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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	work_n	world_n	worldly_a	90	3	7.7937	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00386	The paraphrase of Erasm[us] Roterdame vpon [the] epistle of sai[n]t Paule vnto his discyple Titus lately tra[n]slated into englysshe and fyrste a goodly prologue; Paraphrases in Novum Testamentum. English. Selections	Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.; Cox, Leonard, fl. 1572.	1534 (1534)	STC 10503; ESTC S109940	19,386	74

no dronkard no fyghter nor geuē to filthy lucre but herberous one y e loueth goodnes of honest behaueour rygtuous holy temperat and suche as cleueth vnto the true worde of doctryne that he may be able to exorte w t wholsom learnynge and to ymproue theym that saye agaynste it For there are many disobedyent and talkers of vanyte and disceyuers of myndes namely they of y e circumcisyon whose mouthes must be stopped whiche peruert hole housses teachyng thinges which they ought not because of fylthy lucre One beyng of them selues which was a poete of their owne said The Cretayns are alwaies liars euill beastes slow bellies This wytnes is true wherfore rebuke theym sharpely that they may be sounde in the faythe and not takyng hede to iewes fables and commaundementes of men which turne from y e truth Unto y e pur are all thynges pure but vnto theym that are defyled and vnbeleuyng is nothing pure but euen y t very mindes cōscyences of them are de●yled They cōfesse y t they knowe god but w t dedes thei deny him are abominable and dysobedient vnto all good workes dyscomendable The seconde chapytre BUt speake thou y t whiche becommeth holsome lear ninge that the elder men be sobre honest dyscrete sound in the fayth in loue and patience And the elder women lyke wyse that they be in suche rayment as becommeth holynes not false accusars not geuen to moche dryn kynge but teachers of honeste thynges y t they nurter the yong women for to loue theyr husbandes to loue theyr chyldren to be of honeste behaueour chast huswyfely good and obedient vnto theyr owne husbandes that the worde of god be not euyl spoken of Yonge men lyke wyse exhorte that they be of honeste manets Aboue all thynges shew thy selfe an insample of good workes in y e doctryne shewe vncorruptio honesty the holsom worde which can not be rebuked y t he whiche withstondeth may be asshamed hauynge nothyng in you that he may dysprayse The seruauntes exhort to be obedyent vnto theyr owne maysters to please in all thinges not answeryng agayne neyther be pyckers but that they shewe all good faythfullnes that thei may do worship to y e doctrin of god our sauiour in all thȳges For the grace of god y t bryngeth health vnto all men hath apered and teacheth vs that we sholde denye vngodlynes and worldly lustes and that we shold lyue honestly tyghtuously and godly in this present world lokynge for that blessed hope and gloryouse aperyng of the myghty god and our sauyour Iesu Christ which gaue hym selfe for vs to redeme vs frome all vnryghtuousnes to pourdge vs a peculyer people vnto hym selfe feruently geuen vnto good workes These thynges speake and exhorte rebuke with all cōmaundyng Se that no man despyse the. The thyrde chapytre WArne them that they submyt them selues to princes suche as haue power ouer thē to obey theyr cōmaūdment that they be prompte vnto all good workes that they speake euyll of no man y t they be no fyghters but softe shewynge all mekenes vnto all men for we our selues also were in tymes past vnwyse dysobedyent deceaued in daunger to lustes and to dyuers maners of voluptuousnes lyuynge in malycyousnes and enuye full of hate hatyng one another But after that the kyndnes and loue of our sauyour to manward apered not of the dedes of ryghtuousnes whiche we wrought but of his mercye he saued vs by the fountayne of the newe byrthe w t the renuyng of the holy goost which he shed on vs aboūdantly thrughe Iesus Chryst our sauyour y t we ons iustifyed by grace sholde be heyres of eternall lyfe thrugh hope This is a true sayenge ¶ Of these thynges I wold thou sholdest certefy that they which beleue god myght be stodiouse to go forward in good workes These thinges are good profytable vnto men Folyshe questyons and genealogyes and braulynges and stryfe aboute the lawe auoyde for they are vnprofytable superfluous A man that is y e auctor of fectes after y e fyrste seconde admonysshyon auoyde hym remembrynge that he that is suche is peruerted and syn̄eth euen dampned by his own iudge mēt when I shall send Artemas or Tichicus be dylygent to come to me vnto Nycopolys For I haue determined there to winter Bryng zenas y e lawyer Apollos on theyr iorney dylygently that nothyng be lackyng vnto them And let oures also learne to excel in good workes as farforthe as nede requyreth that they be not vnfrutfull All that are with me salute the. Grete them that loue vs in the faythe Grace be with you all Amen wryten frome Nicopolis a citie of Macedonia Here begȳneth the Paraphrase of Erasmus of Roterdame vpō saint Paules Epse to his dyscyple Tytus I PAule my selfe the sworne seruant and obeyer not of Moyses lawe as I was ones but of the law of god the father and Embassadour of his sone Iesu Chryst. Of the whyche myne Embassade or cōmissyon the hole effecte is this that suche as god hathe electe to euangelycal helthe them I shold exhorte and call not to y e obseruacyon of y e olde lawe or to put theyr trust in theyr workes but I must moue thē to faith which only openeth to all men y e entrȳg to euerlastynge lyfe thrughe the free goodnes of Iesu Chryste And my cōmyssyon is not to call them to faith onely but also to y e knowleg of trueth which among the gentyles was ouerheaped doluen in the imagynacyons and fayned Inuentyons of worldly wysdom And among the iewes it was had in shadowes wrappinges of figures I am encharged I say to call men to y e knowlege of truthe not that whiche y e phylosophers of this worlde do teache dysputyng on the causes of naturall thynges but to the knowlege of the truthe whiche compendiously sheweth in what thynges true chrysten lyuyng is set whose ende and rewarde is euerlastyng lyfe folowyng after this shorte lyfe that we lede here in this worlde which euerlastig lyfe all good and godly lyuers ought with y e more trust to hope for in how so euer great tribulations and euylles of this worlde they be Fyrste by cause he y t promysed them this lyfe euerlasting was not a man that myght both be deceyuyd hym selfe and also deceyue other but it was god hȳselfe which as it can not be chosen but he must nedes abyde styll god so can nothynge surely procede from hym but y e mere truth And agayne bycause this that he promysed he dyd not promyse it by chaunce or nowe of late but afore that the worlde was made it was fyxed fully determyned by y e deuyne and vnchaungeable decre of his mynde to do y t which he now doeth There is no newe thynge come to his purpose but that thynge which for secrete causes onely knowen to the godhed he wolde haue hytherto couered and hyd that wold he haue opened to all the