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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	holy_a	scripture_n	true_a	8,130	5	5.1204	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36785	A narrative of unheard of popish cruelties towards Protestants beyond seas, or, A new account of the bloody Spanish inquisition published as a caveat to Protestants / by Mr. Dugdale.	Dugdale, Stephen, 1640?-1683.; Dugdale, Ric.,	1680 (1680)	Wing D2473; ESTC R763	26,721	32

often Fastings Mortification Self-denial Frequency of Prayer Humility c. But themselves practised nothing less than these things And indeed all their Religion consisted in Words and Bodily Exercises as running to Masses Hallowed Places Shrift c. The other sort dealt more sincerely with the Holy Scriptures out of which they declared what was true Righteousness and perfect Holiness By means whereof that City above all others in Spain bore the name for just and true Dealing and it pleased God that the brightness of this Light did discover all the Counterfeit Holiness and Pharisaical Devotion of the other Party The chief Labourers in this Harvest were Constantine Aegidius and Varguius all Doctors and sober wise and learned Men who by this kind of Preaching procured to themselves many Enemies but above all others Arias was the most spightful and malicious yet he carried it so cunningly that he still kept up his Reputation with these men but it was not long before he discovered himself and that upon this occasion There was one Ruzius a Learned Man questioned before the Inquisitors for something that he delivered in a Sermon about the Controversies in Religion the Inquisitors appointed him a day of hearing and two or three days before Arias met him saluted him courteously and discoursed familiarly with him then did he pump out of him all those Arguments wherewith he intended to defend himself before the Inquisitors When the day came and Ruzius appeared Arias went on that side where his Opponents were which much amazed Ruzius and in the Disputation Arias being prepared did so wittily enervate all his Arguments that Ruzius had nothing to say for himself and so was fain to yield the Cause and Arias went away with the Honour of the Field though he got it by Treachery Yet did this Arias being of St. Isidores's Monastery Preach so practically that a great Light began to dawn in that dark place for the whole Scope of his Sermons was to overthrow their Profession he taught them that singing and saying of heir Prayers night and day was no Service of God that the Holy Scriptures were to be read and studied with diligence whence alone the true Service of God could be drawn and which alone tells us the true obedience to his will to the obtaining whereof we must use Prayer as a Means proceeding as well from a sense and feeling of our own Infirmities as grounded upon a perfect trust and confidence in God By laying these Foundations through Gods Blessing he began to make them out of Love with their Monkish Superstition and much provoked them to the study of the Holy Scriptures besides also his Sermons he read daily a Lecture upon Solomons Proverbs very learnedly and made application thereof with good Judgment and Discretion also in private conference he did much good the Lord also so ordered it in his wisdom that he met with Scholars that were very tractable such as were not greatly wedded to their Superstitions And such was the force and might of Gods Election that these few good Seeds so fructified that in the end they brought forth a great encrease of Godliness for divers of the Monks that hereby had their Consciences awakened and cleared to see their former Hypocrisie and Idolatry sought out for further Instruction and through Gods mercy they light upon those Preachers which taught the truth with more sincerity of whom they learned the Principles of pure and perfect Religion so that by degrees they left that evil Opinion which they had formerly conceived against the Lutherans and were desirous to read their Books and God miraculously provided for them they had all sorts of Books brought them that were extant at that time either in Geneva or Germany whereby it came to pass that there were very few in all that Cloister but they had some tast of true Religion and Godliness so that instead of mumbling their Mattens they brought in Divinity-Lectures and Vain Fasting was turned into Christian Sobriety neither were any taught to be Monkish but to be sincerely and truly religious But considering that when this should be once known they could not live in any safety they resolved among themselves to forsake their Nest and to flie into Germany where they might enjoy more safety of their Lives and freedom of their Consciences but how to get thither was all the difficulty if one or two should go first the rest would be exposed to danger if many should go together a thousand to one but they would be taken again being to travel from the furthest part of Spain into Germany yet upon Debate they concluded that they must all either speedily depart or shortly be apprehended by the Inquisitors who now had got some inckling of the matter and God seeing them in this Distress shewed them a means how under an honest pretence a dozen of them might depart together within a Month and each of them betake himself a several way to Geneva where they appointed by Gods assistance all to meet within a Twelve-month the rest which were but young Novices were left behind who yet not long after were so strengthened by God that they endured the Brunt of Persecution when it came three of them being burned and divers others diversly punished The aforementioned Servants of Jesus Christ forsook that place where they lived in honour ease and plenty and by undertaking for Christ's sake a voluntary Exile exposed themselves to Shame Ignominy Wants yea and were in continual danger of their Lives also And under God Arias was a great means of this who by his Ministry had first enlightned them with the Knowledge of the Truth for which he was often complained of to the Inquisitors and was convented before them where he so cunningly answered the Matter that he was still discharged but this last Apprehension through the Mercy of God brought forth in him the Fruits of true Repentance for he did so deeply and unfeignedly bewail and repent of his former withholding of the Truth in unrighteousness that whereas he used to be exceeding fearful of the Rack he being brought to it and upon it with a marvellous constancy withstood the enemies of of Gods Truth and took up the Inquisitors roundly withal telling them that he was heartily sorry and did most earnestly repent him for that he had wittingly and willingly in their presence impugned the Truth against the godly Defenders of the same many other sharp Rebukes he gave to the Inquisitors so often as he came to his Answer But at last he was brought forth arrayed in their accustomed manner upon their Day of Triumph at which time he also made a notable Profession of his Faith and so was led from the Stage to the Stake with a merry and chearful countenance where by the notable Example of his Repentance at his Death he made satisfaction to the Church of Christ for all his former unfaithful and hypocritical dealing with it and so quietly slept