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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	word_n	worthy_a	wrought_v	20	3	7.0202	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03769	Of the expresse vvorde of God A shorte, but a most excellent treatyse and very necessary for this tyme. Written in Latin, by the right reuerend, lerned, and vertuous father Stanislaus Hosius, Bishop of VVarmia, Cardinal of the Holy Apostolyke See of Rome, and of the presidents in the late general councel holden at Trent. Newly translated in to English.	Hozjusz, Stanisław, 1504-1579.; Stapleton, Thomas, 1535-1598, attributed name.	1567 (1567)	STC 13889; ESTC S116558	106,428	242

aungells of heauen wil vouchfafe to help them vp to heauen VVho when they haue all a leeke cutt them selues of voluntarely from the body of Christ that the heauenly Aungells haue then nothing to doo with them it is more certayn then that it may be doubted of Now therfore haue wee seen how Sathan assaulted Christ with the expresse word of God And hath he not doon the same also by his lymmes mēbers agaīst the same Christ the sonne of God Did he not labour by the expresse word of God to shew that Christ was not only no prophett but allso worthy to dye wee reade in the Gospell that when the Iewes heard the word of Christ some sayd this is a ꝓphet some others this is Christ yett were there not some emong them that sayd What Shall Christ come owt of Galilee Doth not the scripture saye Christ cometh of the seed of Dauid and foorth of the Castle of Bethleem where Dauid was The Phariseys allso said to Nicodemus Searche the scriptures and see that owt of Galilee shall aryse no prophette Yett not content therwith by the scriptures which they browght foorth to denye him to be a prophett they cryed out farther saying VVe haue a lawe and by that lawe he owght to dye because he hath made himself the sonne of God VVho will not be astonyed when he readeth these thinges The membres of the diuell browght foorth the lawe and the prophetts against the very auctor and lord of the lawe and the prophetts And as to them it seemed proued by the expresse word of God he was not only not a prophett but one worthy of death as a wicked transgressor of the lawe So that if against Christ him self when he yett walked emong men ther was so earnest fyghting not only by the diuel him self but by his members allso and that with the very sworde of the scriptures what shall wee thinke may not be doon against vs selly men Or what will not Sathan presume and not hope to cōpasse which thought assuredly he could euen by the very scriptures teache that Christ not only was no prophett but also worthy of death Nowe therfor is this made playne that the diuell feared not euen with the weapons of scripture to assault Christ the sonne of God lyuing here on earth and looke what sence he drewe foorth therof that would he haue to be takē for the expresse word of God But what did he not euen with the same tooles sett on the Apostles yes ▪ and that very sore For what ells shewe these wordes of of S. Pawll Suche fauls Apostles are subtyll workmen trāsfiguring themselues into the Apostles of Christ And no marueill For euen Sathan transfigurith him self in to an aungell of light It is not myche therfore if his ministers transforme them selues in to the leeknes of the ministers of Iustice How properly S. Pawll heer paynteth owt the fauls Apostles of his tyme They woldyn no wyse seeme to preache ay other thing then Christ and the Gospell But as the heretikes of our age woold pull from the Churche the Catholike doctryn so woold they haue doon the name of the Gospell from Pawlls preaching and woold seeme to arrogat the same vnto them selues Dooth not S. Pawll openly signifie this whē he thus wryteth vnto the Galathians I marueyll you are so sone caryed away from him which caullyd you vnto the grace of Christ yn to an other Gospell which is but one not diuers Only some there be which trooble you and woold turne the Gospell of Christ VVhich place Iohn Chrisostom the true and faythfull Interpreter of S. Pawll expownding saieth Suche is the slaight of the diuell not to laye open the snares wherin hee seekyth to cache and intangle men For if they had sayd departe from Christ yee Galathians they wold haue auoyded thē as wicked and corrupt deceauers But now suffring them as it were to remayne in their faith and in the meane tyme couering their frawd with the name of the Gospell the vnderminers without any daunger with great bouldnes vndermined the house whil by the spreding of these veyls their right names wer couered Sins therfor they termyd their fraud the Gospel S. Pawl also striueth against the name etc. You see now howe euē at that tyme as in this our age some cloked their deceyt with the name of the Gospell and called their frawde the Gospel That which they taught and not which Pawll preached they would haue to seeme the Gospell and with this honest pretēce casting a colour before men they labored to crepe into their myndes So doth Sathan to snare mē alwayes vse some shrowd and doth not streight waye to vse the phrase of the cōmō people shewe his hornes but layeth the forthe name of holly scripture of the word of God of the Gospell that he may the more easely drawe men before they beware in to his nettes But it becomyth not faithful folcke by and by to be moued with suche masked Sprittes nor if a man call his owne trechery the Gospell straight way for suche to repute it The same Pawll allso remembryth writing vnto the Thessaloniās that there were some which feared men by an Epistle sent as it were from him as though the day of the lord were euē then at hād when yett by S. Pawll no such thing had bene writtē But where as he in his former epistle to thē had thus written VVe which lyue which remayne to the comyng of our lord shal not come befor them which haue slept to those his wordes they fastned that straunge sence which he neuer mēt So allso euē whyle Pawll yet lyued some were not affrayd to misconster his wordes For thus S. Peter the Apostle writeth of Pawlls Epistles That some things therin be hard to be vnderstanded which vnlernyd and wauering persons do depraue as they doo allso some other scriptures to their owne damnation If then whyle Pawll yet liued on the earth there were some found which turned and misconstrued his wordes what wonder is it if after so many ages past sins his death they haue been and yet be handled in lyke sorte But what that was which vnlernyd and wauering persons sowght in Pawlls epistles to peruert S. Augustin teachith in that his booke which he intituled of faith and workes For where Pawll had writtē wee thinke man to be iustified by fayth without the workes of the lawe some lewde and vnlernyd persons sayth he so tooke these wordes that with a certayn wicked securitee and carelesnes they cast awaye both them selues and others whyle they gathered heerby that to obteyn Saluatiō only faith suffised which thing he sayeth was the cause that the other Apostolicall Epistles of Peter Iohn Iames and Iuda are chieffly bent and directyd against that opiniō so as they very strongly buyld and mayntayn the cōtrary VVhich is that faith without workes

in the bright and shinyng light of the truth These are they forsothe which so religiously embrace the expresse word of God saying vnto vs honour thy father and thy mother But let vs waygh a litle what feare of God this is wherwith they saye they are so strykē that they may not forbeare the cuppe Sure this is syche an other feare as the Iues semed to be in when they doubted to enter into the place of iudgement lest they should be defyled They had a great conscience to enter into the place of iudgement thinking that by entring therinto they were greuously defyled but to deliuer vp Christ to the gentills to be scornyd whipped and crucified therin had they no religion or conscience at all but rather thought it an offence of conscience and religion to haue done otherwyse For they persuaded them selues that they fulfilled the commaundement of God in deliuering the sonne of God to the Gētills to be done to death VVe haue a lawe sayd they and by that lawe he owght to dye because he made him self the sonne of God They seemyd to them selues by the expresse word of God to shewe that they rightfully deliuered Christ to the Gentills to be put to death and theryn were so litle troubled with any scruple of consciēce that they thowght they should haue committed a wycked act yf they had done otherwyse But what should they not with myche lesse fault for any cause haue entred in to the iudgement place then haue crucified Christ the sonne of God But euen syche is their religion which saye they are forbidden by their conscience to content them selues with receiuing the sacramēt in one kynd Very rightly are they touched with the place of the Psalme They trembled for feare where was no cause of feare and that which Christ him self sayth in the Gospell They straine a gnat and swallowe downe a camell They will seeme to feare God They knowe the churche by the expresse word and precept of God is to be heard and that the custome receyued and allowed by the same is to be receyued and kept yet when the holly catholike Church the mysticall body of Christ which he so loued that he gaue his true and liuing body to death for the same when that I saye is in daunger to be deuyded in to many partes and to be no lesse cruelly torne and rēt then the true and liuely body of Christ was of the Iues there shewe they no feare or scruple of conscience at all But euen as the Iues when they deliuered the true body of Christ to be rent of the tormentors affirmed they did it according to the expresse word of God saying VVe haue a lawe and by that lawe he owght to dye Euen so these men when they are entred into the leeke councell against the mysticall body of Christ when they seeke all the wayes and meanes they can to deuide and cut the same into many partes which their attemptes greate is the pittye haue had to speedy successe taking their entry with the matter of the cuppe will needes seemes to do it according to the expresse word of God still cryeng allso VVe haue a lawe drinke yee all of this and by this lawe the mysticall body of Christ the Churche must be deuyded and cut in soonder How wonderfull are these sleightes of Sathan How great is the subteltie of his crafty deuises Of that very thing which Christ would haue to be a sacrament of pietye a tokē of vnitee a bond of charite he seeketh to make a cause of dissencion a matter of deuisiō and a fyrestone of hatred For what ells is there done in this sacramēt but as S. Pawll sayeth the death of our lord is shewyd And for what cause dyed he Verely to gather in to one as s Iohn sayeth the children of Israell which were dispersid Christ therfore dyed that he might gather together vnite and make vs one body of which matter he allso would this sacrament to be a token For wee which be many be one bread and one body in that wee participate of one bread But here Sathā the true Antichrist not only in word but in deed the very enemye of Christ did therfore cast in this contention about the cuppe to separat deuyde disperse and cut in pieces the church which Christ by the sheading of his precious bloud hath gathered together so as therby he might make voyd the benefitt of the crosse and death of Christ to them that should followe this wicked and sacrilegious counsell of separation Our lord sayth S. Augustine did in this sacrament marke and seale vs by this he would vs to appertayne vnto him in this table did he consecrate the mystery of peace and vnitee he that receiueth this mystery of vnitee and howldeth not the bond of peace he taketh not a mystery for him self but a wittnesse against him self But will you knowe how great a wickednes he committeth then harken to S. Pawll who telleth the that he is giltye of the body and bloud of our lord that is to say he hath committed no lesse wickednes and shall be gilty of no lesse crime then euen they who with their owne hādes whipped Christ shed his bloud crucified his body and put him to greuous death And this is the thing which Sathan seeketh that diuisiō may be wrought in this sacrament of Vnitee so as therby Christ may be crucifyed agayne and as it were scornyd and mockyd at But shall it be thus euen with him which calleth it the sauing word Deserueth this to be called the sauing worde which cōdēneth to euer lasting death Verely this is no sauing word Drinke of the cuppe for Iudas dranke of the cuppe and was condemned many heretikes many false bretherne many confessing Christ and yet denying his power haue dronke of the cuppe But how To death and euerlasting damnatiō not to lyfe and eternall saluation But wilt thow knowe what is this sauing word It is a short worde and an easy Looue Charite is this sauing word which who so hath not lett him drynke of the cuppe so myche as he will yett shall he gayne euerlasting death eternall saluation he shall neuer atteyn therby For it is trewe that is writtē he that loueth not dwelleth in death but he that loueth his neighbour hath fulfilled the lawe And can he possibly seeme to loue his neighbour which doth so iudge of them that haue auctoritee ouer him and whom he is commaunded to obey that they neither haue nor euer had any feare of God or loue to his sauing word but allwayes endeuoured them selues to oppugne and withstand the same Surely these are not signes of loue but of hatred Seemeth he to loue his neighbour which doth not only separat him self from one person but from all which truly professe Christ and from the vniuersall catholyke churche condemning his fathers and