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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	deliver_v	law_n	sin_n	8,493	5	5.3568	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02548	The honor of the married clergie, maintayned against the malicious challenges of C.E. Masse-priest: or. The apologie written some yeeres since for the marriage of persons ecclesiasticall made good against the cauils of C.E. pseudo-Catholik priest. In three books. By Ios. Hall, D. of Diuin. Deane of Worcest.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.; Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. An liceat sacerdotibus inire matrimonia.	1620 (1620)	STC 12674; ESTC S119011	135,526	384

belong to Man either to saue or destroy any man for his merits but it is proper only vnto GOD. That GOD hath ordayned this it is neither found written in the Old Testament nor in the Gospell nor in the Epistles of the Apostles in all which is set downe whatsoeuer GOD hath inioyned vnto men It is therefore a Tradition of Man and not an institution of GOD nor of his Apostles As the Apostle instituted rather that a Bishop should bee the Husband of one Wife which he would neuer haue appointed if it had beene adulterie for a bishop to haue at once a Wife and a Church as it were two Wiues like as some affirme Now that which hath not authoritie from the holy Scriptures is with the same facilitie contemned that it is spoken For the holy Church is not the Wife not the Spouse of the Priest but of Christ as Saint Iohn saith Hee that hath the Bride hee is the Bridegroome Of this Bridegroome I say is the Church the Spouse and yet it is lawfull euen for this Spouse in part to marry by Apostolique Tradition For the Apostle speaks thus to the Corinthians Because of fornications let euery man haue his owne wife And I would that all men were as I am but euery man hath his proper gift of GOD one thus another otherwise For all men haue not one gift namely of Virginitie and Continency But some are Virgins and contayne others contayne not to whom he granteth marriage lest Satan tempt them through their incontinency and they should miscarry in the ruine of their vncleannesse So also of Priests some are continent others are incontinent and those which are continent haue receiued the gift of their continence from GOD without whose Gift and Grace they cannot be continent But those which are incontinent haue not receiued this gift of grace but whether by the intemperance of their humour or the weaknesse of their mind run out into fleshly desires which they would in no wise doe if they had receiued from GOD the Grace and Vertue of Continence For they also which are deliuered by the grace of GOD from the body of this death feele another Law in their members rebelling against the Law of their minde and captiuating them to the Law of sinne and compelling them to doe that which they would not This Law therefore holding them captiue and this Concupiscence of the flesh prouoking them they are com●lled either to fornicate or marry whereof whether is the better wee are taught by the authoritie of the Apostle who tels vs it is better to marry then to burne Surely that which is the better is to be chosen and held now it is better to marry because it is worse to burne and because it is better to marry then to burne it is conuenient for those which contayne not to marry not to burne For marriage is good as Augustine speaks in his Booke super Genesin ad Literam in it is commended the good of nature whereby the prauitie of incontinence is ruled and the fruitfulnes of Nature graced For the weaknesse of either Sexe declining towards the ruine of filthinesse is well relieued by the honesty of marriage so as the same thing which may bee the office of the sound is also the remedie vnto the sick Neither yet because Incontinence is euill is therefore Marriage euen that wherewith the Incontinent are ioyned to be reputed not good yea rather not for that euill is the good faultie but for this good is that euill pardonable since that good which marriage hath yea which marriage is can neuer bee sinne Now this good is three-fold the Fidelitie th●●ruit the Sacrament of that estate I● the Fidelitie is regarded That besides this bond of Marriage there bee not carnall societie with any other In the Fruit of it That it be louingly raysed and religiously bred In the Sacrament of it That the marriage be not separated and that the dismissed partie of either Sexe bee not ioyned to any other no not for issues sake This is as it were the Rule of Marriage whereby the fruitfulnesse of Nature is graced or the prauitie of Incontinence ruled And this Rule of Marriage and this three-fold good the eternal Truth hath appointed in the order of his Decree and that eternall Law of his against which whatsoeuer is done spoken or willed is sinne which Augustine in his Booke against Faustus the Manichee witnesseth saying Sinne is either Deed Word or Desire against the Law Eternal This Eternall Law is the diuine Will or Decree forbidding the disturbance and commanding the preseruation of due naturall order whatsoeuer therefore commands naturall Order to be disturbed forbids it to be conserued prohibits men to vse Marriage and to attaine to the threefold good thereof Fidelitie Issue Sacrament and commands them to breake that Rule of Eternall Truth whereby the fruitfulnesse of Nature is graced or the prauitie of Incontinency ruled commands men to abhorre those things whereby naturall Order is held and maintayned This Commandement I say forbids naturall Order to be obserued commands it to be disturbed and therefore is against the Law of GOD and by consequence is sinne For they sinne that ordayne such a command by which naturall Order is destroyed These men doe not it seemes beleeue that of the children of Priests GOD takes for the building of his Citie aboue and for the restoring of the number of Angels For if they did beleeue it they would neuer ordayne such a Mandate because they should wittingly and ouer-rashly goe about to effect that the supernall City should neuer be perfited and the number of Angels neuer repayred For if the supernall City be to be perfited euen of the sons of Priests and if the number of Angels be of them to be repayred those that indeuour to procure that they should not be doe what in them lyes destroy the supernall City and labour that the number of Angels may not be perfited Then which what can be more peruersely done For this is done against the wil and predestination of him which hath done those things which shall be for hee hath done in his predestination those things which shall bee in effect whosoeuer therefore goes about to procure that GOD may not in effect doe those things which he hath done in his predestination goes about to make void the very predestination of GOD. If then GOD haue already in his Predestination decreed that the sons of Priests shall once bee in effect hee that goes about to procure that they may not bee in effect indeuours to destroy the worke of GOD because he hath already done it in predestination and so striues to ouerthrow GODS predestination and to gainstand that Wil of GOD which is Eternall For GOD would from Eternitie and before all Worlds create all men in the World in that certayne Order wherein he pre-conceiued and predestinated to create them Hee doth nothing disorderly Hee createth nothing in the World which Hee hath