Selected quad for the lemma: faith_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	catholic_a	church_n	visible_a	7,591	5	9.5600	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12249	The defence of a certayne poore Christen man who els shuldhaue [sic] bene condemned by the Popes lawe. Written in the hye Allmaynes tonge by a right excellent and noble prynce, and tra[n]slated into Englishe by Myles Couerdale.	Coverdale, Miles, 1488-1568.	1545 (1545)	STC 5889; ESTC S114534	31,890	79

church is set forth before oure eyes Wherby we maye euidently percaue / that the holy Catholike church is nothing els but a feloshippe of saynctes And the same is also the bryde of Christ without spot or wrynckle / purified thorow the bloude of the brydgrome himselfe euen the heauenly hierusalem / in to the which / no vncleane persone commeth the most holy temple / wher into is entred oure bishope Iesus Christ / who is a prest for euer after the ordre of Melchisedech This I saye / is the church buylded vpō the roke / agaynst the which nether the windes / ner the waues of waters / no ner the gates of hell / cā preuayle the head and fundacio wheoff is Christ himselfe To this church pertayne all they / that syns the begynnyng of the worlde haue bene saued / and that shal be saued vnto the ende therof For they are the lyuinge stones of this heauenly hierusalem and of this most holy temple Know ye not saieth S. Paul that ye are the tempel of God / and that the sprete of god dwelleeh in you Yf anye man defyle this temple / him shal god destroye for the temple of god is holy / the same temple are ye Euen this church / doth this Christē brother of oures beleue stedfastly ● yea and in this church also beleueth he forgyuenesse of synnes / ond after the resurrection of the flesh an euerlasting life Why saiest thou than / that he is falelen awaye from the church To the speake I now / thou vnreasonable accuser What hast thou yet more to laye to his charge He beleueth in god the father allmightie maker of heauen and arth / and in Iesu Christ his onely begotten sonne oure lorde / which was conceaued of the holy goost / borne of Marye the virgyn / suffred vnder Pōtius Pilate / was crucified / dead and buried / descended vnto hell / on the thirde daye rose agayne from death / ascended vnto heauen / sitteth at the right hand of god the father allmightye / from thence shal he come to iudge the quycke an dead He beleueth also in the holy goost / and al the rest that we mencioned afore of the church He beleueth likiwise all that is written by the prophetes and other olde fathers of the olde testament In like maner beleueth he all that in the gospels is written of the actes and doctryne of Christ He confesseth also that the doctryne of the Apostles and disciples of Christ is not to be dowted vpon Moreouer he beleueth that whatsoeuer the holy fathers of the new testament haue written / is true / so farre as it is not contrary to the doctryne of Christ and of his Apostles With this true and fre confession of faith / I suppose thou art so satisfied / that now thou wilt not sticke with all expedicion to quyte this Christen mā / and faithfully to commytte him vnto the iudges as a right membre of the church and for asmuch as thou hast vnaduysedly accused him as an heretike and as a rennegate from the church / hast done him wrong / I hope thou wilt therfore aske him forgeuenesse But I se well / thou shakest thy heade / bytest thy tethe one vpon another / and art be come as me thinketh nothing the mylder Wherfore beholde I besech you / how shameles this man is / yf I maye call such one a mā / which so vnmāly dealeth / that I suppose he hath forgottē / that he himselfe is a man I doute not right deare Iudges / but the same fre confession of this Christen man is sufficient ynough to quyte him / and that in youre iudgment he neadeth no farther clearyng of himselfe Notwithstōding lest oure aduersary shulde reporte / that I haue sayde nothing to the ordely rehearsall of his accusaciō / but wittingly passed ouer it or how that I am so short of memorye / that I haue forgottē what he hath layed for him selfe therfore wil I rehearce it all agayne to the intēt that whā I haue repeted his vnhonest complaynt / and confuted it / euery man maye vnderstond / that he is smytten with his owne swerd Ye haue perceaued / I suppose / that his whole accusacion consisted in eight principall articles / which I will now repete in ordre / that yf any thing ther in haue bene forgetten / it maye be called vnto remābraunce agayne This heretike saith oure aduersary doth affirme First / that the bishope of Rome is not the head of the church ner the true vycar of Christ Secondly that the masse is no sacrice ner ought to be vsed for other Thirdly that the supper of the lordt ought to be mynistred in fourmes both of bread and wyne / and that also vnto the laye people Fourthly that ther is no purgatory / and that suffragies for the deed are in vayne / and supersticious Fyfthly that it is not necessary to call vpon saynctes Sixthly that auricular confession was nether commaunded ner institute of Christ and his disciples Seuenthly that on the daies prohibited and forbiddē by the church of Rome / it is no synne to eate flesh Eightely / and fynally / he saieth planely / that prestes maye mary These ye deare Iudges are the foule misdedes these are the horrible vyces these are the detestable blasphemies her off cometh the great vproure horrible noyse of heauē and erthe / wher thorow it is to be feared / that the foure elementes wil come together / and that rhe world wil returne in to his ol darcknes and confusion agayne And why do not we all rent oure clothes / and stoppe oure eares after the maner of the Iewes / crie ewith loude voyce He hath blasphemed Crucifie / Crucifie Such a matter might happly be laught at / yf it were shewed in the waye of ieasting / and to make the people a pastyme with all But for asmuch as the matter is now handled in Iudgment / and brought so farreforth / that this Christen man is like to suffre death therfore / Me thinketh euery faithfull Christen mā ought frō the ground of his hert to bewayle it But now let vs examen the first article / and pondre well / what is to be holden of the bishoope of Romes power All Christē men do confesse / that the holy Catholike or vniuersal church / is the feloshippe of saynctes And this is the one onely church / wherin is but one lorde / one faith / one baptyme / one god and father of all thinges But for asmuch as we saye I beleue an holy vniuersall church / we do cōfesse / that the same is not visible ner corporall Notwithstōding in the scripture / ther is named yet another church which is bothe visible and corporall Whervnto the keyes of the kyngdome of heauen are committed / which the lord also meaneth whan he saieth Tell it vnto the church In the which church all they are comprehended / that are named