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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	believe_v	church_n	doctrine_n	1,773	5	6.7675	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00284	The fortresse of fathers ernestlie defending the puritie of religion, and ceremonies, by the trew expositio[n] of certaine places of Scripture: against such as wold bring in an abuse of idol stouff, and of thinges indifferent, and do appoinct th'aucthority of princes and prelates larger then the trueth is. Translated out of Latine into English for there sakes that vnderstand no Latine by I.B.	I. B., fl. 1566.	1566 (1566)	STC 1040; ESTC S101361	39,585	76

of Images worshipping of breade and wyne prophanaciÃ² of the Lordes Supper through the Masse praying to Sainctes prayng for the dead and infinit such other moÌ„sters which Antechrist hath brought into the church of Christ there ar other thynges brought in by the same Antechrist whych are much contrarye to christian libertye obscure Christ encrease hypocrisie and bringe in pryde and swellyng into the church and yet in the meane whyle haue a certaine shew of profit comlines of this sort are the apointed fasting days choise of meates muche singynge in the church and such as is not vnderstanded organe playing and vse of church apparell in administracion of the Sacramentes Now what great incommodities and hurt haue crept into the church by meanes of euerye one of these and yet maye more crepe in except they be remoued I cannot at this present particularlye declare I haue here onely to entreat of the vse of apparell and to shew cause whie by no meanes it ought any loÌ„gar to be borne with of a godlye Magistrate in a reformed church of Christ allthough many deuises muented by wyttie heddes may be alleged for some deffence thereof but we regard not wyttie heades but the Testimony of gods wyll Math. 15. First of all I conclude that euen these garmentes are vttarlye to be remoued from the church as a deuise of man by that ground and reason whych Christ and the Prophetes and Apostles vse in excluding or thrusting forth of the church as a pernicious thynge Colo. 2. all mens doctrines traditions or deuises Polidore virgil Li. 6. de inuent beareth wytnes thereof it is a manner taken from the Hebrews that preistly apparell wyth couering of Altars wyth other thinges necessarie for the vse of the Temple should be consecrated and the garmeÌ„tes appoyncted ouar to the Preistes and others wythin orders who should put them on when they occupied them selues about holie thynges whych Pope Steuen the fyrst dyd first apoinct should be done amongst oure Chirch men for he sayth that in the begynning whan religion begane to spring Preistes were wont to put nothing more vppon them when they went to deuine seruice standing raither to decke them selues in wardlye wyth verteus of the mind and to cast awaye affections and vices of the bodye then to take on them new attire Now thus reason I and gather Yf they changed not theyr garment or apparell whan they went to gods seruice then they vsed none for theim that were admitted into the Mynisterie of the gospell Paule and Barnabas were contented wyth laying on handes Fasting and prayer Paul diligentlye prescribing to Timothie and Titus all the offices of A Bishop makith no mention of peculiar garmentes and other ceremonies and that the vse of apparell did not by and by goe ouer all Churchis it is euident enough by the decre of Celestine the fyrst Byshop of Rome whose wordes are these against such peculiar vesture of Bishopes We are to be discerned saith he from the common people or other in doctrine not apparell in conuersation not in habit in puritie of mind not in attire For yf we begine to geue our selues to nouelties wee shall contemne and cast awaye the order that the Fathers haue deliuered and lefte vs and shall make a place for superfluous supersticions wee must not therfore drawe the simple mindes of the faithfull to such thinges for they must rayther be instructed then begiled and mocked neither must we deceiue theire bodylie eyes but poure in preceptes into theire mindes Thus far he yet can we not denye but as men bend and inclyne to supersticion of them selues so some kynde of garmentes although verye simple and plaine had crepte into many Churchis before this mans dayes For Syluester no doubt gaue the occasion But Carolus called the great finished the matter as stories beare wittnes Now it is made manifest that the vse of peculiar apparell in the church or ecclesiasticall persones is a mere deuise and inuention of men and therfore to be reiected for this cause if there were no more They which wolde kepe thuse of this apparell in the Church as a thinge instituted of God refer the same to Aarons preysthoode but they litle for see what they say For we knowe by the scriptures that Christ is not a Priest after the order of Aaron but of Melchisedech that AaroÌ„s pristhood was extinguished and toke ende in Christe with all the parts therof among the which we recken also the apparell Therfore Christ the veric wisdome of the father vsed no new or peculiar kynd of apparell in holie ministerye neyther appoincted any other to be vsed For that the figuratiue priesthod as a shadowe was perfited and ended in Christ the one and onelye Priest All they therfore that call agayne Aarons apparell into the Chirch dishonor Christes priesthod as though beynge the lyght it self he nedid shadowes neither wyll that excuse serue to say that all Aarons priesthod is not called into vse agayne but some parte therof onelye but he that receyuith a parte doeth not reiect the wholle But all Aarons priesthode being a figure and shadowe is no doubt to be reiected for that it is abrogated and as many as do restore againe those thynges that the auctorytie of gods worde hathe destroyed and abrogated are transgressers of gods lawe Paule therfore well teachith that the bond mayde is to be cast forth hir Sonne singnifiyng that all the bondage of the lawe is to be reiected after the lyght of the gospell is spronge forth and risen and he wyllith vs not to suffer our selues to be remoued from our libertye in Christ now it is to playne that the doctrine and commaandementes of whatsoeuer kynd of apparell peculiar in gods mynisterye is a traÌ„sgression of gods lawes For because AaroÌ„s priesthode is called in to vse agayne If any man by occasion of the first argument deny that the garmentes are a portion of Aarons priesthoode and say that they were by a certaine libertye brought in of the Byshopes of Rome to adorne and set forth priestlye ordar yet saith he not enough why they may be law fully retained we knowe that the Pope of Rome is very Antechriste him selfe wherfore his priesthode also is Antichristian wherby Christes priesthod wholie is foyled and vtterlie troden vndar fote But forasmuch as the chiefest part of the priesthod of the Pope consistith in Ceremonies Anointing shauing Miters and garmeÌ„tes for with owt these they accoumpt no man Byshoppe and they coumpthym Byshop whatsoeuar he be otherwyse that is set oute with these thinges yt followith that yf we condemne the popish priesthod for that it is Antchristian wee ought to auoid all the partes and notes therof also For how can A godlie and Christian hart loue the marke of the blasphemus popish priesthode Where with Christes pristhood is so greatlie contaminate and defiled he therfore that hateth Antechrist pristhod must hate also all the notes and markes therof Againe

are obiected somme thinges of the fautors and patrons of these garmentes vvhich it shall suffice breiflie and in fevv vvordes to note and touch for that they ouerthrovve not our reasones before Alleadged IN indifferent thynges we must haue regarde to the weakenes of our bretherne First obiect after the example of the Apostles A man may deny those thinges to be indifferent Aunswere which obscure Christes pristhode and of them selues engeÌ„dre stire vp and cause nothinge els but hipocrisie sectes and pride in the Chirch hauing no otiginall or ground in the scriptures and yet are commaunded with tyrannie vnsemelie for Christianes The Apostles are neuar readde to haue done such thynges as these are that we falselye pretend not or vainelye cloke our selues with the godlye industrie of the Apostles to plant the Church of Christ Againe seing that they them selues thinke mete to haue respect to the weak herin whye graunt they not free vse hereof to the stronge and those that are stayed And when shall the weake more better learne that those thinges are vaine foolysh and hurtfull then when they see them abrogated How can the simple and ignoraunt thinke other wise with them selues then that some godlines coÌ„sistith in those thinges that yet remaine when they see so manye other thynges whych were vsed in times past done awaye wherefore weaknes is not releued holpen but hindered and hurt yf garmentes and such lyke ceremonies be retayned and kepte because they be kepte in the opinion of the mynde and by them meÌ„ measure the dignitie and worthynes of the Sacramentes Agayne Second obiection they obiect the Magistrates law and decree in retanynge garmeÌ„tes But I knowe our Magistrates godlines wysedome and forwardnes to be such that when he shall depelye waye and well coÌ„sidar the daunger and incoÌ„uenyence of these ceremonyes he wyll reioyce that there be some that desire to runne before in the law of the Lord and to prepare and make the waye radye for other that he maye reuoke and brynge all thynges to the sinceritye and perfectioÌ„ of the Apostles ordre they know that power and auctoritye is giuen them in the Church to edisication not to destruction to stand on the tiuthes side to defend it not to oppresse it Seing this godlynes in our Magistrate is knowne to be willyng and readye I wotnot wheather he can be blameles whatsocuar he be that wyll vndar cloke of his defence tiranniouslye defend mens traditiones or thrust them on other men against their wylls contrarie to the Lordes commaundemeÌ„t But those thinges comonlye delyght and please much bettar which wee our selues haue chosen then those whych gods lawes prescribe Neyther againe haue we here to feare any tumult if mens preceptes rules especiallye being superstitious be remoued out of the chirch wher bye we kyndle and prouoke the wrath of God But rayther the nerar we shall come to Chrystes institution and orders and the farthar wee shall departe or go frome Antechrystes institutions and orders the more quiet peace and rest of the Rcalme haue we to loke for That policie and wysdom of mans reason which seketh and promiseth it selfe peace by vnlaw full meanes is ficle sliperie and deceptfull Saul sekynge gods fauor by the sacrisices of the Amalachites whych were forbidden cast away hym selfe vnaduisedlye Ther is one way and meanes to attayne sastie and health by Yf we altogether tourne to repentaunce beleue the gosspell walke in innocencie of lyfe and retaine nothynge into the church which eyther hath not the expresse word of god for it or els drawe and take thence as out of a fountaine his infallable and sure grownd of beginynge And then that trew Pastors and such as be paynfull and diligent in teachyng be placed and set ouer churches dome and enill Shepeherdes being excluded and thrust forth so shall the Kynge and hys people florrishe according to the promises of God often repeted in the Prophetes Bullengerus Decade quinta sermone none IT is open'y knowen that our Lord in his first supper and that the Apostles also in the celebratioÌ„ of the supper vsed A common and honest garment therefore hit is not contrarie to the first institution yf the Minister go to the Lordes table arayed with his owne garment so that it be comly and honest sucrlyc they that are communicantes vse no other garmentes then their common garmentes here had men nede to take hede that supersticion creape not in it semeth that the old Fathers vsed A cloke or an ouermost garmet aboue their common garment But they did not that by any example they had of Christ or hys Apostles but after the tradition of man At the length thys stuffe that we see at this tyme was gathered by following of the Sacerdotall aparell of the old lawe and was cast vppoÌ„ the Ministers that wolde minister the communion And Innocentius the third of that name doth not conceale that But we haue learned a great whyle a goe that the leuiticall rites and ceremonies are not onelye abrogated But that they ought not to be brought againe into the Church by any man Therfore when as we lyue in the lyght of the Gospell and not in the shadevv of the lavve by good right vve cast avvay that Massely and leuiticall apparell Bullengerus in the vi Chapter of the beginning of Errors THe Fathers of old time had vsed a playne garment and nor greatly costly which they vsed in celebrating of the sacramentes and other gods seruice for the most part they were couered with an ouermost garment whiles the Minister went about to serue the Chirch at the table of the Lord. For of olde time the Priest was couered with that garment which seemed to euery countrie most honest whilest he did consecrate and deuide the bodie and blood of the Lorde But the stuffe that is vsed now a dayes was fet from the Iewish priesthode as Rabanus is the witnes which in the first booke of his institutions and the xiiii chapter and in those that followe doeth diligently declare how that thys attire in all poinctes is like vnto the apparell of Aaron And Innocentius the Pope for this atryre vtterlie vvomanishe and lyke vnto maideÌ„s playes was so bold as openly to pronounce and giue sentence that not all the customes of the lawe are not abolished or put downe And these doth he wright in the iiii booke and iiii chapter of the misticall sacrament of the Altare Musculus vppon the second Chapter of the Epistell of Sainct Paule to the Ephesianes IN this our age there ar some that earnestlye go about that the partes that are at debate sholde be brought vnto vnitie Blind sekers of vnitie but they erre in that wheras they goe aboute to seke it not in Christ whych maketh them one that at at debate But thinke not that vnitie may be gotten after this manner that we should go back ouer vnto theÌ„ and returne and be made Papistes agayne but by this

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