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
A10090	Vnto the most high and mightie prince, his soueraigne lord King Iames. A poore subiect sendeth, a souldiors resolution; humbly to waite vpon his Maiestie In this little booke the godly vertues of our mighty King are specified, with disscription [sic] of our late Queene, (and still renowned) Elizas gouernement: the Pope and papists are in their colours set forth, their purposes laid open, and their hopes dissolued, the happie peace of England is well described, and the long continuance thereof humbly prayed for.	Pricket, Robert.	1603 (1603)	STC 20343; ESTC S115229	27,405	47

swiftly flie as did the Princes of Salomon in their Chariots and them remouing commaund that in their place be set the siluer-sounding voyce of godly reuerend learned wise and preaching Ministers who by the power of their ministerie may cause the true vnderstanding of the peace of Iesus Christ to shew it selfe vnto the ignorant people of your land and that the onely light procuring beames of the most glorious Gospell may with a sweete reflexion beautifully shine and goldlike richly gilde all your poore and desolate darke and desart townes and villages that thereby all your English people may with ioy behold the beautie of Zion and glorie of Ierusalem shining in the Church This defect in Englands ministrie hath long go beene seene but not amended and our late godly Queene was in her time a straunger vnto this corruption that which in the Church did chiefly holde the too long continuance of some things amisse was the worde Improprio from whence Impropriations were deriued which were they backe returnd vnto their proper forme your Maiesty should quickely see a glorious Ministrie and till in this poynt reformation bee that men of godly knowledge and honest life may go before the flocke vnto their charge committed and by example teach the true performance of a Christian doctrine your Englands people will neglect the duties due vnto their faythe 's profession For though I know good workes can claime no merit yet as faith onely doth iustifie vs before the God of heauen so good works should serue to iustifie the soundnesse of our faith on earth agaynst all tongues that would desire to frame obiections against the puritie thereof And vndoubtedly most mightie Soueraigne in your Englande there is nothing of more strength that giues a powerfull libertie vnto the exercises of sin then the vilde example of vngodly Ministers Begin therefore most mighty Prince at the first with them and purge the Sanctuarie let it please your highnes not to suffer prophane and irreligious men in the place of Ministers to haue to deale with the administration of diuine and holy things nor once with their vncleane handes to touch the seales and Sacraments of our saluation For indeed they are no other then wormeaten trees clouds without raine dumbe dogges foxes wolues deceiuers destroiers which haue thrust theÌ„selues into the church by some vnlawfull means their owne consciences can beare them witnes that in them their resteth no sufficient power to teach the church the way vnto the bridegromes loue for they rather make deuorcement betwixt the bridegroome his spouse they haue no right no vnderstanding no knowledge nor wisdoms skil to marry them togither in the vnitie of peace themselues are of all others merely strangers thereunto they are in deed the vngodly number of those intrusiue flocks which proudly and vniustly haue made themselues to seeme as if they were the brides companions but did the Church arightly know them as they are she would not then of theÌ„ enquire the way which leads vnto the place where her souls beloued feedeth nor would she endure any longer to be led by their deceiuing dissembling and destroying painted ignorance she would not assuredly be as one that turnes her selfe aside vnto the wickednes of their vngodly coÌ„pany But whither am I led with such like words as these to speake against their grosse impieties Strange thing it is that such should be the watchmeÌ„ in the house of God that better knoweth what an Alehouse meaneth and more delighteth to watch whole nights at dice and cardes then to spend one houre in the studie of diuine and heauenly things a paire of true ruÌ„ning bowles are more esteemd with them then all those truth teaching bookes which should be the weapons for men of their profession Come honest neighbors and my good friends in such like wordes consisteth all the smoothnesse of their eloquence Let vs in a merry humor go drinke halfe a doozen pots of Beare this is the pith of their perswasion at the signe of the Cocke or some other place directly knowne vnto them There is say they as good heart-warming liquor as a man would desire to drinke and in this is comprehended the whole argument of their diuinitie Whereupon being once at their place appointed togither met they set them downe and fall to reasoning and all their bare-barly proofs being brought in pots they vse of them so many that at last growing all togither reasonlesse they are plainly ouerthrowne in the dust by the force of their owne argument in as modest order as I can most mightie soueraigne I haue described the manner of their immodest brutishnesse I will forbeare to speake of worse vncleannesse done by many of them But it would make a Christian heart to rend it selfe with griefe in the consideration of that iniurious wrong which is done by them vnto the church of god but now in the loue your Maiestie beareth vnto Iesus Christ let theÌ„ all be turned out that they may learne to vse their seuerall occupations find some means to liue without feeding vpon the soules of men For my owne part mighty soueraigne I affect not Browne Barrow Penry nor the schismes by them inuented I am a Protestant pro Deostans and do in my heart accord vnto your Englands gouernment by our late godly Queene established and doe account that the reuerend Bishops in your land are worthy instruments for the glorie of God and benefite of his Church so farre forth as they will with a religious care striue in their places to beautifie the Spouse of Christ by a conscionable and religious gouernment to which ende they are vndoubtedly ordained and there authorities approued lawfull for the Apostle Peter which commandeth that men of their calling should not rule as Lords ouer Gods heritage doeth not say neyther shall you accept of any such titles nor indure to be called Lordes ouer the flocke of Christ no though the Church of God shal in the loue and reuerence that they beare vnto you for their masters sake cal you their Lords their gouernors and teachers in diuine and heauenly things Surely out of the Apostle Peters words to me appeareth no such kinde of doctrine For I haue reason to resolue that the Apostle could not teach it to be a thing vnlawfull for himselfe or any other of the apostles or minister after theÌ„ to receiue liuing or honor at their handes vnto whom they should administer in the Lord. For the Apostle Paule in his Epistle to the Corint and 9. chapter doth plainly approue the lawfulnes thereof And howsoeuer he did forbeare to exercise his power for the good of the Church then being in her infant age yet notwithstanding it appeareth euidently that hee left that libertie of power to bee vsed in the Church And therefore if the Bishoppes since the time of the Apostles haue by their lawfull libertie of power wherof Paul speaketh receiued as giuen vnto them by the

resolue with a Souldiers Resolution to follow your kingly Maiestie in your vertues steppes and not to suffer a little Monkish Mowle hill heape of tongues that rides vpon the skirt of Peeuish Popery to derogate from your kingly name the glory due vnto the honour of your faithes profession nor suffer that the godlie people in your land whose heartes prepareth as befitteth loyall faithfull and obedient Subiectes to bid your Highnes welcome to your Kingdomes Crowne that the ioy which they conceiue in the excellencie of your great Maiestie should be eclipsed by the inftigation of any secret Papisticall obiected doubt what should let my resolution to speake plainely to my King whole Highnes knoweth what drudges are sent from Rome and therefore will not take Phisicke for his soule from their impoysoned proiected potions The Chronicles with innumerable Tragike scenes haue made discription of the Roman regement shewing to the world that not any king nor Queene nor Prince in Christendome that euer did displease that proud vsurping Bishop since he rulde alone and gainde vnto himselfe the name of Papa but they were all of them eyther poysoned murdered or otherwise betrayed or their lands inuaded or their Subiects moued to rebellion or many times nearly brought in danger of those euils eyther by Monkes Fryers Iesuites Seminaries or some other villanous minded slaues sent from the Popes diuelishnes but mis named Holines to put in execution those three damned purposes Bohemia Lombardy Germany France bleeding Belgia haue bought their to true experience with a deare and bloudy prise And though that Spaine be Romes chiefe Champion yet king Philips eldest sonne euen in his Fathers sight must bleed to death when he displeasde the Pope England hath had a hard experience of his Tyranny and in the dayes of Queene Elizabeth the multiplisity of trayterous plottes laide against her life all wrought by Romes confederates were to long to specifie and for your Scotlandes Kingdome Mighty Soueraigne neyther your royall person nor your publike state haue stoode exempt from their most vilde attemptes and assuredly my Soueraigne Lorde no other then such like strategems are to be expected from their hands who by their oathes haue sworne and vowed allegiance to the Sea of Rome yet among them but not of them is there some that giues themselues vnto the vse of ceremoniall customes first brought in by Rome and yet no doubt they see the hellish euils that springes from thence but what they do is done for fashion for custom sake and peraduenture with some religious obseruation yet in their heartes I verily belieue they hate the proudnes of the Popes supremacie and grieues to see the Villanies wrought by his Workemanshippe and such as these I thinke are nothing dangerous for I haue obserued in them a due obedience to your Englandes lawes but for the former sort your Maiestie knoweth the daunger of their euill effects for be they but once reconciled to the Pope so as they dare not like louing and obedient Subiectes take their oath to your supremacie it cannot be but their intentions must be dangerous they cannot in their harts endure to be your subiects but as they lately were her Maiesties in coÌ„tinuall hope of change nor doe I wonder at their minds in this for their subiection hath vowed it self an other way and vpon the pain of deadly sin their consciences are tied vnto the lawes of Antichrist they are taught by the doctrine of Rome Romane dispensations to suppose that vnto you belongeth no obedience then vnto them I am sure there belonges no trust And for the schollers that the scholes of Rome Spaine brings vp your kingly self and al your kingdoms haue by an often taught experience learnd the true vnderstaÌ„ding of their traiterous documents Iesuites Seminaries and Popish Priests I do resolue will neuer be thought to loue your Maiestie nor caÌ„ they at any time deceiue your Highnes when they are at no time trusted surely no trust to them belongeth that are the empoysoned branches sprong from the venomous heade of earthes corruption And because I would not haue the Papists thinke I speake by gesse but want authority whereon to ground my selfe I haue to that end set downe some of the dangerous decrees made by the lawes of their misbeleeuing church for the Pope to establish his diuelish authority hath thus decreed First that no man may iudge the Pope nor giue sentence about his iudgement for he is to iudge al men vpon earth 2 That the seat of Rome giueth strength might vnto all lawes but it is subiect to none 3 That hee hath authority to breake all oathes bondes and obligations made betwixt any man of high or low degree 4 That he hath power to interprete declare and lay forth the holy scriptures according to his own will and to suffer no man to expound it contrary to his owne pleasure 5 That he is a God vpon earth ouer all heauenly earthly ghostly and worldly and no man may say vnto him what doest thou 6 That he hath authority to dissolue subiectes from their obedience to their Lordes and Princes and that he hath power to depose kings 7 That he may giue cleane remission vnto whom he will both a pena a culpa he whom he forgiueth must needs be the child of saluation for he hath absolute power to bind to loose vpon earth and saith he the holy Church hath so determined and the force thereof as faith his lying blasphemy is greater then the canonicall scriptures From the authority of these lawes doth this effect proceed that so soone as any Prince displeafeth Rome he is presently by the pope cursed excoÌ„municated proclaimed no right inheritor that it is not lawfull for to hold of him his subiects are absolued froÌ„ their true alegaÌ„ce blessings with clean remissioÌ„ of sins sent to all those that wil inuade spoile or conquer the land of any kingdom or Prince with whom the Pope shall be displeased And the beter to effect these his often performed deeds of charitie he sendeth his leaden Bulles vnto whome hee listeth thereby giuing authoritie vnto subiects to resist their kings and lustely to take vp armes against them when by the Pope they shall be commaunded Their oathes for their allegiance are dispensed with so as although a subiect betray murder or by any meanes kill his lawfull Prince and Gods annoynted king yet shall not their accounted very honest executioner bee adiudged a traytor but rather a holy man for that hee hath done it on the Popes behalfe and in that respect his acte shall bee registred for a heauen purchasing meritorious deede and after the death of such a one there shall be diuers misnamed holy but vnhallowed Masses sung by a company of blacke white gray and pibal asses for the redeeming of his soule out of their fooles inuented

Church vnto whom they administred greater titles riches and honor then T. Titus had who were the Bishops in the primitiue Church of which sort there must bee a continuall succession euen vntill the comming of the Lord Iesus yet notwithstanding if the Bishops now do execute no other office and that in no other sort then Timothie and Titus did then their titles riches and honours being but externall things lawfully giuen and lawfully receiued do not preiudice the worthines of their calling And about this the meÌ„bers of the church of God ought not to contend For it is the zealous godly religious care in the execution of their office which doth onely dignifie the approbation of their calling And if they fail in the performaÌ„ce of those godly duties to their place belonging then in the abuse of their titles riches and honors the fault consisteth And whereas many in these our times do take offence against the names titles wealthes and honors which our Bishops haue on them bestowed thinking that all such things at first proceeded from the Pope of Rome they are therin deceiued for since the time that christian Emperors kings Queens became the nursing fathers and mothers of the Church both titles riches and honors were by them bestowed vpon the Bishops in the Church who were notwithstanding obedieÌ„t subiects vnto their Emperours Kings and Queenes and were approued glorious ministers of the Gospell of Christ Iesus and all this was done before the Bishop of Rome did make himselfe the beast of Rome which now he is by vsurping vnto himselfe the sole authoritie ouer al the kingdoms in Christen dome Since which time both the Pope himselfe and all the Bishops vnder his Antichristian sea haue fled from the approued authoritie of Timothie and Titus in not being desirous to administer vnto the church but like tyrannicall Lords to rule and ouer rule the same and by their ouerruling vtterly to ouerthrow the church by extinguishing the purity of that light which shined in the same placing in stead thereof the traditions of men by their approbation of vnwritten verities And thus being desirous to raise themselues vnto a higher height then vnto them was limitted they lest to seeke the glory of God onely sought by peruerting the Scriptures to glorifie themselues aboue all the kingdoms of the earth and by this his pride the Pope hath made himself to be the open reuealed Antichrist as is before described But now my hope is that not any will continue to contend about the estate of Bishops as now they stand sith by their lawfull liberty of power they may receiue dignities on them bestowed by those vnto whoÌ„ they administer which example was obserud by many christian Emperors kings many holy and reuerent Bishops long before the Pope was knowne to be that diuell which now he is And therfore let not any so contend about these things as if they thought the abuse of the Antichristian sea could extinguish or race out the lawfull liberty of power which was by the Apostles of Iesus Christ left vnto the godly Bishops in the church This may it please your Maiestie I haue aduentured to speake because I know some few vnlearned people in your land do desire to striue to much in this contention And though the authority of bishops be approued lawful yet al within the coÌ„pas of your highnes kingdoms are your subiects and in their harts no doubt they vnfainedly desire to be so and do in their souls reioyce because they are so and your Maiestie shall find them reuerent godly wife learned men yet if there be negligent defects in any they will assuredly perceiuing that your highnes do looke into their course speedily by your directioÌ„ amend the things amisse henceforth not suffer that such vnworthy guides as are before described should by the laying on of hands be admitted to the ministry nor alow of any Nisi probatus vel Episcoporum examine vel populi testimonia Vnlesse he be allowed by the examination of the Bishops or testimonie of the people And the better to direct this course no doubt our Bishops will obserue the saying of S. Ambrose who speaketh thus in his exposition of Paules Epistle vnto Timothie Paul Chargeth Timothie before God the Father and Christ the Sonne and the elect angels Vnder this charge be commaundeth those things to be kept which pertaine to ordination in the Church least easily any man should get an Ecclesiasticall dignitie but inquisition be first had of his life and maners that a meete and approued minister or Priest may be appointed neither any to be ordayned whose faults deserue suspition for hee sinneth which or dayneth and trieth not This course obserued then shall your Maiestie ioyfully behold your Englands famous vniuersities send forth worthy men faithfully to labour in that worthiest work then should your highnes see your England furnished with the blessed number of those preaching pastors whose heauenly minds diuinely sanctified will iustifie the approbation of their calling by the inward testimony of the spirit of God Whose mouthes are touched with an hote coale taken from the fire of the Altar Whereby they are purged that the worke of God may be done by them with a pure performaÌ„ce the approbatioÌ„ of whose ministry shall for euer ground it selfe vpon the foundation of that written truth contained in the holy Scriptures by the authority whereof they will like faithfull ministers truly teach the church of God arightly to vnderstand the worthines of hir peace in Iesus Christ vpon which corner stone the truth of their doctrine being established it will manifest vnto the world that they are sent of God and by the power of the holy Ghost are called to be the preaching ministers of saluation vnto all beleeuers Such as these are those of whome the Prophet Esay with admiration speaketh Oh how beautifull are the feete of those that declareth and publisheth peace that declareth good tidings and publisheth saluation saying vnto Sion thy God liueth These are the well commended watchmen which do continually with carefull diligence attend and waite vpon the Church giueth warning when the enemie approacheth neere vnto it or vnto any member of the same and so well they know all the publike and priuate enemies that they can describe the power likenesse craftes and policies by which and vnder pretext whereof The diuell with all his boares and beares and wolues and foxes seeketh to deface the beauty of the Church vtterly to destroy the same so wise these godly watch men are that they can prescribe and teach the true and perfect vse of euery powerfull meanes whereby the euent of each dangerous opposition shall soundly securely be preuented so that the church notwithstanding the force of all occasions shall at al times know how to enioy the safety of her peace These are the faithfull sheapheards who being

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