Selected quad for the lemma: christian_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	body_n	church_n	society_n	1,721	5	9.2198	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00342	The complaint of peace. Wryten in Latyn, by the famous clerke, Erasimus [sic] Roterodamus. And nuely translated into Englyshe by Thomas Paynell.; Querela pacis. Selections. English	Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.; Paynell, Thomas.	1559 (1559)	STC 10466; ESTC S120574	35,321	96

publyke tranquilytie be troubled nor those the whiche are nouryshed and made fat with the calamyties of thee people He shall call wyttye auncient and olde men whose mercy and beneuolence is knowen vnto the countrye Nor let not war be moued for the pleasure or lust of one or two the whiche once begonne is not easelye ended It is a moste peryllous a daungerous thing except it be taken in hand by the consent of all the people The occasyons and causes of warre muste euen oute of hande beforetolde and declared But yet certayne must be wynked at for gentylnes shall inuyte and prouoke gentylnes Some tymes peace muste be boughte And yf thou caste what warre shall consume and waste and that thou shalte kepe thy Cytizyns from destruction it shall seme although thou dyddest bye it full dearelye to be boughte for lytell And whan a greate d●ale moore besydes the bloude of thye Cytizyns shoulde haue bene spente in warre thou shalte reken howe greate and manyfolde euylles thou exchuidst and howe muche goodnes thou defendidst so shalt thou not repente the of thy expenses and charges In the meane tyme lette Byshoppes doo theyr offyce and dueties Lette Preystes be truelye Preystes Lette Monkes remembre theyr professyon Let Dyuynes teache that is worthye and meete for Chryste Let all menne conspyre agaynst warre Let all menne barke agaynst it Lette all menne preache extole and inculcate peace pryuatelye and apertlye Then yf they cannot brynge it to passe that it be not ended by the swerde yet certes they shall not approue it nor be present thereat nor that any honoure by theyr aucthorytie be hadde or gyuen too suche a wycked or to suche a suspecte thynge Let it be suffycyente for those that be slayne in battell to be buryed in Prophayne and vnhallowed grounde And yf there be any good in this kynd the whiche surelye are very fewe they shall not for these thynges be defrauded or lease theyr rewarde But the euyll and wycked the whyche are manye shall not be pleased that thys honours be taken from theym I speake of these warres that commonlye Chrysten men make agaynst Chrysten men Nor I meane nor thynke not soo of those that with a symple and a relygyous stodye and dylygence doo repell thee vyolente inc●rcyons of thee Barbaryens and with theyr owne peryll defende the publyke and common tranquylytie Nowe the Trophees and sygnes of theyr victoryes dyed and stayned with the bloud of those for whose saluacyon Chryste shedde his bloude are auaunced and set vp in temples among the Images of the Apostles and Martyres as thoughe that hereafter it be a Relygious worke not to be made Martyres but too make Martyres It were suffycyente ynoughe that these thynges were kepte in a place of iudgement or in an armary for it is not conuenient y t any thing defylyd with bloude shoulde be receuid into the holy churche the which oughte to be most clene and pure Preistes consecratid vnto God shuld not be presente but to destroye and disanull warre for if they consent and agre vnto these thynges and euery where inculke and repete the same it wylbe of greate force strength But if this be a fatall disese of mans wyr that be no meanes it cannot endure with out war yet let this euyll then rether be shed against the Turkes althoughe it were better to alure them by doctrine good dedes and by the innocency of lyfe to Christes religion thē to inuade them with war But if war as I haue sayde cannot in no wyse be auoided yet that were a liter an ●esier harme than that christen men should so wickedly make war and be hurt and destr●yde among them selfes And if mutuall charitie do● not vnite them some commen enemye by some meanes or other shall ioygne them soo that there shalbe as it were a certayne concorde althoughe that true concord be absente and lackynge Finally it is a great part of peace from the hart to wyll Peace All such vnto whom peace is plesaunt do receaue al occasiōs of peace y ● things which do withstande it either they neglecte them or ells they remoue them suffer manye thinges so tha● soo greate goodnes may be safe and sounde They searche the begynnynge and causes of war the thinges that pertaine to peace they prayse them or else they dissemble them but that that doth tende towards warre they encrese and make it worse I am a shamyd to open for howe vayne tryflynge maters they exci●e and stirre greate tragedies a●d howe great tempestes doo ryse of so smale sparcles Thē that greate multitude of iniuryes is remembred and euerye man dothe heape on hys owne euills and iniuryes done vnto him but in the mene space of good dedes there is noo remembraunce but depe forgetfulnes soo that thou shalte truelye swere that they desyre and couette warre And oftentimes their are pryuet matters of princes the which cōpel y e world to war But the cause why that warre shuld be takē in hand should be publike and more thā euident But whā ther is no cause they faine causes of dissentiō abusing y e vocables of coūtris regions to y e nourishmēt of hatreds noble men do nourishe encrese this error of y e folyshe people abuse it to their owne profyte and commoditie certē preistes also doo nourishe these things The englishe mā is enemi vnto y e french mā for no nother cause but y t he is a french mā The englyshe mā for no nother cause doth hate a Scot but bicause he is a Scot. The Germaine is at debate with the frenchman the Spaniarde w t them bothe O ouerwartnes The vaine vocable of y e place disioyneth men Why shuld not so many thinges rather reconcile thē Thou Englishe man dost hate a french man why dost not thou a man rether be welwillyng vnto mā a christian man vnto a christian Why can so voyde and soo lyght a matter do more with these men than so manye bandes of nature or of Chryst The place doth seperate and diuide mens bodies but not theyr minds● In times past the Rhene separatyd the french man from the Germaine but the Rhene doth not separate a christian frō a christian The mountens pyrines dyuide the Spaniardes from the Italiens but the same diuide not the communion of the Churche The Sea diuideth englyshe men from frenche men but it dyuideth not the societie and felowshyppe of relygyon Paule the Apostle disdayneth to here these voyces among christē men I am Apollos I am Cephas I am Paules disciple Nor he suffereth not wycked names to diuide Chryste reconcylynge all thynges and we iudge the commen vocable and name of a country to be a graue and a wayghty cause why one nation should bende towardes the destruction of a nother Nor thys surely vnto somme mennes myndes is not suffycyente for thou doste here that shrewdelye and of purpose they doo seke occasyons