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	prove_v	2,236	5	6.1879	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09294	The historie of Corah, Dathan, and Abiram, & c Numb. 16. Chap. Applied to the prelacy ministerie and church-assemblies of England. By Mr Iohn Penry, a martyr of Iesus Christ.	Penry, John, 1559-1593.	1609 (1609)	STC 19607; ESTC S103159	36,369	50

set free from all spirituall bondage whatsoever Satan could not reigne in this land by these his forenamed ordinances if he brought not truth with him it is no marveil that he bringeth trueth unto us rather then lose his kingdome He can transforme himselfe we knovve into an Angell of light but vve must not receiv him or his merchaÌ„dise vvhat glasse soever he casteth over them or in vvhat vveed soever he cloth himselfe And therefore let it not be thought vvonderful that vve reject that preaching those Sacraments and those Ministers that by their preaching ministerie and sacraments vvould dravve our consciences to be subject unto the povver of Satan Nay rather vve may vvonder vvith astonishment hovv they dare presume to minister before Iesus Christ in the garments vveeds and offices of the Locustes of the bottomles pit hovv they dare presse to offer before the God of Israel being strangers from the Tabernacle by vertue of their office It vvas a positive lavv under Moses that the stranger not being of the line of Aaron yea or not called to the holie office that vvould intermedle vvith the office of the Preist should dy the death for it Much more if he vvere an Eckronitish or an Ashdodean Preist in his office And is not this man vvorthie of more honour then Moses his ordinaÌ„ces to be yet more reverenced then Moses his vvere Oh then vvhat a fearful presumption is it for the Preachers of this land I speak nothing all this vvhile of the Idol-readers the Prelates the CoÌ„missaries the Chancellors the Deanes the Archdeacons c to take his vvord in their mouthes his Sacramentes in their hands to minister in his sight being not Ashdodeans or Eckronitish but Antichristian Preists which is more horrible by vertue of their office calling The sensible presidents of Gods fearefull iudgements upon Corah and the two hundred fiftie Captaynes of the Congregation being men that held and taught such of them as were teachers as many points of truth as our preachers can hold or teach time time being counted together The fretting consuming leprosie of K. Vzziah are written for their instruction ours that they should not presume to intermedle with the holy things of God especially by vertue of a false AntichristiaÌ„ office If it be here said that we have nothing to do what office they have so they preach the truth I answer that this is it which Satan would have to wit that his ordinances his power his Ministerie should be received of vs without any scruple or doubt what we do therby Graunt him this once and he wil soon overthrow all religion I have shewed before that a good conscience will beginne with a lawfull calling and office especially in this holy work and therfore if men have not forgotten to be ashamed let them not use this gracelesse uncolourable shift any longer to iustifie their uneven walking For if their outvvard office and calling wil not abide the fire of the word they are but wolves and vsurpers whosoever they be And if they be ashamed or think themselves too good to derive their office authoritie and power from Iesus Christ the Church of Christ and every member therof ought to be ashamed and afraid to receive them Nay the Church cannot receive them without high treason against the head thereof Christ Iesus vnto whose power alone we must submit our selves for we have none other head but him and therfore wil acknowledge no other power but his to have authoritie to work vpon our consciences They know what penaltie was to be executed vpon him under Moses that spake in the name of other Gods unto that people how dare they then go about to thrust us away froÌ„ the Lord our God who hath redeemed us from the power of the grave and to bring us into subjection unto the ordinances of that godlesse Mauzzim Do they not know that that Christ is not a true Christ but an Antichrist whatsoever truth he teacheth whatsoever miracles he worketh which cannot prove his outward office and calling unto us out of the written word of God What Ministers then can they be but AntichristiaÌ„ whose office calling cannot derive the genealogie therof out of the same booke of the written undoubted veritie Christ Iesus telleth us that the Scriptures are they which testifie of him that his power even to preach and not his preaching onelie is in the verie conscience of his adversaries from heaven and not from men Hee tooke not the honour of his office unto him selfe but he that said unto him this day have I begotten thee gave it him as the Apostle teacheth Iohn Baptist confirmeth his office out of the written word namely that he was that voice of him that crieth in the wildernes whereof the Prophet Isay had foretold the Church The holy Apostles confirme their office out of the written word For they wil not onelie prove that they preach nothing but the truth administer no sacramentes save the true sacramentes onely but also wil shewe that they derive the power authority to do this from him who hath all power in his hand that is from Iesus who did not onely instruct them what trueth the Church was to receive but also gave them a CoÌ„mission to do the same from his owne mouth in saieng Go yee therefore c. Nay they durst not presume to choose any to supplie the roome of Iudas among them except they had bene able to bring the warrant of the written word for their ground that an office was void in the house of God and that another was to supplie that roome Paul the Apostle is able to proue his office unto us out of many places of the written word The Spirit of God testifieth that he is an Apostle of Iesus Christ not at his own hand but by the wil of God What wil the Preachers of our time then say for them selves why they should not do the like Many of them go about to deceive them selves the simple people by the place of Paul Yee are the seale of mine Apostleship We have called many say they But by vertue of what office say wee If they allege we have nothing to do to examine that truth nay coÌ„mon sense wil answere them that then they are wicked intruders that they are Lawlesse theeves that they are false Prophets nay that they are Anabaptists and that we may know them by this bitter presumptuous fruite which coÌ„meth out of their mouthes For wil they presume to take the word of Iesus Christ in their mouths to intermedle with his Sacramentes to rule in his house and wil they not shewe us how they come in by what office they doe these things wil they under pretense of an inward power bragge of an outward office nay exempt themselves from the charge of of an office in the house of God under the vaile of their outward giftes and so breake into the same in steed of

to flee her presence and not to haue a word to speak that they dare stand unto while she is in place These and such like are the causes why the truth of God is so meanly attended upon and utterly cast off among men in our dayes for what reason is there as men usually conclude that those who in the estimation of the most are learned godly religious c. should have their practises reproved and themselves condemned as violaters of the Lords morall commandements seing they are especially deemed to urge the observatioÌ„ of them As an answer to all these frivolous cavils of fesh and blood I oppose once for all THE WORD OF GOD and the truth therof wherby I doubt not but to stop the mouth of proud flesh and to presse the same with the mace of Gods iudgements for evermore except they imbrace and obey the truth And therfore I do here in the presence of God his Angels charge theÌ„ whosoever they be into whose haÌ„ds this present treatise shal come that they presume not to suffer the former cavils to haue passage out of their lippes as being reasoÌ„s of any force why the truth of God should be beaten back smothered and kept in because men do account the same to be mean odious offensive sterne proud c. For why should not all the world lay their hand upon their mouthes when the GOD OF HEAVEN speaketh and labour to frame themselves and their affections meet to receive his truth and to be obedient to the same Shall proud men reiect it because it derogateth from their ruinous credite Shal they seek to keep it under because they will not come under the line and direction of the same Shall that be accounted odious which is most amiable most bewtifull to be desired above fine gold Job 28.19 yea of more valew then the Topaz of Aethiopia or the most pure wedge of the gold of Ophir and that onely because vaine men hate to be reformed by it Shall that be accounted proud offensive and haughty wherat none possiblie can stumble but proud scribes and pharisees or ignorant and worldly minded Disciples who wil not stick to say to the Lord himself that his sayings are hard and who can hear them Nay let vaine men labour to haue the eare of the learned that they may break in pieces their turning away to their shame confusion of face their hard intreaty of the truth and those that professe the same by revilings slanders imprisonments c. to their everlasting perdition without the Lords great mercy in turning them unto him which I earnestly wish them And as the whole truth oppugned in these dayes is in the eyes men of the nature and qualitie before mentioned so is this in particular for the clearing wherof I am to deal at this present The point is That it is unlawfull for any of what estate sex degree condition soever they be to communicate in any action of religion as in hearing trueth taught in receiving the Sacraments praying c. Within any of the publik meetings of the Land as now they stand by Law And therfore that this present Parliament c. The reasons of the first degree alleadged to prove the contrary wil be these namely that the assertion is traiterous seditious schismatical that it is Brownisme that it is odious offensive c. that it coÌ„demneth the doings of the children of God the practises of the most notable servaÌ„ts of Christ accuseth them all this while to have erred gone astray that it crosseth the iudgemeÌ„t of reformed Churches who are better perswaded of the asseÌ„blies of the land that excellent and famous men sawe not this that they were of an other mind c. But what is all this to the truth is it any new thing to see the truth arraigned indighted condemned and executed for treason and sedition though never convinced of the same We consider not whether kingdomes states be so out of order as that the truth cannot come to light but it wil be accouÌ„ted traiterous among them The onely thing that we especially respect is whether it be truth or not the which being found hold it we must defend it we must whatsoever account mans corruption maketh therof And therfore here is no more said against it but what in all ages hath bene falsly vttered against the truth Falsey I say because no truth can be traiterous unto the state of any Prince or Potentate And as vnto this in particular it shal be found to cary vndoubted stability with it for the vpholding of her MAIESTIES crowne authority priviledges preheminences within all her Realmes and Dominions and to be accompanied with the allowance of her Royall Lawes if it might haue the particular benefit of them Touching the crime of Brownisme Schisme c. It is an vnconscionable slaunder for truth holdeth of no creature it is derived onely from that head in whom all the treasures of wisedome and knowledge are hidden that is from IESVS CHRIST yet this I know to be the vsuall badge of the truth to be called after the names of men to be accounted schismatical that thereby the harts of the simple may be alienated from the same And Satan in this latter age hath bene a mervelous cunning RhetoriciaÌ„ this way there hath bene no truth brought to light but he haâ—h taken paines to paint it out for Zwinglianisme Luther anisme Calvinisme Brownisme c. Odious and offensive it hath bene already graunted to be onely in their eyes who refuse to be guided by the line and rule of the Maister builder wheras otherwise it is precious vnto them that labour to square themselves and their actions according to the paterne of the holy sanctuary and temple And to pretend against the truth that it condemneth the doings of men is nothing els but a manifest testimony that truth is truth who must bear rule and bring all into order yea let all men in the world be liars and let the Lord in this truth of his ordinances be iustified and prevaile 2 Sam. 11.17 12.9.11 David is a godlie man he is the sweet singer of Israel a man according to Gods own hart wel esteemed of wel reputed may he therfore do what he wil may he continue in sinne and must not the light reproove him Peter is the notable embassadour of Iesus Christ Gal. 2.11.14 a great instrument and furtherer of the truth but may he therefore clayme libertie not to be withstood to his face in his hypocrisie If this could be once graunted that the credit of men might cover their open breach of Gods lawe and their continuance therin it were but vaine to bring the truth to light Nay let the credit of the captaynes of the congregation be hanged against the sunne rather then their place estimation and the good opinion which men haue received of them should defend the whoring of the people with the daughters of Moab

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