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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	father_n	holy_a	spirit_n	2,571	5	5.5598	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05035	The summe of christianitie gatheryd out almoste of al placis of scripture, by that noble and famouse clerke Francis Lambert of Auynyon. And translatyd, and put in to prynte in Englyshe, by Tristram Reuel. The yere of our lorde. 1536; Farrago omnium fere rerum theologicarum. English	Lambert, Franz, 1486-1530.; Revel, Tristram.	1536 (1536)	STC 15179; ESTC S109321	59,361	166

glory of god and helthe of soules I shall brefly intreate vpon with your hyghnes of those thynges that I copiously wrytte vpon to the moste noble lorde IOHAN Cardinal as they call it of Lotherynge what the Pope with hys Cardynalles Archebyshopes Byshopes Abbottes Chanones all other benefised men shall do leste they peryshe but may be sauyd For of truthe / all theyr hyghnes is of the dyuell Let them beware therfore / that they be nat euerlastīgly confoundyd / and peryshe For byshopes be alonly ꝓphetes of truthe / and there shulde be so many byshopes as the multytude of people requyreth Ye and to confesse the truthe I can nat call your hyghnes a byshope excepte I shulde flatre and do agaynst my conscyence whiche is to be auoydyd of the faythfull euyn as the venyme of the serpent Aspis I cōfesse you to be a prynce I knowe nat you to be a bysshoppe bycause you preache nat the gospell But it is nat in euery man to preache the gospel but of thē to whō it is gyuen of the lorde for they muste be sende to it of him And these be the true byshopes of the churche of god Therfore dylygently endeuour your selfe that tre●e byshopes may be encreasyd within your lordshyp Bysshopes may nat be lordes but alonlye doctours or teachers and seruauntes of the people of god It is iniury to a prynce to be callyd byshope ye and vtterly the moste greuous mockage if the thynge spoken be delygently examynyd wolde nat be thynke hym selfe deludyd that were callyd by a name nothyng 〈◊〉 for him whan any man is callyd ●●sho●e what other thyng is it than to say beholde a preacher of the worde of god contynually preachyng the gospell hauyng knowledge of holy scripture teachīg the people with the alonly pure worde of god attrybutynge to god hys due honour and prayse herberous or kepyng hospitalytie geuyng example of him selfe to other to folowe the gospell in lyuyng moste dylygent in redynge and expounding the scriptures and yet he hathe none of all these I wyll suffre euery man to call you a byshop which I wyll nat do my selfe leste I be iniuryous to you I well knowe that you be prynce of Lausane ye and I wolde that you shulde so playe the prynce that you wolde dylygently laboure to haue many true byshopes vnder you For verely euery paryshe ought to haue hys propre byshope the whiche shulde be chosen of the people and cōfyrmed by the cominaltie of the churche of euery place and to do this thīg they haue no nede of letters rynges sealles tokēs and suche other of this kynde very muche vsyd clene cōtrary to the worde of god So longe they shulde be accountyd for byshopes as they preache moste purely the gospell of the kyngdome of god Frō the whiche if they swarue one iote and teache straunge doctryne they ought to be deposyd and put out of them by whō they were electe and chosen that is to say of the comynaltie of the churche afore namyd and other more apte to be electe But of thys matter I haue spoken more at the large in an other place Therfore I wyll returne to our purpose of Tregarius He dyd wryte to your hyghnes supposyng you to be Fabiane where as you be Sebastiane as the letters beare wytnes gyuen to me by your owne handes wherin he goyth aboute to supprese and treade vnder fote the eternall veritie of god vnder the name as he hathe wrytten of Lutherane secte and vnder colour of zele towarde the church he rayleth the moste lycētiously in to the truthe and that same churche ●ho is he at the leaste that ꝑceiueth the thyngꝭ of god that folowith Luther or sayeth I am of Luthers secte Luther is a man and therfore of hym selfe a lyer but if Luther or any other speake the veritie and truthe of god what is the cause that we do nat gyue place to the truthe whiche the holy ghoste dothe make open to vs by Luther For I praye you is it nat wrytten of suche men you be nat they that speake but the spirite of your father that spekith in you it is nothyng sauery nor pleasythe nat at all that some men do say and talke of the wysdome of god whiche is founde in Paules epistles they call it Paules philophie I do gyue place and beleue the wrytynges of Paule Petre Iohā Esaie Hieremie and other prophetes of god nat for them but for the spirite of god which dyd speake in them Luther hathe nat teachyd me nother hys wrytynges those thingꝭ the which I haue knowē by the gyfte of god in holy scriptures Yet for all that I cōfesse me to knowe Luther ye and nat a lytle to haue profytyd thorugh hys company I know him to be the apostle and aungell of god that is to say sent of hym For it is inpossible that he shulde be sent but of him to haue wrytten those thynges that he hathe wryttē that is the scriptures of truthe and euyn as it is nat to be condempnyd that Paule hathe wrytten bycause he was a man in lyke case nother Luthers wrytynges are to be cōdempnid bycause he is a man For it is nat Luther but god that hathe wrytten and spoken in Luther But thꝭ Tregarius to obtayne the fauour of Antichriste vnder the name of Luther dothe openly speake agaynste Christe and his viritie He dothe also vnder that name resyste the impollutyd scriptures of god all the prophetes and his louers and callythe them defenders of sectes causing great rumores repletynge the worlde with all vnquietnes Philistianes hauīg vaine and folyshe armoure mockers / and deceyuers / of this maner dothe rayle agaynste them with the moste opprobrious crimes Forthermore he dothe reproue them of vehemente and wycked zele / and saithe that they haue forgote the saieng of our sauyour Lerne of me for I am meke and humble in harte and agayne blesse them that say euyll of you / and praye for them that persecute you But nowe loke vpon the craftynes of this foxe ꝑauenture he is afrayde / leaste that he shulde be put out and exilyd of antychrist / from the tyrānycall prouincialshype of his secte / for that cause / he so feruently defēdyth his parte / settyng at nought the worde of the lorde Nowe if he take this for a secte / to loue and teach the moste pure worde of god the whiche we doubte nat of we do couit and halfe this holy / necessary eternal and inuincible secte / and byfore hym and suche lyke / we wyll be of this secte / cleaue to it must surely / orels without remedy we shulde peryshe ꝑpetually we be adherētes and defēders of thys eternall / heuenly / and deuyne secte / it is necessary / that we be tumultuous or bryngers vp of rumoures for it / agaynst the execrable / cursid / and abhomynable secte of antichriste For the worde of the lorde dothe burst vp carnal pease