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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	aaron_n	acquaint_v	moses_n	49	3	7.0477	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14354	A treatise of the cohabitacyon of the faithfull with the vnfaithfull Whereunto is added. A sermon made of the confessing of Christe and his gospell, and of the denyinge of the same.	Vermigli, Pietro Martire, 1499-1562.; Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575. aut; Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567, attributed name.	1555 (1555)	STC 24673.5; ESTC S118516	95,107	174

hardely at lēghth could that euell be roted out Yea that euell hath so preuailed that euen vntill our tymes in Spayn namely and in sum other places also ther be many which do not only holde still the ceremonies of Moses lawe with the professiō of christe but they do thincke them to be necessarie vnto Saluacion They emongst the Spaniards which be of this mynde ar called Marrani And vnto this daye the churche of India is enfected with the same vice But let the examples of the holy scripture I praye you teache vs euen the same The Israelites which wer captyues in Babilon by the space of 70. yeares when they hadd libertie gyuen them furst of Cyrus then of Darius thos two most noble Kinges to return they did not all forthewith return but a great nūber of thē such namely as wer weaker in the lorde thē other being delighted with the commodities ād pleasures of their houses feildes and traffique of merchandize did abide still amon ge the chaldees ●…ich men how sharpely they wer reproued of Esdras Nehemias Zacharias and other prophetes it dothe playnly appeare in the scripture to them that liste to seake and knowe it How the Israelites wer infected throughe that conuersacion which they hadd with the Egiptiās it appearith playnly by this that whilest they wer in the desert when as yet the wonderfull benefites of godd wer euen before ther eyes they did fall frō the lord their dilyuerer vnto Idolatrie and vnto that kinde of Idolatrie which they wer acquaynted with all in Egipte Ther they hadd seene howe the Egiptians worshipped an Oxe they therfor violently trauailed with Aarō when Moses was absent that he shuld make thē a calf to worshipp which when he hadd doone thē began they ioyously to crye Theise ar thi godds O. Israell which brought the out of the lande of Egypt Agayn when by the desert wild and barren places they wer comme to the coastes of the Moabites and be gan to waxe more familiar with them then became the poeple of godd through that familiaritie they wer brought to this that not only they did cō mitt most vile whordom with thos beastly womē but also that they sacrificed vnto their most shamefull Idoll Baal peor and suffred themselues to be coupled vnto his sacrifices for which they suffred many miseries and calamities Peter likewise when he cāme into that wicked court of the cheif prest and was ther conuersant emongst thos dam sels and vngodly seruantes most miserablie did he denie ād forsweare his master christe our Sauiour which his fault after he departed frō thence he did bewaile with abundaunce of teares By the se histories ye may playnly see what happenith vn to the weake through that familiar conuersacion which they haue with the vnfaithful Esaye the pro phet when he did se the lorde sitting vppon his sea te of glorie with his Angels about hym most pure ly publishing his prayse though he semith not to thincke hymself greatlye gyltie of ony notable cryme or fault yet cryeth he out O wo is me 〈◊〉 I dwell amonge a poeple that hath vncleane lyppes This man of godd truly did thincke that he hadd gotton no small corruption and infection bi cause he hadd lyued long with an vncleane poeple The histories of the heathen do teache vs the same thinge Alexander that gret and mightie kinge of Macedonia who by the force of armes and most notable victories hadd subdued the greatest parte of the whole worlde Euen he hymself was ouercomme with the maniers of the Persians And vppon whom of right as vppon a conquered poeple he shuld haue laied lawes to haue brought them to that seuere kinde of lyfe which the Macedo nians vsed euen he as a mā cōquerred ād ouercōme of ther maniers suffered hymself to be so shame fully misused that he did take vnto hym their kinde of araye their lewse delicacie their pompe and pri de and set●…furthe hymself to be worshipped of thē as godd And so being corrupted he did altogether fall from the maniers of the grecians through which he did sustayn great reproche amonge the wise and mutche hatred amonge his souldiours ād that not vnworthilie Besids this we must kno we that if these men do without ony Rule or godly end keape such companye and be familiarly con uersant with the vnbeleauers except that in theise the fruite of their conuercion do quickly appeare and of the other also it be by all meanes ernestly sought both in the reprouing of their vnbeleif ād in alluring them to the truithe It doth happen that ther conuercion is hindred by such companie and familiaritie For whilest the vnbeleuers do se that the faithfull do lyue so frendly and familiar ly with them they do iudge forthewith that their supersticion and vnbeleif is not so wicked a thinge nor yet a thinge so to be abhorred ād condēned as it is reported yea thus maye they be brought to imagin that they maye be saued though they do perseuere and contynue in their vnbeleif For if it wer otherwise shall they thincke theise goode and godly men wold not be thus familiar and frendly with vs. I do omitt to speake of this that many other of the brethern ther ar which by the example of this conuersacion do persuade themselues that they maye do euen the self same thinge and so do beare with the wicked and do wincke at their euell bicause that they haue seene other men do so before them And thus it commith to pas that by the example of sum men this euell spreadith itself abroa de so that in the end our faith and Religion is euē layed forth for the wicked and vngodly to mocke and contempn Often tymes also that thing happenith which we reade to haue happened in Pauls tyme amon ge the Corinthians that the brethern by this conuersaciō ar brought to be partakers of the wickednesses vile custumes and Idolatries of the vnfaithfull Which familiar conuersacion dothe not only couple them with the vnfaithfull but it is a meane to make them Idolatrours for th auoiding of which Paule cryeth out in the same place fle Idolatrie I do likewise passeouer with silence that wher our weake and vnlearned brethern do thus ioyne themselues in familiar conuersacion with the vnfaithfull it can not be but betwene them and the vnfaithfull sumtyme ther will happen communicacion of Religion And thē though it happ so that through want of learninge our weaklinges do not slyppe and foile them selues Yeat bicause they can not dissolue and answer vnto the arguments and subtile reasons of the aduersaries aptly ther arisith then contentius stryfes betwen them and not only this but euel speakinges reproches and hatreds which thinges ar so farr from edifying that they do altogether hynder and lett it furthermor in these conflictes it hap penith that our weaklinges at lenghth ar putt to silence so that they neither speake to confes thtruithe