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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	amen_n	jesus_n	lord_n	1,685	5	3.6084	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68832	A briefe vievve of the weake grounds of popery as it was propounded to D. Norrice, priest, by T.V. gent: and returned without answere.	Udall, Thomas.	1606 (1606)	STC 24508.5; ESTC S119623	62,322	134

a reciprocal loue in you that the faults thereof may bee shewed and manifested by some of the great Rabbies of your side to the end that the weaknes of our cause being laid open I may be drawen to ioine with you in the religion you professe may be brought home to that fold out of which frō which I am sure in your iudgemēts I am departed gone astray as a lost sheep T●is is a charitable request ought not with any colours or sleights to be refused by any of those learned Priests in whom you haue interest since they know of how great merite the winning of soules is And they may the rather be incouraged thereto because these things as they are collected by me are but the doings of a meere lay man therfore if at all may with greater facility be refuted But if the same shall be past ouer with general tearms as heretofore it hath bin in the like as a thing vnworthy the answering Or that I am an heretike obstinate and not to be dealt with thē may you easily iudge that either your credit is small with those of your profession Or your loue charity very little to me that so earnestly out of the simplicity of my heart desire an answer Or else that the weaknes badnes of your cause cannot abide the touchstone of truth notwithstanding their great swelling brags of challenging vs to dispute with them be so often sounded i● your ears And I would to God I might truly say of you that I presume of my self that yo● would reade ponder these things with in differencie abandon partiality To the effecting wherof besides my praiers I haue no better meanes than the Apostles doctrine 1. Thess 5.21 Iames. 1. Cor. 2.5 2. Cor. 13.5 Iohn 4.1 Act. 17.11 who willeth you vs all to examine all things to hold fast that which is good and not to haue the faith of our Lord Iesus Christ with respect of persons but to try the spirits whether they be of God therein following the example of the men o● Berea who searched the scriptures daily whether those things were so Thus hauing some hope you wil folow this Councel cōmandement comming from so high an authority as the Spirit of God and also for my satisfaction if not for your owne effect this my so charitable reasonable a request as the answering hereof I shal stil continue my prayers to opē our eyes that we may see the truth and that we may be made one flocke one fold of that great Shepherd Christ Iesus the Bishop of our soules To whome with the Father and the holy Spirit be all honor and praise now and for euer Amen Yours in the Lord T. V. The Author to the Reader THis smal Tract Christian Reader was at the first composed out of a religious zeale and feruent desire I had to haue withdrawen some of my best friends from that Egyptian darkenesse of Popish superstition And this argument I the rather made choice of because it was often obiected though very vntruely that we durst not handle the Grounds of Religion After I had finished the same I recōmended it to my best friends as you may see by the Preface thereof the which was by them reciprocally receiued hauing no lesse loue and desire to reclaime me than I had to winne them To which purpose they sent it to some one of the learned on their part by whose sufficiencie the same might bee fully refuted which I assure my selfe by many probable coniectures was Doctor Norris After I had staied some thirteene weeks with desiee and expectation to see the answere therof hauing often solicited the same about that time I receiued a Letter as I take it from the said D.N. importing among many seuerall reproches wherewith hee had laboured to giue satisfaction to them and to impeach the credit both of me and my booke that if I would procure two or three of the best learned of our side to auow it vnder their hands to be the doctrine of our Church That then hee would take vpon him to proue 14. or 15. seueral absurdities and vntruths therein as by his Letter here likewise set downe verbatim may truely appeare This Letter I then answered as it is here likewise inserted And when I had stayed another quarter of a yeere and heard of no answere made or intēded to be made I procured with much importunitie the redeliuery of the booke After which because I would leaue the said D.N. as I take it without all excuse and also let my friends see I would presse it to the vtmost I procured two reuerend and learned Ministers M.D. Sutcliffe and M. Anthony Wootton to subscribe the same booke vnder both their hands in this forme following viz The summe and substance of the doctrine contained in this booke is sound and shal be maintained by the grace of God against the whole packe of Iesuits and Masse-priests of the Romish Synagogue After this vpon the late discouery of those hellish and matchlesse treasons against our dread Soueraigne and the whole body of the Realm hauing heard that the said D. N. was apprehended and committed to Bridewel where I likewise vnderstood that he was not close prisoner I repaired vnto him and shewed him this my booke with the subscriptiō annexed and before specified demāding of him whether he had seen the booke and were the author of that Letter Which hee denied affirming that he had neuer seen it till thē reseruing belike according to their maner of Equivocating that he had neuer seen it till then subscribed in that maner or with some such mentall reseruation All which considered though I am stil perswaded that he was the Author therof I haue preferred the publishing of it though therein mine own wants defects for the maner of handling might by the iudicious learned be in some sort taxed rather than to bury it in silēce for that I hope it may bring some benefit not vnworthy my trauel to the indifferent Reader and may happily effect that which thereby I first intended when they shall see I am not afraid in regard of the doctrine therin to diuulge it to the whole world And the rather I am incouraged hereto for that the same is not onely the doctrine of the best learned writers of this our age Nation as it is by me collected but also is warrāted to be iustified by men of so great sufficiencie that I shall not need to feare shipwracke though the seas swell and the storme rise neuer so hie And so farewel in Christ T. V. The true Copie of the Letter I receiued I Haue perused your Treatise dedicated to your dearest Cousins which I find to be a vaine bundle of words without substance order learning or trueth and if you can procure that two or three of the best learned of your side will auow it vnder their hands to be the