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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	aaron_n	church_n	moses_n	100	3	6.6389	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10445	A replie against an ansvver (falslie intitled) in defence of the truth, made by Iohn Rastell: M. of Art, and studient in diuinitie	Rastell, John, 1532-1577.	1565 (1565)	STC 20728; ESTC S121762	170,065	448

that the church hath prouyded that they should not receaue generally at other tymes of the yeare but only at Easter Which is as false as God is true For the Canon and decree of the church is that who so doth not receaue at Easter shall not be accoūted a Christian. The wordes are these Omnis vtriusque sexus sidelis postquam ad annos discretionis peruenerit omnia sua solus peccata confiteatur fideliter saltem semel in anno proprio sacerdoti iniunctam sibi poenitentiam studeat pro viribus adimplere suscipiens reuerenter ad minus in Pascha Eucharistiae sacramentnm c. and they are thus much in Englishe Let euerie faithfull man woman and child after they come to yeares of discretion confesse by them selues faithfully vnto their owne priest all their synnes once a yeare at the least and studie to fullfill according to their power the penance inioyned them reuerently receauing the Sacrament of the Eucharist at Easter at the least c. By which decree she doth not I trow take order that the people shall generallie receaue onely at Easter but that if they receaue not at that tyme ad minus at the least they shall be punished for it Declaring hereby how much she mislyketh that the people will not voluntarilie prepare them selues to receaue their maker wheras she is constrained to put furth a law that at the least they shall receaue at Easter or els be accoūted for not Christans where lerned you then that the people were apointed to receaue onlie at Easter Or in what text or glose do you find it that the church hath takē order for them not to receaue generally at other tymes Tell vs I praie you whether all be one in your iudgement to saye you shall receaue at Easter at the least and you shall receaue only at Easter The first the church decreeth constrainyng thereby herr childerne to remember their dutie and to receaue the cumfort of their sowles The second is only by you imprinted to make the laity suspect the gouermēt of the Catholike Bishopes as though they should study how to diminisshe the cōmon peoples profit and knowledge and therefor had taken order and diligence that they should receaue only at Easter What authoritie you haue to make such open and wicked lyes I knowe not but allthough it might be geauen yet a good man wold not vse it And allthough you might scape vnespied thorough the greate credence in which your brothers haue you perchaunse yet should you not shew such malice or boldnes towardes the good and indifferent reader or towardes a neuer so euillbeloued aduersarie But now to an other matter An other matter I maye well saye For whereas it was consequent to bring in the testimonie of S. Chrisostome you deferr that ouer vnto the fifthe chapiter and occupie the reader and the replier allso when any such would be found out for you with the question of the sacrifice In which matter although I might be long and copious in answering you yet as much as I can prouide for it I will be short and compendious in declaring the truth Therefor let vs heare of you where your griefe is that by answering yea or no vnto it we may the quicklier end this extraordinarie eruption of yours against the truth of our sacrifice First you alleage that to saie that the priest is bound to offer vpp the daily sacrifice ys The roote of all the abuses of the Lords supper that haue ben brought in to the church of Christ. c. Do you thinke then that if priestes were not bound vnto it all abuses which haue sprong vpp as you saie would straitwaies decaie and wither the roote of them being taken awaie But who shall then stand at the aultar and intend vpon the misteries for dutie sake And when the parissheners shall make courtesie and saie one to the other Goe you and nay goe you and by my trothe I am not readie and by my trothe then lett all stand wyll you permitt such disorder to contynue when the roote of abuses shall be taken awaie by you or will you apoint some one or other which shall be bound to serue in the office whom yet if you will apoynt to be a reader only and to haue no further authoritie thēto open the boke and tell what is writen in it then shall you disgrace very much the priesthode and order of the newlaw which by all common reason should be more worthier then any ptiesthode that euer was in the world Now if you being venterous to take the rule of Christen sowles in to your owne handes are enforced to keepe officies and dignities emong you for the better commendation of your Ghospell thinke you that the wisedom of God and a God hym selfe Iesus Christ would gather a multitude of natiōs togeather in to one faith one hope and one absolute forme of seruing and honoring God and prouide no officers cōcernyng that effect ouer them Or when he hath apointed most perfect and excellent offices to be taken and exequuted of men for the wealth of his welbeloued would he leaue them to their pleasure whether they did folow their office or no and lett them stand vnbound and vncharged It seemeth then that as by his diuine prouidence he as man began a priesthode to serue for his church in matters apperteinyng vnto God so by as necessarie consequēce he charged his leuetenantes and vnderofficers in that kind to exequute his wyll and doe their dutie Wherefor that priestes should be bound to daily offering concernyng the whole body of priesthode and not euery particular person it is so farr of to be the roote of abuses that except such a dutie were folowed we should by this tyme haue had no supper of our Lords at all I warrant you Iniquitie would so much haue preuailed when the dayly sacrifice should haue ceased and no man his law could haue continued it if by the law of God it had bēfound vnrequired And further I saie that the church hath brought in or alowed no abuses in the ministration of any sacramēt But you goe forward and lie This is wherewith you do pitifully deface the death and passion of Christ makyng your selfe for your glories sake as it were meanes of reconciliation between God and his people This is a shamefull lie yea rather it is a slaunder whereas you make the desire of glorie to haue ben the cause in the church of Christ of hauing her priestes endued with such excellencies and prerogatiues And you speake so aduisedlie as though Aaron had not stode laudablie betwyxt God and the people when the plague was sent furth against them or Moyses had done presumptuously to be the spokesman for the people vnto God or as though Christ had not sent his Apostells euen as his Father sent hym or S. Paule had not geauen warnyng vnto the Corinthians cōcernyng such as he