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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	catholic_a	church_n	faith_n	4,551	5	5.8936	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00249	A consolatory letter to all the afflicted Catholikes in England	H. B., fl. 1588.	1588 (1588)	STC 1032; ESTC S116626	41,844	112

of Saint Paule the famous doctor saint Augustine inferreth that we ar forbidden to vse or to doe that wher-by we maye be thought to doe any thinge in the honour of strauÌ„ge gods receiuing it in such sort that although in harte we despise such things yet we edifie or induce those that know not our harts in deed to honour the same In lke maÌ„ner to compare the case of goinge to church in these our dayes vnto meates offered to Idols If men shall see you in churches in time of sacriligious seruice should not their consciences be edified eyther to thinke yt the seruice of God or at the lest with out feare to frequeÌ„t the same and so in tract of time to like and allow of heresy and so sinning agaynst your brethren stryking their weake consciences you shall sinne agaynst Christ Therfore sayeth the Apostle if meate scandalize my brother I will neuer eate flesh Of the same mynd was that notable Eleazaurus who chose rather to dye then to make so much as a shew of eating meates forbidden by the lawe saying that he would first be sent vnto hell for sayeth he it is not seemly for our age to fayne that many young men thinking Eleazaurus now of ninty yeares age to haue passed to the lyfe of the gentills may also them selues thorough my dissimulation and for a litle time of this corruptible lyfe be deceyued therby I may procure a blemish malediction to myne olde age for although I be deliuered at this preseÌ„t time from the tormeÌ„ts of men yet shall I not escape the hand of the almighty neyther aliue nor dead And shoulde not men haue greate cause to thinke that you were passed to the lyfe conuersation of heretikes seeing you to differ nothing from them in principall signes tokens of religion should you not cause many to saye ther is no differeÌ„ce men conteÌ„ding among them selues haue made these controuersies god is to be honoured euery wher yf the very silence of a man in matter of fayth by Saint Augustins Iudgement should cause many to thinke all religioÌ„ indifferent And therfore thryse well aduised ar you in refusing to doe such an acte wherby your catholike brethreÌ„ might be offeÌ„ded scandalized or weakened MOreouer you refuse by conforming your selues as men terme it to the proceedings of a nother religion to denye that fayth which you vndoubtedly knowe to be most true sincere vniuersall auncient as that wherin you haue byn borne and baptised wherin al your worthy auncetors haue liued and dyed which alwayes onlye hath floryshed in this Realme of Englande till within these late yeares yeelding in euerye age most plentiful fruite of deuotion towards God of obedience towardes Princes and other superiors of mercy towards the poore of charity of trueth fidelity and plaine dealing of all sortes of men towards their neighbours And that you shold so denye your faith by going to church with the protestantes yet is it moste playn by the nature of the thing it selfe being an acte properlye belonging to Religion by the intente of the lawe being made to no other ende but to exacte of you some signe of yeelding in matters of conscience by your longe refusal and suffering for the same cause heretofore by the iudgment of the aduersaries holding them-selues satisfied if you relent but in this one poynte of or externall behauior and finally by the confession of all men of any meane vnderstanding if they wil vtter plainly what they thinke if it were thought heretofore in times of persecutioÌ„ that the onlye wearing of a garland in certayne feastes of Idoles were to be holden as a signe that a man had denyed his fayth In so muche that Tertulian saythe although a Christian man hold his peace whiles others doe sacrifice to false goddes yet by wearing that garlande vppon his head he maketh aunswere in fauour of Idolatrye whereas this was a thing by nature indifferent being onlye made a signe of religion by vse and opinion of men what shall wee iudge then of ioyning with protestants in their publike prayers and seruice which is peculier to them as the blessed Sacrifice of the Masse is common to all Catholikes And therfore as wee are knowen by the one so they are knowen and discerned by the other If it were not permitted hereto fore that Christians shold in anye sorte conforme them-selues to the Gentils not euen so-much as to hang a lantern or a branche of Laurell at their dores when greate feastes were celybrated in honour of Idoles How can it be lawfull to keepe feastes with hereticks and to enter into their churches when they are busied in suche actes whereby they are distinguished not onlye from Catholiques but also one secte and sorte of them from a nother If it were thought a great offence to be present at the publike spectackles playes because the beginning and fynall ende of them was the honour of Idoles Is it possible that a catholike maÌ„ shold safly exhibit his presence at such kinde of seruice as had beginning by deuisioÌ„ from the Church and was inueÌ„ted for the setting forth of heresie Let vs here what Tertulian saith of the aforesayde plaies in a peculier treatis of that argument he requireth herein the iudgmeÌ„t of the very Gentils whether Christians might be there present or no. For saith he They most of all vnderstaÌ„d a man to be made a Christian by the refusing of such spectakles Therfore he denieth manifestlye who taketh away the thing wherby he is knowen In like maner may we saye at this present the protestants especially vnderstande that one is become a Catholike by the refusing of their churches Therfore he denyeth himselfe to be a Catholike whosoeuer fayleth in this poynt pf his profession Nether let anye man thinke to escape this dauÌ„ger of deniall by subtile euations For as S. Ciprian saieth whosoeuer seeketh deceytfull sleightes to excuse him-selfe hath denied and he that will seeme to haue satisfied the Edicts or lawes proposed a gainst the Gospel hath obeyed euen in this that he wolde seeme to haue obeyed Now who-soeuer shall thus by his outwarde acte denye himselfe to be a Catholike shall therby denyethe whole Catholike religion euen as he that denyeth him-selfe to be a Christian denyeth Christe And consequently a Christian and Catholique being all one to goe to Churche with heretickes is plainely to denye Christ As contrarie-wise to refuse their conuenticles is a cleere coÌ„fession of Christ And this is a most important reason of your refusall where-vpon I haue stayed the longer because it concerneth you as muche as to be acknowleged or denyed before God the Father and all his Angels when Christe shall come in his maiestie to iudge the worlde HEreof it foloweth also that you refuse by damnable schisme to seuer your selues from the Church your mother where-by you shoulde cease to haue God to your father

to sitt in the chayer of pestelence teaching the doctrine of Balaam to geue scaÌ„dal Ouer many such haue bene in our dayes and I praye God there be not yet some remayning But let them take heede for Christ wil come quicklye wil fight against them with the sworde of his mouthe that is to saye with the trueth of his worde The a foresayde verse TertuliaÌ„ thinketh sufficieÌ„t to forbid al resort to al vnlawful assemblies whether they be gathered with entent of Idolatrye of iniquitye or for vanities sake as wanton playes and dishonest spectacles although they be not expreslye forbidden in scripture And therfore vndoubtedly it may wel be applied vnto the coÌ„uenticles of heretiks wherin so many vngodly folke concurt together in the verye acte of dishonouring God by impugning his true religion of contempt of the churche by vsurpatioÌ„ of their new deuised seruice of derision of Christs Sacraments by profane rites of their owne friuolous inuention Yet furthermore the same royal Prophet in an other psalme declaring his owne innocency sayth I haue not sitten that is to say I haue not stayed any while with the councel of vanitye and with them that doe wickedlye I wil not goe in by once seeming to alowe that which they doe I haue hated the church of the malignant and with the vngodly I wil not sitt I wil wash my handes among innocents and I wil coÌ„passe thine altar round a bout by cleauing fast to Christe and his Catholike Church And within a few wordes I haue loued the coÌ„elynes of thy house and the dwelling place of thy glory As a Catholike might saye the cause wherfore I refrayne in this sort from wicked company of heretiks in their churches is the loue and zeale whiche I beare to the beauty of Gods Church the merueylous disposition of her seruice the reuerend maiesty of her Sacraments decent order of her Ceremonies wher of I find no resemblance in the newe deformed congregation In an other Psalme he saythe after he hath spoken of vngodly men I wil not coÌ„municat with their elect or chosen men Which S. Augustine in his time applyed to the cheefe masters of the Manachies who were called Electi And we may applye it wel ro all those of Caluins crew who most vndoubtedly presume that they are elected by God and predestinat to euerlasting saluation Contrariwise in an other Psalme an euil man is reprehended by God with these wordes Thou didest see a theefe and didest runne with him and with aduouterers thou didest lay thy portion Heretikes are the theeues by stealing and abusing the Scripture They are also aduouterers by corrupting the sincerity of simple mens faith with false doctrine And whereof did proceede such boldnes to ioyne and take parte with iniquity Thou hast thought wickedly that I wil be like vnto thee as commonly men wil saye God is mercyful as gentle to beare with schisme as thou to fauour heresye I wil reproue thee and saye it to thy face by charging thee with it at the dreadful day of iudgment But these places may seme a like for the auoyding of al euil companye Now more particularly for the shunning of such as wilfully diuide theÌ„ selues from Gods church we reade in the Gospel of S. Iohn that the Iewes did not communicate with the Samarytans who were schismatikes in respect of the olde law and therfore were most abhorred by the faithful folke of Gods people And although they did also abstayne from hauing conuersation with other Infidels Wher-vppon our Sauiour geueth vs a rule to shunn an heretike or anye one that disobayeth the Churche euen as the Iewes did deteste the Heathen and the Publicane And the like coÌ„mandement hath ben geuen continualye by the blessed Apostles in their writings First by S. Paule I desire you brethern sayth he to marke them that make dissentions scandals contrary to doctrine which you haue learned and auoyd theÌ„ The reasone he yeldeth within a few words for that this coÌ„pany is perilous Because by sweete speeches benedictioÌ„s they seduce the hartes of innocents By often naming of the Lord and his woorde by frequeÌ„t cyting of Scripture by reading the Gospel the Psalmes other partes of the olde and new Testament they steale to them by title and litle the mindes of ignorant people And to the Corinthians he vrgeth the matter more vehemenlye after that he hathe geuen commandement not to beare the yoke with Insidels that is to say not to communicate with them in anye sorte in their woorkes of infidelitye shewing by diuers poynts of disagreement that there could be no felowshipe or conueniencie betwene them First in respect of the diuers disposition of their wils what participation hath Iustice with iniquitye Iustice requireth that a man exhibet his seruice to God in the Catholike Church it is great iniquitie to withdraw him-selfe and others from the same seruice as heritikes do by raysing perticuler factions Then because of their different doctrine What societie is there betwene light darknes So you haue bene brought vpp in the lignt of Gods trueth and the protestantes wander in darknes of sunderye foule and absurde errors Thirdlye because of the diuers Authors and founders of their congregations what agreemeÌ„t betwene Christ Belial Now Christ hath builded his Church vppon the succession of S. Peeter and Belial the spirite of disobedience is the verye beginner of all heretical and schismattical conuentickles Fourthlye because their whole state differeth what parte hath the faithful with the heretikes or Infidels yea and the worse sorte of Infidels because of their departure from the faythe once receyued by reasone wherof their error is lesse excuseable their malice commonly greater their company more perilous for infection and lesse hope of their recouerye then of such as neuer knew Christs religion Lastly for the diuersitie of their external seruice What agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols for you ar the Temple of the liuing God sayth the Apostle which he proueth by that saying in the lawe that God wil dwel and walke in them and wil be their God they shal be his people So the whole Catholike church is the TeÌ„ple of God but the doctrine of heretikes their coÌ„munion al their other external rites of religion are spiritual Idoles of their owne inuention and haue succeded in place of grosse and carnal Idolatry and therfore no lesse to be shunned and detested For which cause sayth the Apostle aledging the Prophet Isay and Ieremye Goe out of the midst of them by geuing no credit to their false teaching and seaperat your selues by auoyding of occasions of contagion and touche not the vncleane by seeming in anye sorte to consent vnto their wickednes and I will receyue you and I will be a father to you and you shalbe my sonnes and daughters sayth our Lorde omnipotent Likewise to the Thessalonians he denounceth in the name of our

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