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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	service_n	spirit_n	worship_v	1,834	5	8.9813	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14046	The huntyng & fyndyng out of the Romishe fox whiche more then seuen yeares hath bene hyd among the bisshoppes of Englong [sic] after that the Kynges hyghnes had comma[n]ded hym to be dryuen out of hys realme. Whosoeuer happeneth upon thys book, if he loue god beter than man, et the Kynges hyghnes better then the bysshopes fals hypocrisi, let hym gyue it to the Kyng, that he may rede it before the bysshopes condemn it.	Turner, William, d. 1568.; Wraghton, William, pseud. aut	1543 (1543)	STC 24353; ESTC S104959	47,430	90

bought vp half a prynt of new testamentes / and for the loue that he had to the maker of the testament / offered them vp in a burnt sacrifice to pleas vulcanus the pope with all who at thos dayes sat deply in hys conscience / Thys man left of burnyng of testamentes and other began to burn men / as yit haue not made an end But after that the kyng of hys goodnes that god gaue hym had once granted that the new testament myght be openly boght sold and that euery man myght haue the new testament and rede it / ye bysshoppes for a great whil durst say nothyng theyr to Ye sayd as litle to the hauyng of the hole bible in english / wiche the kyng an the spite of your teche brōg in to the chirche / that all mē myght know theyr dewties / redyng of it / till that ye had confirmed the popes doctrine withe acte of parlament / had slayn and murdered the chefe māteners of the bible next vnto the kyng Then ye being lothe that your actes shuld be tried and examined with the bible / went about do so still to dryue the bible out of the chirche agayn / Ye haue giuen commandment that no man shall rede the bible that any man may heare hym rede / afterwardes ye commanded that no man shuld rede the bible in seruice tyme / And becaus men shuld learn to kepe your commandment that is / whill ye red in the quere the popes seruice and the deuelles seruice / that no man shuld rede the word of god / ye of late mundered on porter in pryson / for no other caus but for redyng of the bible / that other men shuld not be to bold to rede it / Ye neuer put any man to deth yit for aduoutre / or hordom / therfor ye reken it a greater offence to rede the gospel I of saynt Iohan in the seruice tyme the wordes that Christe spake / then to ly with an hore / And to rede the wordes Omelie Gregorij Pape / in the popes tong that all the chirch may here them / is rekened to be goddes seruice and to rede the gospel of Iesu Christ in the englis he tonge that seuen or eight may heare / is rekened of yow the deuelles seruice / for ye forbid nothyng but it that / ye reken is the deuelles seruice / It foloweth then that ye reken the pope god and Christe the deuel / for hym reken ye god whos wordes to rede and kepe ye reken is goddes seruice And hym reken ye the deuel or at leste the son of the deuel / whos wordes to rede and to kepe ye reken the deuelles seruice and ponish men for the redyng of hys wordes Thes folow of your dedes / and bycause euery man cannot gather after thys maner / as oft as i se iust occasion i shall let you and all englond know of your hereses and damnable opiniones deuelysh dedes that ye do and intend to do / whiche thyng i wold not do if i knew yow not for obstinat wrastlers agaynst godes holy word If ye say we wold not vtterly haue the bible suppressed but we wold haue it better trāslated / what tyme wold ye haue to correct it / perchance so many yeares as the kinges hyghnes shall lyue / then after hys deth ye haue a good hope with the help of them whose childer ye fynde / to hold it doun tyl that the prince cum to perfit age and then to if ye can For the bible is the breathe of goddes mouth wiche ye haue red shall kyll your father antichrist and yow If ye say we wold not haue the bible out of the chirche agayn but only we desyre that goddes seruice shall not be hyndered by the laymēnes redyng / well thē what call ye goddes seruice / ye will say iāsuer that all that is song sayd in the quere is goddis seruice / as thoge it that were red sayd or sōg in the bodi of the chirche were non of goddes seruice / Thys ansuer will i thus improue / the more part of it that is red in the chirche is no scripture / as ar lying legēdes whiche ar bigger thē the bible / sequēces / secretes / colates cōiurynges / of water salt fyr bowes / litani respōdes suche other / whos redyng sayng syngyng cānot be goddes soruice / for Christe sayeth / Matt. xv they worship me in vayn that teach the cōmandmētes of men / the learnyng of mē / then seing that the legēdes the colates ar made by mē / the clerkes in the quere in redyng thē teach them it foloweth that they worship god in vayn / thē is theyr seruice vayn / goddes seruice is not vayn seruice thē the greater half of that whiche is red in the quere is nō of goddes seruice / that is to wit the legēdes colates cōiurynges / secretes sequēces such other / Now the other parte of it that is rede in the quere is pure scripture / of whos heryng laymē haue as myche profit as alay vnlerned mā hath of the heryng of a latin play or comedi / Howbeit i will proue that euē the most part of that scripture seynge that it is sayd and song contrari to goddes mynde is non of goddes seruice / in all them in all other that say the scriptur with theyr lippes not with theyr hertes / that is vndstand not what they syng say lyft not theyr myndes vp to god / as do all they that sing latin seruice vnderstand no latin / as the most parte of queresters syngyng men and soul prestes many body prestes also / commōly do / god commanded that the scriptur shuld not be song or sayd in a strange tong except it were strayght way exponded / that is not don / then is the scripture sayd soug not after goddes mynd theyr for it is not goddes seruice so song and sayd / And that they that vnderstand not latin worship not god nor serue god with syngyng of the scripture in latin thus i prouit Iohan 4. God is a sprete and they that worship hym must worship hym in sprete and truthe / that is vnfaynedly with hert and mynde / so do not they that syng they wot not what Christ also Mathew 15. reproueth suche seruers and worshippers whyche nether vnderstand nor marck what they say in thes wordes / thys peple draweth ner hand me with theyr mouth and worshippeth me with theyr lippes but theyr hart is far from me / Now haue i proued that your seruice in the quere is not goddes seruice / but vayn lip labor except it be song and sayde with hert and mynd as they do not whiche vnderstand not what they syng / except also it be scripture and song sayd after the ordinance of god / If it be goddes seruice to syng in the quere the Omelies

of Popes / Legendes of sayntes / such verses Sancte Maries merites bryng us to heuen and all in the latin tong / then must it mych more be goddes seruice to rede in the body of the chirche / the text of the scripture whych is better then the popes gloses / the actes of the Apostelles / and suche other textes of the scripture / No man cummeth to the father but thorow me / i am tha way the truthe the lyfe / Then why forbyd ye the better for the wors / whi for byd ye lay men to rede the bible in your seruice tyme seing the lay men may haue miche more profit of hearyng of fyue wordes red in english that they vnderstand / then of v thousand wordes that they do not vndstand / be they neuer so fyuely chopped champed or chāted Paul sayeth let all thyng be don to the edification and profit of the chirche / but your seruice song and sayde in the latin tong / is not for the profit of the chirche / therfor it is contrari to the word of god that ye shuld syng the seruice or say it in the latin tong / If ye require the sum of all to gither in an argumēt take it vnto yow No man is edified by hearyng it that he doth not vnderstand / and therfore hathe the kyng cōmanded that all laymē shall learn theyr Pater nostet in englishe / but the laymen vnderstand not the seruice fayd and song in the latin tong / therfore they ar not edified or made any better by hearyng it in the latin tong Is it agreyng with goddes worde that ye forbyd all men bothe learned and lay the hole halfe yeare saue 12. dayes / to mary / will suffer no man to be a precher of goddes word / or a minister of Christes chirche except he for swere mariage first / is it agreyng with goddes word to say that apreste may not haue a wyfe by the word of god I say that thys your doctrine is the doctrine of the deuel / for Christ aloweth mariage in all men and in all tymes / Honorable is mariage among all mē sayeth Paul / and the same sayethe if they cannot for beare and haue not the gift of chastite let them mary / thys commandeth god by Paul to be don / at al tynes ye euen in your holy lent tyme if a man haue not the gyft of chastite Ye haue boldly and wikkedly gyuen sentence in your conuocation hous that a preste may not haue a wife by the law of god and vit can ye not shew on letter in all the hole bible that forbyddeth prestes to haue wyues / ye say that they may haue no wyues by the word of god and yit they may haue as i haue proued by the bible / therfore ye reken theyr is sum thyng the word of god besyde the bible i thynk that ye take the canō law for the word of god / or at lest regarde it as myche as the word of god / ye make men beleue that ye haue scripture to proue your purpose with all / and yit the chefe setter out of thys article / the noble waterer of the popes gardin / whiche of hys dedes hath hys name / when he was required of Martin Bucer what scripture he had to proue that prestes myght not mary / lyk a perfit canonist for lak of scripture made thys reson / The same autorite hathe the kyng ouer all the prestes of hys reame and hys other subiectes that a father hath ouer hys chylder / But a father may forbid the prestes of hys realm to mary Then if they mary when he forbiddeth them to mary they break the commandment of god / whiche sayeth childer obey your fathers mothers Now let us se what foloweth of thys gardners argument / First it foloweth that the kyng hath autorite to forbyd all men in hys realm both that haue the gifft of chastite and ha it not to mary as long as they lyue and so vtterly may by gardners iudgment destroy matrimoni / It foloweth of thys argument / that once in tyme past that it was not vnlawful for prestes to mary that is to wit before the kyng forbad prestes to mary / If foloweth of gardners reson that the kyng forbad prestes mariages before god forbad them and that the kyng made the mariage of prestes sin before god / and that it wer no sin for a preste to mary if that the kyng wold not forbyd prestes to mary Mark thys well ye temporall lordes and ye burgesses of the parlament how thys lying lim of the the deuel / when he is in germany can fynd out no scripture to disproue prestes mariages with all / but only that the kyngis for byddyng of prestes Mariages maketh prestes Mariages vnlawful and no other thyng / and when the kynges hyghnes and ye put thys mater to the elergy to be tried with the scripture whither prestes myght mary or no thys with hys felowes gaue a playn answer that by the word of god prestes myght not mary / can ye abyde ye noble lordes that thes lying limmes of antichriste shall mok yow thus and lye of the kyng our master and say of hym that he maketh sin that god neuer made syn I trust ye will suffer them no longer for it is hy tyme to lok vpon them Then when as ye master gardner with your other felowes can bryng further neuer on text of the scripture that thys for sayd forbyddyng of mariage of prestes / and of the mariage of laymen for the on half of the ye are / that it is the doctrine of god i will proue yow by a playn place of the scripture that i● is the playn doctrine of the deuel / Paul in the former epistel to Timothe / in the forth chapter sayeth pleynly that forbiddyng of Mariage is the doctrine of the deuell / therfor seing that the pope and ye teache the same doctrine ye haue gou to scool withe the deuel / then when ye wāt scripture to proue your doctrin with all say that an old aucient doctor holdethe the same opinion that ye do / and vnderstand doctor the deuel / for other autorite haue non / Doctor deuel the Bisshoppes scoolmaster allwayes from mannis creation hys dedely enemi / sekyng all the meanes that he could to pul man from god perceyuyng that man had an vnsteable desyre gyuen hym of god to in creas and multipli hys kynde / and an vnauoydable appetite few except ther for to haue naturall company with hys apoynted companion / labored all that hee could / vtterly to destroy mariage / whiche thyng if if he had brought to pas seing that / childer must nedes be goten / as many childer as shuld haue ben borne so many basterds / shuld theyr haue ben born At the gittyng of euery child if shuld haue gon to the deuell / that is both the father and the mother /