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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	faith_n	hear_v	word_n	8,928	5	5.0549	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15875	Certeyne preceptes, gathered by Hulrichus Zuinglius, declaring how the ingenious youth ought to be instructed and brought vnto Christ. Translated out of latin into Inglish by master Richard Argentyne Doctour in Physyck; Quo pacto ingenui formandi sint praeceptiones pauculae. English	Zwingli, Ulrich, 1484-1531.; Argentine, Richard, d. 1568.	1548 (1548)	STC 26136; ESTC S105852	16,031	46

seing it lyeth not in the power of man to drawe the harte of any one vnto the faith of one god although any mā shulde passe in persuading Pericies / but it lyeth only in god the heauenly father / who doth drawe vs vnto him And yet nothwythstandyng / according vnto the saying of the Apostle / faith is by hearing so that the hearing be the worde of God not truly that the preaching of the worde is of so great force / except the spirite working in vs / g ue vs aduertisement vnto the same And therfore faith must be instilled with moost pure wordes / and moost vsed to procede from the mouth of God / And prayers ioyned vnto the same must be made vnto hym / who onely doth make the faithfull / that whome we teache with worde / he maie illuminate the same with his spirit And perchaunce it shall not be alienate from the purpose of Christe / if we bring the same into the knowledge of God / yea / by thinges that are visible As if we call before oure eyes / the ingent of the vniuersall worlde / declarīg or shewing with our finger / that all thinges are subiect vnto alteration / but it is necessary that he be immutable / and not moued / the which hath cōciled all thīgs / seing they be so diuerse in so firme ande marvailous a concorde Ande againe it ought not to be suspected that he that hath disposed al thinges with so great a prouidence / will he after neglect his owne handy worke / for as moch as amongest mortall men / it is imputed as a vice or blame / if any man be not diligēt or carefull in the thing that apparteineth vnto his house Of this / the same our dearlīg shall learne the pouidence of God / who careth for all thinges / disposeth all thinges and preserueth all thinges For of the two sparrowes that are bought for a farthīge / the one falleth not vppō the grounde vnto vs / without his counsell Who also hath nōbred the heares of oure heades / nothinge vtterly is left out of this care Wherby it is manifest that the same doth determine● not onely of thīges wherof the soule hath nede / but also the body / seing we see the Rookes so liberally to be entre●eined by the same / ande the lilies also so gally to be ●ladde Hitherto / the minde being rightly furnisshed or instructed of the prouidence of god / it cā not be that it may be at any time carefull / or oute of ordre stryken with couetuousnes The whiche affect if in our tendre age we cut from vs than ●a●e we delyuered the minde from a great daūgerous and hurtefull plage He shall knowe truly that God is not onely a lorde / but also a father of all those that beleue in him / that is / of those that trust in him and that he desyreth that we shall come with as moch haste vnto hym / to craue for helpe / as vnto the parent or father that hath begotten vs / ande with his propre wordes hath promised helpe / because certeynly he loueth to be prayed Wherfore if the sycknes eyther of minde or of body do vexe or greue the / the remedye must be obteyned from him / if thy ennemy do trouble the / if envie do oppresse the / thou must runne vnto hym If we covet wisdome or learnīg we must wowe him for them / yea bothe wife and children are also to be desired at his hand If the increase of goodes ād honoures come a litle to plentyfully vnto vs / we must desyre of hym / that he wyll not suffer our mynd to be made to tendre wyth them or effemyna●e / ande so to be brought oute of the right waye What nede many wordes generally / he shall knowe that all thinges are to be asked of him and he shall thinke it a wrōg / to aske any thinge of him / that shall not be condecent for him to parforme / ād fynally he shal be a shamed eyther to couet or to haue any thyng the which by hym is not laufull / and he shall onely get and laye vp in treasure those thinges that maketh mē truly happie He shall vnderstand the mistery of the Gospell this waies / he shall knowe before all other thinges the state of the fyrst manne / that is to saye / howe he through death is deade againe / howe after that he had trāsgressed the precept of God / he infected by his transgresse all his posterite For the dead can not beget the lyuysh / neither haue we euer sene a blacke morian borne amōgest Inglishmē Wherby / this our frende shall know also his disease Also by this he doth knowe / if he do vnderstand howe we do all thinges by the motions of our affectes / howe God truly is farre of from them Wherby it followeth vndoubtedly / that we also shulde be moost clere without all affectes if we shal desire to dwell with God For like as euery innocent / hath nothing to do with those that are moost geuen vnto myschefe / ād cōtrary the wicked can not abide the iust For as those that are of the nature of Nero do bidde and commaund other like vnto Seneca to be handeled / euen so of the contrarie / the same tumbe doth hyde or couer the Emyans with the S●●pians / so none other shall inhabit with God / than he that is wythout spot ande holy / as God hym self is holy / ande indued with the purenes of harte For blessed are the pure in harte because they shall see God But howe shall we get so great an Innocency / the which are nedged round● aboute with moost impure affectes we being here●● betwixt the hammer and the stithe for so moch as God doth require so great an innocencie / we beyng corrupted / can of our selues do nothīg but vice / whether we will or not we are compelled to yelde vnto God and to permit all thinges vnto his grace Here springeth the light of the Gospell When we are inclosed wyth these strayghtes / Christ doth take vs oute / the whiche hath deliuered vs farre better / than any great God of the Gentyles that was thought to preserue them / aboue all thinges / erecting the conscience nere vnto desperation / ande sone after when by moost assured hope he hath ioyned the same vnto hym / makyng it fortunate For seyng he is most clere without all blotte of all corrupted affectes conceiued truly of the holighoost / and borne of a pure virgin First to deliuer vs he did sett forth this his innocency for vs. For truly he suffered oure labours and paynes / ande afterwarde he maketh those which vndoubtedly beleue thys / blessed For he that shall beleue this lyberall pardon / graunted of God by Christ / vnto the miserable kinde of mortall mā / he shal be saued / ande beyng made the coheyre of Christ / he shal be in ioye with the

father euerlastinge For he wyll that where hym selfe is / there also his minister shal be The innocency of Christ that was put in daunger for those that were gylte / yea for the dampned / hath absolued vs / and hath made vs worthy vnto God for this cause specially / because he was able to fulfyll the maner and measure of the dyuine iustice For he was moost clere without all corrupted affectiō And where as he is soche and so great of him self / that is to saye God / yet was he made oures Wherof it followeth / that his iustice the whych onely thinge we ●acke was also made oures For he was made vnto vs from god● wisdome / iustice / holines and redemptiō Nowe / by him we haue an entraunce vnto God For he is oures the pledge of the grace of God / our Aduocate / oure sufere oure head / intercessour ande mediatour He is our whole trust and affiaunce both fyrst and last Those that hetherto vnderstand the mistery of the Gospell ād trust vppon the same / are borne of God for the capacite of mannes weakenes can not attaine vnto so profounde a coūsell of the grace of god Out of this it commeth / that those that are borne a newe of the Gospell / can not synne For euery soch one as is borne of God doth not synne But he that beleueth the Gospell / is borne of God / wherfore they do not synne that are borne newe of the Gospell That is to saie / the sinnes are not impu●ed vnto them vnto dāpna●ion and death because Chryst hath redemed them with the price of his death For albeyt that we as longe as we are in this body trauaylyng as it were in pilgrimage from God cannot be wythout affectes / ād so by that means also / not wythout synne Ye● Chryst notwythstandīg because he is ours / doth supply or amend all this our impotēcye or weakenes For seīg he is god aeternal ād a spirite / he is more precyous to redeme the sines of all mē / than they them selues are able to deserue For Ood trulye as he is a substanciall forme or power that turneth and moueth all thynges in it selfe / not beynge moued / wyll not suffer hī also / whose hart he hath drawen vnto him / to be slouthful or ydle The which sentence truly is not knowen by probaciōs but by vse For onelye those that are faythfull haue in experience how Chryste geueth no ydlenes at all vnto hys servauntes / and wyth howe glad a spirite and wyth howe moche ioye they travayle and are exercised in thys busynes Wherfore / who so ever vnderstandeth the misterie of the Gospel / he goeth about to liue wel Wherfore that must be taught as moche as maye be very purely ād dilygently And thys also must as the tyme requireth he taught / by what kynde of meanes speciallye we maye deserue the fauoure of God / by those things certeynly / whych he him selfe vseth alwayes towardes vs / by iustice / fayth and mercy For seing God is a spirite / he can no otherwyse be worshipped rightly with any other sacrifice / than wyth the spirituall sacrifice of an humble mynd Wherfore let our derling or yoūgman bende his intente to this ende / howe with all maturite he maye be a good man howe he maye be innocent / ād as nere lyke vnto God as maye be He doth good vnto all menne / he doth hurte no man / except a man fyrst hurte hī selfe So he that doth studie to do good vnto all men / and to be euery thinge vnto all men / ād doth abstaine vtterly his hande from all iniurie / he is moost like vnto God These thīges are harde / if thou haue an eye vnto oure owne strength / but vnto him that beleueth / all thinges are possyble The Aphorismes of the seconde preceptes After that the minde / whyche must be appointed vnto substanciall vertue / shal be rightly instructed by faith / the next thīge is / that he decke ande furnish him selfe all wholy within purely For if with hym selfe all thinges be in a right ordre / than shall he very sone gyue good counsell vnto other And he can not more lightly sett his mīde in due order / than if he haue in hand / ād labour both night ande daye in the worde of God The whiche thinge he shall do very well / if he vnderstande the hebrue and greke toūgues rightly / because without the one of them / the olde Testament / and without the other / the newe can not without difficulte purely be knowen And for as moch as we haue taken vppō vs to teache those / that haue nowe passed ouer the trauaile of their first rudimētes And the Latin tongue being had in vse amongest all men / yet do we not think it mete vtterly to leaue it For albeit that it do conduce lesse vnto the vnderstanding of holy scriptures / then eyther the Greke or Hebrue tongue / yet for the rest vse of our life it proficeth very mothe● and sometimes it cometh to passe / that we haue to do in the busynes of Christ amōgest those that are onely latyn men But to abuse the tongues for againe / that truly ought to be farre of frō a Christen mā For truly the tongues are the gifte of the spyryte of God The next vnto this / vnto whome we shall giue our diligence / shal be the Greke tongue / because of the newe Testaments as it is saide for speaking the thinge / that I thinke offending no man wyllingly The doctryne of Christe euen from the beginning not as the thinge required so rightly to haue bene handled of the latin men / as of the grekes Wherfore this our dearling must be sent vnto the fyrst fountaynes Albeit this in them both is to be obserued / that the same haue his harte strongly walled aboute with faith ande innocency For there are many thinges that wolde be learned not withoute daunger / wa●t●nes / the desyre of Empire ād to liue in cōtention of battaill / intertaine frowardnes / vaine Philosophy ād suche like thinges All the which thinges / a minde being monisshed of them before / may passe ouer not touchīg them / like vnto Vlisses Whē at the fyrst voice or hearing of thē / he hath thus monisshed him selfe / These thinges thou hearest to beware and not to be entāgled with them / or to take them We giue the last place to the hebrue tongue for this cause specially / because as we haue said a litle before / the latin tongue is growen in knowledge amongest all men And the Greke tōgue shall moost cōueniently followe the same or elles wolde we of iust right haue geuen the first place vnto the hebrue tongue / because without the phrase of that tongue / yea in the greke tongue he shall sweate who soeuer will vnderstād or searche out the right sence of the scripture But to speake of the vtilité of