Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	church_n	king_n	people_n	6,474	5	4.6830	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14050	The hunting of the fox and the wolfe because they make hauocke of the sheepe of Christ Iesus.; Huntyng of the romyshe wolfe	Turner, William, d. 1568.; Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.	1565 (1565)	STC 24357; ESTC S101281	45,226	72

the commaundements of God for your tradition they worshippe me in vaine that teach lerninges which are the commaundements of men Marke in the vij Chapter rehearseth Christes sayinges thus ye leaue the commaundement of God and keepe the ordinaunce of men as washing of cuppes and pottes and many other thinges do yee like vnto these Ye cast wel away the commaundements of God that ye may sette vp your tradition The byshoppes of Englande and the preachers there nowe specially they that are in auctority commaunde the people to creepe vnto the Crosse to take holy water and holy bread to weare beades and to go in procession to heare masse to here mattins and euensong in a tongue that they vnderstand not to set vp candels to lift vp their handes to bread and wine to praye to Saints to praye for the dead to heare the piping of the orgaines and preache not the worde of God neyther exhorte the people to worship God inspirit and truth in commanding and preaching of these they are very earnest but slowe in setting forth the will and expressed commaundement of God They repuire these so earnestly of the people and punish them so sore that breake these that they compell them to breake the open commandements of God that these may be kept Euery holy day when as the word of god should be preached and the right Supper of the Lord should be receiued when the cōgregation should pray togither in a common tongue these can not bee exercised for the infinite number of popish toyes and trifles which Gardiner with his garison haue of late by open tirany against the kings law and gods word violently thrust vnto the church before the Kings law was abrogated Ezechiell also in the xiij chapter writteth thus of false prophetes which flatter the people and tell them not of theire faultes Because ye haue spoken vanitye and haue seene a lye therfore beholde I the Lorde God am against you my hand shall be against the prophetes which see vaine thinges and prophecye lyes They shall not be in the secreate of my people and they shal not be written in the number of the house of Israel neyther shall they come into the land of Israel and yee shall know that I am the Lord God Nowe for as much as they haue begiled my people saying peace when as there is no peace and when as the people bildeth the wale they with their daubing couer it with a naughty crust tel them that couer it with an vnprofitable crust that it shal fal I will ouerthrow the walle which ye haue pargetted and couered with a naughty crust and I will dash it to the ground And thou sone of man set thy face against the daughters of they people loe there were then as well shee wolues as hee which prophecye out of their owne hearte and prophecy againste them and saye thus sayth the Lorde God Woe be vnto them that sewe Cusshons vnder all elbowes of handes and make bolsters for the heades of euery stature to hunte for the soules o● my people that ye may catch them and shall ye quicken the soules of the people that come vnto you Ye haue dishonoured me before my people for a handful of barley and lomps of bread to kil soules which ye oughte not to kill and to quicken soules to whom ye ought not to promise life ye haue made sad and sorowfull the hearte of the righteous with a lye when as I made him not sory and haue strengtthened the hands of the wicked that he might not return from his euil way that he mighte be saued aliue These are the words of God in Ezechiel wherby he describeth one kind of false prophets and these words doe agree with the maners of the byshops of England therefore they are false prophets The byshops and massaying priests of England deceuie the people by saying that there is peace ▪ when as there is none when as they say that god is not angry with the people that neyther heareth the word of God neither prayeth with the heart in the common place appointed for prayer and saith it is sufficient if they heare masse and mattins though the two other thinges bee not done Almighty God requireth that ther shoulde be no beggers amongst his people he requireth that no man shall put away his wife except it be for fornication that no man shal take the name of god in vain that rulers shall not polle and pill their subiects that no man shall banket excessiuely and be dronken that no man shall doe it that is the cause and grounde of euell as are Dicing and Carding for money and suche Daunsing as is occupyed in greate mens houses and other places also where vpon followeth wantonnesse and letcherye But the contrarye is occupyed and their diocesanes and parishioners ar a wale wherin al these faults be that are cōtrari to the wil of god And yet thei prech not against thē neither they about to mend it that is faulty in the walle but daube and parget ouer the walle with Masses Diriges Letanies reading without any profit creping vnto the crosses offering vnto Idoles with Auricular confession with eating of fishe vpon the Friday and in Lent and such other painted poperye the people being decked with this paynted poperye looked not to amend their liues but thinking that they are in peace with God occupyed their accustomed naughtines and at length come into euerlasting dānation When as the collection and gathering was of late for the pouerty the papists thorow out al England could not be brought to giue the fourth part vnto the poore that the gospellers gaue belike because they thought that they were discharged from giuing of almes if they kepte some money behinde for the priestes that should within a short while in the long looked for day say masse and sing for them these men were so pergetted with popestrie and with the outward shew of holines that they thought themselues no more bound to giue any sufficient almes according vnto the Scriptrue But what maruell is it if the common people thinke thus when of late a certaine papist in an open sermon began earnestly to speake against the almes house which was builded and founded by the liberality of the citezins of the noble city of London When as Tunstal Gardiner Stokslay and the rest of the papists bare the swing vnder king Henry the eyght they suffered the King and diuers Lords of the realme to put away and take as manye wiues as they list without any correction or admonition If that they had don their duety the vertuous Lady Anne of Cleue had neuer ben deuorced and put away from the King her lawfull husbande There were foure Lords in Englande that put away their wiues not for fornication but because they liked hor●es better Two were in Somerset shire one in Northfolke besides that a Knight in Somerset shire did the like Where as the liberalities of our fathers

of England be not wolues and false prophets as ye seemed a little while ago to hold when as you sayde tht all the masse priests in England were wolues Hunter Who can make him see that will needes be blinder I haue brought reasons arguments and auctorities ynough to proue that they are all false prophetes and wolues and ye can make no aunswere vnto them for all that ye will not consent vnto the truth As for your byshoppes and parsons that preach which are very few in comparison of the vnpreaching number I say that their preachings which they preach deliuer them not from the righte names of wolues but much more make them wolues for he is not onely a false prophet that commeth into the sheepe folde vnsent or if he be sent preach not but also he is a false prophet that preacheth other learning vnto gods people then God hath commaunded him to preach ● as are all the ordinaunces statuts lawes of men which eyther comfort men where as god comforteth not or discorageth men wher as god discorageth not and this will I proue by diuers open places of the scripture Deut. 18. If any arrogant prophet wil speake in my name those things that I commaunded hym not to speake or in the name of other gods he shal be slaine Hiere 14. the prophets prophecy falsely in my name I sent them not I commaunded them not neyther haue I spoken vnto them they prophecy vnto you a false vision a deceitfull prophecy and the deceiuing of their owne hearts I tre 23. ye shall not heare the words of the prophets which prophecye vnto you and make you fooles and speake it that they see in their hearte and not it that commeth oute of the mouthe of the Lorde I haue hearde what the prophets prophecying lyes in my name say they say we haue dreamed we haue dreamed Howe long shal this be in the hearts of the prophets to prophecy a ●ye to prophecy the deceit of their hart whose drifte is to this ende that they may driue my people to forgette my name by the meanes of they re dreames which euerye man telleth vnto his neyghboure euen so as their fathers forgot my name thorowe Baal Wherfore he that hath a dreame let him tell it as a dreame and he that hath my word let him speake my word faithfully for what hath chaffe to do with wheate Ezechiel 13 Sonne of Man prophecye against the prophets of Israel which prophecye and saye vnto them whiche prophecye out of they re owne heart heare the worde of the Lorde so saith the Lord god Wo be vnto the foolishe prophets whiche folow their owne spirite when as they haue sene nothinge O Israel thy prophets are made like Foxes in the wildernes ye haue not gone vp vnto the burstinges neyther haue ye made an hedge for the house of Israel that ye might stand in the battaile in the dai of the Lorde they haue seene vanitye and lying prophecy saying the Lord hath said when as the Lorde sent them not Haue ye not seene a vaine vision and haue ye not spoken a lying prophecy saying the lord saith when as I haue not spoken Ezechiel 22. The prophets daube the Princes with a foolishe cruste that is to wit seing vaine thinges and prophesiyng a lye vnto them saying so saith the Lord god when as for all that the Lord hath spoken nothing Now haue I prouid by the written word of god that all they which speake any thing that god hath not commanded them to speake and preach any thing that hath not commed out of gods mouth are all false prophets But the Wolfe of Winchester the loyterer of London the dreamer of Durram and all they that in they re preachinges saye that it is vnlawfull for byshoppes or priests to haue wiues that it is not lawful to eate fleshe in Lent by the law of god that a prieste ought to haue a shauen crowne a side gown an Albe and vestiment vpon him when he ministreth the Lords Supper that a byshoppe is higher than a priest or elder by the lawe of god that there ought to be Images Aulters Crosses Candels Censures Holy Water Holy bread Palmes singing of Latin in the church where the people vnderstandeth no latine that Saints ought to be called vpon that wee can helpe the dead with our prayers that there is no bread and wine in the Supper after the priest haue sayde these fiue words Hoc est corpus meum that no man ought to be a minister except he be subdeacon deacon before and therewith haue receiued benet and co●let and that no man ought to be admitted vnto the order of a subdeacon deacon or els an elder or priest except he vowe chastity before preach and saye those things which god neuer commaunded them to saye Therfore I gather that they are all false prophetes and therefore wolues because as I sayd before a false prophet and a Wolfe are all one Dean I thinke they are not so slenderly learned but they bee able to proue that god hath commaunded them to say all these things which ye haue rehearsed Hunter If they can proue by the Scripture that god commaunded them to saye and preach the aboue named things doubtles they haue other Scripture then we haue but I know that they can not proue by the written word of god that god gaue them anye commaundement to saye and preache these thinges therefore I will calle them false prophets vntil they can shewe theyr commission that god hath commanded them to preache such doctrine Deane What wyl yee doe if they can proue that they had commission of god to preache so Hunter I wyll crye them mercy and knowledge that I haue erred But because me thinke yee will not beleeue that they are false prophets for all my argumentes and places of the scripture alledged I will alledge another property or two of a false prophet which they geue and they ar these To be earnest in setting out of theyr one doctrin and to be cold in setting forth of gods expressed commaudement and to breake Goddes commaundement that theire tradition or ordinaunce might be aduaunced or set vp to threaten great punishment where as god threateneth none and to discorage men from it that god hath earnestly commāded and to flatter great men and to suffer them to do what they list and so to maintaine them in their wickednesse are the properties of a false prophet And that these are the properties of a false prophet I wil proue it by diuers open places of the scripture Christ in the xv of Matth layeth vnto the pharises charge which were false prophets that they were so earnest in setting forth and in keeping of their owne traditions and ordinaunces that they not onely not cared for the commaundement of God but also brake the commaundement of God that their traditions migh be set forth and kept of all men The wordes of Christ are these wherefore breake ye