Selected quad for the lemma: doctrine_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
doctrine_n	false_a	teach_v	teacher_n	2,399	5	9.2607	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06520	A ryght notable sermon, made by Doctor Martyn Luther, vppon the twenteth chapter of Iohan, of absolution and the true vse of the keyes full of great co[m]forte. In the which also it is intreated of the mynysters of the Church, and of scolemaisters, what is dewe vnto them. Ande of the hardnes and softenes of the harte of manne.; Predigt am Sonntage nach Ostern. English	Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.; Argentine, Richard, d. 1568.	1548 (1548)	STC 16992; ESTC S108931	20,840	50

that wayes they maie wyth better expedition do theyr office The which thinge if it were not done / they shulde be compelled to renounce their office / and so shulde we be spoiled of the doctrine of the Gospell These thinges are moost true / and in dede of necessyté must be so done Further more if the doctryne of the GOSPELL ought to be Preached purely ande to be sect ouer or left vnto the posterytyté pure / We must prouyde not onely for the ministers of the worde a cōmodious lyuyng / but we must beware ād watche with all care ande study also / that the places appointed to teache in / or scooles of learning / maye haue apte Parsons / and that wi●h oute difficulte the rulers of the scooles / Stipendes must be geuen vnto Scoolemasters and the teachers of childeren may haue also meate and drincke and stipendes wherby they maye commodiously susteine them selues / wherby those maye be brought vp / which in time to come maye be not onely comune preachers or onely apte for that purpose that they maye instructe with the word some one churche / but soch also / that maye gett vnto thē that doctryne and faculté that they maye be able not onely to teache in a pulpit / but also to contynue and resiste these that make secres and madde raging spirites / ande soch as are foolishsly insensed with false opiniōs For this vse not onely the Princes and magistrates / but also the Cytezēs and all the people of the countrey ought comunely to giue some parte of their faculties / that scoles might be preserued / and that the church maye alwaies haue such men / the which trulie she can not lacke / if the purité of the doctrine and the health of the cōgregation or churche ought to be maynteyned For of chese thinges that you haue hearde / you maye easely gather / howe great and howe incomparable a treasure ande not able to be estemed / is the puryté ande absolu●…ō of the Gospell / if it be hearde ād receaued in a true sence of a right and laufull minister / when he commeth vnto the being sicke / and dothe comforte the / thou oughtest assuredly to persuade thy selfe / and to beleue / that Christ the lord him felfe doth comme vnto the and comforte the. For no man wold euer so presume to come so vnto the / without the commaundement of God / neyther coulde any mā helpe the with comforte or counsell / or gyue the any ayde Nowe trvly / seing thou hearest that God hym selfe doth commaunde it / thou maist without doubte / ād with a glad mynde saye here christe him self cōmeth vnto me / in my confessour or curate For he doth not speake his owne but the worde of god / for the whych he is sent and the which is geuen in commaundemēt vnto hym of God This / whan a mā hath persuaded with him selfe / that God hath sent him / and hath cōmaunded those thinges to be declared / than doth the feare and the carefulnesse of the cōscience decrease and is quenched / than is the minde erected and pacefyed wich comforte / and beginneth to haue a good hope / neyther is there than any cause why to waver ād to be in doubte ande to be in a wane hope and to sticke in doubte The whych thing must nedes be in those that followe the doctrine of the pope The Popes doctryne of absolution For that doctrine taught that men ought to doubte / neither dyd that absoyle anye man from synnes excepte he departed with sufficient ande due iustice / and full contricion / ande had cofessed all his synnes Here was no mēcion made / not so moche as a worde of faith / ande of the vertue of the keyes that are institute by Christe Truly thys doctrine ande knowledge was so obscured ande vnknowen / ande playnely buried / that I my selfe / euen than whan I was made doctor / which certeynly ought by no meanes to be rude or ignoraunt in this matter dyd thinke no otherwyse / nor taught otherwyse / then that than finally the synnes to be remitted vnto me and vnto other / if we had done / or had to a full ād iuste sorte parfect or due contrition / ande were confessed But of a trueth / if oure synnes shuld not be forgeuen vnto vs / before that we with our cōtrition or compunction and wyth other good woorkes shulde waie downe the same / ād before that nothing might be required in them / than myght I neuer trust for any remission of sinnes For I can neuer determyne with my selfe that I haue done full and iust contrycion / and therfore accordig vnto that / no man can absoile / whether he be Pope or any other what soever he be So by the popysh lyes the consciences are miserably seduced ād called awaye frō the woorde of faythe and the commaundement of God / vnto his vncerteyne contrition and compunction of harte And this theyr doctrine hath gotten by extortion infinite sommes of money / and hath encreased them with great ample ryches and kyngdomes The occasyon of the popysh power And by thys meanes also / so manye Temples monasteries great Churches / ande Cathedrall Churches / Chappelles and Aulters are builded and indued withe large or ample gyftes ande costes And at thys daye theyr are bulles and Popyshe pardones that are sufficiēt witnesses of these thynges / and doth confyrme those buyldinges ande gyftes / by the whyche the POPE hath wretchelye deceiued all the woorlde / ande hathe by these faierynges / or buying and selligdone so moch harme vnto the Church of Christ / that no man can compryse wyth mynde / nor expresse with wordes the greatnes of that calamité and iniurie For that cause / we do often and diligētly exhorte And let those with vs with cōtinuall studie do the same / that in this case doth helpe vs / as manie as maye / that scoles / cur●s ād ministries of the worlde / be earnestly maintained / least soche an other errour / or rather worse the which thing Sathan doth endeuour with the greatest studie that he can crepe in againe The meanes to conserue the Gospell pure If trulye we wyll preuent and withstande this mischefe / that cā no otherwise be done better / than if the youth euen from theyr yonge ande tender age / be well ande vertuously taught and brought vp / the whiche succeding after vs / when we are departed vnto Christ / maye not onely set forth and beate into the people diligently the pure doctrine / but also maie defend the same / against madde raging and erronious teachers / and put of wycked ād false / opiniōs For trulye it is a great benefyt of God / when soch parsōs are apoīted ministers / the whiche do syncerely teach the worde of GOD rightly and purely And besydes those also / it is necessarie that some be that can preserue learning / and defend