Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	child_n	good_a	see_v	1,850	5	3.5052	3	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17688	The mynde of the godly and excellent lerned man M. Ihon Caluyne what a faithfull man, whiche is instructe in the worde of God, ought to do, dwellinge amongest the papistes.	Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.; R. G.	1548 (1548)	STC 4435; ESTC S1842	38,846	152

hys holy name by gyuyng glorye vnto a Mammet Thou art constrayned thou sayest thinkest thou theÌ„ that he estemeth not moche more hys glory thaÌ„ thy life c. But for to put away all contentions altercations I desyre all them whyche be holden in suche erroure that they wyll bethynke them a lytle if it be a lyght faulte to maynteyne that by which S. Paul saithe That god is prouoked euen agaynst one which wolde fyght agaynst hym by which he saith that Iesus Christe is offended that one forsaketh hys holy table 1. Cor. 10. and that one is made partaker of the dyuels table here be wordes as me thinketh able ynoughe to make vs tremble yea and to saye the truthe they beate downe all outwarde Idolatry more mightely than I caÌ„ expresse But some man will reply against me say that I abuse theÌ„ for to wrest theÌ„ to my purpose Let vs se theÌ„ whether it be so or no. The christiaÌ„ people eyther for feare of daunger or for other worldly respectes did assemble in the coÌ„pany of the infideles for to make soleÌ„ne bankets in the honour of Idolles their excuse was In our hartes we condempne al their superstitioÌ„ and know that there is but one onely God vnto whome all honour is due Vpon this Sainct Paul ceasyth not to crye that they prouoke the lord vnto battayle and pollute them selues with communycating with the Deuyls table What is it that they do lesse whyche come to knele downe at the Masse for to approue all thabomynation that is done there and whyche is vsynge of all the paruerse ceremonies suche as be repugnant vnto God which men do in the kyngdome of Antychrist do shewe them selues to be obedyent chyldren that is to saye do fayne that they consente vnto them and receyue theÌ„ as good If they deny this let vs se whether the causes for which Sainct Paul is so sharpe agaynste the Corynthians shal not be found in them It is certeyn that he consydered twoo thynges it is that the Corynthyans by suche dissemblyng dyd gyue occasion vnto the Infydeles and Paynyms to harden them in theyr euyl and not to regard the christian relygion And that on the other syde the symple weake people were subuerted theyr consciences troubled Thus bycause of the double offence that folowed of their acte he threteneth them so sharply And what do thei now a daies that be conformable to the papistes in their folysshnesse Let vs all wayes take the Masse for an example They know well that it is an abhomynatioÌ„ set vp as it were in the dispite of god they knowe well for what purpose the people come togyther there if there were none other thyng there they knowe that men do worshyp there an Idol lyftyng vp a piece of bread in the steade of God whyle they knowe this well ynough do they not yet make as though they worshipped it as other men do Wolde not they that men shoulde thynke that they do it of good deuotioÌ„ In thys doyng I pray them do they not lay forth the glory of God to be mocked of the wicked Do not they offende the weake by gyuyng them an euil example with castynge them in doubte scrupulosite that they wote not what to beleue It is but loste labour then for them to go aboute to make a lyghte matter of it which we see to be so sharpely reproued of God And yet that more is it is a knowen thynge that the Masse is taken of the enymyes of Iesus Christe as a gage for to bynde meÌ„ to lyue in their vngodlines and to serue theyr tyranny For yf any man go vnto the Masse deuoutly he is taken for a good and a laudable supporter of Antichriste contrariwyse to dyspyse the Masse is as it ware to forsake the kyngdome off the Pope Seyng that it is so that a christyan man in goynge to the Masse doth gyue a testymonie and make a profession that he wyll lyue in Idolatry maynteyne thabomynations whiche raigne thys day in the worlde is not the same a cloked forsakynge of Iesus Christe and a playne denyeng of hys gospell by crafte What answere wyll they make me vnto this whych wolde coloure their synne and bycause they can not make it altogyther whyte they wolde by some meanes darken it that it should not appeare at all I say that we ought not to esteme the Masse alonly in it self but with all the circumstances and all the inconueniences that folowe it I saye further that the inconueniences be suche that there a man maketh an obligation for to approue retaine and folowe the present estate of the popysh churche which all Christen meÌ„ ought to abhorre and defye yf they can assoyle me this argument with a good conscience without sophistry I discharge them but that will not be this yere I will yet recite vnto this purpose for the further confirmation thereof an History that is in Iosephus and in the boke of the Machabees 2. Machuâ— 6.7 it is of Eleazarus and a woman of the Iues with .vii. children that she had who al be it it were so that men wolde constrayn them for to eate swynes flesh had yet rather dye then to consent thervnto It might seme at the first sighte that this was rather a selfwilfulnes to suffer deth for so small a matter then a righte ordered zeale But yf we take hede wherevnto these tended they might do none otherwyse without forsakinge of God for in constrayninge them to eate swynes fleshe whiche God had forbidden them their purpose was to haue a wytnes of them that they were content to condescende vnto the gentils maner of lyuinge This History is not of the holy fcripture but it is an act that was done in very dede and no fable yf we doo commende these personnes as martyres prayse theyr constancy doth it not become vs to condemne that that is done to the contrarye Nowe to make an ende of this article I saye that all they which take it for a small fault such a fayning or dissemblinge to make as thoughe they agreed with the Idolaters do not knowe in what estimation God hathe his honour and haue neuer tasted of this sentence which he speaketh by his prophete Esaye Esai 42. I doo lyue I will not gyue my glorye to another neyther yet my honour vnto Images for by the same he sheweth vs that he wyll neuer suffer that hys honoure be gyuen vnto an Idole but that he will at one tyme or at an other take vengeance of it I say also that they dyd neuer conceyue the grace that God hath shewed vnto vs in ordeyninge that our bodyes shoulde be the temples of his holy spirite after that he had redemed them by the precious bloude of his sonne our Lorde and in promisynge them glorye and immortalitie in his kyngdome For yf they vnderstode this thynge they wolde make this conclusion with S. Paule that it were mete for

the worlde is come vnto suche an vnshamefastnesse for to mocke with god so I graunte that their intent be suche as they pretend and I wyll no further inuey against theyr hipocrisy Let vs now examyne the dede it selfe for feare to offend say they we be constrayned to make a good countenance in fasshionyng our selues vnto the superstitions of the papistes Now to see whether it be so or no we must fyrst vnderstand what it is to offende for when S. Paul vseth thys worde offende he signifieth the troublyng of a conscience wherby it is letted to come vnto Iesus Christ or cause to fall or drawe backe from hym now wheÌ„ he handeleth thys matter of whiche we speake of he commaundeth vs to be well ware that we offend no man well how is that Take hede sayth he that thou eatest not of the Offerynges made vnto Idolles in the presence of a weake person that is scrupulous 1 Corin. 8 for that is an offence Wherfore For sothe in as moche as hys conscience is therby edifyed to do euyll for he thynketh that such meate is defyled and yet neuerthelesse he styckethe not to eate of it folowing thine example Beholde nowe how thou art cause of hys ruyne or else if he absteyn he is troubled in his harte thynkynge that thou displeasyste god in so doynge and is by this meanes set as it were on fier and in daunger to giue ouer bicause he is not wel grounded in the truthe of god We see then from what offence Saincte Paul calleth vs backe it is wheÌ„ we through our rashnes be the cause that a weake parson doth so stumble that he fall vnto ruyne or turne from the ryght way or else be hyndered and to be shorte When we plucke hym backe or be a let vnto hym to profyte in oure lorde in the steade of that we ought for to further hym In lyke maner to the Romayns Rom. 14. After that he had shewed that it was an vnfryndly thyng agaynste charite for to trouble a weake person bycause he maketh hys conscience to eate of all maner of meates and that he shoulde not constrayn hym not to be to importune agaynst hys conscience Fynally that he shold not dyscoÌ„fort nor dyscourage hym And when he wolde conclude hys purpose he sayth Let euery maÌ„ please hys neighbour in well doynge vnto hys edyfyenge Now we see the marke whervnto we must haue an eye wheÌ„ we go aboute to auoide offence it is that we gyue not an occasion vnto our neyghboure to be edyfyed in euyll nor yet gyue hym any euyll example neither to say or do any thynge where by he myght euer the soner go out of the ryght waye Where vpon it is easy for vs to iudge whether that they whych bow them selues vnto Idolles and by their dissemblynge of theyr christianyte dishonour god do by thys meanes auoyde offendynge Fyrste they shew them selues that they haue no great zeale vnto the glory of god the whiche they do dishonoure so Then do they entyce other to doe the same I speake of the feble and symple oons whyche haue already some taste of the truth And where as otherwise they wolde make conscience to defile them selues with Idolatry they do take courage and boldnes through their exaÌ„ple Fynally they confyrme the vnbeleuers and harden them in their errours If this be not to offende I confesse that I am oute of my wytte It is very trewe in dede that they do not offend the worldly people or do runne into their displeasure neither do they prouoke any person for to persecute them nor giue theÌ„ any occasion for to murmur or crye out againste them But in norysshyng of all Idolatry thorow their faynyng they be the cause that breaketh his necke other be greuously hurte some do fall some be caused to halt or else to wander out of the right way And by this meanes they altogyther euen from the fyrst vnto the last be blynde and leaders of the blynd for in folowing one an other lyke Cranes they doo seduce or leade an other oute of the ryghte way For as moche as neuer a one of them doth folow the worde of God whyche is the onely true rule Moreouer we muste note that when S. Paule byddeth vs to condiscende vnto the rudenes or infirmite of our neighbours that we gyue theÌ„ none offence he wolde not that we should do any euyll thyng for to do them pleasure with al or else vse any dissimulacion that is not lawfull for vs but that in all indyfferente thynges whyche God hath lefte in our lybertye and whiche of them selues be but good we shoulde haue respecte vnto them and not to trouble theÌ„ Wherfore the fyrst foundacion shulde be euer to consydre whether the thynge where of we entreate be letfe vs free that we myghte vse it in one sorte or other puerly with out offeÌ„dyng god that is to say to do a dede or leue it vndone to vse a thing or to absteyn froÌ„ it Now to include ydolatry in this row it is to no purpose Therfore in as moch as to counterfaict in such sort that one shuld coÌ„mit all abhomynation is agaynst the expresse prohibition of god there is no reason at all to brynge forthe offence to be an excuse in this behalfe Now they that see me to be more indyfferente perceyuyng them selues to be voyde of all lawfull excuses do not wholely defende that thys is well done or that it is no synne to commit Idolatry for the feare of men but do alledge that it is a small faulte and easy to be pardoned wheÌ„ the hert is not there wyth and therfore that it is to passe all measure for to reproue it so bytterly And for to gyue some shewe vnto theyr sayeng they doo obiect that there be many vices remaynyng in the world moch more greuous then that the whiche ought to be reproued fyrste of all And therfore men ought not to begynne at thys smal infirmyte as they do take it yf we wyll not folow the hypocrisy of the Pharyses which swalowed vp an whole Camel and strayned the lyttle pieces there of throughe a seife Mat. 23. I will begyn to Answere at thys last poyncte grauntyng that there be now a dayes very horryble faultes in the worlde agaynste whiche there is moche nede to crye I confesse also that when one passeth ouer them lyghtly to tary vpon this onely synne of outwarde Idolatry that he goeth not well to worke euen as now I should spare whores dronkerdes theues disceyuers periured personnes and that I should wynke at couetuousnes that I dissembled wyth extorcioners fynally the pompes and pryde or this world beyng only altogither set to reproue this vice wherof I speke now For then I shoulde not do well and also a man myght by good ryghte reproue me of lacke of discreatioÌ„ as one that lefte many secrete wondes alone for to be occupied aboute the healyng of one But for as

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