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	religion_n	1,757	5	5.8454	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10780	A frendly farewel which Master Doctor Ridley, late Bishop of London did write beinge prisoner in Oxeforde, vnto all his true louers and frendes in God, a litle before that he suffred for the testimony of the truthe of Christ his Gospell. Newly setforth and allowed according to the order apoynted in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions.	Ridley, Nicholas, 1500?-1555.; Foxe, John, 1516-1587.	1559 (1559)	STC 21051; ESTC S115942	27,194	106

God I am coÌ„ptable that ye neuer swarue neither for losse of life or worldly goodes froÌ„ Gods holy word and yeld vnto Antichrist wherupon must nedes follow the great displeaser of God and the losse of your bodies souls into perpetuall dampnation for euermore Now that I haue gon through the places wher I haue dwelt any space in the time of my pilgrimage here vpoÌ„ earth Remembring that for the space of Kinge Edwardes reigne whiche was for the time of mine Office in the Seas of London and Rochester I was a meÌ„ber of the higher house of the parliamente Therefore seinge my God hathe geuen mee laysoure and the remembraunce thereof I will bid my Lordes of the temporaltie farewel They shal haue no iust cause by Gods grace to take it that I entend to say in ill part As for spirituall prelacy that now is I haue nothing to say to them excepte I shoulde repeate agayne a greate parte of that I haue saide before now all readye to the Sea of London But to you my Lordes of the teÌ„poralty vnderstand ye thys firste That when I wrote this I loked daily when I should be called to y e chaunge of my life And thought y t that this my writinge shoulde not come to your knowledge before the time of the dissolucion of my bodye and soule shoulde be expired and therfore know ye that I had before mine eies only the feare of God Christian Charitie towarde you whiche moued me to write for of you hereafter I looke not in thys world other for pleaser or displeaser if my talke shal do you neuer so much pleasure or profit you caÌ„ not promote me Nor if I displese you ye can not hurt me or harme me For I shall be oute of your reache Nowe therefore if you feare God and can be content to heare the talk of him that seketh nothing at your hands but to serue God and to do you good herkeÌ„ what I say I say vnto you as S. Paul saieth to the Galathians I wonder mi Lordes what hathe bewitched you that ye so sodeÌ„ly are fallen froÌ„ Christ vnto Antichrist froÌ„ Christes gospel vnto mens tradicions from the Lord that boughte you vnto the Bishop now of Rome I warn you of your pearill be not deceiued except you will be found willingly consenters vnto your owne deathe For if ye thincke thus we are lay men thys is a matter of Religion we follow as we are taughte and led if oure teachers and gouernors teach vs and leade vs amisse the faulte is in them they shall beare the blame My Lords this is true I graunt you that both the false teacher and the corrupt gouernoure bothe shal be punished for the deathe of theyr subiecte whome they haue falselye taughte and corruptlye ledde And his bloud shall be required at their handes But yet neuerthelesse shal that subiecte die the death him self also that is he shal also be dampned for his owne sinne For if the blind leade the blinde Christe saithe not the leader only but he saithe bothe shall fall in the ditche Shall the Sinagoge and the Senate of the Iewes trow ye whyche forsooke Christe and consented to his Deathe therefore be excused because Annas Caiphas with the Scribes and Phariseis and their cleargy did teach them amisse yea and also Pilate theyr gouernoure and the Emperoures Lieuetenaunte by his tirranny did withoute cause put him to deathe Forsothe no my Lordes no but notwithstanding that corrupt doctrine or Pilates washinge of hys handes neither of both shal excuse other that sinagoge and seigniour or Pilate But at the Lordes hand for the effusion of that innocentes blud on the latter dai al shal drink of the deadlye whip Ye are wittye and vnderstand what I meane Therefore I will passe ouer thys and return to tel you howe you are fallen from Christe to his aduersarye the Bishyp of Rome And least my Lordes I maye peraduenture thincke me thus barely to call the Bishop of Rome Christes aduersarye or to speake it in plain termes to cal him Antichrist that it is don in mine anguish and that I do but rage and as a desperate man do not care what I say or vpon whome I do raile Therfore that your Lordships may perceiue my minde and vnderstande that I speake the words of truthe and of sobriety as S. Paule saide vnto Festus Be it knowne vnto your Lordships al that as concerning the bishop of Rome I nether hate the person nor the place For I ensure your Lordships y e liuing Lorde beareth me witnesse before whome I speake I doo thincke manye a good holy manne manye martirs and Saintes of God hath set and taught in that place Christes Gospel truely whiche therfore iustlye maye be called Apostolici that is true Disciples of the Apostles And also that Church and coÌ„gregacion of Christians Apostolicke Church yea and that certaine hundreth yeares after y e same was first erected builded vpon Christ by the true Apostolicall Doctrine taught by the mouthes of the Apostles them selues If ye will know how long that was and how manye hundreth of yeares to be curious in poyntinge the precise nomber of yeres I wil not be to bold but thus I say so loÌ„g and so manye hundred of yeres as that sea did truely teach and preach that gospel that religion exercised that power ordered euery thing by those lawes and rules whyche that sea receiued of the Appostles and as Tertulyan saithe and the apostles of Christe and Christe of God so long that Sea myght wel haue bene called Peter and Pauls chair and Sea or rather Christes Chaire and the Bishop thereof Apostolicus or a true Disciple of the Apostles and a minister of Christ. But since that time that Sea hath degenerated froÌ„ that trade of truth and true Religion whyche it receiued of the Apostles at the beginning and hathe preached a nother Gospell hathe sette vp an other Religion hathe exercised an other power and hath taken vpon it to ordre and rule the Churche of Christe by other straunge lawes Cannons and rules then euer that Sea receiued of the Apostles of Christe whyche thinges it dothe at this daye and hathe continued so doinge alasse alasse of to to loÌ„g a time From time I saye that the state and condition of this Sea hathe thus bene chaunged In truthe it oughte of dutye and of righte to haue the names chaunged bothe of the Sea and of the sitter therein For vnderstande my Lordes it was neither for the Priuilege of that place or Persone thereof that that Sea and Bishop thereof wer called Apostolicke but for the true trade of Christes Religion whiche was taught and maintened in that Sea at the firste and of those godlye menne And therfore as truely and iustlye as that Sea then for that true trade of Religion and coÌ„sanguinitie of Doctrine wyth the Religion and Doctrine of Christes Apostles was called Apostolick So as truely as iustly for y e

very short w t me mi mind was to haue don you good yet you caught in that litle time a losse But I trust it shalbe recompeÌ„ced as it shal plese almighti god Farewel al my whole kindred countrymen Farewel in Christ altogether the Lord which is y e searcher of secreates knoweth that according to my harts desire mi hope was of late y t I shuld haue come among you and to haue brought w t me aboundaunce of Christes blessed Gospel accordinge to the duty of that office and ministery where vnto amoÌ„g you I was chosen named and appoynted by the mouthe of that oure late piereles Prince and king Edward And so also denounced openly in his court by his preuy counsaile I warne you al my welbeloued kinsfolkes and contreimen that ye be not amased or astonied at the kind of my departure or dissolutioÌ„ For I ensure you I thincke it the most honor that euer I was called vnto in all my life And therfore I thancke my Lord God hartely for it that it hathe pleased him to call me of his greate mercye vnto this highe honor to suffer deathe willinglye for hys sake and in hys cause vnto the which honor he called the holye Prophets and his dearely beloued Apostels and his blessed chosen martirs For knowe ye that I doubt no more but that the causes wherefore I am put to death are Gods causes and of truthe then I doubte that the Gospel which Ihon wrote is the Gospell of Christ or that Paules Epistles are the verye word of God And to haue a harte willinge to abide and stand in Gods cause and in Christes quarrell euen vnto deathe I ensure the O man it is an in estimable and a honorable gift of God geuen only to the true electes and dearly beloued childreÌ„ of God and inheritoures of the kingdome of heauen For the holye Apostle and also martyr in Christes cause Saint Peter saith If ye suffer rebuke in the name of Christ that is in Christes cause and for his truthes sake then ye are happye and blessed for the glory of the spirit of God resteth vppon you If for rebuke sake suffred in christes name a maÌ„ is pronouÌ„ced by the mouth of y e holy Apostle blessed and happye how much more happy and blessed is he that hathe the grace to suffer death also Wherfore al you that be my true louers and freÌ„des reioyse and reioyse with me againe And render with me harty thanckes to God oure heauenly father that for his Sonnes sake my Sauioure redeamer Christ he hath vouchsaued to call me beinge els without his gratious goodnesse in my selfe but a sinfull and a vile wretche to cal me I say vnto this high dignitie of his true Prophets and of his faithfull Apostles and of his holye elected and chosen Martyrs that is to die and to spende this Temporall life in the defence and maintenaunce of his eternall and euerlastinge truthe Ye knowe that be my Countrye men dwellinge vppon the Borders where alas the true man suffereth oft-times muche wronge at the theues hande if it chaunce a manne to be slaine of the theefe as it oft chaunceth there whiche wente oute with his neighboure to healpe hym to rescue his goodes againe that the more cruellye he be slaine and the more stedfaste hee stooke by hys neighboure in fighte agaynste the face of the theefe the more fauour and frendship shall all his posteritie haue for the slaine mans sake of all them that bee true as longe as the memorye of hys facte and hys Posteritye dothe endure Euen so ye that be my Kinsfolke and Countrye men knowe ye howe so euer the blinde ignoraunte and wicked worlde hereafter shall raile vppon my Deathe which thing they can not do worse then their fathers did of the death of Christ our sauioure of his holye Prophets Apostles and martirs Know ye I say that bothe before God and al them that be godlye and that truelye knoweth and followeth the lawes of God ye haue and shall haue by Gods grace euer cause to reioyse and to thanck God highly and to thinke good of it and in god to reioyse of me your fleshe and blud whome God of his gracious goodnes hath voutchsafed to associate vnto the blessed coÌ„pany of his holy martirs in heaueÌ„ I doubt not in the infinite goodnesse of my Lorde God nor in the faithfull fellowship of his electe chosen people but at bothe thier handes in my cause ye shall rather finde the more fauor grace For the Lord saith that he will be both to them and theirs that loueth him the more louinge againe in a thousand generacions The Lord is so full of mercy to them I saye theirs which do loue him in dede And Christe saithe againe that no man can shewe more loue then to geue his life for his frende Nowe also know ye all my true louers in God my kinsefolke and CountrymeÌ„ that the cause wherfore I am put to death is euen after the same sorte and condicion but touchinge more nie Gods cause and in more weighty matters but in the generall kinde al one for both is Gods cause bothe is in the maintenance of righte bothe is for the commen wealth and both for the weale also of the Christian brother although yet there is in these two no small difference both concerning the ennemies the goodes stollen and the maner of the fight For know ye al as there when the pore true maÌ„ is robbed by y e thefe of his own goods truely gotten wherupon he hys houshold shuld liue is greatli wroÌ„ged and the thefe in stealing robbing with violence the pore mans goodes doth offend God doth traÌ„sgresse his law is iniurious both to the pore man and to the commen welth so I say know ye al that eueÌ„ here in the cause of my deathe the Church of England I meane the congregation of the true choseÌ„ children of God in this realm of England which I knowledge not only to be my neighbors but rather the congregation of my true spirituall brethren and sisters in Christ yea members of one body wherein by Goddes grace I am and haue ben grafte in Christe Thys Churche of Englande had of late of the infinite goodnesse and aboundaunte grace of almightye God greate substaunce greate ryches of heauenlye treasure greate plentye of Goddes true and sincere woorde the true and wholesome administracion of Christes holye Sacramenes the hole profession of Christes religion truelye and plainlye sette forth in Baptisme the plaine declaration and vnderstandynge of the same taught in the holy Cathechisme to haue ben learned of al true Christians This church had also a true and sincere forme and manner of the Lordes Supper wherin according to Christes own ordinaunce and holy institucion Christes commaundements were executed done For vpoÌ„ the bread and wine set vpoÌ„ the Lordes table thaÌ„kes wer geueÌ„ the coÌ„memoration of the Lordes deathe was had the bread

wais of the deuil ther gostly father to stele from the vniuersall churche and perticulerly from euery man all heauenlye treasure true Faith true Charity and hope of saluacion in the bloud of our sauioure Iesus Christe yea to spoile vs of oure Sauiour Christ of his Gospell of his heauenlye spirite and of the heauenly heritage of the kingdom of heauen so derely purchased vnto vs with the deathe of our Maister and sauioure Christ. These be the goodes and godlye substaunce wherupon the Christian before God must liue And with out the which he caÌ„ not liue These goodes these theues these churche robbers go aboute to spoile vs of The whiche goodes as to the man of God they excel and farre passeth all worldlye treasure so to withstande euen vnto the deathe suche theues as go about to spoile bothe vs and the hole Churche of suche goodes is most highe and honorable seruice done vnto God These Churche robbers be also muche more false craftye and deceitfull then the theues vppon the borders For these haue not the crafte so to commende their thefte that they dare avouch it And therfore as acknowledging theÌ„ selues to be euill they steale commenlye vpon the nighte they dare not appere at iudgementes and sessions wher iustice is executed And wheÌ„ they are taken and broughte thither they neuer hange no man but they be ofte times hanged for their faultes But these Churche robbers can so cloke and coloure their spirituall robbery that they can make the people to beleue falshed to be truthe and truthe falshed good to be euell and euell good lyghte to be darkenesse and darkenesse lyghte Superstition to be true Religion and Idolatrye to be the true worship of God and that whiche is in substaunce the creature of breade and wine to be none other substaÌ„ce but onlye the substance of Christe the liuinge Lorde bothe God and manne And this there falshed and craft they canne so Iuggle and bewitche the vnderstandynge of the simple that they dare avouch it openlye in Courte and in town and feareth neither hanginge nor heddinge as the poore Theues of the borders do But stoute and strong like Nembrothe dare condempne to be burned in flaming fire quicke aliue who so euer will go aboute to bewray their falshed The kinde of fighte agaynste these Churche robbers is also of an other sorte and kinde then is that whiche is againste the theues of the borders For there the true menne goe forth againste theÌ„ with speare and launce with bowe and byll and al suche kinde of bodely weapons as the trew men hath But here as the enemies be of another nature so the watchmen of Christes flocke the warriours that fyght in the Lords war must be armed and fight with another kinde of weapons and Armour For here the enemies of God the souldiors of Antichrist althoughe the battell is set forth agaynst the Churche by mortall men beynge fleshe and bloud and neuertheles members of their father the deuil yet for that theyr graunde maister is the power of darkenesse theyr meÌ„bers are spirituall wickednes wicked spirits spirits of errours of heresies of all deceate and vngodlines spirits of idolatrie superstitioÌ„ Hipocresie which ar called of S. Paule Principates powers Lordes of the worlde and spirituall subtilties conserninge heauenly thinges And therefore oure weapons muste be fit and meete to fight against suche not carnall nor Lordly weapons as spere or sauÌ„ce but spiritual and heaueÌ„ly we must fight against suche with the armor of God not entending to kill theyr bodies but their errors their false craft and heresies their Idolatry Superstition and Hipocrisye and to saue as much as lieth in vs both their bodies and soules And therfore as S. Paule teacheth vs we fight not against flesh and bloude that is we fight not with bodelye weapon to kill the man but with the weapoÌ„s of God to put to flight his wicked erroures and vice and to saue bothe bodye and soule Oure weapons therefore are faith hope and Charitie righteousnesse truthe pacience praier vnto God and our sword wherwith me smite our enemies we beat and batter beare down al falshed is the word of God With these weapoÌ„s vnder the banner of the Crosse of Christe we do fighte euer hauinge an eie vpon our graund Master Duke and capitaine Christ. And then we recken oure selues to triumph and to winne the crowne of euerlasting blisse when enduringe in this battell without anye shrinking or yelding to the ennemies after the example of oure graunde Capitaine Christe oure Master after the example of his holye Prophets apostles and martirs when I say we are slaine in our mortall bodies of our ennemies are most cruelly without all mercy murdered down like a mainy of shepe And the more cruell the more painefull the more vile and spitefull is the kind of the death wherunto we be put y e more glorious in God the more blessed and happy we recken withoute all doubtes our martirdome to be And thus much dere louers and frendes in God my countrymen kinsfolk I haue spokeÌ„ for your coÌ„fort least of mi death of whose life you loked peraduenture somtimes to haue had honesty pleasures and some coÌ„modities ye might be abashed or think ani euil but rather to reioyse if ye loue me in dede for y t it hath plesed God to cal me to a greter honor dignity theÌ„ euer I did enioy before either in Rochester or in the sea of London or euer shuld haue had in the Sea of Durham whervnto I was last of all elected and named yea I compte it greater honor before God in dede to die in his cause whereof I nothynge doubt then is any earthly or temporall promocion or honor that caÌ„ be geuen to a man in this worlde And who is he that knoweth the cause to be Goddes to be Christes quarrell and of his Gospell to bee the commen weale of all the electe and chosen children of God of all the inheritours of the kingdome of heauen who is he I say y t knoweth this assuredly by Gods word and the testimony of his owne conscience as through thinfinite goodnes of God not of my selfe but by his grace acknowledge my self to do who is I say that knoweth this and both loueth and feareth God in dede and in truth loueth beleueth in his master Christe and his blessed Gospel loueth his brotherhode the chosen children of God also lusteth and longeth for euerlastinge life who is he I saye againe y t wold not or can not finde in his hart in this cause to be contente to die God forbid that anye such should be that should forsake this grace of God I truste in my Lorde God the God of mercies the father of all comfort throughe Iesus Christe oure Lorde that he which hath put this mind wil and affection by his spirite in my hart to stand against the face of the ennemy in his cause and to chose

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