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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	adultery_n	commit_v	look_v	1,891	5	6.2124	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17294	A censure of simonie, or a most important case of conscience concerning simonie briefly discussed not altogether perhaps vnparallell for the meridian of these times. By H. Burton rector of little Saint-Matthewes in Friday-street London.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1624 (1624)	STC 4139; ESTC S107062	105,164	152

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Yet for all this hee will bee no Simonist because forsooth hee hath not bought the Holy Ghost nor by way of Lapse entred vpon anothers Liuing as is were another mans wife which some flaw in this wife not fault in the Incumbent hath brought into the lapse and so now free for any to sue out a Diuorce and marry her though so as he commits adulterie with her But thou wilt say It is one thing to bee called and another thing to be Though the ignorant vulgar call mee so yet it therefore followeth not that I am so Things are to be measured not by report but by reason and the vulgar can giue no other reason of calling me a Simonist but onely because Simon bought the gifts of the holy Ghost and I onely buy the corporall commodities of the Church Well yet if there were no other respect but this how ought euery Minister especially to bee carefull of preseruing the credite of his holy calling and profession As Saint Hierome writing De vita Clericorum Sacerdotum saith Caueto omnes suspitiones quicquid probabiliter fingipotest ne fingatur ante deuita Auoid all suspitions and whatsoeuer may bee probably forged preuent it first that it may not bee forged For as euery good Christian ought not onely to abhorre Adulterie and all vncleane Acts but also to direct his conuersation so as he may preserue his good name from the least suspition of lightnesse and dishonestie so euerie good Minister of Christ should so much detest the sinne of Simon himselfe as to decline whatsoeuer hath any similitude or affinitie therewith Abstaine saith the Apostle from all appearance of euill And if there were no other reason to ground common fame vpon but this that merchandizing of Church-liuings is called Simonie because Simons sinne in offering to buy the gifts of the holy Ghost is truly called Simonie it were euen proofe good enough As Theopompus called a drunken murther Cilicismus of the barbarous manners of the Cilicians and lasciuious lust Canobismus of the filthy Canobites Coelius Rhod. lect antiq li. 8. cap. 3. So Iudas is called a Deuill for being like him Herod a Fox for his craft The Church of Antichrist a Whoore for her whoorish conditions and many a man is called a Simonist for resembling Simon As Saint Augustine marshalleth Simon and all Ecclesiasticall Merchants in the same ranke together Simon erat de talibus qui in Templum intrant ad emendum vendendum Simon is one of those that enter into the Temple to buy and sell. In Ps. 130. And see what a similitude there is betweene Simon and the Simonist Simon would haue bought the gifts of the Holy Ghost this man buyeth the goods of the Holy Ghost which are the gifts of God to his Ministers Simon offered money not so much for the gift as for the gaine this Man not onely offereth but giueth his mony not perhaps for his Ordination not for that most carefull Cure of Soules not for that most watchfull and weightie Angelorum humeris tremendum Onu● office of an Antistes I dare say what then if neither to make himselfe the more rich honorable in the world and consequently the more capable of a greater preferment● all probable coniecture were at a stand Blame not then euen the common vulgar for calling thee a Simonist after the name of Simon whom thou dost so neerely resemble in thy manners and which thou hast so deerely purchased with thy monies Againe They that haue but in a mediocritie attained the grounds of their Catechisme whereof there are enow to make vp a common fame are able thus to conclude against common Simonie The Commandement saith Thou shalt not Kill Is therefore onely the Act of Murther here forbidden Is not also the enuious the back-bi●er the hater of his brother a Murtherer Hee that hateth his brother is a Manslayer The Commandement saith Thou shalt not commit Adulterie Is onely the Act forbidden Is not also the affection the lust the looke Hee that looketh on a woman and lusteth after her hath committed Adultery with her a●readie in his heart Euen so Thou shalt not commit Simonie Therefore is only the buying and selling of the most proper gifts and graces of the Holy Ghost so hainous as to deserue that odious name of Simonie and shall not the buying and sel●ling of Church preferments being also the Holy Ghosts gifts but of an inferiour nature that which Simon himselfe had most respect vnto when he offered his money deserue also the name of Simonie And why should not the buying and selling of Church liuings be called Simonie as well as a lustfull looke be called Adulterie For he that vseth lustfull lookes and wanton gestures is not onely an Adulterer in his heart but the likelier and neerer to commit it in the act So he that will not sticke to buy a Benefice bee it but an Aduowson before hee haue taken some Orders is hee not the likelier to buy his Orders too especially being some rusticke Pedanticke that so hee may enioy his former bargaine For euerie one that buyeth a preferment of this nature doth vndoubtly preferre it before the honour of his Calling for he that truely honoureth this holy Calling is of that holy mind as to despise all base meanes to aduance himselfe in this calling and consequently will make small conscience to buy holy Orders which hee accounts but as accessories when as he hath made shipwrack of conscience alreadie in purchasing the profits which he deemeth as the Principall And vpon these reasons not onely the Common fame of this our Church and of the present time but of the whole Catholike Church from time to time is grounded So that the verie fame of it being so vniuersall if there were no other reason mee thinkes it should make any common Christian both ashamed and afraid to oppose either his priuate opinion or practise against such a streame and cloud of witnesses CHAP. VII Simonie demonstrated by our positiue Lawes and by Ecclesiasticall Canons and in fine by the conuiction and confession of the Simonist himselfe BEsides all the former conuictions yea euen without them all the same Lawes which haue appointed and imposed the Oath of Simonie may serue for sufficient and competent Iudges in the case of Simonie And it stands with good reason that the same Law which forbids and punisheth Simonie should bee its owne Interpreter what it meaneth by Simonie And so That is iustly censured for Simonie which the Law vnderstands to be Simonie Now the words of the Statute shewing what Simony is be these And for the auoyding of Simonie and Corruptions in Presentations Collations and Donations of and to Benefices Dignities Prebends and other liuings and Promotions Ecclesiasticall and in admissions institutions and inductions to the same Be it further enacted c. See here what our Statutes call Simonie And according