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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	custom_n	king_n	tribute_n	1,660	5	11.1891	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16125	A godly consultation vnto the brethren and companyons of the Christen religyon By what meanes the cruell power of the Turkes, bothe may, and ought for to be repelled of the Christen people, Theodore Bibliander beinge the author. Thow shalt also fynde here (most gentle reader) of the reasons wherwyth a firme and sure concorde and peace in the Churche, and the Christen publyke weale may be constytuted, and of the fyrst begynnynge and increacementes of the Turkes domynyon, and also of the superstytyous and damnable lawe of the Mahumetanes, and of other certen thynges moste worthy truly to be red and consydered.; Ad nominis Christiani socios consultatio. English	Bibliander, Theodorus, ca. 1504-1564.	1542 (1542)	STC 3047; ESTC S111613	144,753	308

and vyces of owre men / takynge an example at the Apostles and Prophetes / whyche many tymes by such a compēdyous waye dyd brynge the folowers of godlynes into a more inwarde knowledge of thēselfe / so that they might make thē to beholde in the lyfe of other straūge nacyons / as it hath bene in a glasse what is foule or honeste / what is good or euell in men clokyd / cowled / and hoodyd wyth tytles of names of holynes / and how moche euery thynge consysteth in hys awne kynde / for by the demonstratyon of comparyson it is more euidently sene what so euer they wolde knowe or not knowe eyther by ignoraūce or dissimulatyon / lokynge vpon the preceptes and iudgynge them selues to fauorablely Therfore yf it shal be knowne the same vngracyous dedes whyche we abhorre in the Turkes / or ells suche lyke / ye or greater myscheffes to be done amongste Christianes / that frely or wythoute any punyshment Agayne those vertues whych are prescrybed of oure master great Emperour Iesus Christ to be more gentlely nourished excercysed amōgste the parte takers of Mahumets superstytion enemyes of Chrystes crosse then amōgste fayned false Chrystianes it muste nedes be graunted as I suppose this ferce and cruell nation by the ryghteous iudgemente Marke this well for it toucheth the quyck of God to be styred vp and brought vpon vs / whiche myght reproue oure peruersite and take iuste vengeāce vpon vs / because we haue contemned and troden vnderfote The pouer ād vertu of the Christē relygyon the lawe of oure god and Christen relygion And therfore at the same relygion must I begynne to declare my mynde whose power is knowne to be very great in all degrees bothe in magistrates and The poetes do say ●e that because Or o●nothe●s has made a man of claye and 〈◊〉 ●●er 〈◊〉 frō heauē●●● lyfe into hym Iupiter sent Pandora a woman with a boxe full of alkyndes of dyseases vnto hym / but he refused it / whose brother Epsmetheus opened it / a● then all maner of syknesses flewe abrode pryuate persons / in warre and peace and in euery age and condycion of men The whyche also whyles it is kepte whole inuyolate deliuereth kyngdomes / natiōs and cyryes and all men from euyll But beyng corrupte / it openeth as it were the boxe of Pandora and powreth abrode all maner of myscheffein to the world More ouer as we knowe that there is but one onely holy and true euerlastynge and lyuynge God / so do we confesse that there is but one onely holy and true relygion / whyche of Christe the sonne of God of the virgyn Marye the onely medyatour betwene God and man is called Christiane And it contayneth an euerlastyng couenaunte that the Lorde is oure God and we agayne hys people holy and consecrated / wyth oute the whych felouship or cummunion of sayntes with Christe beste and greateste / there is not graunted of God vnto men any felycyte or promisse of blysed lyffe But the wrathe of God The diffinycyon of ● relygion and all maner of calamityes with deathe at the laste and extreme miserye Nether can I for the medyocrite or lytle quantite of my vnderstondynge in fewe wordes better defyne relygion then to be as I myght call it a lyffe or a lyuynge nature and a vertuous dysposiciō put in to men by the worde of God / whiche maketh mē to be truly myse good / blyssed / for why it bryngeth moste true and sure knowlege of the greateste goodnes and also of the onely good God and his true worship and maketh vs pleasant and acceptable vnto hym / and styrrethe vp the mynde wyth holy affectyons towardes God and men and also calleth vake oure myndes from those thinges whyche be contrarye to godes diuine plesure therfore ought they to be taken as fylthye and vnhoneste Furthrmore it maketh constancye to gro we in oure brestes / lest we taken with the loue of the vayne flatterynge kynde or shadowe of good thinges or elles with the feare of any mysfortune hāging ouer oure heades / myghte be caryed awaye / The pray se and cōmendaciō of religiō with euerye wynde from those thinges that be very vertuous and good in dede / oute of the whiche fountayne of religion floweth and cometh all offices and noble actes / and all that integryte or innocēcye of lyuyng / vertu and conueniēcye which is called holynes Thys gyueth power and goodnes to the lawes This gyueth Authoryte vnto the magistrates and maketh the people to be iustely obediēt / whē at the commaundement of theyer celestiall father and lorde of heauen and erthe / they gyue vnto euerye man what so euer is dew / whether it be honoure or tribute custome or rent or any other thinge Religion alone makethe a good Kinge / a good consull / a good alderman and counceller / a good minister and doctor of religion / a good cittizynne / a good souldier a good marchant / a good husbandman / and a good workeman Relygion coupleth men to gether with moste holy bondes / bothe the magistrates and the people committed vnto them / the parentes and the children / the husband and the wyffe / the cyttizynne with the cyttizynne to be frēdes and felowes / and bindeth the souldiours to theyr captaynes the people in whose name the batayle is holden with moste holyeste leages and othes to suffre to gether strongely and lyke men what so euer fortune chaunceth vnto them And that I may ons in few wordes vtter my hole mynde Religion is an infinyte treasure Religion brefely di● fined of all good thinges whyche no portion of mannes lyffe may wante no more thē the bodye may be with oute the soule whiche is the onely cause wherby it moueth / or the worlde may lacke the light of the sonne Therfor howe many so euer haue All godly men of all worldes were chrianes benein any worlde or in any nation / good and wyse men and the frendes of the immortal god / in conclusiō adscribed and noumbred to dwell amongst sayntes They were euer Christianes whyche truly by the worde and sonne of god / by the wisdome and truthe and goodnes of the celestiall father haue by eleccion and fre gyfte obtayned bothe wisdome and goodnes and that same thinge wiche is called blyssed euerlastynge lyffe Nether are those men forbydden or prohibyted from the felouship of Christianes whiche were not marked with the outward badge that is to saye were not baptysed in the name of Christe or Messias / seynge that Adam and after hym the wother Patriarkes euē the moste holy men truly were called in the holy scriptures the true worshippers of the lorde and the seruātes of god / but yet not Christianes Nether maketh it any matter by what way or by what meanes the sonne of god was declared knowne vnto the heithē / whether it were by