Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	apostle_n	church_n	place_n	2,286	5	4.5870	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03221	Carpenters chippes, or, Simple tokens of vnfeined good will to the Christian friends of Iames Balmford ...	Balmford, James, b. 1556.	1607 (1607)	STC 1334; ESTC S1169	25,047	71

that one Church professeth But the Church of Rome professeth not indeed the Catholike faith as shal be in part shewed hereafter therefore in no sense it can be truly called Catholique But suppose it held the Catholique faith yet were it not for that cause an obiect of faith according to the Apostles Creed more than a particular man or any other particular Church holding the faith Here it is to be vnderstood that howsoeuer we may say This man or that Church is Catholique yet we may not say and speake properly This is the Catholique man or That is the Catholique Church 4 That the Church of Rome holdeth not the Catholike faith neither yet hath done for many yeeres may be demonstrated in sundry fundamentall points Let it be sufficient to produce though but one yet that most fundamental sith it is called by an excellency The Word of faith preached Rom. 10. 6 8. by all the Apostles And the rather that One because it is the principall argument of that worthy Epistle which Paul wrote Cap. 1. 8. to the Romans whose faith was then published throughout the whole world So that if the Church of Rome swarue from this truth it is manifest that it is the ofspring not of the true members of the Primitiue Church of Rome but of the troublers of that Church of whom Paul thus writeth Now I beseech you brethren Cap. 16. 17. 18. marke them diligently which cause diuision and auoid them For they that are such serue not the Lord Iesus but their owne bellies and with faire speech and flattering deceiue the hearts of the simple But what is that most fundamentall point Euen that same which Paul after a large and learned disputatioÌ„ setteth downe as his peremptory iudgement in these words Therefore Rom. 3. 28. we conclude that a man is iustified by faith without the workes of the Law But the Church of Rome that now is holdeth and for many yeeres hath held That a man is iustified both by faith and works contrary to the conclusion therefore the Church of Rome is not Catholique but Antichristian 5 I say AntichristiaÌ„ because it may be proued such by many reasons and that because it erreth in this point but I only propound to wise and religious consideration this deduction That Antichristian Apostasy or Antichrist is called The Mystery 2. Thess 2. 7 of iniquitie that is a mysticall iniquity that is an iniquity which is indeed iniquity but not perceiued as Christ is called The Mystery of godlinesse that is a 1. Tim. 3. 16. mystical godlinesse that is godlinesse indeed but not perceiued But wherefore is Antichrist a mysticall iniquitie Because his Righteousnesse though glorious in shew is iniquity indeed because he attributeth Gal. 5. 4. Rom. 3. 27. 1. Cor. 4. 1. Rom. 1. 16. 17. 4. 5. Iustification thereunto Now this is a mysterie to flesh and blood which would faine reioyce in it selfe that Righteousnes should be Iniquitie Euen so is the Gospell a mysterie for by it the Righteousnes of God is reueiled which otherwise could not be perceiued of flesh and blood For is it not a mysticall paradox to carnall reason to say God iustifieth the vngodly which yet is cleere to him who vnderstanding the Scriptures doth not only abhorre his foule iniquitie but also Phil. 3. 9. Esa 64. 6. disclaimeth his owne defiled righteousnes and by faith layeth hold on the righteousnes of God which is only by Christ or Who trusteth not to his righteousnes inherent which tasteth of the caske but to righteousnes imputed which maketh vs blessed These things well considered It may appeare that as Christ is the mystery of godlines not only because he is very God though in the shape of a seruant but also because the Word of Christ viz. the Gospell teacheth a mystical righteousteousnes So the Pope is Antichrist not only because he is an aduersarie in exalting himself aboue all that is called God though he pretend to be the seruant of seruants but also because his doctrine is a mysticall iniquitie Heere it is to be remembred that on the forehead of the Reuel 17. 5. 9. 18. Whore of Babylon to wit Rome was written this word A mysterie and it is also to bee vnderstood that on the Popes Mitre is the same word set with precious stones If then for the doctrine of Iustification and merit by workes the Church of Rome bee Antichristian it followeth that it is not Catholique and therefore hath not continued an apparant member of the Catholique Church euer since the Apostles time 6 The later point inferred may be the rather admitted if wee marke well that Paul saith That the Mystery of iniquitie 2. Thess 2. 7 was working in his time So that it is likely that those troublers of whom meÌ„tion is made in the 4. section ouergrew as weeds the good corne in time and preuailed still vntill that mysterie of iniquity was reuealed and consumed by the Spirit of God in the mouth of Luther and other the seruants of Christ Iesus 7 For the better manifestation of this point let vs seriously consider that howsoeuer the Church of Rome were now an apparant member of the Catholique Church which indeed is not to bee imagined yet sith it is not the Catholique and inuisible Church but a visible and particular Church and hath not any speciall promise that it should continue the same from the first constitution how can we be assured but that in so many hundreds of yeeres there haue been some alterations and innouations as well as in the Church of God among the Israelites Rom. 9. 4. to whom pertained the adoption glory couenants giuing of the Law seruice of God and the promises And yet it is written 2. Chro. 15. 3 of the Church Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God and without Priest to teach and without Law 8 As for that promise of Christ Thou Mat. 16. 18. art Peter and vpon this rocke I will build my Church and the gates of hell shal not ouercome it it appertaineth to the Catholique Church as builded vpon Christ the 1. Cor. 3. 11. only foundation of his Church and not to the Church of Rome more than to the Churches of Asia which are ouercome or any other particular Church which may be ouercome yet that promise remaineth Gen. 9. 13. inuiolable as the couenant whereof the Raine-bow is a signe is inuiolable notwithstanding sundrie particular countries be ouerflowen 9 Indeed Augustine did once take that Rocke to bee Peter the Apostle and his successors the Bishops of Rome but hee after altered that his opinion and vnderstood Rocke to signifie Christ by Peter confessed For that Christ did not say to Peter I will build me vpon thee But his words were so Augustine conceiued them as if hee had said I will build thee vpon me and not me vpon thee His meaning Col. 1. 24. is

Great within few yeeres after about anno 607. Boniface 3. obtained that title with much suite and bribery of Phocas an adulterer and murtherer of his master that Christian Emperour Mauritius with his wife and children But succeeding Popes for the credit of that dignitie being belike ashamed of such an institution pretended to hold the same by the Donation of Constantine the first Christian Emperour So that al this while there was no coÌ„ueyance of that authority from Peter that yet came to light At last the Pope being come to the height of his pride thought it a scorne to be beholden to Constantine or any of them all and therefore laid hold vpon those words of Christ Thou art Peter c. But what hold he hath by them is partly shewed before and is further to be considered In that the Popes champion father Bellarmine made a Cardinall for his deserts doth confesse that this Vniuersal Bishopricke is descended to the Pope by a conueyance indeed but not of the word but of tradition Thus you may discouer the suÌ„dry grouÌ„ds of an article of the Popish creed viz. That the Pope hath Apostolicall authoritie ouer the whole Church as he is Peters successor 17 Leauing these doubts touching the pretended successors of Peter and commending them to the aduised examination of the Reader I proceed briefly to proue in more speciall manner the Church of Rome not to haue been an apparant member of the Catholike Church euer since the Apostles time I say Briefely For if I should demonstrate as I could the many grosse errors of the Church both in doctrine and discipline vnder which word I vnderstand the administration of the Sacraments and the Liturgie and if withall I should paint out the bloodie tyrannie thereof in persecuting the children of God it would appeare more than manifest that it is and hath bin long an apparant member not of the Catholique but of the malignant Church But then I should be longer than I may by reason of necessary busines or need considering so many bookes are written of those Arguments I will therefore only propound some few things of many concerning the Pope whom the Papists make the head of the Catholike Church So that as a member of a mans body is but dead if it receiue no life from the naturall head so a particular Church is in their opinion no apparant member of the Catholique Church which is not vnder the iurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome From hence it followeth That if the head be dead the body must needs be dead and if the Pope be not the Church of Rome cannot be an apparant member of the Catholique Church But the Pope is not Ergo. 18 The Pope is Antichrist and hath been so long therefore the Church of Rome is not and for a long time hath not been an apparant member of the Catholique Church For as his See is the seat of Reuel 17. 9. 18. the whore of Babylon to wit the Citie builded vpon 7. hilles namely Rome so he hath the properties of Antichrist For he sitteth in the Temple as God In charging 2. Thess 2. 4 the conscience as strictly with his decrees and traditions as with the Word of God from whence the other haue no warrant and In auouching himselfe to be free from error which is proper to God 2. He exalteth himselfe aboue all that is Rom. 13. 4. 2. Thess 2. 4. called God In esteeming himselfe as far aboue the Emperour who must hold his stirrup on whose necke he must tread as the Sunne is aboue the Moone and Rom. 13. 1. therefore hee will not bee subiect to any Magistrate contrary to the expresse word of God 3. He is an aduersary to Christ 2. Thess 2. 4. howsoeuer he pretend to be his Vicar but 1. Ioh. 2. 22. therefore Antichrist in deed seeing this word Antichrist signifieth For Christ and yet Against Christ I say an aduersary not only In teaching Iustification by workes to the preiudice of Christs death for if Gal. 2. 21. Righteousnes be by the Law Christ died in vaine but also In teaching that by Christ we are freed from the guiltines of sinne but not from the punishment therof and yet the Popes pardons and the breaden God of his owne creation can do as much good to soules frying in Purgatory as to all that pay well for them 1. Tim. 4. 1. 3. while they liue on the earth 4. He teacheth doctrines of diuels forbidding to marry and commaÌ„ding to abstaine from meates which God hath created to be receiued with thankes-giuing of theÌ„ which beleeue and know the truth And 5. Hee 1. Ioh. 4. 3. denieth Christ to be come in the flesh In affirming Christ his body to be by transubstaÌ„tiation in so many places as where Masse is said As the Anabaptists likewise deny Christ to be come in the flesh In affirming Christ to haue brought his flesh from heauen 19 Againe Sith the Pope as supposed head is of the essence and forme of the Church of Rome it must necessarily follow that the Church of Rome hath not been alwaies an apparant member of the Catholike Church according to the sense of the Papists themselues if it can be proued that often somtimes many yeeres together there hath been no apparant Pope But that is not impossible to bee proued For first it is to be noted with a memorandum That by the speciall prouidence of God Pope Ioan was deliuered of a child as she was going solemnly on procession in the middest of the open street and in the presence of the people As if God had said from heauen Behold the Whore of Babylon Secondly It is worthy the obseruation That Stephen 6. and Sergius the third proceeded against Formosus as against an vnlawfull Pope both taking him out of the graue spitefully disgraded him The former summoning a Councel attired him with the pontificall robes plucked them off againe put on Lay-mans apparell cut off the two fingers of his right hand cast them into Tiber buried him in Lay-mens buriall and disanulled his decrees The other set him in the Popes chaire drew him thence againe cut off his head and the other three fingers hurled body and al into the riuer recondemned all his actes so that it was needful to admit them new to orders whom hee had made Priests Thirdly It is not to be neglected as not worth the reading That sixe Popes viz. Clement 5. Iohn 23. Benedict 12. Clement 6. Innocent 6. and Vrban 5. their See was 70. yeers together at Auignion in France Where Popes were elected liued and died so that some of them neuer saw Rome This I say is not to bee neglected For if Iohn the Patriarch of ConstaÌ„tinople claimed the title of Vniuersal Bishop because the Emperours had then their seat there howsoeuer they then bare the title of Emperours of Rome If Peter were therefore the Bishop of Rome because he had his feat

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