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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
doctrine_n	apostle_n	church_n	primitive_a	4,139	5	9.1134	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18639	A Christian and wholesom admonition directed to the Frenchmen, which are reuolted from true religion, and haue polluted themselues with the superstition and idolatrie of poperie.; Remonstrance chrestienne et salutaire. English	Constant, Léonard, d. 1610.; Fetherston, Christopher.	1587 (1587)	STC 5154; ESTC S120782	56,315	146

cal al these filthy and stinking dregs which haue infected the Church traditions obseruations and ordinances of the Apostles But you know full wel that they agrÃ©e aswell with the doctrine of Christ his Apostles as darknes with light and falshood with truth For where can they finde that Iesus Christ or his Apostles did ordain the masse together with the furniture trappings thereof which are full of foolishe toies Wher can they finde that filth wherewith they haue corrupted holie baptism as creame salt spittle coniured water lights and such like thinges Where caÌ„ they finde the baptizing of Belles holie water Processions Praier for the dead and a thousand such bables toies trifles as were too long to rehearse But chieflie an infinite number of errors contained in the masse and in al the rest of their booke of ceremonies Of which sort is that execrable idolatrie which they coÌ„mit in worshipping a morsell of Bread the inuocation and intercession of saints the adoring and worshipping of the images and reliques of dead Saints the fire of Purgatorie the Popes pardons indulgences and such like impieties condemned by the worde of God And yet for al this like sÃ©elie soules you haue miserablie bound your selues to receiue and approue al these thinges O eternal God is it possible that you should haue bin so vndiscrete Is it possible that you should continue so blockish as to haue no remorse of conscience in you But let vs procÃ©ede you haue bÃ©ene taught out of the word of God that Iesus Christ hath for the continuall vse of his Church instituted onelie two Sacraments to wit Baptisme and the holie Supper to represent vnto vs the holie mysteries of our saluatioÌ„ that is to saie our regeneration and the spirituall life which we drawe from Iesus Christ our head in as much as wÃ©e are most strictly vnited and coupled together with him and to seale vp in our heartes the promises of saluation and eternal life which are there made vnto vs by the Lorde You know moreouer that the Church of God must content it self with these two not onelie because they are sufficient to represent vnto vs all the benefites of Iesus Christ and to assure vs of his grace fauour but also because it is not lawful for mortal maÌ„ no not for the verie Angels to ordaine any sacrameÌ„ts or to establish any thing in the seruice of God forasmuch as this right beloÌ„geth to god alone Notwtstanding mark what you confesse by the fourth article of this tyraÌ„nous abiuration you ackowledge that there bee 7. sacrameÌ„ts in the law of grace instituted by Iesus Christ which is most false We confesse indÃ©ed that that which they cal CoÌ„firmation which is nothing els but a receuing of such as are instructed catechised in the church catechisms into the church that is to say of those which hauing bin catechised and instructed in the doctrine of Christ were receiued into the felowship of the faithful with praier to recoÌ„mend theÌ„ to God is an holy thing which hath bin practised in the Primitiue Church euen in the Apostles time also we do not deny but that repentaÌ„ce which is nothing else but the acknowledging of our faults the misliking of the same the ameÌ„dment of our life is a good wholsome thing ordained coÌ„manded of God we confesse also that that which they cal the order of Priesthoode that is to say the laying on of hands which was vsed in the Church in old time which is vsed at this daye in many reformed Churches when Pastors Elders Deacons other ecclesiastical persons are to be admitted vnto the publike charges of the church we confesse I say that this is a laudable holy ceremonie ordained practised by the Apostles As for marriage we know also that it is an holie institution of the Lord that the custome of blessing the same in the Church is Christian We graunt I say that al these things are good and holy are grounded vppon the worde of God but we deny them to be Sacramentes First of al because Iesus Christ hath not instituted them to be suche and secondlie because they haue not those thinges that are required necessarily in true Sacraments for then they must haue been ordayned by Iesus Christ to continue in the Church vntill the consummation of the worlde and for the vse of the whole Churche in generall and of euerie member thereof in particular Furthermore there shoulde haue beene visible signes to represent the inuisible graces of God and the promises of saluation and eternal life which things we sÃ©e to be in baptisme and in the holie supper onelie As for extreame vnction as they cal it we doe not denie but that the oile wherewith the Apostles did annoint the sicke was an outward signe which did represent the grace of God euen in that time of the said Apostles who had the gift of healing but this Sacrament lasted but for a time and had an ende together with the gift of healing working miracles We conclude then that there be but two Sacraments in the Church of Christ and that the other fiue were inuented by men And yet you confesse that al that was instituted by Christ Iesus that which is worse you auouch an horrible blasphemie wheÌ„ you graunt that the Sacraments conferre grace for by this you attribute not onelie to the true Sacramentes but also to mens inuentions that which belongeth to the holie Ghost who alone conferreth the grace signified by them and that to the true faithfull alone And the SacrameÌ„ts as also the word are onelie instrumeÌ„ts which he vseth to this end so that we receiue by them nothing appertaining to our saluation vnlesse the spirite of God worke inwardly in vs and vnlesse wÃ©e haue a true and liuely faith You haue also learned by the same word of God that the said Sacramentes must be ministred with the same puritie simplicity wherwith they were instituted by our soueraigne Doctor maister Iesus Christ Deut 4. 12. Pro. 30. Apo. 22. and that it is an intollerable boldnes to adde any thing therto and detestable sacrilege to take any thing therfroÌ„ how litle soeuer it be forasmuch as this were to sÃ©ek to be more wise than he who is the eternal wisedome of the father And yet neuerthelesse you approue by the first article all those ceremonies which these men haue annexed to the administration of the Sacraments which they haue wickedly and vngodlily profaned and polluted Also you allow al those things which they vse in the administration thereof which they themselues haue inuented and ordained how foolishe superstitious and wicked soeuer they be as you know that the more part of theÌ„ do rather reseÌ„ble iuglers trickes and toies or the superstitious prophane fashioÌ„s of the heathen then the simplicity grauity of ChristiaÌ„s Moreouer you approue by the same article two horrible sacrileges which amongest others they coÌ„mit

he doth plainlie amplie depaint point out all the abuses impieties superstitioÌ„s idolatries of poperie which are gathered into their formes of abiuration so that they are made knowne to al euen to litle childreÌ„ vnlesse they be such as be blinded by the prince of darkenes Furthermore I haue not interprised here to dispute against those which admit no reasoÌ„ nor no word of God but only custome the traditions of the fathers their opinioÌ„s their dreams toyes the lawes ordinances statutes and tyraÌ„nous decrÃ©es of their Antichrist for this were but lost labour And surely I do not write properly to those men but vnto you my brethren do I speak to you I say which know these abuses by the word of God which haue condemned and detested theÌ„ which are conuict in your own conscience that al the pointes of doctrine contained in this abiuration are as manye horrible blasphemies against Iesus Christ and the doctrine of his Gospell except the Nicene crÃ©ed the which these coseners haue set in the very beginning of this goodlye confession which they haue made to bleare the eies of the simple fooles as if their doctrine were conformable to this creede and as if we did reiect and reproue the same whereas contrariwise it is we that receiue it confesse and approue it in all points and throughout as being grounded vpon the word of God and on the other side they so pronounce it with their mouth in their execrable masse that they reiect the most part of those pointes that are contained in it and in the Apostles crÃ©ede as wee coulde depaint out before their eies and make them touch with their finger if they had eies to see eares to heare and an heart to vnderstand that which shoulde bee set before them out of the word of God Forasmuch then as you are not ignoraunt of these thinges which you haue learned out of the word of God it shall bee inough for mee to touch them superficially to put you in minde thereof and by this meanes to represent vnto you in some sort the filthines fowlenes and deformitie of your fal to the end you may be ashamed therof and confounded in your selues yea so grieued that God maye bee glorified in your conuersion Firste of all consider I praye you howe manye impyeties and horrible blasphemies are comprised in the second article which foloweth immediatly after the recitall of the Nicene CrÃ©ed You haue thereby protested to receiue and allow al the abuses errours superstitions idolatries and abhominations of the Church of Rome and to renounce the truth of God which hath beene taught you out of his word for you receiue the holie Scripture vpon such condition that it shall not be interpreted according to the Analogie of faith as S. Paule coÌ„mandeth that is that it shal not be interpreted according to the Scripture it self Rom. 12. conferring one place with an other that there maie such sense be gathered thence as shal be agrÃ©eable to the groundes and articles of the christian faith but according to the sense interpretation which it shal please them to giue it which falsely taking to themselues the right and authoritie to interprete do ordinarilie and most manifestlie corrupt and peruerte the same for maintenance of their dreames inuentions So that by this one onlie article you haue promised to condemne as being false al the true and pure doctrine of your saluatioÌ„ which you haue learned out of the word of God interpreted by the word of God himselfe on the other side to approue all the corruptions lies and falshoode of the leauen of the Pharisies which is in the doctrine of Antichrist And what shal we call this but to turne light to darknesse to reiect Iesus Christ as a lier and to embrace Antichrist as being true Surely by agrÃ©eing to this one onelie article you haue so much as in you laie giuen as great aduantage to the enimies of the Gospell as if a man should deliuer vp into the handes of his aduersarie all his papers rightes and instrumentes giuing him leaue to turne them all to his most aduantage yea to interprete the lawes as he list and to pronounce such sentence as he shal think good as if he were both iudge plaintiffe And surely there is no errour so absurd no abuse so grosse no impietie so abhominable which Antichrist and his ministers doe not maintaine by this meanes against the trueth of God for when a man shall alleadge plaine places of scripture in defence of the trueth and to refute falshood and that the matter shall be made so plain and so euident of it self that they cannot tell what to answeare on the contrarie this shal be their last refuge to wit that our holie mother the church vnderstandeth these places otherwise and that the Scripture admitteth none other sense and interpretation no yet any other authority saue that which it pleaseth our holie father the Pope to bestow vpon it Thus wil they argue so that by making you allow and approue this article there resteth no more now but that they may frÃ©ely triuÌ„ph ouer Iesus Christ and his doctrine in so much that it was not nÃ©edful to specifie the rest which follow the proofe whereof dependeth vpon the graunting of this alone Notwithstanding sÃ©eing that to the ende they might more strictly binde you vnto them they make a recital of the principal heads of their false doctrine examine theÌ„ al one after another and you shal ful wel know what reprehension your back sliding deserueth The third is no lesse pernicious thaÌ„ the second For it foloweth vpoÌ„ it as a general consequence drawing after it al the special consequences coÌ„clusions which they make touching their inuentions humane traditioÌ„s wherby they haue corrupted peruerted the pure seruice of God aswel in regard of the doctrine as of the ceremonies which they coulde neuer maintain defend were it not that their false gloses interpretations which they giue vpon the scriptures did help them Wherefore seing you haue graunted theÌ„ this that it belongeth to them to giue the Scripture such sense and interpretation as shal sÃ©eme best to them it followeth therevpon that you do likewise graunt to them that al the abuses al the dreames and toies al the ceremonies obseruations which SataÌ„ hath brought in into the church wherof some are altogether foolish friuolous ridiculous and other superstitious coupled together with impiety idolatry without hauing any ground in the scripture yea being directly contrary to the same for the most part and by the which also the puritie and simplicity of ChristiaÌ„ religion hath bin turned into a kind of Iudaism Paganism you graunt to them I say that al these bables al this filth abhominations are good and holie as being parcels of the seruice of God being established in the church by our Lord Iesus Christ his Apostles as also these lyers haue bin so shamelesse as to

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