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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	church_n	day_n	sabbath_n	20,024	5	9.8526	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01629	The true tryall and examination of a mans owne selfe wherein euery faithfull Christian, by looking into his conscience, may most plainely behold his spirituall deformity by nature, described, his actuall rebellion by disobedience detected, his promise breach at baptisme, by ordinary transgression apparantly proued, his lamentable estate through sinne discouered, his wilfull obstinacie by dayly disorder displayed, and lastly howe by earnest repentaunce, and faith in Christ Iesu, he is from all the same clearely pardoned, forgiuen, released and reconciled / done in Englishe by Tho. Newton.	Hyperius, Andreas, 1511-1564.; Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.	1587 (1587)	STC 11761.5; ESTC S4316	74,045	216

God and hearing the sasacred scriptures recited and alleaged thou haue reuerently and godly bent thy selfe to that holy exercise attentiuely and religiously listening to that which was sayde Sinnes outward WHether in taking a solemn oth for any matter thou haue done it in any other sort then by reuerently calling on the name of God and citing him to witnesse and recorde of thy speech and dealing For by him only and by none other ought we too sweare And therefore great is their fault and greeuously doe they sinne that swear by heauen by earth by the members of God by Saintes by the crosse and such like Whether thou haue constantly affirmed any thing to be true whereof thou diddest not then knowe the certainty or at least wherof thou stoodest in doubt Whether thou haue sworne to doe any thing which thou diddest neuer meane to doe Whether thou euer procuredst any man to sweare knowing that he shold thereby take a false oath and sweare vntruely Whether thou haue euer in vaine vsed the naming of the woundes and death of Christe or other like thinges or actions of Christ to euil and lewde purposes or to wicked cursing and banning Whether otherwise at any other time thou haue rashly that is to say without iust and vrgent cause abused taken in vain the name of God Whether thou haue vsed thus to do of a certain peeuish wilful custome which certainly is a very wicked and horrible thing Whether thou haue not performed and done that which by solemne vow oth thou promisedst to do Whether thou haue bound thy selfe by vowe or oth to doe any thing that hath beene vnlawfull and wicked Whether thou haue mis-spent and abused those giftes wherewith God hath endued thee to any other purposes then to the aduauncement and setting foroth of Gods glory Whether I say thou haue abused those giftes eyther to the contumelye and dishonour priuilye or apertly of God or to any hurt and hinderāce of thy neighbor For in the gifts that God bestoweth vpon vs there shineth out the great dignity and Maiesty of God his blessed name Whether thou haue applied to vanitie such things as properly rightly are appertinent to God and of him onely are truely said and spoken And whether in thy familiar talke with others thou haue spoken of God and heauenly matters vainly scoffingly lightly ridiculously or vnreuerentlye Whether thou haue misused the holy Word of God conteined in the sacred Scriptures eyther by wresting it violently to other sense than it was meant spoken and vttered or in applying it to such matters and purposes as it ought not to bee applied vnto as namely to guming iesting balletting singing slanderous libelling pasquilling c. Whether thou haste adiured or enforced any man to sweare to doe or confesse any thing hauing no authority so to do or for no necessary matter or cause of importaunce but rather about some trifling toy and friuolous conceit or some such drift as tended to the daunger of such as bee good honest and godly Whether thou haste coniured Deuils or vsed the damnable art of Negromancy seeking help of wicked spirites or desiring to haue some thing by them brought to passe as though they had beene fit Ministers for such offices and purposes Whether thou haue adiured or enchanted any creatures vnreasonable euen such as be brute and dumbe or any hearbes and plantes or such like things hoping and meaning thereby to worke some straunge feat and wonderfull practise For the kinde of life WHether entring into any function or Colledge or into any other kind of life and solemnly promising by oth to obserue maintaine and keepe the lawes and orders therof thou haue accordingly so done and discharged thine oth As namely when a Iudge an Aduocate an Atturney or such like is first nominated and admitted to his place let him consider howe he dischargeth his oth whereby he then solemnely promiseth iustly truely to exercise his office So likewise a Graduate when he taketh his degree in Shooles A Scholler when he is admitted in a College a Citizen when he is enfranchized or elected into any office A Souldier when he is sworn to his Captaine a Craftes-man when he is made free and receiued into the society and fellowship of those of the same trade mystery or occupation c. Buyers and Sellers Whether the sooner to vttet their wares they haue vsed othes to their chap-men in bargaining and dealing with them affirming and protesting the same wares to bee good and faultlesse which notwithstanding they knewe well ynough to be defectiue naught deceitfull and faulty Whether they haue sworn that they payed more for their wares then in truth they did or that they would not sell the same any better cheape then the price they pitched and yet afterwarde haue done otherwise ¶ Suters for mariage Whether the sooner and easier to win the good will and consent the one of the other they haue vsed othes and asseuerations faithfully to doe this or that and to bee those persons which they pretended to be and yet in trueth haue bin found and prooued otherwise ¶ Souldiers These of all other sorts of people are found the readiest commōly to abuse vnreuerently the name of God and wilfully to make custome of periurie Finally whether in committing any of these afore-named thou haue been therby the cause of offence to others and ministred vnto them occasion to commit the like For being the cause of offence eyther in worde or deede to others thou makest thy selfe guilty of their sinne ouer and beside thine owne And whether when thou hast seene others disorderly to commit any of these outrages before expressed thou haue plainly shewed thy selfe to bee ●n vtter misliker thereof reproouing and reprehending them also for the same when time and place serued For in not dooing this thou consen●est vnto them in their folly and so ●y consenting entanglest and wrappedst thy self in other mens sinnes broughtest their euils vpon thine own head The fourth Commaundement Remember the Sabboth day that thou keepe it holy Sixe dayes shalt thou labour and doe all thy worke but the seuenth day is the Sabboth of the Lord thy God In it thou shalt not do any worke thou nor thy sonne nor thy daughter thy man seruaunt nor thy maide nor thy beast nor thy straunger that is within thy gates For in six daies the Lorde made heauen and the earth the Sea and all that in them is and rested the seuenth day therefore the Lorde blessed the sabboth day and hallowed it Sinnes inward COnsider here whether thou hast at all times reuerently and honorably thought of the ministery of the worde of the administration of Sacraments of the ceremonies and al exercises necessary expedient and profitable to the Church of God both for the encrease of Godlinesse and also of Discipline order and decency whether thou haste at all times willingly and dutifully framed and submitted

〈◊〉 with any 〈◊〉 and against their will which is called Rape or rauishment Whether thou hast abused thy 〈◊〉 by carnall dealing in anie other sorte or with anie other persons or creatures than by the lawe of nature is ordained As by Sodomitrie or by Buggarie tearmed by some the dombe sinne and as I thinke for this cause so tearmed for that it is of such horror that it is not once to be named or spoken of among men Whether thou hast long time continued in that kinde of sinne whereof thou knowest thy selfe guilty Whether thou hast giuen any aide to others ●n their filthie dealings or whether thou hast bestowed any time labour or diligence in procuring and bringing about any dishonest lustfull and lecherous loues For the kind or trade of life Gouernour or Minister of the Church Whether hee haue admitted and winked at or tollerated anie beeing by others admitted to the ministerie of the Church whō either he himselfe or anie others did knowe to bee whooremongers or to keepe Concubines and harlots Whether hee haue suffered anie to bee partakers of the holie Supper of the Lorde notoriouslie knowen to bee Adulterers and Whooremongers Whether when he hath seene sins manifestly raigning and grieuouslie preuailing against this seuenth commandement or stewes and brothel-houses to be suffered and to goe vnpunished he haue beene negligent and remisse as occasion and opportunitie hath serued to reproue and inueigh against it and whether hee haue zealouslie aduised and earnestlie admonished the Magistrate to looke to his dutie in this behalfe in repressing and redressing these enormities Whether in ioyning anie persons together in Matrimonie specially them of the lighter sorte hee haue bene too readie rash inconsiderate as namely in not propounding vnto them the ends of Matrimonie for which it was by God ordained instituted in not declaring vnto them such pointes as appertaine to the dignitie of Mariage in not earnestly examining them what reasons moued them to enter into this holy estate The negligent looking vnto these and such like pointes is one speciall cause of so many ill agreeing matches so many lamentable diuorses c. Whether he haue suffered the patrimonie treasure substance goods of the Church to bee bestowed in almes vpon anie such persons as for their lewde life and filthie liuing were infamous Whether when women haue resorted vnto him for his aduise spiritual counsell hee haue felte himselfe anie waie moued to vnchastitie or otherwise inkindled and assailed with anie lecherous cogitations Finally whether in the Church or else where or by domesticall vsage familiar custome or anie other meanes whatsoeuer either by immodest countenance or vndiscreet iesture he haue giuen others occasion to conceiue of him ill opinion and sinister suspition ¶ Magistrate and publike Officer in the common wealth Whether in his Realm Countrie Dominion Precinct iurisdiction he haue suffered anie dens of baudrie open brothel-houses or Stewes from the which there mu●● needs grow and flowe ful seas of much mischiefe Whether he haue bene remisse and negligent to reforme and bring to amendement of life or else to punish banish out of the common wealth all such as for lewdnes and impuritie are generally infamous as baudes pandars filthie loue-makers adulterers whooremongers strumpets and all others whomsoeuer giuing offence in this behalfe Whether he haue at anie time or by any meanes so vsed demeaned himselfe that he hath bene thought to fauour support and beare with this kind of filthie life which suspition cōmonly ariseth when men in authoritie doe familiarly admit to their acquaintāce companie those that be lechers and whooremaisters and such as bee foule mouthed and baudilie languashed O● when they make much of such persons and delight in their fellowship or aduance and preferre them to dignities and honours or suffer them to inioy publike offices in the common wealth whereas other good honest vertuous persons are vnregarded and not accounted of Whether they haue suffered any Enterludes Stageplaies or games wherin haue bene shewed vttered or done anie filthie feates vnchast wordes or lewde actions Which kinde of shewes and playes are in many places seene not onely at times of prophane iollyties but now and then also euen at the solemne assemblies of some such as by profession shoulde bee deadly haters and vehement disswaders thereof Souldiour Whether in the time of warre hee haue constuprated and defloured anie virgins or matrones thinking himselfe as it were to haue lawfull interest ouer the bodie of those seely creatures being by force of arms of him conquered taken and subdued Phisicion and Apothecarie Whether he haue giuen counsell to any person for the preseruation and recouerie of his health to commit whooredome or some other vile act to become dronken c. Whether he haue ministred made anie medicines or drugges to inflame lust prouoke lecherie or procure dishonest loue Whether in deliuering medicines to anie woman or maiden he haue wantonly and vnchastly either handled or beheld her ¶ Schoolemaister Whether hee haue read to the youth in the schoole anie wanton writers or vnchast Authours whereby their mindes might catch infection And of such sort are there certaine Poets Comicall Elegiake Epigrammatarie ¶ Scholler Whether he haue priuatly taken delight in reading such Authors and whether he haue ben therby induced to sinne Whether not onely by familiaritie with women and damsels of ill report and fame but also with ietting the streets by night with instrumentes of Musicke he haue procured dauncing and occasioned misrule whereby hee might seeme as it were to seeke opportunitie to finde fit time to compasse his vncleane conceits and fleshly imaginations And if ouer and besides this he haue at any time carryed weapons causing therewith braulings fraies to the hurting or wounding of any or which is worse of the murther and death of anie In this dooing he hath sinned also by manifest brech against the sixt cōmandement whereof we lately treated ¶ Husband and Wife Whether they haue faithfully kept the one to the other their bed vndefiled their faith vnspotted Whether to the actuall knowledge allowed betwene them they haue shewed thymselues the one to the other without lawfull and necessarie cause waiward churlish vnwilling whereby might haue growen danger of scortation vncleannesse and filthie offence Whether there hath ben betweene them anie bitter wordes or brawling iarres breeding an hatred the one to the other and peraduenture occasioning them or the one of them to commit sinne with some other partie Whether the loue betweene them haue beene hemmed in within the bounds of such christian sobrietie and decency that they haue not as it were in a beastly sort ouermuch dotage loued the one the other yeelding themselues to immoderate yea vnchast and as I may saie whoorish lust and loue He committeth adulterie with his owne wife that in this filthie sort loueth her doteth ouer her vnmeasurably