Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	church_n	scripture_n	true_a	11,026	5	5.6788	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00280	An exhortation to the byshops to deale brotherly with theyr brethren		1572 (1572)	STC 10392; ESTC S111888	14,916	22

the wicked be made snares by you to catch the godly lay aside this Lording and shew your selues brethreÌ„ in deede if they haue offended you admonish them brotherly let not the vsurped names and titles of Lorde Lordes grace so puffe you vp as you forget your selues to be pastors preachers the lord called you or the most of you to this office to ioyne as laborers togither with your brethreÌ„ in his vineyarde he neuer called you to these lordly names dignities the office of bishop I finde apointed by scripture the office of Lordbishop I finde no warrant for there but in this I mean not to wade further only I beseche you that as Christ hath allotted you to be fellow ministers togither with them so you wil as companions in the Lord ioyne togither to further one truth sinceritie let these pore men tast of your christiaÌ„ charity towards them as brethren and cease lordly to neglect them Lord it no longer think it no discredit to you or an abasing of your selues to ioyn in equaliti with your brethren but think it great presuÌ„ption in you to clime higher then the lord hath appointed remember it was not in vain said of Christ our sauiour Principes gentiuÌ„ dominantur in eas c inter vos autem non erat sic I seeke not to teach neither take I vpon me so to do yet despise not the admonition of your faithful brother in the Lord who wisheth to you all such godly consideration of your dueties as in no respecte you omit any parte thereof To coÌ„clude in the name of god I beseche you yeld no such frutes of the gospel as where you shuld be careful you shew your selues carelesse of your brethreÌ„ nether post the matter ouer in such sort as you haue done from one to an other but so longe as they keepe them within the limites of the law of god ioyne christianly brotherly with them assist them and cease so to affect lordship liuing as therby you be withdrawne from yelding to a knowne manifest truth The Lord in his rich mercy giue euery of vs grace so to auoid all snares of sathaÌ„ as wholy without let or hinderance we may be dedicated vnto him and yeeld our selues all together obedient vnto his wil so that what he hathe coÌ„maunded we may striue to maintain what he hath forbiddeÌ„ we may indeuor to suppresse Thus praying your fauorable acceptatioÌ„ hereof I coÌ„mit you to the lord Iesus â§ An Exhortation to THE BISHOPS AND THEIR CLERgie to aunsvver a little booke that came forthe the last Parliament and to other Brethren to iudge of it by Gods worde vntill they see it aunsweared and not to be caryed away with any respect of man. COnsidering the vnitie of the body of Christe which are we bicause it is gouerned wyth one heade and one spirite and yet notwythstanding a diuersitie of parts and membres for the bodye is not one member for if they were all one member where were the bodye I haue to directe my talke to a whole bodye yet so that eyther parte hearken to that only which is belonging vnto him not snatching that vnto him whiche is not proper to him and vnto euery member seuerally but in suche sort that they be not deuided or cutte a parte from the whole There are in the Churche of Christe eyes and eares there are also handes and feete to eyther of these I haue a request to make for theyr profite if they heare it to their smart if they reiecte it I speake vnto them in the Lords name and do herein but his message I require vnderstanding eares therfore watchfull eyes I demaund diligent hands and painfull feete It is not vnknowne brethren howe it hath pleased the Lorde of late to bring forthe to the eyes and hands of you all a little scroll conteining as you know matters concerning the true reforming and building of gods church whether it tend in deede to that ende or noe I haue not here to debate but that it pretendeth at this I haue seene some stormyng as in the greif of man is easily to be perceaued and the authors of it as we know also are in the place of theeues murtherers for them I haue noughte els to say but that they are there iustly if falsely and vntruly they haue gone about to spoyle and robbe vs of an vnfayned truthe and murther oure soules wyth a corrupt and poysoned water drawn out of a stinking puddel of the filthy dunghill of mannes braynes For how were that to be suffered in the ciuil lawes of earthly princes that some one of the commen sorte or els other should go about to disanul the order law set out by the Prynce God 's lieuetenauÌ„t in earth in those cases to place his owne deuise muche more in the house of God which is his churche To me it seemeth a thing so vntollerable that all the New gates and olde gates yea and all tibournes in Englande are too little for such rash and presumtious heads that will not geue God leaue to rule but will take the scepter out of his hande Being more ouer and besides that a shamefull horrible thing to make strife and contention betweene the people of God which are commaunded to be one as theyr heade and his father are one It was the laste and newest commaundement that Christe lefte vnto vs that we should loue one a nother euen as he loued vs and thys he tolde vs should be a signe wherby we should be knowen to be his disciples if we loue one an other as he loued vs which is not fleshlye or carnally or for any worldly respecte but in the consent and agreement of his commauÌ„dement in folowing the prescrypt of his worde wherin consisteth the cause of all our loue and cause of al hatred euen of our parents when they swarue from it whych surely cannot be maintained where new and straunge orders in Gods matters are inuented broched and publyshed be who so be may the causers or founders of suche deuises And therefore better it were for them that a mylstone were hanged about theyr neckes they drouned in the myddest of the sea then one of the least of the kingdome of Christe should be offended by theyr deuises But as I sayd I mind not to entreate of that matter my desire is that for Israels sake I meane the children and churche of God that they which are the eyes of the churche are oure ouerseers to watche for our soules for oure bloud must be required at theyr hands wolde take this matter in hand to debate the equitie truth of the cause by the scriptures and worde of God which is the only foode of oure soules and stay for the direction of all oure godly actions that we the sheepe of Christ might knowe false fodder from true corne from chaffe Schisme from Truthe Christ from

cast away that peeuyshe and fonde booke let not a leafe of paper scrabled and blyndly by stealthe Prynted more preuayle wyth you then an order so long mayntayned by auncyent canons and ciuill lawe let not one or two priuate men of no accompt or countenance more persuade wyth you then multytudes of good place and doers in the behalfe of your vertuous Prynce and Countrey Let not the iudgement of yong menne preuaile agaynste the graye heades of olde fathers for so may you quickly fall from a truthe and goe astray when you thyncke you goe strayghte Set before you the example of Rehoboam who if he had folowed the aduyse of hys olde counsellers and not the rashe and greene heades of yong men hys kyngdome had not bene so soone rent from hym But if on the contrary syde the truthe goe on theyr syde if by good and dilygent conference of the scryptures you maye see that they are in the ryght way theÌ„ what other counsell should I gyue you but if Baall be God folowe hym if the Lord be God follow hym better it is to obay God than maÌ„ Better it is to goe strayghte wyth Elias and Christ then to goe a whoryng wyth all the Baalites Scribes and Pharisies a multitude may as easly erre as one it was so then it is so nowe foure hundreth and fiftie Prophets of Baal for one Elias foure huÌ„dred false Prophets agaynste one Micheas the most part of the world nowe Mahometistes and Papistes and surely it was truely sayd of hym who so euer he were Nihil omnino agimus qui nos per multitudinis exempla defendimus We doe nothing at al which defend our selues by example of the multytude Not alwayes the best learned were the wisest in Gods matters example of Nicodemus who vnderstode not what it was to be born agayn Not alwayes the wysest fauor wisedome moste but rather resyst it and striue more for the washyng of hands and pottes then they do for the kyngdome of god Masters of religyon are not alwayes the most zealous in settyng forth a truthe sometymes they can say to the pore lame man Sabbathum est it is the sabboth day non licet tibi tollere grabbatum it is not lawful for thee to take vp thy bedde and if the blynde wyll stand and dispute wyth theÌ„ and say that Christe is not homo peccator a synfull man althoughe to theyr thinkyng Sabbathum non seruat he keepeth not the Sabbothe he shall be excommunicate The vnlearned sometyme are so allowed of God for theyr good and godly endeuors that he maketh them scholemaysters of the learned and great doctor Looke vppon pore Philip howe he instructed Nathanaell Inuenim sillum we haue founde him of whome Moses wrote and the Prophets euen Iesus the sonne of Iosephe that man of Nazareth And lette not the vilenesse of Nazareth anye thyng amase vs such false preiudicies may shutte vp the kyngdome of heauen agaynste vs we can not say that no good can come oute of pore meÌ„nes studyes if we do so we shoulde speake folyshly as they did in those dayes can there any goodnesse come from Nazareth God is not in deede bounde to Nazareth no more is he debarred from doing good by Nazareth he is not bounde to any poore simple man no more is he cut of froÌ„ shewing the vision of Angels vnto shepherds hymself to women but slender messengers to the syghte of the worlde to enforme the worlde and wittie of the byrth and resurrection of Chryst It saythe oftentymes also that the wyse and myghtye men of the world wil say to Christ of agaynst the crying out of his pore disciples chyde theÌ„ But if they do you know what Christ sayd at the tyme he sayth so now to I tell you if these hold theyr peaces the stones shall straight way cry out his disciples may holde theyr peace I say the Bishops maye hold theyr peace and I say because Christ sayde stones these stones may speake There may be a foule glose made vpon a good matter an euyll fauoured cloke put vppon a faire body The truthe may be accused of sedition of trouble of breaking of states if it be so it is no newe thyng if ye bee once assured of an vndouted truthe if it be not foule wythin faire wythout if it be gold syluer and not stubble grounded vpon the true foundation Iesus Christ care you not for that Christ called his truth a sword a fyre and he himselfe long agoe was spyted at for the accused to Non est seruus supra magistrum there is no seruauÌ„t aboue his master if they called the master of the house Belzebub how much more them of his houshold the more the men are cried out vpon for callyng for the practise of Gods word if it shuld destroy al policies in the world although they that say so say nothing for the coÌ„trary is true the practisyng of Gods word walking in hys religion vprightly is the establishing and strengthenyng of kyngdoms the more I say they are cried out vpon the more they ought to goe forwards as wel as the blynde man dyd when whole multytudes bad hym hold hys peace they may not cease I say althoughe whole multytudes cry out agaynst them say hold your peace holde your peace if they will be restored to theyr syght be delyuered froÌ„ blindenesse to cry to cry out a loud Thou sonne of Dauid haue mercy on me These pore men may cry out yea ought to cry out if they see vs in blindnesse O sonne of Dauid haue mercy on them and so they deserue our fauoure frendship rather then prysons Newgate if we be blinde I say if we be for that wil be discussed I trust by the learned And if they hold theyr peace we haue to thynke we are in blyndnesse that they cry wel sonne of Dauid haue mercye vppon vs In dede if theyr boke be true and that I may speake as one of you simple vnlearned I shall thinke it to be true vntil I see it coÌ„futed by the scriptures theÌ„ wil I also as wel as you as well as they cry out in despyte of all the multitude because I haue a greater desyre to be restored to syght theÌ„ feare to dysplease theÌ„ O sonne of Dauid haue mercy vppon vs And if all Ierusalem shuld be displeased because I say blessed is he that commeth in the name of the lord yet wold I alone cry out blessed is he the commeth in the name of the Lord were it as new and as strange as it was then seeme it neuer so great a monster to cal the Samaritanes from worshipping in the mountaine Garazim or the Iewes from the setled place Hierusalem from an olde and auncient custome which hath possessyon many hundreth yeres yet had I rather be with Christe than wyth the woman of Samarie vntil she come to

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