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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	6,232	5	10.0779	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04809	An epistle [s]ent to divers [pa]pistes in England prouing [th]e Pope to bee the beast in the [1]3 of the Reuelations, and to be the man exalted in the temple of God, as God, Thess. 2.2 ... / by F.K.	Kett, Francis, d. 1589.	1585 (1585)	STC 14944.5; ESTC S2164	14,613	51

not bee afrayd for any euill tidinges for his heart standeth fast and beleeueth in the Lord. Psal 112. The coppy of an Epistle sent to English pilgrems and papists 1584. By F. K. I Am moued by the royall law of God which is to loue our neighbour as our selus and to doe good to our enemies to write to intreate you my desired to the truth ●f the Gospell to heare and reade the wordes ●f exhortation vnder your duety in the feare ●f God and reuerence to his Gospell hoping ●hat the sweete motion and tendernes of your ●ules health will moue you hereūto Wherin ●●rst I beseech you to measure the breadth ●●●ength and deapth of your inward man and ●he path of your saluation by the ballaunce of ●he pure Scriptures and not by traditions ●●d decrees seing that the Scriptures are a●●e to make you wise to saluation Tim. 2.3 through ●ith in Christ Iesus Therefore seing that ●●w is the accepted time yea now be the dayes 〈◊〉 health in which Christ Reu. 3. according to Iohn ●●th set the doore of his Gospell open it is high time that you wake out of sleepe and enter with the bridegrome while the doore is op●● lest you fall into strong delusion and stum●●● at noone day and looke for light when 〈◊〉 darknes For which cause say clearly am●●● your selfes Vp let vs go to our deare count●● of England and walke in the light of 〈◊〉 Lord and become true citizens with all fa●●●full alleigance to her beloued Maiesty 〈◊〉 so vndoubtedly and sincerely hath linked 〈◊〉 scepter to the scepter of Iuda For if thou d● desire Ezechias to raigne ouer Englād 〈◊〉 diligently walked in the law of the Lord 2. Cron. 29. ●●●ged his Realme of Idolatry set vp againe 〈◊〉 true worship of God and exhorted all his su●iects to follow the lawe of the Lord God t● behold blessed ELIZABETH the ●noynted of the Lord abounding in all 〈◊〉 giftes of vertue gouerning her Realme ●●cording to the purity of Gods word and tre●●● And if thou desirest Iosias that most go●● King 2. Cron. 34. which walked so purely in the waye● 〈◊〉 the Lord that he declined neither on the 〈◊〉 hand nor on the right who when the book 〈◊〉 the lawe was deliuered vnto hym did not on●y cause the booke to bee red before hym but ●e hym selfe red it and all Idolatyr destroyed restored the true religion to his Kingdome Or if thou wouldest haue Iosophat that walked in the commaundements of the Lord 2. Cron. 27. and ●oued Gods word so intirely that he sent his Princes Leuites and Priestes to teach in all partes of Iuda which had the bookes of Gods lawe with them and went about in all the Ci●●es of Iuda and taught the people then consider in the dexterity of consciēce our worthy gouernesse Queene ELIZABETH how that her Maiesty is not inferior to any of them in amplifying the glory of God and spreading abroade of his word For whereas Esdras red the lawe of the Lord plainely and distinctly to the people and they gaue very earnest and diligent attendance to the hearing of it so our imperiall Princesse 2. Es●l 8. and vertuous Queene hath caused the word of God to bee plainely red and preached through all her Realme by many a faithfull Esdras that euery man may plainely heare it and reade it them selfes to their soules consolation Wh●● is it then that you seeke for beyond the Sea● Hath not God promised that his Gospell sh●●● be preached to all nations and to euery peop●● in their proper Landes Math. 24. What then hast th●● to doe being an Israelite to walke againe 〈◊〉 the streates of Egypt or to wander in th● way to Assiria Behould sayth the Lord wh● hast thou now to doe in the streate of Aegyp● to drinke foule water Ieremy 2. or what makest thou 〈◊〉 the way to Assiria to drinke water of t●● floud Thy owne wickednes shall reproue the● and thy turning away condemne thee A●● so ye English pilgrems what make yee in t● streates of Rome or in the way to Italy 〈◊〉 feare that your owne thoughts condemne y●● and your turning away will bring you to he●uy destruction vnlesse yee repent O ther●fore come away and turne to the treuth a●● be not thereof ashamed for the Lord kno●eth your secret thoughts with whom you m●●● not dissemble and halt betweene two opi●●ons but bee faithfull vnto your Soueraig● Queene and let King Dauid be your exāp●● who would by no meanes lay blouddy handes vpon King Saule his enemy being the Lords anoynted Wherefore yee English Romaines examine your selues try out the deapth of your conscience remember the dreadfull day of Iudgement and be no longer deceyued for loe how wreched your state is to flie the light of the Gospell to seperate your selues from your alleigāce to hope for a day by mischiefe Esay 30. Know yee not that it is a woe to forsake the counsell of God to seeke and sticke to the counsell of men and knowe yee not that the Lord sayth woe bee those shrinken children which take a web in hand but not after my will Then see what web is this of youres to trust in pardons indulgences to commit supplications to Saintes to hope to be reskewed out of the paynes of fayned purgatory by a masse to buylde true godlines vpon outward ceremonyes and solemnities and to hold the word of God in an vnknowne language Ephes 5. knowe yee not that Paule sayth that whatsoeuer is manifest is light how can you then hold in true conscience that such kind● of religion is the light when as they are not manifest by the scriptu●es Wherefore Paule exhorteth you not to walke in the vanitye of minde Ephes 4 blynded in vnderstanding and Christ counselleth thee to buy of h●m pure gold Reu. 3. and to anoynt thine eyes with eye salue that thou mayst see How then can the Latyne Seruice be to thee an eye-salue to see the truth of Goddes worde when as thow canst neyther reade it nor vnderstand it Is it not an vncertayne sounde to an ignorant eare which can cary no truth of edifying when it is propounded vnto vs that all thinges should be done to edifye Then no doubt but that it is Gods holy will that the scriptures should be in our mother language as a pretious eye-salu● in our house that we may be established 〈◊〉 Gods holy truth and not be deceaued Harke● therfore deare Countrymen and be carefully aduised and learne to be wise to that which is good and innocent to that is euill and fauour not the preceptes ordinaunces of me● more then the institutions of God For sayth Paule he that studieth to please men is no the seruaunt of God Galath 1. and the Gospel sayth he which I preach I receaued it not of men Therefore take heede how yee looke after the traditions of men and follow superstitions seing the word of your