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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	eat_v	idol_n	weak_a	2,180	5	9.3570	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04924	The copie of a letter, sent to the ladye Mary dowagire, Regent of Scotland, by Iohn Knox in the yeare. 1556. Here is also a notable sermon, made by the sayde Iohn Knox, wherin is euydentlye proued that the masse is and alwayes hath ben abhominable before God and idolatrye	Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.	1556 (1556)	STC 15066; ESTC S106838	35,093	130

was nothinge pre●udiciall too the libertie of Christians For with the time as the Iewes grew more strong were better instructed they wolde be nothinge offended for suche matters And therfore commaunded they the gentils too absteyn for a tyme. For that it was not a perpetuall precept declareth this day when no man holdeth eatinge of suche thinges synne But what precept had they so to do The last and new precept geuen by Iesus Christ to hys disciples that euery one loue other as he hathe loued vs. May not Christiā loue commaunde that none of vs do in the sight of other that which may offende or trouble the conscience of the infirme and weake So witnesseth Paule affirming that if a man eate with offence he synneth And by vertue of this same precepte the apostles forbid that the gentils shall eate thinges offerred vnto Idols c that bearig some parte with the infirmitie of the Iewes they might grow together in mutuall amitie Christiā loue And these are the traditions of the ▪ Seniours whiche Paule commaunded to be obserued I praye you what similitude haue oure papisticall lawes with thys precept of the apostles But greatly it is to be maruayled that men do not aduerte that the bo●e of the Lordes law that is of all his ordinaūces testamēt promyse and exhibition thereof was sealed and confirmed in the dayes of the apostles the effecte and contentes thereof promulgate and published so that moste extreme unpietie it is too make any alteration therein Yea and the wrath and fearfull maledictiō of God is denunced to fall vpon all them that dare attēpt to adde or diminishe any thynge in his religion confirmed and proclamed by his owne voyce O papistes where shall ye hyde you frome the presence of the Lorde ye haue peruerted his lawe ye haue taken away his ordinaunces ye haue placed vp iour own statutes in stead of his Wo and dānation abideth you Albeit that y e apostles had made Lawes other then the expresse worde commaunded what apper teyneth that to you haue ye the spirite of trueth and knowledge in aboundaunce as they hadde was the churche of Christe lefte vnperfyte after the Apostles dayes Bringe your selfes to mynde and be ashamed of youre vanitie For all men whose eyes Sathan hath not blynded may espye that neither wysedome nor authoritie of man may change or set vp any thinge in y ● religion of God without his owne expresse commandement and woorde And thus I thinke the first parte of my argument sufficiently proued whiche is that all worshipping honoring or seruice of God inuented by the brayne of man in the religion of God withoute his owne expresse commaundement is Idolatry But in vayn will some thinke that all this laboure haue I tak● for no man of hole iudgement any parte of this wolde haue denyed nor yet doeth it proue any thynge of m●ne entent For the masse is not the inuention of man but the very ordinance of God Then descende I to proue the masse to be the mere inuention of man setvp withoute all commaundement of God And first of this name Missa whiche we call the mas●e wold I aske at such as wolde defend that papisticall abomination of what spirite is it inuented That missa shall signifye a sacrifice for y ● synnes of the quicke and the dead Of the spirit of God or of y ● spirit of mā or of what originall is it descended Some will answer from the Hebrew dictiō Missah whiche after some doeth signifye an oblation or a gifte Lyke as tribute whiche the inferior offereth or payeth to the superiour In the Hebrue tunge I confesse my self ignorant but haue as God knoweth feruent thirst to haue some entrāce therin and so of the Hebrue dic●ion can not contend But men of great iudgemēt in the same ●ūge say y ● no where in scriptures Missah betokeneth an oblation But admitting that so it did what shal they be able to proue there by My questiō is if the spirite of god hath inuented pronounced thys dictiō Missa to signifie a sacrifice for the sinnes of the quicke and the dead which if they be not able to preue than must they nedes confesse that it is of mans inuencion and not of gods impositiō I cold geue vnto them a more apperante cause and der●●acion of that diction Missa but of y ● name I am not greatly sol●● Secondly I desire to be certified what they call their masse Whether the hole actyon wyth all ceremonyes vsed now of olde or a part thereof It wil not satisfie the hartes of all godly to say S. Iames and S. Peter celebrated the firste Masse in Ierusalem or Antioche If it so wer one of y ● two celebrated first and the other after but neither of ● two can be proued by scripture Great meruayl it is that so manifestly men shame not to lie Peter and Iames saye the papistes celebrated the firste masse But I shall proue that pope Sixtus was ●he first that did institute y ● Aulters ●elix the firste of that name did consecrate them and the temples bothe Bonifacius commaūded y e aulters to be couered with cleane clothes Gregorius Magnus commaunded the candels to be lighted at the Euangile dyd institute certeyn clothes Pontianus commaunded Cōfiteor to be sayde And wherefore shoulde I troble you myself both in reciting what euery Pope added ye may for two pēce haue the knowlege what euery pope added vntil at last was cōpact set vp the hole bodi of y ● blasphemous Idoland yete shame they not to say S. Peter sayed the firste masse although that many hundreth yeares after hym no suche abominable ceremonies were inuented But they say all thie ceremonies are not of the substance of y e masse but are added for good causes What commaundement haue thei receyued to adde any thing to the ordinance of God for any cause appearing to them But let them certifye me what is the masse The Canō wil they answer with the wordes of consecration Who is a 〈…〉 or of the Canon can they precysely tell Be well aduised before ye aunswer lest by neglecting yourself ye be proued lyars Will ye saye that y e apostles vsed your Canon ▪ so ye haue affirmed in tymes past I● the Canon descended from the apostles to y ● popes bolde maleparte impietie it had ben to haue added anye thynge thereto For a Canon is a full and sufficient rule which in all partes and pointes is perfyte But I will proue diuers Popes to haue added their portions too this holye Canon If they will deny aduyse what added Sergius what Leo and what added Leo and what added the two Alexanders for I 〈…〉 ay not abyde presently to recite all But if they doubte their owne lawe shall certefye them Secondly the remembraunce of the names of suche men who were not borne manye hundreth yeares after the dayes of y ● Apostles