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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	paul_n	7,516	5	6.4255	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08567	An epistle of the reuerend father in God Hieronymus Osorius Bishop of Arcoburge in Portugale, to the most excellent Princesse Elizabeth by the grace of God Quene of England, Fraunce, and Ireland, &c. Translated oute of Latten in to Englishe by Richard Shacklock M. of Arte and student of the ciuill Lawes in Louaine; Epistola ad serenissimam Elisabetam, Angliae Reginam. English	Osório, Jerónimo, 1506-1580.; Shacklock, Richard.	1565 (1565)	STC 18887; ESTC S101135	51,158	170

soule frō the body neither do they only defy man hys nature but also they dispyse all the authorities of holy men For beynge losed from the lynkes of nawghtie desyres they be flowen vp in to heauen that they may behold none other thynge but God and that they may make none other of theyr coūcell but the holy ghost If it be so I take them in dede to be men of God for as S. Paule wytnesseth they be the children of God whiche bee led with the spyrit of God and they which bee the children of God questyonles bee furnyshed with godlye vertues But now Syr yf theyr shamfull doynges do disproue theyr shameles sayinges shall we beleue them so often as they make theyr vaunt that they followe only the worde of God for yf in all theyr doinges they doe according to God hys worde then they follow not couetousnes hatred wrathe ambityon but they be all together made perfect with vertues which spryng out of the worde of God If they be not indued with suche heauenly vertues then doe they lye in saying that they only and all to gether do frame them selues to the worde of God for wyckednesses and the worde of God can not dwell together Therfore eyther they dyrect not theyr lyffe after the worde of God eyther they do not commit any abhominable or shamefull syn for if they syn shamefully and abhominably vndoughtedly they be not squared to the worde of God But they commyt many hyduouse offences and synnes as al the worlde can wytnesse therfore it is false to say that they be gouerned with God hys word and the inspiration of the holyghoste But let vs leaue this darke kynde of disputyng and demaūde of them some token of this worde of God whiche they all wayes be chatting on Therefore you shal giue me leaue o Quene that I maye searche and ransake all this matter so farr tyll it appeare howe trymly these men do handle the Ghospell Nowe then I wolde willinglye heare of thē whether these many yeares they haue wrought any notable feate which may inforce vs to confesse that they grownde onlye vppon the worde of God Well sayde wyll they saye but you knowe that it is the office of God his worde as it is written in Ieremye before it buylde newe to pull downe the olde buyldynges before it grafte frutefull trees to pluck vp by the rootes those which be barren and vnprofytable I knowe it well therefore I looke and stand as it were in a mase to beholde what you pull downe and what you roote vp with this your good ly attempt that at the length I may see Christ his howse raysed vp and his gardeyne bewtifully set with the heauenly graftes of all manner of vertues Go to nowe bestyrre you a pase plye the matter tyll you sweate that you may be able to fynyshe a worke of suche excellencie Do as muche as in you lyeth to ouerthrowe the walles of Satan to pull downe pryde to refrayne angre cursed speaking to picke oute all the brystles of vncleane and fylthye desyres to plucke vp by the rootes all occasyon of stryffe and debate that so at the laste you may laye the foundations of Christian humilitye and lowlynes and that you may plant sobrietie of lyfe chastitie ioyned with moste pure religyō that you may set the graftes of Christian loue and charitie You gyue good councell say they but before this there is an other thyng that we wyll destroy and pull downe In the name of God what thing is that so heynouse and detestable that you wyll fyrst endeuoure youre selfe to dispatche that oute of the way before you vtterly ouerthrow these so pestilent poysons of mākynd O saye they it is a greuouse thynge an vntolerable thing a secret myschefe and for the abhominablenes of it to be quyte rased out of all remembraunce For we wyll rushe in to those howses in which holye virgins being inclosed day and night do syng hymnes to the glory of God and praye to Christ for the good estate of Kynges and Prynces and for the sauegarde of the whole communaltie We wyl pull downe the fences of shamfastnes we wyll breake open the inclosures of chastitie and we wyll no longer suffer wel fauoured virgyns to be barred of theire solace and pleasures to lack the comfort and ayde of theire children and to spend theire younge yeares in sorrowfull solytarynes and miserable vnfrutefullnes In faithe I allowe this youre charitie and louing kyndnes What wyl you do more Then we will make a law for Monkes or solitary lyuers whose howses we wyll pull downe lykewyse or let them oute to hyer it skilleth not to what lay men and charge them vnder payne of deathe that here after none presume for religious sake to wrastle cōtynually against his lecherouse lustes For why It is an heynouse offence and in no sauce to be borne withall What do I heare Doest thou reclame men to the streightnes of religion which was in the primitiue churche which so busily doest destroye that thing whiche was muche to be merueyled at in the primitiue churche and which contayned the image of heauenlye purenes For what is more meruailouse thē subduing the lustes which withdrawe the mynde from contemplation of heauenly thinges to thincke wholy on the fayrenes of God to be rauished with the loue of his diuinitie It is an hard matter say you Yea if you please let it be of all other most hard so that we vnderstand that the harder it is the more it auaunceth the glory of God which hathe so strengthened oure feble nature that for loue of purenes it is able to resyst that tickling pleasure with which naturally we be intangled and being wonne with the swetenes of heauenly delight can forsake and lothe all bodyly pleasure Therfore if any man rauished with the loue of godly lyfe and to the intent he may gyue hym selfe to the consyderation of heauenly thynges shall kepe hym self from the moste troblesome cares of marryage ▪ if any virgyn inflamed with the loue of euerlasting glory and honestie with an ernest good will shall take that vppon her which is seldome sene and hard to performe and shall of her owne accorde inclose her selffe in a religyouse howse that so being voyde of all other cares she may be coupled to Christ with a more streight and holy band of professyon and by the spyrit of Christ to whom she hath offered her selffe shall constantlye refrayne all vncleane and vnchaste desyres is there any man so farr from honesty so muche an enimye to the glory of God that he wyll detest it as a greuouse and abhominable offence Surely suche a man is to be suspected For euen so as Athanasius and other holy men do make mentyon dyd the heretikes of olde tyme. With the lyke hatred they did persecute chastitie with suche rage they dyd disquyet the monasteries of religyouse virgyns And as muche as lay