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	faith_n	justification_n	3,844	5	9.3520	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04366	The sonne of Gods entertainment by the sonnes of men Set forth in a sermon at Paules Crosse the seauenth of October. 1604. By Richard Iefferay of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford.	Jefferay, Richard, b. 1567.	1605 (1605)	STC 14481; ESTC S103337	27,971	49

as are fallen into their snares those double dealers that giue Ioabs stabbe with Iudas kis●e those bloodie slanderers that make reproach their custom and delight to die their tongues in the blood of their brethren receiue not Christ the false witnsse and the suborner the corrupt quests man and the extortioner receiue not Christ Where Enuie standes in the doore where Wrath leanes in the porch where Gluttonie sittes at table where Drunkennes lies in the floore where Slouth sleepes on the bed where Lecherie keepes the chamber and Pride lookes out at the window Christ Iesus hath no welcome and thither hee will not come the places must be cleane from vice they must bee garnished with vertue they must be perfumed with holinesse where Christ Iesus commeth the houses must be swept washed and pared where he cometh swept from dust and cobwebs ab offensis lemoribus from sleighter offences washed from filth and slabbering a delictis suauioribus from sweeter faults pared from dirt and rubbish a peccatis grauioribus from more grieuous sinnes so that wheresoeuer Christ is entertained the place must bee as the Sanctuarie hallowed the people must bee as the Priests sanctified and the furniture must be as the vessels of the Temple consecrated If this citie and the citizens be thus prouided ye are fit to entertaine Christ Iesus if not it behoueth you to looke for better furniture I remember Eusebius the Bishop of Caesarea in a certain Epistle of his to Constantine the Emperour makes mention of a goodly citie that he passed thorow in his trauels called Augusta which before his comming to it was reported to him to be a place very stately for building very rich for furniture very plentifull for prouision very populous for inhabitants but when he came into it he found no people dwelling in it but lions tygres dragons camelions foxes wolues goates swine vnicornes Vipers which when the Emperour read hee calles vnto Macarius his chaplaine and requires his knowledge and opinion of the place and people which Macarius aduisedly declares saying it was true which the reuer end father had writen both of the place and people for the citie in his knowledge was such as it was described and the citizens in his opinion such as they were noted some cruell as lions to wit mercilesse preiudicant bribe-taking magistrates some greedie as tygres the symonicall illiterate soul-staruing ministers some fierce as dragons the vsurious extorsiue state-spoiling mony-mongers some chāgable as Camelions the politicall informant time-seruing state-mongers some deceiueable as foxes the priuie Brokers subordinate Scribes and crimping gamsters some rauenous as wolues the citie sergiants countrie bailifes court officers some lasciuious as goats the brothell-haunters brothel-hunters sappe-suckers and soakers some filthie as swine the lasie licentious inordinate taske-masters some proud as Vnicornes the rising courtier standing lawyer falling merchant some inhumane as Vipers the vnnaturall children vngratefull friends vnfaithfull seruants Thus doe these famous writers deliuer this infamous citie by the condition of wilde and sauage beasts which is an vnnaturall and strange thing amongst men whereas if they had described it by tame and seruiceable beasts which are familiar with men it might haue passed with more ease as dogges cattes horses calues and oxen but they report it of the brutish insociable inhabitants which is a fearefull a shamefull reproach such a reproach as God forbid I should conceiue of this citie much more publish most of all perceyue amongst the inhabitants yet ye must giue me leaue to say of it as Mantuan did of his natiue citie Quo magis approprio tanto magis omnia sordent the nearer I approach vnto her the more reproach I heare of her And by your honourable and religious patience I may freely speake what I haue plainly seene in the course of some trauels and obseruation of some courses that in Flanders was neuer more drunkennes in Italie more wantonnesse in France more dissimulation in Creet more lying in Spaine more insolencie in Iurie more hypocrisie in Persia more curiositie in Barbary more crueltie in Turkie more impietie in Tartarie more iniquitie then is practised generally in England particularly in London all this is seene all this is sinne in all this is showen that we receiue not Christ Iesus amongst vs. Yet amongst the route and rabble of vnhallowed miscreants or recreants that receiue not Christ there be foure sorts of people most opprobrious which I cannot passe without reproofe namely the obstinate Papists and malicious the prophane Atheists and vnconsecrate the discentious licencious Scismatike the proude and pampered worldling The obstinate Papist Papists who hath sayd with Nym rod Go to let vs build vs a Tower whose top may reach vnto the heauens that we may get vs a name for euer least we be scattered vpon the face of the earth for euer Thus they thinke to raise the state of their saluation by their great workes and mount into heauen vpon the wings of their deserts this they presume spiritually and carnally what do they not presume There is a certaine drinke which they call Catholicon and a certaine drugge which they call Huiguiero which the Menipized Satire speakes of whereof when they haue taken a draught or a dramme they are so bolde that they dare vndertake any thing be it neuer so abhominable disturbance of states destruction of kingdomes death of kings and princes themselues their infection is so venemous that their affections can hardly be religious what pretence soeuer they make of religion insomuch that I cannot see how these that are so faithlesse in their deuotion towards God can be faithfull in their duties towardes their king My reason is because they consecrate themselues vnto the Pope their suffragan they cannot containe themselues vnto the king our soueraigne they cannot serue Christ and Antichrist God or Baall must be God for God and Beliall cannot be ioyned I wonder then in what kinde of allegeance they stand that are reconciled vnto the Pope they that subscribe in the casting of their king out of the Church what supremacie doe they allow his Maiestie in the Church Cum iurauerunt in verba Pontificis maximi In case of excommunication I dispute not what maner of subiects these are in their kindes but leaue the consideration thereof to whom it belonges In the Reuelation I reade of seuen Angels to whom was giuen seuen seuerall trumpets The third Angell blew a trumpet and there fell a great starre from heauen burning like a torch and it fell into the third part of the waters It was called Wormewood therefore the third part of the waters became bitter as Wormewood This starre as our best authours write was Pelagius a monke the chiefe pillar of their side that made the waters bitter corrupting the scripture with false doctrine so that many died he tooke away the doctrine of Redemption by Iesus Christ wherein men should beleeue he disabled the doctrine of iustification by faith whereby