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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	call_v	lord_n	word_n	2,792	4	4.2711	3	false

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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 thēselues 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 thē 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 cōpany 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 watchmē 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 rūning 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 thē 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 thē 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