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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	ask_v	see_v	tell_v	899	5	4.5492	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00249	A consolatory letter to all the afflicted Catholikes in England	H. B., fl. 1588.	1588 (1588)	STC 1032; ESTC S116626	41,844	112

yea you shold cease altogether to be Christians for by the iudgement of S. Cyprian S. Augustine he is no Christian who is not in the church of Christ Wherby you sholde departe out of Noes arke commit your selues to present drowning Wherby you sholde be debarred froÌ„ eating the lambe in God his house so be exterminated from the people of God Wherby you sholde be found out of the house of Raab to perishe most vndoubtedlye by the sworde of Gods iudgment Wherby you shold be diuided from the bodye of Christ hauing him no longer to be your heade receyuing no influence of his grace no liuely motion of his spirite no parte of his merits no fruite of his blessed passion Wherby you sholde be cut of froÌ„ the true vine and so wither become fuel for hel fier Wherby you shold lose the felowship coÌ„munion of holy Angels sancts in heauen being also excluded from the suffrages of the millitant church here in earth You should be seuered from the promises of Christ by forsaking his spouse and ioyning your selues to the aduouterous coÌ„grecation You should be excluded from the rewardes of the heauenly kingdoÌ„e by forsaking her that is apointed there to raygne You sholde lose the benefit of your baptisme and withal the right that you haue to receaue other Sacraments which cannot be fruitfully receiued but in the Catholike church You should depriue your selues of the meanes to haue remissioÌ„ so much as of one veniall sinne although you sholde punishe your selues with neuer so hard austere penance You should lose the fruite of all your good woorkes heretofore done making all your actions from thence-forthe altogether vnprofitable in respecte of euerlasting lyfe although you sholde liue neuer so lawdablye although you sholde geue neuer so great almes although you shold shed your blood for the name of christ yet continuing so out of the churche you could by no meanes be saued To be shorte you sholde breake that vnity for whiche our Sauiour so earnestlye prayed vnto his Father For the establishing wherof he suffered his PassioÌ„ and shedd his most pretious bloode In defence of which vnitye Dionisius Alexandrinus holdeth it no lesse glorious to dye then to suffer for refusing to sacrifice to Idols For saithe he in that euerie one suffereth martirdome for one soule but in this case for the whole Churche Now that all these inconueniences here mentioned what soeuer else may be comprehended vnder the detestable name of scisme shold ensue of your going to the protestants churches I thinke it maye be manifest by these reasons folowing First of all the Church is a city or coÌ„mon wealth hauing a participation or felowship of spirituall benefits with-in itselfe and therfore whosoeuer doth communicat in spirituall things with any other coÌ„gregation must needs be diuided froÌ„ the fellowshipe of the Church from those benefits which cannot be receiued but in the same society euen as he that should ioyne with the enimye of his countrey should worthily be depriued of all such priuileges as he enioyed at home Neyther is it possible for one to participate at once with two distinct churches no more theÌ„ for one member to be in two seuerall bodyes you cannot drincke the chalice of our Lorde sayeth Saint Paule and the chalice of deuills you caÌ„not be partakers of the table of our Lorde and of the table of deuills So likewise you caÌ„not be of Christ his Church and repayre to Sathans Sinnagogue But some perhaps will answer that by going to church they doe not in deed participate but only seme to participat with those of a nother religion To this I saye Secondlye that as the Churche is visible so must all her members be knowne manifest So that no man can rightly saye him-selfe to be in the Church although in bodily apparance he ioyne with heretickes For wher-as he visibly exhibiteth his presence there is he a visible member and not other where For a Cathecumen might saye muche better that he is mentally in the Church and yet is he not properly actually accounted of the Church nor is admitted to any Sacrament before he be baptised Saint Cornelius in a certayne epistle to Saint Ciprian maketh mentioÌ„ of some that were reduced froÌ„ the schisme of Nouatus who protested openly that although they seemed to coÌ„municate in some sorte with a schismaticall and hereticall man yet neuerthelesse their sincere mindes were alwayes within the church And thinke you the moste parte of Scismatickes at this daye wolde not saye as muche if this excuse were sufficient But this is not enough neither did it then suffice those men vntil they were openlye reconciled to the church and admitted in presence of the whole concistorie of priestes at Rome And furthermore their reconciliation was notified to the whole people to the end that al might see them present in the church whome before they had seene with sorowe to err wander as sheepe dispersed from the Catholike flocke Also S. Augustin reportethe of one Victorinus a man greatly honored in Rome for his excellent learning and eloquence that being conuerted from Idolatrie to the Christian religion he deferred a longe while or feare to displease his worldly friendes to make open shew of that he beleeued in secrete And yet saying often to some of his faithful acqaintaÌ„ce that he was alreadie a christian he was alwayes tolde that they wolde not so repute him vntil they saw him in the church of Christ wher-vnto he wolde replye in scornful manner asking whether the walles made men to be Christians as manye at this daye wil aske whether their resorte to the material churche of heretikes can make them cease to be of the Catholike churche But in the ende by God his grace he turned ouer the leafe and going gladlye to the church he was instructed in the faythe baptised and made a true Christian And when the time came that he should make profession of his faythe before the faythful people for that was then the manner for suche as were newly conuerted It was offered him that he should do it more secretly leste so great an assemblye at the firste should abash him But he made choyse to confesse his fayth before the whole multitude And so he did most confidentlye the whole people cryeing for ioye Victorinus Victorinus A notable example to be folowed by many a Victorinus in our age I meane manye an honorable man famous scholer being in harte and conscience Catholikes withal it is an euident proofe that it sufficeth not to be a Catholike in secret vnlesse by outwarde signes a man doe also shew and professe his religion according to the saying of our Sauiour that Men doe not light a candle and put it vnder a bushel but on a candlestick that it may shine to all that are in the house Therfore sayth he Let your

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