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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	faith_n	follow_v	justification_n	2,555	5	9.6247	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09591	A frendly larum, or faythfull warnynge to the true harted subiectes of England Discoueryng the actes, and malicious myndes of those obstinate and rebellious papists that hope (as they terme it) to haue theyr golden day. By I. Phil.	Phillips, John, fl. 1570-1591.	1570 (1570)	STC 19870; ESTC S110453	15,164	50

A FRENDLY Larum or faythfull warnynge to the true harted Subiectes of England Discoueryng the Actes and malicious myndes of those obstinate and rebellious Papists that hope as they terme it to haue theyr Golden day By I. Phil. ¶ Imprinted at London in Fleetstreete by William How for Rycharde Iohnes To the moste vertuous and gratious Ladie Katherin Duches of Suffolke Iohn Phillip wisheth continuall health of body and minde from God the father of our Lorde Iesus Christe Amen NOt vtterly ignorant most gratious Lady of your many and sundrie vertues whiche sufficientlye are made open and manifest to the louers of Gods sincere Catholique Gospel as otherwise ardent and zealous desier that your noble hearte doth possesse in wishyng the conuersion of those that are enemies not onely to Gods veritie but also to the fauourers of the same which who so euer he ●e that shall enter in these poyntes into deepe earnest consyderation of minde with him selfe shal not only be moued to be thankfull therefore to God the giuer of al good thinges but also be prouoked and stirred day by day to pray that God as he by his vnspekeable prouidence hath framed so good a gift in your most gratious breast and to illumine your eyes with his deuine knowledge wherby your person is and can be able thereby to discerne falshood from truth light from darkensse pure religion from vnwritten verities and Gods Euangely from mens tradicions so he may increase and multiplie the same in so noble a heart that you may perseuer and go forward therin to the glory of God the aduauncement of his worde and the comfort and consolation both of your gratious body and minde that when Christ shall come to iudge you may participate as felow Heire with him that eternall and Heauenly kyngedome purchased with his deare heart bloud where he hath layde vp in store for all that faithfully and earnestly beleeue on his most holy name immortall and i●corruptible Crownes of euerlasting life the whiche are allotted to his beloued and adopted sonnes in his bloud Knowyng therefore O vertuous Lady your Estate to be suche as scarsly I might for want of knowledge once be worthie to name so greate is the weakenesse and imbicillitie of my witte muche lesse then to wright vnto so noble a Lady as your grace is Yet incoraged by hope I am imboldened to pitche mine Anker amidst the Flouds of your vertues to builde my trauell on the foundation of your knowledge beyng perswaded that hauinge so worthie a Matrone as you are to be a sheilde to this my weake and vnskilfull labour it shal not onely be a sheild sufficient therto but cause it also to be the better regarded and esteemed In consyderation wherof I most humbly beseche your Grace to accept take the same in good parte and hereafter as God shal increase in me greater knowledge I shall with matters of greater waight and importaunce trouble your most gratious person as knoweth God who graunte you longe lyfe prosperitie and peace with the comforte and great ioy of your worthy children to his good pleasure now euer Your humble and obedient oratour Sonne of your poore seruant of longe time Iohn Phillip ¶ To the Reader I. Phillip wisheth health in Christe the giuer thereof c. CALLINGE TO MINDE Good Reader the estate of this oure myserable tyme knowing that CHRISTE in his Gospell hath geuen vs knowledge therof forewarnyng vs therfore to th' intent that our mindes should not be troubled or caried aboute as the weather Cocke is commonly with euery puffe and smal blast of Winde Let this therefore aduertise thee that thou looke not backe from that Canonicall and heauenly doctrine Which our maister Christe hath taught and confirmed as his blessed will and Testament with the price of his precious death and bloudshedding on the Crosse with which he hath sealed the same and left it vnto vs and our posterities that we and they vvhich shal come after vs might teache it vnto our Children as a law giuen by him to be obserued for euer Then sith he hath so mercyfully and louingly delt with vs shall we rewarde his good will with ingratitude or shall we in recompence of so greate benefites yelde or quit him with disdaine No rather like obedient and louynge children let vs indeuer to obey his commaundements and to show our selues followes of his worde not only in talke but in deede for deedes to confirme our profession are required not that by them vve may merit ought at all for faith and not workes are our iustificacion yet I condemne not workes for they are the fruites of faith and testefie the same sundry causes haue mooued me though vnworthy to take this labour in hande the one the mutteringe of Papistes whiche mutter there and here as oportunitie seruith their turnes strange lies and newes far distant from truth Another cause is that the mindes of many men are disquieted and brought out of frame by the vngodly meanes of suche ▪ as not only rebell against God and his worde but also agaynst the estate of this Realme our Queene and dignitie of her Crowne and so through the meanes and actions of a few vnnaturall braunches stande halfe in doubt whether they may turne to the right hande or the left this therefore may be to comfort the one to discourage and vtterly deface th' other Whiche not only purpose the ruine aud spoyle of their naturall Nourse and countrie but also as their vniust dealynges their craftie attempts and subtill pretences plainly showe and demonstrate the domage and decay of our moste gratious and excellent Princesse whose high renowne of maiestie euery true and faithful subiect as far as life and goods wil stretch ▪ ought to defēd support and maintaine as hir Maiesties person is the lawfull heire of the famous Prince Kinge Henrie the eight who was a suppresser and ouerthrower of all superstition and Idolatrie so our Delbora doth not only studie to vanquish and confounde the same but followeth the trace of hir most excellent Father a wise and prudent Salomon as did that yonge and godly Ezechias the sixt EDVVARDE hir maiesties valiant brother who ▪ as she planted the Lords Vineyarde and repayred the walles of Sion againe Till such time as our God seing our ingratefulnesse deliuered vs into the hands of the Bulles of Basan who no only defaced the buildinge substancially framed and begon but more then this gaue the greedy Boare of Rome free libertie to enter therunto whose spoiling Tuskes did spoile aud roote vp such good and godly Braunches as therin did beautifie and cause the same increase and after in their steads planted Dernell weedes and stinking Brambles which fruict was vnsauery and vnpleasaunt before GOD who for the greeuous grones the Teares and plaintes most bitterly throwne forth of his litle flocke and Churche restored vs againe from the yoke of Cruell and bloudy Pharo and in place of CYSERA or DIOCLESIAN who