Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	day_n	ghost_n	holy_a	6,984	5	5.1861	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03619	An apologye made by the reuerende father and constante martyr of Christe Iohn Hooper late bishop of Gloceter and Worceter againste the vntrue and sclaunderous report that he should be a maintainer and encorager of suche as cursed the Quenes highnes that then was, Quene Marye. Wherein thou shalte see this godlye mannes innocency and modest behauioure: and the falsehode and subtyltye of the aduersaryes of Gods truth	Hooper, John, d. 1555.; Bull, Henry, d. 1575?	1562 (1562)	STC 13742; ESTC S122036	17,261	56

haue made vnto him I trust as gently he receiued my letters so he wyl graunt me and my fellowes that be in duraunce oure lawfull requests But this I do wryte good reader not to make discourse of any matter but only for the maiestye and honour of Gods word to declare mine innocency of treason or anye euyll wyll or malyce that I beare to the Quenes highnes or any superiour power Doubtles I thank our heauenlye father I haue reade to many times the word of life and marked it to well to fyghte agaynst or curse the magistrates I praye God to geue them vnderstandinge of hys holy truth wyth loue to followe it and the harme that I woulde to any man liuing happen to my selfe For the coÌ„mauudement of God is that we should not only loue our frends but also our enemies And not only wish good and pray for our frends as dettours vnto God and them for the benefites we take at their hands but also praye for our ennemies lamentinge the tirannye and wickednes of synne that causeth them too hate and persecute whome God requireth to loue Yet doeth Saynte Iohn in his Epistel commaund the readers therof to beware they praye not for such as be subiecte to the synne whiche is to death But I suppose that in these late dayes wherein the spirite of iudgement and discreation or discerning of sins is not so abundantly in men as it was in his time no man shoulde withoute a speciall testimonye of the holye ghost particularlye or expresselye iudge that synne to be in anye man For the iudgementes of God who shall tourne from wickednesse or who shall fall from versue before this mortall life be ended be not reueyled nor knowen vntoo menne And yet in case I knewe as saint Iohn saieth a man that synned vnto death for whome by the commaundemente of God I shoulde not pray it foloweth not that I shoulde curse him for whom I may not pray And I reioyce y t the inscrutable iudge ment of god suffreth y e wicked to slauÌ„der me with that euil that of al others I haue ben all my life time I thanke God least troubled and in daunger withall For I neuer cursed man nor beaste otherwyse then the woorde of God wylied me for the tyme whyles I preached hys word to rebuke syn I do remember that Saynte Augustine in his booke of Christes sermon in the mounte hathe manye Godlye sentences and sayinges in this matter But I mynde not to write a boke of it but only to speake the truth of my self agaynst wycked sklaunderers that care not so they maye hurte how they hurte nor so they kyll by what meanes they kyll In the psalmes and in the prophets he maruelous execrations of the wicked and speciallye agaynste suche as wyth the death of the Godlye god aboute to condempne the woorde of God and to oppresse it Christe also and his Apostels vsed maruelous execrations when he sayed woo be vnto the Chorozain wo be vnto thee Bethsaida c. Saint Paul wyshed them destroied that troubled the church of the Galathians Also he called the high priest painted wall to his face and Peter killed with a word Ananias and Saphira his wyfe Saint Paule strake blynde Elimas the witche Eliseus caused the wylde beare to teare and kyll the chyldren that mocked hym Elias caused syre from heauen to fal vpon the messengers of Ochosias the kinge These thinges declare that there were at all tymes cursings vsed and extreame punishment followed such as were by Gods commaundemente cursed and yet suche as did curse remayned styll in the fauour of God But these examples no priuate man may folow for these men were publike preachers of Goddes word whose office was by all meanes so to rebuke and condempne sinne as thes were instructed by the word of God And he that marketh the condicion of these persons shall perceaue that in euerye one of them was two persons thone publik that could speake no more pleasaunte nor gentlye to the sinful world then God bad them whiche was to pronounce them cursed and damned for their sinnes and iniqutye yet as priuate menne they wepte and sorowfullye lamented the miserye and losse of the same persons that they cursed as publik ministers Ieremye as a publike preacher threatned the destruction of his own countrey the captiuitye of his naturall prince and kinge and the seruitude and bondage of al his cuntremen yet as a priuate manne wept and cried out rather with floudes of tears then with droppes of weping So did Christ vpon Ierusalem Dauid vppon Saule and Absolon and Saint Paul vppon the Iewes and yet offended nothinge at all For althoughe God require of publike ministers to doe that appartamethe to their publike office in cursinge and threatning of his ire and displeasure yet he taketh not frome them his naturall affection to pitty and bewaile euen such as they knowe most iustly to be punished but yet so in measure that the affection of mercy and compassion murmure not against the wil iust iudgement of God Wherfore as it is forbydden a pryuate manne to reuenge by force his own wrong so it is forbydden hym too curse or execrate any personne magistrate or other Yea the publike personne that preacheth in this poynt hadde neede to be cyrcumspecte and too be ware he speake nothinge of affection but all for the correction of synne to the amendemente of synners as the Sayncts do aske vengeaunce in heauen sayinge when wylte thou reuenge oure bloud vppon them or the earthe where as it maye not bee thought that the Sayntes praye vncharitablye agaynst theyr neighboures that the worlde and the kyngedome of synne myghte make an ende in them And so doo all good menne praye nowe vppon the earthe that the kyngedome of God may come as it is in the Lords prayer But what doo theese vnGodlye papysies fynde faulte wyth cursynge when not onelye all hystoryes chronycles and recordes frome tyme too tyme euer sythens the pretensed and wycked authoritye of the Romyshe byshoppe doo testyfye besydes dayelye experience that they haue cursed kynges and realms of malyce pryde and indignation and for money haue blessed them agayne and so vsed kynges and realmes as their wicked lustes haue moued them as slaues and beastes contrarye to Gods expresse worde And dayelye it is seene in euerye consystorye courte that at the wyll and pleasure of a wycked manne that is the Byshoppes offycer the innocentes be cursed and vsed woorsse then dogges vntyll suche tyme as the offycers furye be pacified wyth Golde or syluer If they knewe Gods lawes â—â— they doo not in deede they shoulde see and fynde that no ordynarye excommunication shoulde bee vsed by the Byshoppe alone but by the Bishoppe and all the whole paryshe So we reade in the olde lawe that when suche excommunications were vsed the whole congregation stode the one partye of the one hyll

and the other partye of the other hyll Also when the incestious man was excoÌ„municated S. Paul alone did not excommunicate him but Saynt Pauls consente and also the whole churche with him Extraordinary excommunications that then the holye men vsed whiche our bishops at this day neither haue power to do nor know what they be be not in vse As Saint Paule alone by Gods power made blinde the witche Elimas And Peter alone by the same power kylled Ananias and saphira his wife The bishops can but strike and excommunicate with the worde of God If that serue not thei shoulde commend the matter to God and medle no further But nowe the bishops haue learned Gods worde and preache and teache fables and lies and who so wyl not beleue them in suche wickednes they strike them with losse of goodes landes liberties frendes wyfe and children yea with imprisonmente swearde fire coarde and suche like And to make all appeare wel they strike true men with the false slaunder of treasonne But such is Goddes iuste punishemente for oure synnes most iustelye happened vnto vs. When we amend oure lyues he wyll withdrawe hys scourge Thus maist thou see gentle reader that suche cursinge as theese vngodlye papistes slaunder me wyth all is bothe againste my knowledge and my doyinges And as I knowe I shoulde not curse any man euen so I knowe I should praye for all men and for mine ennemies also diligentlye and Chirstianly for geuyng them as much as lyeth in me here and before God prayinge him to send them more grace and louing charity But here I woulde men shoulde note and marke that as they be forbydde to curse the magistrates so be they forbyd to saye allowe or commend anye thinge they shall do that is not agreeable with the woorde of God For the scripture doth not only curse such as make wicked lawes but also holdeth them accursed what so euer they be that call good euyll and euyl good And althoughe God doeth require me to obey the magistrate yet he forbyddeth me to flatter the magistrate eyther styre him vp so do euyll or so commend the euyll when it is done For we know not onely euyll doers shall be damned but also such as consente to euyll doinge And this olde sayinge is true the consenters and docrs shall haue like paine Now these be the bees and stinging waspes that make the bishops so sore too rage and startle They haue taken the worde of God from the people out of all churches in this realm that nothinge maye bee sayed in the vulgare tonge which is cleane contrarye to the woorde of God and expressely against the same as sainte Paule sayeth But they saye saynte Paul ther speaketh but of preaching alone whiche shoulde be in the vulgare tonge But I saye and wyll iustifie it that they saye vntruely in so sayinge for the texte plainly and expresselye maketh as well mension of praier said or song as of preaching I wyll pray in my spirit and in mine vnderstrndinge saith sainte Paul c. And so do the olde fathers altogether say as I say Read Iohn Chrisostom and S Ambrose vpon thesame place Further they haue banished the holye supper of the Lorde and call the table wher the communion was vsed an oyster borde and the breade appointed to that vse oyster bread and yet those thinges bothe by name and effecte be conteined commaunded vs moste plainely by the expresse word of god And for y e supper of the Lorde they haue brought in priuate masses of their owne or elles of their wicked predecessours inueÌ„tion whyche is clene coÌ„trary to y e word of god let the boke of the Apostles and euan gelistes be iudge And who so euer wyll compare the masse as they vse it with the supper of the Lorde shal see them as wel agree as Christ and the wicked Phariseis agreed Nowe because men can not condescende vnto these wicked things and call that holy whiche is dampnable and that good which is euil Therfore be lies slaunders and false matters picked fayned against them But if they wil saye good is euyll and euyll good the deuyll God and God the deuyll then shall men haue peace with them and not before As I am sorye with all my harte that anye manne for troubles should curse hys persecutors except he haue more speciall testimony of Gods spirite that he doth well then I haue so I like wise I doe lamente that those menne that be cursed who they be I knowe not do not examine them selues and search their own consciences whether iustlye God stirreth the people to hate them or no as Dauid did beinge a lauful king and also a good king When Semei called him bloud sucker and murtherer with manye foule words he entred into y t iudgement of his owne conscyence and felt that the Lorde hadde stirred the same wicked man vp beinge his own subiecte to curse Whereby he learned good kinge to lamente and beware of the sinne that made him thus to be cursed Alas what manne or woman liuinge is there that one wayes or other hathe not deserued to be cursed both of God and man But these carnall and fleshly bishops neuer consyder that whiche is principallye to be taken hede of in euery plage that god sendeth which is the sinne in the person plaged When the scourge of God so commeth it were best for euery man too say to him selfe good Lord although I haue not deserued thus to be spokeÌ„ of one way yet an other way I haue for none is pure and innocent in thy sighte Let euery manne remoue by grace the cause of cursings and other troubles whych be the very messengers of God and his scourges and then God wyll remoue the effectes whiche be the troubles them selues If the party cursed by manne be innocente he maye reioyce to be euyll spoken of for iustice sake and assure hym selfe that God wyll blesse that man curseth If he be gilty the curse is as a preacher sente vnto him from God to admonishe him of his sinnes And as for the person that curseth if Gods spirite beare not recorde with his spirit that he did it for Gods sake and the hatred he did beare onely to sinne and styrred thereunto by the spirite of God as the prophetes and Apostels were he hath greate cause to lament For the curse that he wold to others shall lyght vpon him selfe And suche offendours had most nede of coumforte to call them againe to God and to the order of charitye for that we be bounde to do as the scripture of God doeth teache Not too coumforte them or ayde them as my false accusers saye of mee as traytoures in treason but as creatures made vntoo the symilytude of God fallen in too synne The whiche similytude and dignity of God in man shoulde not be abhorred nor detested for anye cryme that manne commytteth but rather pittyed and

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