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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	build_v	peter_n	rock_n	30,238	5	9.7701	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02616	The great bragge and challenge of M. Champion a Jesuite co[m]monlye called Edmunde Campion, latelye arriued in Englande, contayninge nyne articles here seuerallye laide downe, directed by him to the lordes of the Counsail, / co[n]futed & aunswered by Meredith Hanmer ...	Campion, Edmund, Saint, 1540-1581.; Hanmer, Meredith, 1543-1604.	1581 (1581)	STC 12745; ESTC S3923	32,146	62

attention to such a conference as in the secōd part of my Articles I haue mēcioned and requested or to a fewe Sermons wythin her or your hearing I am to vtter such manyfest and fayre light by good methode and playne dealing as may be cast vpon these cōtrouersies that possible her zeale of truth and loue of her people shall encline her noble grace to disfauore frō proceeding hurtfull to the Realme and procure towardes vs oppressed more equity The aunswere THe summe of this your seuēth diuision is cōtained in a wish wher you not onely desire the presence of the nobility Lords of y e counsaile but also her Royall Maiesty to geue attention vnto your preaching moreouer yee hope y t by cūning methode and playne dealing as yee say beyng cast as it were a mist vpon these controuersies yea ye doubt not but ye shal be able to do som good c. Princes sittīg in thrones of great maiesty haue not to harkē vnto each pilgrims sute their affaires beyng great causes waighty neither is it expedient y t euery sorte of priuate persons should haue accesse vnto theire presence neyther that their sacred eares should bee abused with the hearyng of such ●rasse as commōly such pedlers as you are doe bryng in their packes fardels from Rome The Lordes her maiesties most honorable counsel the nobles pieces and state of the realme beyng mē of greate wisedome learnyng zeale and Godly religiō busilye occupyed in theyr seuerall callynges prudently gouerning vnder her highnes and ministringe vnto her maiesty by direction of the spirite of wisedome receyued from aboue holsome aduyse and counsaile are not to be troubled with hearing of any such message as yee bringe from the prouost of your order vnlesse you wil minister occasion vnto them to examine you of your loyalty and subiection vnto her royal maiesty and Godlye procedinges Lastly discretion wisedome in mine opinion are to direct you not to attempt in opē audience in y e hearynge of the lay and common sort of people the publishinge of anye deuyse discourse or doctryne that is not agreable with the word of God that is not alreadye established that is repugnant vnto her Maiestyes proceedinges The maner of old and the vse receiued in the Church hath bene that none vnlicensed vnexamined vntryed and vnknowen shoulde be permitted to preache neyther in open assemblies to set any doctrine abroch that is not receaued Any hereticke be hee an Arrian Macedonian Eunomian Nestorian Pelagian Libertine Anabaptist or of the Family of Loue may be a suter as ye are but whether you are any of the aforesayde is to be permitted to discourse in open audience I referre it to the wyse to consider of I know not what fauor in the premisses ye shall obtayne as for myne owne part I submit herein my censure to the learned wyse and pollityke magistrates and superiors Loke to whom yee haue made your suite and petition they are in this poynt further to resolue you What diuinitye is may sone be layde downe for there is here no greate occasyon ministred of discourse or answeare The Iesuite MOreouer I doubte not but you her highnes counsaile beyng of such wisedome and discretion in cases most important when you shall haue hearde these questions of religion opened faythfully which many tymes of our aduersaryes are hudled vp and confounded will see vpon what substantiall ground our catholick fayth is builded and how feble that syde is which by sway of the time preuayleth agaynst vs and so at the last for your owne soules and for many thousandes that depende vpon your gouernement will discountenance error when it is bewrayed and harken to those which wold willingly spende the best bloud in theyr bodyes for your saluation Many innocent hands are lyft to heauen for you daily and hourely by the English students whose posterity shall neuer dye Which beyonde the seas gathering vertue and sufficyent knowledge for their purpose are determined neuer to giue you ouer but either to winne you heauen or to die vppon your pikes As touching our society be it knowē vnto you that we haue a league all the Iesuits in the worlde whose succession and multitude must ouerreach the practise of England chearefully to carry the crosse which god shall lay vppon vs and neuer to dispayre your recouerye whiles we haue a man left to enioy your tyburne or to be racked vvyth your torments or to bee consumed with your prisons The expence is reckoned the enterpryse is begun it is of god it cannot be withstoode so the fayth was planted so it must be restored The Aunswere YOu are still in hope of good successe No doubt their honors will yeld credit vnto that whych is faythfully deliuered accordyng vnto Gods worde but where ye charge vs with hudling vp and confounding of questions in diuinity and matters in controuersie I returne y e same vnto you and the shame to light vpon their pates that deserue it Your complices of the Romish religion haue defended your holyewater by the exāple of Elizaeus and by the words of the prophet Ezechiel your pardons by the prophet Esay your images by the Cherubins and brasen serpent your seuen sacraments by the seuen seales seuen trumpets seuen starres seuen golden candelstickes seuen eyes your seruice in an vnknowen language without translating of y e scriptures into y e vulgare tongue by that which Peter reporteth that there are some things harde to be vnderstood in Paule your vowed pilgrimage by that where it is commaunded that none puttyng hys hand to the plough must looke backward your eleuatiō in the sacrament by the story of Lazarus where it is sayd that Christ lyfted vp his eyes your superiority of y e church of Rome by the words of our sauiour vnto Peter thou arte Peter vpon this rocke our sauiour meaning hys faith no say you vppon the Sea of Rome I vvill builde my Church your right of both swordes by the answer of Peter in the garden behold here are tvvo svvordes your popes primacy aboue the emperour by comparing the Pope to the sunne and the emperour to the moone such is the practise of your side such is your confusion in matters of diuinity and such is your hudlyng vp of Scriptures you proceede on further and hope to crepe into fauor by declaring that many handes are lift vp for the State of England by the Englyshe Studentes beyonde the Seas This is right Frierish Limit or like God saue my good maister my good dame the scrip be like is empty and are yee nowe come to fill it their flying declareth their disposition their absence sheweth their loue and their practises open vnto vs what prayers they make You tell vs of your league and that you are determined neuer to geue vs ouer No more as I think then the Ievves which vowed neyther to eate nor to drincke before they had killed Paule