Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bishop_n	pope_n	rome_n	4,726	5	6.8398	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04923	The appellation of Iohn Knoxe from the cruell and most iniust sentence pronounced against him by the false bishoppes and clergie of Scotland, with his supplication and exhortation to the nobilitie, estates, and co[m]munaltie of the same realme.	Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.; Gilby, Anthony, ca. 1510-1585. An admonition to England and Scotland.; Kethe, William, d. 1608?	1558 (1558)	STC 15063; ESTC S106719	70,824	162

permitted to bear anie rule in his Church and congregation Now if the vnction and office saued not Abiathar because that goddes sentence must nedes be perfurmed can anie priuiledge graunted by man be a buckler to malefactours that they shall not be subiect to the punishmentes pronounced by God I think no man will be so foolishe as so to affirm For a thing more then euident it is that the hole preesthode in the tyme of the Law was bound to giue obedience to the ciuile powers And if anie membre of the same was fouÌ„de criminal the same was subiect to the punishement of the sworde which God had put in the hand of the Magistrate And this ordenance of his father did not Christ disanul but rather did coÌ„firme the same coÌ„maunding tribute to be payed for hym selfe and for Peter Who perfectly knowing the mynd of his maister thus writeth in his epistle Submit your selues to all maner ordenance of man he excepteth such as be expressely repugnyng to goddes commaundement for the Lordes sake whether it be to king as to the chefe head or vnto rulers as vnto them that are sent by hym for punishement of euill doers and for the praise of them that do well The same doth the apostle saint Paule most plainely commaund in these wordes Let euerie soule be subiect to the superiour powers Which places make euident that neither Christ neither his Apostles hath geuen any assuraÌ„ce of this immunitie aÌ„d priuiledge which men of Church as they wil be termed do this day claime Yea it was a thing vnknowen to the primitiue Churche many yeares after the daies of the Apostles For Chrysostome who serued in the Churche at Constantinople foure hundreth years after Christes ascension and after that corruptioÌ„ was greatlie increased doth yet thus write vpon the forsayd wordes of the Apostle This precept saieth he doth not appertaine to such as be called seculars onlie but eueÌ„ to those that be Preestes and religious men And after he addeth Whether thou be Apostle Euangelist Prophete or whosoeuer thou be thou caÌ„st not be exempted from this subiection Hereof it is playn that Chrysostome did not vnderstand that God had exeÌ„pted any person from obedience and subiectioÌ„ of the ciuile power neither yet that he was auctour of such exemptioÌ„ and priuiledge as Papistes do this day claime And the same was the iudgemeÌ„t and vniforme doctrine of the primatiue Church many yeares after Christe Your Honours do woÌ„der I doubt not froÌ„ what foÌ„taine then did this theyr immunitie as they terme it aÌ„d singular priuiledge spriÌ„g I shall shortly tuch that which is euident in their own law and histories When the Byshoppes of Rome the verie Antichrists had partly by fraud and partly by violence vsurped the superioritie of some places in Italie and most iniustly had spoiled the Emperours of their reÌ„tes and possessioÌ„s and had also murthered somme of their officers as histories do witnesse the began Pope after Pope to practise and deuise how they should be exempted from iudgement of Princes and from the equitie of lawes and in this poynt they were most vigilant till at length iniquitie did so preuaile in theyr handes according as Daniel had before prophesied of them that this sentence was pronounced Neither by the Emperour neither by the clergie neither yet by the people shall the iudge be iudged God will saieth Symmachus that the causes of others be determined by men but without all question he hath reserued the Byshop of this seat vnderstanding Rome to his own iudgement And here of diuerse Popes and expositours of their lawes would seme to geue reasons For saieth Agatho All the preceptes of the apostolik seat are assured as by the voice of God him self The auctour of the glose vpoÌ„ their canon affirmeth that if all the world should pronounce sentence against the Pope yet should his senteÌ„ce preuaile For saieth he The Pope hath a heaueÌ„lie will aÌ„d therefore he may chauÌ„ge the nature of thinges he may apply the substaÌ„ce of one thing to an other and of nothing he may make somwhat and that senteÌ„ce which was nothing that is by his mynd fals and iniuste he may make somewhat that is true aÌ„d iust For saieth he in all thinges that please hym his will is for reason Neither is there any man that may aske of hym why doest thou so For he may dispens aboue the Law and of iniustice he may make iustice For he hath the fulnes of all power And manie other most blasphemous seÌ„teÌ„ces did they pronouÌ„ce euery one after other which for shortnessake I omitt till at the end they obtained this most horrible decrie that albeit in life and conuersation they were so wicked and detestable that not only they coÌ„demned them selues but that also they drew to hell and perdition manie thousandes with them yet that none should presume to repreheÌ„d or rebuke theÌ„ This being established for the head albeit not without somme contradiction for somme Emperours did require due obedience of them as goddes word commaunded and auncieÌ„t Byshoppes had geuen before to Emperours and to their lawes but Satan so preuailed in his suete before the blynd world that the former sentences were confirmed which power being graunted to the head then began prouision to be made for the rest of the membres in all realmes and contries where they made residence The frute whereof we see to be this that none of that pestilent generation I mean the vermine of the Papistical order will be subiect to anie ciuile Magistrate how enormious that euer his crime be but will be reserued to their own ordenarie as they terme it And what frutes haue hereof ensued be the world neuer so blynd it can not but witnesse For how their head that Romane Antichrist hath bene occupied euer seÌ„ce the grauÌ„ting of such priuiledges histories do witnesse and of late the most part of Europa subiect to the plage of God to fier and sworde by his procurement hath felt and this day doth fele The pride ambition enuie excesse fraude spoile oppression murther filthie life and incest that is vsed and mentained amongest that rabble of Preestes freers monkes channons byshoppes and Cardinalles can not be expressed I fear not to affirme neither doubt I to proue that the papisticall Church is further degenerate from the puretie of Christes doctrine from the footesteppes of the Apostles and from the maners of the primatiue Church theÌ„ was the Church of the Iewes from goddes holie statutes what time it did crucifie Christ Iesus the onlie Messias and most cruelly persecute his Apostles And yet will our Papistes claime theyr priuiledges and auncient liberties which if you graunt vnto theÌ„ my Lords ye shall assuredly drink the cupp of goddes vengeance with them and shalbe reputed before his presence compagnions of theues and meÌ„tainers of murtherers as is before declared For theyr immunitie aÌ„d priuiledge whereof so

heare thy cause and decerne in the same The controuersie standith in matters of religion Thou art accused as an apostatat from the Law as a violator of the temple and transgressor of the traditioÌ„s of theyre fathers in which matters I am ignorant and therefore desire information by those that be learned in the same religion wherof the question is And yet doest thou refuse so many godly fathers to hear thy cause and doestappeale to the Emperour preferring hym to all our iudgements of no purpose belike but to delay tyme. Thus I say it myght haue appeared that Paule did not only iniurie to the iudge and to the Preestes but also that his cause was greatly to be suspected partly for that he did refuse the iudgement of those that had moste knowledge as all men supposed of Gods will and religion and partly because he appealed to the Emperour who then was at Rome farr absent from Ierusalem a man also ignoraÌ„t of God and ennemie to all vertue But the Apostle coÌ„sidering the nature of his ennemies and what thinges they had intended against hym euen from the fyrst day that he began freelie to speak in the name of Christ did not fear to appeale from them and from the iudge that would haue gratified them They had professed theÌ„ selues plain ennemies to Christ Iesus and to his blessed Euangill and had soght the death of Paule yea euen by factioÌ„s and treasonable coÌ„spiracie and therefore by no meanes would he admit them either iudges in his cause either auditours of the same as Festus required but grounding him selfe vpon strong reasons to wit that he had not offeÌ„ded the Iewes neither yet the Law but that he was innoceÌ„t and therefore that no iudge oght to geue hym in the haÌ„des of his ennemies grounding I say his appellation vpon these reasons he neither regarded the displeasure of Festus neither yet the brute of the ignoraÌ„t multitude but boldely did appeal from all cognition of them to the iudgement of the Emperour as said is By these two examples I dout not but your honours do vnderstand that lawfull it is to the seruantes of God oppressed by tyraÌ„nie to seke remedie against the same be it by appellation from theire senteÌ„ce or by imploring the helpe of ciuile Magistrates For what God hath approued in Ieremie and Paul he can condemne in none that likewise be eâ—â—reated I might alledge some histories of the primatiue Church seruing to the same purpose as of Ambrose and Athanasius of whom the one would not be iudged but at Millan where that is doctrine was hard of all his Church and receaued and approuâ—d by many and the other would in no wise geue place to those couÌ„ciles where he knew that meÌ„ conspired against the trueth of God should sit in iudgement and coÌ„sultatione But because the Scriptures of God are my only fundation and assurance in all matters of weight and importaÌ„ce I haue thoght the two former testimonies sufficient aswell to proue my appellation reasonable and iust as to declare to your honours that with safe conscience ye can not refuse to admit the same Yf any thinke it arrogaÌ„cie or foolishnes in me to compare my selfe with Ieremie and Paule let the same man vnderstaÌ„d that as God is immutable so is the veritie of his glorious Euangill of aequall dignitie whensoeuer it is impugned be the membres suffering neuer so weak What I think touching myne owne person God shall reueale when the secrets of all hartes shall be disclosed and such as with whome I haue bene conuersant can partly witnesse what arrogaÌ„cie or pryde they espie in me But touching the doctrine and cause which that adulterous aÌ„d pestilent generatioÌ„ of Antichrists seruaÌ„ts who wilbe called Byshoppes amongst you haue condened in me I neither fear nor shame to coÌ„fesse and auow before man and Angell to be the aeternall trueth of the aeternall God And in that case I dout not to coÌ„pare my selfe with any menbre in whome the trueth hath bene impugned seÌ„ce the begynnyng For as it was the trueth which Ieremie did preach in these wordes The Preestes haue not knowen me saieth the Lord but the pastors haue traiterously declined and fallen back from me The Prophetes haue prophesied in Baal and haue gone after those things which can not helpe My people haue left the fontaine of liuing waters and haue digged to them selues pits which can containe no water As it was a trueth that the pastors and watchmen in the daies of Isaie were becomed doÌ„me dogs blynd ignoraÌ„t proud and auaricious And finally as it was a trueth that the Princes and the Preestes were murtherers of Christ Iesus aÌ„d cruell persecutors of his Apostles so likewyse it is a trueth and that moste infallible that those that haue condemned me the hole rable of the papisticall clergie haue declyned from the true faith haue geuen eare to deceauable spirits and to doctrine of deuils are the sterres fallen from the heauen to the earth are fontaines without water and finally are ennemies to Christ Iesus deniers of his vertue and horrible blasphemours of his death and passioÌ„ And further as that visible Churche had no crime where of iustly they could accuse either the Prophetes either the Apostles except theyr doctrine only so haue not such as seke my blood other crime to lay to my charge except that I affirm as alwais I offer to proue that the religion which now is maintained by fier and sword is no lesse contrarious to the true religion taught and established by the Apostles then is darknes to light or the Deuill to God and also that such as now do claime the title and name of the Churche ar no more the elect spouse of Christ Iesus then was the Synagoge of the Iewes the true Church of God what tyme it crucified Christ Iesê° damned his doctrine and persecuted his Apostles And therefore seing that my battail is against the proude and cruell hypocrites of this age as that battaill of those most excellent instrumentes was against the fals Prophetes and malignant Church of theyr ages neither ought any man think it strange that I coÌ„pare my self with them with whome I sustaine a coÌ„mon cause neither ought you my Lordes iudge your selues lesse addetted and bound to me calling for your support then did the Princes of Iuda think theÌ„ selues bouÌ„de to Ieremie whome for that tyme they deliue red notwithstaÌ„ding the seÌ„teÌ„ce of death ê“nouÌ„ced against him by the visible Church And thus much for the right of my appellatioÌ„ which in the bowelles of Christ Iesus I requier your honours not to esteme as a thing superfluous aÌ„d vaine but that ye admitt it aÌ„d also accept me in your ê“tection aÌ„d defence that by you assured I may haue accesse to my natiue couÌ„trie which I neuer offeÌ„ded to the end that freely and opeÌ„ly in the preseÌ„ce of the hole realme I may geue my confession of all such pointes

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