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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	inward_a	spirit_n	worship_v	1,944	5	9.2934	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01629	The true tryall and examination of a mans owne selfe wherein euery faithfull Christian, by looking into his conscience, may most plainely behold his spirituall deformity by nature, described, his actuall rebellion by disobedience detected, his promise breach at baptisme, by ordinary transgression apparantly proued, his lamentable estate through sinne discouered, his wilfull obstinacie by dayly disorder displayed, and lastly howe by earnest repentaunce, and faith in Christ Iesu, he is from all the same clearely pardoned, forgiuen, released and reconciled / done in Englishe by Tho. Newton.	Hyperius, Andreas, 1511-1564.; Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.	1587 (1587)	STC 11761.5; ESTC S4316	74,045	216

some certaine places and with certaine appointed solemnities and ceremonies whereby there are commonly committed sundrie lewde attemptes and many lamentable enormities Whether he haue admitted any to bee teachers in the Church which were eyther vnmeete or vnable syncerely and discreetely to deliuer the worde of God or any corrupt and vnsounde preachers that willingly depraue the texts of the scriptures and purposely misconstrue the wordes of trueth to confirme and establish their owne phantasticall or rather phanaticall opinions ¶ He that is called to gouernment in the common wealth be he Prince or Peere Iudge or Lawyer of high calling let him looke well about him whether he haue with all his endeuor and care laboured to promote true religion and to maintaine defende the sincere worship of God Whether he haue countenaunced abetted or mainteined any heretikes Schismatiks Iewes or any false wicked teachers in any thing against the sanctifying of the blessed name of god Whether in giuing sentēce iudgement vpon any matter in all other graue consultations about the affaires of the common wealth he haue nuer remēbred that God is the high Lord and Iudge and him selfe to be but his Minister ¶ They that bestowe their time in Schooles of learning which bee the seede plots and Seminaries both of the Church and common-wealth Doctors Teachers and Maisters Whether they haue carefully trained in the feare of God the youth committed to their charge and syncerely deliuered vnto them the principles and chiefe grounds of fayth and Christian religion Scholers Whether by reading of the bookes of Philosophers and heathen Poets they haue learned to holde any wicked opinions of God Whether they haue in their custody any wicked Pamphlets or bestowe any study in bookes of curious arts and superstitious skill as magicke diuination and such like Whether they reade any bookes of Heretiques iustly condemned by the Catholike and vniuersall Church ¶ Physition Whether beeing with the sicke he haue especially before all thinges exhorted them to haue a firme and vndoubting faith in God without whom no medicine is auaileable and holesome Whether for recouerie of his bodily health he haue aduised and prescribed to his patient any things that be hurtfull and dangerous to the health of his soule as all those thinges are that be not warranted by the worde of God but directly against the remedies which the Lorde hath ordained As when they prescribe vnto them superstitious obseruaunces peeuish calculations and childish mawmetries c. Also when they beare their patient in hand or make him to thinke that some certaine Saints haue power to send also to take away this or that disease as though God were not the onely gouernour of all thinges did not depend on him ¶ Apothecarie Whether he haue superstitiouslie obserued or fondly stayed for choise daies or houres or any other ceremonious rytes in gathering his herbs or other simples for the making of his drouges and receiptes ¶ Merchants poore people and handicraftesmen Whether they haue procured gotten and made any thing or otherwise furnished others with any thing thereby to make them the better able to oppresse or hinder Christian religion and the true worshippe of God As they doe which either aide the Turkes or craue aide of them against their christian brethren And as they doe which sell to the Iewes or to treacherous and hollowe harted Christians any maner of stuffe or instrument whereby to prophane and dishonour the name of God or which do any maner of way minister occasion by theit deuise and sleight to compasse and bring to passe any thing to dimme and empeache the glory of God on earth The second Commandement Thou shalt make thee no grauen Image neither any similitude of things that are in heauen aboue neither that are in the earth beneath nor that are in the water vnder the earth Thou shalt not bowe downe to them nor worship them c. Sinnes inwarde COnsider well whether thou haue not sometime thought that God either would or might be worshipped otherwise then in spirit trueth Whether thou haste not beene perswaded that the inuisible power of God might by some visible Image be the better knowne and so the sooner honoured Whether thou haste any time beleeued or thought that the honour due vnto God was any way bestowable vp on any creature whether thou hast thought any creature able of his own proper power and ability to bring this or that to passe Whether thou haste euer thought that myracles haue bene wrought by Images or that any vertue and power hath beene in them Sinnes outward WHether hauing euer secretely cōceiued in thy mind any wicked opiniōs about the seruice and worship of God thou haue apparantly and openly by any token or signification made publike the same that is whether thou haue built founded or dedicated any Chappel closet oratory or groue to any creature eyther deade or a-liue for worship Whether thou haue assisted any that haue so done Whether thou haue erected and set vp any Images altars representations or purtraitures whether thou haue secretely worshipped or giuen diuine honour to the image of any Saint whom thou hast made speciall choise of to bee thy patron and aduocate or set vp the same eyther in thy Howse in thy Garden or any other place vsing therto either bowing crow ching kneeling censing lighting of tapers offering of gifts or adorning it with garlands and presenting vnto it the firstlings of thy encrease as corne and graine and other oblations with solemne woords and reuerent rites saluting it adressing therunto vsual praiers hoping therby to receiue some benifite or to see some miracle and to be short whether thou hast egged procured any other to doo the like For thy trade of life CAruers Grauers Painters and Image-makers Whether in the making grauing or painting of any Image or picture eyther of man or any other creature they haue shewed all the skill and cunning that possibly they coulde in hope thereby to bring men in loue with their workepeece and so to worship it Handy-craftsmen Whether they haue made or or solde any such thinges as they well knewe their buiers woulde conuert to superstitious vses and Idolatrous worshippings The third Commaundement Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine for the Lorde will not holde him guiltlesse that taketh his name in vaine Sinnes inwarde WHether so often as thou heardest the name of God vsed in earnest and serious matters thou diddest with a religious and reuerend minde thinke on the ineffable maiesty of God and with thy whole minde deuoutly honor the same Whether when thou haste beene commanded or requested in a necessary and lawfull cause to sweare and take an oth thou haue framed thy self therevnto with such Godly zeale and reuerence as became thee Whether in the time of prayers giuing of thankes lauding and praysing the name of

haue solde his clothes for fully wrought and throughly readie when they haue not been fully throughly workemanlike finished Whether he haue according to bargaine and promise faithfully paied his worke-folkes as Carders Spinners weauers Fullers and others of whom he can not but haue alwayes a great manie ¶ Vintener Tauerner VVhether he haue solde and retayled his wine or other his drinke whatsoeuer in such plight sort and none other than he receiued the same that is to say without anye mixture of water or other stuffe and againe whether in iust and true measure c. ¶ Butcher Whether he haue sold the flesh of a rotten and infected Beast in stead of sound and wholsome Againe whether by iust and true waight And againe whether he haue vttered and chopped away one kinde of fleshe insteede of an other as Goates flesh for Rammes Mutton c. ¶ Baker Whether he haue vsed any sleight or deuise to make his breade waigh heauie Whether he haue changed the good Meale fine flower that others haue brought vnto him putting worse in the place thereof Whether he haue put more stoare of branne into his meale than hee ought to doe ¶ Gamester Whether he haue accustomed to play for money at any vnlawefull and forbidden game as dycing c. Whether hee haue beene importunate to entice others to gaming Whether hee haue wonne other folkes money by cogging false play Whether he haue played wonne money of those that haue not anye thing of their owne or in their owne power to loose as Children seruants prentises c. Whether he haue retayned kept to his owne vse the money and other thinges that he hath gained wonne at vnlawfull games and haue not restored the same according to the very meaning of the lawe Whether any person whosoeuer he be hath wasted his goods and money at playing and gaming ¶ Stage-player Bawde c. Whatsoeuer is gotten by these naughtie practises and filthy trades are to be vnderstood and deemed as lewdly fraudulently gotten And therefore all such are chargeable and liable to this crime of thest and are bound in conscience to restitution ¶ Begger Whether being lustie and sounde of lymmes able to labour and get his owne lyuing he begge seeke almes abroad In which doing he doth robbe spoyle those which are poore indeede and feedeth himselfe with other mens labours ¶ Children Boyes and Gyrles Whether they haue giuen or accustomed themselues to ●ilch fruite meate or anie other thinges and if they haue chaunced to finde any thing whether they haue beene diligent willing to restore it to the owner For from small pickinges and filcheries by litle and little they will growe to greater To conclude Whether in cōmitting any of the aboue remembred sins thou hast giuen occasion to others to commit the like that is to say whether by word or deed contrarie to the renor and effect of this commaundement thou hast beene an offence and stumblingblocke to others And againe whether seeing others to committe any of these aforesaide faultes thou haue secretly thereto assented not shewing any signe or token of thy great mislike thereof when as good time and opportunitie thereunto serued thee For not the actuall doers onely but the consenters eyther directly or vndirectly accessaries thereunto be also faultie and guiltie The 9. Commandement Thou shalt not beare false witnesse against thy neighbour Sinnes inward WHether thou haue at any time dissembled the truth or not vttered maintayned it when as often as cōueniently thou mightest and shouldest and whether slylie and secretly marking other folkes wordes and deedes thou haue wrested and construed them to the worst part Whether thou hast attributed and ascribed to thy selfe more dignity credite reputation and desert then there was any cause why and whether thou hast wished an other mans estimation and countenance to be empaired or disgraced Whether thou hast enuied maligned or spighted at any others good giftes whether they be of the minde of the body or or as wee commonly tearme it of fortune For hereunto belongeth all malicious swelling and enuious conceiptes of the minde for the welfare of others Whether thou hast sought anye meanes or wayes to discredite annoy or disparage the fame of any other and by thy sinister reporting of them hast gone about to bring their credite question and themselues into danger among persons of authoritie and high calling or any other whomsoeuer Sinnes outward WHether thou hast told any vntruth or lie wherby any matter hath gone awrie or some losse hath ensued or might haue ensued to any whether the same hath bin done in place of iudgement or else in the hearing and assembly of fewe or in any other place Whether by any craftie deuise or peeuish exposition thou hast in the hearing of others wrāglingly wrested any mans wordes or deedes whatsoeuer to other sense and meaning then they were simplie spoken and intended Thinges amisse ought rather with lenitie to bee mitigated than with extremitie to be aggrauated and exasperated Whether thou haue of set purpose depraued the good speeches and orderly doings of others Whether thou hast prouoked any others to do the like or hast seemed to allow like wel and approue them that willingly and wittingly haue so done neither defended excused nor extenuated the matter when as notwithstanding thou well knewest that it was falsely maliciously and vndeseruedly practised Whether thou hast contumeliously and reprochfully taunted mocked or abused any person or as it were skoffingly gybingly and iestingly so flowted him that in the meane while thou both diddest and purposedst in thy minde couertly and poynantly to harme him Whether thou hast laide any fault to any mans charge or made report to others that hee hath committed some crime wherof he is cleere guiltlesse and ignorant Whether in reporting some offence or crime which another hath in deed committed thou haue odiously amplified and by thy wordes made the fame worse and greeuouser than it was either by adding diminishing or altering intending thereby to perswade the hearers to iudge deeme the worse of the partie Whether thou hast maliciously published discouered and made openly knowen any crime that was secret hidden Whether thou hast brought complaint of any crime being open and knowen to the higher power bu● yet with a meaning and desire rather to hurt and vndo then to recure and amend the partie Whether being requested enioyned or commaunded thou hast at any time apeached or accused any whom there was no neede to be accused and specially least of all by thee Vnderstand this chiefely when as Tirants persecutours make inquirie search for good and godly men or at least for such as be no wayes harmefull to the Common wealth c. Whether for flatterie thou hast extenuated any mans faultes or extolled and highly amplified his actes and dealings being but meane and indifferently so so Whether by