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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	father_n	jesus_n	lord_n	17,123	5	3.7490	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10780	A frendly farewel which Master Doctor Ridley, late Bishop of London did write beinge prisoner in Oxeforde, vnto all his true louers and frendes in God, a litle before that he suffred for the testimony of the truthe of Christ his Gospell. Newly setforth and allowed according to the order apoynted in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions.	Ridley, Nicholas, 1500?-1555.; Foxe, John, 1516-1587.	1559 (1559)	STC 21051; ESTC S115942	27,194	106

wais of the deuil ther gostly father to stele from the vniuersall churche and perticulerly from euery man all heauenlye treasure true Faith true Charity and hope of saluacion in the bloud of our sauioure Iesus Christe yea to spoile vs of oure Sauiour Christ of his Gospell of his heauenlye spirite and of the heauenly heritage of the kingdom of heauen so derely purchased vnto vs with the deathe of our Maister and sauioure Christ. These be the goodes and godlye substaunce wherupon the Christian before God must liue And with out the which he cā not liue These goodes these theues these churche robbers go aboute to spoile vs of The whiche goodes as to the man of God they excel and farre passeth all worldlye treasure so to withstande euen vnto the deathe suche theues as go about to spoile bothe vs and the hole Churche of suche goodes is most highe and honorable seruice done vnto God These Churche robbers be also muche more false craftye and deceitfull then the theues vppon the borders For these haue not the crafte so to commende their thefte that they dare avouch it And therfore as acknowledging thē selues to be euill they steale commenlye vpon the nighte they dare not appere at iudgementes and sessions wher iustice is executed And whē they are taken and broughte thither they neuer hange no man but they be ofte times hanged for their faultes But these Churche robbers can so cloke and coloure their spirituall robbery that they can make the people to beleue falshed to be truthe and truthe falshed good to be euell and euell good lyghte to be darkenesse and darkenesse lyghte Superstition to be true Religion and Idolatrye to be the true worship of God and that whiche is in substaunce the creature of breade and wine to be none other substāce but onlye the substance of Christe the liuinge Lorde bothe God and manne And this there falshed and craft they canne so Iuggle and bewitche the vnderstandynge of the simple that they dare avouch it openlye in Courte and in town and feareth neither hanginge nor heddinge as the poore Theues of the borders do But stoute and strong like Nembrothe dare condempne to be burned in flaming fire quicke aliue who so euer will go aboute to bewray their falshed The kinde of fighte agaynste these Churche robbers is also of an other sorte and kinde then is that whiche is againste the theues of the borders For there the true menne goe forth againste thē with speare and launce with bowe and byll and al suche kinde of bodely weapons as the trew men hath But here as the enemies be of another nature so the watchmen of Christes flocke the warriours that fyght in the Lords war must be armed and fight with another kinde of weapons and Armour For here the enemies of God the souldiors of Antichrist althoughe the battell is set forth agaynst the Churche by mortall men beynge fleshe and bloud and neuertheles members of their father the deuil yet for that theyr graunde maister is the power of darkenesse theyr mēbers are spirituall wickednes wicked spirits spirits of errours of heresies of all deceate and vngodlines spirits of idolatrie superstitiō Hipocresie which ar called of S. Paule Principates powers Lordes of the worlde and spirituall subtilties conserninge heauenly thinges And therefore oure weapons muste be fit and meete to fight against suche not carnall nor Lordly weapons as spere or saūce but spiritual and heauēly we must fight against suche with the armor of God not entending to kill theyr bodies but their errors their false craft and heresies their Idolatry Superstition and Hipocrisye and to saue as much as lieth in vs both their bodies and soules And therfore as S. Paule teacheth vs we fight not against flesh and bloude that is we fight not with bodelye weapon to kill the man but with the weapōs of God to put to flight his wicked erroures and vice and to saue bothe bodye and soule Oure weapons therefore are faith hope and Charitie righteousnesse truthe pacience praier vnto God and our sword wherwith me smite our enemies we beat and batter beare down al falshed is the word of God With these weapōs vnder the banner of the Crosse of Christe we do fighte euer hauinge an eie vpon our graund Master Duke and capitaine Christ. And then we recken oure selues to triumph and to winne the crowne of euerlasting blisse when enduringe in this battell without anye shrinking or yelding to the ennemies after the example of oure graunde Capitaine Christe oure Master after the example of his holye Prophets apostles and martirs when I say we are slaine in our mortall bodies of our ennemies are most cruelly without all mercy murdered down like a mainy of shepe And the more cruell the more painefull the more vile and spitefull is the kind of the death wherunto we be put y e more glorious in God the more blessed and happy we recken withoute all doubtes our martirdome to be And thus much dere louers and frendes in God my countrymen kinsfolk I haue spokē for your cōfort least of mi death of whose life you loked peraduenture somtimes to haue had honesty pleasures and some cōmodities ye might be abashed or think ani euil but rather to reioyse if ye loue me in dede for y t it hath plesed God to cal me to a greter honor dignity thē euer I did enioy before either in Rochester or in the sea of London or euer shuld haue had in the Sea of Durham whervnto I was last of all elected and named yea I compte it greater honor before God in dede to die in his cause whereof I nothynge doubt then is any earthly or temporall promocion or honor that cā be geuen to a man in this worlde And who is he that knoweth the cause to be Goddes to be Christes quarrell and of his Gospell to bee the commen weale of all the electe and chosen children of God of all the inheritours of the kingdome of heauen who is he I say y t knoweth this assuredly by Gods word and the testimony of his owne conscience as through thinfinite goodnes of God not of my selfe but by his grace acknowledge my self to do who is I say that knoweth this and both loueth and feareth God in dede and in truth loueth beleueth in his master Christe and his blessed Gospel loueth his brotherhode the chosen children of God also lusteth and longeth for euerlastinge life who is he I saye againe y t wold not or can not finde in his hart in this cause to be contente to die God forbid that anye such should be that should forsake this grace of God I truste in my Lorde God the God of mercies the father of all comfort throughe Iesus Christe oure Lorde that he which hath put this mind wil and affection by his spirite in my hart to stand against the face of the ennemy in his cause and to chose

rather the losse of my worldlye substāce yea and of my life to then to deny his known truth that he will comfort me aid me and strengthē me euermore euen vnto thend and to the yelding vp of my spirite and soule into his holy handes wherof I most hartely beseche his holy sacred Maiestie of his infinite goodnes mercy through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Nowe that I haue taken my leaue of my Countrimen and kinsfolke and the Lord doth lende me life and geueth me laysour I will bid my other good frendes in God of other places also farewell And whome fyrste or before other then the vniuersitie of Cambrige wher as I haue dwelte longer founde more faithfull and harty frendes receiued more benefites the benefites of my natural parents onlye excepted then euer I did euen in my owne natiue countrye wherin I was borne Farewel therfore Cābridge my louing mother nurse If I shuld not acknowledge thy manifold benefits yea if I shuld not for thy benefites at the least loue the againe truely I were to be cōpted vngrate vnkind what benefites haddest thou euer that thou vsest to geue bestow vpon thy best beloued children that thou thoughtest to good for me thou diddest bestow on me all thy scole degrees Of thy common offices the chaplainship of the vniuersitie the Office of the proctorship and of a common reader And of thy priuate cōmodities emolumēts in colledges what was it thou madest me not partner of First scholer then felow after mi departure frō the thou called me again to a mastership of a right worshipful colledge I thāck the my louing kindnes for all this thy kindnes And I pray God y t his lawes and the sincere Gospell of Christe may euer be truely taught faithfully learned in thee Farewel Pembroke hal of late mine own Colledge my Cure and my charge what case thou arte in nowe GOD knoweth I knowe not well Thou wast euer named sithens I knew the which is nowe a .xxx. yeres agoe to be studious well learned a great setter forth of Christes Gospell and of Gods true word so I foūde the and blessed be God so I lefte the in deede Wo is me for the mine owne deare Colledge if euer thou suffer thi self by any meanes to be brought from that trade In thy Orchard y e wals buts and trees if they could speke wold beare me witnesse I learned withoute boke almoste all Paules Epistles yea and I wene all the Canonicall Epistles saue only the Apocalipse of whiche studye although in time a great part did departe from me yet the swete smell therof I trust I shall carrye wyth me into heauen For the profit ther of I thincke I haue felt in all my life time euer after And I wene of late whether they abide there now or no I can not tel ther was that did the like The Lord graūte that this zeale loue toward that parte of Goddes word which is a key a commentary to all holy scripture may euer abide in that colledge so long as the world shall endure From Cambridge I was called into Kent by the Archbishop of Cāterbury Thomas Cranmer y t most reuerend father and man of God And of him by and by sent to be Uicar of Herne in East Kent Wherefore farewell Herne the worshipfull and wealthy parishe the fyrste cure wherunto I was called to minister Gods word Thou hast hard of my mouth ofttimes the word of God preached not after the popiste trade but after Christes Gospell Oh that the frute had answered to the seede And yet I must knowledge me to be thy debtoure for the Doctrine of the Lordes Supper which thē at that time I acknowledge God had not reueled vnto me But I blesse God in al y e godly vertue and zeale of Goddes word which the Lorde by preachinge of his worde did kindle manifestlye both in the hart life and workes of that godly woman there my Lady Phynes God graunte y t his word toke like effecte there in manye other mo Farewell thou Cathedral churche of Canterburye the Metropolitike sea where of once I was a member To speake thinges pleasant vnto thee I dare not for daūger of conscience and displeasure of my Lord God And to say what lieth in my hart were now to much and I feare were able to doe thee now but a litle good Neuerthelesse for the frendship I haue founde in some there and for charity sake I wishe the to be washed cleane of all worldlinesse and vngodlinesse that thou maiste be founde of God after thy name in truth Christes Church in dede Farewell Rochester sometime my Cathedrall sea In whome to say the truth I did finde much gētlenesse and obedience whyche I truste thou wilte not saye the contrarye but I did vse it to Goddes glorye and thine owne profitte in God Oh that thou haddest and mighte haue continued and gone forewarde in the trade of Goddes lawe wherein I did leaue thee Then thy charg and burden shuld not haue bene so terrible and daūgerous as I suppose verelye it is like to bee alasse on the latter daye To Westminster other aduertisemente in God I haue not nowe to say then I haue said before to y e Cathedrall church of Canterbury And so God geue the of his grace that thou maist learne in dede and in truth to please him after his own lawes And thus fare you well Oh London London to whome now may I speake in the or whōe shall I bid farewel shall I speake to the Prebendaries of Poules alas all that loued Goddes worde and were true setters forth thereof are now as I heare saye some brēt and slain some exiled and banished and some holden in hard prisō and appoynted daily to be put to moste cruell deathe for Christes Gospell sake As for the rest of thē I know they coulde neuer broke me well nor I could neuer delight in them Shall I speake to the Sea therof wherein of late I was placed almoste and not fully by the space of iii. yeares But what may I say to it being as I heare say I am deposed and expulsed by iudgemente as an vniust vsurper of that rome O iudgement iudgement can this be iust iudgement to condemne the chief minister of Goddes word the pastor and bishop of the Dioces neuer bring him into iudgemente that he might haue hard what crimes were laide to his charge nor neuer suffer him to haue any place or time to answer for him selfe Thinckest thou that hereafter whē true iustice shall haue place that this iustice can euer be allowed either of God or of man well as for the cause and hole matter of mi deposition and the spoil of my goods which thou possessest yet I referre it vnto God which is a iust iudge And I beseke God if it be his pleasure that that whiche is but my personall wronge be not laid to thi charge on the latter