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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	apostle_n	gospel_n	preach_v	2,817	5	6.7760	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00748	The epiphanie of the church gathered out of the Holy Scriptures, declaring and plainly shevving, both the church that cannot but erre, and also the church that cannot erre : vvith so evident notes and manifest signes of either of them, that no man reading it, needeth be in doubt which he should beleue / written by R.P. in the yeare of our Lord God 1550 ; and now published in this yeare 1590 for the benefite of all such as desire the trueth concerning the church.	Finch, Richard, minister of East Ham.	1590 (1590)	STC 10877.5; ESTC S4676	36,955	52

a monstrous beast This monstrous beast hath lift vp borne and mainteined the whore of Babylon which is the church of antichrist This monstrous beast hath put vp her hornes heere in England against the word of God and faine would rule the same againe if the deuill could bring it to passe whose labour is in vaine for we know the trueth of Gods word proceedeth euer from God and therefore hath God set it forth amongst vs by his owne vicegerent a mayden king our liege lord and supreme head in his dominions next vnder Christ and that by act of parlement with the consent of the nobility of the realme and the lordes spirituall and temporall and the commons of the same Let Sathan therefore leaue off with all his wicked instrumēts which go about to perswade the silly people that Gods booke and this new learning as they call it is heresie whereby they slander theyr godly magistrates and speake euill of them that be in authority Which theyr customable so doing auaileth them nothing for when they haue prooued it heresie which thing they shall as easily bring to passe as to prooue light darkenesse and darkenesse light then must they also compell all them that haue set it forth and all them that willingly receiued the same to do open penance for theyr manifest heresie as they say Thus to speake euill of them that be in authority is one of their proper markes whereby they be knowen to be of Antichrists brood which hath by conspiracy caused rebellion euer against such gouernors as haue done any thing against theyr tyranny and excommunicated cursed and deposed emperours and kings that haue displeased theyr hypocrisie whose authority as it is next vnto God so hath God left the correction thereof vnto himselfe and neither vnto priest nor people God commandeth saying Touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harme If it be not lawfull to touch Gods anoynted kings Gods officers Gods lieutenants Gods vicegerents that be appoynted by God to rule in his sted let them take heed that do vsurpe theyr sword for vndoubtedly Gods vengeance will fall vpon them Example hereof we haue in Chorah Dathan and Abiram which rose vp against Moses with other men of the children of Israel euen two hundreth and fiftie that were captaines of the multitude great famous men in the congregation but Gods vengeance fell vpon them for the earth opened and swallowed them downe aliue Yet these rebels were not of the base and lower sort of the people but captaines and famous men Consider then if God cannot abide this rebellion and vsurping of the sword of iustice in a captaine surely he will not suffer it in a souldiour If not in a famous or noble man verely he will not leaue it vnplagued in one of the lower subiects no he will not let it escape vnpunished in whom whensoeuer it be because it is high treason against himselfe Though they worke craftily and secretly yet will theyr false traitourous hearts bewray themselues before they be ware if Gods word as needes it must be true Be not thou so bold as once to thinke or imagine euill against the king or that thou wilt reprehend the prince although thou be alone in thy priuie chamber for it will come out if not otherwise surely the birds that flye in the ayre will not suffer it to be hid Heereby it appeareth that the word of God reproueth yea condemneth all maner of persons of what state condition or degree soeuer they be that in word or thought do arise vp rebell or resist the kings authority specially in setting foorth Gods worde For there is no power but of God the powers that be are ordeined of God whosoeuer therefore resisteth power resisteth the ordinance of God but they that resist shall get vnto themselues damnation These are Gods words and not mine Againe as almighty God would that we should neither hurt nor harme his true prophets preachers of his word so Iesus Christ the sonne of God giueth vs a speciall commandement to beware of antichrists prelats calling them false prophets saying Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheeps clothing but inwardly they are rauening wolues Wolues are wrapped in sheepes clothing when tyrants rule in the place of shepheards vnder the titles of holy fathers worshipfull doctours honourable prelats c. These Christ painteth vnto vs by the names of Blinde guides Froward generation Adulterous generatiō Pharises Sadduces Hypocrites Generation of vipers Serpents Adders brood Painted sepulchres Painted wall c. who saith he do binde together heauie burdens and grieuous to be borne and lay them on mens shoulders but they themselues will not heaue at them with one of their fingers All their workes do they for the intent that they may be seene of men Also they goe in long religious apparell they must be had in reuerence and saluted with names and titles of dignity they shut vp the kingdome of heauen before men both by their example and doctrine condemning the iustifying faith for heresie They vse long prayers with lippe labor for lucres sake they be very curious in ceremonies and trifles but in great matters as iudgement mercy and fayth they haue little regard they see quickly a moat in another mans eye but will not looke on the beame in their owne they are great intanglers of mens consciences with meates drinkes holy dayes and mens traditions finally they haue as before hath beene said theyr consciences marked with the hoat yron of burning malice enuy and hatred against all them that loue Gods word forbidding to marry and commanding to abstaine from meats which God hath created to be receiued with giuing thanks of them that beleeue know the trueth These and such like be theyr fruites these be theyr workes ye shall know them sayth Christ by theyr works That those should enter into the Church after that the Gospell was preached by the apostles Paul playnly sheweth saying I am sure of this that after my departing shal grieuous wolues enter in among you not sparing the flocke This is the Church that cannot erre Furthermore that you may the better perceiue know the Church that cannot erre from the Church that cannot but erre you shall vnderstand there be but two wayes The way of the Spirits of truth Faithfull Godly Children of God Members of Christ Holy Catholike Church The way of the Spirits of error Vnfaithfull Vngodly Children of the deuill Members of the deuill Wicked Church of Antichrist Call them by what names you will Christ calleth the one The broad way and the other The narrow vvay saying Enter in at the strait gate for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which goe in thereat But strait is the gate and narrovv is

then golde or pretious stone and sweeter then honie and honie combe The embassage of great ioy Ioyfull tidinges of peace tidinges of good things The poure of God vnto saluation to euerie one that beleeueth and able to saue their soules that imbrace it Wherefore lay apart sayth the Apostle Iames all filthinesse and superfluitie of maliciousnesse and receaue with meekenesse the worde that is grafted in you which is able to saue your soules Thus it appeareth manifestly vnto all them that be willing to see the trueth that God the father appoynteth vs vnto the worde of his sonne Iesus Christ our Lord. Christ referreth vs vnto his holy spirite and trueth The holy Ghost also taught nothing else but the same trueth and word Therefore the holy Apostle durst not to appoint vs to anie other but straightly commendeth vs to the same trueth that cannot erre and vnto the word of grace which is the selfe same and still one trueth according to the infallible word of God that saith Thy righteousnesse O Lord is an euerlasting righteousnesse and thy lawe is the trueth So that we haue now in this time iust cause ioyfully to say with the prophet O praise ye the Lord all ye heathen praise him all ye people For his mercie is stablished vpon vs and the trueth of the Lord endureth for euer Then the which trueth there can be no surer stay guide and rule for the beliefe life and doctrine of mortall men in this mortall life and world of tribulation The Church of Antichrist hath no such stay guide nor rule but they are like the chaffe which the winde scattereth awaie from the face of the earth as the prophet Dauid witnesseth who also calleth them the councell of the vngodly the way of sinners and the chaire of pestilence or the seate of the scornful workers of iniquitie wicked men bloud-thirstie men the euil man the wicked man the wilde boare the cruell beast the slaunderer blasphemer enemie and persecutor the enemie in the holy place and aduersary whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse their throat is an open sepulcher with their toonges they haue deceiued the poyson of aspes is vnder their lippes their feete are swift to shed bloud destruction and vnhappinesse is in their waies and the way of peace haue they not knowne there is no feare of God before their eies There were they brought in great feare euen where no feare was Vaine persons and deceiptfull lippes whom euer all good men abhorred and hated after the example of the holy prophet who saith I haue hated the Church of the vvicked and will not sit among the vngodly Loe you see the wicked and vngodly haue the name of Church yea they haue got the name of holy Catholicke Church How else haue they put on sheepes clothing How haue they fashioned themselues like the ministers of righteousnesse And howe hath the deuill transformed himselfe into the angel of light Truely in this that his church hath got the titles of holy and Catholicke and his ministers the names of true shepheardes Catholicke be the right clothing of the sheepe of Christes fold Antichrist therefore hath robbed Christes fold of their right title holy and catholicke and thereby bleared the eyes of the simple vnlearned multitude which doe seeke no further for saluation then they haue bene taught they say by the holy Catholicke Church Their common sayinges be these We be not wiser then our fathers before vs We will doe as our fathers haue done Such thinges they doe affirme because they know not Sathan from the angell of light the wolues from the sheepe the lyes from the word of God neyther Church of Antichrist falsly called holy and catholicke from the Church of Iesus Christ which indeede is both holy and catholicke But in stead of the holy Catholick church they doe beleeue the Church of the wicked in whose dregs of detestable traditions and ceremonies they haue bene ousted from their youth Verely if they would ponder their wordes with halfe indifferent iudgement and behold them but with one of their eyes I thinke they would keepe silence or else blushe for shame For to say they will doe as their elders and fathers haue done before them is nothing but to confesse thēselues to walke wilfully in errour and blindnesse when their fathers wandered vnawares And where they say they be no wiser then their fathers they shew themselues to be blinde followers of the blinde But if the blinde follow the blinde they both fall into the ditch Their fathers tooke Antichrist the bishop of Rome for head of the Church they made images and worshipped them they gadded on pilgrimage and trusted in workes pardons absolutions dirges trentalles masses c. wherein they erred increased in error and walked ignorantly into perdition The cause whereof was the lack of the word of God which word is euer a rule vnto the holy catholicke church Therefore their fathers learned not these thinges of the holy Catholicke Church but of the Church of Rome vsurping the name of the holy Catholicke Church which abhorred and trode vnder feete the word of God without the which their fathers doctrine was nothing els but olde errour against whome God giueth a speciall commandement saying Keepe my commandementes doe not those thinges that other haue done before you be not defiled in them I am your Lord your God Wherefore addeth God these words I am your Lord your God but to the end he would haue his words regarded for euer and not his aduersaries the man of sinne and childe of perdition as Paul nameth him who deceaued their fathers Whose coming is after the vvorking of Sathan vvith al lying povvers signes vvonders with al deceiuablenesse of vnrighteousnesse amongest them that perish because they receaued not the loue of the trueth that they might be saued And therefore God shal send them strong delusion that they might beleue lyes that all they might be damned which beleeued not the trueth but had pleasure in vnrighteousnesse In these wordes hath the holy Ghost plainly shewed the fashion and comming of the man of sinne sonne of perdition Church of the wicked and kingdome of Antichrist The Church or kingdome of Antichrist is called the man of sinne because it is builded vpon a sinnefull man gouerned by a sinfull man instructed by euill sinfull workmen and their doctrine defended by the lawes and power of sinnefull men Which tooke authoritie neyther of God nor of his worde but of a monstrous beast with many heades euen of the people that departed from the faith whereof the same holy spirite of God speaketh and prophecieth more plainely by the mouth of Paul saying The spirite speaketh euidently that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith and shall giue heede vnto the spirites of error and deuilish doctrines of them which speake