Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	gospel_n	hear_v	word_n	3,919	5	4.5807	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08357	To the Quenes Maiesties poore deceyued subiectes of the north countrey, drawen into rebellion by the Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland. Written by Thomas Norton. Seen and allowed according to the Quenes iniunctions	Norton, Thomas, 1532-1584.	1569 (1569)	STC 18680; ESTC S113359	23,488	60

cary them into the light hold them against the sunne trie them and iudge of them They haue ouercome true religion say your seducers false teachers Is there any alteration of Religion made so rashly as your rebellion or teacheth it so vngodly doings as you do execute or is it receyued from any other than from the word of God himselfe If you will haue any religion I truste you will haue Christes religion If you will haue the Religion of Christ I hope you will best beleue himselfe to tell you what it is If you will heare him selfe speke you may not destroy his worde Euen they that would deceiue ye most can not deny that the holy Bible is the worde of GOD what soeuer is taught therin is truth what soeuer is against it is heresie falshode How thinke you then doe they meane you wel that take Gods word from you that destroy the bible teare and tread vnder féete the Scripture of the worde of God forbidde you to heare or knowe that wherby only you should heare and knowe truth and learne to sée their falshode can they wish you to see that would take away your light can they wish you to fare well that would depriue you of your foode The blasphemie is haynous the offence dangerous this path is not the way to true religion but to error which they would not haue you see that persuade you to blindfill your selfs against the truth of gods gospel Besides your destroying of Gods boke can ye think that they meane to draw you to true catholike religion that persuade you to destroy the monuments of Christian Communion Read or heare the whole forme of that seruice iudge of euery word and sentence and then shall you sée what comforte your false deceyuers haue taken from you Compare what good you find in that and what edifying in the contrarie what swéetenesse it is to ioyne with Gods congregation in partaking of Christes body bloud by meane of his Sacramentes and what vanitie or rather sorrow it is to gaze vpon a théefe that robbeth you of that treasure pretendeth to take it al himselfe holdeth vp that which he calleth a Sacrament as it were in insultation and triumphe ouer your silly simplicitie Do but heare reade and knowe the thinges that ye yet despise I dout not Gods grace shall crepe into you for your comfort Where thirdly you haue raged against the mariage of Gods Ministers beholde your owne madnesse I hope you be not all popish Priestes Bastardes thus rebelliously to rise for the honor of your false Fathers Do you think al your popish priests to haue liued chast Knowe you not their olde incontinence commonly misnamed lustinesse and good fellowship Remember the examples your selues Is mariage worsse than horedom was it not by themselues taught to be a sacrament Is it not the holy ordinance of god Is the mariage of your selues and youre forefathers become vnclennesse or displeasing to God Thinke not so yll of your selues No no there is another matter You are begyled poore soules loke home to your own beds preserue the cleanenesse honestie of your houses This is a quarell wholly like the old rebelles cōplaint of enclosing of commons Many of your disordered and euill disposed wiues are muche agréeued that Priestes which were wont to be common be nowe made seuerall Hinc illae lacrimae there is the griefe in déede And truth it is and so shall you finde it fewe women storme againste the mariage of Priestes calling it vnlawfull and incensing men against it but suche as haue bene Priestes harlots or fayne would be Content youre wiues your selues and let Priestes haue their owne And for whole religion receiue it as GOD hath taught it reade his worde and for the deliuerie and explication of it it behoueth you being no better clerkes than you are to credite the whole Parliament the learned Clergie of the Realme and those that teache you by the boke of God learne it in such sorte places as it is to be taught Your Camp is no good schole of Diuinitie Your churches as they were reformed the worde of God red in such tong as you vnderstode it the Sacraments ministred to your comforte in suche sorte as you might féele the sense of them and be edicted by them the good examples of youre Ministers liuing in holy matrimonie with their owne wyues and abstayning from yours their teaching you obedience iustice charitie be the means to learne truth And yet if errors had ben taught this is not the way to come to amendement Know of those that complain of the ouerthrowing of that religiō that liketh them if euer they sought good meanes to defend it and were denied if euer they offred conference where it was méete and were refused if euer they maynteined it in place conuenient by the word of God and were not fully truly and charitably answered Think you hir maiestie the wisest of the realme haue no care of their owne soules that haue charge bothe of their owne and youres Thinke you they would haue entred into the troubles of changing religion vnlesse very truth conscience and zele for all our soules had enforced them God wote you are deceyued you are out of the way for true vnderstanding religion you are out of the way for true seking it and ye are very far out of the way in thinking that your captaynes haue any care of it They abuse you in this as in the rest They regarde no religion that goe so irreligiously to work All is but shewes and hipocrisie They haue frequented the seruice established by cōmon authority they haue receyued Goddes Communion with hys Churche they haue commended it which if they had had the contrarie religion to hart they would not nor might haue done vnlesse they woulde confesse them selues such as you ought not to beleue But the truth is they knowe that for want of sufficient preachyng and especially for want of grace to receyue the truth of God preached and partly also for that long settled errours euen in men otherwyse good and honest must haue theyr time of instruction and parsuasion by these meanes I say there be many yet within the realme not well taught the multitude of which simple men they hoped by this colour to draw to the felowship of their rebellion and that way to haue more helpe to shelde them selues from the power of Iustice and so to gyue an aduenture by more ayde to escape the due punishement for these their treasons that otherwise in peasable place of iustice they could not defend or auoyde So still this is but colour euen as is the same y t foloweth that her Maiesties Coūsell haue disordered the Realme Well they knowe it is not so and well they know that they nor their auncesters neuer knewe it so well ordered But if any would beléeue such sclander they hoped thereby to winne the moe