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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	aaron_n	allege_v	moses_n	20	3	7.2426	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04926	A faythfull admonition made by Iohn̄ Knox, vnto the professours of Gods truthe in England whereby thou mayest learne howe God wyll haue his Churche exercised with troubles, and how he defendeth it in the same.	Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.	1554 (1554)	STC 15069; ESTC S108127	51,531	126

was aboue nature that a massye heuy and weyghtie body of a man suche as they vnderstode their master Christe to haue shuld walke go vpon or be borne vp of the water of the ragynge sea and not sincke And finally the horroure of the tempest and greate daunger that they were in perswaded them to loke for none other but certaynly to be drouned And so al these thre thinges concur rynge together confirmed in them this imaginaciō that Christe Iesus who came to theyr greate comforte and deliueraūce was a fearfull and wicked spirite appearyng to their destruccyon What here chaunsed to Christe Iesus him self that I myght proue to haue chaunsed and dayly to chaūce to the veritie of his blessed worde in al ages from the begynnynge For as Christe hym self in this their trouble was iudged and estemed by his disciples at the firste syght a spirite or phantastical body so is the truth and syncere preachinge of his gloriouse gospel sent by God for mānes most comforte delyueraunce frō synn and quietnesse of conscience whā it is firste offered and truly preached it is I saye no lesse but iudged to be heresye and disceauable doctrine sent by the deuel to mannes destruccion The cause herof is the darke ignoraunce of God which in euery ag●… syth the beginnyng so ouer whelmed the worlde that sometymes Goddes veray electe were in lyke blyndnes and erroure with the reprobate As Abraham was an idolatrare Moses was instructed 〈◊〉 al the artes of the Egypcianes Paule a proude Pharisey coniured agaynst Christe and his doctrine And many in this same our age whan the truth of God was offred vnto them were sore affrayed and cried agaynst it only because the darke cloudes of ignoraunce had troubled them befo re But this matter I omitte and let passe til more opportunitie The chefe note that I wold haue yowe wel obscrue ▪ and marcke in this preposterous feare of the disciples is this The more nyghe deliuerance and saluacyon approcheth the more stronge and vehement is the temptacyon of the Churche of God And the more nyghe that Goddes vengeaunce approacheth to the reprobate the more proude cruel and arrogāt are they Wherby it commonly commeth to passe that the veray mes syngers of lyfe are iudged and demed to be the authors of al mischefe ▪ And this in many histories is eui dent Whan God had appoynted to delyuer the afflicted Israelites by the hand of Moses from the Tyranny of the Egypcians and Moses was sente to the presence of Pharao for the same purpose such was their affliccion and anguyshe by the crueltie which newly was exercysed ouer them that with open mouthes they cursed Moses and no doute in their hertes they hated god who sent hym alledgyng that Moses and Aaron was the hole cause of their last extreme trouble The lyfe is to be seen in the bofe of Kynges both vnder Eliseus and Esaias the Prophetes For in the dayes of Iorā sonne of Achab was Samaria beseged by the king of Sy ria In which Samaria no doute albeit the Kinge and the most mul titude were wicked ther was yet som membres of Goddes electe church which wer brought to such extreme famin that not only thinges of smal price were sold beyond al measure but also womē agaynst nature were cōpelled to eat their owne children In this same citie Eliseus the Prophete most commonly was conuersant and dwelt by whose counsel and commaundement no doute the citie was kepte for it appeareth the ●…ynge to laye y ● to hys charge when he hearing the piteous complaint of the woman who for honger had ea ten her owne sōne rent his clothes with a solemne othe and vowe that the head of Elizeus should not stād vpon his body that daye Yf Elizeus had not ben of counsel that the cy tie should haue ben kept why should the kynge more haue fumed against him then against other But whether he was the author of the defendinge the citie or not al is one to my purpose for before the delyueraunce was the churche in suche extremitie that the chiefe pastore of that tyme was sought to be killed by suche as shoulde haue defended hym The lyke is redde of Ezechias who defending his citie Ierusalem and resisting proude Sennacheryb No doute obeying the counsel of Esaias at length was so oppressed with sorowe and shame by the blasphemouse wordes of 〈◊〉 that he had no other refuge but in the Temple of the ●…orde as a man desperate and wythout comforte to open the disdaynfull letters sent vnto hym by that hautye and proude ty aunte By these and many histories mo it is moste euident that y e more nigh saluacion and deliueraunce approcheth the more vehement is the tem tacion and trouble This I writ to admonishe you that albeit yet you shal se tribulacion so abounde that nothing shal appere but extreme misery without al hope of comforte that yet ye declyne not frō God And that albeit somtymes ye be moued to hate the messengers of lyfe that therfore you shal not iudge that God wyl neuer shewe mercy after No dere brethren as he hathe entreated other before you so wil he do you God wyll suffer tribulacion and dolour abounde that no maner of cō forte shal be seen in man to th entent that when delyueraunce commeth the glorie maye be his whose onlye worde maye pacifie the tempestes moste vehement ●…e drowned Pharao and his ar mye ●…e scatered the great multitud of ●…enedab And by his Aungel killed the hoost of Sennacherib And so delyuered his afflicted when nothinge appeared to them but vtter destruccion So shal he do to you beloued brethren yf paciently ye wil abyde his consolation and counsel God open your eyes that ryghtly ye maye vnderstāde the meaning of my wrytinge Amen But yet peraduenture you wonder not a lytle why God permitteth suche bloud thristye tyrauntes to mo lest and greue his chosen Church I haue recited some causes before and yet mo I could recite but at this tyme I wyl holde me cōtent with one The iustice of God is suche that he wil not pow●…e forth his extreme vengeaunce vpon the reprobate vnto suche time as their iniquitie be so manifest that their very flatterer●… cā not excuse it Pharao was not destroyed till his owne housholde seruaūtes and subiectes abho●…red and condempned his stubburne disobedience Iesabel and Athalia were not thrust from this Iyfe into hell tyll all ●…ael and Iuda were wytnesses of their crueltie and abhominacions Iudas was not hanged til the princes of the prestes bare wytnesse of his traitorouse acte and iniquitie And to passe ouer the tyrauntes of olde tyme whom God hath plaged let vs come to the tyrauntes whiche nowe are within the realme of Eng lande whome God will not longe spare Yf Steuen Gardiner Cuthbert Tunstal and butcherly Bonnar false byshoppes of Wynchester ●…uresme