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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	aaron_n	abraham_n	job_n	13	3	6.0794	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01199	The alcaron of the barefote friers, that is to say, an heape or numbre of the blasphemous and trifling doctrines of the wounded idole Saint Frances taken out of the boke of his rules, called in latin, Liber conformitatum.; Barfuser münche alcoran. English	Alber, Erasmus, ca. 1500-1553.; Bartholomeus, de Pisis, d. 1401, attributed name.; Luther, Martin, 1483-1546, attributed name.	1550 (1550)	STC 11313; ESTC S109718	40,860	170

When S. Frances was sicke a brother of his desired licence y e he might reade him some what for his recreation To whome Frances answered that it should not nede for he had sufficient knowlege saide I know poore Christ crucified The same leafe O howe oft times our Lorde Iesus appered vnto the blessed father S Frances and not only of him but also of the blessed Virgin Mary of Ihon Baptist Ihon Euangelist and of the holy apostles Peter and Paul and of the Archangell Michael and of diuerse other angelles he was visited Thesame leafe While S Frances praied feruētly to our Lady that she wold obtein comfort for her of her litle childe Iesus the blessed and pure virgin was incontinently presēt and caught him in her armes kissed him holding him from the beginning of the night vntil it was daye and graunted him his peticion The .iii. leafe Christ calleth Frances his Chauncelour Thesauror his Bāner bearer his counsaillor The same leafe In whome at any time hath apered the print of the woundes of Christ Truly in none but in holy Frances as affirmeth the church of Rome and commaundeth al the faithful so to beleue c And also pope Benedict ordeined a holy day to be kept for the worshipping of those impressions The same leafe In the handes and feete of Frances were Nailes as it were of sinowes and fleshe the whiche nailes were on the heddes hard grosse they were long stretched ●arre bothe thorow his handes and fete and turned againe as it were clinched so that a finger myghte haue bene laied betwene the clinching as the righte worshipful Bonauenture bishop of Albanence and Cardinall of Rome in the third parte of his Legend doth affirme by the credible report of them whiche sawe them felte them and by their othe confirmed it so to be Therefore it came neither by nature nor yet by imaginaciō neither could nature preserue it in suche manner withoute Putrificacion if by any Arte it hadde bene deuised for by the space of .ij. yeres out of those woundes issued blod The church doth not report this to be done by our Lady but our lord Iesus Christe was the onely worker therof by his godli wil might and power and none but himself whiche in the similitude of a Seraphin printed in Frances his blessed woundes Wherfore he that is mighty hath done great thinges in Frances Luc. i. For he hath set wondres vpon him Psal xlv And blessed Frances may say as Daniel the prophet said The high god hath wrought vpon me wondres and miracles The iiii lefe Blessed Frances hath greate glory in heauen for he sitteth in the high seate of Lucifer And if according to the minde of the Master of the sentence ii dist i viii all the ●ai●ctes after their degrees are placed emong the celestial creatures then is Frances placed among the Seraphins whiche may well be for while he liued he semed to be a burning Seraphin like vnto Christ both bodely ghostly And that Frāces was a burning Seraphin was sufficiciently declared by the burning and fiery Chariot wherein being transfigured he apered to certein of his brethern Also Freer Masse beyng by S Frances sodenly rapt and taken from the yerth felt such an heate comming from Frances that he semed to be in the midle of a burning Fornace Thesame leafe Lucifer was of the highest ordre in heuen therfore it foloweth that he was of the ordre of Seraphins and cosequētly his seate was aboue al other ordres in heauen Wherefore in the place of proude Lucifer is set meke S. Frances whiche by deuine teuel●cion was shewed to Freer Pac●●cus Freer Leonard of Ausio And y e deuel by y e mouth of a certain priest called M. zätese of Rauēna told Iames of Bonony that was resident in Heauen and sate in lucifers seate And thesame deuel said that Frāces was christes Banner bearer and therefore goeth next to the king Christe and hereof cōmeth it that no ordre is nerer Christ then S. Frances ordre for next to the king of kinges standeth blessed S Frances And the aforesaid deuel affirmeth that after our Lady Ihon Bap. y e apostles blessed Frāces his ordre doth go before al other sainctes Thesame leafe Christ made Frances like to him self First in life most verteous and after by printing in him his woundes wherefore it is said of Frances Eccle. xlix There is none found like him for he hathe obserued the lawe of the highest Which wordes to be true the holines vertue and redolent fame of blessed Frances declare He was also a man of a sincere life and from the pleasures of the body vtterly segregate Thesame leafe What maner of persone howe and to what purpose God made Frances is declared Gene. i. ii where is written let vs make mā that is to say FRANCES vnto our image and similitude he shall gouern the fishes of y e sea c And let vs make him a helper like to him selfe that is a companye of poore The .v. leafe All the vertue of sainctes aswel of the Olde Testament as of the new are conioyned and vnited in Frances The same lefe Iesus put Frances next him selfe as his Standard bearer as affirmeth the right worshipfull Raufe bishop of Erphord who by this vision was made a barefore Frier and ii citizens of Venice with him Also Frances in all thinges was like to the sonne of god and the holy ghost sanctified Frances as witnesseth y e cedule which Freer Lion saw come frō heauē and rested vpon the hedde of Frances wherin was written This is the grace of God The same leafe Our blessed Lady praied vnto the father that Frances mighte be sent into the worlde Also our Lady at the praier of Frances obteined the great pardon that is in the churche of Saint Marie of Porciuncle wherin is clean remission and forgeuenesse of sinnes The same leafe Peter and Paule meting Frāces in the churche of Rome embraced and kissed him The same leafe Whoso calleth and trusteth in the helpe of Frances shall not be oppressed of the deuel The viii leafe It is vndoubtedly to be beleued that aswell the saiēges of the prophetes as also the doinges of sainctes were all prefigured in Frances The same leafe Frances is like to Adam Abel Enos Enoch Noe Abraham Isac Iacob Ioseph Moses Aaron Phinees Iosue Samson Iephte Gedeon Samuel Hely Elizeus Ionadab Esai Ieremy Iob Thoby Ezechiel Daniel Micheas Peter Ihon Baptist Ihon Euangelist Iames Bartholomew Paule and in conclusion all the sainctes The ix leafe Esaias figured Frances in the sixt Chapiter whiche heard two Seraphins saiyng Holy Holy Holy And Ezechiel Chapi iii. whiche hearde a voice of greate russhīg saiyng blessed be the glory of the lord Also he figured Abraham which said I am worme and dust The x. lefe Frances is like to Ely and Elizeus whiche raised the dead to life again Thesame leafe In whatsoeuer necessitie S.