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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
doctrine_n	father_n	scripture_n	tradition_n	2,440	5	8.9807	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09739	Ane answer made the fourth day of Septembre a thousand fyue hundreth syxtie [and] one, by maister Theodore de Besza minister of the holie Euangile, in the presence of the quene mother, the king and quene of Nauarre, the princes of the blood royall, and of the priuie counseil, vnto that whiche the cardinall of Lorraine had replied against that whiche was propounded in the first iourney of their talking together, by the said de Besza in the name of the reformed churches. Together with an other short answer made by the said de Besza the 26 day of the said moneth vnto certein articles of replie set forth by the said cardinall	Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605.; Baron, John.	1562 (1562)	STC 2000; ESTC S119255	24,857	90

receiued in the Churche euerywhere of all men But who may assure vs of these thre pointes Certenly no mā as I suppose For the diuersitie is infinite y t is founde in the bookes of the Ancients yea and that in the articles of the faith Furthermore if we must come vnto these wordes alwayes and of all at what tyme shall we begin except at the Apostolicall Churche And who shalbe the first in y e coūte but the Apostles of whom y e historie was faythfully written by Saint Luke that whiche may be knowen by theire owne writinges So therefore my Lordes to conclude forasmuche as all trueth cōmeth of God who haeth taken for his trushmen in that that concerneth oure saluation the Prophetes and Apostles we returne alwayes vnto this foundation of the Scriptures and yet will we receiue the aduise of coūcelles and of fathers but that shall be so farre as they cōfirme their sayinges by the euident witnessinges of the Scriptures the whiche as treulie sayeth Saint Augustine in his bookes of Christian doctrine be so tempered with the holy Spirit y t that whiche is darkly spoken in one place is moste clearelie spoken in an other place with diuers other meanes to vnderstand well the Scripture whiche be conteined in y e said bookes of Saint Augustine and of otheres whiche haue entreated of this mater And there remayneth as yet one difficultie to be resolued whiche lyeth in this that many haue thoght that the will of God touching all y t is requisit vnto oure saluation was not fully written by the Euangelistes Apostles But if this might take place I pray you my Lordes what a doore should there be opened to set forth all maner of dreames and rauinges that men list And in very dede we see that this haeth bene the passage by whiche Satā haeth entered in to waste the vine yarde of the Lorde and yet denye we not but y t before Moses tyme God gouerned his Churche by visions and reuelations and that the Apostles first planted the Churches with a liuelie voice before that their doctrine was written But where fore is it y t whiles men grew greater in malice and mo in nombre contrarie wyse their lyues growing shorter that the Lorde haeth willed that this doctrine should be enregistred in a cōmon language to be vnderstand of all Haeth this bene to encountre them that decore and deck their rauinges and dreames with y e tytle of traditions reuelations or of custome Now if this doctrine be not written but in part wherefore should this remedie serue then Surely Saint Iohn speaketh not so of the Scriptures where he sayeth that the thinges y t he haeth written be written to the end that in beleuing that Iesus is the Christe the Sonne of God ye might haue lyfe the whiche thing should be fals if there should be left out any doctrine necessarie vnto saluation Saint Paule also declarīg the vse of the Scripture where he wold teache all the ministers of the Churche of God in the personne of his faithfull disciple Timothee had not said that it maketh the man of God that is to say the ministers of the worde of God or in especiall if ye list euery faithfull man to be in all pointes perfyte if it had bene nedefull to haue added any thing that as yet was not written And yet we doubt not but alweys there might haue bene of the Apostles traditions vnwritten But what were they Perteining vnto ordre and to policie But because this name haeth bene abused a long tyme it behoueth to shew whiche be y e Apostolicall traditions the w c will not be hard to be done if two pointes be propounded whereby they may be iudged that is to say if they be cōformable to the doctrine and mete to edification for it is a thing moste assured that the Apostles neuer appointed any maner of doing that might be directly or vndirectly cōtrarie to the doctrine whiche they taught nor also that myght turne away men how litle soeuer it be frōe the spirituall seruice seing all their writinges beare witnes thereof When therefore this ruell shalbe kept then shall it be easie to discerne the doctrine frome the tradicions and the fals tradicions from y e right traditions And to this may be added that that whiche the Apostles them selues haue done in this behalf is not alweys perpetuall Not but that they are witnes w tout reproche but for this cause that according to the reule of charitie did they beare some thing with the infirmitie of the Iewes and so muste be iudged of that whiche they ordeyned of thinges strangled to eat no blood And of that whiche S. Paule haeth taught and practised in Timothee and on his personne the w c thinges now might haue no place except in following y e generall reule to cōmodate oure selues to oure neighboures in thinges indifferent suche thinges may also be gathered of other maner of doīges whiche they haue appropried vnto their tymes as where it is spoken of kissing to haue their head vncouered or bare in signe of authoritie the whiche at this day be contrarie maner of doinges or fashions amongest many nations amōgest whome it should be founde very strange y t men should kisse one an other or that one man should kysse an other mans wyfe as also at this tyme to speake beare headed is a signe of inferrior or low condition All these thinges therefore oght to be considered before y t we should grounde a doctrine as Apostolicall for to abuse the authoritie or custom of y e Apostles to trooble the Churches with lyke as we see that it haeth come to passe shortly after the tyme of the Apostles for the feast of Easter specially in their tyme touching them whiche abused the authoritie of the Churche of Ierusalem for to mingle the Iudaisme with the Christianisme accordīg as it is written in the historie of the Actes of the Apostles There was it ordeyned that no mans cōscience should he charged with any yoke How thē may we esteme that y e Apostles haue inuented so many and so many ceremōes vnto whiche afterwardes haeth bene attributed bothe remission of sinnes and merites seing y t they haue made suche an expresse protestation to the contrarie yea wolde not giue place vnto the Mosaicall ceremonies of whiche God him self was author It is a long tyme since that Saint Augustīe cōplayned hereof when he wrote to Ianuarius but there is no doubte if he had bene in the lyke tyme as ours is he wold haue bene more astonied at them In a somme therefor we do require that the Scripture whiche is cleare in this behalf may discerne betuixt the traditions that be good thē y t be euill betuixt them that be holie and them that be profaine betuixt them that be profitable and them that be noysome and betuixt them that be nedefull