Selected quad for the lemma: saint_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	epistle_n	paul_n	timothy_n	1,469	5	10.7239	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14292	The golden fleece diuided into three parts, vnder which are discouered the errours of religion, the vices and decayes of the kingdome, and lastly the wayes to get wealth, and to restore trading so much complayned of. Transported from Cambrioll Colchos, out of the southermost part of the iland, commonly called the Newfoundland, by Orpheus Iunior, for the generall and perpetuall good of Great Britaine.	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.; Mason, John, 1586-1635.	1626 (1626)	STC 24609; ESTC S119039	176,979	382

his lamentation and comforted himselfe It is in vaine and too late for a man to seeke the reuersing of the diuine Iudgement when he hath not the Grace to goe to the Physician before he fall sicke It is a sacrilegious sinne in the Pope to make men belieue that it lieth in his power to redeeme any mans soule from the place where the Almightie hath seated it seeing that hee cannot adde one yeere more to his owne life then is allotted him by the course of nature nor borrow one minute of an houre to allay the pangs of his owne death The very Best haue enough to doe to saue their owne soules without presuming to vndergoe a fruitlesse labour for another man Yea though these three men were among them Noah Daniel and Iob they should deliuer but their owne soules by their righteousnesse saith the Lord God Seeing that Iesus Christ by his death and Passion hath satisfied his Fathers Iustice and makes continuall intercession for the Penitent let none despaire nor trust any other besides this powerfull Mediatour CHAP. XI Gratian the Canonist conuents the Waldenses and Albigenses before Apollo for celebrating diuine Seruice in their Country Language and not according to the Rites of the Romish Church Zuinglius defends their cause by the Authoritie of the Scriptures and of the Primitiue Church Apollo pronounceth a definitiue Sentence against the Pope on the behalfe of the Waldenses and Albigienses NO sooner had Apollo refelled the vse of Popish Pardons inuented of purpose to make good the old saying that Purgatory is a very pick-parse but Gratian the Canonist framed a supplicatiō against the Waldenses and Albigienses wherein he shewed that whereas Ignorance was the Mother of Deuotion and thereupon the Church of Rome to retaine true hearted simplicitie in the bowels of her children had like a politicke Mother forbidden the reading of the Scripture in their Countries language to the intent that green-headed people sowgelders and base Mechanickes should not dispute of diuine Mysteries which surpassed their vulgar capacities yet those rude mountanists Montanae belluae presumed to vnlocke the cabinet of the Bible and to reade Gods Seruice in their barbarous Tongue Whereby much euill contentions and continuall bangling arose of late yeeres among Christians which otherwise might haue lyen couered as fire vnder ashes Zuinglius a notable Diuine of Suitzzerland being deputed by the Waldenses Albigienses to defend their cause stood vp and said with what face can you O Gratian blame these honest men for seeking the surest meanes of Saluation Who will still stand groping in the darke that may enioy the free light of the Sunne Haue not they soules to looke vnto aswell as the Pope himselfe and his Cardinals In reading the Word of God Faith increaseth And the Gifts of the Holy Ghost multiplyeth in relen●ing hearts So that Peace Vnitie and Loue as a ●uster of Grapes doe spring vp together and beare downe the wrangling opposites Neither is it any new Religion which they professe For all your Chronicles can testifie that these people haue departed from the Romish Church and proclaymed the Pope to be Antichrist aboue three hundred yeers before Luther was borne And for the reading of diuine Seruice in a more familiar language they haue the Scriptures for their warrant and the Primitiue Church for a patterne The Prophet Dauid pronounceth that man blessed which studies the Lawes of the Lord and therein exerciseth himselfe day and night Saint Iohn recommends them to the weaker sexe and children as appeares by his Epistle written to the Elect Lady and her children Saint Paul protesteth that hee had rather speake fiue words to bee vnderstood then ten thousand in a strange language And in another place he prayseth Timothy that hee knew the Holy Scriptures of a child Saint Basill in his infancie was instructed in the Bible by his Nurse Macrina Saint Ierome extols Paula a learned Matron for teaching her Maides to vnderstand the Scripture Theodoret speaking of the ancient Christians in his time You shall saith he see euery where the chiefe points of our Faith read and vnderstood not onely of our Doctors but also of shoo-makers Smiths and weauers and of all kind of Artificers not onely of our learned women but likewise of them which get their liuing by their Needles and of M●id seruants not onely of citizens but also of Husbandmen insomuch that you shall be 〈◊〉 among us ditchers and Heardsmen arguing of 〈◊〉 Trinitie of the Worlds creation and of other deep● points of diuinitie Saint Chrysostome called for his Eloquence the Golden mouthed Doctour exhorteth all men to reade the Scriptures Heare me all yee Laymen get yee Bibles which are Physicke for the Soule Or at least wise prouide your selues of the New Testament Saint Paul prophesied that Antichrist should bee consumed with the Spirit of the Lords mouth What is the meaning of this but that hee must bee condemned by the Word of God declared in the Canonicall Scripture Euen by this Testimony the Sword of the Spirit at the bright brandishing whereof the Romish Clerkes runne away like Cowards and flye from them as if they were their mortall Enemies relying in stead of God Spirit vpon the Spirit of man which speaking without such immediate Reuelations cannot but Erre and grossely Erre The consideration of this weightie point enforced Doctor Fisher Bishop of R●chester in his Booke against Luther to wish for some other meanes to put downe the Protestants then the Holy Scriptures Therefore quoth he when Hereticks contend with vs we must defend our cause by some other helpes then by the sacred Scripture In this they verifie the effects of that wonderfull Booke which Saint Iohn in the Reuelation auerred to be as sweet as Honey in the mouth but afterwards bitter in the belly that is to say sweet to read because it promised euerlasting life but for all that bitter in the stomacke when Crosses came to bee digested when they were to forsake the pomps and vanities of this seducing world and specially when that counsell of our Sauiour came to be put in execution Sell all that which thou hast and come and follow mee No wonder then that the Pope and his Cardinalls delighting in temporall glorie cannot abide to try their Controuersies by the euidence thereof but with the hazard of some poore Schollers liues they send them abroad as Frogs out of the Dragons mouth to croke and crake of Antiquitie and Traditions but in no wise to contend with vs by the Bibles Testimonie This Booke proues indeed very bitter to their stomacks who hunt after worldly Preferments While the Bodies of the two Testaments lay despised moth eaten and shut vp in their libraries the Great Men of the world after their massacring in the Cities of spirituall Sodome and Aegypt sent Gifts and Presents the one to the other in token of gladnesse So iocond were worldlings as long as they might do●