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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	holy_a	scripture_n	4,755	5	5.8970	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08443	Sermons of the ryght famous a[n]d excellent clerke Master Bernardine Ochine, borne within the famous vniversyte of Siena in Italy, nowe also an exyle in this life, for the faythfull testimony of Jesus Christ	Ochino, Bernardino, 1487-1564.; Argentine, Richard, d. 1568.	1548 (1548)	STC 18765; ESTC S105735	22,415	64

a Towre vppon a wheaten strawe Christ and not the Philosophie is the onely true foūdaciō of his Churche and of the true supernaturall diuinitie of the which he is the onely workmaster / and not Aristotell I praye the what hath Aristotle to do wyth Christe Manie haue enforced them selues to agre Aristotle with Plato / but they coulde neuer bringe it to passe / because Aristotle beginning at the lowest of the sensible thinges / ryseth in the ende to as high as maye be And Plato begineth where as Aristotle ēdeth Cōsidre nowe howe it is possible to agre hī with christ / though many will make hym a piller of the Gospell ād a ladder to clime to heauen Let vs therfore repute the sciences of the worlde as vaine / beīg like vnto the harlots / that with their flattering woordes and false deceipts corrupt the mindes And let vs consider that if the priestes of the old Testament were prohibited to take a comune woman for a wife / howe much more the Christian that is all wholy consecrate ande dedicate to God / ought to flee and eschewe the vayne sciences and onely seruing him self of thē as of moost vile handmaidens / to knitte hym selue in spirite and with harte ande minde to applie him selfe to that pure and immaculate virgin of the holy Theologie or diuinité To the intent that euerlastingly we maye render to God all laude honour and glory / by our Sauiour Iesu Christe Amen Sermon iiij Howe we ought to vse the holy scriptures / in attaining the knowledge of God THe knowledge of the holy scriptures is not ynough to proue that we haue suffycient light of God / because it is possible that a man maye by his prōpte memorie attaine the holy scriptures ande their interpretacions in his minde / and by force of his naturall wytte / naturally vnderstand them / and be neuertheles for all that without faith / spirite and lyuely light of God Lue 24. For therto it behoueth hym to haue the spirite and supernaturall light / that God with his fauour do open ād penetrate the minde by his diuine grace So that therfore we must not accompte the holy scriptures for our last ende / or for our supreame Quene or Emperesse / but for meanes that serue to the faith / to the spirite ande to the true knowledge of God / muche more thē the creatures And we ought to serue our selues of them in diuers wayes / for that they first incite and teach vs to repaire to God / sayinge / in him is the chief boūté / go to him / for he is faithfull / and hath promised to make you taste all vertue and goodnes in him Yea. though they do not make the liuely to knowe God / yet worke they / as the Samaritane did / that sent the Samaritanes to Christ / who otherwise made them taste ād feele that which the Samaritane had said of him vnto them / in soche wise that when they returned / they confessed / saying we beleued not at all by thy wordes / we our selues haue hearde ād knowe / that this is truly the sauiour of the worlde John 5. And so the holy scriptures do send the to christe / to the ende that he maye opē thy hart / ād make the ī spirite liuely to vnderstande that which already thou hast redde in the dead letter / that thou maist saye vnto the scriptures / we neuer beleued by thy wordes / the which / being without spirite / coulde not make vs taste liuely the great bounté of God It is true that by thy wordes we haue beē prouoked to go to Christe / who / speaking vnto vs in spite hath made vs to fele in the harte / a more clere / high and diuine effect of that thou hast spokē They erre therfore that / fedig them selues of the letter ād not of the spyrite / do fixe thē selues in the holy s●riptures / ād seke none other light but that Yea I saye that for one houres studie / they ought to praie a thousand / ād to demaūde of god the true vnderstanding of thē And like as the Placonistes helde opinion / that the sensyble thīges geueth vs occasiō to studie in the booke of the minde in whiche they saye is imprynted all the veryté So must we consyder that the holye scriptures do call vs to Christ / in whome as Pause sayth be hidde all the treasures of wysdome and knowledge This is no lesse then true / that lyke as if thou haddest a frende whome thou hast not tryed though alwayes thou hast trauayled to proue hym thou woldest not inwardely knowe hym for a frende though he were euer in thine eye because the profe hath not rooted hī in thy minde So albeit the holy scriptures do call ande exhorte the to seke god in spirite / it is yet impossible that thou shuldest finde god ī trueth ī the scriptures / if first by spirite / thou haue him not at the harte They serue also an other maner / that many tymes happeneth As where God maketh the in spirite with lyuely faith to feale a deuine trueth Afterwardes / redīg the holy scriptures / thou findest that trueth writtē that thou hast so cōceaued And therof resting contented / thou confirmest thy self in the fayth of that trueth / notwithstāding that it ought to suffise the / of the fyrst inspiration of the holighost And so moreouer because that in Christ is the ende of the lawe / all the promisses fulfylled ād all the prophecies verified / the shadowes / figures ād scriptures of the olde Testament / he that redeth it and seeth all fulfylled in christ is forced to satisfye him self of the trueth / and to establish him self in faith Rom. 10. 2. Cor. 1. For Christ sent the Iewes that wold not beleue hym to the holy scriptures / as to them that witnessed of hym Afterwardes / albeit that in the Churche of God / to be satisfyed / grounded ād establisshed in the diuine / celestiall and supernaturall verité / it behoueth in effect to come to the inwarde wytnes of the holyghoost / without whome we can not knowe whiche scriptures of god be holy and whiche not Neuertheles / after that by spirite we are assured that our holy scriptures be of God / we ought to serue our selues of them as of a certeine infailyble ād supreame outwarde rule to teache / reprehende / correct and exhort the others ande to conumce thē that speake against it For as Paule writeth amongest the exteryour thinges we haue not a more sure clere / parfect ād stedfast rule / then this / with whiche we ought in spyrite to rule all our wordes / workes / dedes and lyfe 2. Tmo 3. Tit. 1. The holy scriptures moreouer shewe vnto vs though farre of our countrey By her we haue lyght of God of his promisses ād also of his threateninges Roma ●● And they nourish in

corporall vysyon / the imaginatyon / credulyte opinion / discourses ād other actions essentially Nevertheles it must suffise vs to se thē in vertue and eminencye For to see God clerely / it includeth and conteyneth all perfection / lyke as the golde conteyneth the perfection of all other metalles He then that seeth that diuine being wyth all perfectyon possible / seeth what thing God is / because he seeth a spirituall lyght / moost pure moost clere / moost simple and exellently fayre / aeterne / immutable / necessary and infinitely perfect / replete of Celestiall faelicite / iustice / powr / bountie / verite / wisdome / mercye / charite and of all the other perfect●ōs ād vertues infinitely parfect and that in it / in vertue and eminencye be all the colours / odours / sauours / soūdes / songes / swetenes / fairenes / honours / dignityes / treasures / pleasures and faelicities of the woorld / infinitely ād without proporcyon / more perfect then they be of them selues here And moreouer it behoueth the to knowe that the beyng of the creature is a shadowe and a moost fleyght vanité in comparison of Gods beyng / and the differēce more / then is betwene our shadowe ande our selues Exod. ● It is to be sayde of God / that surely he is onely the thinge that is Lyke wise I say of our powers / beaulte trueth / charité / iustice / wysdome and of all our other vertues / that compared to the diuine they be as moost vaine Images / and shadowes / infinitely distaūt frō them of god Iohan. 5. Also it behoueth to knowe / that God is not ydell / but that he cōtinually worketh as Christ saith in such wise / that he hath not onely geuē vnto the worlde his beige / but also continuallye conserueth all the thinges created / and all the vertues / that of all the myracles and straunge effectes / we konwledge only God to be Aucthour and to him we gyue all thankes honor ād glorie So likewise ought we to knowledge of him all the naturall effectes and operacions / and not to extolle or praise nature / but God onely / who grueth and preserueth the bring ande vertue to all thinges Neither ought there any other chaunce or fortune to be named / but all to be confessed of God / and he onely to be thanked / euen as he continually worketh for vs. And as his power is neuer ydell / but continuall working in all creatures So his wisdome continually seeth / disposeth and ordeineth all thinges moost best / and his bountie likewise cōtinually communicateth vnto vs his benefyttes and graces Furthermore it is necessarie thou knowe that all that god hath wrought / worketh or shall worke in his creatures / is all for man / for whome they be created and preserued For all the giftes ande benefittes that from the beginning haue bene made or shal be made to the creatures / Man is bounde to knowledge them as made to hym / and accordingly therfore to thanke God Ande especially the chosen or electe / to whome all creatures do serue / both the predestinate and reprobate Rom. ● Yea the Anngelles and the deuelies / euen to the very sines And because God doth here manifest and discouer him selfe / with his omni potent wisdome / trueth / iustice / bountie and his other vertues ande perfections / not onely in his creatures / but moch more in his scriptures / ād specially in Christ on the crosse / chefely to them that by faith conceaue him with spirite Therfore it behoueth him that will knowe what this GOD is / to beholde him particulerly in Christe / and to beseche him to giue him lyuely ande clere light to knowe him not onely in his creatures and scriptures / but specially in Christe crucifyed / to th ende that in him ād by him / vnderstanding the great bountie of God / we maye rendre vnto hym all honour and glory / by our Sauiour Iesu Christ Amen Section ij Howe to knowe God by hys creatures GOD in his maiesté apparelled with his perfections / ād in the well of his brightnes as sayth Paule is a certaine light inaccessyble and hidde 1. Tim● ● But here he somwhat discouereth him self by his creatures / as who will entre into Rome / must of force knowe by the pyllers / sepultures / Images ande by the great ruines that he shall fynde there / that the Romaines in times past / haue been of great power / dominion and wisdome Esay 15. So he which entereth into this worlde / seing this great engine / must of force knowe the maker therof to be the God omnipotent And beholding the ordre of his creatures / must not onely see but also maruell at the wisdome of God Psal 1.3 And wyth Dauid crye and saye Lorde thou hast created all thinges in wisdome Ande moreouer it behoueth hym to saye that GOD is best / seyng that continually he disposeth newe gyftes vnto hys creatures And seyng that by due meanes he leadeth them to theyr ende / he is forced to confesse GODS deuine prouidence / ande so in conclusion by the thinges created / to come to the knowledge of GOD / and of all his perfections / as farre forth as they appeare in his creatures / and that because the creatures be vnyted so to gethers that eche one hangeth on other / and all of GOD / in soche wise that they make a ladder to the vnderstandinge of the naturall / by the whyche they clyme ande ascende euen to GOD. They see that this inferiour worlde / is gouuerned of the heauens / ande that the heauens kepe theyr courses vniformely / by continuall mouing / and therof be constrayned to cōsyder / that the vertue whiche moueth thē / beyng infaticable ande neuer wery / is spirituall / for if it were corporall / it shulde ende or at the least waxe weake Ande so goyng farther / they consyder that that spirituall vertue / not being the supreame / is gouuerned by an other Ande because they can not attayne the infynite euerlastinge / they are forced to come to a fyrst supream● intelligence / the whiche moueth without being moued / and to a fyrst cause independent / ande so they ascend to the knowledge of GOD. Moreouer / by the beaulté of the creatures / they ascēd to the knowledge of the beaulté of God By the ordre / Armonie and consent that appeare in the creatures / they attaine the consyderation of Gods infinite sapience or wisdome Psal ●5 Ande so by the visyble workes of God to the regarde wherof Dauid calleth vs / sayinge Come ande beholde the workes of the lorde they attaine to consyder the inuisyble perfections of God / his euerlasting power ande Diuinité as Paule wryteth ●om ● There is no creature so bace nor so vyle / in whome there shineth not the glory of God / in which thou maist see hys greate power /