Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	aaron_n	abel_n	moses_n	35	3	6.4700	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11166	A remembraunce for the maintenaunce of the liuynge of ministers and preachers nowe notablye decayed exhibited vnto the right reuerend father in God Thomas Bishop of Elye ...	Ruddoke, Thomas.	1551 (1551)	STC 21435.5; ESTC S2306	13,537	53

thancke God and to pray for the gracious prosperitie of theyr moost worthye Kynge and his honorable and lerned couÌ„cell then for this matter and also to be the more encoraged to declare themselues louing to the faithful ouerseers and setters out of this doctryne yea and that much more then they were to the idle lubbers and domme dogges of that monstreous ReligioÌ„ in times paste Many at this daie wil fayne to be verie glad to heare the gospel but wheÌ„ it cometh to passe that eyther they may do a displesure to the setter out of it or by any pryuy meanes hindre him of that whiche is his very deutie then they shew coÌ„trary to goddes doctryne wyth al ernestnes theyr hypocrisye which they haue longe norished in their dissembling hartes both towardes the worde and the preachers thereof Thess v. No small garde also of suche brethren there is that litle passe either of god or of good ordre thinckyng themselues to be parfect maisters when in dede they were neuer good scollers whych wil say why sholde they be chargeable vnto vs let them labour with their haÌ„des as Paule did Wherin their errour blindnes doth appeare in that they thyncke the offyce of preachinge the word were an idle thinge not labour Al though saiÌ„ct paule as we read actes xx dyd get his liuinge wyth his handes and lefte that whych was dewe wyth them to whome he had preched whiche thinge he dyd by libertie and not by necessity Yet he lost not his ryght of axing hys deutie which lawfully he might haue had ii Cor. ii This Apostle as he witnesseth Robbed other congregations and toke wages of them that he myght preache the Gospell frelye to the Corinthians ii Cor. ii and to do them seruice Sainct Augustine therefore in his booke of workes sayeth If they be euangelistes yf they be ministers they muste lyue of the goodes of the faythfull Christe promysed vnto his Apostles the same commauÌ„ded theÌ„ to reserue of the people thynges necessary Temporalties ought to serue as instrumentes to spirytual thinges and so that benefyte to be giuen to the preachers offyce ayde of his liuynge The worcke maÌ„ is worthy his wages that is yf they receiuing of the temporall reward be spent in the administracion of spiritual thinges and not laied vp in coffres but bestowed in necessities and kepynge houses of hospitalitie not in purchasynge of great possessions or in mainteining pompe pryde delicate feare fedinge of houndes hawkes carding and disinge and suche lyke euelles for of suche heate what is said in scripture Iob. xxi They haue ledde their dayes in vanitie and welth but sodenly they go downe to hel These bee they that executeth theyr offyce not as Peter Paule did but as Iudas amongest the apostles as Simon Magus amongest the dysciples These I saye are blinde guides to the people eueÌ„ as smoke the blindeth mens eyes in stead of a clere light Therfore this senteÌ„ce is worthy to ruÌ„ne vpoÌ„ them That they be cast ouer the borde be put out of their Romes other to be placed It is a sentence also moste pithie to admonishe them where as the apostle sayth Timo. iiii take hede vnto your selues see that you ronne in this world that you may receiue a ful reward as the PhilippiaÌ„s did i. Cor. ix which pleÌ„tifully distributed that manyfold grace giueÌ„ by paule his preching which walked in their vocatioÌ„ not in the pompe of the world whiche distributed not studied to lay vp and hyde In like maner the couetousnes that in these dayes generally reigneth I knowe not whyther it be more worthy to be lameÌ„ted then spokeÌ„ vnto the practises be shamefull that they vse for the brynging in of money their mouthes are as wide as hel neuer beiÌ„g content but groping for occupieÌ„g not of fermes but of townes not of Townes but of hole contreis in the desier of encroching they be so roted that they cast in their hertes how they may defraude euery man of his liuing or at the least of some parte thereof And also wyth what spytefull rebukes tauntings and sclauÌ„dringes those couetous men deface and put to sylence the earnest setters out of the doctrine of Christ it is woÌ„derfull and to muche shame to speake of They would make the ministres their seruauÌ„tes the preachers coloters berers with their wickednes of whoÌ„ the prophetes speketh This is an obstinat people dissemblynge Chyldren Esai xxx that refuseth to heare the law of the Lord. For they say vnto the seers se not to theÌ„ that be clere of iudgemeÌ„t loke not out right thiÌ„ges for vs but speke faire wordes vnto vs. The worke of robery is in their handes Esai lix in the waye of crafte and falsehode they go but the waye of the Lorde they wyl not knowe But no meruayle it is in dede that the worlde at this day is thus bent towardes the stewards and disposers of the secretes of God for it hath bene so sence the beginning Take Abel for example what small fauour had Moses and Aaron amonge the cruell Iues Gene. iiii Num. xvi when they brought theÌ„ out of Egipt with many others mo as Iacob Ioseph Dauid Elias Yea when the wyse men shewed kynge Herode that the Kynge of the Iewes was borne he was sore vexed and al Ierusalem with him Mat. ii It is no smal vexation and disturbaunce that riseth at the true sounde of goddes worde amongest a nombre of couetous men and pharesies But verely as when the Kingdome of the papistes religion florished it brought forth riches and then riches as it were her daughter springing vp so fast deuoured the mother Euen so I feare me we shall fall nowe into a worse extremitie then that was thorough neade and necessitye and be compelled to do as when a mans scyence fayleth him Act. iiii v. And therefore I can not a little alowe the fathers of the primitiue church which sold al that euer they had for the maintenaunce of Christes gospel nether was there any amongest theÌ„ that lacked Yea theÌ„ also which founded Colledges giuing great yerely rentes for the staiyng and vpholding of learning froÌ„ time to time with mani diuerse wel affected meÌ„ vnto vertue knowledge whiche were woÌ„t to giue exhibicioÌ„ to scolers in vniuersities and bringe vp pore mennes sonnes in learninge And now what streames of teares maye seme sufficiente vnto vs in speakinge of the wonderful decay thereof which wil be the very bringing in againe of ignorauÌ„ce barbarousnes cruelty And wher as the lawes of this Realme bindeth Clerkes of C.li. liuinges to finde certen scollers in the vniuersityes Yet they be so slouthfull them selues haue so lytle minde to that that they do not studye that it were as good no lawe to be made and better for then were it no offence to theyr coÌ„science not to do that they knew they were not bound to do

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