Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14108	A plaine discouerie of ten English lepers, verie noisome and hurtfull to the Church and common wealth setting before our eies the iniquitie of these latter dayes, and inducing vs to a due consideration of our selues. Published by Thomas Timme minister.	Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.	1592 (1592)	STC 24418; ESTC S118801	68,904	98

altaria sacra coronae ignis thura preces coelum est venale Deusque That is Amongst vs in Rome churches priests altars masses crownes fire incense praier and heauen are set to sale yea God himselfe among vs may be had for money Of this Thomas Becket our countri-man made wofull complaint at what time for his wilfull disobedience and treason coÌ„mitted against the king he had fled for aid and succor to Rome and saw that nothing would be wrought there without money and enforced with sorrow for the same he wrote thus to the Bishop of Menze Mater Roma facta est meretrix prostituta est pro mercede Rome our mother is become a harlot and for money and meed laieth herselfe to sale The detestable Simonie practised in the Church of Rome in the daies of Pope Gregorie the ninth was the cause why the Greeke church vtterly brake from the Romans I would to God it might make a perfect separation for euer betwene them and vs vntill such time as it shall please God to make them see their abhomination and so repent them and conuert In the meane time beware of those scorpions locusts which are come out of the bottomlesse smoking pit Apoc. 9. who although they haue the faces of men and wander vp and downe secretly in this realme in a disguised maner like ruffians with feathers and all ornaments of light coloured apparel like to the fashion of courtiers or otherwise as they thinke best for their securitie and safety yet I say againe take heed of them because they haue stings in their tailes For though they haue a glorious name of pretended holines calling themselues Iesuites yet do they intise all maner of persons with whoÌ„ they dare aduenture to speake not onely to be reconciled to the Pope and church of Rome but also to induce theÌ„ by vowes othes to renounce their obedience to the Q. maiestie to denie her to be their souereigne theÌ„selues to be discharged of their allegeance to repute al magistrats vnder her to be vnlawful in coÌ„science not to be obeied And where they get footing entraÌ„ce there they deliuer their coÌ„secrated tokens relicks as Agnus deis grana benedicta medellas crosses beads such like trash proceed further bearing the ignoraÌ„t people in hand the for mony by the Popes indulgeÌ„ce they shal haue pardoÌ„ for al their sins past By which exchange they draw vnto theÌ„selues no smal aduaÌ„tage But of such ignoraÌ„t foolish buiers this may be verified Quid dedit auruÌ„ fuit quod perdidit anima fuit That which he gaue was gold but the which he lost was his soule And to the bad marchaÌ„ts which sel such deceitful trash it may as truly be said Quod accepit aurum fuit quod dedit lepra fuit That which hee tooke was golde but that which hee gaue was a leprosie Therfore in shunning of these men or rather monsters men shal not onely shunne a leprosie but also deliuer themselues from those vglie and vncleane spirites whereof Saint Iohn speaketh which are come out of the mouth of the Dragon Apo. 16.13 and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet For they are the spirits of diuels working myracles to go vnto the kings of the earth and of the whole worlde to gather them to the battell Such is their affected malice to attempt and their infected means to obtaine their conquest and our fall There are also another sort of Simonia call lepers such as be patrones of benefices who hauing power to appoint a godly learned and discreete pastor to the congregation and Church whereof they ought in deed to be patrons that is to say carefull and prouident fathers yet neuertheles seeking after their owne priuate gaine rather then the gaining of mens soules do contrarie to the law of God and man sell their benefices and donations for money And so refusing to admit those which be worthie but preferring those which be vnworthie they call to the inheritance of Gods sanctuarie Schismatiques seditious persons Atheists ignorant and vnlearned Asses flatterers and sometime their owne kinsmen and familiars how vnmeete soeuer They esteeme the person of a man and receiue gifts And thus so much is in them they make the house of God a house of marchandize and a den of theeues So that as he who being in Rome did seeke for Rome euen so may we among these kind of men which such patrons bring in seeke long inough and not find a good pastor but rather those theeues whereof our Sauiour Christ speaketh Iohn 10. which come not in by the doore but at the window There haue beene the more of these pettie theeues by the meanes of these great theeues For our vsuall prouerbe is not so common as true that if there were no receiuers there would be no theeues Socrates being asked on a time why he laughed answering he sayde I see great theeues lead small theeues to the gallowes which are more worthie to be hanged themselues then them for saith he the small robberies are punished but the great are caried in triumphes Euen so those great theeues which rob the purse of a poore minister for that which should freely be giuen vnto him which rob the Church also of a learned and good pastor for filthie lucre and which is woorst of all which rob God of his honor and seruice by bringing into the sheepefolde sometimes a Woolfe and a theefe those are the theeues would bee more neerly looked vnto then commonly they be For as Chrisostom sayth He that is not ashamed to say Quid mihi dabis vt tibi iustitiam faciam What wilt thou giue me to do thee iustice Is it not all one as if he should say Quid vis mihi dare vt deum vendam What wilt thou giue me to sell God vnto thee If these men do not wash and cleanse their hands in time from this leprosie by true repentance and amendment it wil not onely make a feareful separation betwene God them but wil also in this world bring at the last a consumption of their whole substaÌ„ce For albeit as S. Ambrose in his pastoral saith that euill beginnings haue a preposterous end as Iacob by supplantation attained to a blessing the corne sowed with a leprous hand is reaped cleane a faire child may be begotten and borne betwene two adulterers and the monie gotten by Simonie may haue a good issue when it is bestowed vpon the good of the poore yet saith hee this is no defence for Simoniacks God will not be pleased with such a sacrifice as is gotten by robberie and deceite As this concerneth the Patrone so let the Minister take heede that seeketh to come in at the window like a theefe that he bee not defiled with this leprosie But let them remember this sentence of Saint Augustine Diligendus est pastor tollerandus est Mercenarius cauendus est latro

A PLAINE DISCOuerie of ten English Lepers verie noisome and hurtfull to the Church and common wealth Setting before our eies the iniquitie of these latter dayes and inducing vs to a due consideration of our selues Published by THOMAS TIMME Minister LONDON Printed by Peter Short dwelling vpon Bredstreet hill neere the end of old Fishstreet at the signe of the Starre 1592. To the right honourable his singular good Lorde Sir William Brooke knight Baron of Cobham Lord warden of the cinque ports knight of the Garter and one of her Maiesties most honorable priuie Counsell Thomas Timme his humble seruant wisheth long life and eternall felicitie in Christ Iesus THe woondring Queene of Sheba right Honorable presented the most wise Salomon with the golde of Ophyr richest gifts of the land The Samnites brought with them a greate mass of treasure for the noble Romane Marcus Crassus Howe preposterous then may I seeme which presume to bring into your honourable presence Lernam malorum as it were a lazary of Leapers Pardon right Honourable my rudenesse herein and take it well in woorth though it may of some be reputed Calabrihospitis munus a trifling gift Things which haue a base and rude forme not bombasted to please the fantasie somtimes affoord more profit then is expected Happily this home-spunne webbe may be profitable to manie and therein acceptable to your Honour a principall piller of common wealth For as the soule is much more excellent then the bodie so whatsoeuer tendeth to the good thereof is farre more precious then golde and to be preferred before all bodily and earthly treasure But a secret and hidden maladie such as is sinne the sickenesse of the soule the decay of men the ouerthrow of Nations and the ruine of the whole worlde can neuer be well cured and reformed except first discouered For which cause ten capitall sinnes are in this Catalogue detected being as forcible to bring this noble Realme of England to thraule as Iosephs ten brethren were to sell him into the captiuitie of Aegypt in the which men in this age are gone backeward from God ten degrees further then the shadow of Ahaz diall out of course 2. Sam. 20.3 so as if they doe not spedily repent and sequester these ten as Dauid did his ten polluted concubines they will be vnto vs as ten women Leui. 26.26 that shall bake our bread in the ouen of scarcitie and deliuer the same to vs by waight And at the last God will say vnto vs Num. 14.22 as he said to the Israelites This people that haue tempted me with these ten temptations shal not see the land of promise Therfore right Honourable as Aesculapius temple in the city Epidaurium in Grece was to all maner diseased persons which resorted thither a meane to recouer desired health such medicines as would cure their maladics being there reuealed vnto them so the generall good which I wish all to find in the discouerie of these ten so coÌ„mon euils that not so fewe as ten righteous persons for the which God would hauespared Sodom and Gomorrah might bee found among vs hath moued me though after a plaine and rude sort to publish the same For as of ten tribes one remained still to the house of Dauid and of ten Lepers one became a faithfull conuert and of ten virgins fiue were wise and waited for the comming of Christ so in this euil generation God will I doubt not reserue to him selfe a remnant which shall keepe themselues and their garments vnspotted of the world Further your honourable vertues shadowed with no cloudes of vice and of your wisdome correspondent to your place hath mooued me to present this to your Lordships hands yet not without feare to aduenture so base a gift to so worthie a personage But the late experience of your honourable courtesie hath imboldened me to make it a messenger of my dutie and vnfained loue towards you May it please your honour to accept it I cannot but reuerently acknowledge that it proceedeth more of your noble minde then of the worthinesse of the gift and in regard thereof holde my selfe so much the more bounde in all Christian dutie to your honour during life Thus beseeching almightie God to blesse your Honour I wish to the world the loue of God the father an vniuer sall peace at the last to his militant Church confusion of all hypocrites and to all his chosen people euerlasting life in the kingdome of heauen Amen Your Honours most humble seruant Thomas Timme The Contents of this Booke THe first Leper is the Schismatique The seconde Leper is the Church-robber The third Leper is the Simoniac The fourth Leper is the Hypocrite The fift Leper is the proud man The sixt Leper is the Glutton The seuenth Leper is the Adulterer or Fornicator The eight Leper is the Couetous man The ninth Leper is the Murtherer The tenth Leper is the Murmurer The first Leper is the Schismatique ELephantiasis or Leprosie is a disease venemous and full of poyson proceeding of Melancholie and corrupt blood inuading all the inwarde and outward parts of the whole bodie making it foule and filthie insomuch that the breath of the Leper is very contagious and infectious for the which cause it hath euer inforced a separation of such from all companie Euen so the Leprosie of sinne wherein we are borne and conceyued cleaueth so fast to our bones and is so fixed in our heart infecting all our powers and spirits that our vnderstanding cannot comprehend those things which belong to the spirit of God our wil abhorreth diuine and heauenly things and finally the whole man is set on fire with vncleane desires and most filthie cogitations And this contagion is so vehement throughout the whole life of man and doth in such wise shew foorth it selfe in all actions though they seeme to be honest that as they offend the maiestie of God so they giue occasion of sinning to others and one infecteth another by their euill example in so much as were it not for the vnspeakable mercie and great goodnesse of God which is our support and stay we must needs be excluded from his presence and Church and so perish for euer And because a Leprosie is not as euerie light disease but a fearefull lothsome contagious and separatiue maladie as is said it may aptly at this time represent not onely all sinners generally but also certaine capitall and notorious sinners whom I haue tearmed English Lepers for that they haue infected many thousands in this Christian Church and common wealth of England and will in time if the greater care be not had of the daunger that may ensue vtterly destroy the whole bodie of the same In the first place therefore as one of the most noysome I haue set the Schismatique and sedicious whose malecontent humor first of all brought the corporall leprosie vppon the Iewes as is to be seene Num. 12. 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