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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	new_a	old_a	testament_n	3,965	5	8.0680	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14708	Certaine godlie homelies or sermons vpon the prophets Abdias and Ionas conteyning a most fruitefull exposition of the same. Made by the excellent lerned man, Rodolph Gualter of Tigure. And translated into Englishe, by Robert Norton. Minister of the worde in Suffolke.	Gwalther, Rudolf, 1519-1586.; Norton, Robert, minister of the worde in Suffolke.	1573 (1573)	STC 25010; ESTC S103038	125,106	338

groūd before we come to the meale There is a swete cornell in the nutte but wee must break the shell before we come to the meat Men are not nowe called and taught immediatly from God as the olde prophets were but by meanes of praying reading meditating and conferring with others euery man is not a deuine which can say the letter without the booke and rehearse the words of the texte let euery man measure him selfe with his owne fote and be not ashamed to confesse his ignoraunce conferre with others and learne that he knew not before and giue God thankes for reuealing his word and thinke well of them by whose meanes he is made better learned When Moyses had giuen a lawe from God to the Jsraelites he made a commentarie or exposition of the same called Deutronomie for their easier vnderstanding Were not the writings and sermons of the prophets expositions and applications of Moyses lawe vnto the times and persons as occasion serued and to reproue wicked men to their faces for disobedience to the same Although some to flatter their feygned friends do lay pillowes vnder mens elbowes and as false prophets do dare vndertake that it is not lawful to reproue openly euill men the word of God and examples of true embassadours of God is to the contrarie Did not Esdras reade the lawe and the Leuites expound it did not Christ expound many places of the olde testament which else we had not rightly vnderstand as in the .12 of Mathew cōcerning Ionas Jn the .4 of Luke the place of Esay and in the .24 of Luke Who could haue gathered out of this place of Math. 22. the resurrection J am the God of Abraham Jsaac c. if Christ had not expounded it did not Peter Acts. 2. expound the .16 Psalme and the Psalme 110. of Christes resurrectiō and made a large and a learned sermon Did not Philippe preach and make exposition of the place of Esay to the chamberlayne Acts. 8. be not Paules epistles full of expositions and openings of the olde prophets It may be obiected that all these are scripture and now it is made so plaine one with another that there nedeth no further opening God hath lefte in his Churche prophetes such as do expound the old prophets 1 Cor. 14. pastours builders and suche like therefore the olde bishops and fathers of the Church haue alwayes taught and defended the Churche by interpreting these scriptures some haue written Apologies and defences of Christes religion some exhortations to constancie and martyrdome some haue confuted heresies whiche alwayes do growe when men are asleepe some wrote homelies for the people some made commentaries and expositions of one or moe of the bookes of the olde or newe testament I speake not of Papists and schole men whiche were all corruptours of the texte and that thorough ignorance but of the auncient fathers within foure or fiue hundreth yeares after Christes ascention though J must leaue vnto them their faults golde is to be digged out of rotten earth As Tertullian Ieremie Iustinus martyr Origene Hilarius Hipolitus Arnobius Lactantius Didimus Ciprian Ambrose Hierome Augustine Basill Gregorie Nazianzene and Gregorie Nycen c. all these and suche like were learned men and such as defended the Churche of God and refelled false and erronius opinions by declaring and expounding the word of god How naked and bare were many places of the old testament if some further sense were not rightly gathered of them than the bare letter J do not meane to bring all the scriptures to Allegories for that were to destroy the texte and to open a windowe for euery wandring spirite to flye out at and to range where he list without grounde as some of olde haue done and popish friers with their dreames haue folowed after that neyther they nor any man else wist whether But J meane beside the historie there may be other sense well gathered as of old fathers haue bene If a man did aske of him that doth superficiallie reade what is the meaning in the .10 of Ezechiel of this saying that one whele did roll and moue within an other the literall sense is bare Gregorie saithe that the newe testamente rolleth in the olde for that which the olde did signifie the newe doth exhibite As for example out of Adam sleeping Eue was formed so out of Christ dying the Church was formed As Isaac caried wood to the altar wher he should be sacrifised and yet escaped so Christ caried the wood of the crosse to be crucified in body and yet remayned immortall in diuinitie What meaneth it that the murtherer after the death of the high priest should be absolued and let go home but that after the death of our high priest Christ mankinde should be losed from their sinnes and sent into paradise againe What meaneth it that in the tabernacle was made a mercy stole ouer whiche were two cherubins of gold c. The mercie seate to be short is Christ the two cherubines be the two testamentes of golde for their purenesse they haue wings for that they flye swiftlie they loke each towardes the other for that they set forth both one thing with their faces towardes the mercie seate for they both haue respect to christ A great number of such misteries may be gathered withoute absurditie or superstition out of the olde testament and referred to the newe Wherefore let vs be thankefull to God for his word and for those that haue set it forth or by any meanes opened the true sense vnto vs Amongst others for this sound expositiō of these two Prophets Abdias and Ionas let vs commēd that worthy and learned man and chiefe writer of these dayes one of the chiefe preachers at Zurich or Tigury master Gualter who both by his continuall preaching and dayly writing hath much profited Christes Church It was translated by master Ro. Norton a godly and learned preaching minister in Suff. not to be published in print as you knowe best but only a thing of priuate exercise and giuen to you as a token of that good will which I haue herd him ofte testifie that he bare you not without your great desert towards him But comming to the hands of one my good friend and whom you seeme to loue well inough he desired me very earnestly and vrged me with most friendly request to set some Preface to it lest cōming barefaced it might seme somewhat defaced whiche yet it needeth not considering the good face it hath of it selfe the which he shal see and delight in who beholdeth it more nerely and narrowly But I coulde not denie his request bycause it was reasonable I would not for that it was friendly Nay I did it most gladly taking no small pleasure by this occasion in the sweete remembraunce of the godly and reformed housholds of good master Drue Druries and yours wherein your selues and your rightly and truely worshipfull Ladies do by your owne godly lyues and framing your childrē