Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	believe_v	faith_n	reason_n	4,118	5	5.7721	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20601	M. Antonius de Dominis Archbishop of Spalato, declares the cause of his returne, out of England. Translated out of the Latin copy, printed at Rome this prese[n]t yeare; Marcus Antonius de Dominis archiepisc. Spalaten. sui reditus ex Anglia consilium exponit. English	De Dominis, Marco Antonio, 1560-1624.; Coffin, Edward, 1571-1626.	1623 (1623)	STC 7000; ESTC S120942	32,270	106

Church not to bind vnder mortall sinne the vnity of the Church not to be taken from one visible head the Pope to be the capitall eenemy of the whole Church the Masse to be no true sacrifice the ceremonies of the Masse to be light Comical gestures no transsubstantiation to be made auricular confession with absolution to be no true Sacrament that there is no purgatory satisfaction for release of the punishment after that the fault is forgiuen not to be necessary no Indulgences to be but of such penaltyes only as are imposed the Saintes not to be inuocated the worship of Relikes and Images not to be lawfull that there is no merit of good workes to euerlasting life These and the the like errours and manifest heresies not so much myne and new as of the auncient and modern heretickes and their bablings and doating dreames condemned alwayes by the Catholike Church in many holy generall Councells are miserable rockes vnto which such as approach make lamentable shipwracke of their faith and euerlastinge saluation and therefore I fly from them as far as I am able and least that I should haue beene cast away vppon them in England I was of necessity to depart from thence and rerurne to the true Church the port and harbour of Catholickes and forsake detest anathematize or accurse all the foresayd errors and whatsoeuer others if there be any other in those bookes which agree not with the faith expressed in the sacred Councells especially in the late Councell of Trent on the other side I imbrace and auer the contrary truthes to wit the chiefe Bishop of Rome by Christs iustitution to be his Vicar on earth to be the visible head of the militant Church which alwayes hath beene visible with full power receaued from God to gouerne and order the same the same Bishopp of Rome to haue power ouer temporall thinges in ordine ad spiritualia the implicite fayth to be profitable and sometymes necescessary as when one without his fault hath no expresse faith or beliefe of some articles the excommunications of the law or deliuered ipso facto to be of force and to be feared as induced by exceeding great reason and lawfull power the Popes to be able to excommunicate all faithfull people of what place or countrey soeuer in case they deserue to be so censured the commaundements of the Church bynd all vnder mortall sinne to obserue them the vnity of the Church chiefly to depend vpon the one visible head thereof the B. of Rome to be the true lawfull towards the sheepe of Christ as it behoueth the profitable Pastor of the whole Church the only eternall saluation of which I desire he may alwayes thirst and seeke with all care in in the Masse to be offered vp vnto God a true proper and propitiatory sacrifice the ceremonies of the Masse ordained by the Fathers and Pastors of the Church by the inspiration of the holy Ghost to be holy mystical profitable and by all meanes to be retayned transubstantiation to be made in the Sacrament of the Aultar that is the conuersion of turning of the whole substance of bread into the body of the whole substance of wine into the bloud of our Lord Iesus Christ by Sacramentall absolution wherby the priest absolues the penitent to be exercised a true and proper power of binding and losing sins which our Lord gaue to the ministers of his Sacraments in the Church to be purgatory in that manner as the holy Roman Apostolicke Church teacheth it to be graunted satisfaction to be much avayleable for the releasement of the punishment after that the sinne is forgiuen the vse of pardons in the Catholike Church to whome Christ hath giueÌ„ power to bestow them to be most ancient most soueraygne and approued by the authority of holy Councels the Saints not only without all errour of the faithfull to be inuocated but further that it is good profitable to haue recourse to their prayers and help the worship of Reliques and images to be good lawfull and profitable which cannot be abrogated without the spot of heresy the merit of eternall life to depend of our good workes The later General Councels which are of supreame authority in the Church my stomak being ouer charged with ill humours I did often despise especially the Councells of Florence Trent many times also that of Constance and through my procuring a certayn history came forth in print of the Councell of Trent of the truth of which history I had no certainty yea it is worthily suspected of imposture in these thinges also I confesse that I erred very much for I affirme all the most wholsome decrees of these Councells with full fayth to be imbraced by all the Catholikes 6. In a certayn sermon of mine had in Italian at London the first sonday in Aduent and printed I set down these errours which being after repeated agayne in the booke of the Rocks now I haue worthily detested In that sermon I framed a certayn night of papall errours in the Roman Church wheras indeed in the Roman Church alone and others conioyned therewith there is true light the true and only most shining day out of which in England especially is continuall most darke night In the Church of Rome the light of truth the true and sincere vnderstanding of the holy scriptures driues far away from it al the darkenes of errours with which darknes miserable EnglaÌ„d being ouercast groapeth like a blind man at noone day I sayd in the same sermon and reiterated agayne in the booke of the Rocks that S. Peter was neuer at Rome but this as a soule and ignorant lye I freely confesse is to be condemned I made all the Apostles in planting and gouerning the Church to be equall whereas notwithstanding the supremacy of S. Peter ouer them is cleare by the very gospells and Apostolicall traditions I affirmed the Bishops to succeed the Apostles with equall power and to be Bishops in solidum of the Vniuersall Church whereas yet Bishops are but Pastors of particuler Churchs haue but a particuler charge the generall primacy being reserued to him who in the same succeedeth S. Peter who is the B. of Rome and chiefe Pastor I sayd that holy water graynes crosses hallowed images Papal and Episcopall blessings the stations diuersity of habits cords leather girdles visiting Churches and Altars beades processions and the like to be toyes when as it sufficiently appeareth almost all of these thinges to be auncient and allowed in the Catholicke Church which vse is to be coÌ„tinued yea euen in those things which are more fresh inducements to piety deuotion I affirmed that there were only two Sacraments Baptisme and the Supper whereas yet the Catholike Church lightned by the holy ghost doth plainly teach define that there be seauen true Sacraments all which and what other heresyes soeuer condemned by the Catholike Roman Church I doe also condemne and with firme faith belieue hold and professe the contrary to these heresies defined by the same for it is most certayn that in the decrees of the holy Roman Church reason is not seuered from authority the schoole doctrin especially in articles religion to

tooke the same vnto himselfe in other thinges concerning fayth forme of Religion and Ecclesiasticall rites he carryed himselfe more moderatly Vnder his Sonne Edward a child and much more vnder Elizabeth not only a separation was made from the chiefe Bishop Christ his vicar and supreme Pastor of the Christian flocke but also the vse of Religion by mayne force iniury was taken from Catholikes and by publicke lawes but made by Lay men vtterly suppressed Was there any lawfull Councell before for this matter Were the obiections made against Catholikes discussed Were the reasons for their defence heard Were they conuinced of any errour or impiety in Religion Was this iudgment made by any competeÌ„t Iudge Nothing lesse Doth not the same violence the same iniury the same impiety still remayne How much doe they striue in England they especially who seeme to haue care of their ReligioÌ„ such as it is least the diuine ancieÌ„t pious prescript worship of God be restored to Catholikes Is this their meaning wheÌ„ they say it is not Their fault that the schisme is not taken away They vrge reformation but reformation be it neuer so iust necessary yet if it be made with schisme is a most fowle deformatioÌ„ That in deed is reformed that remaines the same in substance Therefore Catholike Religion ought to haue remayned in England and the substantiall practise of the same if any thing had beene to be reformed that seruatis seruandis might haue beene exposed to reformation but no other differeÌ„t Religion the former being suppressed or violeÌ„tly kept vnder was to be made in so much as now there should be two religions disagreeing among themselues and one contrary to the other for if the latter be another Religion from the former the former is not reformed but as much as lay in their power is ouerthrowne and a new set vp but there cannot be two Religions of Christ for there is but one only and that with vs I as haue shewed as there is but one Church one foundation one Christ 28. When as therefore amongst other miseryes I saw my selfe inuolued in inueterate schisme and all hope of vnion to be taken away seeing Altar erected against Altar deuided froÌ„ the Charity of the Church I neyther could nor ought with safe conscience to be present wherfore remorse of conscience compelled me to returne and it was necessary that my Agar retourned to the most holy RomaÌ„ Church her mistresse hearing the voyce of the Angell checking her and saying Gen. 16.9 Reuertere ad Dominam tuam humiliare sub manu illius returne to thy mistresse humble thy selfe vnder her hand or authority that flight cold bring me nothing but shame and ruine God commaunds me to be humbled vnder the haÌ„d of my mistresse and in this I ought specially to follow God I would to God that they to whome folishly I fled would acknowledg their most miserable spirituall estat not only for heresies but also for their schisme to be most desperate froÌ„ which schisme now I haue shewed that they cannot be excused because they haue vnlawfully separated themselues from the true Church of Christ which is our Catholike Roman Church And this point affrighted me because schismatiks are excluded from being the Children of God for Deum non habent patrem saith S. Cyprian Lib. de simplicitate PraelatoruÌ„ qui Ecclesiam veram non habent matrem they haue not God for their Father who haue not the true Church for their mother Christ therfore died Ioan. 11.51 vt filios Dei qui dispersi erant congregaret in vnuÌ„ that he might gather in one the children of God who were dispersed the death therfore of Christ did worke and still worketh not only the redemption of men but also the vnion of his Church Before the death of Christ the children of God were dispersed and deuided some vnder the Law of Moyses others vnder the only Law of nature being far asunder one from the other making together no one certayne and vniuersall CongregatioÌ„ but now the diuine wisdome would so haue it that al his faithfull followers true children by faith should make ouer the whole world one society or fellowship that they shold all make one warfare vnder their Captayn and Emperour Christ and vnder his banner to wit the holy and life-giuing Crosse vsing all the same military signes and tokens of the Sacraments and this society and congregation is a singular effect of the death of Christ which procured that disagreeing Sects and innumerable courses of life amongst themselues so different and contrary should meete and be combined in one ChristiaÌ„ vnity Ephes 2.19 which truly is his worke qui fecit vtraque vnum who made both one and that by the Crosse Hereunto doth Anastasius Synaita apply the wordes of God in the creation Congregentur aquae in locum vnum Anastas 3. Hexam let the waters be gathered together in one place This sayth he belongeth to the Church gathered together vnder the vnity of one fayth out of different people countries and sects And for this cause Christ sayd of his own Crosse Ioan. 12. si exaltatus fuero Ã terra omnia traham ad meipsum If I shal be exalted from the earth I wil draw all vnto my selfe S. Athanasius sayth Athanas de Incarnat verbi Dei Exaltatus enim in cruce Dominus vtroque extenso brachio vtruÌ„que populum ad se inuitauit vt vtrumque amplexando in sinum suum colligeret Our Lord being exalted or lifted vpon the Crosse with both his armes stretched abroad inuited to himselfe both people Iew and Gentile that by imbracing them both he might gather them together into his bosome There is therefore one bosome betweene the armes of our Sauiour 29. And in the same place S. Athanasius thinkes it not to want mystery that Christ chose the death of the Crosse not Beheading by which S. Iohn his precursor died nor cutting or deuiding of his body as Isaias Vt in morte sayth he sine mutilatione integrum corpus seruaret causa subduceretur ijs qui Ecclesiam in partes cupiunt discindere that in the death of Christ his entire body without maiming might be preserued and all pretext taken away from them who desire to cut the Church asunder into partes And so hartily Christ esteemed this vnity as in that most feruent praier which he made in the last night of his life Ioan. 17.11 20.21 he craued of his Father that he would not suffer his disciples and other belieuers in him to depart from this vnity vt credat mundus quia tu me misisti that the world may beleeue that thou hast sent me But our Aduersaryes little consideringe these thinges will as much as is in them haue the death and Crosse of Christ to be destitute of this most noble effect of vnity and by their diuisions schismes giue occasion to Iewes and Infidells of rayling and

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