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
A03621	A declaration of Christe and of his offyce compylyd, by Johan Hoper, anno 1547	Hooper, John, d. 1555.	1547 (1547)	STC 13745; ESTC S104201	55,274	188

master ouer mennes consciens if godly Moses and his brother Aron neuer acclemyd this title in therthe doutles it is affoule and detestable arrogancy that this ungodly bishopes of Rome attribut unto them selfes to be the hedes of Christis church the more to be lamentyd he that considerith there liefe and confer it with the scripture will iudg by the authorite therof that they were not for this many yers worthy to be accoÌ„ptyd ony membre of godis church But the membres of the deuyll and the ffirst begoten of Antichrist Thus is trew these of Rome is not only Ã tyranny and pestilence of body ad saule But the nest of all abhomination god yeue him grace ad all his successors to leaue there abhominacioÌ„ and to coÌ„ un to the light of gods worde This best is prechyd unto the people to be Aman that cannot er his auctorite to be Ã bone God and his lawes and to be the Prince upoÌ„ the erth of all Princes but God will iudge him as he is Ã Murtherer of booth body and Saule and ponishe the Princes of the worold that upp hold his abhominacion Moses and Aron by the testimony of the scriptur neuer tawght but that they receauid of God and at the last booth they offendyd Nume 20. in so mouch that God gaue sentens agaynst them that none of them booth shuld enter into the land of promes for there Arrogan cij and pride the text sayth because ye were unfaythfull unto me this falce belyue was of no dout they had in the pore of God for the miracle was don as God sayd But that they attributyd to mouch unto there awne poure and sayd Audite rebelles Num de petra ista nos educemus uobis aquas For the changyng of the therde person in this sentens in to the fyrst The Ire of God pronouncid sentence of death agaynst these too uery godly ministres of his word The sinnyd because they sayd not hyr ye rebellyaÌ„s cannot Ieho ua the omnipotent yeue ye water of this stone And is this fyrst uegoten of Antichrist the hishope of Rome with out syn that Chaungith not only the person in Ã¢ sentence but the hole sentence ye the hole law of God and of man so that he reygnith in the coÌ„scieÌ„s Ã boue the law of God and will saw hym that God hath damnyd and dam ne hym tat god hath sauid yet person and man of sinne can not erre But he that sparyd not to kyl godd Moses and Aron for thabuse of the word of god will not ffauore this wyckid man nor none of his holi doctors at the terrible day of iudgment NauuÌ„ the prophet dooth yeue god Ã¢ wounderfull name which the Latin nor the Grek cannot proporly expresse without circumloquution noter huleobau quafi iniuriarum memoriam retinens ulciscendi occationem expectans He is the god that writh all these blasphemies in his bok of remembraunce and when he hatth shewyd his mercy sufficiently He reuengyth the yle that man thinkith is for goten It is of his superaboundaunt mercy that he throwithe not sodeÌ„ly fire upon the worold for synne and not that he is Ã slepe or cannot do it right well iud gid Valerius maximus better theÌ„ now the most part of Christiane men lento quidem graduad uindictam sui proce dit diuina ira Sed grauitate supplicij tarditatem compensabit Because god hath yeuen this light unto my countre men which be all persuadyd or else God send them to be persuadyd that the bishope of Rome nor none other is Christes uicar upon therth it is none de to use ony long or copious oracion it is so playne that it nedith no probacion the ueri proprietes of Antechrist I meane of Christ great and principall ennimie is so openly knoweÌ„ to all men that ar not blyndyd with the smoke of Rome that they know hym to be the best that Iohan descrybyth in the Pocalipse as well as the logitioÌ„ knowith that risibilitate distinguitur homo Ã¢ caeteris animantibus This knoleig of Christes supremite and continuall presence in the churche admyttyth no leaue tenent nor generall uicar likewice it admittithe not the decrees and lawes of men browght into the churche contrary unto the word and scripture of God which is only sufficieÌ„t to teach all uerite and trueth for the saluacion of man as it shall apere in this Capiter folowyng Caput IIII. CHrist the onli light of the worold sent from his father and born mortall mann according unto the scripture began to theache the word of God purelli and sincerly unto the worold and chose ministres and Apostelles conuenient for thexpedicion therof and approuyd to be the uery Messias by God the father Mat. 3. 17. Ioan. 5. tawght his disciples the truith by the only law Wroten by Moses and the prophetes and not by unwrytyne uerites And in all contrauersis and dout full questions he ausweryd his contrarijs by the word of god in that wonderfull temptation of the deuill Matt. 4. by collation of the places of scripture he killyd the deuill with his awne swerde falsly and in a wrong sentence aleging the word of god by the word of god godly applyed When his disciples were reprehendid by the Pharises as breakers of the sabboth Matt. 12. He excusyd there fact by the law Non legistis quid fecerit Dauid qui cuÌ„ eo erant so lik wyce Matt. 15. 19. in all contrauersys he made the law iudge betwen his Ennymis and him When he was desyrid to teach ayong man the way to heaueÌ„ and to cuÌ„ to euÌ„ lasting lief he sayd in lege quid scriptum est quomo do legis Matt. 22. lik wice the Saduces that denied the resurrexion of the ded Erratis inquit nescientes scripturas uerbum dei The Rych man in hell that was so desirous that his brothers lyuing in therthe might haue knolege and warning to beware thei were not damnyd in tyme to cum would gladly haue warnid them hymselfe for Ã more suretye Luc. 16. that the messayge shuld be done Abraam Answeryd habent Mosen prophetas audientillos the scripture teachith what heauen hell and what man is and what Christ is therfore Christ send dith us theter Io. 5. scrutamini inquit scripturas Agayne being requirid in Ã ciuile mater concerning tribute and obedience unto the princes of the worold Matt. 22. he sayd Reddite quae sunt Caesaris Caesari quae sunt dei deo Yeue unto themperour that that is deu unto themperour and unto god that that is deu unto god And under the Nam of themperour he undrestondith all superior poures apoyntid ouer the peple by god And would to yeue dew honor unto them booth as Paule teachite Rom. 13. 1. Pet. 2. this law teachith man sufficiently as well what he is bouÌ„d to do unto god as unto the princes of the worold nothing can be desyrid necessari for man but

in this law it is prescribid Of wbat degre uocation or calling so euer he be his dewty is shewid unto hym in the scripture And in this it differith from mannes lawes because it is absolute perfeit and neuer to be Chaungid Nothing addid unto it nor taken from it And the churche of Christ the more it was and is burdenyd withe mannis lawes the farther it is from the trew and syncere uerite of godes word The more man presumith and takith authorite to interpretat the scripture after his awne brayne and subtill wytt and not as the uerite of text requirith the more he dishonorith the scripture and blasphemith god thauctor therof It is the office of Ã¢ good man to teach the churche as Christ tawght to reuoke all Errours and souch as Er unto the fold of Christe only by the word of Christ For the water at the foyntaynce hed is more halsom and pure then when it is caryd abrode in roten pypes or styn king diches I had rather folow the shadow of Christ then the body of all generall conselles or doctors sith the death of Christe The deuille neuer slept but allways by his ministres attemptyd to destroy the uerite of Christes relligion and cleane to put out the ligth of truithe Which was perfet in Christes tyme and in the tyme of the Apostelles Nonne sith that tyme so pure Saynct hieromein uita malchi sayth that his tyme was darkenys in the respect of the Apostelles tyme. The antiquite of the worold doth darken the uerite of godes word As Varro sayth truith uetustatem multa deprauare Multa etiam tollere Et tercium seculum inquit non uidet eum hominem quem uidit primum The truith of godes uerite the more it is usidd practysid and taught aster the wisdom of man the more is the glory and perfection therof darkenyd it is the contrary in all Humane artes as Cicero sayth in humanis nihil simul inuentum perfectum fuit usuque exercitatione factum sit Vt hoc praestantiores artes quaedam fuerint quo longius ab origine sua inuentoribus essent deducte The churche of god must therfore be bound to none other authorite theÌ„ unto the uoyce of the gospel and unto the ministery therof as Esa sayth cap. 8. Obsigna legem in discipulis meis the Prophete spekith of souch darkenis as shuld folow his tyme conserning the comming of Messias the trew Doctor of the churche therfore prayd to preserue the trew heres of the Prophetes and that it would pleac hym to confirm the doctrine of truth in there hartes lest the word and trew undrestonding of the word by the deuille shuld be put out and seing the church is bound unto this infallible truith the only word of God it is Ã¢ false and usurpyd authorite that men attribute unto the clerge and bynd the word of God and Christis church to the successioÌ„ of byshoppes or ony coleige of Cardinalles Scoles minystres or Cathedrall churches Paule would noman to yeue fayth to ony person or minystre in the church of God but when he preachith the word of God trewli Gal. 1. Men may haue the gyfft of God to undrestond and interpretat the scripture unto other But neuer authorite to interpretat it other wyse then it interpretatithe it selfe whiche the godly mynd of maÌ„ by study meditacion and conferryng of one place therof withe the other may fynd how be it some more some lesse as God yeuith his grace For the ponyshement of our synnes God leuithe in all men Ã great imperfection and souche as were induyd withe excellent wytt and lernyng saw not allwayes the truithe As it is to be seen in Basilius Ambrose Epiphanius Augustyne Bernerd and other thowghe they stayed them selfes in the knolege of Christ and Erryd not in ony Principall article of the faythe yet they did inordinatly and more then Inowghe extolle the doctrine and tradicion of men and after the deathe of the Apostellis euery doctors tyme was subiect unto souche ceremonye and mannes decrees that was nether profetable ner necessari therefore diligently exortyd Paule the churche of Christ principalto consider and regard the fundacion of all ueryte Menyng that Doctors of the chnrche had there imperfectioÌ„ and faultes Fundamentum inquit non potest poni aliud praeter id quod positum est quod est Iesus Christus In the se few wordes is stablyshe al oure faythe and all false religion reprehendyd upon this foundacion sommen buld gold to say godly and necessari doctrine as Policarpus that confutyd the he resy of marcion de essencia Dei of the causis of sinne that the deuyll and maÌ„ is the cause of sinne and not god nor fatall destiny nor the influens or respectes of the planetes He meynteinid the trew religion of god and gouernyd the church As the scripture tawght whiche he lernyd of Iohan euangelist and defendyd this truith withe wouÌ„derfull coÌ„staÌ„ce and martyrdoÌ„ Basilius and many other reteynid the articles of the faythe but they institutyd the lieffe and rule off monkes and preferryd that kynd of lief before the lief of souche as gouern in the comune wealth the people of god and persuadyd men that souche kynd of lieffe was auery deuyne and acceptable honoryng of god After hym folowyd souche as augmentid this yle and said it was not only acceptable unto God but also that men might deserue therwithe remission of sinne thus alitle and alitle the deuill augmentid supersticion and deminyshyd the trewth of Godes glory so that we se no where the churche of Christ as it was in the Apostelles tyme thowghe mani and godly uerites hathe byn browght unto light in our tyme by men of diuerse graces yet is not the truithe of necessary uerites playnly sheuyd by them lest man shuld to mouche glorye in hymselfe he permyttyd them to ar in certayne poyntes As Luther of ablyssyd memorie which wrote and preachyd the gospell of iustificacion nomaÌ„ better yet in the cause of the sacrameÌ„t he arrithe concerning the corporall precens of Christes naturall body that there is no man can ar more I shall haue occasion to writ the truith concerning this mater herafter it is no reproche of the did man but myne opinion unto all the worold that the scripture soly and the Apostelles churche is to be folowyd and nomans authorite Be he Augustine Tertullian or other Cherubim or Cherabim unto the rules and Canones of the scripture must man trust and reforme his errores therby or else he shall not reform him selfe but rather deform his consciens The churche of the Romaynes Corin thioÌ„s and other the seueÌ„ churches that IoaÌ„ writithe of in the Apocalipses were in all thinges reformyd unto the rule and form prescribyd by the euerlasting God the ymayge of these churches I allwayes prynt in my mynd And wher so euer I com I lok how nere they resemble the afore rehersid and whether there prechers

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