Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	let_v	sabbath_n	10,277	5	9.9520	5	false

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 theÌ„ 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 froÌ„ the ordinaunces of the world why are ye holdeÌ„ with such tradicions / as thoug ye liued after the world As whan they saye / Touche not this / taist not that / haÌ„dle 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 spokeÌ„ But so false and vnrighteous is the iudgment of such vnreasonable meÌ„ / that yf a Christen maÌ„ do taist but a litle flesh vpoÌ„ a daye prohibited by theÌ„ / 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 maÌ„teyne / 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 coÌ„cubynes 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 theÌ„ 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 caÌ„ 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 conteÌ„t me with the iudgment of PaÌ„ul / who saieth yf they caÌ„ not absteyne / let them mary / for it is better eo mary theÌ„ to burne Wherfore let this iudgment remayne / let troubled coÌ„sciences 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 sufficieÌ„t 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 poÌ„dre / 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 caÌ„ not be sondred Thinkest thow that one can loue another / to whom he geueth no credence Or that one caÌ„ 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

gods worde Concernyng miracles which god so greatly worketh in his sayntes / who wolde not higlye wonder at such / as at a syngular gift of god Not withstonding it is manifest also / that to do miracles add wonders / is not allwaye a sure probacion of holynesse / seyng we reade not euer that Abraham / Isaac / Iacob / Dauid and Ihon the baptist dyd miracles Must they therfore not be holy / and shuld we therfore despise them Or why call we not Iudas the traytour / as a saynt / that dyd miracles with the Apostles and healed many people / as we maye perceaue out of the historie of the gospell But let vs heare the sentence of Christ many saieth he shal saye vnto me in that daye lorde / lorde / haue not we profecied in thy name Haue not we cast out deuels in thy name Haue we not done great vertues in thy name Then wil I confesse vnto them / I neuer knewe you Departe frome all ye euel doers What can oure aduersarys boast now of sayntes miracles / seyng we reade that vngodly and damned persones haue done many great actes in the name of Christ And. S. Paul also prophecieth to the Thessalonians / sayeng that the wiked shal come / namely the childe of perdicion / whose coÌ„myng is after the workyng of the deuell / with all maner lyeng powers / tokens and wonders Wherfore let vs not beleue euery sprete / but proue them whether they be of god / or no. And let vs not be so vnaduysed as to ascrybe vnto sayntes and to their merites / the honoure that onely apperteyneth vnto god Whan Peter and Ihon at the gate of the temple / had made the lame man whole / and the people ranne to them wonderyng / Peter sayd vnto them ye men of Israel / why wonder ye at this thing / or why loke ye so vpon vs / as though we thorow oure power or vertue had made this man go And afterward it foloweth throw the faith in his name namely Christes hath he vpon this man whom ye se and know / confirmed his name And faith thorow him hath geueÌ„ this maÌ„ healt before youre eyes Where are now the miracles which they saye are done thorow the merites of sayntes Peter and Ihon pilorus of the church coÌ„fesse playnlie / that this lame man was not made whole thorow their power or vertue / but in the faith thorow Christ O eternall god / in what an horrible depe pitt of Idolatrie are we fallen How farre haue we erred from the true faith of Christe We shal not lightly fynd any tyme wher in the heitheÌ„ haue honoured their goddes with so greate supersticiousnesse / as some ChristeÌ„ honoure their sayntes Euery occupacion hath his advowrie / euery laÌ„de their owne defendoure / and euery sicknesse a peculiar phisician There be some sayntes also whom they do not honoure to haue profit by them but because they shulde do them no harme To certayne peculiar sayntes coÌ„mitte they their matters of warre / their marchauÌ„dise / their causes of mariage The husband men also haue their owne helpers one increaceth the sede / another kepeth the vynyardes / the shepe / the kyne / the geyse yea the filthye swyne haue likewise their owne propre herde To him offre the foolishe people allmaner of thinges / but for the most parte waxe so that here in they are allmost become like vnto the Egiptians / who worshipped such bestes themselues for their goddes These sayntes now are all honoured / they are all called vpon onely mercifull Christ is not regarded And though they somtyme name him with bare wordes / yet is all their trust in the sayntes Nether are they satisfied in such straunge honouryng of sayntes / but make also a woÌ„derfull difference of holy places Here of cometh it that they thinke Mary the mother of Christ to be more gracious in one place / theÌ„ in another Now pilgremages also mynishe soÌ„ that the reputacioÌ„ of the olde They ruÌ„ne to Compostell in Spayne to visite S. Iames to IhoÌ„ in douchland to salute oure lady / and in many othrr places to sayntes graues as the kytes flie to the carioÌ„ honoure many deed bodies vpoÌ„ erth whose soules are in hell I passe ouer the foolishe supersticion that they vse with deed saynctes rayment / as cotes hosen shues / regarde litle the poore sayntes / that lyue with vs as brethren in Christ vpoÌ„ erth / haue greate nede of such apparell Yet wold I esteme it a lesse errour / yf they worshipped not also the ymages that haue no vnderstondyng are made with meÌ„s handes / of gold / syluer / stone wodde yea very litle it fayleth that they worshippe not with al / eueÌ„ the wormes the wormes that gnaw the bodies of such blessed saynctes of wodd To such ymages ascrybe they woÌ„dere miracles Of some one they saye / that it had spoken Of another they say / that by his owne vertue he is gone from one place to another They daye shulde be to long for me / yf I wolde saye all that might be spokeÌ„ of this vnreasonable matter SuÌ„ma they leaue nothing be hynde that beloÌ„geth to full ydolatry We maye well saye / that the Indianes had much more right to worshipe the. SoÌ„ne / such a deare / profitable / woÌ„derfull excellent creature / then these mad folkes haue to worshippe such a rotteÌ„ worme ateÌ„ ydoll Now though we disalowe such ydoatrie / such peruerse honouryng wroÌ„g inuocacion of sayntes / let no maÌ„ thinke / that we therfore wil withdrawe froÌ„ theÌ„ anye thing of their true worshipe reputacioÌ„ Sayntes haue nothing that they haue not receaued Paul saieth what is Paul What is Apollo Euen ministres they are / by whoÌ„ ye are to the beleue / and that accordyng as the lorde hath geueÌ„ vnto euery maÌ„ And afterward it foloweth therfore let no maÌ„ reioyce in meÌ„ / for all is yours / whether it be Paul or Apollo or Cephas or the world whether it be life or death / whether it be thinges present or for to come all is yours but ye are Christes / and Christ is gods Wherfore all grace which commeth thorow Chriin the holy goost / ascrybe we vnto god as vnto him that onely geueth it And hartely we beseke him that vnto vs poore synners also he will grauÌ„ this infynite mercye / to the intent that we maye forsake oure synnes / and be holy before him thorow Iesus Christ his onely begotten sone / who vpoÌ„ the crosse hath delyuered vs not with a small pryce / but with his owne bloude Reason it is / that sayntes haue their due honoure / but faith and inuocacion belonget onely vnto god Let us go therfore with confidence vnto the seate of grace / that we maye receaue mercy fynde grace to helpe in the tyme of nede For we haue not an hye prest which can not haue compassidn on oure infirmities

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