Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	king_n	lord_n	power_n	3,232	5	4.9654	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09294	The historie of Corah, Dathan, and Abiram, & c Numb. 16. Chap. Applied to the prelacy ministerie and church-assemblies of England. By Mr Iohn Penry, a martyr of Iesus Christ.	Penry, John, 1559-1593.	1609 (1609)	STC 19607; ESTC S103159	36,369	50

men of what estate and condition soever they be tremble feare before the God of Queen Elizabeth because he is the living God which remayneth for ever his kingdome shall not perish his Dominion shal be everlasting that whosoever shall wilfully and wittinglie speake any blasphemy much more if they shall presume to take armour against him as this gainesaying generation now doth shal be drawen in pieces and their houses be made a sinck Know my Lords that if you shall do otherwise these heathen Kinges will accuse you in the day of the Lord and take heed that none of your actes statutes be found written with the bloud of the Saintes For great Babylon her warriours Corah and his mainteiners shall come to remembrance the Lord wil reward them according unto their deedes And as in the former respectes I call your Honours to record with mee so also herein I beseech you to testifie the trueth on my behalfe that I make an utter separation betweene her Maiesties Civill Authoritie and the Ecclesiasticall jurisdictioÌ„ of these Corahs these Dathans these Abirams The which I set downe because wee can no sooner account the false Ministerie of the Romish Church to be Antichristian as it is but evill disposed uncoÌ„scionable men wil be readie to selander us that we account her MAIESTIES authoritie to be so too as though her Majesties power were ecclesiasticall and not civil or that this Romish band were Princes by their authoritie What kinges and Princes do establish is one thing their Authoritie power wherby they do this is another They may of oversight or otherwise set up the power of Satan by mainteyning false religion worship ordinances c. Yet their Power that is their Civill Authority whereby they do this is the Ordinance of God though herein they highlie abuse the same and shall answere for it without their repentance Her majestie this high Court of Parliament hath hitherto established this Ecclesiasticall regiment of the Kingdome of Antichrist this band of Conspiratours against the Majestie of Iesus Christ but this Conspiracie is one thing the authoritie whereby the same is established is another The Conspiracie the Offices ther of are wholy from Satan from the Dragon from the beast from the false prophet out of whole mouthes these frogges issued and so to be rejected The Civill authoritie of her MAIESTIE and the Parliament wherby this treacherie of oversight I trust is upheld is the holy ordinance of GOD notwithstanding it faileth herein and therefore to be embraced to be obeied and had in reverence yet are they betimes to redresse the abuse before the Lord breake forth upon us in his wrath And the Ordinances of Antichrist established by the lawful civill authoritie do yet continue Antichristian and unlawfull Because false religion and false ordinances Reteine their Nature by what power soever they be established The breach of Gods Law is the same by whom soever it be countenanced enacted commanded The statutes of Omry the maner of the house of Ahab the Damascene Altar are still Idolatrous monuments and constitutions by whomsoever they be enacted though by Ezekiah Iosiah or by any other the Godly Princes of Iudah And therefore the pretence which some alledge contrary I feare me to the light of their owne knowledge to cover their submission unto the forenamed Antichristian ordinances that Archbishops and Bishops Chancellors Commissaries c. which her Majesties Lawes do allowe are become civill constitutions and not ecclesiasticall is altogither vaine and frivolous For first no part of Poperie was ever imposed upon us to be received of any the subjects of this Land but what her Majesties Predecessors the Kinges and Princes of this Land did by Law enact among their Subjectes Againe her Majestie doth establish this as an ecclesiasticall power and not as any civill Thirdly being an Antichristian Constitution in it selfe the power of man enacting the same cannot make it to be otherwise Breifely Masse or any their Heathen Ordinances being enacted by Civil authoritie may by this reason be frequented also as being a civil thing and not any Antichristian ordinance And therefore men cannot better themselves by this iugling This whol Antichristian band in the time of Poperie did not onely withstand Iesus Christ in the poinct of the outward offices being the extremitie of Corahs sinne but also denied him the preferment to lodge any wise in the heartes of any men within these Tentes Nay these Tentes in those daies were nothing else but a receptacle of all the inventions which Satan could devise for the dishonour of Iesus Christ In consideration whereof her Majestie and the state thought they had done well that they emptied those tentes of the greatest part of the fearfull ab hominations remayning in them overthrewe some of them as the Papacie the Cardinalship Monkery c. and planted the most of the vessels of the house of God that is the greatest part of the doctrine of the truth in them but the Tents and the Conspiracie still remaine in as direct a sort against the glorie of God as that of Corah was Nay by all this clensing emptying although we unfeighnedly praise our God for the same and confesse it to have been a great worke they have not as yet brought them into that puritie and that soundnes of Religion that the Tents of Corah were in as it will easilie appeare unto any that will consider that Corah strove with Moses but touching the Office of the Priesthood onely whereas these men overthrowe the whole face of the Church of Christ persecute the Truth and maintayne publikly many horrible sinnes whereat Corah would have blushed as the Idoll-preisthood non-residencie the descending of Christ into Hell after he gave up the ghost upon the Crosse and had said All was finished But touching the Authoritie of the civill power and particularly of her right excellent Majesty I am in this place for the stopping of all sclaunderous mouthes who have or would report otherwise of me inforced to set downe what I hold and beleeve according to the word of God I do therefore here acknowledge her Mejesties Sovereigntie and regall Authoritie to be the Ordinance of the God of Heaven whereunto all persons without exceptioÌ„ within her Realmes and Dominions are to be subject to yeeld obedience in the Lord not only for feare of punishment but even for conscience sake because her forenamed authoritie power is derived from the King of Kings even the Lord Iesus who hath all power in heaven and earth in his owne handes I doe also avouch that no forreigne power Prince potentate or state hath or possiblie can have any authoritie within the Territories of her dominions over any person or in any cause save onely what by special graunt he deriveth from her and her Roiall Lawes Her foresaid authoritie I acknowledge to stretch it selfe not onely ever all persons within her Dominions but also over all causes as

wel ecclesiastical as civil in such sort as nothing is to be established among her subiects either in ecclesiasticall or civil causes publikl or privately but what belongeth vnto her power to correct order enact according vnto the written word of God and the rules of common equide and iustice So that it doth no whit infringe her royal power and authoritie to deny that she hath any warrant any power any sword granted her of God to establish either false Religion false Antichristian ordinances or yet any other vnwarrantable or vniust constitutioÌ„ Yet if of oversight she hath imposed any such thing vpon her subiects and inflicted a penaltie vpon them for not obeying that wherto they cannot yeeld any submissioÌ„ without the breach of Gods lawe I hold it to be the duty of private men to suller patiently the stroke of her sword and in no wise to withstand the power thereof either by open force or secret practises but only to betake themselves and their cause vnto the Lord God earnestly desiring him to passe by her oversight and to encline her heart and hand to embrace and mainteyue his truth and to suppresse all falshood violence and oppression Now if her Maiestie and this high Court require of vs that we resort vnto the publick assemblies of the land and so to enter as hath ben shewed into the tents of the Antichristian band continue therein I answer againe that this is against the written word of God and therfore that her Maiestie hath no power no authoritie from the Lord to require this at our hands We are punished for it we answer againe that the sword is given for our wealth and not for our hurt that it ought not to be drawen against vs for well doing yet we paciently and quietly bear the stroke we dare not resist we dare not rebel against the Powers Nay we intreat our God day and night for the prosperity of her Maiesties crowne desiring him in mercy to passe by this blemish of her government and not to lay it to her charge earnestly craving that her eyes and the eyes of your Honours may be opened to see our innocency and the truth wherein we stand admonishing both Her and you that although we for our parts knowe our selves bound even in nature to pacifie the hard dealing of our Prince and country towards vs by suffring and bearing of their iniuries as we would do our parents that yet the Lord God who iudgeth without respect of persoÌ„s is an avenger of al such things In respect wherof we dare notbut endeavour to the uttermost of our power to pull her and you from this consuming fire of his judgements that hang over your heads even for the maintenance of this Antichristian merchandise within this Land much more for pursuing vs that will not trafique and intermedle with the said wares Hitherto I have shewed the Parish-assemblies of the Land to be of a most feareful conspiracie against Iesus Christ and therefore to be dissolved by your Honours and avoided in the meane time by all the Servants of Christ But I would this preheminence that these forreigne Romish Captaines have over them were the only thing which maketh them vnclean vnto the Saints of God Their case in the next place then is now to be considered for the vnderstading wherof I am to set down these grouÌ„ds following 1. That as the Lord hath appointed his word and trueth to be taught his Sacraments to be administred and the holy Order appointed by himself to be kept in his house and body so he hath ordeyned a Power and authoritie that is certaine offices by vertue whereof these things are to be done 2. Next that Christ Iesus being the head of his Church hath ill fulnes of power preheminence authority dwelling in himself in such sort as his body and spouse is to submit her self unto no power in religion save onely vnto that power which is derived from him that is her head So that as the Church is to receive no doctrines no sacraments no order but what the Lord hath anpointed to be in his house so also hee hath forbidden his said Church to receive be subiect vnto any power authority save onely unto the power which is derived froÌ„ the head therof For it is no lesse derogatory vnto the Majesty of Christ Iesus for the Church to submit her self vnto the power of another head though conveighing the truth with it then to receive the false doctrines and false sacraments of some other Religion or God 3. Thirdly that Satan in bringing the mysterie of iniquity to light and in advancing the sonne of perdition into his chaire of pestilence did not onely appoint false Sacraments false worship but also a false head and a false power that is false Offices by vertue wherof both those things were to be done as also the Lords true institutions and ordinances were to be violated in the Antichristian Synagogue 4. That those who preach the truth administer the sacraments of baptisme and the Lords supper and none other by vertue of any of the false offices invented and reteyned in the kingdome of the Romane Antichrist derive their power wherby they doe these things from Antichrist and not from Christ Iesus And therfore that such working by vertue of a false power is not to be received of the church of Christ Now to come to the Parish-assemblies of this land admit that ARCH BISHOPS LORD BISHOPS c. bare no such rule authority over them as now they do and that there were none but Preachers in them yet we demaund of these Preachers by what authoritie they preach baptize c that is we demand what office they have so to do whether this office of theirs be an office derived froÌ„ Chirst Iesus or a power left here by Antichrist I say that whatsoever they do they doe the same by vertue of an Antichristian power office and calling none other That is they do it either as they are Deacons Preists or as having a priviledged immunitie licence and dispensation counterveyling a Deaconry or a Preisthood I adde this priviledged License because some one among ten thousand it may be being neither Preist nor Deacon by vertue of a License from his Ordinarie doth serve a cure Yet if there be any such they are not capable of any charge and what they do they do it by this power of the beast And here because I deale in a matter of fact I call but day light and common sense to decide this whole controversie which is conteyned in these two points 1. Whether at the expelling of the Pope out of this Land by her Maiesties saves the Popish offices of Preists and Deacons were expelled also out of the Parish-assemblies or reteyned 2. Whether at the same tyme or sithence any of the true offices of the Church of Christ were instituted and ordeyned in the Parish-assemblies of the Land The case is cleere that

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