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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	know_v	teach_v	2,229	5	5.7463	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18193	The lamentacion of a synner, made by ye most vertuous Ladie, Quene Caterin, bewayling the ignoraunce of her blind life: set furth and put in print at the instaunt desire of the righte gracious ladie Caterin duchesse of Suffolke, [and] the earnest requeste of the right honourable Lord, William Parre, Marquesse of North Hampton	Catharine Parr, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1512-1548.; Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.	1547 (1547)	STC 4827; ESTC S108944	34,896	122

people it bringeth furthe good fruit aboundantly so that the want faute is in men and not in the worde of god I praye god all men women may haue grace to becum meete tillage for the fruites of the gospell and to leaue onelye the iangling of it for only speaking of y e gospel maketh not men good christians but good talkers excepte theyr factes and workes agre with the same so then theyr speache is good because they re hertes be good And euē as much talke of the worde of God without practising the same in our lyuing is euill and detestable in the sight of god so it is a lamentable thing to heare howe there be many in y e worlde that do not wel digest the reading of scripture doo commende and prayse Ignoraunce and saye that muche knowlege of gods worde is the original of al discencion scismes and contencion and maketh mē hawte proud and presumptuous by readynge of the same Thys maner of saying is no lesse than a playne blasphemie agaynst the holy gost For the spirite of God is the authour of his worde and so the holy goste is made the authour of euill whiche is almoste great blasphemie as the scripture sayeth a synne that shal not be forgeuen in this worlde neyther in the other to cum It were al our partes and duties to procure and seeke all the wayes and meanes possible to haue more knowledge of goddes wordes set furthe abrode in the worlde and not allowe Ignoraunce and discommende knowledge of gods woorde stopping the mouthes of the vnlearned with suttle and crafty perswasions of Philosophie and Sophistrie wherof cōmeth no ●ruite but a greate perturbacion of the mynde to the simple ignoraunt not knowing whiche way to turne theym For howe is it not extreame wickednes to charge the holy sanctified woord of God with thoffences of man To allege the scriptures to be perillous learnyng because certayne readers therof fall into heresies These menne might be forced by thys kynde of argumente to forsake thuse of fyer because fyer burned theyr neighboures house or to absteine from meate or drynke bicause they see many surfeyte O blynde hate they sklaunder God for mans offence and excuse the man whom they see offende blame the scripture whiche they cannot improue Yea I haue heard of sum that haue very well vnderstande the latin tong that when they haue hearde learned men perswade to the credite and beliefe of certeyne vnwritten verities as they call theym whiche be not in scripture expressed and yet taught as doctryne apostolike and necessary to be beleued they haue ben of thys opinion that the learned menne haue mo Epistles written by thappostes of Christ then we haue abrode in the Cannon of tholde and newe Testament or knowen of any but only to them of the Clergie Whiche beliefe I did not a lytle lament in my harte to heare that any creature should haue suche a blinde ignoraunte opiniō Some kinde of simplicitie is to be praysed but this simplicitie without the veritie I can neyther prayse nor allowe And thus it may be seen howe we that be vnlettered remayne confused withoute god of his grace lightē our hartes w t a heauenly light and knowledge of hys wil for we be geuen of our selues to beleue men better then god I pray god sende all lerned menne the spirite of god aboundantly that theyr doctryne may bryng furthe the fruites therof I suppose there was neuer more nede of good doctryne to be setfurth in the worlde than nowe in thys age for the carnall children of Adam be so wise in theyr generacion that if it wer possible they woulde deceyue the children of light The worlde loueth hys owne and therfore theyr factes doynges be highly estemed of the world but the children of god ar hated because they be not of the worlde for they re habitacion is in heauen and they do dispise the worlde as a most vile slaue The fleshly children of Adam bee so politicke subtil craftie and wise in they re kynde that the electe should be illuded if it were possible for they are clothed with Christes garment in vtter apperaunce with a fayer shewe of all godlines and holines in they re wordes but they haue so shorne nopped turned Christes garmente haue so disguysed theym selues that the children of light beholdyng theym with a spirituall eye accounte and toke theym for men whiche haue solde they re masters garment haue stolne a pece of euery mans garmēt yet by theyr subtill arte and craftie wittes t●ey haue so sette those patches and pieces together that they do make the blind worlde carnal mē to beleue it is Christes very mantle but the children of light knowe the cōtrary for they are led by the spirite of god to the knowledge of the truthe therefore they di●cerne and iudge all thinges right and knowe from whence they cū euen fro the bishop of Rome his membres the head spring of al pride vain●glorie ambicion hipocrisie and fayned holynes The children of god be not abashed although the worlde hate theym they beleue they are in the grace and fauour of God and that he as abest father doeth gouerne theym in all thynges putting away frō theym al vayne cōfidence trust in theyr owne doinges for they knowe they can doe nothing but sinne of theym selues they be not so folish childish not to geue God thankes for theyr eleccion which was before y e beginning of the worlde for they beleue moste surely they be of y e chosen for the holy gooste doeth witnes to their spirite that they be the childrē of god and therfore they beleue god better than man They say with saynt Paule who shall seperate vs from the loue of god shal tribulacion anguish persecucion hunger nakednes peryll or swearde as it is written for thy sake are wee kylled all day long are counted as shepe appoynted to be slayne Neuertheles in al these thinges we ouercum thorowe hym that loueth vs for I am sure y t neyther death neyther life neyther aungelles nor rule neyther power neyther thinges present neyther thinges to cum neither quantitie or qualitie neyther any creature shal be able to departe vs from the loue of god whiche is in Christ Iesu our lord They are not by this godly fayth presumptuously enflamed nor by the same becum they leuse idell or slowe in doinge of godly workes as carnall men dreame of them so much the more feruent they be in doing moste holy and pure workes whiche god hath commaunded theym to walke in They wandre not in mennes tradicions and inuencions leauing the moste holye and pure preceptes of god vndone whiche they knowe they be bounde to obserue kepe Also they worke not like hierlinges for meede wagies or rewarde but

worshipped in spirit and truthe Christ condemned all Hipocrisie and feyned holynes and taught sincere pure and true godlynes But we worse thē frantike or blind will not folowe Christes doctrine but trust to mennes doctrines iudgementes and sayinges which dimineth our eyes and so the blinde leadeth the blinde and both fal into the dyche Trulye in my simple and vnlearned iudgement no mannes doctrine is to be estemed or preferred lyke vnto Christes and the Apostles nor to be taught as a perfect and true doctrine but euen as it doth accorde and agree with the doctrine of the gospell But yet those that he called spiritual pastours although they be moste carnall as it doth very euidently plainlye appere by their fruites are so blynded with the loue of them selues and the worlde that they extoll mennes inuencions and doctrines before the doctrine of the gospel And whē they be not able to maynteyne their owne inuencions and doctrine with any iote of the scripture then they most cruellye persecute them that be contrary to y e same Be suche y e louers of Christ naye nay they be the louers of the wicked Mammō neither regardyng God nor his honor For fylthy lucre hath made them almoste mad but frantyke they be doubteles Is not this miserable state of spirituall men in the world muche to be lamēted of al good christiās But yet I cānot allow neyther prayse al kynd of lamētacion but suche as maye stande w t Christiā charitie Charitie suffereth long and is gentle enuyeth not vpbraydeth no man casteth frowardely no faultes in mēnes teath but referreth al thinges to god beyng angry without sinne reformyng others withoute their sclaunders carrieng euer a storehouse of mylde woordes to perce the stony herted menne I would all christians that like as they haue professed Christ would so endeuoure themselues to folowe him in godly lyuing For we haue not put on Christ to liue anye more to oure selues in the vanities delites and pleasures of the worlde and the flesshe suffrynge the concupiscence and carnalitie of the flesshe to haue his full swinge For we muste walke after the spirite and not after the fleshe for the spirite is spirituall and coueteth spirituall thinges and the flesshe carnall and desireth carnall thinges the menne regenerate by Christe disspise the worlde and all the vanities and pleasures therof They be no louers of themselues for they fele howe euill and infirme they be not beyng able to do any good thyng without the helpe of God from whome they knowlege all goodnes to procede They flatter not themselues with thinkyng euery thing whiche shyneth to the worlde to be good and holye for they knowe all externe outward workes be they neuer so glorious fayre to y e world may be doen of the euill aswell as of the good and therfore they haue in very litle estimacion the outewarde shewe of holynes because they be all spirituall castyng vp their eyes vpon heauēly thinges neyther lokyng nor regardynge the earthly thinges for they be to them vyle and abiect They haue also the simplicitie of the doue the policie of the Serpent for by simplicitie they haue a desire to do good to all men and to hurte no man no though they haue occasion geuen And by policie they gyue not nor minister anye iuste cause to anye man whereby their doctrine might be reproued They be not also as a reede shaken with euery wynde when they be blasted with the tempestes stormes of the world thē remaine they most firme stable and quiet feling in spirit that god as their best father doeth sende and suffer all thynges for theyr benefitte and commoditie Christe is to thē a rule a line an example of Christien life They be neuer offended at anye thyng althoughe occasion be ministred vnto them for like as Christ when Peter would haue withdrawē hym from death aunswered and sayde goe backe from me Sathan for thou offendest me that is asmuche as lieth in the thou gyuest me occasion with thy woordes to make me withdrawe my selfe from death althoughe I yelded not therto for this thy procuremente canne not extinguisshe the brennynge desier I haue to shead my blood for my chosen Euen so the perfect men are neuer offended at anye thyng For although the worlde were full of sinne they would not withdrawe themselues from doing of good nor waxe colde in the loue of the lorde And muche lesse they would be moued to be euyll yea rather they be so muche the more moued to do good The regenerated by Christ are neuer offended at the workes of god because they knowe by faythe that God doeth all thinges well And that he can not erre neyther for want of power nor by ygnoraūce nor malice for they knowe hym to be almightie and that he seeth all thynges and is moste habundauntlye good they see and feele in spirite that of that wyll moste highl●e perfect can not but proceade moste perfecte workes Likewise they be not offended at the workes of men for if they be good they are moued by them to take occasion to folowe them and to reknowledge the goodnes of god with geuing of thankes and praising his name dayly y e more but yf they be indifferent suche as maye be done with good and euill ententes they iudge the best parte thinking they may be doen to a good purpose and so they be edified but yf they be so euil that they canne not be taken in good parte by anye meanes yet they be not offended althoughe occasion be geuen nay rather they be edyfied in asmuche as they take occasion to be better althoughe the contrary be ministred vnto them Then begynne they to thinke and saye thus yf god had not preserued me with his grace I shoulde haue committed this sinne and worse O howe muche am I boūd to cōfesse and knowlege the goodnes of god They go also thinking and saying further He that hath synned maye be one of gods electe peraduenture the lord hath suffered him to fall to the entente he maye the better know himselfe I knowe he is one of them that Christ hath shead his bloude for and one of my christen brethren Truely I wyll admonyshe and rebuke hym and in case I fynde him desperate I wyll comforte hym and shewe hym the greate goodnes and mercye of God in Christ and with godly consolacions I will see yf I can lifte him vp And thus ye maye see howe y e men regenerated by Christe of euery thynge winne and receyue fruite And contrarye the younglinges and vnperfect are offended at small tryfles takyng euery thing in euyll parte grudging and murmuryng agaynste their neyghboure so muche the more as they shew them selues feruent in their so doyng they are iudged of the blynde worlde and of them selues