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spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	jesus_n	15,155	5	6.0417	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00830	A briefe treatise, concerning the vse and abuse of dauncing. Collected oute of the learned workes of the most excellent deaine doctour, Peter Martyr, by paister Rob Massonius: and translated into English by I.K.	Vermigli, Pietro Martire, 1499-1562.; I. K.	1580 (1580)	ESTC R224564; STC 24664; ESTC R224564; Interim Tract Supplement Guide G.1999[3]	19,821	58

and the religious multitude gathered together out of many Nations to serue the Lorde kept at that feaste of Whitsontide We reioyce we saye and we gather our selues together out of many townes but in what order reioyce we and to what ende flocke we so fast togither in no such order to no such ende the Lord knoweth as those Apostles and Apostles Disciples bid The Apostls when the day of Penticost was come Actes 2. were all with one accorde in one place and were filled with the holy Ghost the people wondered at the wonderfull working of the spirit the Apostle Peter painefully preched the word of God the people heard him and constantly continued in the Disciples doctrine The Apostles ministred the supper of the Lord so much signifieth to vs the breaking of bread the people accompanied them in that godly felowship And to be briefe both Apostles and people perseuered together in prayer in gladnes and in singlenes of heart Marke this manner of gladnes and tell mee whether ours in respect hereof be not méere madnesse We are together but full farre from one accord as our dayly debates declare we are filled not with the holye Ghost but with strong ale we come together from diuerse places to serue the Lorde no to serue our voluptuous pleasures We preach but what preach we the Gospel of Christ or the sinnes abhominatione of the people Mich. 2.11 as Peter thē did nothing lesse but we prophecy preach of plesure of strong drinke of wine and then are we Prophets for this people then are we accounted honest men We communicate and what doo we cumunicat the supper of the Lord nay that were to sadde a matter for so mery a time and yt woulde let much good sport But we communicate many idle words many vnseamely iests I wyll say no more for sparing you So that this vnchristian behauiour of ours sheweth vs to celebrate the feast rather of Bacchus then of the holy Ghost Secondarily for the maintaynance of the Church there are other and better meanes then this as you your selues right wel knowe Oh but you must consider wyll they say that they would not giue at all were it not to this ende Nowe truely better well spared then so euill spent and as for the reperations of the Church 2 Kin. 12.4 King Ioas sheweth a seeme lyer order though this lawe bee abolished yet haue our owne lawes prouided the lyke vse that a Gods name and as for this vnlawful wicked way let it serue the sinagogue of Satan for the Temple of the Lorde was at no time by the godly by these vngodly wayes vpholden Thirdelye for banishing idle thoughts out of your childrens seruants minds who worketh this way drowneth a fish in the water putteth out alamp with oyle as playnely appeareth both by that which goeth before and that which commeth after These are one sorte of the Weapons the other as I sayd are slaunders wherewith they intreat them which reprehend these abuses much after the manner the Lybertines intreated Stephen When Stephen repleate with the holy Ghost disputed against certaine Libertines Cirenians Acts. 6. Alexandrians and Cilicians they not able to resist the wisdome and the spirit by whiche be spake suborned false witnes who testified they hard him says that Iesus of Nazareth shoulde destroye that place and chaunge the ordinances which Moyses gaue them and thus moued they the Scribes the elders and the people against him In like sort these loose Libertines reason with those arguments and auctthorities before mentioned and when they bée not able to withstand the word of God and spirit that speaketh in his true ministers then seke they out and set vp false wytnesse who slaunderously report that we goo about to destroye all to chaunge the auncient ordinances Moyses gaue them to alter al olde customes their forefathers leaft them to put down al honest and laudable pastime to ende all friendly and neyghbourlye méetinges and mery makinges to cut of good occasions of loue among men and charity towards the poore and thus stirre they the Scribes the Elders and the people againste vs well for them I saye no more but remember the commandement of almighty God thou shalt not beare false wytnesse against thy neighbour For you ye Magistrats Ministers and people I exhort in the Lord that ye be not ouer credulose in these matters leaste in quitting Barrabas you condemne Christ and in letting goo these slaunderous witnesse ye punishe innocent Stephen Suffer mée a whyle to pleade our owne cause in your presence and you shal plainely perceaue howe these vniust accusations they laye to our charge may iustly be turned vpon them For first they by their abhominations endeuour to destroy all to breake the ordinaunces of Moises and olde customes of the primatiue Church and purest tymes There are manye thinges committed in this lewde and licentious exercise flat against Moises mind as his dede declared against his ordinaunces as his lawes who list to conferre them with Ezechiels for shewed sight make manifest By their voluptuous sport they put downe all honest lawefull and lawdable pastime namely shuting and especially at that season when for the number and length of the holy dayes they are at most leasure and for the freshnesse of the ayer and swéetnesse of the fieldes they may take most delight The Prince comands it the wise commends it the warre compels it and yet rude royat shall preuayle against them all By their vnciuell and vnmannerly vsage friendly and neighbourly company and communication is quite dissolued and broken of The caters cheife care must it not be for the youth howsoeuer the age for the seruaunt howsoeuer the master for the sonne howsoeuer the father fareth The best and highest roomes be they not kept for the young men and maidens wheresoeuer the auncient substantial and honest of the Parrish sit nay if they be sate be their meetinges neuer so neighbourly their communication neuer so friendly their matters neuer so weighty must they not away my Lorde commeth But this is but once a yeare and in iest manye wyll aunswere no more is this oportunitie of this neighbourly méeting but once a yeare and therefore to be preferred this once and this iest turneth commonly to such earnest all the yeare after that Gods commaundement is broken Honour thy Father and Mother Ephe. 6.5 the Apostles precept neglected Seruants obey your masters By their brawles and sometyme blowes betwéene company and company the linkes of loue are often seuered a sunder By their ouermuch eating and drinking charity to the poore waxeth colde For doo they not ride from towne to towne goe from village to village gulling in strong drinke and glutting in good meate nature being before sufficed that might be better bestowed vpon the necessity of the saynctes I wyll say nothing here of the gluttony and drunkennes comitted neyther of the practise and sport that I haue séene to