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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	apostle_n	ghost_n	holy_a	1,562	5	4.9784	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04917	A godly letter sent too the fayethfull in London, Newcastell, Barwyke, and to all other within the realme off Englande, that loue the co[m]minge of oure Lorde Iesus by Ihon Knox; Admonition or warning that the faithful Christians in London, Newcastel Barwycke and others, may avoide Gods vengeaunce	Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.	1554 (1554)	STC 15059.5; ESTC S108135	51,203	96

and that he maye multiplye thy / as he hathe sworne vnto thy fathers Vvliij Idolatrie is too be eschevved the mainteners therof In these wordes most euidently is expressed vnto vs / why God wil that we auoide all felowship with Idolatrie / with the maintainers of the same In whiche are thre thinges chiefly to be noted / fyrste that the holy Ghost instruct vs / that maintaynours of Idolatrie / prouokers to the same / intēdeth to draw vs frō God / therfore he cōmaūdeth vs / that we shal not coūsail their īpietie / but that we shall make it knowen / that we shall punishe it / if we will haue the leage betwixte vs God too stande sure And here is the firmamente of my fyrst cause / why / it is necessary to auoyde Idolatrie / because that otherwise we declare oure selfes litell to regard / yea / to haue broken / and plaīly denied that holy leage / which is betwen vs God / through Christ Iesus Secōdarely it is to be noted / that Idolatrie so kindleth the wrath of God / that it is neuer quenched / vntill the offendors / all that they poses / be destroyed frō the earth / that by fyre It may appeare that this is seueare rygorous iudgement / but let the cause be cōsidered / thē shall we vnderstāde / that in the same / God sheweth vnto vs his most singuler loue / declaring him selfe enemye vnto oure enemies / for all those that wold draw vs frō God be the kynges or quenes beīg of the diuels nature / Dravvers of men frō God are of the deuils nature are enemies vnto God / therfore wil God that in such cases / we declare our selfes enemies vnto them And last it is to be noted / that obediēs geuē vnto God / in taking vēgeaūce vpō Idolatours / by suche meanes / as God hath appointed / is a cause why God sheweth his mercye / why he multiplieth vs / enbraseth vs with brotherly loue / where cōtrary wyse / by cōsentinge with Idolatrye / are the mercies of God shut vp frō vs / are cutted of the bodie of Christ / to wyther and roote / as trees withoute moysture But nowe shall some demaunde / what then shall we go too / and kyll all Idolatours Questiō Aūswere That were the office dutye of euery ciuell magistrate within hys realme and Iurisdiccion But of you is requyred only to auoyd participacion and company of that abhominacion / as wel in body as in soule / as Dauid and Paule plainly teacheth Psal xvi Dauid in his exile / in the middes of Idolatours sayth I will not offer their drinke offeringes of bloud neyther yet will I take their name into my mouthe Paule sayth 1. Cor. x. You maye not be partakers of the Lordes table and of the table of deuils you may not drinke the Lordes cup / and the cup of deuils As these two places / of scriptur plainly resolueth the former question / so do they confirme that which is before sayd That the leag betwixt vs and God requireth / auoydinge off all Idolatrye 1. Regū xxvij Fyrst playne it is / that in Gathe and in Corinthus / were no smal number off Idolatours / when Dauid was there in exile / when Paule wrote hys Epistle / yet neither sayth Dauid / that he wil kyl any in that place because he was their magistrate / neither geueth Paule any suche commaundement / but in one thing they both agre / that suche as hath socitie leage with God / must so abhorre Idolatrye / that no parte of the bodye be defyled therwith For Dauid sayeth I will not take their names in my mouth As he wolde saye / so odious are the names of false vaine Goddes / that the mencion of them is righteouslye compared to stinckinge donge / vile carion / whiche neither can be eaten / neither yet smellid without displeasur of suche that hath not lost the iudgemente of their sences / therfore sayeth Dauid / I wil not defyle me mouth with thē / that is / I wil neuer speake one fauorable worde of them I thinke much lesse / wolde he haue croched and kneled before them for anye mans pleasure Aduert brethren / Shyfte makers are double dissemblers that Dauid inspyred with the holy Ghoste knew no such sheftes / as worldly wyse men imagyn nowe a dayes That they maye kept their hartes pure and cleane to God / howbeit / their body daūse with the diuel Not so deare brethrē not so The temple of God hath nothing to do with Idols The cause expresseth Dauid in their wordes The Lorde hym selfe is my portion and my enheritaunce Greate is the cause / yf it be deaply considered Dauid illuminated by the holy Ghost seyth euē the selfe same thing / which before we haue aleaged of the Apostles wordes / that God will not parte spoyle with the deuil / promitting hym to haue the seruaūt of the body / he too stande contente with the soule / harte and mynde No brethren / Dauid marketh this / the fundament reason / why / he wil neither offer sacrefice to Idols / neither yet defyle hys mouthe with their names / because sayeth he the Lorde is my porcion Vvhat the leage betvvene vs and God requireth as he wolde saye / suche is the cōdiciō of the leage betwene me and my God / that as he is my tower of defence against my enemies / preseruing and norishing bothe the body soule / so muste I be hole his in bodye and soule / for my God is of that nature / that he will suffer no portiō of hys glory to be geuen to another In confirmation of this sayeth Esay / Esai 57. after he had rebuked their Idols and vayne inuecinons These are thy porcion and Ieremy likewise in mockinge of thē sayth / let thy bedfellowes deliuer thy / call vpon them / and let them heare thy / thou hast committed fornicacion whordome with stocke and stone Ierem. 3. The prophetes meaning thereby / that Idolators can haue no leage nor couenaunt with God / in so farre / that their hartes be alyenated from hym / which the seruice of their bodies doth testefye / and therfore renounceth God suche leage / bounde as was before offered for Esay wolde saye / euen suche as thou hast chosen / suche shal be the portion And Ieremye wolde say / thou put thy trust to them / which he meaneth / by the lyēg with thē in bed / therfore let them shewe their power in thy deliueraunce / and thus he sendeth them as it were to sucke water from hote burninge coles Note wel It shall nothing excuse / to saye we trust not in Idols / for so will euery Idolatour alleage / but if either you or they in Gods honor / do any thing contrary to

for it is the seale off that leage / whiche the deuell hath made with the pestilent sonnes of Antechriste / and is the very chief cause / why the bloud of the sainctes of God / hath ben shed nere the space of a thousand yeare / for so longe almost hath it bene in deuising / and in deckinge with that whorishe garmēt / The longe parching of the popisshe ●●asse wherein it now triumpheth / against Christ / againste the onely one sacrifice of hys death / merites of hys passion / which whole abhomination you confirme / and sheweth youre selfes / consentinge to the murther of those that hath suffered for speaking againste it / as oft as euer you decore that Idoll wyth your presens Note And therfore auoyde it / as that ye will be partakers with Christ / with whom ye haue sworne to dye and to lyue in baptisme and in his holye supper Shame it were to breake promys vnto man / but is it not more shame too breake it vnto God foolishnes it were to leaue that kynge / whose victorie you did se presente / and too take parte with hym / whome vnderstode perceaued to be so vanqueshed and ouerthrowen / that he neither might withstande / neither yet abyde the comming of his aduersarie Ioh. 12.16 O brethren / is not the deuel the prince of this worlde / vanquished cast out hath not Christe made conqueste off hym hath he not caryed our selfe vp to glorie in dispite of sathans malice Acto 1. Shall not oure champion retorne you vnderstande that he shall and that with expedition / when sathan and his adherentes Idolatours / Apo. 20. worshippers of that blasphemous beast / fylthie personnes / and fearefull shrinkers frome the truthe of God shal be caste in the lake burninge fyre and brimstone / which neuer shal be quenched Folishe feare But in the meane tyme / you feare corporall death / yf nature admitted any man too lyue euer / then had your feare some aparēce of reason / but yf corporall death be common to all / why will you leoperde to lese the lyfe euerlastinge to decline and escape / that whiche neyther ryche / neither poore / neither wyfe / neyther foolishe / proude of stomake / nor feable of coraige / and fynally no earthly creature / by no craft nor mene of man did euer escape / yf any hath escaped the horrible feare of deathe / it was suche as boldely did withstande mennes iniquitie in the earthe The fleshe can doo nothing but grudge But it grudgeth the flesshe saye you for feare of the torment / let it do the owne nature and office / for so must it do tyll it be burdened with Christes crosse / and then no doubte / shall God sende suche comforte / as now we looke not for Let vs not torne backe from Christe / albeit the fleshe cōplaine / and feareth the torment Wonder it is that the waye too lyfe is so fearfull vnto vs considering that so greate a number of our brethren / hath passed before vs in at the same gatte / that we so muche alhorre Hath not the moste parte of the sainctes of God entred in to their rest / by tormente trobles of whome witnesseth Paule / some were racked / Others before vs hath past to lyfe by torment some heawin a sonder / some slayne with swerdes / some walked vp doun in shepe skinnes / in neade tribulatiō vexation Heb. 11. in mountaines / dennes / and in caues off the earthe / and in all those extremities / what complaintes heare we of their mouthes / except it be that they lament the blindnes of the world / and the perdition of their persecutors Did God comforte them / and shall he despise vs yf in obediens to him / we folow their footsteppes / he shall not do it / for he hath promysed the contrarye And therfore dearly beloued in the Lorde As that you purpose too auoyde the vengeaunce of God / that sodenly shall strike all obstinate Idolatours As that you wolde hane the leage betwene God and you to stande sure / and as that you will declare your selfes to haue true faith / withoute whiche no man euer shall entre in lyfe And fynally / as that you wil leaue the true knowledge of God / in possession to youre chyldren Auoyde Idolatrie / all participation thereof / for it is so odious before Gods presens / that not onely dothe he punishe the inuentours / and fyrste offendours / but oftentymes theyr posteritie are stryken with blindenes and dasynes of mynde Deut. 28. The battaylle shall apeare stronge / which you are to suffer / but the Lord hym selfe shall be youre cōforte / he shall come in youre defence with hys mightie power / Zacha. 2● Psal 46.57.61 he shall geue you vittorie / when none is hoped for / he shall tourne your teres to euerlastynge Ioye / he shall confounde your enemyes with the breath of hys mouthe / Apoc. 7.22 Psal 55. he shall set you se their destruction that now are most proude The God of all comforte consolation for Christ Iesus / his sonnes sake / graūt that this simple plaine admonition / yea / rather the warning of the holy ghoste maye be receaued / accepted of you with no les feare obediēce then I haue written it vnto you with vnfayned loue / and sorowfull hart / then I doubte not / but we shall be comforted / when all suche as now motesteth vs / shall trymble shake by the comming of our Lord Iesus / whose omnipotent sprete perserue and kepe you vndefiled bodye and soule to the ende Amen ☞ A godly prayer AH Lorde / moste stronge and mightye God / which destroyest the coūsayles of the vngodly / and ryddest awai the tyrauntes of thys worlde / out of the earth at thy pleasure / so that no counsaill or force cā tesiste thyne eternal counsaill and euerlasting determination / we thyne poorē creatures and humble seruauntes / do moste instantly desyre the for the loue that thou hast to thyne welbeloued / and onely begotten soune oure Lorde and sauiour Iesus Christ / that thou wilt loke vpon thyne cause / for it is tyme o Lorde / and bringe to naught all those thinges that are or shal be apoynted / determined and fully agreed agaynste the and thy holy woorde / let not the enemyes of thy trueth to miserablye oppresse thy word thy seruaūtes / which seke thy glorie / tender the aduancement of thy pure religion / aboue all thinges wishe in their hartes that thy holy name may onely be glorefied amonge all nations Geue vnto thy seruaūtes the mouth of thy truthe wysedom / whiche no man maye resiste And althoughe we haue moste iustly deserued thys plague and famyn of thyne worde / yet vpon our trew repentāce / graunte we beseke the / we maye be