Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	call_v	church_n	good_a	1,528	5	3.4283	3	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00498	The Exposition of certain partes of Scripture, according to the mindes of the chieffe doctors ...		1567 (1567)	STC 10634.5; ESTC S2119	36,965	68

and hurt haue crept into the church by meanes of euerye one of these and yet maye more crepe in except they be remoued I cannot at this present particularlye declare I haue here onely to entreat of the vse of apparell and to shew cause whie by no meanes it ought any loÌ„gar to be borne with of a godlye Magistrate in a reformed church of Christ allthough many deuises muented by wyttie heddes may be alleged for some deffence thereof but we regard not wyttie heades but the Testimony of gods wyll Math. 15. First of all I conclude that euen these garmentes are vttarlye to be remoued from the church as a deuise of man by that ground and reason whych Christ and the Prophetes and Apostles vse in excluding or thrusting forth of the church as a pernicious thynge colo 2. all mens doctrines traditions or deuises Polidore virgil Li. 6. de inucnt beareth wytnes thereof it is a manner taken from the Hebrews that preistly apparell wyth couering of Altars wyth other thinges necessarie for the vse of the Temple should be consecrated and the garmÃ©tes appoyncted ouar to the Preistes and others wythin orders who should put them on when they occupied them selues about holie thynges whych Pope Steuen the fyrst dyd first apoinct should be done amongst oure Chirch men for he sayth that in the begynning whan religion begane to spring Preistes were wont to put nothing more vppon them when they went to deuine seruice standing raither to decke them selues inwardlye wyth verteus of the mind and to cast awaye affections and vices of the bodye then to take on them new attire Now thus reason I and gather Yf they changed not theyr garment or apparell whan they went to gods seruice then they vsed none for theim that were admitted into the Mynisterie of the gospell Paule and Barnabas were contented wyth laying on handes Fasting and prayer Paul diligentlye prescribing to Timothie and Titus all the offices of A Bishop makith no mention of peculiar garmentes and other ceremonies and that the vse of apparell did not by and by goe ouer all Churchis it is euident enough by the decre of Celestine the fyrst Byshop of Rome whose wordes are these against such peculiar vesture of Bishopes We are to be discerned saith he from the common people or other in doctrine not apparell in conuersation not in habit in puritie of mind not in attire For yf we begine to geue our selues to nouelties wee shall contemne and cast awaye the order that the Fathers haue deliuered and lefte vs and shall make a place for superfluous supersticions wee must not therfore drawe the simple mindes of the faithfull to such thinges for they must rayther be instructed then begiled and mocked neither must we deceiue theire bodylie eyes but poure in precepted into theire mindes Thus far he yet can we not denye but as men bend and inclyne to supersticion of them selues so some kyned of garmentes although verye simple and plaine had crepte into many Churchis before this mans dayes For Syluester no doubt gaue the occasion But Carolus called the great finished the matter as stories beare wittnes Now it is made manifest that the vse of peculiare apparell in the church or ecclesiasticall persones is a mere deuise and inuention of men and therfore to be reiected for this cause if there were no more They which wolde kepe thuse of this apparell in the Church as a thinge instituted of God refer the same to Aarons preysthoode but they litle for see what they say For we knowe by the scriptures that Christ is not a Priest after the order of Aaron but of Melchisedech that AaroÌ„s pristhood was extinguished and toke ende in Christe with all the parts therof among the which we recken also the apparell Therfore Christ the verie wisdome of the father vsed no new or peculiar kynd of apparell in holie ministerye neyther appoincted any other to be vsed For that the figuratiue priesthod as a shadowe was perfited and ended in Christ the one and onelye Priest All they therfore that call agayne Aarons apparell into the Chirch dishonor Christes priesthod as though beynge the lyght it self he nedid shadowes neither wyll that excuse serue to say that all Aarons priesthod is not called into vseagayne but some parte therof onelye but he that receyuith a parte doeth not reiect the wholle But all Aarons priesthode being a figure and shadowe is no doubt to be reiected for that it is abrogated and as many as do restore againe those thynges that the auctorytie of gods worde hathe destroyed and abrogated are transgressers of gods lawe Paule therfore well teachith that the bond mayde is to be cast forth hir Sonne singnifiyng that all the bondage of the lawe is to be reiected after the lyght of the gospell is spronge forth and risen and he wyilith vs not to suffer our selues to be remoued from our libertye in Christ now it is to playne that the doctrine and commaandementes of whatsoeuer kynd of appparell peculiar in gods mynisterye is a traÌ„sgression of gods lawe For because AaroÌ„s priesthode is called in to vse agaye If any man by occasion of the first argument deny that the garmentes are a portion of Aarons priesthoode and say that they were by a certaine libertye brought in of the Byshopes of Rome to adorne and set forth priestlye ordar yet saith he not enough why they may be lawfully retained we knowe that the Pope of Rome is very Antechriste him selfe wherfore his priesthode also is Antichristian wherby Christes priesthod wholie is foyled and vtterlie troden vndar fote But forasmuch as the chiefest part of the priesthod of the Pope consistith in Ceremonies Anointing shauing Miters and garmeÌ„tes for with owt these they accoumpt no man Byshoppe and they coumpt hym Byshop whatsoeuar he be otherwyse that is set oute with these thinges yt followith that yf we condemne the popish priesthod for that it is Antchristian wee ought to auoid all the partes and notes therof also For how can A godlie and Christian hart loue the marke of the blasphemus popish priesthode Where with Christes pristhood is so greatlie contaminate and defiled he therfore that hateth Antechrist pristhod must hate also all the notes and markes therof Againe he that loueth partes thereof can not hate the whole Moreouar yf we knowe that the Popes priesthood with all the notes and signes therof be Antechristes priesthod and euerie worke of Antechrist be Satans worke we must not promote and helpe it forward but ouerthrow destroy it if so be wee wylbe workers together wyth Christ who came to destroy the workes of the Diuell as the scriptures beare record And let vs not thynke that it is law fell for anye man to institute reduce or kepe in vse by his auctoritie these garmentes for all power is giuen to edifie not to destroy as Paule sayth who in the same place saith we can do nothing agaynst the

and lay Papistes it is not lawfull by any meanes to receaue them neither ar they thinges indifferent but the wicked commaundement of Antechrist and Antiochus Oure indifferentiaries that ar of stowter stomaches would not beso nice and of a straight conscience that they dare not defie the gold of the golden calf but that they wold desier some far part of hit to be giuen vnto them Those things that haue ben offered in Idol seruice or serued Idolatry they ar Idolatrous can not serue God and he wold that such shold be cast awaye The brasen serpent was ordeined of GOD VVhat then to surplesses and that by Moses the seruant of GOD and his greate Prophet but after hit serued Idolatry it was no more God his serpent or Moses serpent but the serpent of Idolaters and the Diuelles serpent and Ezechias is praised who brak-hit for that deede Euen as we defie and abhorre the garments or cote of a theeffe of a Murtherer of A Hangman or of a common whore though the garmeÌ„t hit self be innocent and hath done no harme neither will any honest man do so much as gladly touch hit So all they that ar godly in dede defie such Popish trifles with all there hartes becaus that they haue serued in the Popedome ben occupied with abuses and wickednes and haue serued the sacrificers that were polluted and defiled with idolatry Austin sayth that faith is in great ieoperdy when it is amongest a great nomber of ceremonies This is most trew in all thinges that the man that is occupied about many thinges doth not sufficientlie take hede to euerye one of theÌ„ and therefore it is trulie said They that in the fire many irons hold Must nedes haue some of them right cold SO the people being charged to kepe all the commaundementes of god and his ordinances and more straitlie commaunded to kepe mo ordinances of men then goddis commaundemeÌ„tes must nedes coldlye kepe some of the commandementes of God If that the indifferentiaries go forward to reforme the chirch of Christ as they haue begon and will set in the place of godlye and lerned prechers whom they haue put away fooles and courtlie flatterers shortly we shall haue no godlye preachers at all Were there is a heauie bondage in ceremonies and in the worshipping of God there cannot the glad libertie of Christ be Ceremonies ar the cheife sinewes or streÌ„gth of the popedome and the greatest postes and stayes of religion stand therein amonge the papistes When the indifferentiaries propound offer vnto the ministers that do not gladlye receaue any popish thinge the quere cote called in duch chorrok which we call commonlie in english a surplesse and they will not receyue it then the traditioners make exclamation saiyng what a small matter is it to weare a surplesse or a whit cote aboue a blak but in dede if they can get theÌ„ once in these cotes they will afterward deliuer them to the Romaines that they may buffet them as the old Romaines did handle Christ when they buffeted him hauing the white cote vpon him which they put on against his wyll What other thing goeth the deuell about with all his thowsand craftes and subtelties but to confirme the wicked in theyr wickednes and to geue them occasion to triumph ouer the trew chirch and ouer Christe him self and to blaspheme the holie name of the lord and of the contrarie part to discourage and make sad the holie goste in godlie men and to make them faynt in godlines at length also to doubt of the whole doctrine of the trew chirch what thinge can more make afrayd and make faynte souldiers then to se theyr captaynes quake and treÌ„ble for feare Cesar sayde that he had leiuer fyghte with an hoste of Lions that had a hart for theyr Captayne then with an host of hartes whose Captayne were a Lion If any man should speake thus to another and say thou hast stolen from me an hundred crownes I require of the that thow restore me them againe quietlie lest I be compelled to vse gainst the some more violent remedies and yf this maÌ„ accused of thefte should first paie him x crownes in part of paymeÌ„t asterw ard xx crownes should not he make him selfe giltie of theft and thereby be bound in paine of haÌ„ging to pay the hole some of money that is required of him and should not he shew him self as readie to pay the rest as these ij portiones of what soeuer purpose or intent he should do so I suppose so in dede Euen so when we ar accused of the corruption and marring of the whole Religion of Christ and ar commanded to restore it to the old estate againe and we begin to restore it in such thinges as seme most coÌ„monlie before mens eies as ar outward rites and ceremonies do not we seme to condemne our owne selues may not we be thought to deny our owne religion how soeuer bewteous dreames we feyne in our thoughts It was an indifferent thinge for Christ to wash his handes yea it had a ciuill and a naturall cause for it is good manners and ciuilitie to come to the table rather with washed handes then with foule handes besides that after the doctrine of the phisitiones of Salerne it is holsom for the eies to washe the handes oft yet not withstaÌ„ding all these Christ woulde not washe his handes with the Pharises because he would ouerthrow their traditiones and would not seme by his washing to confirme and alow their traditiones It is not the poinct of a good christian and as litle the office of a good diuine to beleue that by angring of God and by swaging of mannes wrath that we shall come to any perfect peace For tyrantes ar only as it were certaine roddes in goddes hande as God witnesseth him selfe in esay the Prophit wherefore the hand should rather be pacified and swaged from wrath then the rod but if it were possible to pacifie please the rod that it shoulde not beate vs against the will of the hand then were it to be feared that the hande shoulde cast the rod away and take a Betell or a Maule and breake vs all as small as Powlder Luther did truly name wicked wysdome to be the feire hore of the Diuell The Apostelles had leyuer that their scoles should be broken vp then in any part to geue place vnto the vngodlie or to coÌ„firme or allowe their traditiones What boldnes is this that men dare geue vnto goddis enemies any part of the treasures of the chirch which the sonne of God hath geuen vnto it It belongeth not to any one man neyther to a fevv men to ordeyne such ceremonies or rites as ar aboue named to wete such as neither promote the glory of God nor profit has chirche but haue only a vayne shevv of holynes or semelynes and do no other good and that vvithout the coÌ„sent of the chirch or congregation much lesse ought any

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