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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bear_v	fruit_n	tree_n	1,451	5	8.5127	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00261	A bryefe and plaine declaracion of certayne sente[n]ces in this litle boke folowing to satisfie the consciences of them that haue iudged me therby to be a fauourer of the Anabaptistes.; Brife and faythfull declaration of the true fayth of Christ	I. B., fl. 1547.; Bale, John, 1495-1563, attributed author.; Bradford, John, 1510?-1555, attributed author.	1547 (1547)	STC 1035; ESTC S103779	21,747	42

A bryefe and plaine declaracion of certayne sentēces in this litle boke folowing to satisfie the consciences of them that haue iudged me therby to be a fauourer of the Anabaptistes ☞ Ecclesia xxiiii ¶ All these thynges contayneth the booke of lyfe the testamēt of the hyghest and the confession of the truth ☞ Suffer the infantes to come vnto me and forbydde them not for vnto suche the kyngdome of God is due Mark x. To the reader AFter I had setfurth thys lytle booke to the intent that the faythfull reader might therby be sterred vp and proud ked to pray wout ceasyng y t the detractours and defamours of the faythfull professours of y t faith of Christ might ether be made fauourers sette●… furth of the same other els so cōfounded and dashed out of countenaūce through the Godlye conuersation of the true and vnfayned professours of the pure Euangeli●…e doctrine that they might not for verye worldly shame once open their lippes to speak anye euyl worde of them incontinent the Deuyl who ha●…h alwayes indeuoured to stoppe and hynder the glory of God and the profyte of hys membres the faythfull congregation put into the myndes of certayne learned men who also are ernest defenders setters furth of the truthe to reporte and affyrme thys my facte to bee a mayntenaunce and vpholdyng of the Anabaptistes opinion whiche denied it to be lawful to Baptise the Infantes yong children which are not of yeares of descresion to know and confesse the fayth of Iesu Christ Not muche vnlyke is this subtyle practise of oure gostlye aduersarie vnto that whyche he wrought in the tyme of Christes passion He dyd then beate into the head of Pilates wyfe suche kynde of dreames that she was thereby moued to send worde to her husbande that in no case he shoulde geue sentence agaynst that iust man Iesus Chryst whom the Iewes had than broughte before hym requiryng hym to geue sentence of death vpon hym because he sayde that he was the sonne of God Thys proceaded not of anye desyre that he had that Pilate should not commyt so haynous a faut as to geue sentence agaynst that most innocēt and immaculate lambe Iesu Chryst but of y ● greate ranker malice that he bare towardes man who could not otherwyse be restored thē by the bloudshed of that most pure and innocent lambe Iesu Chryst. Euen so most dearly beloued in this present practise our gostly enemy intented not to roote out the erroure of the Anabaptistes oute of the myndes of men but because he perseiueth y t the very name of thē is so odious to y t faithfull y t they thinke their bokes vnworthy to be had among christē mē he thought y t he myghte by no meanes so sone bryng me out of credite w t the cōgregatiō as if he myght procure some man whose authoritie is greate in the congregation to geue me the name of a fauourer of that moost wicked and dyuelish opinion and so to cause mē to refrayne this boke least they should by the readyng therof take any vtilitie or profyt But as the spirit of God shalbe my guyde so wyl I declare not onely that I am none of the fauourers and maintainers of that destable errour but also that I do as muche as in me lieth impugne and resist the same so that that wicked serpent shalbe by the same meanes defeated of his purpose by whiche he in tended to haue spoyled the of thy commoditie Fyrst thou shalt note that I am no fauourer of them or theyr opinions for that I shall playnelye declare that the scriptures whyche they aledge make nothynge for their purpose And thē that I do in al that I may impugne them by that I shal endeuour to establysh 〈◊〉 fyrmeby the scriptures the contrarye of their opinion For the fyrst thou shalt note that the ground of their opiniō is vpon the order that the Euangelis●… Mark kepeth in the rehersing of the wordes of Christ to his Apostles when he sent thē to preach Marke xvi Fayth saye they dothe in the wordes of Chryst go before Bapt●…me Necessarye is it therefore that he that shalbe Baptised do first beleue But the Infantes which haue not the vse of reason cannot vnderstande the fayth of Chryst and muche lesse embrace and professe it wherfore it cannot stande with the worde of God that Infantes should be baptised No doubt christen reader it is not possible that any shoulde be acceptable before God without fayth For so writeth Paul to the Hebrues xi And truth it is also that sayth must go before baptisme none other wyse th●…n the cause proceadeth or goeth before the effect or thyng that commeth thereof as the tree must neades be before the fruit that it beareth And it is also infallibly true that the Baptisme whiche is acceptable before God must neades springe out of fayth But to inferré vpon this that the Infantes and yong chyldren oughte not to be baptised is farwyde from the true m●…anynge of these places of scripture And y t shal casely appeare to theim that ●…st to weygh the circumstaunces of the places so that thei may conceiue the whole intent and purpose of the wryter First for t●…e wordes of our sauiour Christ in Mark thei wer the word●…s of commission ●…euen to the Apostles that they shuld go into the whole world and preach the Gospell vnto all creatures These wordes sowne that the Apostles myght not chose them anye peculiar nacion to preach vnto nether Iewe nor Gentyle nother Greke nor Romain But their cōmission was into al the world yea to preach to all creatures the Gospel of God No nacion no estate condicion or degree excepted As wel were they bound to preache to the plowman as to the prynce as well to the labourer as to the lorde God hath no respect to the per son All the sonnes of Adam are of one degree in the syght of the Lorde Here was no mencion made Infantes neither of anye other age But I am sure ther is no man so farre wyde as once to thynke that the Apostles were here in commaunded to preache vnto Infantes For they as beastes lacking the vse of reason cannot receiue the fayth that hath his begynnyng of hearyng as saynt Paull wryteth in this text therefore is no precepte of Infantes ether for the Baptisynge of theim other elles the leauyng of them vnbaptised The precept that is heare geuen is none other but to go in to al the world and to preach the Gospel to al nations estates and degrees Then is there anexed the promyse of the free mercye of God towardes all the worlde that is that whosoeuer should beleaue and be baptised should be saued but he that wyl not beleue shalbe comdemned Here is it manifest that without beleue Baptisme auayleth not For he that wyl not beleue shalbe condempned But heare we must beware that we do not by these wordes condemne all Infantes and yong chyldren