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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	eye_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	12	3	8.8792	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12285	A briefe discourse against the outwarde apparell and ministring garmentes of the popishe church	Crowley, Robert, 1518?-1588.	1566 (1566)	STC 6079; ESTC S109113	29,930	82

so that this shall make an Englyshe preste be he neuer suche a dolt or vnlearnid in the knouledge of the scripture as we haue very manye and without these romisshe reliques not Paule hym selfe shal be admittid as one of them dyd blaspheme the rest of them in effecte do affirme well agaynste suche popishe chaffer and popery hathe byne longe agone foughten withe all when the gret captaines of that religion lyuyd and yet God gaue the victory Therfor let vs not fear now although it doth begine to sture agayn for ther is no craft conuinge counsell wysdom or policy against the Lord. We haue Christ hys Apostells the Prophetes euer stryuing agaynst the Ipocrites of their time on our syde a strau for popishe polici we haue the worde of God to warant vs to rote out al monuments of supersticion and Idolatry are charged to abhor them to accompt them accursed and to defy them and to detest them as menstreous clowtes they haue not the worde of God for them And what wysdom is in them sayth god by his Prophet Ieremi they talke of obedience concorde but ther is no obedience against the Lorde no nor concorde to be desired but wher gods glory and verite is preserued Els better to haue al the worlde in hurly burleis and heauen earth to shake then one ioyte of gods glory shulde decaie So far forth as in vs leithe we haue theyr owne lawes and proclamacious to rote out all monuments of supersticion and Idolatrye theyr oune wordes are contrarye to theyr doinges Yt shulde apere that they repent their reformacion proclamid as did the Isralites they buylde agayn that which ons they haue distroied and this is done openlye that all the worlde may wonder and behold but what is done secretlye god wyll one daye haue it declarid openly ye they make the name of god this doctrine that we professe to be euell spoken of alredy By many of theyr doinges theyr iudgement hasteth that for such causes persecute Gods true preachers Wherfor let vs not feare theyr threteninges ther can none persecute the godly for this cause trasshe but ether such as are nether hote nor colde and then they shal be vomyted out vnlesse their zeale encrease or such as haue no God before their eies whose god is their bellie or els open papists whom god hathe geuen vp to a reprobate sense wherfore we must thus take it that they ar gods rodds for oure sinnes because we haue not ben more zelous in Gods cause nether carefull to seke his glorye that wolfe Wynchester blodie bucher Bonar fought once against many godli men for the grounde of this gere and thei had all the power of the Realme seruinge theyr lustes but beholde how the Lorde in short time ouerthrew them al to giue vs coradge to go forwarde the Lord forgeue vs we ar to slacke and neglygent in heauenly thynges this monster Bonar remainithe and is fed as papists say for their sakes it must be grauntyd it is for some purpos althoughe he be a traytor and an enemi to the crowne and realme and bothe to God and man whiche brunnid godes holy testament murderid his saintes and his servātes But what the Lord requyrith to be done wythe false Prophetes it is manyfest we haue bothe the lawe of god man for vs But we ar answerid nay you your sealues shal be compellid to turne your coates and cappes and get you into his leueris and to be lyke him in your garments O Elyas that thou lyuedste or that thy spyrit weare amongst vs thou woldest say with the Prophet Sophoni that God will vysit the werears of this Idolatours garmentes or strange aparell thou woldest say that thinges dedicatid once to idolatry is not indifferent thou woldest say reuerence to the sacramēt is wrought by doctrine and discipline and not by popisshe Idolatours garments thou woldest saye what decency can ther be gaynyd to the sacramēts by that which hath byn deuisyd vsyd to deface it if the golde ordeinyd by god for the reuerence and decenci of the Iewes temple is not to be admittyd to beutify the churche of Christe much lesse copes brought in by papistes the enemyes of god and alwayes continwyd in their seruice as ornamētes of their religion in no wyse ought of vs Christians to be retaynid But the papistes triumphe and glori in their assembles that the hote gospelars shal be driuen to their doltishe attires for the Lords sake let vs neuer giue them any cause of Ioye thoughe we shoulde dye for yt Moyses wold not yelde on hoofe of a beste in gods busines he wolde not leue the loupe vnmade nor make a button or a claspe more or lesse Eleasar will not decemble by eatynge of vnlawfull meates the faythfull Isralites wolde not receyue so muche as an yui bushe Contrariwyse Orygen caryinge a braunche and professynge that he bare it for Christ at the first But was afterwarde compellid to open Idolatry so cursid a thing it is to geue any place to the wicked all the papistes that saye they worship Christ in the crosse and God in the sacrament do still vnder these wordes continew still in their Idolatri beware of deceitfull wordes that couer wickid purposes to drawe vs from Christiā symplicite Let vs stand constantly agaynste all abuses and repent for our former coldnes in religion and our synnes and call for healpe from aboue for the hand of the Lorde is not shortenid we ar assured that we seke Gods glory and our aduersaries may see yf they can se any thinge that this thinge that they seke is not for gods glory seing the papistes the enemyes of God doe so desyre yt and glory in yt And reioyse that we whom they most hate cannot be safe but vnder their garments we ar assurid that we seke godes glory in folowinge Christ his Aposteles and Prophets who euer dispised these pharisaicall outward faces and visures Christe fyndethe fault withe the garmentes of the phariseis Paule counteth all his pharisaicall shew to be donge Zachari saithe that the false Prophet shal be ashamed of his prophecye and forsake his garments wherin he deceyuid shal the true Prophetes be fayne to crepe into their coules for by the same autorite may be comaundid any peace of popery so that it be namyd policie Ezechias and Iosias knew no suche aucthoritie but they say It is for policie For it plainly apearithe that ther is lesse care for religion then for policie But beware that the example of Ieroboham be not folowed that made such like prestes for policie as wolde do as he commaundid them Achaz of policie brought the fashion of an alter into Ierusalem as he sawe at Damascus where he had ouercome the Idolatours and their Idolls but cursed was his policie and so ar all they that wil retaine any thinge of their Idolatrie Nabuchodonosors Idoll was for vnitye and policie but