Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	ghost_n	holy_a	word_n	8,284	5	4.1263	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06511	The last wil and last confession of martyn luthers faith co[n]cerming [sic] the [principal articles of religion which are in controuersy, which he wil defend & mai[n]teine vntil his death, agaynst the pope and the gates of hell drawe[n] furth by him at the request of the princes of germany which haue reformed theier [sic] churches after the gospel, to be offred vp at the next general councel in all their names & now published before that all the world may haue an euydent testimony of his faith if it shal fortune him to dye before there be any such cou[n]cel, tra[n]slated out of latyn beware of the pope & of his false prophetes and bissopes for thei wil come in shepys clothing and in angels facys but yet inwardly thei are ravening wolnys [sic].	Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.	1543 (1543)	STC 16984; ESTC S104350	31,138	66

doctrine is the pope with his dyuynes / dūses / lawyres such other / as ignorāt as an asse for this doctryne is reuelyd geuē frō heauen thorow the gospel / and yet it is caled heresy of the wicked pharysys and pope holy hipocrites And again on the cōtrary part there be some brayneles dotrels such as were in the tyme of sedicyon before my dayes / and be to fynd parauenture euē at this day also which iudge and think that all those which haue ones receyued the holy gost / their sinnes / were ones made faith ful / that if thei falle offend afterward / yet thei remayne in faith / and that sinne can not hurt or hinder them And thei blase and crye doo what thou wilt / if thou byleuyst it maketh no matter / for faith wipeth a way all thy sinnes And thei adde this more ouer also / that who so euer falleth or sinneth after he is ones iustifyed / had neuer the holy gost perfightly / nor yet true faith Such doting mer chantes haue I hard many tymes / I feare lesse there be some yet which are styll possessed with this deuel or with such a nother Wherfore it must be taught known that both faith the holy gost are absent from all mēwhā so euer thei fall into any manifest sinne / as Dauyd whan he did fall into adultery / murder / blasphemy of god / besydes that thei haue fele stil their original or birth sinne fight against it dayly also with all their penance For wher so euer the holy gost is / he wil not suffer sinne to exercyse his strength or to preuayle so far that it be cōmitted / but the holy gost refrainet / brydleth forbiddeth him to doo thvt thīg which he wold doo And if he do or commit it / than is he destitute of the holy gost of faith also For S. Iohan saith that who so euer is borne of god cōmitteth no sinne nor cā not sinne / yet notwitstōding it is true that he saith afterward / that if we say we haue no sīne / we lye the truth of god is not ī vs Of the gospel Now wil we come to the gospel which brīgeth councel help against sinne / moo ways thā one for god is vnmesurably liberal ī his grace mercy first thorow the outward word wherby is prea ched promised remissyō of sinnes thorowt the whole world / which is the peculyar proper office of the gospel Secondarly thorow Baptyme Thirdly thorow the supper of the lord Forthly thorow the pour of the keys thorow the brotherly cōmunicacyon comfort of the faithful one to a nother among them selues mathew the xviij Wher so euer ij or .iij. be gathered in my name c. Of baptyme Baptyme is nothing els than the word with the dippyng in to the water after the cōmandmēt of god or / as Paul saith it is a wasshing / to gether with the word / like as S. Austen also affirmeth saith let the word come or be ioyned vnto the element / than is a sacramēt Wherfor we consent not with S. Thomas nor with the blacke fryers which forgetting christes institucyon / do teach hold that god did indue the water with a spiritual or gostly pour vertu / which pour vertu doth wassh a way si_nes euē thorow the water Neither do we agree vnto dūs nor the gray frires / which speake neuer a word of the ministracyon of it nor of faith nor yet teach that the holy gost is geuen thorow the word the sacramētes to gether Of the baptyme of infantys We think that yong infantys ought to be baptised because thei perteine to the redempcyon that is promised to mankynd thorow christ And the church / that is to say the faithful congregacyon / ought to offer them vnto christ Of the sacrament of the body blode of christ We iudge and think that vnder breade wyue in the supper of the lord are geuen the true body blode of christ Item that the whole sacramēt ought to be ministred to the lay peple ● not only one part ther of for we haue no nede of that high lerning wisdom which teacheth that as moch is conteined vnder one kynd as is vnder both / as the sophistical popiss●… pharises and the coūcel of constance do ttach And though it were true / that as moch were conteinet vnder one kynd as the sophistical papistes say / yet the one kynd alone / is not the hole institucyon ordinance geuen commanded us of Christ And specially we condemne excom●…icate and curse / in the name of god / not only them which wil not receiue both kyndes / but them prīcipally which do lordly / vio and tyrannosly forbid / condēne and reproue it as heresy / For as moch as in so ding thei set and bend them selues against christ our lord and god / ye preferre them selues also before aboue him As for the transsubstanciacyon / that is to say / that the bread wyne in the supper shuld lose their natural substance and only that the similytude forme color of bread shuld remayne not very true breade / we passe not vp on the suttel iuglyng imagynacyōs of the pharises For it is very conformable vnto the holy scripture that there shuld be remayne still / very breade as S Paul him self nameth it / saīg / The breade which we breake c. Item / and so let him eate of the breade c. Of the keys of the church The keys are the office pour of the whole church or cōgregacyon geuen of christ to bynd tv lose sinnes not only manifest / open know sinnes / but euen preuy sinnys also / which god only doth knowe for as it is written / who knoweth how moch he sinneth Paul hym self in the 7. to the romanes complaineth that he serueth and obeyth the lawe of sinne after his flessh For it is not in our pour / but in gods only to iudge which be sinnes / how sore greuos all sinnes are and how manysinnes we haue / as it is writtē / Entre not into iudgemēt with thy seruact / for no mā lyuyng shal be rightuos in thi sight Paul the i. to the corynth the iiij chap. saith I know my selfe gilty of nothīg but yet I am not therfor iustifyed or rightuos Of confessyon or absolucyon For as moch as absolucyon / or the pour of the keys institute or ordeyned in the gospel by christ doth bring gret cōfort to weake cōscyēcys agaīst sinne / it ought not to be vtterly banisshed out of the church for .ij. causes specially First for cōfortīg of feble / fera●ul weake cōsciēcys Secōdarly that wild reckles youth might be examyned / exercysed instruct in the doctrine knoulege of christ But as for the nōbring vp of sinnes ought to be