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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	father_n	scripture_n	word_n	5,665	5	4.3306	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02749	A nevve comedy or enterlude, concernyng thre lawes of nature, Moises, and Christe, corrupted by the sodomytes, Pharysies, and papistes: compyled by Iohn Bale: and nowe newly imprynted.; Comedy concernynge thre lawes	Bale, John, 1495-1563.	1562 (1562)	STC 1288; ESTC S104458	30,927	80

them rauysshe Yea and all the worlde they blynde All prynces do they mocke and robbe the sellye flocke Nothynge they leaue behynde On the face of Moyses a vayle they haue cast doubtles The lyght of the lawe to hyde Least mē to christ shulde come frō ceremonyes dōme As to theyr heauenly gyde The lawe can neuer be at any lybertie Where suche two enemyes rayne Nowe is it tyme to walke of this more wyl I talke Whan I come hyther agayne Exi● ▪ Moseh lex If pytie maye mou● your gentyll christen hartes Let it nowe sturre ye to mourne this heuye chaunce Two enemies with me haue played most wicked partes And lefte me starke blynde God knoweth to my sore greuaunce And I thynke also to your mothe hynderaunce To leade you to Christ somtyme a gyde I was Nowe am I so blynde I can not do it alas Most rygorously those enemyes nowe of late Dyd fall vpon me and spoyle me of my syght One was Ambycion whiche euer ought me hate And Coueyeousnesse the other enemye hyght Now forsoth and God iutheyr most cruell spyght The one made me blynde the other made me lame And whā they had done therat they had great game Thus a blynde cryple I wander here alone Abydynge the tyme and grace of restauracion By the sonne of God to whom I make my mone My cause to pytie and graunt me supportacion Least I be left here to vtter desolacion And extreme decaye without any remedye If he dyd not helpe of goodnesse and of mercye Ye christen prynces God hath gyuen you the poure With scepture and swerde allvyces to correcte Let not Ambycion nor Coueytousnesse deuoure Your faythfull subiectes nor your offycers infect Haue to your Clergye a dylygent respecte And se they do not corrupt the lawes of God For that doth requyre a terryble heuy● rod. God gaue me to man and lefte me intables of stone That I of hardenes a lawe shulde specyfye But the Pharysies corrupted me anone And toke from me cleane the quyueru●s of bodye With cler●uesse of syght and other pleasures many Nowe wyll I to Christ that he maye me restore To more perfection than euer I had afore Finis Actus tertius Incipit Actus quartus Euangilium VN faythfulnes hath corrupted euery lawe To the great decaye of Adams posterytie were it not for me which now do hither draw Al flesh wold perysh no man shulde saued be I am Christes Gospell and infallyble verytie Suche a power of God as saueth all suche as beleue No burden nor yoke that any man wyll gr●ue In the bloude of Christ I am a full forgyuenes Where fayth is grounded with a sure confydence I am suche a grace and so hyghe tydynges of gladnes As rayse the synner and pacyfye his conscyence I am spyryte and lyfe I am necessarye scyence I requyre but loue for mannes iustyfication With a fayth in Christ for his health and saluacion Infidelitas Goddes beneson haue ye it is ioye of your lyfe I haue hearde of ye and of my maystresse your wyfe Euangilium If thou hardest of me it was by the boy●e of God Infidelitas Naye he that spake of ye was ●ellynge of a God In an Oystre bote a lytle beyonde quene hythe A Northen man was he he besought ye to be blythe Euangilium If he spake of me he was some godly preacher Infidelitas Naye syr by the roo●e nor yet a wholsom teacher Euangilium After what maner dydhe speake of me tell Infidelitas He swore lyke a man by all contentes of the Gospell He swore and better swore yea he dyd sweare sweare agayne Euangilium That speakynge is suche as procureth eternall payne Wyll not the people leaue that most wycked folye And it so damnable to heare it I am sorye But what dyddest thou meane whau thouspakest of my wyfe Infidelitas Nothynge but I thought it was ioye of your lyfe That ye were so good to your neyghboures as ye are Euangilium Why howe good am I thy fantasye declare Infidelitas Ye ease them amonge yf it be as I heare Whan ye are abrode there is fyne merycheare Euangilium As thou art thou speakest after thy hertes abundaun●e For as the man is suche is his vtteraunce My wyfe is the churche or christen congregacion Regenerate inspyryte doynge no vyle operacion Both cleane and holy without eyther spot or wryncle The lambe with his bloud dyd her wash bespryncle This is not the churche of dysguysed hypocrytes Of apysh shauelyng●s or papisticall Sodomytes Nor yet as they call it a temple of lyme and stone But a lyuysh buyldynge grounded in fayth alone On the harde rocke Christ whiche is the sure fosidacion And of this churche some do reygne in euery nacion And in all coūtreyes though theyr nombre be but smal Infidelitas Theyr nombre is suche as hath ronne ouer all The same Danes are they men prophecye of playne Whiche shuld ouer ronne this realme yet ones agayne Euangilium What Danes speakest thou of thy meanynge shewe more clerely Infidelitas Da●e Iohan Dane Robert Dane Thomas and Dane Harrye The same are those Danes that laye with other mens wyues And occupyed theyr landes to the detryment of theyr lyues These are acccounted a great part of the churche For in Goddes seruyce they honourably wurche Yellynge and cryenge tyll theyr throtes are full sore Euangilium That Churche was descrybed of Esaye longe afore This people sayth God with theyr lyppes honour me In vayne worshyp they teachynge mēnes fatuyte Apparaunt is that churche and open to the eyes Theyr worshyppynges are in outwarde ceremonyes That coūterfetchurch standeth al by mēnes tradycions Without the scriptures without y ● hertes affections My churche is secrete and euermore wyll be Adorynge the father in spyryte and in verytie By the worde of God this churche is ruled onelye And doth not consyst in outwarde ceremonye This congregacion is the true Churche mylytaunt Those Counterfayte Desardes are the verye Churche malygnaunt To whom Christ wyll saye I knowe none of your sor● Infidelitas Moche are they to blame that brethren so report Euangilium Suche are no brethren but enemyes to Christes blode As put saluacion in shauen crowne mytar or whoode Infidelitas I praye ye how lōge haue your swete spowse cōtynued Euangilium Sens the beginnynge and now is in Christ re●ued Adam dyd promyse of Christes incarnacion So had Abraham with his whole generation Whiche was vnto them a preachynge of the Gospell Into saluacion and delyueraunce from hell Infidelitas By this tyme I hope ye haue a fayre increase Euangilium She is not ba●●en but beareth and neuer cease The Corinthes first epistle hath this clere testymonye In Christo Iesu per Euangilium vos genui I haue begot you in Iesu Christ sayth Powle By the Gospell preachyng to the cōfort of your sowle Infidelitas Than are ye a ouckolde by the blessed holy masse As I sayde afore so cōmeth it nowe to passe For I am a prophet by hyghe