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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	good_a	holy_a	spirit_n	3,941	5	4.8416	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22675	Certein places gathered out of .S. Austens boke intituled de essentia diuinitatis verye necessary to vnderstand certein darke places of the byble and especiallye the Prophetes gachered [sic] by Herman Bodius a faithfull preacher. and now lately turned into Inglysh.; Unio dissidentium. Selections. English.	Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, attributed name.; Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20, attributed name.; Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397,; Bodius, Herman.; Bucer, Martin, 1491-1551.	1548 (1548)	STC 919; ESTC S100309	8,015	32

Certein PlaCEs GATHERED OVT OF S. Austens Boke intituled de essentia diuinitatis verye necessary to vnderstand certein darke places of the byble and especiallye the Prophetes gathered by Herman Bodius a faithfull preacher ▪ and now lately turned into Inglysh Imprynted At London at the signe of the Hyll at the west dore of Paules By Wyllyam Hill And there to be sold Cum Gratia et Priuilegio ad Imprimendum solum THE PREFACE to THE Reader YT is well sayed of the philosophers gētle reader a good thinge is not to be prysed after the greatnesse thereof but after the goodnesse The which sayeng well waighed doth moch speake against the peruerseiud gements of manymen now adays which esteme al thinges by the greatnesse and especially bookes set-fourth cōcerning religion which be daily set fourthe more and more to the glorie of God who be thanked therfore and to the profight of the weake breathren Thei thīke in these litle bookes is smal goodnesse Me thinke suche men as write so briefly do beest of all for onely thei put in that which is necessary leauing out other trifles and those bookes I compayre to preciouse stones who in quantyt● beyng small yet in vertue be greate neyther is the greatest stone of most valew as we trie stones so wold I haue vs tri bokes not iudgynge thē eyther by greatenesse or lytlenesse but by the goodnesse vsinge the rule that Sainte Ihon giueth try the spretes wether they be of God and Paule assaye all thinges kepe that y ● is good which ye must do by the worde of god as S. Paul teacheth i Timo .iiii all scripture is profitable to teach and reproue this rule if ye vse I doubt not but thou wilt like good gentle reader this booke of S. Austens by me feithfully translated Of whose praise I nede not to speke This onely wold I warne the of briefli that thou read it or thou iudge it This done I cōmyte the to God whose holye spirite leade the in to all truthe FINIS THE EXPOSYTION of darke Places gathered out of S Austen ALmighty God the father y e sonne and holy gooste are three one One in substaunce three in parsones Who onely is vnuisible can not be sene onely immense incomprehensible only vncircumscribed onely vnchaungeable with out bodi and euerlasting Euery where present but hidden euery where whole but yet with out measure Inuisible because in his substaunce he can not be sene as y e Apostle writeth .i. Timo .vi. whom no man hathe sene and in the gospell Iohn .i. no man dyd see god at any time Without body because he hath no bodely shape in him ne is compacte of any membres as Iohn .iiii. god is a sprete they that adore hym muste worshype hym in sprete Immensus or with out measure For his quantite biggnes greatnesse longnes or other his quantityes or qualitees can not be me asured of any creature Vncircumscript or discryueable For as moche he cannot be dyscryued by any meanes In no place because he stireth not from one place to another Vnchangeable because he cānot be changed from that he is as he witnesseth by the prophet malachie I am the Lorde and am not chaunged The same God is called vnchaungeable because nether wrath rage repentaunce forgetfulnes and calling to remembraunce and other lyke affectyons can chaunge by any meanes in his substaunce He is called immortaul or euerlasting in that he cannot die and wheresoeuer in the sacred bible y e holy scripture doth ascribe affections or motions of the minde or any partes of mans bodye vnto God as heade heare eyes other lyke these and such other are not to be vnderstanded if ye wyl vnderstande them truly not after y e letter as the story lieth after wich sorte the Iewys aud heritiques onely wyse in yearthly thinges take it Imagening God to haue abody and to be conteined in a place But all those muste be taken spretuallye and so graunted to be in him And yf anye man suppose that God hathe means membres and is ledde wythe the affectyones of the mynde as 〈◊〉 be wythe oute dowbte that men maketh hym Selfe an Idole or a false GOD in hys owne herte Wherfore when we read a head gyuen to GOD yt muste be vnderstande in a fygure as I tolde before wherby is mente the god-head which was before all thynges and to which al things ar in subieccion By the heares of hys heade fyguratyuely muste bee vnderstande the holye aungelles or all the electe and chosen sainctes of GOD. Daniell .vii. I dyd beholde tyll seates were set and the olde aged sate hym downe hys clothes were as whyte as snowe the heares of his head like pure wolle The same is meant by the whyte clothes or garmentes that is declared by the whyte heares that is the holye aungelles and the greate numbre of Sainctes all in white GOD is saied to haue eyes in that he seeth all thynges and nothyng is hydden frome hym In whose sighte as the Apostle writeth no creature is inuisyble hebre .iiii. For all thynges are open and bare before his eyen in an other sorte of speakynge the eyes of the Lord do signefy a respect as y e eyes of y e lord vpō y e iust Also the eyen of the Lorde do signefy mistycally hys commaundement whereby is mynistred to vs the lyghte of knowledge Psal .xviii. The Commaundement of the bryght geuyng light to the eyen The heares of the Lords eye liddes are the secrete hydden and incomprehensible iudgemēts of god or by them a spiritual phrase of speaking in the holy bible is noted wherof is sayed in the psal the heares of hys Eyelyddes to aske the Chyldren of men trye theim Eares are gyuen to God because he heareth al thynges and nothyng is counceled from him Sapiencie i. the care of heauen heareth all thinges By the nosethrilles of God is meante his inspiration in to the hartes of the feythful .ii Regum .xxii. the smoke came doune from his nosethrilles .i. They be wailful vnquietnes of the repentaūte through his inspiration The face of god the knowledge of his godhed to men Psal lxxix Shewe thy face o Lord and we shall be safe that is giue vs the knowledge of y e which is manyfested to men by thy sone Other wise y e face of god doth signefye the inuisible substaunce of y e god head of the sonne of god wherof he sayeth him selfe answering moses by his angel Exo xxxiii thou shal se my backe or my hīder partes my face thou maist not see ī which sayng this is imported my incarnatiō thou shal see in the latter dayes my Godhead thou maist not see The mouth of the Lord is the sonne of God the father Iesus christ our Lorde of whome Ieremy in y e voyce of the Iewes theruor i because we haue stirred his mouthe to anger otherwise it is taken the mouthe of the Lord for his commaundemente Esay .xviii. The mouthe of the Lorde