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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	life_n	live_v	word_n	8,182	5	4.3547	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16975	To the most high and mightie prince Elizabet, by the grace of God Queene of Englande, Fraunce, and Irelande, defender of the fayth. &c.	Broughton, Hugh, 1549-1612.	1594 (1594)	STC 3861; ESTC S105851	14,036	26

TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTIE PRINCE ELIZABET by the grace of God Queene of Englande Fraunce and Irelande defender of the fayth c. I Presented vnto your Highnes most gracious Soueraine the Concent of the holy Storie endeuoryng there to shewe that all the Booke of trueth breathed from one spirite That coulde not be declared vnles the times had a most exact playnnes which I recorded to be certaynly chayned euen from the fall to the Redemption For that I layde downe the pure wordes of the text whereof an angel tolde That from the ende of Iudahs captiuitie 490. yeeres are pared out vnto our Lordes death Against this last part a Learned man of Oxford long disputed not denying the wordes to haue Gods authoritie in them nor yet differing from mee for their beginning and ende but affirming That the Angell meant no certaine tyme. And setting aside the Angels wordes he affirmeth That from Olympiades 560. yeeres precisely may be gathered by the Greeke affayres And going on by the Iewes common weale maketh a partitiō He maketh the Temple a marke most famous the limit of both partes as I had done but not in lyke tyme. From Zorobabel and Iosuahs returne from Babel he maketh yeeres an hundreth and seauen vnto the buylding of the Temple There I say that ancient Ebrewes vniuersally ancient Greekes vniuersally and Latines most generally olde and late keepe them within 32. yeres and that Scripture and lyues of all famous men agree with that After the buylding of the Temple are by him to our Lordes death 453. yeres which I wyll grant him and fiue more In this laboure of his I blame his endeuour of two generall errours That he disanulleth the propriety of the Angels wordes and affirmeth that the returned from Babel lyued 107. yeeres to buylde the Temple He read twelue monethes as his hearers triumphed Some of his Lectures he sent me by which I might iudge what matter could be in the rest I could haue wished that he woulde eyther haue spoken where I myght reply or haue printed his opinions that rumors myght not preuayle aboue iudgement I haue printed many seuerall workes against him The summe of them is this That all his gaynsaying is extreamely erroneous and that he hath not blamed with any colour of sounde learning one worde of my Booke Those small workes of my Defences for our Religion and common trueth oppugned by one pretending peculiar differing from me who for these two poyntes haue all Nations Religions and Studies on my side Them I humbly commende to your Highnes that they may be censured by some Learned countenanced as trueth requireth and considered according to the honour of your gracious gouernement A priuate censure hath passed betwixt vs all ready For my Lord Archbyshop of Canterburies grace was chosen vmpier and examined both sides argumentes I hope I may with modesty pleade his testimony though for my selfe yet in a publique cause where it is good for all to knowe the full strength of the trueth His Grace did wholly approue the Concent for euery whit where his wisedome saw Heathen that deceaued Diuines confuted most plentifully by most ancient Heathen of their owne kinde and vniuersally by all Iewes And touching former Christians folowyng Gentiles on Daniel folowing Iewes in Ezra his Grace saw them holpen from errours by their owne graunt that when the D. and I ioyne issue for the space betwixt the Alter and Temple Prophane heathē haue there no worke but olde Diuines Ebrew Greeke Latine tell him that he went very farr further then they woulde wish him And touching crossing the Angels propriety I can not thinke that Europe beareth one learned Christian or that Iury which trembleth at Gabriels oration hath now one man that holdeth the number vncertaine I thinke his Grace will tell your Highnes so much And your Maiesties signification of your Princely determination woulde more breake young brauing Studentes whom reason in such vnexpected soyles can not bende I greatly reuerence my learned aduersarie and commende him that he woulde not haue all libraries set on flame by fire of iudgement in few wordes without tryall in one twelue monethes fight But I shoulde more commende him now if at the last he woulde tell how playne the Scripture lay alwayes though no heathen before setled Iubilees aright with the Chronicle His fame of Learning and my more confident resistance maketh many thinke that the Scripture is hard where our long labours differ The fault is vntolerable in the one of vs two eyther in him or in mee and the faulty shoulde be forced to yeelde that none thinke amisse of Gods worde I refuse not to abyde all disgrace yf my trauels be not founde true for the story profitable for the quietnes of the state and fit for a Prince reigning in these west endes of the earth the possession of Christ Our Marchantes that passe ouer all Nations can not carry into the East more noble marchandise from the West then skil of teaching Greekes vpon what occasion euer hitherto they missed 1500. yeeres in 4000. and marred all the holy story and lost religion and caused the Christian Arabians to follow and fayle alike And that poynt hath been hence first opened in that lytle worke to your Maiestie and in a further explication of it Likewyse where by the tyme and kinred of Christ they may moue any Iewes there I trust that I may affirme without chalenging more then due that to your Highnes first both poyntes were declared in full and constant Concent What the paynes hath been to contriue vnto agreement so many most intricate pointes as for this harmony of Scripture haue been ioyned from east writers of hard and diuers tongues and subtilties not Ebrew onely but Syriaque and Chaldean in sundry Dialectes from Greekes and Latines of all sortes auoyding the errours of all bringing nothing but matters of difficultie and all iudged faultlesse any may iudge that considereth but the hardnes of the least of these studies seuerally The payne is augmented by the greatnes of the charges not mainteined by great allowance of Diuinity but gotten through Ebrew skill and spent on Diuinity though it be a rule of God and man that none warre on their owne charges Yet duetie bindeth all men to further as they can celestiall knowledge But paynes in this sort loseth much of the due encoragement And some encrease of griese I felt that when I had a meaning to looke to my selfe by other meanes then Diuinity I was requested by one of your Maiesties honorable Counsellers a Diuine to take rather your Highnes preferment the delay whereof hath hindred myne owne course But all this may soone be cured when it is knowen to your gracious care ouer Learning Your Maiesties most humble Subiect Hugh Broughton An Epistle sent vnto the Archb. of C. and D. Elmer then B. of London chosen vmpires touching the D. that read against the Concent of Scripture and the Author of that Concent