche the worde of God Parson Doest thou not here ye mi●ste fyrste be called throughe the holy oyntment / and after that / be chosen of the higher powers other wyse is it not laufull for any man to meddell with the scrypture Shomaker Chryst sayth The haruest is great but Luke 10. ther are very fewe labourers pray to the lorde of the haruest to send labourers into his haruest ●●erby the callyng muste nedes be inwardlye of God / and not outwardely For outwardly are all preachers called as well the false as the true Parson ●ush It is but folyshnes to reason with such pratlers Shomaker It is euen so with you as it was with Luke 9. the discyples / whiche were offended that othermen castoute deuelles in Chrystes name as wel as they But Christ sayd for bydde them not For who soeuer is not a gaynste you is with you And if ye were true Chrystyans / ye shulde euen reioyce that the lay people do vnderstand know the worde of God Parson What grefe is it to you Sho. Because we haue forsaken the deuell in our baptym therfore are we thus dilygent to fyght with Gods worde agaynst him his kingdom yea and to auenture and Ieoparde both body and goods Parson It were better for ye lay people to study howe to get the lyuing of your wyues and chyldren Sho. Chryst forbiddeth and sayth take no thought what ye shall eate and drinke or Math. ● what clothes ye shal put on for suche thinges do the heathen seke but seke fyrst the kingdom of God c. And it shal be geuen you aboundauntly The man lyueth not onely by breade but of euery word with Math. 4. procedeth out of the mouth of God Parson Satisfye and content your selfe therwith / and bake neuer a whitte Shomaker We must labour as it was commaunded Gene. 3. Iob. 5. to Adā The mē are borne to labour lyke the byrdes to flye Parson Where shuld you and other laye people haue learned it some of them knowe neyther A nor B. Shomaker Chryst sayth They shal all be taught of God Parson But there nedeth also learnīg wherfore are the vniuersities els ordeyned Shomaker In what vniuersitie I pray the dyd Ioan studye Who wrote so profoundly In the beginning was the worde and the worde was God ●ete For he was bu● a fyssher as it is wrytten Parson What man / he was illuminate wyth the holy gost Shomaker It is wrytten And it shall happen in the later daies sayth God I wyl power out my spyrite vppon all fleshe What meane ye thynke ye that thys is not spoken of vs Actes 2. Parson No it is spoken of the Apostles as peter witnesseth Therfor hold thy peace and speake no more of the spyrite Shomaker Chryste sayth who so beleueth on me● out of his bodye shall flowe streames of Iohan. 7. lyuing water Whych is