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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	henry_n	king_n	lancaster_n	5,263	5	11.7365	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01924	England and Scotlands happinesse in being reduced to vnitie of religion, vnder our invincible monarke King Iames. Written by I: Gordon.; Panegyrique of congratulation for the concord of the realmes of Great Britaine in unitie of religion, and under one king	Gordon, John, 1544-1619.; Grimeston, Edward.	1604 (1604)	STC 12062.3; ESTC S117967	22,135	50

the faith and restorer of Christianitie And as God by that marriage of Henrie the seauenth with Elizabeth his wife made the Vnion of the houses of Lancaster and Yorke who had a long time beene in bloudye warres and by the marriage of Iames the fourth King of Scotland with Marguerite the eldest daughter of the sayde Henrie the seauenth your great graundfather the coniunction of the crownes of England and Scotland within these hundred yeares So wee hope that the same God will imploye this admirable Vnion vnder your commaunde to vnite the Christian and vniuersall Church vnder one spirituall royalty which is the worship of one God and to abolish idolatry which hath in a maner swallowed vp and deuoured the true Church My intention is to represent in briefe vnto your Maiesty and to all Christians desirous of eternall health the infinite graces benifits which God hath powred vpon your Ilands in the planting maintaining the preaching of his Gospell that it may plainely appeare that neither the deceased Queene Elizabeth of happy memory nor your Maiesty haue established any new religion in your Ilands but banished the new being polluted and defiled with errours and false worshippes of the Gentiles Arians Nestorians and Eutichians that the Religion which dooth now flourish in your Realmes is the same which soone after the death of our Sauiour was preached and receaued by the Kings your predecessours and by the people of your Realmes Theodoret a Greeke bishop and one of the most ancient of the Church in his bookes de curatione Grecarum affectionum sermon 9. de legibus makes a goodly comparison betwixt the power of the Romaine Empire and their Lawes the Empire of Iesus Christ and of his Lawe receiued throughout the worlde He saieth the Romaines could neuer make the Persians and Parthians of the East subiect to their lawes nor towardes the North the Cimbrians Danes nor the people of Brittaine But the power of Iesus Christ hath beene greater for saieth he our fisherman that is Saint Peter and our maker of tents which is Saint Paul haue made the Brittish people subiect to the lawes of Christ the which would not obey the Romaine lawes so as antiquitie doth testifie that the Apostles haue preached in our Ilands Metaphrastes cited by the Cardinall Baronius sayeth that Saint Peter came thether Ioseph of Arimathie and Simon Zelotes came likewise as Histories do teach vs. This seede of the Gospell in your Ilands tooke such increase as King Lucius and all his subiects about the yeere 180. did publikely receiue the Christian religion And indeede the Chronographers haue noted that about the yeare of our Lord 180. Brittaine was the first part of the world which did publiquely receiue the fayth of Christ for Lucius King of Brittaine did in those dayes depose the Priests of the Gentiles and did substitute in their places Bishoppes and Christian pastors hee banished Gentilisme out of his countrie which hapned not in any part of the worlde vntill the time of Constantine the great Tertulian and Origen who liued about the same time testifie that the countries of Brittaine beeing inaccessible for the Remains were subiect vnto Christ The Bishops of this Iland were at the councell of Nice held vnder Constantine the great three hundred yeares after Christ which is the first period of Christianisme during the which the Christians did suffer twelue most cruell persecutions vnder the tyrannie of Paganisme and the Idolatrie of olde Rome We well wot that during the three first Periods of Christianitie whereof eyther conteynes three hundred yeares the true and onely worshippe of one God which hath beene planted since the Apostles time in your Ilands hath beene continued there during the laid time and yet the Christians which liued in those ages no not the Remaines did euer allowe in the publique vse of the seruice of the Church of the worship of the host in the Romish masse nor of the pretended woode of the very crosse nor of the Images of Iesus Christ or his sepulcher seated neare to Mount Caluarie all which are worshiped in the new Romish Church as God himselfe which worships are abhominations of the Gentils Arriens Nestoriens which bring with it the shipwracke of eternall health The Christians vvhich liued during the first Period of the three hundred yeares of Christianitie did inuiolably keepe the first commaundement Thou shalt haue no other Gods against my face or before mee which the Thargum of the Caldeans hath interpreted besides mee or any other then mee The Greeke translation saith other Gods besides me Athanasius interpreting this commaundement sayth Hee hath not forbidden them to haue other Gods for that there were other Gods but least any one falling from the true God should make him a God of that which is not like to those Gods which the Poets and writers make mention of which haue but the name of God and not the effect And the same Authour sayeth If reason and the esteeme we houlde of God doth make vs beleeue that hee may bee in all places and that nothing of all that which God hath under him is God and that all things are vnder his power why doe not they which make a creature God see that it is out of the definition attributed vnto God Theodoret vppon the same commaundement saith that the Arrians offend against it and the true Christians obserue it They doe not allowe any thing to be held or worshiped for God but the deuine nature but those which follow the error of Arrius and Eunomius sinne directly against the deuine law for they confesse the onely Sonne of God but they maintaine that he was created and is deuided from the deuine substance God hauing sayde Thou shalt haue no other Gods but me doubtlesse these men bring in another God By these authorities we do inferre that the Romains which worship the host in the Masse breake this commaundement for they agree that it is no part of the deuine nature but of the substance and nature of Iesus Christs humanitie who is worshiped according to his diuinitie and not after his humanitie according to the aunbient simboles of the Church The Christian faith then hath for a firme and onely foundation the worship of one God according to this first commaundement and the worship of any thing created by God which is vnder him ought not to be receiued in the Christian religion but the onely deuine nature of the Father Sonne and holy Ghost ought to be worshiped and called on in Triple vnitie without the which nothing ought to be worshiped without manifest impietie and idolatrie The same Theodoret interpreting this commandement saieth Serm. 2. God the maker of all things in the beginning of the law which he gaue vnto Moses cōmaunded him to worship one God I am saith he the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt whē he hath put Moses in mind of his late benefits he exhorts