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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	adultery_n	put_v	wife_n	3,378	5	8.3532	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16858	The complaynt of Roderyck Mors, somtyme a gray fryre, vnto the parliament howse of Ingland his natural cuntry for the redresse of certen wicked lawes, euel customs ad [sic] cruell decreys. A table wherof thou shalt fynde in the nexte leafe.	Brinkelow, Henry, d. 1546.	1542 (1542)	STC 3759.5; ESTC S106579	46,602	126

wel as other dayes And as for our holy dayes of our own inuenting in wh●ch we worship the creaturys of god the lord hatyth them as apperyth playnly in the first of Esay Yea god hatyth and abhorryth them sayth the Prophete Amos in the .v chap. And Paul rebuketh them that kepe soch holy dayes Galathyans the .iiij. sayng ye obserue dayes ce I am afrayd lest I haue bestowed labor vpon yow in vayne But our Idle bisshops contrary to the scripturys before cyted haue brought us in bondage that in maner the forth day in the yere thei haue made holy day and not to god only as all men knowe but to his creaturys And how do the peple hallowe them In cōmyng to church to a sort of domme ceremonyes to here moch inuented seruyce in a strange tong which thei vnderstond not nor yet .x. among an hūdreth of them seluys And thus the peple depart the church as empty of all sprytual knowlege as thei came thether And the rest of the day thei spend in all wanton and vnlawful gamys as dyse cardys dalyeng with wemen dansing and such lyke But if any man do any bodyly worke though very nede for the mayntenance of his lyuyng cōpel hym there vnto he shal be punysshed and called heretycke to But not witstondyng this thei are cōtent with thankys be to god that if such an heretyck worke euery sunday in the yeare though it be on Easter day for the kyngs grace or by his commissyon it is no offence but lauful as though it were lauful for th● kyng to breake gods cōmandment But for all that if thei fearyd not more the kyng than thei doo god thei wold ponyssh them also Oh most suttyl and wyly theuys what kyng or emperor yee what bisshop or Apostle can dyspense with godds word which he eyther biddeth or forbiddeth Where as Chryst saieth thow shalt not put away thy wyfe but only for adultery can all the whole world ye antychrystes dispense with me to put away my wyfe but for that cause only If ye beleuyd ryghtly in god and lyued in his feare ye shuld dispense therwith for no nother cause More ouer the scripture teacheth us mariage to be institute of god Genesis the .ij. and honoryd of Chryst with his presence and first myracle turnyng water in to wyne Iohan the .ij. And. S. Pawl say●h let euery man haue his wife to auoyde fornycacyon ● to the Coryn the .vij. marke he sayth euery man here is no man except For it is honorable sayth Paul to the Hebruys and the bedd thereof vndefyled And in the primatyue church it apperyth that the Apostels had wiues as Peter and Paul as is before rehersed And Paul calleth it a deuyllyssh doctryne to forbyd mariage to them that haue not the gyft of chastyte And yet not witstonding our lecheros bisshops o● rather sodomytes as chast as a saw● bytch take it for a vyle an vnholy thyng for thei forbyd themseluys and all that beare the marke of the beast antichrist to mary ▪ and haue procured death to them that seke rather to mary than to burne but to kepe whorys their own lawe permytteth Steuyn gardner which was the chefe causer of that wicked act is it not manifest openly knoun that he kepyth other mennys wyues which I could name and wil doo here after if he leaue not his shameles whordom If all the bysshops of Ingland were hanged wh●ch kepe harlots and whorys we shuld haue fewer pōpos bysshops than we haue Well yow bysshops which had your maryd wyues at the making of that wicked act and put them away for feare loke well vpon it for ye had bene better to haue suffred death than so cowardly to denye the lawe of the lord Wherfor I aduyse yow in the name of the lord bytterly to repēt with Peter takyng better hold and receyuing your owne maryed wyuys agayne yea though ye shuld giue ouer and for sake all your pōpos auctoryte and vayne ryches And stand fast to gods word euen in the face of princys as did the apostels the Christen bisshop S. Ambrose with all the faythful sort from the begynnyng Remember what Christ sayth he that denyeth me before men him shal I denye agayn before my heuynly father And agayne he that holdeth the plough and lokyth back is not mete for me such other For if ye stop your mowthes your talent shal be taken from yow and geuen to him that hath x. Agayne the scripture teacheth us to confesse our synnes only vnto god with a repentant hart and to loke for absolucyon of them thorow Christ Daniel the .ix. Dauyd confessyd hym to the lord Psalm xxxij and .li. M●nasses made a ryght confessyon as apperyth in his prayer If we so confesse our selues we shal gladly forgeue euyn our enemyes And in thus cōfessing our synnes to the lord with a cōtryte hart repentyng and turning frō our synnes all that we haue done before shal no more be thought vpon but seperat from us so farre as is the east from the west as say●h the prophet And whan we offend our neyhbers and brethern we may not only confesse vs vnto the lord but also vnto them whom we haue offended and be reconciled one to another as Christ teacheth us in the .v. of Mathew and Iames also in the .v. chapter of his epistle This confessyon taught us the holy gost long before antychryst had fownd out that fylthy ●●ricular confessyon to his gresy shauelings which was not from the beginnyng neyther shal be to the end Thei teach men to poure their synnes in to the earys of their generacyō that thei may sytt in the conscyence of men wher as god alone shuld sytt And agayne thei heare gladly the confessyon of harlottes that thei may know where to spede And the sy●nes being pouryd in to their eares by mouth not redargyng the repentance of the hart yet thei take vpon them to forgeue such synnys where as it is the offyce of god only to forgyue synne And thei do both robbe god of his offyce and also disceyue the pore blind peple which thynck them seluys to be healed whan thei remayne lepers styll For their malyce remaynyth styll ●uyn agaynst their fryndes many tymes and that for small matters not withstonding their confessyon As for the key of byndyng and ▪ losyng the grettest part of them knowe no more what it meanyth than a bussard Oh ye blasphemers what grownd haue ye to stablyssh your aurycular confessyon Haply ye wyl alledge that place where as Chryst sent the lepers vnto the pryst luke the .xvij. which maketh as moch for that purpose as to lay an vnyon to my lytel fyngar for the tothe ache For Christ sent them to the prystes only to offer an oblacyon after the lawe and that the prystes myght se that thei were whole and so after certē dayes to be kept in for a tryal which exspyred and than thei being fownd whole the prystes