Selected quad for the lemma: scripture_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	believe_v	church_n	interpretation_n	3,657	5	10.5181	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00423	The stage of popish toyes conteining both tragicall and comicall partes: played by the Romishe roysters of former age: notably describing them by degrees in their colours. Collected out of H. Stephanus in his Apologie vpon Herodot. With a friendlie forewarning to our Catelin Catholikes: and a brief admonition, of the sundrie benefites we receiue by hir Ma: blessed gouernement ouer vs. Compyled by G.N.; Apologia pro Herodoto. English. Selections	Estienne, Henri, 1531-1598.; North, George, gentleman.	1581 (1581)	STC 10552; ESTC S101744	72,594	99

learning triumphing of his Latine mumbled so much of it as he did forget the first part which put him into such dispaire as he ment to returne yet hoping that the image of our Ladie whose chaplaine he was vowed would do him some good he went into a Chappell to performe his deuotion where by y e appointment of our Ladie as he after reported the Priest in his Masse recited Salue sancte parens which was to our Norman the greatest ioy that might be For when he came to the Popes presence he saide Salue sancte parens the Pope amazed at this new salutation answered Non sum mulier y e Priest dwelling vpō his instructions followed with his lesson è Normandia y e Pope thus crossed said Diabolum habes the poore Priest replyed In manica mea supposing he had said well If men could be more ignorant than these Massing maies were let the wise iudge and no maruel for their onely studie consisted in a speciall care howe to liue easilye and dai●tily Was it not ridiculous to sée those that séemed most prosounde and wisest to vse in their Sermons so great absurdities ●or one alledging the authoritie of Seripture to confirme the credite of the Masse enterpreted Inuenimus Messiam We haue founde the Masse An other to proue their crossing by Scripture affirmed that Signa autem eis qui crediderunt Make the signe of the Crosse on those that haue beleeued Among which braue interpretations is to be remembred a Curate in the Countrey of Artoys that had a processe against his parishioners for pauing of the Church who alledged this text of Scripture for his purpose Paueant illi non paueam ego whereby he affirmed that S. Hierom said that they shoulde paue the Church and not he Also what way their glose had gotten vpon this place of Scripture Confitemini alter vtrum Confesle your selues to the Priest all the world doth knowe Truely in this abuse consisted their greatest glorie for althoughe their shamelesse liues séene to the open viewe of the wise were sufficient to reproue them and confound them yet in this priuate confession they practized more villanie than any honest Christian can endure to heare or reade which shall be hereafter partly touched in his place Yet to shewe you in some sort their absurditie and vaine glorie I will deliuer you two examples short and pleasaunt A certaine Mason comming to be shriuen by his Curate who had learned great wordes to countenaunce his credite with his Parishoners to the ende that he would séeme a profound clearke and wise among them demaunded of him you must suppose with open mouth whether he were Auaritious who answered no art thou quoth he Luxurious he answered no art thou not Superbous he answered no Art thou not Inuidus or Irous The poore man ignorant of these termes still answered no y e Priest in a rage saide what art thou then a simple Mason sir quoth he as you may sée by my Trowell A poore shepheard being likewise asked by his ghostly father whether he had kept the commandements of God answered no whether he had kept the commaundementes of the Church he answered likewise no what hast thou kept then quoth he nothing sir saide the poore shepheard but my shéepe Although the Pope thought it requisite that these Massing Priestes should haue no more learning than née●e● them yet sauing their honour some of the greatest could mistake their Latine aswell as the rest For Henrie the. 8. of famous memorie sending among other things to Francis the French King and the first of that name twelue great Mastiues as parcell of his present writing thus Mitto tibi duodecem molossos twelue degges which Prat his Chauncellor and a great Sorbonist Doctor tooke to be Duodecem muletos twelue moyles and therefore desired his Maiestie to giue him him the twelue Moyles that King Henrie had sent It is straunge sayde his maister that Moyles shoulde be sent me out of Englande and therefore willed to sée the letters where the king founde the errour and Prat perceiuing it said he mistooke Molossos for Mulettos And séeing I haue occasion to call this Prat into the play the more to manifest vnto you his couetous life matched with tyrannie his miserable death ioyned with blasphemie being of the Church of Rome a professor and of y e poore members of Christ a cruell persecuter I will deliuer you the same which is written of him simply as I finde it This Prat after he had bailded a faire Hospitall which the king séeing saide it was not large yn●ugh to lodge all those that Prat had made poore fell sicke of such a horrible disease as the wormes did guawe and pearce throughe his stomacke not without cursing despiting of God both for payne and extreme impatience occasioned aswell by the griefe he felte as of the hatred he had to sée all his Cofers sealed vp that he sayde thus it is to serue the King both with bodye and soule This Prat was the first in Fraunce that brought and presented to the Parliamente house the Inquisition of Heresies he gaue forthe the first Commission to execute those that spake against the Romishe Church whose blaspheming death confirmed the crueltie of his life for cleane forgetting God and his mercie he manifestly shewed what Saint he serued Also Ponchar Archbyshop of Toures following the erection of a burning Chamber he was by the fire of God burned himselfe which beganne at his héeles and féete and increased so vpwarde throughe all his bodye as they were fayne to cut his members by péece meale away One Iohn Ruze a Councellor also of the Parliament y e cruellest persecuter of Christes professors in his time was likewise punished by y e secret fire of God y t he felte himselfe burne as in a furnace shewyng no signe of remembring God his whole body consumed withal and so dying in most horrible blasphemie he refused to call to God for mercie And as the Diuine iudgement was executed vpon this so was it vpon another Councellor of y e Court named Claude de Asles for the same day y t he gaue sentence for y e burning of two true professors immediately after vsing y e companie of his harlot in the verie act was taken with an Apoplexie and so sodainely dyed Likewise one Iohn Menier Lorde of Oppide a follower with all his force for the burning Massacring of Christ in his mēbers was taken himselfe with such a burning strangurie as with the paine thereof he fell into so extreme impatience y t he blasphemed God euen to his last breath saying why should not I curse him whom those damnable Lutherans did glory and praise in the middest of their tormentes By this the reader may iudge in what miserie those men dwell whose consciences giue them such horrible assaults as a late Chaūcellor of Fraunce mightily combatted by his conscience at the