Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10780	A frendly farewel which Master Doctor Ridley, late Bishop of London did write beinge prisoner in Oxeforde, vnto all his true louers and frendes in God, a litle before that he suffred for the testimony of the truthe of Christ his Gospell. Newly setforth and allowed according to the order apoynted in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions.	Ridley, Nicholas, 1500?-1555.; Foxe, John, 1516-1587.	1559 (1559)	STC 21051; ESTC S115942	27,194	106

the world and to ioyn them vnto him self In whose cause we must if we wilbe his forsake father and mother and stycke vnto hym if we forsake hym or shrinck froÌ„ him for trouble or deathes sake whiche he calleth his crosse he wil none of vs we cannot be his if for hys cause we shal lose oure temporall liues here we shall find it again and enioy it for euermore but if in his cause wee will not be contented to leaue nor lose it here then shal we lose it so that we shall neuer finde it againe But in euerlasting death What though our troubles here be painful for the time and the stinge of death bitter vnpleasant yet we know they shal not laste in coÌ„parisoÌ„ of eternity no not the twinkling of an eie And that they pacientlye takeÌ„ in Christes cause shal procure get vs vnmesurable hepes of heueÌ„ly glory vnto the which these teÌ„poral pains troubles of death coÌ„pared are not to be estemed but to be reioysed vpon Wonder not saith S. Peter as thoughe it were anye straung matter that ye are tried by fire he meaneth of tribulacioÌ„ whiche thing saith he is done to proue you Nay but in y t ye are partners of Christes afflictions reioyse y t in his glorious reuelacion ye mai reioyse w t mery harts If ye suffer rebukes in Christes name happy are for the glory of the spirit of God resteth vpon you Of theÌ„ God is reuiled and dishonored but of you he is glorified Let no maÌ„ be ashamed in y t he suffereth as a christian and in Christes cause For now is y e time y t iudgement gods correctioÌ„ must begin at y e house of God And if it begin first at vs what shalbe thend of those thinke ye which beleue not y t gospel And if the righteous shal be hardly saued the wicked and the sinner wher shal he apere wherfor they which are afflicted accordinge to y e wil of God let theÌ„ lay downe coÌ„mit their souls to him by wel doing as to a trusty faithfulmaker this as I said may not seme strauÌ„g to vs. For we know y t al y e hole fraterniti of christes coÌ„gregatioÌ„ in this world is serued w t the like by the same is made perfect for y e feruent loue y t the appostles had vnto their master christ for y e great coÌ„modities increse of al godlines which they by their faith to ensue of afflictioÌ„s in Christes cause thirdlye for the heapes of heauenly ioyse which the same do get vnto the godly whyche shal endure in heaueÌ„ for euermore For these causes I sai the apostles of their afflictions did ioy reioysed in that they wer had accompted worthy to suffer contumelies rebukes for christes name Paul as he glorified in the grace and fauoure of God whereunto he was brought and stode in by faith so he glorified in his afflictions for the heauenli spiritual profits which resteth vppon them yea he was so much in loue wyth that y t the carnal maÌ„ lothe the so much y t is with Christes crosse that he iudged hym self to know nothing els but christ crucified he wil glori he saith in nothing els but in Christes crosse yea he blesseth al those as thonli true Israelites and elect people of god with peace and mercy which walketh after y e rule after none other O Lord what a wonderfull spirite was that that made Paule in setting forth of him self against the vanitie of Sathan his Pseudo postels and in his claime ther that he in Christes cause did excell passe them all what wonderful Spirite was that I say that made hym to recken vp all his troubles his labors his beatings his whippings his scourginges his shipwrackes his dangers and pearils by water and by lande his famine hunger nakednes and cold with many mo and the daily care of al the congregacions of Christ. Among whome euery mannes paine did pearse his hart and euery mannes grief was greuous vnto him O Lord is this Pauls primacy wherin he thought so muche good of it that he did excel other Is not this Paules sayinge vnto Timothy his owne schollers and doth it not pertaine to whosoeuer will be Christes true souldiour bere thou saith he the afflictioÌ„s like a good souldioure of Iesu Christ. This is true if we die with him he meneth Christ we shall liue with him If we suffer with him we shal reigne with him If we deny him he shall denye vs if we be faithlesse he remaineth faithfull he cannot denye him self This Paule woulde haue knowen to euery body For ther is none other wai to heaueÌ„ but Christ and his waye And al that wil liue godlye in Christ shall saith Saint Paule suffer persecution By this waye wente to heauen the Patriarckes the Prophetes Christe oure master his Apostles his Martirs and all the Godlye since the beginning And as it hath bene of olde that he whyche was borne after the fleshe persecuteth him which was borne after the spirite So it was in Isaackes time so said Saint Peter it was in his time also And whether it be so or no nowe let the spirituall man the manne I meane that is indued with the spirite of God let him be iudge Of the crosse of the Patriarckes if ye reade the booke of Genesis ye shall perceiue Of other Saint Paule in fewe words comprehendeth much matter speaking in a generalitie of the wonderfull afflictions death and tormentes whiche the men of God in Goddes cause and for the truth sake willingly did suffer after muche perticuler rehearsall of manye he saith Other were racked and dispised to be redemed that thei might obtain a better resurrection Other again were tried with Mockinges and scourginges and moreouer wyth bondes and imprisonmeÌ„t they wer stoned hewen insunder teinted fel and were slain vpon the edge of the sworde some wandred to and fro in shepes pilches in gotes pilches forsaken oppressed afflicted such godlye men as the world was vnworthy of wandering in wildernes in mountains in caues and in dens And all these were commended for their faithe And yet they abide for vs the seruauntes of God those their brethren which are to be slain as they were for the word of Gods sake that none be shut out but that we may all go together to mete our maister Christ in thair at his comminge so to be in blisse with him in body and soule for euermore Therfore seing we haue so much occasion to suffer and to take afflictions for Christes name sake paciently so many commodities therby so waighty causes so manye good examples so great necessity so sure promises of eternall life and eternall ioyes of him that can not lye Let vs throwe away what so euer might let vs all burden of sinne all kinde of carnalitie And pacieÌ„tly and constantlye let vs ronne for the best game in this race that is set before vs

God I am coÌ„ptable that ye neuer swarue neither for losse of life or worldly goodes froÌ„ Gods holy word and yeld vnto Antichrist wherupon must nedes follow the great displeaser of God and the losse of your bodies souls into perpetuall dampnation for euermore Now that I haue gon through the places wher I haue dwelt any space in the time of my pilgrimage here vpoÌ„ earth Remembring that for the space of Kinge Edwardes reigne whiche was for the time of mine Office in the Seas of London and Rochester I was a meÌ„ber of the higher house of the parliamente Therefore seinge my God hathe geuen mee laysoure and the remembraunce thereof I will bid my Lordes of the temporaltie farewel They shal haue no iust cause by Gods grace to take it that I entend to say in ill part As for spirituall prelacy that now is I haue nothing to say to them excepte I shoulde repeate agayne a greate parte of that I haue saide before now all readye to the Sea of London But to you my Lordes of the teÌ„poralty vnderstand ye thys firste That when I wrote this I loked daily when I should be called to y e chaunge of my life And thought y t that this my writinge shoulde not come to your knowledge before the time of the dissolucion of my bodye and soule shoulde be expired and therfore know ye that I had before mine eies only the feare of God Christian Charitie towarde you whiche moued me to write for of you hereafter I looke not in thys world other for pleaser or displeaser if my talke shal do you neuer so much pleasure or profit you caÌ„ not promote me Nor if I displese you ye can not hurt me or harme me For I shall be oute of your reache Nowe therefore if you feare God and can be content to heare the talk of him that seketh nothing at your hands but to serue God and to do you good herkeÌ„ what I say I say vnto you as S. Paul saieth to the Galathians I wonder mi Lordes what hathe bewitched you that ye so sodeÌ„ly are fallen froÌ„ Christ vnto Antichrist froÌ„ Christes gospel vnto mens tradicions from the Lord that boughte you vnto the Bishop now of Rome I warn you of your pearill be not deceiued except you will be found willingly consenters vnto your owne deathe For if ye thincke thus we are lay men thys is a matter of Religion we follow as we are taughte and led if oure teachers and gouernors teach vs and leade vs amisse the faulte is in them they shall beare the blame My Lords this is true I graunt you that both the false teacher and the corrupt gouernoure bothe shal be punished for the deathe of theyr subiecte whome they haue falselye taughte and corruptlye ledde And his bloud shall be required at their handes But yet neuerthelesse shal that subiecte die the death him self also that is he shal also be dampned for his owne sinne For if the blind leade the blinde Christe saithe not the leader only but he saithe bothe shall fall in the ditche Shall the Sinagoge and the Senate of the Iewes trow ye whyche forsooke Christe and consented to his Deathe therefore be excused because Annas Caiphas with the Scribes and Phariseis and their cleargy did teach them amisse yea and also Pilate theyr gouernoure and the Emperoures Lieuetenaunte by his tirranny did withoute cause put him to deathe Forsothe no my Lordes no but notwithstanding that corrupt doctrine or Pilates washinge of hys handes neither of both shal excuse other that sinagoge and seigniour or Pilate But at the Lordes hand for the effusion of that innocentes blud on the latter dai al shal drink of the deadlye whip Ye are wittye and vnderstand what I meane Therefore I will passe ouer thys and return to tel you howe you are fallen from Christe to his aduersarye the Bishyp of Rome And least my Lordes I maye peraduenture thincke me thus barely to call the Bishop of Rome Christes aduersarye or to speake it in plain termes to cal him Antichrist that it is don in mine anguish and that I do but rage and as a desperate man do not care what I say or vpon whome I do raile Therfore that your Lordships may perceiue my minde and vnderstande that I speake the words of truthe and of sobriety as S. Paule saide vnto Festus Be it knowne vnto your Lordships al that as concerning the bishop of Rome I nether hate the person nor the place For I ensure your Lordships y e liuing Lorde beareth me witnesse before whome I speake I doo thincke manye a good holy manne manye martirs and Saintes of God hath set and taught in that place Christes Gospel truely whiche therfore iustlye maye be called Apostolici that is true Disciples of the Apostles And also that Church and coÌ„gregacion of Christians Apostolicke Church yea and that certaine hundreth yeares after y e same was first erected builded vpon Christ by the true Apostolicall Doctrine taught by the mouthes of the Apostles them selues If ye will know how long that was and how manye hundreth of yeares to be curious in poyntinge the precise nomber of yeres I wil not be to bold but thus I say so loÌ„g and so manye hundred of yeres as that sea did truely teach and preach that gospel that religion exercised that power ordered euery thing by those lawes and rules whyche that sea receiued of the Appostles and as Tertulyan saithe and the apostles of Christe and Christe of God so long that Sea myght wel haue bene called Peter and Pauls chair and Sea or rather Christes Chaire and the Bishop thereof Apostolicus or a true Disciple of the Apostles and a minister of Christ. But since that time that Sea hath degenerated froÌ„ that trade of truth and true Religion whyche it receiued of the Apostles at the beginning and hathe preached a nother Gospell hathe sette vp an other Religion hathe exercised an other power and hath taken vpon it to ordre and rule the Churche of Christe by other straunge lawes Cannons and rules then euer that Sea receiued of the Apostles of Christe whyche thinges it dothe at this daye and hathe continued so doinge alasse alasse of to to loÌ„g a time From time I saye that the state and condition of this Sea hathe thus bene chaunged In truthe it oughte of dutye and of righte to haue the names chaunged bothe of the Sea and of the sitter therein For vnderstande my Lordes it was neither for the Priuilege of that place or Persone thereof that that Sea and Bishop thereof wer called Apostolicke but for the true trade of Christes Religion whiche was taught and maintened in that Sea at the firste and of those godlye menne And therfore as truely and iustlye as that Sea then for that true trade of Religion and coÌ„sanguinitie of Doctrine wyth the Religion and Doctrine of Christes Apostles was called Apostolick So as truely as iustly for y e

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