Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	great_a	know_v	1,518	5	3.5656	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15299	Wycklyffes wycket whyche he made in Kyng Rycards daye the second in the yere of our lorde God M.CCCCCV.	Wycliffe, John, d. 1384.; Tracy, William, d. 1530. Testament of master Wylliam Tracie esquier.; Tyndale, William, d. 1536.; Frith, John, 1503-1533.	1546 (1546)	STC 25590; ESTC S121648	22,824	42

More ouer what greatter signe of infedilite is there thē to care al y e tyme of deth 〈◊〉 what pōpe y e carkas shal be caried to y e graue● He denieth not but y t a christen mā shuld be honorably buryed namelye for the honour hope of y e resuerectiō therfore cōmitted that care to his deare executours hys sone his wyfe whiche he wyst wolde in that parte do sufficient and leue nothinge of the vse of y e contre vndone but the abuse And that bestowynge of a great parte of his goodes which he yet leued apon the pore to be thanckful for y e mercie receued w t out bying sellynge w t God y t is wtout bynding those pore vnto any other appoynted prayers thā god hath bound vs alredy one to praye for another one to help another as he hath helped vs but patientlye addynge for the blessynges that god hath appointed vnto all manner good workes trustynge faithfully to his promes thankinge as ye may se by his wordes the bloude of Christe for the reward promised to his workes and not the goodnes of the workes as thoughe he had done more then his dutie or all that And assygned by wrytinge vnto whome another parte shulde be distributed and geuinge the rest to his executours that no stryfe shulde be whiche executours wher by ryght the heyres of all that was lefte to thē These thynges I saye are signes euident not onely of a good Christē man but also of a perfecte Christen man and of suche a one as neded not to be agast and desperaet for feare of the paynful paynes of purgatorye which who so fearith as they faine it can not but vtterly abhorre deeth seynge that Christe is there no longer thy Lorde after he hath brought the thither but art excluded from his satisfaction and muste satisfye for thy selfe alone and that with sufferinge payne onlye or ellys taryenge the satisfienge of them that shall neuer satisfie ynoughe for them selues or gapinge for the popes pardons which haue to great dowers dangers what in the mynde entēt of the graunter what in the purchases yet they can be treuly obteyned with al due cyrcūstances moch les certitude y t they haue any autoryte at all Paule trusted to be dissolued and to be wyth Chryst Steuen desyred Chryst to take his spirite the prophetes desired god to take their soules from them and al the saynctes went wyth a lustye corage to deeth nether fearynge or teachyng vs to feare any such crudelyte where hath the churche then gotten authorytye to bynde vs from beyng so perfyte frō hauyng any such fayth in the goodnes of god oure Father and Lorde Chryste and to make suche perfytnes and fayth of al heresies the greatest Salomon sayth in the .xxx. of his Prouerbes iii. are insaciable and the forth sayth neuer It is ynough But there is a fyft called dame auaryce wyth as greadye a gut as meltyng a mawe as wyd a throte as gapyng a mouth and wyth as reauenyng teeth as the best which the more she eateth the hūgryer she is An vnquyet euyll neuer at rest a blynde monster and a surmysyng beest fearynge at the fal of euery leafe Quid nō īmortalia pectora cogis aurifacta fames what doth not y e holy hongur compel thē that loue thys world inordinatly to commytte might that deuyls belye be once ful trueth shulde haue audience and wordes be construed a ryght and taken in the same sence as they be ment Thowghe hit seme not impossible haplye y t there myght be a place where the soules myghte be kept for a space to be taught instruct yet that ther shuld be such a Iayle as they Iangle soch fa●●ons as they fayne is playne impossible repugnant to y e scripture for when a man is translated vtterly oute of y e kyndome of Satan so confyrmed in grace that he can not synne so burnynge in loue that his lust cā not be plucked from goddes wyl beynge partaker which vs of al the promises of God vnder the commaundementes what coude be denyed hym in that depe innocencie of his moost kynde father y t hath leaft no mercy vnpromysed aringe it therto in the name of his son Iesus the chylde of his hertis lust which is oure lorde hath lefe no mercye vndeserued for vs namely whan god hathe sworne that he wyll put of ryghtwisnes be to vs a father that of all mercye and hath slayne hys mooste dere sonne Iesus to confyrme his oth Fynally seynge that Chrystes loue taketh all to the best nothyng is here that maye not be well vnderstanded the cyrcūstaunces declarynge in what sence al was ment they oughte to haue interpreted hit charytablye yf oughte had bene founde doutfull or semynge to son̄de amysse Moreouer yf any thyng hed bene theryn that coude not haue be taken wel yet theyr parte had bene to haue interprete it as spoken of ydelnesse of the heed by the reason of syckenesse for as much as the man was vertuus wise well lerned of good fame and reporte founde in the fayth whyle he was a lyue but if they saye he was suspect whan he was a lyue then is their doyng so moche the worsse and to be thought that they fear hys doctrine whā he was a lyue mystrusted their awne part their consciences testyfyenge to them that beheld no nother doctrine then that was true seynge then they nether spake ner wrote agaynste hym ner brought hym to any examynacyon Besyde that some mery felowes wyl thynke that they owght first to haue sent to hym to wyt whethrer he wold haue reuoked yet they had so dispytefully burnt the deed bodye that coude not answere for it selfe nor interprete hys wordys how he ment them namely the mā beyng of so worshypfull auncient a bloude But here wyll I make an ende desyryng the reader to loke on thys thynge wyth indyferent eyes iuge whether I haue expounded the wordes of thys Testamēt as they should seame to signify or not Iuge also whether y e maker therof seame not by his worke both vertuous glory which if it so be thynke not y t he was the worsse bycause y e deede body was burnt to asshes but rather lerne to know the great desyre that hypocrytes haue to fynde one craft or other to dase y e trueth wyth and cause hit to be counted for heresye of the simple vnlerned people which are so ignoraunt that they can not spye their sotteltye hit must neades be heresye that towcheth any thinge their ratten byle they wyl haue hit who so euer saye nay onely the eternal god must be prayed to nyght day to amend them in whose power it onely lyeth who also graunt them ones ernestlye to truste his true doctrine conteyned in the swete pure foūtaines of his scriptures and in his pathes to direct their wayes Amen ¶ Here endeth the Exposicion of wyllyam Tyndall ¶ Inprynted at Norenburch 1546. Mat. vii Luke xiii Mat. vii Luke xi Iacob i. Apoc. iii. Dani. xi mat xxiiii Act. xvii mat xviii Act. ii Iohe●l iii Act. lxxxx Mat. iiii mat xxvi mark xiiii Mate. iiii Ioh. vi Mat. xv Ioh. xiii Iohn̄ vi Math. Marke Luke Note here Math. xxviii Exod xii 1 Tessa ii Math. i. Luke i. psal clxix Hebr. i. Genesis Luk. xxii Apo. xvii Roma ii Peter iii Math. Mat. xi Math. xi Rom. x.