Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	worthy_a	write_v	writer_n	59	3	7.5227	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03221	Carpenters chippes, or, Simple tokens of vnfeined good will to the Christian friends of Iames Balmford ...	Balmford, James, b. 1556.	1607 (1607)	STC 1334; ESTC S1169	25,047	71

that one Church professeth But the Church of Rome professeth not indeed the Catholike faith as shal be in part shewed hereafter therefore in no sense it can be truly called Catholique But suppose it held the Catholique faith yet were it not for that cause an obiect of faith according to the Apostles Creed more than a particular man or any other particular Church holding the faith Here it is to be vnderstood that howsoeuer we may say This man or that Church is Catholique yet we may not say and speake properly This is the Catholique man or That is the Catholique Church 4 That the Church of Rome holdeth not the Catholike faith neither yet hath done for many yeeres may be demonstrated in sundry fundamentall points Let it be sufficient to produce though but one yet that most fundamental sith it is called by an excellency The Word of faith preached Rom. 10. 6 8. by all the Apostles And the rather that One because it is the principall argument of that worthy Epistle which Paul wrote Cap. 1. 8. to the Romans whose faith was then published throughout the whole world So that if the Church of Rome swarue from this truth it is manifest that it is the ofspring not of the true members of the Primitiue Church of Rome but of the troublers of that Church of whom Paul thus writeth Now I beseech you brethren Cap. 16. 17. 18. marke them diligently which cause diuision and auoid them For they that are such serue not the Lord Iesus but their owne bellies and with faire speech and flattering deceiue the hearts of the simple But what is that most fundamentall point Euen that same which Paul after a large and learned disputatioÌ„ setteth downe as his peremptory iudgement in these words Therefore Rom. 3. 28. we conclude that a man is iustified by faith without the workes of the Law But the Church of Rome that now is holdeth and for many yeeres hath held That a man is iustified both by faith and works contrary to the conclusion therefore the Church of Rome is not Catholique but Antichristian 5 I say AntichristiaÌ„ because it may be proued such by many reasons and that because it erreth in this point but I only propound to wise and religious consideration this deduction That Antichristian Apostasy or Antichrist is called The Mystery 2. Thess 2. 7 of iniquitie that is a mysticall iniquity that is an iniquity which is indeed iniquity but not perceiued as Christ is called The Mystery of godlinesse that is a 1. Tim. 3. 16. mystical godlinesse that is godlinesse indeed but not perceiued But wherefore is Antichrist a mysticall iniquitie Because his Righteousnesse though glorious in shew is iniquity indeed because he attributeth Gal. 5. 4. Rom. 3. 27. 1. Cor. 4. 1. Rom. 1. 16. 17. 4. 5. Iustification thereunto Now this is a mysterie to flesh and blood which would faine reioyce in it selfe that Righteousnes should be Iniquitie Euen so is the Gospell a mysterie for by it the Righteousnes of God is reueiled which otherwise could not be perceiued of flesh and blood For is it not a mysticall paradox to carnall reason to say God iustifieth the vngodly which yet is cleere to him who vnderstanding the Scriptures doth not only abhorre his foule iniquitie but also Phil. 3. 9. Esa 64. 6. disclaimeth his owne defiled righteousnes and by faith layeth hold on the righteousnes of God which is only by Christ or Who trusteth not to his righteousnes inherent which tasteth of the caske but to righteousnes imputed which maketh vs blessed These things well considered It may appeare that as Christ is the mystery of godlines not only because he is very God though in the shape of a seruant but also because the Word of Christ viz. the Gospell teacheth a mystical righteousteousnes So the Pope is Antichrist not only because he is an aduersarie in exalting himself aboue all that is called God though he pretend to be the seruant of seruants but also because his doctrine is a mysticall iniquitie Heere it is to be remembred that on the forehead of the Reuel 17. 5. 9. 18. Whore of Babylon to wit Rome was written this word A mysterie and it is also to bee vnderstood that on the Popes Mitre is the same word set with precious stones If then for the doctrine of Iustification and merit by workes the Church of Rome bee Antichristian it followeth that it is not Catholique and therefore hath not continued an apparant member of the Catholique Church euer since the Apostles time 6 The later point inferred may be the rather admitted if wee marke well that Paul saith That the Mystery of iniquitie 2. Thess 2. 7 was working in his time So that it is likely that those troublers of whom meÌ„tion is made in the 4. section ouergrew as weeds the good corne in time and preuailed still vntill that mysterie of iniquity was reuealed and consumed by the Spirit of God in the mouth of Luther and other the seruants of Christ Iesus 7 For the better manifestation of this point let vs seriously consider that howsoeuer the Church of Rome were now an apparant member of the Catholique Church which indeed is not to bee imagined yet sith it is not the Catholique and inuisible Church but a visible and particular Church and hath not any speciall promise that it should continue the same from the first constitution how can we be assured but that in so many hundreds of yeeres there haue been some alterations and innouations as well as in the Church of God among the Israelites Rom. 9. 4. to whom pertained the adoption glory couenants giuing of the Law seruice of God and the promises And yet it is written 2. Chro. 15. 3 of the Church Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God and without Priest to teach and without Law 8 As for that promise of Christ Thou Mat. 16. 18. art Peter and vpon this rocke I will build my Church and the gates of hell shal not ouercome it it appertaineth to the Catholique Church as builded vpon Christ the 1. Cor. 3. 11. only foundation of his Church and not to the Church of Rome more than to the Churches of Asia which are ouercome or any other particular Church which may be ouercome yet that promise remaineth Gen. 9. 13. inuiolable as the couenant whereof the Raine-bow is a signe is inuiolable notwithstanding sundrie particular countries be ouerflowen 9 Indeed Augustine did once take that Rocke to bee Peter the Apostle and his successors the Bishops of Rome but hee after altered that his opinion and vnderstood Rocke to signifie Christ by Peter confessed For that Christ did not say to Peter I will build me vpon thee But his words were so Augustine conceiued them as if hee had said I will build thee vpon me and not me vpon thee His meaning Col. 1. 24. is

there and there died as Papists doe suppose and If by the holy daies for Peters chaire at Antioch and Rome Papists shew their iudgement to be That it is of the essence of a Bishop to sit in the See whereof hee hath the title for otherwise they need not make such adoe to proue that Peter was at Rome seeing it were sufficient to proue if they could that he accepted the title then those 6. Popes howsoeuer they were in title Bishops of Rome yet in truth they were Bishops of Auignion and therefore no apparant successors of Peter and therefore no apparant heads of the Church and therefore for 70. yeeres the Church of Rome was not an apparant member of the Catholike Church according to the sense of the Papists themselues Fourthly Onuphrius a Popish writer telleth of 30. Schismes in the Church of Rome Of which the 29. lasted 50. yeeres together Wherin there were sometimes two Popes together and sometimes three All which three were remoued by the Councel of Constance Can any say that all this while there was an apparant head If not it must necessarily follow That the Church of Rome hath not been euer since the Apostles time an apparant member of the Catholique Church according to the sense of the Papists themselues 20 Lastly As when the eye is darke Matth. 6. 23 the whole body must needs be darke So if the head viz. the Pope be so corrupt as that it cannot be perceiued to be an apparaÌ„t member of the Catholike Church how can the Church of Rome whose being is altogether in that head be an apparant member But most of the Popes haue been such Ergo. For howsoeuer that cannot be verified of al the Popes which was said of Boniface 8. commonly called A diuell incarnat That he entered like a Fox raigned like a Lion and died like a Dog yet some of them entered by Coniuration or the diuels helpe as Siluester 2. and Gregory 7. first called Hildebrand or The brand of Hell Some by harlots as Christopher 1. and Iohn 11. Some by poysoning their predecessors as Damasus who also did drinke of the same cup and the said Hildebrand who besides his Coniuration made way to the Popedome by poysoning sixe of his predecessors and many by Simony or Violence Were they apparant members of the Catholique Church when they were Popes Nay sundry of them were heretiques As Liberius was an Arrian Honorius 1. a Monothelite Anastasius a Nestorian Iohn 2 2. denied the Life to come and the resurrection of the body and this was laid to his charge when he was deposed by the Councell of Constance and Eugenius 4. was condemned and deposed as an heretique in the Councell of Basil As for their Liues In respect of all it is no lesse truly than commonly said of Gregory 1. That he was the worst Bishop but best Pope of Rome But some of them Platina no Protestant called Beasts and Monsters and of Iohn 12. Cardinall Turrecremata writeth thus Because the life of this Pope was detestable therefore Christ himself gaue out the sentence of condemnation For while he was abusing a certaine mans wife the diuell stroke him sodainly and so he died without repentance To set downe in particular the monstrous offeÌ„ces of most Popes is too large and too filthy a field for me to walke in I will therefore shut vp with the words of Genebrard a Popish Chronicler who writeth thus For the space almost of seuen-score yeeres and ten from Iohn 8. to Leo 9. about fiftie Popes did reuolt wholy froÌ„ the vertue of their auncestors and were Apostaticall rather than Apostolicall Yea some did get into the See by force or bribery Wherefore it is no maruell if they were monstrous sith they entered in not by the dore but by a posterne gate To conclude If the Church of Rome be not the Catholique Church because it is confined visible faileth in the faith without which faith personall succession is of no validitie If it haue no promise of perpetuity the words of Christ to Peter not seruing the turne and therefore may be ouercome as well as the Church of Israel whereunto the promises did appertaine If Papists cannot proue that Peter was at Rome nor that hee was Bishop there nor that he was Vniuersall Bishop nor that his authority was sufficiently coÌ„ueyed ouer to the Bishops of Rome vpon which succession standeth the being of that Church If the Pope vpon whom as their head the Church of Rome dependeth be Antichrist and sundry times yea many yeeres together there hath bin no apparant Pope at all and most Popes haue been no apparant members of the Catholike Church because of their heresies or monstrous liues it followeth euidently that the Church of Rome is not the Catholique Church neither hath bin an apparant member of the same euer since the Apostles time And therefore it is to be wondered that any Christian man or woman should bee so simple as to hang their saluation vpon such a Synagogue as out of which God from heauen biddeth his people to depart Reuel 18. 4. THE THIRD POSITION PRIESTS ARE EXECVted not for Religion but for Treason IT is not to bee denied that Priests are executed for affirming the Popes Primacie and reconciling to the pretended Church of Rome c. which are points of their supposed religion But yet they are not executed for these or like points or parts as they be religious but as they bee trayterous or dangerous to the State in ciuill consideration 1 For if Priests were executed for these or like poynts as they be religious then the Church would proceed against them in Ecclesiasticall maner before the secular power execute ciuill punishment As against Anabaptistes and other in this Queenes raigne hath bene performed So that Priests their case differeth from Hackets only Secundum magis minus the one being more dangerous in ciuil consideration then the other 2 Secondly they should be executed as wel for affirming the Popes primacy and reconciling c. as Story for his misdemeanure though beyond seas For such affirming the primacie and reconciling c. are as damnable in religious consideration on one side of the seas as on the other but not so dangerous to our state in ciuill consideration 3 Thirdly they should be executed as well for other points of popery as giuing the glory of the Creator to wit prayer and praise to creatures Angels Saints stockes and stones c. being no lesse damnable then such affirming the Popes primacy and reconciling c. in religious consideration but not so dangerous to the state in ciuill consideration As may appeare by a like case propounded If Anabaptistes denying magistracy and that Christ tooke flesh of the Virgin Mary should swarme in England and if Magistrates should punish in a more ciuil manner of proceeding not the latter though no lesse damnable as it is religious but the former being more dangerous to the state in ciuill consideration

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