Selected quad for the lemma: ground_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	fruit_n	good_a	tree_n	4,708	5	8.6623	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10772	An exposition in the epistell of Iude the apostel of Christ wherein he setteth playnly before euery mans eyes false apostels, and theyr craftes, by ye which they haue longe receyued symple christian people.	Ridley, Lancelot, d. 1576.	1538 (1538)	STC 21042; ESTC S104543	43,103	150

him selfe Seconde by the knowledge and phrase of the tonges as oflaten grece and hebrue Thyrdely by the exposycions of the holy doctours that was exercysed in scripture as by the exposycion of sainct Augustyne Hierome Ambrose Chrisostone Liprian Lirill and suche lyke and theyr exposycyons taken where it agreeth with scrypture and forsakynge where they agree not with Scrypture as these Authours wolde their writynges to be taken as apereth in their workes these authors wolde haue no man so addycted vnto theyr sayinges that what so euer they shulde speke or had written that it shulde be beleued as truth and as an arcycle of the fayth but they made the scrypture of God to be iudge of their writinges They be trees rotten in authum vnfrutefull / twyse deade / and plucked vp by the rotes Iude compareth these pseudapostels or false doc●ors to rotten trees in ●●●e of haruest vnprofytable he calleth thē because they bring furth no good frute but only occupieth the grounde where good trees shulde growe these wychered trees be lyke to other trees whiche bringeth fourth good frute in tyme conuenyent these trees as other doth bud they brynge forth leues blossoms and floures but they be withoute frute in tyme of haruest then they be wethered not only vnprofytable without frute but also they be twyse deade to them selues and to other that is to saye they brynge death to them selues and also to other that beleueth them they be as trees deade and plucked vp by the rotes as deade and rotten so they besuch as in whōe there is no hope of amendment as in the tre pluckyd vp there is no hope that it shulde receiue rote and lyfe agayne Trees that be wethered in haruest do not liue agayn ne growe but they rote euer more and more and at the last falleth downe deade they be vnprofytable burdeins and lodes of the earth nother profytable to them selues nor other such be these pseudapostels Also they be as trees twyse deade nother they lyue in themselues nor in other they lyue nother in bodye nor in soule they be deade in the rote in the stocke without lefe without frute for they be deade that is to saye they haue nother true fayth hope nor charyte nor yet good workes nor holsom doctrine to teache them selues and other they be also trees plucked vp by the rotes that is to saye they be rased oute from the boke of life and cleane separated from Christ howe muche someuer they bost and crake them to be planted grafted in Christe and to lyue in Christe and bringe furth frute that pleased Christe beste yet Iude sayth they be seperated from Christ and deade in Christ Iude is alwaye contrary to theyr proude opynion of them selues whiche he laboreth to plucke from them They are the ragyng waues of the see foming out their owne shame Iude contynueth styll descrybyng these pseudapostels he calleth them the ragynge waues of the see for as these outrageouse waues fearse and cruell doth tosse the quiet and peaciable shyp nowe vp nowe downe now this way nowe that waye maketh the shyp them that be in it euer in parel of drouning wyl not suffer thē to be quyet But what doth these troublesom waues of that se nothing els put fometh out theyr foome and fylthynes and theyr owne shame so these pseudapostels do troble and vexeth quiet and peaceable men moore outragyouse then the see whiche somtyme ceaseth of this outragiousnes and is caume These pseudapostels be more outragyouse then the see for they neuer ceaseth to troble vex and dysquyet those that wolde lyue in quietnes peace These pseudapostels stereth vp contencion debate and strif they troble the common quyetnes the common peace they trouble the hoole worlde perswadyng them selues to be the lyght the lanterne of the worlde theym to be the poostes and pyllers of Christes church with the which Christ hath promysed euer his presence to the ende of the worlde and that they can not erre and yet their lyfe is contrarye to that lyfe that GOD requyreth of his church to whome he promysed his presence and for this commeth suche cumult such trouble in the worlde that men wyl not beleue them saying they haue the presence of god always with them that they can not erre nor god wold not suffer them to erre so longe for this they rage they rampe they be wode they troble all good men these that wolde lyue quietly they vexe they trouble they do them iniuries speke euyll rayle on them shamefully but in so doyng what gete these pseudapostels to them selues trewly nothyng els but that Iude here sheweth they fome spewe out their owne shame rebuke to their vtter cōfusiō Beholde to what purpose ende cōmeth these proude wordes of pseudapostels truly to their owne great shame cōfusion their craft their suttelry their hypocrisye is knowen well ynough let them therfore halte no more before crepyls their madnes shall be knowen to all men as sait Paule sayth ii Tim̄ iii. They are wanderynge sterres to whome is reserued the myst of darknes for euer Also Iude calleth them wanderyng sterres because they be wauerynge as these sterres be mouable inconstant tost moued with euery winde so be these pseudapostels incōstant moued with euery wynde of the flesshe or of desyre of the world be caryed whether the desyre of the fleshe moueth them also wauering sterres gyues no lyght but darkes the lyght of other starres letteth the lyght of clere sterres they be caryed of the wynde whether that wynde bloweth the nature of these starres these pseudapostels foloweth men lyght in cōdition maners lernynge whiche wyll go chaunge as the wynde bloweth say as the worlde most part sayth for lucres sake play Gnatoes parte very well as Terence doth say what other men say they wyll say the same and fassion them selfe to the most parte caryng no thynge what the trewth wyll or requireth but rather what the heed rulers the multitude wyll cōmaundeth although we knowe the most part to be ignorant of that trewth for many shal be dāpned few saued wherfore it is not always sure to agre to the most parte To whom is reserued the myst of darknes for euer Now Iude sheweth the paine reserued for these pseudapostels maysters of lies the myst of darknes that is to say euerlastyng payne ī darknes where shal euer be darknes wepyng gnasshing of ceth He doth appere to allude to them bryngynge in darknes to the lyght of trewthe what darknes they bring to the light no man can expresse ne shewe and those at the last shall receyue euerlasting darknes in paynes Iude here dothe feare men from synne for feare of payne shewynge synners that wyl not repēt not to escape euerlasting payne whiche shal be in darknes to theyr great cōdempnacion punyshmēt Therfore let no man thinke that he may synne escape