Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04808	A sermon made at Blanford Foru[m] in the countie of Dorset on Wensday the 17. of Ianuarij last past at the session holden there, before the honorable and the worshyppefull of that shyre, by William Kethe minister and preacher of Gods word. 1571.	Kethe, William, d. 1608?	1571 (1571)	STC 14943; ESTC S106665	14,345	54

he that was borne blinde or his pareÌ„tes but Christ aunswereth that neither he nor his parentes had sinned but that the workes of God should bee shewed on him And yet who knoweth not that both the blinde man and his pareÌ„tes were sinners as other men But Christ in saying to the Iewes they should not haue had sinne sayd as much as as thus vnto them If I had not come amoÌ„g you accordyng to the very tyme appoynted at the place before spoken of and of the linage before prophesied if I had not preached vnto you if I had not done such miracles as no other man dyd then might you haue pleaded ignoraunce though it should not altogether haue excused you but now that I haue accomplished all thinges that were before told you what so euer ye now shal alledge in the defence of your selues it shal not cleare you nor dis charge you of wilfull and obstinate sinne Now I will be so bold before your honors and worships to apply these wordes of Christ as the present tyme doth offer occasion There are in this our countrey many thynges farre out of frame though I can not touch all yet some of them I purpose to lay before you besechyng you to consider of them And here I mynde not to make rehearsall what shamefull and trayterous libels are cast abroad or set vp in the chief Townes of this shyre by seditious and wicked Papistes agaynst such as professe the Religion bicause they are as yet vnknowen neither do I mynde to shewe you how shamefully cruelly the poore Ministers of this countrey are misused I meane not the dissemblyng Papistes whiche can counterfayte to serue the time for they haue to much ease how some are threatned some imprisoned I know not by what law and some put in daunger of lyfe bicause they will not consent to superstition As for these thyngs bicause they bee matters as some say touchyng the Churche the ordinaries should reforme But I purpose to open vnto you such abuses as to you the reformation thereof doth belong It hath pleased God to make you Magistrates and fathers of this couÌ„trey not onely to see that common quietnes be kept among the people but also that God might haue his due honor and glory so that as the Ministers office is to exhort and reproue by the word your office is to defend the good and to punishe by the sword I meane to execute iustice vpoÌ„ such as transgresse the lawes of God. The Lord God hath coÌ„maunded and so do the lawes of this Realme that the Sabboth day should be kept holy that the people should cease from labour to the end they should heare the word of God and geue them selues to godly exercises but custome and sufferaunce hath brought it to passe that the multitude do most shamefully prophane the Sabboth day haue altered the very name therof so as where god cal leth it his holy sabaoth the multitude call it there reuelyng day whiche day is spent in bulbeatings bearebeatings bowlings dicyng cardyng daunsynges drunkennes and whoredome If these shamefull disorders haue bene kept from your knowledge yet are you sinners before god but if you haue heard of theÌ„ and haue yet suffred them or if ye shall froÌ„ henceforth now that you haue heard of it suffer it Then these woordes of Christ touch you very neare who speaketh yet out of his Scriptures vnto you and out of my mouth vnto you though a poore minister saying If I had not come and spoken vnto you you should not haue had sinne but now you haue no cloke for your sinne There haue bene also very good orders set forth as well for the relieuyng of the poore as for the punishment of sturdy vagabondes whiche loyter in euery corner as though there were no officers in the countrey to punish them and if any rebuke them for ranging from place to place they will not feare to shake vp such a one and say that he taketh more vpoÌ„ him then the iustice hymself who can see theÌ„ and suffer them These are their reportes whiche are not rashly to be credited It is a wonder to consider with what difficulty any thing is gotten toward the reliefe of the poore but how ready a nomber be to helpe and relieue sturdy vagabondes all the worlde may see So that if any tything man or Constable should accordyng to his dutie punish such or go about to reforme any thyng besides within his charge such though rare to be fouÌ„de are enuied chalenged counted very busie and that they will heape more vpon their heades in one yeare then they will put of in vii c. If you haue not heard of these thynges yet are you sinners before God but if you haue heard of theÌ„ and suffer that the same vnreformed and now also after that Christ out of the mouth of his Minister hath told you then these wordes of Christ touche you very neare who sayth of you If I had not come and spoken vnto them they might seme to haue some excuse for their sinne but now haue they not to cloke their sinne with all What trayterous practises there haue bene of late among the Papistes to ouerthrow the state you are not ignoraunt and how busie they be on this side on the other side the Seas by seditious billes bookes to stirre sedition and tumulte The consideration wherof hath moued the Queenes Maiestie and the honorable CouÌ„saile to set forth earnest proclamations for redresse of the same But what a lamentable case is this the matter is eueÌ„ now before you that a poore man bringyng to light the seditious bookes of a Papist and deliuering them to the Lord Lieutenaunt of this shyre should being stomaked for this fact be set by the heeles for matters 4. or fiue yeare old to be driued from hys house his house to be rifled he his fayne to forsake the Towne for feare the offeÌ„der to be in maner quyet and vntoucht sauyng bound to appeare nowe before you And that that more is the Lord Lieutenaunt sendyng hys seruauÌ„t and officer for the tyme to take order in this matter to be so reuiled and put in feare of his lyfe if you should suffer this vnpunished as I know you wil not I leaue to the consideration of your wisedomes what inconueniences will shortly come to your selues what would MaÌ„lius Torq that noble Romayne do if he were now here in this case who beyng chief of the army of the Romaynes hauyng a sonne of a valiaÌ„t courage encountryng with the coÌ„mon enemy and gettyng the victory yet bicause he attempted the same contrary to his fathers commaundemeÌ„t his father caused his head to be striken from his shoulders to teache all others how they contemned authoritie If any should gather by this that I haue sayd that I went about to moue the Magistrates to crueltie let theÌ„ vnderstaÌ„d that they are very

was as much to saye as that they would haue periured them selues if the Iustice would haue put them to their othes to testifie agaynst the Minister that where he complayned of disorder they to the contrarie affirmed that there was no disorder at all And yet it was manifest that the same Sabboth day was shamefully prophaned with bulbeatynges boulynges drunkennes dauncynges and such lyke in so much as men could not keepe theyr seruauntes frome lyinge out of theyr owne houses the same Sabboth day at night but yet in the Iudgementes of 36. or there about there was no hurt nor disorder at al coÌ„mitted This I haue opened vnto you to the ende ye may see what credit is some tyme to be geuen to the multitude if it be a matter with toucheth the glory of god But if ye will credite the multitude I will shewe how ye may trust and credite them without an othe and not to be deceaued Where as the Queenes Maiestie in the begynnyng of her raigne commaunded and gaue charge that the Clergie should so playnely read the Scriptures that the people might be edified and that the people should so diligently heare the word of God that they might make their profite of the same if we should suppose the case that a coÌ„trary commaundement had then bene geuen but by some meane officer that the old popish Priests who for lyuyng sake remayne still in their benefices should so mumble out theyr seruice that none might vnderstaÌ„d them or where there are some whiche can read playnly there the multitude to be so negligent in hearyng that they haue for these xij yeres learned nothyng no not the Lordes prayer in Englishe if the multitude would proteste before you both of popish Priestes and people that they had folowed and obserued this contrarye commaundemeÌ„t assuredly ye might credite them for neither do a nuÌ„ber of the Popish Clergy so read that the people may vnderstand them neither do the people make their profite of that whiche they heare where it is playnely read vnto them Or where as the Queenes Maiestie gaue charge in the begynnyng of her raigne that all monumentes of Idolatrie should be defaced if but a very meane officer had then genen a contrarye commaundement that both the Popishe Priestes and Popishe people should hide these monumentes of Idolatrie in theyr houses and secrete places in hope of that day they looke and long for ye might beleue them that they had obserued this contrary commaundement with all diligence as it notably falleth out at this present in prooffe But in touchyng the inconstancy of the multitude I except such among them as feare God who notwithstandyng be very few compared to the rest I will shewe you but of one startyng hole more that the wichaue to put of sinne and to anoyde the punishement of sinne and so will I commit you vnto God. When the Iewes were so conuinced in theyr consciences that they could not put of theyr sinne and turne it to others theÌ„ they deuised a pretie tricke to quyte them selues whiche was to make God as it were theyr feede man And for the synnes they daylie committed they would be very busie in offryng Sacrifices and exercisyng them selues in Ceremonies thynkyng by the very worke wrought to bynde God to pardon theyr offences A lyke kynde of policie was practised by the Papistes in the tyme of Poperie to bynde GOD to forgeue them theyr sinnes For where as in the tyme of Christmasse the disorders were meruelous in those dayes and how it is now God seeth at Candlemasse whiche some counte the ende of Christmasse the papistes would be euen with God by that tyme they had offered hym a bribe and such a bribe beyng a candle or taper as a very meane officer would take foule scorne of though he could do a man but small pleasure in his sute Shroft Twesday was a day of great glottonie surffeting dronkennes but by Ashe Wensday at night they thought God to be in their debt On Goodfriday they offered vnto Christe egges and bacon to be in hys fauour till Easter day was past The sinnes committed betwene Easter and Whytsontyde they were fullye discharged by the pleasaunt walkes and processions in the rogyng I should say Rogation Weeke What offences soeuer happened from that tyme to Midsommer the fumes of the Friers dedicated to Iohn Peter and Thomas Becket the traytor consumed them And as for all disorders from that tyme to the begynnyng of Christmasse agayne they were in this countrey all roonge away vpon all Hallounday and all Soules day at night last past But bicause the Iewes dyd so shamefully abuse the Sacrifices and other Ceremonies whiche were ordeyned to put them in mynde of the promised seede to come therefore he reiecteth them and sayth vnto them in the first of Esay What haue I to do with the multitude of your Sacrifices I am full of the burnte offrynges of Rammes and of the fatte offedde beastes yea he demaundeth of them who required those thynges at theyr handes that they should come and tread in hys courtes He requireth them to bryng no more oblations to hym in vayne He sayth in the 50. Psal. That all the beastes of the forest are hys and the beastes on a thousand mountaines so that he needeth not their bribes he would haue them to offer vnto hym laude and prayse to call vppon hym So sayth God to the brybyng Papistes who requireth these thynges at your handes whiche I neuer commaunded as your candles at Candlemasse your Popishe penaunce on Ashewensday your egges and bacon on Goodfriday your Gospelles at superstitious crosses decked lyke Idols your fires at Midsommer your ringyng at Allhallountide for all Christian soules I require sayth God a sorrowfull and repentaunt hart to be mercyfull to the poore to shewe your selues faythfull c. But as the Iewes thought them selues by these their practises sure inoughe touchyng the sauegard of their soules So had they an other shift in a readynes to auoyde suche daungers as might come towardes their bodyes in offendyng the politique lawes whiche was to bribe the Officers Rulers and Magistrates and to corrupt them with rewardes And in dede the Scriptures affirme that bribes are of that strength that they blynd the wise And that the Rulers of the Iewes were geuen much to take bribes is manifest by all the Prophetes especially in Esay the first where God sayth Thy rulers are companions of theeues euery one loueth giftes and foloweth after rewardes they iudge not the fatherles neither doth the widdowes cause come before theÌ„ The very heathen dyd abhorre this bribyng as may appeare by Cambises Cyrus sonne who though he were a wicked kyng yet he thought it a very semely sight that a brybyng Iudges skinne should be hanged ouer the Iudgement seate and that wise and prudent Prince Alexander Seuerus smothered to death one that he made most accompt of for the lyke offence

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