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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	authority_n	bishop_n	church_n	2,934	5	4.3576	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04576	Dauids teacher, or The true teacher of the right-vvay to heauen Discouering erroneous teachers and seditious sectuaries. Preached at Paules-Crosse the 3. of September. 1609. By Ro: Iohnson, M. of Arts, chaplaine to the Right Reuerend Father in God, the L. Bishop of Lincolne.	Johnson, Robert, chaplain to the Bishop of Lincoln.	1609 (1609)	STC 14694; ESTC S107451	26,498	52

therfore in the 35. verse of this Psalme it is called Semita a path Direct me in the path of thy commandements there 's the narrownesse of this way If the way then to heauen be narrow and the gate straight I wonder how many of the Daughters of Sion will doe to goe that narrow way and get in at that narrow gate since their apparrell they weare hath so much compasse about it Those Daughters haue the seuen properties of Materia prima that is appetens cuiuslibet formoe to bee of euerie forme and fashion vntil they be of the fourth propertie of that Materia informis deformed without shape without decencie without modestie I can be silent to speake of these shapes and new fashions in apparell euerie day for the maintenance whereof they rack their rents grinde the faces of the poore turne hospitality out of doores and out of common-weale But this one thing of their filthie painting their faces like dead pictures Dauids teacher neuer taught them he cannot abide it and I cannot tel whether I were best dispraise it or wonder at it in silence Saint Cyprian Deum ipsum inducit loquentem bringeth in God himselfe speaking against them Non metuis oro quae talis es Dost thou not feare that art such a one so disguised When the resurrection shall come thy maker will not know thee he will say opus hoc meum non est nec haec imago nostra est This is none of my worke this is not after our Image and likenes you are a great deale better complexioned then I made you If they did but consider this or that which Esay hath That all flesh is grasse and all the goodlinesse thereof is as the flower of the field it would somewhat surely daunt their painted brauerie and pride or if they did with Dauid heere consider the narrownesse of the way they would be more respectiue with him to learne the waies of the Lord. Teach me O Lord. Secondly if the way to heauen be narrow I wonder how the drunkard will goe that way when hee cannot stand vpright in the way and how he wil trauell this narrow way since he reeleth too and fro and standeth as Dauid describes him Drunkennesse is qualitas patibilis hee cannot dissemble it if he would the foole knoweth he is drunk because his speech bewraieth him and as the maide said to Peter Thou art of Galile for they speech bewraieth thee so it may be said to the Drunkard Thou art drunke for thy speech bewraieth thee Drunkennesse is his verbe imparsonall and hee declineth it roundly Delectat delectabat delectauit c this is his summum bonum his felicitie and chiefe delight hac non itur this is not the way but Dauids teacher sheweth vs stil the same Teach me the way wherin secondly note The difficultie of the way to heauen Heauen is called olympus a hill it is hard to trauel vp thither we must take paines with Ionathan and his armor-bearer to scrabble vp thither vpon our hands and our feet between the rocks of this world else we shall not come there And this brieflie is Dauids way Teach me O Lord the way of thy Statutes Doce me Domine Teach me O Lord. This word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Doce● serues lastly to correct all vnbrideled masterlesse Schismatikes such as run vpon their owne heads and thinke themselues better learned then their teachers I meane disorderly Brownists masterlesse Schismatikes lawlesse Sectuaries that impugne orders and constitutions established by authoritie by the ordinance of God and agreeable to his word Let them learne heere of Dauid Doce me domine Dauid is in the accusatiue case and followeth the verbe so will not these parisyllabicall sectuaries that would bring a paritie into our church the mother of confusion they will be in the nominatiue case and goe before the verbe before their teachers before their Pastors before the ordinance of God And the true badge congniscence or marks whereby yee shall know these pernicious and seditious sectuaries and distinguish them from the true children of God are these which follow And as Christ said of false Prophets by their fruites yee shall know them so I say of these sectuaries by their fruits yee shall know them by these notes and markes ensuing ye shall know them And first by their Discipline ye shall know them 1 An vnchristian Discipline not yet christened it wanteth a certaine name so that if a man should catechise these men and aske them what is the name of your Discipline they could not answer you 2 A Discipline that banisheth such Bishops as Christ and his Apostles appointed allowed and approoued 3 A discipline that knoweth not whether her Officers should be ecclesiasticall or lay men 4 A discipline that disdaineth the ancient fathers and generall Councels 5 A discipline that to serue her owne turne wil wrest and wring the Scriptures as a nose of wax 6 A discipline that would be verie chargeable by reason of her traine that must bee all maintained by a common purse 7 A discipline that giueth her Children verie strange names in Baptism instead of Robert Thomas and Iohn The Lord is neere More tryall Reformation Discipline Ioy againe Sufficient From aboue Free-gift More fruit Dust c. Names in our English phrase not verie vsuall 8 A discipline that oppugneth the authoritie of Princes in causes Ecclesiasticall and heerein they ioyne with the Papists 9 A discipline that turneth all things vpside downe Churches into chambers Bishops into Snidicks and superintendents Ministers into Senators and bench Presbyterians and that if they might be suffered with their discipline would make a new metamorphosis of the world and would with Phaeton Sonne to Phoebus if they might haue the guiding of the chariot of the Sun ouerthrow the same and burne the whole world and set all on fire with their Discipline Therfore by their discipline ye shal know them 2 Secondly by this badge or marke ye shall know them they are alwaies in the optatiue moode and are knowne by the signe vtinam I would to God things were otherwise I would to God the church were reformed her orders and constitutions altered but it were great pitie they should be in the potentiall moode and haue power to doe it 3 Thirdly they haue inward markes whereby ye shall know them 1 They are not a little malitious they lighten and thunder malice against all that will not bee of their ranke and discipline and with the Basaliske would kill them with their lookes if they could therefore by their malice and enuie yee shall know them 2 Secondly ye shal know thē by this mark that they are not a little mouthie and clamorous to traduce slander other men They are set on fire their teeth are Speares and Arrowes and their tongue a sharp sword 3 Thirdly ye shal know them by this mark that they are verie