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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	body_n	foot_n	head_n	5,778	5	5.9669	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08910	A generall free pardon or Charter of heuyn blys very necessary for all true christe[n] people, wherin standeth clene remission of all our synnes, to all penytent [and] faythfull hertes. Not gyuen by any popysh collusyon, but by Iesu Christ, son of the lyuyng God. Compyled in our old Englyssh tong, in the yere of our lorde God. M. iiii. C. nether addyng to nor dymynysshyng fro, saue only some old wordes, turned into our new maner and accostomed spekyng. God save the Kyng.		1542 (1542)	STC 19187; ESTC S119987	4,960	16

¶ A generall free Pardon or Charter of heuyn blys / very necessary for all true christē people / wher in standeth clene remission of all our synnes / to all penytent faythfull hertes Not gyuen by any popysh collusyon / but by Iesu Christ / son of the lyuyng God Compyled in our old Englyssh tong / in the yere of our lorde God M.iiii C. neither addyng to nor dymynysshyng fro / saue only some old wordes / turned into our new maner and accostomed spekyng * GOD SAVE THE KYNG I.N.R.I. Here begynneth the pardon or chartre of heuyns blys EVery wyse man that cle●●●●● or desyreth this heauenl● 〈◊〉 asketh great pardō / kepe 〈◊〉 ●●●●sely and hath oft mynd vpō the charter of his chalēge / the●lore ech man lerne to lyue vertuously / and kepe haue mynd vpon the chartre of heuens blys / study busely stedfastly the wyt of this bul for the perdō therof shal dure wtoute end therfore vnderstād thou well that the chartre of this heritage / the bul of this euer lastīg pardō / is our lord Iesu christ writtē with al the myght vertu of god / The parchemēt of this heuēly chartre / is neyther of sheep / ne of calfe / but it is the body the skyn of our lord Iesu christ the lamb / that neuer was spotted with wem or spot of syn there was neyther skyn of sheep neyther of calfe / so sore so hard strayned on the teyntur / eyther harow of any parchemēt maker / as was the blessed body skyn of our lord Iesu Christ / for our lyfe streyned drawen vpō the yebet of the crosse And ther neuer man herde fro the begynnynge of the worlde / tyll nowe / neyther shal vntyll domes day / that euer wrytes wrote vpō shepes skyn / eyther on calues with so hard hydous pēnys so bytter so sore or so depe / as writtē the cursed Iues vpon the blessed body swete skyn of our Lorde Iesu Christ / with hard nayles sharp spere / sore pryckynge thornes in stede of theyr pēnys for they wrote them so sore so depe / that they perced his handes and fete with hard nayles / opened his hart with a sharpe spere / and pressed vpon his hed a crowne of sharpe thornes that lyghtly perced his brayne pan The woundes vpon that blessed body swete skyn of our Lorde Iesu Christ / were in stede of letters / as clerkes sayen specially saynt Ancelme that there were opē woūdes vpon the blessed body of Christ by nombre / fyue M. CCCC.lxxv this is the nombre of the letters / with which our chartre was wrytten / by the whiche chartre we may clayme our herytage yf we lyue ryghteously and kepe this chartre stedfastly in mynde The sentence and vnderstandyng wrytten within and without this blessed chartre / and body of our Lorde Iesu Christ / is our beleue For he is the cofer / in whom is closen locken all the treasure / wyt wysdom of god Also vpon this blessed chartre was wrytten / waylyng mournynge / songe sorow / for sorow of our synnes for the which sinnes to be heled wasshē away / Christ god and mā must suffre so hard paynfull woundes Vpō Christes body that is our heuēly chartre / was wrytten sygnifieng to al tho that perfytly forsakē their synnes for they han full medecyn helth through vertu of the bytter woundes precious blood of Iesu And vpon the woūdes of Iesu / maye be red sorow to al them that for fals lust lykyng that dureth but a whyle / byndē thē self so sore to synne seruage of the fende / lesen the helpe of theyr heuenly chartre so theyr herytage wēden or go blyndly to sorow that dureth for euer The lacys of this heuēly chartre / ben behestys of god / and that god may not lye / for he is souerayne truth The fyrst lace is his behestys / that what day or ower a synful man or womā leueth their syn / holy hertly with bitter sorow tourne them to him / he shall receyue them to his mercy But yche man beware that he tary not to longe / lest for his owne vnkyndnes / grace be taken fro him The second lace is the ful trust that we han or haue / that god may not lye / ne ther be fals of his behestes here in hangeth syckerly the trust of our herytage by these two lacys / hāgeth the sele of our charter / seled with the bloud of the lambe Christ that is Christes flesshe / taken of the clenest dropes of bloud / in the swetest virgyn Mary / more craftely and meruelously / than euer any may be by craft of kynde / gather the wax of floures of the felde The prynt of this sele / is the shap of our lorde Iesu christ / hangyng on the crosse for our synnes / as we may se by the Image of the Crucyfyx for he hath his hed bowed downe / redy to kys all those that verely turne to him Also he hath his armys spred abrode / redy to be clyp them and he is nayled to the cros fast / both fete and handes for he wyll dwell with them and neuer wende away from them but if they forsake him fyrst / through syn And he hath al his body spred abrode / to gyue him selfe holly to vs cleuyng to him / and verely he hath his syde openyd / his hert clouen for our sake so that without lettyng we must crepe into his herte rest there thorow stedfast beleue herty loue This charter may no fyer bren / ne water drēch or drowne / neither thefe robbe / neyther any creature destroy For this scrypture the father of heuen hath halowed / eyther made stedfast / and sent it into the worlde the which scrypture may not be vndo / as the gospel wytnesseth This scripture is our lord Iesu christes Charter and Bul of our herytage of heuen Locke not this chartre in thy cofer / but set it ether wryts it in thy hert / all the creatures in heuen neither in erth / neither in hell / maye not rob it / neither bren it from the / but if thou wylt thy selfe / assentyng to syn And if thou kepest well this Charter in the cofer of thy hert / with good lyuyng and deuout loue / lastingly to the end / as trustly trewly / as he is true god Thorow vertu of this Charter / thou shalt haue thy herytage of blys / that lasteth with outen ende Now therfore hast we to penauns / as saynt Austen byddeth / and the last day be euer afore our eyen Refrayne we our bodyes from byces euyll coueytynges / euer let our hertes thynke heuenly thynges / that whan we come thyther / we vse fully heuēly goodes for why we beleue / that whan our soule shal be