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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	church_n	gospel_n	word_n	3,583	5	4.7602	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05083	Here begynnethe the lanterne of lyght; Lanterne of lyght.	Grime, John, attributed name.; Hardy, William, fl. 1535, attributed name.	1535 (1535)	STC 15225; ESTC S108268	79,115	148

of dome And this dowre is cleped immortalite or vndedlynes / that body that is sowen vnworthy / shall ryse in glory and this dowry is called clerenes / that body that is sowen in infyrmyte or instablenes / shall ryse in vertue / thys dowry is called Agilite or swyftenes That body that is sowen bestiall shall ryse spirituall / and this dowry is called subtylite But there bene other foure dowryes of substanciall medes / with the which we shal be dowred in our soul The first dowry is called impossibilite / the seconde is tuicion / the .iij. perpetuall charyte / the .iiij. is fruytion Or after this maner to speke more playnly the first is knowlege without errour / the seconde is mynd without forgettynge / the thyrde is wel without cōtradiccyon and the .iiij. is thus of the godhede and loue of god euerlastynge O what a woundrefull ioye is thys / where the soul shal be fedde with the syght of the godhed certes / this is ioye without wrechydnes / rest without busynes / mirthe without heuynes / surety endeles / of al discorde lotheles This is cōforte in al gladnes of purueyans / careles Ysaye 64 Corinth 2. This wytnessith the prophet Ysaye seynct Paule in his epistle sayth that bodely yie hath not sene / ne eare hath herde / ne hert of man thought what thynges they be that god hathe ordeyned or prepared to them that loue him P Lorde who shall not auance his feble wyttes to thynke on that louely cōpany that prayseth in heuen the goodnes of thys inscrutable godhede / father and sonne and holy goste To begynne at Mary Christes mother / quene of heuen / lady of therthe and Impresse of hell Nyne orders of Angelles in glorious wyse that dwellynge in theyr heuenly selles / to do the pleasynge wyll of god in heuen and in erthe / as theyr order asketh And patriarkes our elder fathers that streytly kept the byddinges of god there they resten of all theyr trauayle in lond of life with double mede Ther bene ꝓphetes that sene in spirite the mystery of Chrystes incarnacyon they tolde the commynge of this lorde in hope abydynge mannes saluacion Euangelistes ben there hygh in blysse that walken with Christ and wryt his wordes Apostelles sent into all the worlde and Christes discyples to preche the gospell turnyng Iewes hethen me to Christes lawe / there they sitten on seetes vpon .xij. trones and shallinge with Chryste in the dome the xij tribꝪ of Israel Math. 19. There ben marters that shede there bloude suffered paynes to enlarge theyr ioye / and for they passed by fyre water they haue founde refresshynge to theyr soules / also ther be cōfessours that opened christes lawe to thys worlde / and neyther for felony ne for shame wolde neuer deny / that blissyd lord / ther ben virgins in body and soull that kept thē in clennes from luste of fleshe And to this blisse be taken both leryd lewde that done ther vttermoste wyll to kepe goddes commaundementes no tonge may tel the sothe as it is 〈…〉 But thus we seien to amende our deuotion that we myght haue that blysse in mynde / take a parte among these saynctes But saynct Iohan when he was ledde in spirite sawe in heuen a wonderfull syght and for to chere mankynde in erthe / he left it wrytten in his boke that is to say ☞ Apocalipsis 13. Sainct Iohan sawe a woman clade in the sonne / and mone vnder her fete / and a crowne vpon her hed of the .xij. sterres / this woman betokeneth mannes soull / as we toke wytnes of Christ before / and certayne thys was a blyssedfull syght to se the church in her weddynge clothes / the sonne that thys churche is cladde in / is that moste worshypfull garnement our saluacyon / that excellent and moste commendable lyuerey our redempcyon / that holy and moste precious cloth our chrystendome / and our relygion / for thys Chryste betoke vs when we were baptized as Paule sayeth Gal. 13. Quicūque baptizati estis christū induistis All ye that be baptyzed ye be clade Chryste / Iesu the son beryth lyghtnesse of our baptym for certayne propertyes that it hath of the sonne / other lyghtes borowe there shynīg / bothe mone sterres in theyr due course and elles they ben ouerleade with darkenes / that may not comforte to nyght ne day So all mannes warke in worde and dede borowith there lyght at Chryste Iesu for he is the sonne of ryghtwysnesse as Mardoche saythe in the spyryte of god .8 that is to saye Lyght and son is vpsprynge to vs and meke lowly men vphaunsed in hys saynctes the boke declareth what thys is to meane / Psal 113. lyght is vpsprongen to rightnesse / that wandren in darkenesse of his lyfe / and thys is our lorde Iesu Chryste that of hys owne mercy hathe shewed / the people And thys we rede of true beleue in the story of our blessed Lady / that is to say / Mary a virgyn hathe borne the souerayne sonne of richtwisnes that is godde● 〈…〉 heuen Christ Iesu bothe god man / 〈…〉 man doth that fayleth this lyght / it 〈◊〉 yndelinge and the doungī on of hel / and whan thys sonne shyneth in hys workes he growith by hete of grace / and rypeth that shynen in thys crowne ben the .xij. artycles of the comon crede / that is to say Credo in deum c. Thus shulde that soull be arayed that is chosen to be Chrystes spouse / and worthyly is holy church lykened to a woman / for a woman bryngeth forth bothe sonnes and doughters of her wombe / but not without helpe and the worchynge of mannes sede So our mother holy churche bereth in her bely soules to be borne to the blysse of heuen / but neuer without the helpe and worchynge of the grace of our lorde Iesu Chryste / Iohā 16. Sine me nō potestis facere as the gospell wytnesshyth / sayenge without me ye may do nothynge / that is to say medefully or thankworthy Here some men obiecten and sayen / that the gospell is not of auctorytie / but inasmoche as the church hath auctorysed chanonised it for they sayen No man knowith suche wordes to be gospel / but as the church hath determyned in her determinacyon / this conclusion semeth to smacke heresy / Gene. 2. by the wytnes of saynct Austen sayeng on this wyse Heresy is false teachynge contrary to holy writ ful hardely defended most because of worshyp worldly wynnyng / sithen al these ben foūden in this forsayd obiection it is full suspect of heresye / for it is wrytten from the begynnynge that god ordeyned man to be hed and lorde ouer the woman And agaynwarde the woman to be vnderloute subiect vnto mā ♣ Ephe. 5. But Paule sayth This great sacrament of knyttyng to gether a man