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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	bear_v	jesus_n	witness_n	2,214	5	7.7050	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02628	A recantation sermon preached in the gate-house at VVestminster the 30. day of Iuly 1620 In the presence of many worshipfull persons, by Iohn Harding, late Priest and Dominican Fryar. Wherein he hath declared his iust motiues which haue moued him to leaue the Church of Rome, and to vnite himselfe with the reformed Church of England, whose faith and doctrine, the ancient fathers and holy martyrs haue confirmed both by bloud and writing. Shewing herein the grose errors of Rome, in matters of faith, their corrupting the Fathers, and their present declining to some strange and future ruine.	Harding, John, fl. 1620.	1620 (1620)	STC 12756; ESTC S115165	15,923	28

still vrging me I could doe no lesse then retire my selfe back vnto the Lord from whom I haue long erred gone astray saying as Aristotle was wont to say Socrates is my friend so is Plato my friend but the friendship of the truth is far aboue all I can no longer beare witnesse against God it is no longer secure to call good euill or euill good light darkenesse or darkenesse light I must not be ashamed of the Gospell of Iesus Christ for it is the mighty power of God vnto saluation It is now high time to set aside all blinde affection and to iudge vprightly It is dangerous to ioyne with them that haue burnt Gods Word and scornefully called it a leaden rule a Nose made of waxe that call ignorance the mother of Deuotion dumb Images Lay mens Bookes who forbid marriage and lycence Concubines who haue deuised vnto themselues a strange Religion contrary to the Scriptures ancient Counsels old doctors and example of the Primatiue Church whom so many Kingdomes countries and infinite thousands of godly people haue forsaken From whom the holy Ghost by expresse words hath commanded vs to depart as it is written in the Apocalips Come away from her O my people that ye be not partakers of her sinnes lest ye be also partakers of her plagues for she hath falsified the holy farthers with such translations and expositions not as may best expresse their meanings but as may best further their owne pretenses and purposes they wrest them they alter them they put to them and take from them sometimes they take the bare words against the meaning and sometimes they frame a meaning against the words they imagine counsels that were neuer lied Canons of counsels that were neuer seene they bring forged Pamphlets vnder the name of Athanasius Anacletus and other godly Fathers by whom they were neuer made These are not errors in manners which may be in any good Church but they are errors in Faith and Doctrine which cannot stand with the true Church And therefore as Saint Ciprian saith let not lies deceiue vs any longer it is night vntill the day spring but when the Day appeareth and the Sunne of truth is vp both the darkenesse of the night as also the thefts committed in darkenesse will appeare and giue place Now the Sunne of truth is vp and the Clouds of ignorance are scattered I will say with Saint Paul Let vs cast away darkenesse and put on the armour of light To maintaine a fault knowne is a double fault Errour cannot stand but by errour and the mouth that speaketh vntruth killeth the soule Therefore I may safely and ioyfully say Bonum est mihi domine quia humiliasti me vt discam instisicationes tuas It is good for me that I haue beene in trouble for thereby I haue learned thy truth O my God leade me in the truth teach mee to do thy will Albeit I haue erred and strayed like a lost sheepe Ego tamen filius tuus fillius ancillae tuae Yet I am as child of thine inheritance and borne and brought vp of thy Handmayd which is thy Church and Spouse Open mine eyes suffer me not to be deceiued by the abuses of the world Sweete Iesus confirme me in this my resolution helpe my vnbeliefe increase the Faith which is within me fructifie in me that assurance of Abraham who beleeued in hope against hope arme me with thy promises deliuer me from mine enemines replenish me with the Spirit of constancy to the end and in the end that hauing gotten the victory I may say with the Apostle Paul Bonum certamē certaui fidē seruaui cursū consummani de reliqu● reposita est mihi corona iustitiae quam reddit mihi in ill● die Iustus index 2. Tim. 4.7.8 I haue fought a good fight I haue finished my course I haue kept the Faith 8. Henceforth there is laid vp for me a Crowne of Righteousnes which the Lord the righteous Iudge shall giue mee at that Day FINIS