Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	apostle_n	faith_n	word_n	5,163	5	4.0959	3	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04923	The appellation of Iohn Knoxe from the cruell and most iniust sentence pronounced against him by the false bishoppes and clergie of Scotland, with his supplication and exhortation to the nobilitie, estates, and co[m]munaltie of the same realme.	Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.; Gilby, Anthony, ca. 1510-1585. An admonition to England and Scotland.; Kethe, William, d. 1608?	1558 (1558)	STC 15063; ESTC S106719	70,824	162

the same To wit that it notwithstanding that fals and cruel sentence which your disgised byshoppes haue pronounced against me would please you to be so fauorable vnto me as to be indiffereÌ„t auditours of my iust purgation Which to do if God earnestly moue your heartes as I nothiÌ„g doubt but that your entreprise shall redounde to the praise of his holie name so am I assured that ye and your posteritie shall by that meanes receaue most singular comfort edificatioÌ„ aÌ„d profit For when ye shall heare the matter debated ye shall easelie perceaue and vnderstand vpon what grounde aÌ„d foundation is builded that religion which amongest you is this day defended by fier and sword As for my own conscience I am most assuredly persuaded that what soeuer is vsed in the papistical Churche is al togither repugning to Christes blessed ordinaÌ„ce and is nothing but mortal venem of which whosoeuer drinketh I am assuredly persuaded that therewith he driÌ„keth death and damnation except by true conuersion vnto God he be purged from the same But because that long silence of goddes worde hath begotten ignorance almost in al sortes of men and ignorance ioyned with long custome hath coÌ„firmed superstition in the heartes of many I therefore in the name of the Lord Iesus desire audience aswell of you the communaltie my BrethreÌ„ as of the estates and nobilitie of the realme that in publike preaching I may haue place amongest you at large to vtter my mind in all matters of coÌ„trouersie this day in religion And further I desire that ye coÌ„curring with your nobilitie would compell your byshoppes and clergie to cease their tyrannie and also that for the better assurance and instruction of your conscieÌ„ce ye would compell your said bishoppes and fals teachers to answer by the scriptures of God to such obiectioÌ„s aÌ„d crimes as shalbe laid against their vaine religion fals doctrine wicked life and sclanderous conuersation Here I know that it shalbe obiected that I require of you a thing most vnreasonable To witt that ye should call your religion in doubt which hath bene approued and established by so long continuance and by the consent of so manie men before you But I shortly answer that neither is the loÌ„g processe of tyme neither yet the multitude of men a sufficieÌ„t approbation which God will alow for our religioÌ„ For as somme of the most aunncient writers do witnesse neither can long processe of tyme iustifie an errour neither can the multitude of such as folow it chauÌ„g the nature of the same But if it was an errour in the begynnyng so is it in the end and the longer that it be folowed and the mo that do receaue it it is the more pestilent and more to be auoided For if antiquitie or multitude of meÌ„ could iustifie any religion then was the idolatrie of the Gentiles and now is the abomination of the Turkes good religioÌ„ For antiquitie approued the one and a multitude hath receaued and doth defende the other But otherwise to answer godlie men may wonder from what fontaine such a senteÌ„ce doth flow that no man oght to trie his faith and religion by goddes worde but that he safely may beleue and folow euerie thing which antiquitie and a multitude haue approued The spirit of God doth otherwise teach vs. For the wisdone of God Christ Iesus hym selfe remitted his aduersaries to Moses and the scriptures to trie by them whether his doctrine was of God or not The Apostles Paule and Peter commaunde men to trie the religion which they professe by goddes plaine scriptures and do praise men for so doing S. Iohn straytly commaundeth that we beleue not euerie spirit but willeth vs to trie the spirits whether they be of God or not Now seyng that these euident testimonies of the holie Ghoste will vs to trie our faith and religion by the plaine worde of God wonder it is that the papistes will not be content that theyr religion and doctrine comme vnder the triall of the same If this senteÌ„ce of Christ be true as it is most true seing it springeth from the veritie it self who so euill doeth hateth the light neither will he coÌ„me to the light lest that his euill workes be manifested and rebuked then do our papistes by their own sentence condemne them selues and theyr religion For in so far as they refuse examination and trial they declare that they know somme fault which the light will vtter which is a cause of theyr feare â–ª aÌ„d why they claime to that priuiledge that no man dispute of theyr religion The veritie and trueth being of the nature of fyne purified gold doth not fear the trial of the fornace but the stuble and chaf of mannes inuentions such is theyr religion may not abyde the flame of the fier True it is that Mahomet pronounced this sentence that no man should in paine of death dispute or reason of the grounde of his religion Which law to this day by the art of SataÌ„ is yet obserued amoÌ„gest the Turkes to theyr mortal blindnes and horrible blasphemyng of Christ Iesus and of his true religion And from Mahomet or rather from Satan father of all lies hath the Pope and his rabble learned this former lesson To witt that theyr religion should not be disputed vpon but what the fathers haue beleued that oght and must the childreÌ„ approue And in so diuising Satan lacked not his foresight For no one thing hath more established the kingdome of that Romane Antichrist then this most wicked decrie To witt that no man was permitted to reason of his power or to call his lawes in doubt This thing is most assured that whensoeuer the papisticall religion shall comme to examination it shalbe founde to haue no other grounde then hath the religion of Mahomet To witt mannes inuention deuise and dreames ouershadowed with somme colour of goddes worde And therefore Brethren seing that the religion is as the stomake to the bodie which if it be corrupted doth infect the hole membres it is necessarie that the same be examined and if it be founde replenished with pestilent humors I mean with the fantasies of men then of necessitie it is that those be purged els shal your bodies and soules perishe for euer For of this I would ye were most certaiÌ„ly persuaded that a corrupt religion defileth the hole life of man appear it neuer so holie Neither would I that ye should esteme the reformation and care of religion lesse to appertaiÌ„ to you because ye are no kinges rulers iudges nobils nor in auctoritie Beloued Brethren ye are goddes creatures created and formed to his own image and similitude for whose redemption was shed the most pretious blood of the onlie beloued sonne of God to whome he hath commaunded his Ghospell and gladtidinges to be preached aÌ„d for whome he hath prepared the heauenlie inheritance so that ye will not obstinately refuse

heare thy cause and decerne in the same The controuersie standith in matters of religion Thou art accused as an apostatat from the Law as a violator of the temple and transgressor of the traditioÌ„s of theyre fathers in which matters I am ignorant and therefore desire information by those that be learned in the same religion wherof the question is And yet doest thou refuse so many godly fathers to hear thy cause and doestappeale to the Emperour preferring hym to all our iudgements of no purpose belike but to delay tyme. Thus I say it myght haue appeared that Paule did not only iniurie to the iudge and to the Preestes but also that his cause was greatly to be suspected partly for that he did refuse the iudgement of those that had moste knowledge as all men supposed of Gods will and religion and partly because he appealed to the Emperour who then was at Rome farr absent from Ierusalem a man also ignoraÌ„t of God and ennemie to all vertue But the Apostle coÌ„sidering the nature of his ennemies and what thinges they had intended against hym euen from the fyrst day that he began freelie to speak in the name of Christ did not fear to appeale from them and from the iudge that would haue gratified them They had professed theÌ„ selues plain ennemies to Christ Iesus and to his blessed Euangill and had soght the death of Paule yea euen by factioÌ„s and treasonable coÌ„spiracie and therefore by no meanes would he admit them either iudges in his cause either auditours of the same as Festus required but grounding him selfe vpon strong reasons to wit that he had not offeÌ„ded the Iewes neither yet the Law but that he was innoceÌ„t and therefore that no iudge oght to geue hym in the haÌ„des of his ennemies grounding I say his appellation vpon these reasons he neither regarded the displeasure of Festus neither yet the brute of the ignoraÌ„t multitude but boldely did appeal from all cognition of them to the iudgement of the Emperour as said is By these two examples I dout not but your honours do vnderstand that lawfull it is to the seruantes of God oppressed by tyraÌ„nie to seke remedie against the same be it by appellation from theire senteÌ„ce or by imploring the helpe of ciuile Magistrates For what God hath approued in Ieremie and Paul he can condemne in none that likewise be eâ—â—reated I might alledge some histories of the primatiue Church seruing to the same purpose as of Ambrose and Athanasius of whom the one would not be iudged but at Millan where that is doctrine was hard of all his Church and receaued and approuâ—d by many and the other would in no wise geue place to those couÌ„ciles where he knew that meÌ„ conspired against the trueth of God should sit in iudgement and coÌ„sultatione But because the Scriptures of God are my only fundation and assurance in all matters of weight and importaÌ„ce I haue thoght the two former testimonies sufficient aswell to proue my appellation reasonable and iust as to declare to your honours that with safe conscience ye can not refuse to admit the same Yf any thinke it arrogaÌ„cie or foolishnes in me to compare my selfe with Ieremie and Paule let the same man vnderstaÌ„d that as God is immutable so is the veritie of his glorious Euangill of aequall dignitie whensoeuer it is impugned be the membres suffering neuer so weak What I think touching myne owne person God shall reueale when the secrets of all hartes shall be disclosed and such as with whome I haue bene conuersant can partly witnesse what arrogaÌ„cie or pryde they espie in me But touching the doctrine and cause which that adulterous aÌ„d pestilent generatioÌ„ of Antichrists seruaÌ„ts who wilbe called Byshoppes amongst you haue condened in me I neither fear nor shame to coÌ„fesse and auow before man and Angell to be the aeternall trueth of the aeternall God And in that case I dout not to coÌ„pare my selfe with any menbre in whome the trueth hath bene impugned seÌ„ce the begynnyng For as it was the trueth which Ieremie did preach in these wordes The Preestes haue not knowen me saieth the Lord but the pastors haue traiterously declined and fallen back from me The Prophetes haue prophesied in Baal and haue gone after those things which can not helpe My people haue left the fontaine of liuing waters and haue digged to them selues pits which can containe no water As it was a trueth that the pastors and watchmen in the daies of Isaie were becomed doÌ„me dogs blynd ignoraÌ„t proud and auaricious And finally as it was a trueth that the Princes and the Preestes were murtherers of Christ Iesus aÌ„d cruell persecutors of his Apostles so likewyse it is a trueth and that moste infallible that those that haue condemned me the hole rable of the papisticall clergie haue declyned from the true faith haue geuen eare to deceauable spirits and to doctrine of deuils are the sterres fallen from the heauen to the earth are fontaines without water and finally are ennemies to Christ Iesus deniers of his vertue and horrible blasphemours of his death and passioÌ„ And further as that visible Churche had no crime where of iustly they could accuse either the Prophetes either the Apostles except theyr doctrine only so haue not such as seke my blood other crime to lay to my charge except that I affirm as alwais I offer to proue that the religion which now is maintained by fier and sword is no lesse contrarious to the true religion taught and established by the Apostles then is darknes to light or the Deuill to God and also that such as now do claime the title and name of the Churche ar no more the elect spouse of Christ Iesus then was the Synagoge of the Iewes the true Church of God what tyme it crucified Christ Iesê° damned his doctrine and persecuted his Apostles And therefore seing that my battail is against the proude and cruell hypocrites of this age as that battaill of those most excellent instrumentes was against the fals Prophetes and malignant Church of theyr ages neither ought any man think it strange that I coÌ„pare my self with them with whome I sustaine a coÌ„mon cause neither ought you my Lordes iudge your selues lesse addetted and bound to me calling for your support then did the Princes of Iuda think theÌ„ selues bouÌ„de to Ieremie whome for that tyme they deliue red notwithstaÌ„ding the seÌ„teÌ„ce of death ê“nouÌ„ced against him by the visible Church And thus much for the right of my appellatioÌ„ which in the bowelles of Christ Iesus I requier your honours not to esteme as a thing superfluous aÌ„d vaine but that ye admitt it aÌ„d also accept me in your ê“tection aÌ„d defence that by you assured I may haue accesse to my natiue couÌ„trie which I neuer offeÌ„ded to the end that freely and opeÌ„ly in the preseÌ„ce of the hole realme I may geue my confession of all such pointes

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