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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	fear_n	fear_v	servile_a	2,946	5	12.3591	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04376	A defence of the articles of the Protestants religion in aunsweare to a libell lately cast abroad, intituled Certaine articles, or forcible reasons, discouering the palpable absurdities, and most intricate errours of the Protestantes religion.	Barlow, William, d. 1613.	1601 (1601)	STC 1449; ESTC S100898	97,357	242

not what hee speakes but how much he can speake I demurred with my selfe as that learned Iew did in his grapple with that Granimarian 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whether it were woorth the while to deale seriously or no Because S. Ierome his r●le is that such open blasphemies procure deserue magis indignationem scribentis quam studium rather an aunsweare with skorne then in earnest or such an one as Lactantius gaue Aristoxenus nimirum manu pulsandus hic est but I trust by that time hee hath read this aunsweare hee will say there hath bene vsed neither dalliance nor iest vnlesse it be such sport as Abner speakes of Surgant pueri ludant the triall of our weapons at the least And this for our prolusion now we meete and behold an vncircumcised tongued Goliah blaspheming the most high God The first Article The Protestants haue no Faith nor Religion The Protestants haue no faith no hope no charitie no repentance no iustification no Church no Altar no sacrifice no Priest no religion no Christ. Answere LIngua quo vadis If Pythagoras his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 were to be credited a man would thinke that eyther Rabshekah his soule had beene transported into this mans bodie their blasphemie is so semblable the one perswading the Israelites that they had neither right altars whereon to sacrifice not true God whom they did worship and this other impudently at the first dash auowing that our profession is nothing els but Athe●sme and irreligion or els that hee were a Lindian borne who vsing to offer their sacrifices with curses and execrable maledictions thought their holy rites were prophaned if al the time of their solemnitie vel imprudenti alicui exciderit bonum verbum saith Lactantius any of them at vnawares had cast out or let fall a good worde By which speech if he touch our professours as men liuing without Faith Hope Charitie and Repentance or as if there were neither Church nor Priest nor Christ as it is a slander for the vntruth so is it an elench of the accident in disputation to reason from the doctrine to the persons if he meane the forme and substance of the profession it selfe then either is he ignorantly blind so verifieth that speech of Esay in himselfe which in the title of his booke he hath prefixed Impegimus meridie quasi in tenebris like Seneca his blind woman that said it was darke night being a cleare sunshine day for wee professe not within the walles but vpon the house top or els the opinion of the schoolemen being sound that a contradiction of a manifest truth ex destinata malitia contra conscientiam vpon prepensed malice against a mans owne knowledge and conscience is that great sinne and irremissible he is Pharisaically blasphemous for as they being in their minds assured that our Sauiour cast out Diuels by the finger of God yet vpon a fixed malice auowed it to be coniuring therfore were condemned for blasphemers of the holy Ghost so this cursing Shemei cannot but know that wee preach Christ Emanuel God equall with his Father incarnate of a virgine crucified for man the perfection of the law the summe of the Gospell Faith both assenting with a setled beliefe of his doctrine and iustifying by application of his merites Hope the anchor of our confidence in the most daungerous surges sure and stedfast Charitie the life of both the bond of perfection binding vs to God making vs one spirite with him and to our neighbour both in affection and action by giuing and forgiuing Repentance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Chrisostome speaketh as well in the cōtrition of heart as the reformatiō of the mind and so of the rest proportionable to scriptures He I say which knowing this shall notwithstanding thus shamelessely pronounce the contrary condemnes himself giuen ouer to a reprobate sence by turning the truth of God into a lie and therefore not farre from that vnpardonable sinne Yet this must not much moue vs thus to be censured because euen in the Primitiue state the Christians were so intituled by tyrantes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 away with these Atheistes Yea some of the Popish Canonists haue not doubted to conclude of the whole Colledge and companie of the Apostles to bee heritikes and infidels and also that it is an vsuall custome for the most guiltie to be the vehemētst accusers none so ready to cry treson as Athaliah the onely vsurper For this giddie Articler which cannot see woode for trees nor in the most glorious Church true religion if he would but looke backe into his owne synagogue might he not say as hee in Plut. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is not our Church guiltie of that wee accuse them Not to examine all these particulars how they rather haue no Faith annihilating it by merite of worke No Hope weakening it by doubtfullnesse of saluation No Repentance auoyding that by Indulgence of toleration No Charitie especially towardes God extinguishing that by their heape of superstitions for perfect loue casteth out feare but where superstition is there is feare more then seruile This being the difference euen in the opinion of a Pagan betweene an Atheist and a superstitious man that the one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thinkes there is no God to rewarde vertue the other 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wisheth there were no God to punish sinne No Religion neither as it is the true knowledge of the true God concealing that from the meany by casing the Scriptures in a straunge translation as the Philistines stopped ●saac his wells through enuie Nor as it is the syncere worship of one God and alone defiling the puritie and diuiding the integritie thereof by that latrioduliacall distinction of Idols adoration and Saintes inuocation onely let vs trie the last whether it may not iustly be returned vpon them that they have No Christ and that in his owne methode which in his Epistle he calleth Syllogisticall the doubting whether Christ be the onely Emanuel God and man is the negatiue of Christ but their diuines dispute whether the Pope also be simplex homo a pure man or quasi Deus participet vtramque naturam cum Christo or as God participate both natures with Christ. Againe the preferring of any man before Christ in any vertue is to deny Christ but they conclude the Pope to be clementior Christo more kind mercifull then Christ because he neuer released soule out of Purgatory as the Pope hath done many If it be said that these are but Scholasticall combates for triall of wittes no positiue conclusions and yet Saint Basil saith that such questions propounded euen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for disputation sake are blasphemies against the spirite and the poyson of religion you shall haue a Thesis in a comparison betweene Iohn Baptist and S. Frauncis The