Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	command_v	day_n	sabbath_n	10,415	5	9.9260	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12249	The defence of a certayne poore Christen man who els shuldhaue [sic] bene condemned by the Popes lawe. Written in the hye Allmaynes tonge by a right excellent and noble prynce, and tra[n]slated into Englishe by Myles Couerdale.	Coverdale, Miles, 1488-1568.	1545 (1545)	STC 5889; ESTC S114534	31,890	79

from the meates which god hath created to be receaued with thankesgeuyng of thē which beleue and know the trueth For euery creature of god is good / nothing to be refused / that is receaued with geuynge of thankes for it is sanctified by the word of god and praier I suppose deare iudges that as touching these matters / Paul hath with these wordes sufficienthly answered for vs / seyng he saieth euidently / that they which forbyd to mary / and commaunde to absteyne fro meates / are departed from the faith and folow the deuels doctryne Paul also him self wrythet thus to the Corinthians what so euer is solde in the flesh market / that eate / and aske no question for conscience sake For the erth is the lordes / and all that is therin And to the Colossians he wryteth let no man therfore trouble youre consciences aboute meat or drynke / or for a pece of an holy daye / or new Moone / or of the Saboath daies / which are the shadow of thinges that were for to come / but the body it selfe is in Christ And afterward it foloweth yf ye be deed then with Christ frō the ordinaunces of the world why are ye holdē with such tradicions / as thoug ye liued after the world As whan they saye / Touche not this / taist not that / hādle not that All which thisges do hurte vnto men because of their obuse / which commeth onely of the commaundmentes and doctrynes of men etc. All this doth Christ confirme / whan he saieth what soeuer entreth in at the mouth / defyleth not the man And what can be more clearly spokē But so false and vnrighteous is the iudgment of such vnreasonable mē / that yf a Christen mā do taist but a litle flesh vpō a daye prohibited by thē / Immediatly without any farther advisement / they proclame him to be an heretike / and cast in his tethe such a tradicion of fasting / as though a mans saluacion depended vpon the difference of meates and yet the ypocrites them selues / though they eate no fleshe / are neuerthelesse so full of flesllye desyres / that they can vnderstond nothing but fleshlye / somtyme are not ashamed to vtter their fleshely lustes with excesse Euen as greate wrong do they thorow their damnynge of prestes mariage But to the intent that men shulde iudge them to be excellent manteyners of chastite / they prayse virginite out of measure / which in very dede is a singu gift of god / but keuen vnto few Neuerthelesse that they go aboute to māteyne / not virginite / but a state to liue vnmaried / it appeareth playnlie by this / that whan a prest taketh a wife / they wil not onely haue him deposed from his mynistracion / but iudge him worthy to be put to death also But yf he agaynst all honestie / take an harlot / or kepe another mans wife / he is suffred / as a profitable membre of the church of Rome I meane O what an horrible wickendesse is this Yet was ther neuer a people so wilde or vnnaturall / but they had an ordynaunce concernynge mariage / and keping of cōcubynes Onely Romishe prestes maye in this matter do as they lust themselues They take harlottes at their pleasure / whan they will / and where / and aske no question for conscience sake / so that they paye the bishope the whore toll And euen with like audacyte put they them awaye from thē agayne / and shame neuer a whitt Yet are they not satisfied with such vnmeasurable libertie / but haunt other mens wifes / and defloure virgynite No thing cā be safe from them with their filthie wantonesse defyle they euery thing / the angelicall defenders of chastite all which is so manifest / that it can not be hydd But lest I be reputed more to be an accuser of Romishe prestes / then a defender of this Christen man / I will passe ouer many thinges that might be spoken concernyng this matter / and contēt me with the iudgment of Pāul / who saieth yf they cā not absteyne / let them mary / for it is better eo mary thē to burne Wherfore let this iudgment remayne / let troubled cōsciences be helped / and the mynistres of the church restored agayne to an honest conuersacion lest yf we contynue in this synne / we fall in to that horrible iudgment / wherwith god will iudge fornicatours and aduoutres Now / thou vnreasonable accuser / hast thou a sufficiēt answere to all the poyntes of thy complaynte and I wold hope that thy madnesse shulde therbye be mitigate / yf I feared not that the light of thy body were darkened for very malyce Now yf the light that is in the be darknesse / how grerte wil the darknesse it selfe be / euen thou thy selfe / I saye knowest well / that all that I haue sayde / is true And why resisted thou than the open trueth Thou vnhappy man / art thou so farre vnaduysed / that thou canst not pōdre / how weake a groud thou hast in this vngodly matter / and agayne how mightie and invyncyble an aduersary thou hast / namely Christ Iesus the onely begotten deare sone of god Thy furye hath now raged ynough agaynst this innocent Christen man Ceasse now at the last from peruerting the right waye of the lorde Alas man / how oft hast thou in this thy enuyous complaynte / denyed the faith openly / in that thou hast dyuerse tymes sayde / that onely faith maketh not righteous before god I praye the / art thou not ashamed of so detestable a lye Doth not the scripture teach euidently / that fait onely iustifieth in the fight of god Who euer denyed this / yf he were not mad / and such one as thou art Thou bostest of great workes / wher of thou thy selfe hast not touched one with thy litle fyngre And who knoweth not / that faith and charite can not be separated Yf charite then hang vpon faith / and can not be ydle / but allwaye occupied / how shulde not the workes of charite and loue folow afterwarde of theim selues Yea the same workes are now not oures lest any man boast himselfe but Christes / who worketh in vs thorow faith / as in his owne membres Thou takest to recorde the Epistle of S. Iames / whose wordes are these faith without workes is deed Here thou reioycest as though thou haddest gotten the vittory / and tryumphest as though thou werest ouer the hedge all ready S. Iames saieth / that faith without workes is no faith / for faith loue or charite cā not be sondred Thinkest thow that one can loue another / to whom he geueth no credence Or that one cā put all his hope and trust in him whom he loueth not S. Paul saieth yf I had all faith / so that I coulde remoue hilles / and hadde not loue / I were nothing The same putteth he for a thing vnpossible