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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	church_n	civil_a	society_n	1,332	5	9.1138	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01629	The true tryall and examination of a mans owne selfe wherein euery faithfull Christian, by looking into his conscience, may most plainely behold his spirituall deformity by nature, described, his actuall rebellion by disobedience detected, his promise breach at baptisme, by ordinary transgression apparantly proued, his lamentable estate through sinne discouered, his wilfull obstinacie by dayly disorder displayed, and lastly howe by earnest repentaunce, and faith in Christ Iesu, he is from all the same clearely pardoned, forgiuen, released and reconciled / done in Englishe by Tho. Newton.	Hyperius, Andreas, 1511-1564.; Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.	1587 (1587)	STC 11761.5; ESTC S4316	74,045	216

abuse mispende and commit wastfull follie withall Whether thou haue laughed alowed reioyced in thy young litle ones when thou hast seene them vse pretie sleights craftie deuises slie shifts vain songs wanton daunces and vnseemly gestures yea to vtter filthy tearmes beastly words and odious deedes and hast not for the same corrected them not giuen out any signe or token of thy mislike thereof Whether thou haue discouraged and prouoked thy childrē eyther by words or deedes to be of a desperate minde casting away all hope to run headlong daily from worse to worse Whether thou haue gone about to perswade or else haue compelled thy children to take that trade of life whereunto they felt and confessed them-selues vnmeete and vnapt or which otherwise without great daunger of sinning they could not followe and betake themselues vnto Whether thou haue beene carefull to prouide for thy children according to thine ability some reasonable portions of wealth or haue let them forth to learne some honest trade or occupation whereby another day to be able to liue in some certain stay of life and honestly without blame or shame to earne their liuinges ¶ Layty Whether thou haue yeelded honour and reuerence vnto the Ministers of Gods word together with alcurtesies duties tythes and other thinges whatsoeuer in right due vnto them or by lawe appointed and allotted vnto them in such sort as Iustice and equity requireth as it is meete to do Whether either in malepartly reuiling them in spightfully snarring and barking against them or in wranlingly cauilling and quarrelling eyther at their doctrin or actions words or deedes thou hast purposely intēded gone about to deface discoūtenāce discredit displace or disease them Whether thou haste beene the author to procure others either to think speake doe or deale hardly and vnfriendly against the ministers or the ministrie it selfe ¶ Minister of the Worde Whether thou haste imployed thine whole endeuour to winne the soules of those that haue beene committed vnto thy charge aswel by deliuering vnto them wholesome and sounde doctrine as in shewing good example of honest life blamelesse conuersation in thy self Whether thy care hath beene ouer euery particular person vnder thy cure and charge in diligent teaching of him and mildely requiring of him a confession of his Faith and of the principall points of Christian doctrin sithens it is the office duty of euerie faithful shepherd perfectly readily to knowe euerie sheepe in his flocke ¶ Scholler Whether thou haue obeyed thy Masters rules directions and commaundements Whether thou hast despised contēned him or made a iest at his wholsome godly admonitions eyther in reproching him speaking against him backbiting or hindring him haste procured his hurt and detriment ¶ Schoolemaster Whether thou haste godly instructed vertuously trained vp those Schollers that haue bene cōmitted vnto thee in sound religion good learning And beside in integrity of manners and honest example of life haste gone before them and been a patterne vnto them Whether thou haste rebuked them when they haue done amisse and corrected them after the qualitie of their fault and by gentle treating stirred vp and encouraged those that go forward in doing wel to continue and proceed therein ¶ Subiect Whether thou haste disobeyed the laws statutes and commandements enacted and set forth by the Magistrate Whether thou hast contemned the lawfull Ministers vnder-officers of of the high magistrate whether thou hast euil entreated them or shewed to them any wrongful dealing Whether thou hast deuised any wrāgling shifts or sinisterly of purpose misconstrued the laws statutes acts ordinances proclamatiōs iniunctiōs or other decrees whatsoeuer published en acted authorized by the Magistrate Whether thou haue refused to doe such things as thou haste by the Magistrates authority beene commanded as for example to pay tributes assessementes and subsidies and to beare other common charges with others of thy neighbours Whether by vttering lewd speeches practising treason stirring vp rebelliō mouing sedition exciting malicious enimies or by a●y like meanes thou hast at any time gone about to annoy and put in daunger the Magistrate Whether thou haue patiently borne the lewde and corrupt manners of the euill disposed magistrate and the hard commaundements comming frō him thinking thus with thy selfe that it is oftentimes through the fault of the Subiects that God setteth ouer them rigorous cruell and wicked rulers ¶ Magistrate and gouernor Whether thou haste made any lawes enacted any degrees giuen out any commaundements practised any subtil deuises or pronounced any sentences to the ouerthrow and decay of religion to the emblemishing of the honour maiestie and authority of Kinges Princes or to the disgracing of the dignity and state of any ciuill societie Whether thou haste contemned the censures of the Church the rescripts or decrees of thy superiors and whether thou haste wrongly interpreted them craftily by delusion defeated them or by any other way whatsoeuer gone about to empeach reiect or adnihilate them Whether thou haste by any meanes derogated the right or iurisdiction of any other either by pulling vnto thee matters which thou hadst not to deale withall or by procuring meanes and stoppes that they to whose deciding and iudgement in right they belonged shold not haue the trials brought before them Whether thou haste deuised or commaunded any newe impositions and vnaccustomed payments thereby to gratifie and in rich the Prince or to fill thine owne coffers to serue thine owne priuate gaine or moued therevnto by anie other corrupt affection whatsoeuer Whether for Counsailors to direct and aduise thee thou hast made speciall choise of such as bee craftie and cruell persons whose minds thou well knewest so spightfull and enuious that they cared for nothing lesse than either the aduancement of the publike state of the Countrie or the welfare quiet of the subiects onely vsing their craftie deuises to the oppression of them that were honest Whether thou hast laboured to the vttermost of thy power to redresse wicked persons and to banish such vices as thou perceiuedst were crept into the common wealth or otherwise committed by priuate persons Whether thou hast winked at and loked through thy singers at anie publike and notorious crimes as in suffering vsurie brothell houses vnlawfull games such like enormities whereby both the people be infected in maners and their wealth also miserablie d●uoured Whether thou hast taken paines to protect and defende the causes of the good innocent namely the fatherlesse the widow other persons called miserable and comfortlesse especially sith as of all in generall so of these in speciall thou didst solemnly vndertake the guard and protection ¶ Seruant and Handmaide Whether they haue honestly faithfully and to their maisters profit done their worke and businesse Whether to their maisters children kinsfolke and friends they haue bene dutifull and seruiceable in such sort as became them and as they haue beene