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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	scripture_n	word_n	write_a	3,489	5	10.6702	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11430	A letter to the trew professors of Christes Gospell, inhabitinge in the parishe off Allhallowis, in Bredstrete in London, made by Thomas Sampson, sometyme their pastore	Sampson, Thomas, 1517?-1589.	1554 (1554)	STC 21683; ESTC S116470	12,610	27

grace beinge past / theyr curious charitie therfore / and their peuishe propiciatorye prayer hath no ground in the scriptures But through this they haue picked the purse of many a poore man / for on thys vnhappye grounde buylde they chantries / trentalles vniuersaries / diriges / purgatory / pardons for soules departed / and a pece of their expiatory sacrifice / with many suche proper deuises Auriculer confession Auriculer confessiō they teache / in which they enforce a numbring of synnes / whiche is nought / els but the tyrāny of their kingdome / and as they vse it a killing of Christiā consciences / and hath no groūde of the scriptures In an anguishe and dute of consciēce it is both good / necessary / and comfortable / for a man to counsail with sum suche learned elder / in whose lippes dothe lye the law of truthe Agayne / if the trew ecclesiasticall discipline were vsed / a pece of it oughte too be / that the man restored / shoulde of hys faulie make an open confession before the congregacion / to declare publicquely hys repentaunce Yea / and a minister may vppon iust groūde examine any / of whom he hath cure / of such a faute / as he seeth him worth to be reproued for But this is so farre frō their eareshrifte / that a man moste blynde / maye easely iudge thereof Popisshe inuencions But the rable of their errors are to many now to recite / as of the authoritie of the churche / of the not erring of the churche / of discipline / of theyr fyue new enuented sacrament / of voues / of ckoyse of meates / of images / and such lyke Against all / whiche that ye maye be armed my deare brethren / I require you not onely to call to minde the doctrine of the truthe receyued But also that for the triall of thē ye do abyde in the worde of the truthe / Godes worde I meane And because / here they haue also an error / I will but recite it / and so make an ende Tradicions Their error is / that God 's writtē worde is not a sufficiente doctrine vnto saluacion / but say they the voyce of the church / tradicions / and counsayles are to be harde of necessitie As for tradicions / there is no tradicion of any matter of faithe to be receyued / other then is in the scriptures expressed Likewise doctors and counsailles / Doctors Counsails Customes Note with the consent and custome of the churche / are so farre to be harde in matters of faithe / as they do agre with the writen scripture for it is the touche stone to trye them all by / that in suche sorte / that if they saye not / according to this woorde / then as there is no light in them / so are they not to be folowed Esa 8. As for tradicions / customes / Ceremonies and by and for the order of the churche ceremonies receyued and vsed / which be no matters of faith / they may be admitted and altered at the discrecion of theym that haue the rule of the church vnder Christ / according to the necessite of the tyme / and the disposition of the people / so that in them be nothinge elles but trew edifying to vnfayned Godlynes And suche are of the people with humblines too be receyued But for the ful triall of suche / ●ea / and for the full and perfect institucion of all men / in suche thinges as concerning saluacion / God hath lefte vnto his church and people hys written worde The holy scripture is a sufficient doctrine for oure saluacion vvithout the Popishe vnvvrittē verites Ioan. 20. In whiche though all thinges that God mighte haue caused to be written / be not writtē Yet in it so much is written / as sufficeth to teache vs that Iesus Christ is the sonne of God / and also that we beleuing / might haue lyfe euerlastinge / as Ihon dothe witnes / by whiche we learne / that the written worde of God is a sufficiēt doctrine to instruct vs in that fayth / whiche bringeth to lyfe euerlastinge It is that sufficient doctrine that can alone make men learned vnto saluacion / by the fayth which is in Christ Iesus / it alone sufficeth to make the mā of God perfectly enstructed too all that is good / as witnesseth Paule 2. Tim. 3 Ioan. 5. Luc. 16. 2. Pet. 1. Therefore vnto the scriptures do Christe sende the Phariseis / Abraham too Moyses and the Prophetes / Peter also to thesame worde of the Prophetes / as to the doctrine that sufficeth to enstructe vs too saluacion The knowledge of whiche worde whosoeuer goeth aboute to take from the people by putting it into a straunge langage to the ende that the more safely / our popish marchaūtes maye kepe their marte of falshead and Popery / he robbeth the people of their meane to saluacion / he openith a dore for theues and murtherers / to deuoure the flocke of Christ / and if at the worldes hāde / he sustayneth not the iudgemente of a thefe / yet at Godes hande shall he be sure to haue the iudgement of a soule murtherer ☞ Thus briefly I haue put you in mynd my deare brethren of the principall errors of the aduersaries / and of the truthe contrary to them / not so copiously as the matter deserueth / but shortly measuring the neade of your knowledge / for I haue not to do now with the ignorant / but with you / of whom by the tyme and kynde of your teachinge / I iudge that ye be able not onely too iudge off the truthe / but too be brotherly enstruetors of other in thesame And thus I haue done furst to exorte you constantly to abide in the truthe receyued Continuan̄e in the truth Call to youre mynde that God of his great mercy and goodnes hathe long ben in planting / sowing / and watering of you / as it were to make you a garden off pleasure vnto hym selfe These sedes of lyfe the deuel by hys doctors will now go about to picke out of your hartes But if in thys Gospelling adge / ye haue bene worthy hearers of the Gospel / if with the worde herde with youre eares / the Lordes sprite hathe touched your hartes to beleue the worde of truthe preached / as he hath done to so many as haue vnfaynedly desired it / Ioan. 10 if ye be the shepe / which haue rightely herde the shepeherdes voyce / then surely the straungers supplanting voice shall ye not heare / but ye shall flee frome suche hurelinges / as frome theues / robbers and murtherers Hereby verely shall ye be knowen what ground ye are / fruteful / or vnfruteful constant / or seruers of the tyme The propertie of good gospelers Good Gospel hearers be not suche as will be tost aboute with euery wynde / they be no suche grounde as wil be dried vp with euery