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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
day_n	friday_n	saturday_n	wednesday_n	7,002	5	12.7217	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04483	A viewe of a seditious bul sent into Englande, from Pius Quintus Bishop of Rome, anno. 1569. Taken by the reuerende Father in God, Iohn Iewel, late Bishop of Salisburie. Wherevnto is added a short treatise of the holy Scriptures. Both which he deliuered in diuers sermons in his cathedral church of Salisburie, anno. 1570	Jewel, John, 1522-1571.; Garbrand, John, 1542-1589.	1582 (1582)	STC 14614; ESTC S107782	85,989	232

in his hande and call his neighbours togither and with godly speeches water the minde both of himselfe and the congregation that so wee maye escape the snares of the diuel and reape much fruit by our fasting and be partakers of the mercy of God Thus farre Chrysostome Nowe what if some fewe be wanton and neglect the wholsome vse of Fasting What if godly Preachers exhorte the people to putte away the abuse and doe teache them out of the word of God and the auntient writings of holy Fathers the true order and vse of Fasting should Pope Pius therefore vntruely charge hir Maiestie that she hath abolished Fasting dayes You knowe the Lawes stand in force whiche are made for that purpose and moreouer that common Prayers and an order for publique Faste to bée vsed in time of contagious sicknesse and other troubles and vnquietnesse haue bene set foorthe by the Queenes Maiesties speciall commaundement You knowe the maner and fourme of that generall Faste was first that it shoulde be kepte in euery wéeke vpon the Wednesday secondly by all persons betwéene sixetéene yeares of age and thréescore sicke folks and laborers c. excepted that it appointed but one onely competent and moderate meale that it leaueth it indifferent in the same meale to eate fleshe or fishe so that the quantitie be small and fit for sober and spare diet wythout varietie of meate spices confections or wines but onely suche as maye serue for necessitie comelinesse and health and that men of wealth and habilitie who by this order did abate the costlinesse of their fare should encrease their liberalitie towards the pore with that wich they spared thē that the same day ought to be bestowed in Prayers studie reading or hearing of the Scriptures or good exhortations and other godly exercises but no parte therof to be spent in plays pastimes or idlenesse much lesse in lewd wicked or wāton behauiour This Faste was commaunded and sette foorth in print thys Fast we obserued and taught the people that they should aunsweare before God if in suche godlye exercises they eyther shoulde contemne publike order or dissemble with God pretending abstinēce and doing nothing lesse Let Pope Pius shewe what Lawe of this Realme hathe forbidden or what doctrine of ours hath condemned Fasting We commende it and shewe the necessarie vse thereof Again She hath abolished all choice of meates I pray you where did God euer commaunde the choice of meates Paule saieth Lette no man condemne you in meate and drinke and to the Corinth Meat maketh vs not acceptable to God And Christ saith That which goeth into the mouth defileth not a man What if some eate flesh whose weake stomackes can not be nourished wyth fishe Doe they not kill and eate fleshe in the Citie of Rome Doth not Pope Pius for mony sell licence to eate what a man listeth The thing is not made holy because hée selleth it nor vnholy bicause it commeth fréely This might be sufficient for aunswere But yet because he maketh him selfe so priuie to our doings and doeth so precisely charge vs with his vayne accusations lette him consider that we to whome he maketh this reporte and sendeth ouer this tale are Englishemen acquainted better than he séemeth to be with the lawes of our countrey What one fishe daye is chaunged thorough the whole yeare What Lenten Ember Saturday Friday or other vsuall Fasting day Our Law sayth It shall not be lawful to any person or persons within this Realme to eate any fleshe vpon any dayes nowe vsually obserued as Fish dayes Nay besides those dayes whiche our forefathers kept we haue appointed that Wednesday in euery wéek through out the yeare be kept fishe daye and that no maner of person shall eate anye fleshe on the same day Wherby we haue made nigh fiftie fish dayes more than haue bin obserued heretofore by the lawes and customes of this realme We cannot heare of the like encrease of fasting dayes procured by the Pope and kept in the Coūtreys of Spaine Fraunce Italy or in hys owne Citie at Rome It maye bée hée is angrye wyth the Prouisoe in the sayde Statute Because no manner of person shall misse-iudge of the intente of thys Statute limiting orders to eate fish and forbeare the eating of fleshe but that the same is purposely intended and meant politiquely and not for any superstition to be maintained in the choice of meates bee it enacted that whosoeuer shall by preaching teaching writing or open speache notifie that any eating of Fishe or forbearing of fleshe mentioned in this statute is of any necessitie for the sauing of the soule of man or that it is the seruice of Cod otherwise than as other politique laws are and be that then such person shall be punished as Spreaders of false news are or ought to be Why doth he laye it againste hir Maiestie that she hath abolished al difference of meates we professe as doth S. Augustine In nostro i●●unio nihil melius est quam vt non manducans manducantem ne iudicet In our Fasting there is nothing worthy better accompt than this that hee whiche eateth not doth not condemne another whiche eateth We warne the people in times of abstinence to liue in the obedience of such order as the Lawe and Magistrates haue appointed and that whiles they forsake a common and necessarie diet of flesh they féede not their fantasie wyth such costly sortes of fish or suche daintie banqueting and iunquets whereby they should giue force to the lustes of the flesh in the day of their Fasting It followeth Shee hath abolished single life in Priests and Ministers Is it not lawfull for a Minister to be single you are witnesses to the contrarie you know some vnmarried and againe you knowe some that haue wiues and are married They which marry do wel God grant they do no worsse which doe not marry The Apostle saith Marriage is honourable among all and the bed vndefiled but Whoremōgers and Adulterers God wil iudge All haue not the gift of Chastitie saue they to whom it is giuen for euerie man hath his proper gifte one after this manner and an other after that The holie Patriarks the Prophets and the Apostles of Christe Peter Paule Iames Philip and others had Wines they liued in Marriage Eusebius reporteth out of Clemens Alexandrinus that Peter when he sawe his wife lead away to execution called hir by hir proper name and sayde O wife remember the Lord. Hierome saith if he shoulde name seuerally all the married Bishops they woulde be more in number than all the multitude of the Councell of Ariminum And in another place quasinon hodie quoque plurimi Sacerdotes habeant Matrimonia As though at this day many Priests hadde not their wiues We heare of the Bishoppes in Aethiopia that they are at this day married It is not long sithence Priests were marryed here in Englande and in Fraunce