Selected quad for the lemma: nature_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	ghost_n	holy_a	trinity_n	3,214	5	9.7060	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13156	An ansvvere to a certaine libel supplicatorie, or rather diffamatory and also to certaine calumnious articles, and interrogatories, both printed and scattered in secret corners, to the slaunder of the ecclesiasticall state, and put forth vnder the name and title of a petition directed to her Maiestie: vvherein not onely the friuolous discourse of the petitioner is refuted, but also the accusation against the disciplinarians his clyents iustified, and the slaunderous cauils at the present gouernement disciphred by Mathew Sutcliffe.	Sutcliffe, Matthew, 1550?-1629.	1592 (1592)	STC 23450; ESTC S117875	163,829	254

AN ANSWERE TO A CERTAINE LIBEL SVPPLICATORIE OR RATHER Diffamatory and also to certaine Calumnious Articles and Interrogatories both printed and scattered in secret corners to the slaunder of the Ecclesiasticall state and put forth vnder the name and title of a Petition directed to her Maiestie Wherein not onely the friuolous discourse of the Petitioner is refuted but also the accusation against the DISCIPLINARIANS his clyents iustified and the slaunderous cauils at the present gouernement disciphred by Mathew Sutcliffe These dreamers defile the flesh and despise gouernment and speake euill of them that are in authoritie Iude vers 8. Etsi loqui nesciant tacere tamen non possunt Hierom. Neither can they well speake nor wisely holde their peace 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They pretend and seeke the reward of Phinees zeale but doe the workes of Zimri Imprinted at London by the DEPVTIES of CHRISTOPHER BARKER Printer to the QVEENES most excellent MAIESTIE 1592 TO THE HONORABLE SIR EDMVND ANDERSON LORD CHIEFE IVSTICE OF HER MAIESTIES COVRT OF COMMON PLEAS ALthough my good Lord I cannot without griefe remember the daungerous and hurtfull effectes of the late stirres which certaine factious persons haue made both in the Church and common wealth about the new consistoriall gouernement yet seing diseases cannot be wel cured vnlesse they be made knowen nor well knowen vnlesse the patient declare them I could not refraine from vttering them being one of that Church and state that hath so long suffered them yea though not I onely but all others whom they concerne should of importune shamefastnes conceale them yet would they not being so great be concealed It is well knowen what scandale thereof hath growen to religion diuers wicked persons are thereby confirmed in their atheisme weake christians are either driuen backe to poperie or discouraged from comming forward to embrace religion the Seminaries abroad are replenished with many towardly schollers seeking that abroad which they dispaire to finde at home sectes euil opinions growe vp lyke noysome weedes in diuers corners those that should and would represse them are by domesticall stirres of secret enemies thuarted hindered The Papists take thereby incouragement and hope for innouation 1 De schism lib. 3. quo bello Catholici indies plures constantiorésque in fide sunt facti saith he speaking of his false Catholikes and Romaine peruerse taith Sanders in his booke as he calleth it of schisme doth bragge That through these contentions the Romanistes dayly multiplied among vs and grewe more resolute they also from these domesticall braules made by some against our Church doe drawe an argument to harden mens hartes against religion and the authors of religion both 2 In lib de cansis cur catholisis c. Vlenbergue and Rosse in their seditious treatises against vs doe much insist vpon that poynt and it is a common obiection made by the enemie yea a matter not lightly feared of frendes For learning hath lost almost all reputation while these vnlearned and vnwise confistorians declame against learning and seeke no further diuinitie then Caluins and Bezaes and Iunius his glosses and commentaries and without ground of learning and artes as it were with vnwashen feete enter into the Lordes sanctuarie while the fathers and auncient writers of the Church are despised and euery man taketh vpon him to interprete scriptures after his owne foolish conceite and forceth them to serue their owne changeable humors they runne into diuers daungerous opinions I reporte me to the strange doctrine of 2 Theologia sacra Fenner and his Maister T.C. in their new booke of Consistoriall diuinitie of the lawe gospell sacraments and ecclesiasticall gouernement there is scarce any poynt deliuered without error but those are faultes of a lighter marke in respect of poyntes concerning the diuine essence and the Trinitie whereof they talke strangely In the 3 Theologia sacra lib. 1. diuine nature they confound essence and person and deuide the persons of the Trinitie into two members and make the sonne together with the holy ghost to proceede from the father where all religion saith that he is borne of the father which is the characteristicall difference of that person further they affirme that the holy ghost proceedeth from the father 4 Ibidem without mentioning the sonne they teach also that hatred as it is attributed to God is the essence of God And while they would commend their fond preaching and disgrace the scriptures Iohn Penrie 5 In his supplicat one of the great disciplinarian prophets eyther like a dolt or if he defend it a blasphemous heretike Maketh Christ to be the word preached therein destroying Christes eternall essence and diuinitie in 6 The booke was offered to the parliament by common consent of this faction that it might throughout England be recented their Communion booke they haue taken out two articles of the Creede namely that of Christes buriall and Christes descending into hell and added a newe Article viz. of their new fantasticall discipline a compendious and short way to erect their new kingdome for articles of our Creede are rather to be beleeued then to be disputed of In their Creede also they make Christ to be borne of the virgine according to the flesh diuiding Christ into two parsons with Nestorius lastly for here I meane not to speake of all they forget A petition in their braue paraphrase of the Lords prayer which matters are very shamefull and yet not to be denyed for their owne worthles bookes conuince them While they haue refused the olde order of preaching and followed the stile of Bezaes vaine and verball sermons whereof I and many others that haue heard and read them are witnesses their expositions be eyther verball or fantasticall or both their prayers for the most part are disordered fancies yea some times malicious inuectiues full rather of wordes then deuotion conceiued without studie and vttered without iudgement which kinde of 1 Matth. 6.7 verball babling Christ condemneth as heathenish To leaue matters of the Church we see how schooles are decayed and how both learning and rewardes of learning are dayly diminished and all this while these vnworthie fellowes first thinke that all learning is conteined in Caluins institutions and Bezaes opuscula and secondly measure euery mans merites by their owne foote and allow no more to others then they suppose they deserue themselues taking away all hope of honor or rewarde by making the ignorant iudge of the merite of learning and talking of certaine strange positions of fortie pound pensions as if fortie or a hundred pounds yeerely were the vttermost reward that learning coulde deserue and euery other sort of men were worthie of most high rewardes and preferment the number of schollers decreasing in both the Vniuersities doth declare how much men are discouraged and examples of this sacrilegious discipline otherwhere receiued doe shewe what further wracke is to be feared hereafter The gouernours both of