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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	father_n	know_v	truth_n	5,230	5	5.7940	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16975	To the most high and mightie prince Elizabet, by the grace of God Queene of Englande, Fraunce, and Irelande, defender of the fayth. &c.	Broughton, Hugh, 1549-1612.	1594 (1594)	STC 3861; ESTC S105851	14,036	26

MY duetie remembed to your Grace and Lordshyp It is knowen to all the Realme with what vehemencie and care D.R. labored to proue that a Concent of Scripture for certaintie of Chronicle coulde not be made By reason of his former credite he hath drawen many to deny that which they alwayes helde to be against them selues to countenance him and to disgrace mee I thought small skill might serue in an Apologie for all men and was so bolde as to pronounce him more grosely deceyued then euer I knew any man And content coulde I haue been to haue tryed by disputation or by printing not minding to leaue off vntil my booke to her Maiestie which he laboreth wholly to disgrace standeth by open iudgement or falleth to my continuall disgrace and last paynes in studie When he had long read to proue that Mardochai was not of Iechonias captiuitie and had made many commende his cause we both graunt that to ende our strife and they being called to reade the text loathed their owne inconstancie Yet then this was tolde me that some Oxforde men required answere of me Therevpon I wrote to D. Robinson Prouost of the Q. Colledge certaine Theses which might ende the cause requesting his alowance or reiection with this addition that I thought it iniurious that Oxforde men should require me to defende that which they euer helde vnlesse they woulde protest that eyther their mindes were altered or that they were vnable and of D. Reynoldes I wrote that he was extremely culpable in blaming me for differing frō him where none euer was nor wylbe of his iudgement and by his owne wordes he is vtterly condemned Vpon this D. Reynoldes commeth to London to me shewing that he was willing to take any iudge and both we agreed vpon your Grace you my L. B. of London that we might haue the cause fully ended without partialitie to the credite of either clearely to the glory of God and brightnes of his trueth That whether soeuer hereafter should make any stir in the cause he shoulde be openly culpable by all censures My matter is opened in my Booke of Scripture Concent in Gabriels oration Dan. 9. in the Preface and at the yeere of the worlde 3470. My accusation is that D. R. vniustly blamed that as all particulars depending therevpon which tende through the olde Testament yea from Moses to our Lord his ascention To all which courses I blame him as iniurious Imoued him to sende to your Grace and Lordship the booke of his Lectures I trow reason wil moue him to do so much yf he meane to defende him selfe I haue sent herewithall a briefe in Theses and short declarations to giue an insight to the matter a copie whereof I coulde wish D. R. yf he would as I would gladly giue him any thing for a Booke of his whole Lectures against mee If these be not sufficient I am ready by Lecture Disputation or Printing to open any poynt hid in my cause Thus requesting your Graces and Lordships free report to her Maiestie and my L. Treasurer touching my Booke wherefore we striue after your conuenient leasure I humbly commende your Grace and Lordship to the spirite of trueth London Nou. 4. 1591. To the worshypfull and learned the Vicechauncelour and others the gouernours of learning-houses in the Vniuersitie of Oxeforde LFarned Fathers you know that I put foorth sundry defences of my doctrine touching the harmonie of Scripture to cleare my booke which I wrote to her Maiestie that I might proue my selfe not vnaduised in offering that doctrine to her Highnes but carefull of duetie to the Church and state And God is my iudge that I had desire and hope therein to haue aduanced not a litle the knowledge of Christ the peace of the Church and honour of all humane good learning My defenses I hope proue my cause to be sounde And not onely that but a more playne dealing vsed then I haue founde from your Studentes I wyll touch what I wrote and your mens iniuries and require your censure First the treatise of Mardochai wrytten without open noting any perticuler aduersarie proouing all Churches and Synagoges and the natiue iudgement of all playne folke to be of my syde myght haue quietly appeased all stryfe or haue dryuen all you to haue defended your owne cause Moreouer I though I stoode in possession of the ancient opinion and by that onely myght disgrace the replyer consented to abyde arbitrement which commonly would part stakes Besides I chayned holy testimonies for the seruice of Shemesh vnto that blessed seruice of redemption that the cause myght match the Sunnes brightnes in the simplest sight and the speach of euery part appeare of one tenour in phrase that he which wold be tropique in one poynt should be guilty of threatning the lyke to all Some learned strangers thought that paynes the best of mine But some sayd that your D. disdayned to answere that being whole the expresse worde of God Such reuerence holy Euthyphrones gaue Gods worde Besides your D. affyrming that there was not a Chronicle in the Bible disputed vpon Abrabams tymes and the Iudges to proue them vncertayne I marueyled what he should meane to disturbe the trueth in that most famous place where God vpon Terahs death bagan a new accumpt from Christes promise The Sunne differeth not more from the dimmest Starre then that poynt differeth from obscuritie And the ancient Grekes saw it so wonderfull a matter that Moses should tell of Terahs death telling in the eight aboue onely all their yeeres that to hide the wonder they put in eight tymes and he dyed S. Stephen and Philo in Abrahams peregrination might haue tolde your D. that antiquitie therein made no doubt Neyther did euer any Englyshe differ from me for S. Stephens wordes For the Iudges times my Booke woulde haue tolde him by perticuler accomptes where S. Paul bringeth 18. stories to one worde that no Virginalles were better in tune then that harmonie of time though your D. would needes be busie with me for the seauen yeeres of Conquest and the seauen Iubilees to Samuel feauen Seauenties to Nebucadnezars warre the seauenty of Captiuitie and thence the seauen Seauenties But for Abrahams Promise I most labord to reforme him that he might not preuayle to marre the two most heauenly Promises and noblest ioyntes of all the Bible that and the other to Daniel In a disputation vpon Melchizedek I conueyed a redresse of his opinions which because some litle marked afterwardes I graued in brasse by reason of some Pictures a view of the whole Bible freendly amending his breaches of all the buylding This also being vnregarded directly do I reproue your Studentes as denying the Redemption by a strong consequent who holde that it fell not out in the time properly tolde whereas men and Angels wyll holde that otherwise it coulde not be from God and the Iewes seeke no more colorable defence then to proue that the proper time cannot be