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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	scripture_n	tradition_n	unwritten_a	4,497	5	12.9092	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10173	Protestants demonstrations, for Catholiks recusance All taken from such English Protestant bishops, doctors, ministers, parlaments, lawes, decrees, and proceedings, as haue beene printed, published, or allowed among them in England; since the cominge of our king Iames into this kingdome: and for the most parte within the first six or seuen yeares thereof. And euidentlie prouinge by their owne writings, that english Catholiks may not vnder damnable syn, co[m]municate with English Protestants, in their seruice, sermons, or matters of religion: and soe conuincinge by the[m]selues, their religio[n] to be most damnable, & among other things, their ministery to bee voide, false & vsurped.	Broughton, Richard, attributed name.	1615 (1615)	STC 20450; ESTC S112509	81,861	158

Ministery and worship The protestant Authors of the defence of the ministers reasons Defenc● epist dedi● for refusall of subscription tell vs very many points are contrary to the word of God And add in this maner if the Questions bee of noe substance toyes and trifles what meaneth such vrdginge and pressing of t●em and the more s●uere punishing● of the not obseruinge them then of the weightiest matters not of our lawe but of the lavve of God it selfe vv●at meane all those dyuers and lardge treatises dayly published by them that call them trifles in t●eir defence if trifles soe seriously to mayntayne them argueth want of iudgment to knovve vvhat is meete to bee done They might haue added alsoe want of Religion and iustice to denounce soe many seuerall excommunications for things not materiall as before are cited Neither can the condition of these men by any morall iudgment in their owne proceedings bee otherwise for hauing generally by their allowed Articles princes letters patents Statutes and such protestant Consistories vncanonized diuers bookes of holy scriptures condemning diuers of their errors denyed di●●ne traditions the vnwritten worde of God the infallible authoritie and iudgment of generall Councells in matters of faithe the supreame commaunding power of the Apostolicke See of Rome endowed with greatest priuiledges from Christ our Sauiour not regarding the doctrine of the learned primatiue fathers but condemning these and all Churches of Error in Religion and fantastically making their owne priuate spirits erroneous iudgment and deductions from false translations of scriptures They must needs fall to these prophane absurdities of lying deceauing willfull corruptions falsifications and the like vngodly and vnchristian dealings or els manifest and lay open their Heresies and moste straunge innouations to the vewe of the whole worlde euen the moste simple and ignorant whome they haue abused and seduced by such practizes I will onely exemplifie in towe protestant writers D. Willet and M Parkes both writing with priuiledge and publicke allowance one against the other and either of them taxing the other in this kinde of impietie as followeth M. Parkes writing but against one little booke published by this D. Willet named Lymbomastix denyinge the Article of Christs discent into hell hath these words Holy scripture is much Par●es sect 5. 8. pag 14 144 1●9 71. sect 22. 5. 7. abused corrupted and straungely peruerted they intrude into the text the holy scriptures are belyed the scripture abused falsefyed the originall greeke yt selfe clypp●d in citing scriptures words are left out they inuert the scriptures to serue their turne Holy scripture is much abused straungely peruerted notoriously depraued belyed manifestly wrested c. How holy fathers and such authorities are delt with by this doctor in that treatise Parkes sup against lymb p. 70 151 def of 3. test sect 〈…〉 def of 1. 2 test p 2 ● se●t 18 21 p 181. 166. 101. 100. def of 2● place sect 10 11. 20. def of 3. test s●ct 7. 12. 15. 16 c pag. 7. 10 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24 25. pag. 28. def of 1. 2. 3. testim c. Par●●s Apolog sup epist. dedic hee writeth thus Hee condemneth all the auntient fathers for dreamers condemneth all the fathers Hee condemneth all learneb and Godly diui●as for enemies of Christs crosse and bla●p●em●rs of his passion Hee iustifieth m●ste wicke● Hereticks and condemneth moste holy fathers H●e falsely translateth corrupteth indignely han●let● clippeth shamely corrupteth iniuriously han●leth greately abuseth vntruely alleadgeth mayneth mistranslateth much abuseth notably corrupteth c. S. Augustine Origen S. Ambrose S. Chrisostome S. Leo S. Hierome Tertullian S Bernard c. And speaking generally of their protestant writers hee writeth in this maner Euery man maketh Religion the handmayde of his affections Wee may say novv that there are soe many faithes as vvills and soe many doctrines as maners of men vvhiles either vvee vvrite them as vvee list or vnderstand them as vvee please in soe much that many are brought to their vvitts ends not knowinge what to doe Men say they know w●ome to flye but whome to follow they cannot tell This age is the last and worst wherin heresie and infidelitie ioyne and labour to subuert and ouerthrowe all grounds of Christian Religion by their doctrine and life their moste zelous followers are become irreligeous to God irreuerent towards man discentious in opinions disorderous in maners Religion it selfe is brought to a matter of meere dispute and altercation Not without feare leaste it befall vnto vs as it did vnto the builders of babel or to the brethren of Gadines For as the end of scisme is sect 16. heresie soe is the end of heresie Atheisme The profession of the Ghospell is made a cloke wherewith to couer the sowle prophanation of yt Hitherto some testimonies from M. Parkes The Citations of like nature from his Aduersarie protestant D. Willet are too many and tedious in this kinde to bee related Therefore to giue some coniecture of them I will onely sett downe the Title of his booke which followeth in this Willet titu Lordoromast maner Loidoromastix that is a scourge for a Rayler conteyning a full and sufficient Answeare vnto the vnchristian Raylings slaunders vntruthes and other iniurious imputations vented of late by one Richard Parkes ●aster of arts against the Author of Lymbomastix wherein three ●undred Raylings errors contradictions falsisications of fathers corruptions of scripture ●ith other grosse ouersights are obserued out of the saide vncharitable discourse by And●●vv Willet Professor of ●iuinitie Hitherto the onely Title of this priuiledged protestant Booke What stuffe is conteyned in the whole worke of this k●●de and how common a thinge it is for protestant writers to dissemble corrupt falsefie mistranslate mi●apply c. scriptures fathers and other authorities to aduantage their cause by such de●linges may bee iudged by publicke priuiledge and allowance giuen to such writings Therefore I shall lawfully conclude this q●estion with thes words of M. Ormerod concerning● Ormer pict purit g. 4. protestants They fill the margents of their bookes f●ll of places of scripture● in a wrong sence that ●y this meanes ●●ey might more easely deceaue the simple people they ne●ther care for maior minor nor conclusion so● they may say some thinge the● point their mergent with s●amefull abu●nge of scripture And to shew these dealings to bee vsuall nor onely in obscurer places but in their vni●ersi●ie themselues cheef●st places of learninge amonge ●●em in the epistle dedicatorie of the same worke hee writeth thus There is a straunge maner of preaching Ormer sup pict pur● epist. d●●ic in vse in many places ●othe in t●e vniuersities and els w●ere 〈◊〉 t●ough th● pu●pit were but a s●●●●olde in which the prea●●er like a Mast●r ●ss●nce were to play his prizes and as though the scripture were but a rattle for Children and fooles to make sporte withall hee tosseth it hither and thither and will not sayle to

for the truth of Christs Ghospell to bee preached without preachers and true ministers lawfully ordeyned sent expresseth it by this gradation as these protestants themselues translate him How shall they call on him in whome they haue 〈◊〉 ca. 10 vers 14. 15. not beleeued and how shall they beleeue in him of whom they haue not heard and how shall they heare without a preacher and how shall they preach except they bee sent And therevppon these english protestants in their moste authori●ed Arti●les vtterly disable all that are not lawfully called to thes functions And D. Couell giueth a reason of it in these wordes T●e church hath Art minist in the congreg art 23 Couell exa pag. 130. noe reason to heare their voice whom Christ hath not commaunded to feede his she●p● Secondly there is made demonstration before first in generall that all groundes and rules in diuinitie scriptures traditions Popes Councells fathers c. are against their doctrines and opinions as alsoe that in particular in euery cheefe Article questioned betweene Catholicks and them they are in vnexcusable error by their owne testimonies therefore the pure word cannot bee preached by them their church consequently is not by their owne definition the true church nor any hope of saluation to bee had in their Religion And soe they are not to bee communicated with in such busines Further I argue thus noe societie or congregation of men hauing by their owne confession errors in matters of faith to bee rectified and amended hauing erroneous conceipts desiring se●king or wanting reformation in matters of beleefe can bee said to haue the pure word of God preached with them But these english protestants by their owne confession are in this state Therfore the pure worde of God is not preached with them The maior proposition is euidently true for as nothinge is soe vndoubtedlie true as the worde of God which by noe possibilitie can bee vntrue and the pure word of God cannot bee vnpure and false Soe errors in matters of faith to bee rectified amended c. cannot by any meanes bee said to bee pure the worde of God or truth but the quite opposite vnpure the word of the deuill a lyer and falsehood The minor proposition is thus proued by these protestāts first D. Willet is soe absolute that their english protestant church is erroneous and false in doctrine that M. Parkes writeth of him in these words M. Willet exclaymeth moste bitterly Parkes ag lymbo p. ●0 Couell exā p. 212. 213. against the protestants english church in the preface before his Antilogie D. Couell turning his speach to our kinge for Correction hath these words The church of England which l●et● prostrate at your graces feete desireth not to be● fauoured in her errors nor to haue her corruptions warranted by authoritie D. Wiliet telleth vs it Willet sup pag. 43. petition of 1000. c. Answere of the vniuersity King speach 19 mart An. 1603. hath erroneous conceipts it hath errors in doctrine The petition of the millinarie Puritans write how erroneous the english protestants church is and far from hauing the pure word of God preached in yt And the two vniuersities in their Answere submit their Religion to bee corrected or altered as the kinge pleased And the kings Maiestie himselfe in publicke parlament vseth these word I could wish frō my hart that laying willfullnes aside wee might meete in the midst I would for my owne part bee content to meete them in the midd way that all nouelties might bee renounced These hee testifieth of the english protestant Religion And in the Conference at Hampton Court as their Bishop Barlowe relateth it concludeth this point as all the rest that Conference pag. 47. errors in matters of faith might bee rectified and amended Then if the kinge and whole protestant assembly all the rest concluded that the errors in matters of faith might bee rectified c. Their opinion was that they had errors in matters of faith and soe not the pure word of God which by noe possibilitie can admit such errors nor any one least error at all in Religion Againe thus I argue None that haue beene condemned about articles of faith or as heretiks by generall councell haue the pure worde of God or may bee communicated with in such religeous things but the english protestants are such by their owne iudgments Therfore they haue not the pure word preached nor may bee communicated with in Religion The maior proposition is euidently true and shall more lardgely bee handled in my chapter that these englsh protestants by their owne testimonies are hereticks in the meane time D. Couell writing how wee may not communicate with such men doth thus define them Hereticks Couell exā pag. 199. are they whoe directly gaynesay some article of our faith and are or haue beene condemned by seme generall Councell The minor proposition that our english protestants haue beene thus condemned by their owne confession not onely by some one generall Councell which this protestant D. alloweth for a lawfull condemnation of men for hereticks but by many Cou●●●lls acknowledged by themselues for generall is proued by them before And for this place their generally allowed Article shall suffice sett downe in these words Generall Councells may err and sometime haue erred euen in things pertayning vnto God wherefore things ordeyned by them as necessarie to saluation haue neither strength nor authoritie vnlesse yt may bee declared that they bee taken out of Holy scripture And how declaration with them in this poynt consisteth in their owne priuate deduction for they can neuer haue any to bee esteemed publicke against a publicke generall is thus testified by M Wotton and the authorized priuiledg to this booke deduction from scripture Wottō def of perk pa. 467. maketh a matter of faith By which Rule if priuate men may soe censure generall councells there neuer was or can bee any heresie Therefore by this doctrine in all probabilitie the english protestants assuredly know how they haue beene condemned for hereticks and are as such to bee auoided in communication of Religion Otherwise they would not soe extoll priuate and fallible deduction aboue the authoritie of generall Councells to say that these may err and their priuate deductions are such warrant for them that they should priuiledge a man to write in all their names in this maner Wee acknowledge both and holde all matters Wottō sup pag. 467. concluded logically out of the scriptures to bee the word of God as well as if they were expressely sett downe in yt vvorde for vvord● And yett they generally teach as before that their church hath errors in doctrine and that neither prince nor any amonge them is free from error Then Willet art p. 43 150. noe man is left to make these their pretended infallible deductions from scripture Therefore the pure word of God neither is nor by their writings can bee preached with