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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	life_n	sin_n	true_a	9,048	5	4.9749	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09094	A brief discours contayning certayne reasons why Catholiques refuse to goe to church. Written by a learned and vertuous man, to a friend of his in England. And dedicated by I.H. to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.	1580 (1580)	STC 19394; ESTC S102386	63,624	177

A BRIEF DISCOVRS contayning certayne REASONS WHY CAtholiques refuse to goe to Church WRITTEN BY A LEARNED AND vertuous man to a frend of his in England AND Dedicated by I. H. to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie IHS Imprinted at Doway by Iohn Lyon 1580. WITH PRIVELEGE TO THE MOST HIGHE Mightie Princesse ELIZABETH by the grace of God Quene of England France and Irland c. Iohn Howlet wisheth al aboundance of grace and spiritual giftes with true felicitye in Iesus Christ. MY MOST Excellent and soueraygne dread Ladye and Princesse two causes induced me to direct vnto your royal person and most gracious Maiestie this present Treatise after I had read and considered the same The one for that it séemed to me both conceued and penned with such modestie and humilitie of spirite together with al dutiful respect to your highnes to your honorable Lordes of the Counsaile and to the whole estate of your noble Realme contrarye to the spirite and procéedings of al 〈◊〉 as none might iustely be offended therewith but onely in respect of the wryters zeale and opinion in religion which notwithstanding hauinge bene from tyme to tyme the common receaued religion of vniuersal Christendome can not be soe soone abandoned by the disfauour of any one countrye nor lacke men to speake or wryte in defence of the same as longe as there is ether head or hand remaining loose in the world The other cause was for that it séemed to me to contayne matter of great and weightie consideration and much important not onelye to the cause of God but also to your Maiesties soule estate and Realme and vnto the state of many a thowsand of your graces most louing faithful and dutiful subiectes who being now afflicted for their consciences and brought to such extremitie as neuer was hard of in England before haue no other meanes to redresse and ease their miseries but onely as confident children to runne vnto the mercy and clemency of your Highnes their Mo ther and borne soueraigne Princesse before whom as before the substitute and Angel of God they laye downe their gréefes disclose their miseries and vnfould their pitiful afflicted case brought into suche distresse at this time as ether they must renounce God by doinge that which in iudgemente and conscience they doe condemne or els sustayne such intollerable molestations as they can not beare Which your Maiestie by that which followeth more at large may please to vnderstand There are at this day in this your Maiesties Realme fower knowen religions and the professors thereof distinct both in name spirite and doctrine that is to say the Catholickes the Protestants the Puritanes and the howsholders of Loue. Besids al other petye sects newly borne and yet grouelinge on the ground Of these fower sorts of men as the Catholiks are the first the auncientest the more 〈◊〉 number and the most beneficial to al the rest hauing begotten and bred vp the other and deliuered to them this Realme conserued by Catholicke religion these thowsand yeares and more soe did they alwayes hope to receaue more fauour then the rest or at leaste wyse equall tolleration with other religions disalowed by the state But God knoweth it hath fallen out quite contrarye For other religions haue bene permitted to put out their heades to growe to aduaunce them selues in cōmon speach to mount to pulpites with litle or noe controlement But the Catholique religion hath bene soe beaten in with the terror of lawes and the rigorous execution of the same as the verye suspition thereof hath not escaped vnpunished The Lawe made by Protestants prohibitinge the practize of other religions besides there owne allotteth out the same punishment to all them that doe any waye varye from the publique communion booke or otherwise say seruice then is appointed there as it doth to the Catholiques for hearinge or sayinge of a Masse And althoughe the worlde knoweth that the order set doune in that booke be commonlye broken by euerye minister at his pleasure and obserued almost noe where yet smal punishment hath euer ensewed therof But for hearinge of a Masse were it neuer soe secret or vttered by neuer so weake meanes what imprisoninge what arrayninge what condemning hath there bene The examples are lamentable and many freshe in memorye and in dyuers families will be to all posteritye miserable To this now if we adde the extreme penalties laied vpon the practize of certayne particulers in the Catholicke religion as imprisonmēt perpetual losse of goodes and lands and lyfe also for refusal of an othe against my religiō death for recōciling my selfe to God by my ghostly father death for geuing the supreme Pasfor supreme authoritie in causes of the Church death for bringing in a crucifix in remembrance of the crucified death for bringing in a séely payre of beades a medal or an agnus dei in deuotion of the Lambe that tooke away my sinns which penalties haue not bene layed vpon the practise of other religions your Maiestie shal easelye finde to be trew soe much as I haue sayd which is that the Catholike religion wherin we were borne baptized and brede vp and our forefathers lyued and dyed most holyly in the same hath found lesse fauour and tolleration then anye other newer sect or religion what so euer And albeit the world doth know how that the great mercye and clemencie of your Maiestie hath stayed often times and restrayned these penalties from their execution and from the ouerthrowinge of 〈◊〉 men whome otherwise they myght and would haue oppressed yet notwithstanding as I haue sayd there wante not verye pitiful examples abrode which would moue greately and make to bléed that Princely and compassionable harte of your Highnes if their miseries in particuler were knowen to the same especially it beinge in such subiectes as loued and doe loue most tenderly your Maiestie and for such a cause as lyethe not in them to remoue that is for their conscience and iudgement in religion But now these afflictions how gréeuous and heauye soe euer they were yet were they hythertoe more tollerable because they were not common nor fell not out vppon euerye man and if there were anye common crosse layed vppon them as there wanted not they bare it out with patience as their discredit in their countryes whoe were borne to credyte and countenance in the same distrustefull dealinge with all of that relygion notwithstandinge their resolute redines to spend their lyues in your Maiesties seruice and other the lyke afflictions which they shifted out with as they might But at this time present and for certaine monethes past the tempeste hath bene so terrible vppon these kinde of men and their persecutions so vniuersal as the lyke was neuer felte nor feared before For besides the general molestation and castinge into geales both of men women and children of that religion throughe out all partes of your Maiestyes Realmes there are certayne particulers reported here