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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	know_v	16,529	5	4.2676	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16980	Master Broughtons letters, especially his last pamphlet to and against the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, about Sheol and Hades, for the descent into Hell, answered in their kind		1599 (1599)	STC 3864; ESTC S116197	38,833	52

axes mattocks 1. Sam. 13. and instruments of husbandrie for they were wholly deformed of their weapons and a sorer vassalage must Christianity indure if her profession must be made good by Poets fictions Strange fire to be offered on Gods altar was seuerely Leuit. 10. punished * because as from heauen it came so in the first Leuit. 9. nature it must be preserued Yea your owne Pagans were in that point so religious that they counted it vnlawfull to refresh the Vestall fire being by some strange mishap extinguished Plut. Num. with any materiall fire and prophane but a deuise was inuented to kindle it from heauen by the Sunne Surely lesse lawfull is it because more dishonorable to Gods glorie and the dignitie of Christian profession to make the Grecians who account the preaching of the Gospell follie expounders 1. Cor. 1. of Christian oracles and to fetch light from their Heathenish Ignis fatuus for the illustration of diuine mysteries The rule of the holy Ghost being as his method is to compare spirituall things with spirituall things and leaue the naturall 1. Cor. 2. man to things within his capacitie because the spirit of the Prophets is subiect to must be iudged by Prophets For 1. Cor. 14. who knoweth not that Christianity hath vsed many words in seuerall sence from the common phrase Is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the new Testament to be measured by the Athenians modell or fides by the Romanes who notwithstanding made so reuerend accompt thereof as that they thought her a Goddesse and reputed Plut. Num. the oath per fidem to bee the greatest and most sacred S. Iohns 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one of the most essentiall names of the second Ioh. 1. person in Trinitie doth it import no more nor signifie any other thing then the Orators 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Poets 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And though Plato and Hermes haue plumbd it deeply must wee Plato Hermes reach no further then their shallow sounding So 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being properly among the Fathers and Councels vsed for the incarnation of our Sauiour how farre differeth it from that fence which in Paganish writers is rife and vsuall And if for Theodoretus in Polym Hades in the Creede wee must bee tried by Poets why in the same Symbole are not we to be iudged by them for him whom both we and they call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Father almightie Did the Apostle citing the halfe verse out of Aratus applying Act. 17. it to our God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 referre them that heard him to their Iupiter of whom the Poet spake it and so make vs the progenie of their Lasciuious Stallion of whom Clem. Clem. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 writeth that which Suetonius doth of Caesar that he was euery Sueton. lul mans woman euery womans man The reason is al one For by the Poets figments Hades was Iupiters brother both sonnes to Saturne and so by your owne iudges the penner of the Creede when he said that Christ descended 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 meant that he went into the house of Hades who was gouernour of the inferiour parts as Iupiter of the ayre and Neptune of the sea For Homerus Hesiodus Pla●o 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Poets is no name of place but figuratiuely But for this discourse you may be referred to that conclusion of the right Reuerend Father in the place before named to which nothing can be added for learning or substance in this point where he hath shewed both your selfe and H. I. to bee but questing puppies for all your wide mouthes Yet one thing I cannot omit that men may see which thy selfe will not perceiue how you the sole true calculator of times and ages haue forgot your selfe for labouring to bring all Scripture words to Poets phrase you wil needs perswade vs that S. Peter vsing those words of torment 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 borrowed them all 2. Pet. 2. 4. from Homer and his prose commentary First for Homer what proofe haue you of S. Peters reading him S. Peter could tell 2. Pet. 1. you that no Scripture is of any priuate mans motion but holie men speake as the spirit moueth them because all Scripture 2. Tim. 3. is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inspired of God Wee laugh at the Canon glosse for saying that S. Paul Rom. 7. alluded to that verse in Ouid Odero si potero si non inuitus amab● And surely lighting Ouid. vpon this and such like stuffe in your fardle of fancies I say with Horace vt mihi saepe Bilem saepe iocum vestri mouêre tumultus Horat. epist Laughter and anger haue strouen within mee which should preuaile laughter verely but that it is in such serious matter But by as good reason you may say that Christ our Sauiour had read Pindarus because speaking to persecuting Saul out of heauen he vsed the very words of the Poet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pind. Pyth. od 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks Mary that he Act. 9. should reade his prose commentary if it be Eustathius as it seemeth by your booke pag. 63. vnlesse you haue got some other in a wall as you did the Septuag vnheard of that is worth the obseruing It is coniectured by the workes of Pythagoras and Plato and some of the Poets that they haue read Serranus the bookes of Moses and that Scripture which was before their time at least in their trauaile had conference with such as informed them therein but that the Apostle should reade a commentarie before the author was borne is more then prophecie S. Ierome out of an oration of Tully not extant citeth Tul. pro Q. Gall. a place where a certaine Poet bringeth in Euripides and Menander Socrates and Epicurus dialoguising and conferring together who liued in times different non annis sed saeculis and therefore thinketh the absurditie so ridiculous that it deserueth Hieron a supplosion or an hissing and is not this as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 besides the vntrueth that S. Peter should fetch his phrases from a Bishop not borne many yeeres after But thus you bewray your selfe a notable scholler of the Rabbins whose propertie is as Caluin well obserueth vt diuinent hoc illud sine delectu Calu. in Hab. 2. pudore And if you aske them a reason their answer is readie We thinke so Yet this ouersight may be smiled at but that in Nah. 1. which followes procures detestation Dauids sinnes though great did not so hasten-on Gods iudgements as that by thē 2. Sam. 12. he had caused the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme neither is it your strange diuinitie that procures our indignation against you because wee know it is but the franticke delirium of one whose