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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	head_n	part_n	1,461	5	4.4830	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04491	A dialoge describing the originall ground of these Lutheran faccions, and many of their abuses, compyled by syr William Barlow chanon, late byshop of Bathe; Dyaloge descrybyng the orygynall ground of these Lutheran faccyons, and many of theyr abusys	Barlow, William, d. 1568.	1553 (1553)	STC 1462; ESTC S101046	40,661	178

lustes makynge y● whiche is vnlawefull lawfull which say that good is euell euell is good callynge lyghte darcknes and darknes lyght N. We shal finde thē among whiche prech suche thinges as ye cal heresye for no such cause but preache it bold elye before great audience where they for theyr preachyng be brought in great daūger W. Thoughe they do fall in harme yet haue they hope to wynne theyr fauour or els why are they so desyrous to haue so many ley mē present at their examinatiōs N. They make of it a reasonable cause for .ii. cōsideratiōs One is to thintent they might not be wrongefullye oppressed in corners another is because they would that people shulde bear witnes of their constancy in confessynge the trouthe for Christes sake W. These cōsyderations in theym yf they were true as thei be false were yet of small efficacite against the euangelike perfection As touchynge the fyrste God promyseth yf hys seruauntes be wronged pryuelye he wyll reuenge them opēly And Christ in the gospell exhortynge vs to suffraunce byddeth his discyples to be ioyful in persecution saying y● happy are ye when ye are belyed euyll spoken vpon and extremelye dealte withall for my names sake The other appearethe to be an excuse of vaynglory couetynge wordly prayse where as they perceiue that people fauourynge theyr parte wyll interprete to theyr commendation what so euer they say though it be agaynste scripture cōtrary to all verite Saynte Peter wylleth vs to geue accounte of oure fayth to euery bodye and that myldely with allowlynes We haue no president of the appostles that euer they disdained to answer before the infidele iudges tyll the vulgar multitude were by them or that they requyred assystence of greate men to be recordes of theyr wordes Wher fore I meruel what conscience these persons haue whiche are so importune to be examined in presence of rude seculers ignoraunt people when they answer so doubtfully that the beste learned can not well construe theyr me anynge And in Pryncypall articles wherevpon dependeth our saluacion or dampnation some answere so nakedly with blynd shyftes that they be able to brynge vnlearned people into erroure of things wherof they neuer douted before vsynge euer ouerthwart speche and quaylynge sentences of double vnderstandynge wyth protestations of hypocrysye after thys fashion In good fayth I thynke there is a purgatorye albeit I can not tell whether I may beleue it or no. I suppose that confessyon made to a preiste and pylgrymages maye be well done but I fynde them not in Scripture I beleue in these words of christ this is my bodye but as concernyng his bodely presence in forme of breade to saye any thinge it is aboue my capacitie and I dare not meddle with so dyffuse maters I rekē that I may beleue y● doctours of the church yf they speak not agaynste the worde of god c. To vse such āvages in weyghtye causes to put in question a fresshe the cases defyned by generall counsels as thoughe we were vncertayne of our beleif new to begyn agayne I repute it no spyryte of truthe sekynge goddes honoure and edification of theyr neighbour Nor I dout not but at the day of iudgement they shal make a more seryous aunswere This consideraciō is also as I haue sayde very playnlye false For whē these sly shyftes fayle thē they shew no constancy of their vnfaythfull doctryne but falsely forswere them self and saye they neuer sayde so the hole audience detesting theyr periury all saue onely theyr owne sect whiche as for periury pardon eche other To speke of manyfest mysliuers and open transgressours whom may we well exempte consyderynge howe prone and redy the hole world is from the moste to the leaste to declyne and fall vnto euyll Our faythe whiche God hath geuen vs to buylde good workes vppon is waxen barrayne and fruteles Charite likewise wherin we shuld be tryed to be the very disciples of Christe is waxed cold through the excesse of iniquite Amiable con●oro● with christen vnite whervpon all vertue fasteneth her fundation is fallen in ruyne to the fre entresse of hatefull discenc●ō lyberte of alvyces In euery state and degre y● one barketh at the other one obiecteth agaynste another his saultes ▪ eche of them farynge other to be causes of theyr myseries yet neuer a one fashioneth him selfe towarde any amendment for hys owne parte N. By my trouthe I deme the people would be good ynough if they had good heades W. I deny not that verely but the better that the heades be the better were the body lyke to be and y● euyll y● is in euyll heades descendeth down into euery part and maketh all the bodye the worse And yet surely if the people be euyll the synne of them causeth God sometyme to send them heades of the same sute both popes emperoures kynges cardynalles bysshoppes preistes and curates For it is the synne of the people as Job testifieth that causeth God to suffer hypocrytes sometyme to raygne ouer them Hypocrites he calleth them that represente the personages of these estates whose partes they do playe for a countrnaunce and do the contrarye in dede And as far as I haue redde in the byble all the while the people of Israell were good obeying goddes lawes and sought his honour God gaue them gracious gouernoures vertuous priestes and trewe Prophets But as sone as they swarued fel vnto ydolatry he sent thē for theyr punyshmente vngracious princes vycyous prelates and false prophetes so that no difference was betwene the people the prestes nor y● people could not ymagyn so outragious abominations but princes and prestes bothe were redy to fortefye them in theyr vnhappynes N. yet yf ye remember well the storyes of the byble ye shall fynde y● the trāsgressiō of goddes lawes amōge the people redounded fyrst frō y● heades by theyr pernicious occasion And as towchynge false prophetes and yll prestes God him selfe greuously complayneth vpon them shewing how the people are seduced by them to the pollutynge of hys name and violation of his lawes Whose enmious wickednes Ezechiell Hieremye with diuers other prophets declare at length Dyd not the Belial preistes Ophni Phines by theyr pestylent example and le cherours lyuynge corrupt manye one vpon whome God takynge vengeaunce they loste theyr lyues in battayl and the arke of God wherof they had the cure takē by the Philisteis xxx thousande fyghtyng men of the Israhelyte people were slayne in one daye Likewise y● chyldren of Samuell whiche were iudges of y● people not en suynge theyr fathers steppes but set vpon couetousnes toke rewardes and peruerted iugemente by whose occasyon the people were moued to aske a kynge vnto theyr desolation Moreouer the storye of kynge Saule is playn for whose pryuate disobedience the hole lande of Israell smarted full ●ore Kyng Dauid thoughe he was a blessed mā yet brought vnto folye for to nomber his people they were fayne to