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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	aaron_n	according_a	moses_n	48	3	7.0735	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05710	The new arival of the three gracis, into Anglia Lamenting the abusis of this present age.	Batman, Stephen, d. 1584.	1580 (1580)	STC 1584; ESTC S112724	36,047	48

none like vnto him he kept the lawe of the hiest and came into a couenant with him he set the couenant in his flesh and when he was pr●uid he was found faithful Likewise of Moyses Aaron Phinches Iosue Caleb Samuel Nathan Dauid Salamon Elyah Elyzeus Hezekiah Esaye Iosyah Ieremy Ezechyel Zorobabel Iesus Nehemyah Enoch Ioseph Simon the sonne of Onias with diuers other Prophets kings These in that they walkid according to the commandement of God haue left behind them a perpetual cause of prayse and commendacions and as these in godly life practised to please God so the wicked by contempte of the same haue left behind them a discomendacion of their wicked and most pestilent behauiour Abimelech the Sonne of Ieroboam flew thrée score and ten of his brethrē to the intent he might raygne alone and yet he ruled not long ther but sustayned great misfortune and made and euill ende NOtwithstanding that Ioab was a valiant man at armes yet in as much as he deceytfully flew two men al that euer he had done before was counted as nothing And so Salomon causid him to be slayne notwithstanding he heald the corner of the aultar IOas the king of Iuda commandid Zacharias the sonne of Ioiada the Preste to be stonid to death and yet his father restorid him the kingdom and slew Athalia PTholome the sonne of Abobus made the hie Prest and his two Sonnes a banquet And when they were mery and had drunk wel traiterusly he slew them It was showed Holofernes that the childrē of Israel preparid themselues to make resistāce against him for the which he was exceding wrough and at the last in his drunkennesse he was slayne by Iudith THe cruelty of Antiochus of Nabuchodonosor of Pharao of Herod of Zambrye Achab Achitophel Benadab Aman Balthazar Alchimus Ananias and Saphira Herod Dioclesian Astiages Maxinilian Emperour of the Romans Cambices Tomiris Tullia Tarquine Nero Iulianus with an infinet numbers who Sathan hath not a litlte triumphed at their ouerthrow I omit to speak of the Sea of Rome who hath not sparid to put more to death by tyranicall deuices then before their originall was euer heared of sence the flud Milions of thowsands whose blood requirith no small reuenge THe very heathē in their kind are to be preferrid before those and such like percecuting tyrants and in especiall the Philosophers haue left behind a worthy comendaciō of their wisdoms to the great discomendacion of such tiranny Papal as Anacharsis Anaxagoras Archelaus Alex Seuerus Augustus Caesar Chilon Cicero Crates Diogines Democritus Demostines Epimenides Hermes Homer Horace Isocrates Iustinus Licurgus Marcus Aurelius Pitagoras Pline Plato Solon Socrates Seneca Thales Xenophon with many others whose wise senteuris and faythfull sayings are to be found in our vulgar tong by such worthy members as diserue perpetuall fame for such their paynfull labours THe wise graue learnid and ancient Doctors of the Church did not in their time more paynfu●●y studie to kepe the Church in purite of doctrine then the wicked generacions of papisticall inuenciō haue laborid to bring all to ruen and decay to this ende that such lawes as they deuised might take place and yet in despit of satanicall tyrany the Lord hath reseruid some since the tyme of Quintilianus Timotheus Victorius Dionisius Ignacius Policarpus Hyreneus Origen Cypranus Erasmus Hilarius Athanasius Gregorius Basilius Magnus Ambrosius Hilarius Cyrillus Hieroimus Auguistinus that haue valiently defendid the Gospell to their perpetuall fame and worthy comendacion not by writing only not by preaching and teaching of the sacarid word and Gospell but also with their blood haue sea●id the sayd testimony of truth the most part hereof if not by present death yet by inprisonment perceusiō with diuers strange maners of punishmēts as Huldricus Huttenus Adamas Sibertus Albertus Brandeburgen Alexander Alexis Andreas Musculus Andreas Osiander Antonius Anglus Arturus Britanus Antonij Reuclim Bartholomeus Bernardi Bernardus Zieglerus Bullingerus Caluinus Hieronimus de Prage Carolus Molinaeus Cornelius Agrippa Conradus Gesnerus Gulielmus Tindalus Ioannes Frith Ioannes Fox Ioannes Hoperus Oecolampadius Ioannes Oldecastle Ioannes Bale Nicolaus Herford Nicolaus Ridley Robertus Stephanus Vuolfangus Musculus Erasmus Rotorodam Ioannes Iuel with a number more which would requier no small volume to be nominatid at large All and euery of these with the rest godly professors and martiers although their bod●ly presence be absent yet their works remayn to aperpetuall encouraging of those which be leuing The omnipotent God so graunt that this my small enterprise occasion some that are learnid to note at large this my short collectiō which being done wil deserue dwe commendacion for as the enemies of the Gospel of Christ Iesu haue made Books by the name of an vniuersall inquisition and therin haue named not only the names of the Christian sort but also their Books to the ende that their generacions may y e better know what they alow what they hate or dislike so were it as necesseray for these present dayes some such Books to be made wherin the true Christian may both sée and ●now which Books were to abolished as well for the maintenance of christian religion as the wicked ones haue for the glory of theirs which glory shalbe don away The God of peace and loue so blesse vs that in all our workes words and déedes it may be to his glory with the preseruacion of this our Déene and countrie with due obedience in the same that Satan may be suppressed Antichrist ouerthrowen that y e gospel may haue cléere passage through the whole world And that those which are blinde may thereby be made sée through the dimned cloudes of supersticion the cléers lighte of Euangelion the Gospell and those which are gon astray may once finde the way home And that those which are at home may depart in peace y e after this Pilgrimage here on earth we may rest with Abraham Isaack Iacob in the kingdom of heauē Amen ¶ A commendacion of such as desier knowledge with a wished mind of the numbers increase Striue by truth thy fame to win take héed betimes ere thou begin Euermore be sure of this perhappes thou maist in time else mis. Hold by truth as ancker sure euels present will procure Nothing better saueth life then to eschue debate and strife Couit only God to please prouide in time so followe ease Enuy is not now alone restles rage doth cause to mone These notes doth proue by gods decrée where grace is not none saued we sée Then find your name by letters due so shall you know if this be true WIthout the true knowledge of God I doubt good rule to finde lies highly being magnified leues of when time assind Imagine then what flesh doth gayne a show by proofe of endlesse paine Master then corrupted lust requiring ayde of Ioue the