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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	ghost_n	holy_a	son_n	6,613	5	5.5143	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06504	An exposition of Salomons booke called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seene and allowed.; Ecclesiastes odder prediger Salomo. English	Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.	1573 (1573)	STC 16979; ESTC S105591	154,755	384

be taken away and the golden Ewer broken THat is before thine eating and drinking slake which is cōpared to a siluer corde and to a rundlet of golde or whéele or ringe of golde For as a whéele or circle runneth about and commeth to his circle againe So meate and drinke alwaies returne and are in déede lyke to a siluer string because our lyfe hangeth and dependeth on them Before the Pytcher be broken at the well and the wheele at the Cesterne THat is before thy breath and lyfe faile thée Our body is lyke to a pitcher which hath alwayes néede of reparation The whele vpon the cesterne is the stomacke and other members which giue instrument to the body And the dust returne to the earth as it was in the beginning SAlomon hath a respect to the place of Genesis 2. Chapiter as if he should say After death dust returneth to earth as it was before We were all dust therefore when we dye we returne to dust as we were before And the spirit returne to God that gaue it ANd here also he hath respect to an other place of Gene. in the same chapter The Lorde God breathed into the face of man breath of lyfe He appointeth not whether the spirit goeth but saith it returneth to God from whence it came For as we know not whereof God made the spirit euen so we know not whether it goeth Vanitie of vanities sayth the Preacher and all is but vanitie HE concludeth hys booke with the same saying wherewith he begonne it and addeth a cōmendation to his doctrine and an exhortation that we should not be led about with straunge and diuers learninges but abide in that that hath béene taught vs For this is a great misery that when God hath sett vp his worde and good teachers by and by start vp heretikes and wicked teachers which through emulatiō draw the people after thē Thus all the Apostles care was to keepe vs in holsome doctrine But thys peruersenes is the holsome doctrine and worde of God compelled to beare when God rayseth vp his worde in come heretikes and Apes that will counterfet hys word Moses appointed a seruice for god and certeine Ceremonies and forthwith certeine Apes erected Idols Thus in all Artes and Sciences it commeth to passe If there be a good Poet he wanteth not his zoili If there be a good Artificer there will be counterfets to follow hym Thus all Artes haue their imitators that is their destroyers But this of all other is the worst that the multitude foloweth these fooles and preferre them before the true Artificers as Christ sayd of them They shall deceaue many This is it that Salomon in this place complaineth on This Preacher was not onely wyse but also taught the people knowledge he was very diligent sought forth and gathered together many Parables THat is this preacher gaue himselfe altogither to teach the people truely but it succéeded not nor followed He was a very diligent man he sought how to set all thinges in good order he was diligent in teaching He appointed ordered many thinges in excellent wyse but where are they that listen to hym and receaue his learning There foloweth no more fruite but wordes For eyther he hath no hearers or els wicked teachers and peruerters succéede He sought to finde out pleasaunt wordes and vprightly to write the worde of trueth THat is he laboured to profit mē with holesome and worthy wordes or as Paule speaketh it with wordes worthy of all acceptation and he truly wrote the wordes of trueth He did not wrappe or folde them vp in darknes as these imitators doe who by reason they vnderstoode not thinges rightly can not teach rightly For Aristotle sayth it is a tokē that a man hath knowledge that can teach well And Demosthenes being demaunded how a man should teach well aunswered if he spake nothing but that he knew and vnderstoode well For he that hath good vnderstāding is able well to teach And this is a commendation of the author as if he should say he taught very well and plainely in so much that by his booke a man may vnderstand what to thinke what to take in hand what to doe or to leaue vndone The wordes of the wyse are lyke goades and like nayles fastened by the masters of the Assemblies and geuen by one Pastour HEre he exhorteth vs that we be not led about with diuers and straunge doctrines as if he should say you haue a notable master and teacher beware therfore of new teachers For the wordes of this master are goades and nayles that is they are planted and set fast They be fastened Such are the words of Dauid and of the Prophets The words of the inconstant wauering mē be as skūme vpon the water And of this place I coniecture there were certeine bookes and histories and to digeste them into certeine annalles and Chronicles of the Hebrewes and to compacte all other bookes in order thereby to purchase authoritie vnto the bookes and to ratifie and allow those that were worthy to be read So there are many authors that haue written Bibles But of them all those onely are receaued and allowed which at this day we call the Bible This it is therfore that he would say Take héede my sonne that thou stick fast to those bookes that are receaued as for other set them at naught because these wyse men haue set them at naught For it commeth to passe that when one good booke is set forth ten other euil be set forth again as may be séen in our dayes But the words of the wyse are firme true which a man may take holde on For they are nailes fastened they haue their authoritie of the men of the congregation Other bookes are not lyke them But are geuen by one Pastour THat is to say one kyng being Pastour hath appointed wisemen to peruse and allow bookes These men in this booke haue acknowledged the holy ghost and allowed it to be had of the people Thus were the Gospelles receaued and allowed of the Fathers that is the Fathers acknowledged the holy Ghost to be in them Now we must not hereof inferre therefore the Church or Fathers are aboue the Gospelles As it followeth not I know God to be the true and lyuing God and his worde Ergo I am aboue God and his worde As he is not aboue the Prince that acknowledgeth the Prince nor aboue his father that acknowledgeth his father euen so in this These men teach not this Pastour but receaue of our Pastour So I make a difference among bookes and say this Epistle is Apostolike and this is not Now this is nothing els but to beare witnes vnto the trueth Now followeth the exhortation ¶ Of other bookes beside these my sonne take thou heede THat is followe those bookes which are allowed of them that haue the holy ghoste and haue acknowledged them to be geuen