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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	believe_v	faith_n	holy_a	1,461	5	5.2636	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17236	A briefe answer, vnto those idle and friuolous quarrels of R.P. against the late edition of the Resolution: by Edmund Bunny. Whereunto are prefixed the booke of Resolution, and the treatise of pacification, perused and noted in the margent on all such places as are misliked of R.P. shewing in what section of this answer following, those places are handled	Bunny, Edmund, 1540-1619.	1589 (1589)	STC 4088; ESTC S112819	102,685	176

and sense of the other for the hast that you made to come the sooner vnto your vaine of reproching though the matters themselus be not great yet therin you deserue som iust reproofe But it seemeth rather that of purpose you would so take them so to make you a readier way to that which you were desirous thereon to set downe And then the more impudently that you were giuen to ioine with so bad a company in so naughtie a matter the more dooth it argue the fault to raigne in you and the deepelier you haue offended therein But if I therein treated of mortification and contempt of the world then must you either seperate these things from that deuotion pietie and contemplation that after you speake of or else must you call backe as well you may for the number of them some part of those lauishing speeches that there you vse or otherwise bee contrarie to your selfe in this But the lesse that I directed mine Epistle vnto that ende the meeter it is that for my part I take not this aduauntage of you 7 My Praeface to the Reader is the next that commeth vnder your censure and how welcome that is vnto you it appeareth by the harde entertainment that with you it findeth For heere you shew your selfe to bee much offended not onelie with me but with others also And the cause why you finde your selfe so greeued is for that I saide that the Booke of Resolution seemed to me to be gathered out of certaine of the Schoole-men as they are tearmed that liuing in the corrupter time of the Church did most of all by that occasion treat of reformation of life when as others of them were rather occupied about the controuersies that were most in question among them But what is there here that so much offendeth Forsooth that thereby I endeuored as you do charge mee to make the booke more contemptible in the iudgement of others that so I might the rather get it vnder my learned censure to vse at my pleasure But that I meant not to make it contemptible may sufficiently appeer both by the report that I gaue it better than your selfe before deserued but much lesse now by the paines that I tooke about it to cleanse it from that corruption of yours wherewith it could not haue come abroad and which was a blemish to the booke it self though you cannot see it Neither should you especially taking it so much to your selfe as now you do haue thought that book so far abased by imputing a good part of it to anie of those whom there I spake of as also you could not doe it without a great ouer-weening of your selfe nor without ouer-much abasing of those And wheras you tell vs of certaine fathers out of whose homilies sermons commentaries and other works the booke was taken in which man or you might haue attributed some parte thereof to the Scriptures also but that you glorie much lesse in thē than in the others that so your glorie may redoūd more iustly to your shame it is nothing at al to the purpose that so you alledge For thogh the matter therein contained were first deriued from the Scriptures and Fathers originally yet not withstanding that hindereth not but that it may well be taken out of the monuments and workes of those that wrote long after them gathered such matter somewhat neerer togither Now as for your selfe although it may bee that I doo not know you yet by the light that now you haue giuen vs of the profoundnes that is in you and if you bee the partie that most commonly is named vnto it you are I warrant you as likely as others to make your choyse rather where you may haue it neerer gathered togither then at large in the Scriptures and Fathers themselues That heerein you charge mee so deepely with ignorance and that my studie is lesse than nothing at all in those your Schoolemen the matter is not great if therein I suffer you to take your pleasure of mee and when you haue made mee as vnlearned in them as shall like your selfe best or best may serue to aduance you it may bee that I my selfe could wel be contented to spare somewhat of that also that you would leaue mee and yet notwithstanding am not so little acquainted with them neither that anie thing I feare your learning in them or in any others And God be thanked there is much good learning to be had though a man doo neuer come neere those that you speake of as also there was long before them But I pray you good Sir are you able to alledge anie one of them all from whome a good part of that booke may not bee deriued either among those that dealt in the controuersies if you respect your pointes or doctrine or among the others if you respect the rules of life and conuersation Or to go no further than your selfe hath occasioned may we thinke that you are perswaded indeed that this booke which nowe you cal yours standeth so cleere in all your parables vnderstanding of Scriptures application of them your diuisions also and manner of speech from that sort of Schoolemen that before I spake of or you nowe speake of that whosoeuer should conceiue that in som good part it descended of them he must needs be so ignorant in them as that he knoweth not so much as the verie subiect and argument that they handle as it pleaseth you in the depth of that learning of yours to charge mee Could you warrant mee thus much that it were as woorthy the labour as it were possible inough to doo it it were no hard matter soone to shewe that a great part of it might well haue beene taken not onely out of those that before I noted but as you had dressed it in such colours as you thought good to bestow vppon it euen out of those that you also haue named vnto me When as in the first lines of al after your title and sentenced that you set vs down you cannot be content to be our resoluing to serue God beginning aright and perseuering therein to be our dutie and an acceptable seruice to him but needes you will teach vs forth seeke saluation thereby not by the righteousnes of Christ but by our owne when you tell vs that our forefathers receiued the ground of faith peaceably and without quarrelling not from the holy scriptures or frō their father but from their mother the Church when as so barely you set vs down the example of Cornelius as though you would make vs beleeue that hee had works or a vertuous life acceptable to God before that euer hee had any faith when as you call it Scripture indifferently as well what you finde in those bookes that are Apochrypha as in those that are Canonicall when you tell vs that wilfulnes in Popery is suffering for righteousnes when as so odly you take occasion to let