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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	lord_n	soul_n	1,654	5	4.8504	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18639	A Christian and wholesom admonition directed to the Frenchmen, which are reuolted from true religion, and haue polluted themselues with the superstition and idolatrie of poperie.; Remonstrance chrestienne et salutaire. English	Constant, Léonard, d. 1610.; Fetherston, Christopher.	1587 (1587)	STC 5154; ESTC S120782	56,315	146

yet was not this in heart and with affection but onely in word But all these allegations are so féeble and these replies are so friuelous that they deserue none answere at all And I am verie certaine that the moste part of you my brethren haue sometimes reiected them as not worthie to be receiued and of none importaunce when they would haue paied you with such monie yea I am sure you laugh at them euen at this time in your owne hearts and that for good cause For where can you finde that the Lord hath permitted vs to make such a partition between our soule and bodie as with the one to serue God and the deuill with the other Is not the Lord the creatour and sauiour aswell of the one as of the other Wil not he be glorified in both We knowe that the Apostle will haue vs to offer not onelie our spirites but also our bodies to the Lord in Sacrifice that is that we consecrate and dedicate our selues to the seruice of God both in soule and bodie And that which more is our bodies are called by the Apostle the Temples of God and must be made partakers of his glorie aswel as our selues euen then when we shall be fashioned according to the glorious bodie of the Sonne of God It foloweth then that we must not serue the deuill therwith polluting them with superstitions Idolatries but we must kéepe them in al purenes and holines for the seruice of our god For what husband is he that is so foolish which would take such an answere for paimēt at his wiues hand and that would suffer her to make such a partition If a woman were so impudent and shameles as to speake to her husband on this wise my husband I prostitute my bodie indéed to such such and make it common euerie daie in the brothelhouse but I reserue the better part for you and that 's mine heart wherwith I loue you serue and honor you I praie you should not such a woman deserue to be cast off of her husband as a mocker or rather as a common vile and detestable harlot It is most certain that she should What will the Lord then do who is ielous ouer his glorie and our saluation who hath espoused vs to himselfe that keeping our faith and promise made to him wee maie bee pure and chast in bodie and mind What will he do I say if wee pollute our bodies in Idolatrie which is spirituall whoredome Wherfore we see that this is a vaine excuse for indeede if this partition coulde haue beene made with a good conscience that is to saye to prostrate the bodie before Idols and to keepe the heart for God thinke wee that Daniell and the three Hebrue children would not rather haue vsed this opportunitie then to haue exposed their life to so great dangers séeing there was nothing required at their hands saue onely an outward kinde of worship But what shall we say of so manie martyrs whose memorie is fresh as yet Who would rather shed the last drop of their bloud or bee burnt aliue with soft fire then once to bowe their knée before Baal howe little soeuer it were Why did they it not for safegard of their life to preserue it from so cruell torments and from the fire Because they feared eternall torments and the fire of Gods wrath who abhorreth such Idolatrie what protestation soeuer wee make that wee keepe our heart whole and pure for him for he will haue both the one and the other Now it may appeare by that what account we ought to make of that other replye which manye amongst you haue in their mouth when a man studieth to set before their eies the filthines of their fault If I tel you that you haue abiured and forsworne christian religion and receiued and allowed al the abhominations of the great whore also that you haue denyed the sonne of God and acknowledged this Idole of Antichrist putting him as it were in his place you wil say that you did it not with your heart affection but onely in word to content men and you thinke that you may escape by this goodly distinction But the Lord wil not iudge you after your subtilties sophistrie which shal vanish away like smoake when we shall appeare before the throne of his Maiestie He hath not said Hee which shall confesse me with the heart and affection him wil I confesse before my father in heauen and before his Angels he which shall deny me with the heart him wil I also denie but hee speaketh of confessing and acknowledging those which shal confesse him before men and of reiecting and denying those which shal haue denyed and renounced him before men And what is it to confesse Iesus Christ before men It is to make open profession of his Gospel to make frée cōfession of his truth yea to feele it with our bloud if neede bee after the example of this cloude of martyres which shall stand vp in iudgment against you at the great daie On the other side what is it to denie Iesus Christ before men is it not to do euen as you haue done And to do that which you do as yet dailie But least you thinke that I charge you to sore and without cause I beseech you consider with an equall and quiet mind what this cursed and detestable abiuration which you haue made importeth the which I cannot read without an inward trembling especiallie when I behold the cursed and miserable estate of so manie silie soules which by this meanes are caught in Sathans net wherein they continue intangled vntill such time as they be vnited again with the Church of Iesus Christ But admit there be some few among you which haue exempted themselues from making the foresaid abiuration yet you cease not to denie Iesus Christ to be your sole Sauiour to tread his bloud vnder your féete and to renounce the merit of his death and passion when by your presence assistance you approue that abhomination of the masse which is the seale and detestable sacrament of this abiuration and renouncing of the sonne of God and as it were a poisoned heape of all the impieties of popish doctrine But for the better explaning of al this let vs consider the thinges more distinctlie not that I purpose to rippe vp all the pointes that are comprised in this goodlie fourme of confession and abiuration and to refute them by reasons and plaine testimonies of Scripture for then I should make a great volume touching that matter alone which should be a superfluous thing seeing I should then hādle and do againe that which hath bene alreadie done most excellentlie by manie excellent seruants of God in our time speciallie by him who made not long agoe the answer to the profession of faith published against those of the reformed church by the Archbishop Munkes of Bourdeaux in which answere framed according to the word of god