Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	antichrist_n	bishop_n	pope_n	2,756	5	6.3473	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13141	A Sum or a brief collection of holy signes, sacrifices and sacraments, euen since the beginning of the worlde and the true originall of the sacrifice of the masse / translated out of French into Englishe by N. Lynge.	Ling, Nicholas, fl. 1563.	1563 (1563)	STC 23433; ESTC S123835	72,836	196

himselfe to be declared by a counsell holden at hys pleasure bishop Ecumenique the yere of christ 604. that is to saye generall and head of the whole churche Plantin Sabellie But soone after the great Bishops of Rome gaue such order that by treason the Emperour Maurice in Constantinople was cruelly slaine he his wife and familie by wicked Phocas who to recompence this detestable murder committed by the aduise of the Churche of Rome alwayes contrarye to Iesus Christ the yere of christ 612. he declared Boniface the thyrde of that name the generall head of the churche of God takyng vppon hym the authoritie of Iesus Christ the great and euerlastyng high Priest the onely spouse and head of his church Who can better describe an Antichrist than he that doth enterprise a tyrranny in the churche of God a poligamie in the churche the spouse of Iesus Christ attributynge to hymselfe that power Marc. 26. whiche Iesus Christ hath reserued to himselfe to be perpetuall with his churche by the vertue of hys holy spirite to conducte and gouerne the same Maye not he rightlye be called Antichriste whyche doeth enforce hym selfe directlye to goe agaynste the holye Ghospell of Iesus Christ who commaunded hys apostles when he sent them to preache hys worde that they shoulde not institute a Monarchie in the churche as the Prynces Kings Math. 23. Luc. 11. Marc. 2. and tyrraunts of the earth That none amonges them shoulde enterprise to call hym selfe the head or greater then other but all as brethren were humble beynge assured to haue one head and one heauenlye father which wyll tarye with them and assist them for euer to inspire and conduct them to his holy wyll Is not he of good right Antichrist which wyll haue himself called the successour of Iesus Christ in the great bishoprick and in the high priesthode by him exercised The which dignitie he hath reserued to himself abiding a high soueraigne priest for euermore who hath left no successour in his dignitie as Aaron did his successors in the dignities of the high priests of the Iewes But is after the order of Melchidech a king and high priest without any successour in his dignitie Wherefore then O Antichrists of Rome haue you taken vppon you the dignitie of the highest bishoppes as the heads of the church of God and vsurped also the authoritie of Iesus Christ causing your selues to be called most blessed and most reuerend fathers and Popes hauynge instituted a colledge of lytle purple bishoppes to chose the great bishoppe but onely to the end to renewe the auncient romaine religion of Neuma Pompilius the first authour of your pontificall dignities Aboute the same tyme that Phocas the cruell murtherer dyd erect an Antichrist in the romaine churche Mahomet was rysen in the church of Arabia instructed by the Monke Sergius aboute the yere 620 for this apostate heretyke seyng the lawe of God altogether corrupted by the traditions of men and the holye Ghospell contemned sectes and diuers heresies sowed as well by the Iewes Pharises Esseens Saduces Masbutheans Gallileans Seeke the church histories Hemerobaptists and Samaritans as also by the Christians Simoniaques Nicolaites Cerinthiens Memandriens and Ebronites Valentinians Cardonians Marcionistes Montanistes Cataphryges Tatians Eueratites Seuerians Artemonistes Porpherians Helchesaites Nouatians Sabellians Chiliastes Paulianistes Manicheans Automousiastes Arians Eunonians MacedoniaÌ„s Euuomiotheophroniens Euuomidentichiens Aetians Donatistes Luciferiens Patripassians or Theopathites Photiniens Marcellians Paulosamosetans Apolinaristes Iouinianistes Pelagians Acariens Olimpiens Quaternitaries Monothelites And other heritikes hauing corrupted the true vsage of the holy SacrameÌ„tes ordayned of god Seyng also specially the Messalien secte to prosper in their ceremonies taken partly out of the Iudaicall laws partly out of the heathen Idolatry he inuented the great Alcoran decree Wherin he set manye Chapters and articles called Azoares whiche are as lawes and rules of the Machomette religion Thys preface and bryefe discourse of the romayne History me thought necessary to recite before I would beginne to discribe the originall of the sacryfice of the Masse Alwayes to brynge the reader to vnderstand the veritye of the fact How the Empyre of Rome hathe bene gouerned vntyll the decaye thereof aboute the yere of Christ foure hundred and tenne and howe the barbarous Idolatours dyd vsurpe the same for the space of three hundred yeres howe also the Antichristes did ryse and in the ende the Empyre of Rome was transferred to the Almaynes whiche kÃ©epe it to this day fyue hundred yeres being passed OF THE Masse TO begynne this our litle treatise of the Masse first of all it is conuenient to interprete thys terme Masse The originall of the terme of the Masse of the auncient Romaynes called Missa Some haue honored this Missal sacrifice to haue taken his beginning of the Hebrues bringing in the place of Daniell speaking of Maozin Daniell 11. as if they woulde signifie the Masse by Maozin But this terme is verye straunge from Missa or Masse And there is other Hebrewe wordes which are more nearer to witte Messa whiche is as much to saye as conculcation or treading down whereof mencion is made in the historie of the Kynges of Israell Another terme also is founde 4. Kings 11. Missa very conformable vnto this common tearme Masse namely Messall that is to saye Ios 19. Messall hell or graue But I am well assured that the high priests of Rome wyll not take the originall of their sacrifice of the Masse from the Hebrues acknowledgynge their Masse and Messall to be a conculcation graue or hell Messal Hell Further to speake the trueth the Authour of the romaine religion Neuma Pompilius neuer thought of the Hebreus when he first instituted the Masse Much lesse terme this Missa or Masse can haue hys originall of the Greekes seyng they haue no sacrifice of that name not withstandyng that some haue made some reason to bryng in this terme of Greke Myzein that is to saye in Englishe to whysper or hyde in secrete As if the Messalian sacrificers had receyued of the auncient GrÃ©ekes Idolatours to keepe secrete the chiefe and principall wordes of their Masses to the ende they shoulde not be vnderstand of thassistance but haue obserued to murmour blowe betwene their tÃ©eth the Canons other speciall wordes which neyther they vnderstode them selues nor other whiche behelde them Neuertheles neither the Hebrue termes nor Greeke vocables in no wise can be appropriated to the Missall sacrifice Wherefore it behoueth to haue recourse to the trewe originall of the terme Missa or Masse taken of the auncient Latyns the Romaines Masse taken of the auncient Latins Romains whiche were accustomed to vse these termes Missus Missa Missilis and Missio As we saye in Englishe a messenger a message and missiues for letters sent For when the auncient Idolaters Romaines woulde geue leaue vnto the assistaunce at their Sacrifices celebrated to goe home they caused to

vse of the holye sacraments and to restore the Iudaicall ceremonies and Idolatries of the Heathen the auncient Romaines But here might one obiect one Philip which some vauÌ„t to haue bene coÌ„uerted to holy baptisme the maners of whome were so wicked that they gaue occation to the most credible authours to describe him vnworthy the name of a christian One might bringe in Constantyn the great Chronicle of Iohn Baptist which caused the couÌ„sel of Nice to assemble but his resideÌ„ce was in Grecia being called the emperour of the East And yet wolde he neuer receiue the signe of Baptisme Histo tripart lib. 3. cap. 12. to be regenerate by the blood of Iesus Christ vntyll he was lxv yeres olde at what tyme he was baptised by a bishop of Nicomede Arian named Eusebe the same Constantine being at point of death Siluer than the bishoppe of Rome muste not crake that he coÌ„uerted this Emperour to the fayth For this same Siluester woulde not assist the assemble of the counsell holden at Nice in the yere of Iesus Christ 327. Howe soeuer it be it is conuenient to haue recourse always to the veritie of Histories wherein is recited the answere of the Senate and Senators of Rome to the Emperour Theodoze more then 60 yeres after the death of the sayde Constantine the great Which was that they woulde not receyue the lawe of Iesus Christ but obserue theyr auncient lawe Pompilian to auoyde the ruine of theyr common wealthe whiche mighte come by the chaungyng of religion Whereby may be well gathered that than the lawe of god was not receyued nor approued at Rome by the Senate and Senators It resteth that presently we come nearer to the tyme folowyng After the decease of Theodoze the Romaine Empyre of the West began so to bowe that in short tyme it was quyte put out by Wandeloys and Alayns Paul Emil. lib 1. the yere of christ 412. 154. which were the chief that sacked Rome burnt the most part of it and rauished the proper doughter of the Emperour Theodore whome they married to Ataulphe king of the Gothes Blond lib. 2. Decad. 1. A lytle whyle after succeded the Hunnes Then Attilia kyng of the Gothes which vsurped Italy About this tyme the Romaine Empyre of the Weste was spoyled of all Germany Acia Sarmatia Procop. lib. 3. of the warre of the Wandales in the yere of christ 486. and all the Prouinces tributaries vnto Danube Spaygne also Aquitania Gascoygne Bourgoyne al the Gaules did reuolt froÌ„ the romain tyrany Then succeded the Ostrogots with their king Valemir Theodemer Theodoricke other Heathen and Infidels The yere of christ 550. 554 The Visigothes also all vsurpers successiuely of Italy Afterward raigned Totilas whiche forced robbed and burned Rome Paul Emil. lib 1. the yere of christ 568. and all Sicile In the ende the Lomberds conducted by their kyngs Alboin did raygne which vsurped Italye These barbarous nations Idolators and Infidels did serue as whippes ordeyned of God to punishe the Idolaters of Rome committed by them whiche had knowledge of the holye Ghospell And yet tourned back from the true worshipping of god Violating and corrupting the holy sacraments by the inuentions of men To punishe also the infidelitie and obstinatie of the Emperours and Senatours of Rome which first of all caused theyr Lieutenaunts and officers appoynted in Iudea to crucifie Christ and his holy Apostles to persecute the Christians and always to resist the lawe of the Ghospell to mayntayne theyr religion Pompilian Thus we maye conclude that during the space of 400 yeres the Romain churche of Emperours and Senatours hath euer bene contrarye and enemies to the lawe of Iesus Christ Than afterward the occidentall Empyre being ouerthrowen Rome and all Italye was ruled and gouerned 300 yeres or there aboute by Kynges Prynces and Dukes Idolators and Infidels namely by the Wandales by the Gothes by the Hunnes by the Ostrogothes by the Visigothes and by the Lumbards in such sorte that duryng the space of 700 yeres or there aboute after the incarnation of Iesus Christ there was no Emperour King nor prince of Rome which woulde embrace the law of Iesus Christ The which gladly and shortly I haue declared to the ende that the reader thynke it not straunge that I haue here shewed the sacrifice of the Masse to haue taken hys beginning of the auncient religion instituted by Neuma Pompilius moore then 700 yeres before the incarnation of Christ And so afterwarde also the same sacrifice hath bene continued by the Idolatrous Romains inueterate hardened so in their Pompilian religion that thei would neuer put away the same But to the ende that nothing in the Romayne histories be kept close which might obscure the clearenes of the veritie during the tyranye vsurping of the nations aforesayd In the yere of christ 572. in Italy was erected a lytle Lordship at Rauenna whiche continued about 183 yeres Plantin Blond Volatteran vntyll it was rauished by a bishop which inuested him selfe and encroiched into the chayre of S. Peter by the meanes of a donation and dimission practised by Pepin in the yere 758 in recompence of a tyranny exercised by Zacharie Grec bishop of Rome Paul Emul 2. Blond lib. 10. who spoyled the true inheritours of the crown of Fraunce namely Chilperic or Childeric whome he shut vp in a Cloyster to make the kingdome to fall to the said Pipin the sonne of Charles Martell bastarde This donation of Pipin thus geuen to the great Romaine bishop was the first originall of the greatnes of the Popes of Rome who do holde vnto this daye the Lordship of Rauenna 800 yeres beyng past with a great number of townes a long the Sea Hadriatick Blond lib. 1. Paul Emul 2. committed vnto them by Pepin contrary to the expresse commaundements of Constantin than raignynge Emperour of the East in Grecia Whyles this lytle lordship was continued at Rauenna The yere of christ 588. longe tyme before the donation of Pepin the bishoppe of that place seing that there were no more Emperours of Rome which was gouerned and kepte vnder by barbarous people and Infidels lift vp his hornes in such sorte that he preferred hymselfe to be bishop of Rome Sabellie made himselfe the head of the Church and also hymselfe and his successours bishops of Rauenna so long as the Lorship hath continued This was the first litle Antichrist which would take vpon him a tyrannye in the churche to folowe the earthly tyrannye of his Lordshippe Afterwarde there rose vp another greater Antichrist in Constantinoble In the yere of christ 600. Blond lib. 1. named Iohn bishop of that place Who seing the occidentall Empyre of Rome ouerthrowen Greg. lib. 4. of his epistles cap. 26. and the other of Constantinople highly exalted he would also folowe the tyrrannye of the worlde and styrre vp a spirituall rule in the churche of Iesus Christ He caused

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