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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	abel_n	cry_n	lord_n	595	4	3.7943	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06509	The images of a verye Chrysten bysshop, and of a couterfayte bysshop	Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.; Marshall, William, fl. 1535.	1536 (1536)	STC 16983.5; ESTC S120764	81,924	308

do cal it for thou makest thy sone a bysshop which state as it is nowe farre awaye from the mynystracyon of the worde the state of a bysshop and from all godlynes thou knowest vndoubtedly to be a deuelysshe state in whiche thy sone can in no wyse be saued Syth it is so that thou doest knowe this tel me I besech the whether thou doest not more sore rage and vse more crueltie agaynst hym then yf thou cut hym in to gobbettes dyddest throwe his flesshe vnto dogges to be deuowred / yf thy sone throughe ignoraunce or errour had stumbeled fallen into suche a certayne kynde maner of lyuyng He meaneth whē 〈◊〉 hath not the gift of cōnnēcy can not kepe his professyon / or when the ꝓfessyon is made with any wycked opynyō of iustificacion to be had therby thou oughtest with al dyligence with al thy power to labour go about yf there were any wysdome or any poynt of a chrystē mynde in the to ryd hym out of it althoughe thou haddest but only one lofe of bread to lyue on thy selfe whereof thou shuldest be fayne to gyue hym the one halfe but here I beseche the loke vpon thy selfe somwhat more nere and more narowly / who soeuer thou art whiche doste caste downe thy chyldrē hedlonge in to these kyndes maners of lyuynge cōsydre what maner father thou art only to kepe thy dominiō thy ryches vpryght from decay only least thy gold syluer shuld be mynysshed yf it were deuyded amonge many heyres thou doste thrust downe wyllyngely cast hedlōg thy sones kynnesmē in to the depe dūgeon of hell / neyther doth it moue or styre the any whyt to se thyne owne blood souped swalowed vp in the throte of the deuyl ꝑpetually to perysshe so the thou be not cōpelled to mynyshe or debate any thynge of thy suꝑfluite or any percell of thy pōpe royalte Lo this moost vngracious opynyon this costome is crepte in vsed ī many places that as oftē tymes as any great mānes sone beyng mete rather for any other thyng thē for a bysshopryke is chosē elected bysshoppe or is brought into the temple Than with solempne pompe and a solempne company sette in theyr arraye are made cryes and lowde shoutes as it were in a tryumphe then all the halles and courtes do sounde rynge with the noyse of trumpes with trumpettes / with tabrettes then are in euery place lyghted tapers and torches then that solempne songe Te deum laudamus is thundered out / so that these triumphes do playnely represent vnto vs the ymage of those folishe kynges of Israell whiche dyd brenne vp theyr sones doughters for a sacrifyce in the honour of the Idole Moloch Mosoch and with the dyuerse lowde soundes of trūpes dyd brynge to passe that the lamētable cryeng out and waylynge of them that were in the myddes of the fyer coulde not be harde After the same maner doo these excellent parentes handle theyr doughters and theyr neces of whome they allure some by fayre meanes and some full sore agaynste theyr wylles / they doo thruste downe in to the prysons of monasteryes / and for none other cause but that theyr ryches theyr possessyons and that dygnyte of theyr hygh bloode maye be preserued and vpholden they are ashamed to bestowe them in maryage vpō persones of lower parentage Howebeit yet this selfe same study only to preserue theyr ryches dothe tourne vnto theyr very great damage losse of goodes and substaūce / for god dothe auenge and punyshe this vnbelefe and mystruste so that the ryches of dukedomes and erledomes do neuerthelesse decay all thynges do go backwarde as it were by a certayne fatall and predestyned destruccyon / whiche thynge doubtles shuld not be so yf the wycked parentes had not deserued this wrath and vengeaunce of god with theyr so cruell oblacyons sacryfyces of theyr sones and of theyr doughters to the Idole Moloch / for the innocent bloode so cruelly shed forth for cause of moost vyle ryches doth cry maynly ī to heuē as dyd the bloode of ryghtuous Abel Abell whiche crye with howe attent hedefull an care the lorde dothe herken vnto it he hath suffyciently declared in Abell Now to declare the thyng with a more playne and more famylyer example Nunnes The Nunnes or sacred vyrgyns now in our tyme are for the most perte lustye damoyselles and of florysshynge age / and created of god to the entent that they shuld wedde and brynge forth chyldrē / And it is not possyble for them contynually so to contayne and lyue chaste at the leaste wyse of theyr owne good wyll For perpetuall contynencye and chastyte is an hyghe and the moost spyrytuall gyfte of god Cōtinēce which chaūceth but to fewe men Besydes this god when he dyd fyrst create man and dyd make thē male female This his generall lawe his worde spoken by his owne mouth he wyll not to be so comēly taken awaye in so many persones / or alwayes by the gyfte or rather the myracle of contynēcye tobe abrogated adnulled but ꝑpetuall cōtynēcie chastyte is a very seldome thynge before god yf now thou haddest a doughter or a kynsmā which through errour had ben entysed in to this maner of lyuynge as a fysshe in to a we le thou oughtest rather yf thou were a good man to lose thy lyfe and all thy goodes then to leaue this soule thus in the mouth of the deuyll But thou leaste thy ryches leaste thy domynyon least thy gloryous tytles leaste thy dygnyte myght be any thyng my nyshed wylte thruste downe thy chyldren with thyne owne hande in to the depe dongeon of helle yea beynge very lothe and full cuyll wyllynge And what dothe then folowe Herken and I shal tell the in fewe wordes / verely I dyd neuer here that auricular cōfessyon of Nunnes but yet by the scriptures wordes of the sprete of god whiche do on euery syde touche and most depely serche the affeccyons of the hertes I shall easely gesse as it were touche with a nedle / vnto what ende this chastyte doth come / and I know well ynoughe a ꝓuerbe that this my dyuynacyon and coniecture wyll nothynge at all deceyue me Fyrste the yonge damoysell in whiche this hygh gyfte of chastite is not can nomore easely be without an husband and the company of mā then she can lyue without meate drynke and slepe suche other workes of nature On the other syde also yong men or mē of myddle age cannot be wtout a wyfe for it is as depely graffed ī them as naturally gyuen vnto them to contynue and encreace theyr kynde by propagacyon as it is eyther to eate or to drynke Who soeuer therfore coueteth gothe aboute nowe to stoppe and holde backe by his owne propre myght strenth this naturall inclynacyon vertue force gyuen hym of god what