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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	earth_n	water_n	world_n	5,553	5	4.9981	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08443	Sermons of the ryght famous a[n]d excellent clerke Master Bernardine Ochine, borne within the famous vniversyte of Siena in Italy, nowe also an exyle in this life, for the faythfull testimony of Jesus Christ	Ochino, Bernardino, 1487-1564.; Argentine, Richard, d. 1568.	1548 (1548)	STC 18765; ESTC S105735	22,415	64

Theologie or Deuinité Wherfore seing howe moche pestiferous and detestable the ignoraunce of God is / and howe moche necessarie the true knowledge of him is / I haue thought it expedient / fyrst to consyder what thinge God is It is a moost easye thīge to knowe that God is / or that there is a god / sithens that there is no Nation so barbarous / but that it beleueth that there is a God / being a generall knowledge that God hath so imprinted in the hartes of al men / that if the man haue any iudgemēt at all / it behoueth him with the harte to cōfesse that there is a God For albeit there haue bene many wicked whiche with their mouthes haue sayde / there is no God Neuertheles the self same / when they haue fallen into any peril or necessité / haue been ēforced of that onely light and religion of God / to recōmende them selues vnto him / so that we must of force repute hī a very ydeote / that demeth God Psal 13. Ande being therfore an euident and easy thinge to endwe that there is a God / we most nowe travaile āde labor though it be moost 〈◊〉 to knowe what that god is 〈…〉 haue beē of opimō that it is impossible that ●●e shulde Imagin what God is because infinitene aboue all propor●ions h● exced● to the weakenes of our vnderstāding● / spe●●ally because our wi●●es are drowned in the bodie / occupied of fan●as●●s / ād 〈◊〉 by the derke vaynes of thinges 〈◊〉 / farre of from God We be weake of 〈◊〉 ●eke and impolēt through the 〈…〉 and our owne synnes Wherefore they ●aye that we cā haue noue other knowledg of God / but the negatiue / that is to witte / we maye knowe that God is not materiall nor forme imperfect nor yet soule of the world / that he is not Earth / Water / Ayre / Fyre / Winde / seecre / Mons / Sonne / Corporall light nor any vertue spredde abroade He is not the beaultie that we see / the swetenes that we taste / nor other thinge sensible / imaginable or intelligible of vs / but that infinitely he exceadeth all creatures / and all things that we vnderstand In him ther is an inaccessible lyght such as they / which with theyr thoughtes in maner have been raysed so hyghe / that they have founde what God is have deceued them selves Tim. 6. And they who ymagin in theyr myndes to have founde God / do fabricate an ydoll / oute of all measure distaunt from the true beyng of God / as appeareth by his commaundemente to the Iewes / whan he prohibited thē the sculpture or grauinge of ydolles / vnderstandyng not of the materyall ydolles onely / but also of the imaginable Erod 20. For our wittes are extreme darknes / in comparyson of gods inestimable fyrst light So that it behoueth vs with Aarō to enter in Sācta Sanctorum and with Moses into the Celestiall Clowde / if we will knowe / that is to say / to knowe that we knowe not / in so the wyse that the more fervently a man will professe not to knowe somoch the better he doth knowe / and who presumeth to knowe / is farthest of frō the knowledge And why because God in his power and lyght standeth so hidde in darkenes from vs / that with blindnes we see him / wyth ignoraunce we knowe him / with retuing or with going backe we comprehend him / in fleing we finde him and with scylence we prayse him Psal 1 And it behoueth him that will knowe what thinge God is / to study in the scole of simpliene and rest vanquisshed of that inestimable / inaccessible ande incomprehensible lyght And I confesse that we cā not comprehend God / in such maner as God comprehendeth him selfe That is to saye / we can not have ā infinite knowledge of him / as do the blessed saintes that is to saye / to have as they have the clere naked / open and visible sight of him / to beholde hym in the founteyne of his bryghtnes / face to face in the verye being that he is 1. Cor. 2 But we may very well attaine a knowledge what God is though not so perfectly as we shall knowe in the other lyte For it is not possible we shuld knowe what thig God is not / if fyrst we learne not to knowe what thing he is / and that his being is so pertect that it repugneth thimperfectiōs of those thinges that be not Wherfore considering all the negatiues 〈◊〉 are rehearsed of god are grounded vppon 〈◊〉 posy●i●e ād affirmatio● that 〈…〉 / we must saye of force ●●a● we know● God more perfertly / in knowing that is to be knowē / then in knowing nothīg at all And therfore speaking of more h●●●e knowledge affyrmatiue / that in this present lyfe the electe cōmunly and without speciall priuiledge ād miracle had of God / I saie / that fyrst thou oughtest to cōsyder that the creature hath hys beyng / although imperfect Ande God hath his being without anie imperfecciō Yea his beyng is infinitely perfect wherfore to knowe what thinge God is / it behoueth the to do as he doth that wyll make an Image Fyrst he cutteth of many peces / before he parforme the forme that he deforeth / and afterwardes payntech and apparcelleth it So is it necessarie that with the minde / thou thou fyrst consyder the beyng of the creature Ande because thou shalt fynde hym repleate of iperfectiō / beynge terminable create / temporall / corruptyble and other lyke / therfore it behoueth the to clense / puryfye and take from him all those imperfectyons / and ymagyn him infinite / interminable / icorruptible ād in effect abstract and lyfte vp aboue all imperfectyon Neyther doth that suffise / but also it is necessarye that thou floryshe ande adorne him of all perfectyō possyble / in soche wyse that thou conceaue to see him aeterne / necessary / simple immutable ād infinite Neyther yet doth all that suffise / but morouer it behoueth the with thy thought to purify ād clense of all īperfectyon the Wyll ād mynde created / the wysdome created the iustice bountye / pitye / power / Charitye / treuth / beaultye and all the other vertues ād perfections / to which imperfectyon is contrarye / ande consequently to entythe hym of infynyte degrees of perfectyon / ande so to beholde hym in God as a thinge puryfyed / to be vnto him / dyvyne ande intynite BVT because those powers / vertues and operatyons with imperfectyō in maner ruleth in vs / will not suffer our wittes to conceaue that creature in his beyng and to clense and spoile h●m of all imperfectyons / and so to make him infinite / we can not in our beyng see him in God in whome there can be nothing imperfect ▪ but it must suffise vs to see hym in vertue and eminencie So that albeit in gods propre beyng ther is the