Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	good_a	lord_n	way_n	4,531	5	4.7348	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

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

Christ Antiquitie may deceiue vs nay we see it hathe deceiued vs I can not tell whether it wold stil deceiue it is not true to say it is old therfore it is good Sathan hath bene Lord of thys world a great while Antichrist of Rome pleadeth the continuance of many yeres I know not how many C. yeres neyther doth it follow it is new therfore it was nought it was sayd to Christ what new doctrine is thys yet it was no false doctrine so sayd the false priestes Bishops of Paules doctrine and the rest but it was not therefore naught wil you trie the old and the newe and see in deede which is the new which is the olde search the scriptures If it be found there it is olde say Bishops what they will let the Priestes call it as new as they list if it be not found there it is newe let them say what they can bring neuer so many fathers and neuer so good fathers better theÌ„ she brought I am sure they can not and yet dyd Christ preuaile and so will he still for he is the same in his worde that he was then in bodely presence the wryting of the Apostles doe paint him out truely and nothing but him If it be true that they say that this aucthoritie of Bishops churche hierarchie which they maintain come from the Pope and hath no ground but in his law and that God can not suffer to be serued according to mens pleasures in ruling of his house as though he wer such a fole that he could not set order himself or wer carelesse which is no point of wyt that he did not or that he see so little as to deuise an order which could not be for al times places so that we should haue nede of a new holy ghost for al this foloweth vpon that ground that they stand vpon away wyth that vile doctrine or what so euer ye list to terme it what incoÌ„uenience so euer wer like to ensue what antiquitie so euer be against it for you see there is a blasphemie ioyned with it which maketh our God a folish a carelesse an vncircumspect and vnprouident god Wel peraduenture they see somthing more then they say some things I am sure they would haue to be reformed which they can not bring to passe as they would therfore thinke it better with pollicie to saue the gospell then to haue it cleane shut out It is a common saying of two euils it is best to chuse the least better it is to haue a gospel of Christ ioyned with a peece of Antichriste then to haue none at all thus they persuade them selues the other doe not so they thincke it not lawful to ioyne God Belial together surely they haue some reason nay they haue greate reason for what societie hathe light wyth darknesse If all the world myght be gained with a little breache of Gods word it were not to be done better it were that the whole world should pearishe then one iote of Gods truth should be ouer slipped Pilate thought he had behaued himselfe wisely when he whipped Christe and put vpon hym a robe of scarlet thinking by that meanes making him to appeare vile to the Iewes to haue had him let goe that they might haue contented theÌ„selues with that litle punishment so might Christ haue preached still But it is wickedly done to policie the matters of Christ after that sort Who so euer thinketh by putting a foles cote vpon Christ and clothing him with a garment which is not his owne to entertain him still thinketh he is content by such means to haue liceÌ„ce to go preaching amoÌ„gst the people he deceiueth himself shal right wel vnderstand at the day of accomptes that God will not be mocked Thus in some respect you haue well to weigh the things that are put forth vnto you by the scriptures without further circumstances leaste in leauing the rule ye go out of rule But I doute not but our lords clergy wil quickly shew you whether it be wel ruled or no they haue said already in theyr sermoÌ„s to you that it is a very folish boke I trust they wil giue it vnto you in wryting that you may the better way both But before al things take hede to the word let not the shew of maÌ„ deceiue you PeradueÌ„ture some of you wil be persuaded bicause a bishop an olde maÌ„ a very learned maÌ„ saith so bicause this state hath coÌ„tinued a great while many yeares amongst good fathers do not so that is no warraÌ„t of the word you haue had exaÌ„ples inough to shew vnto you how easie it is to be deceiued therin on the other side let not the simplicitie of men beare you away for that way also you may erre the only straight way as I haue tolde you to kepe you froÌ„ going astray is the word of god wherw t they as wel as you I trust will be coÌ„teÌ„t to be tried otherwise they haue no grouÌ„d against the papistes if they wil not but refuse to be iudged by the word leue theÌ„ there those pore prisoners haue the right whether they be whipped scurged or vtterly haÌ„ged assure your selues as wel of them as of your selues if they suffer with Christ they shal be glorified with Christ so shall you That we may so do god giue vs the knowledge of the truth wheÌ„ we know it to staÌ„d stedfast in the truth that the loue of the world feare of maÌ„ may not more preuaile with vs then the loue of heauen and feare of god These things that I haue saide vnto you rudely I pray you take in good part good brethreÌ„ both you that are of the lerned sort you that are of the sympler I pray you lay forth the truthe as your duetie bindeth you you giue eare to the truthe Confute scismes by the scriptures iudge you theÌ„ by scriptures also as prisons be vsed so let the worde which is the armor of your warfare be practised Let not newegate be the only meanes to stay false procedings If you do so where error is redressed by the magistrate you shal be iudged because you dyd not your duety bring theÌ„ into the way if they be out or bi such good coÌ„fereÌ„ce they bring you home The which the father of al mercies graunt through his sonne Christ by our coÌ„fortor the holy ghost FINIS 1. Cor. 12.13.14.19 15.26 Ioh. 17.22 Ioh. 15.11 13.35 Iohn 14.23.15.10.14 mat 10.35 mat 18.0 Eze. 3.17 Ioh. 6.27 Heb. 5.12 Psal. 119.105 Luk. 4.41 Tertullian lib. de spectaculis Iob. 10.12 1. re 18.17 mat 21.33 Ioh. 19.12 Acts. 4.7 1. reg 12.8 1. reg 1.21 Act. 4.19.5.30 1. re 18.22 1. reg 22.6 Iohn 3.4 Ioh. 9.30 mar 7.2.3 Ioh. 5.10 Ioh. 9.34 Ioh. 1.46 Mark. 1. Luk. 2.8 Math. 22. Mat. 28 Ioh. 20.18 Lu. 19.39 Act. 14.5 Luk. 20 20. Iohn 11 20. Mat. 10 25. Luk. 15.39 Iohn 4.20 Ioh. 14.30 Mar. 1.27 Act. 24.14 Ih. 10.1 2. Cor. 6 14. Ih. 19.1 Iohn 5.39 Act. 1.21 Rom. 8.17

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