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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
tradition_n	father_n	holy_a	scripture_n	2,746	5	5.8863	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19271	A briefe exposition of such chapters of the olde testament as vsually are redde in the church at common praier on the Sondayes set forth for the better helpe and instruction of the vnlearned. By Thomas Cooper Bishop of Lincolne.	Cooper, Thomas, 1517?-1594.	1573 (1573)	STC 5684; ESTC S108660	415,743	738

of anye people that is * because they Breake the lawe of God Cast awaye his iudgementes and Contemne his worde Yet is God of long pacience and slow to wrath euer trying all means of amendment before he come to extremitie and euen then also sometime he respecteth not the desertes of men but the Glorie of his owne name Moreouer I sayd vnto their sonnes in the Wildernesse Walke not in the c. In the space of fortie yeares well neare all the Fathers which came out of Aegypt were deade partlye by Gods plagues for their disobedience partly by his iust iudgementes otherwise so that but two of them came into the lande of promise Therefore God by his seruant Moyses exhorted their sonnes not to followe their fathers steppes but to cleaue to the law and ordinances of God as it appeareth well neare in the whole booke of Deut. But they were no more obedient thā their fathers were God forbade the people to follow the statutes and Traditions of their fathers Therefore the holy ghost confuteth them which in matters of religion and holinesse will pretend to follow the Example of their fathers and not measure their faith by Gods worde and his holy scriptures The authoritie of fathers ought certainly to be great with their children in all thinges that are not Repugnant to Gods will which is safely and surely vnderstanded by his worde only and not by example of Ancetours or predecessours For it hath beene a common thing among the people of God as it appeareth in this place a number mo that Ancetours haue Erred in Gods causes and therefore can they be no sure ground of conscience I gaue them also statutes that were not good and iudgements wherein they c. All the lawes and precepts of God were pure holy and good therfore the meaning of these words is that forsomuche as in no case they woulde be brought to keepe the Good and wholsome lawes of God by his iust iudgement he gaue them ouer to their owne Phantasies suffered them to vse the wicked and Superstitious ordinances of the heathen to their owne further condemnation And the same meaneth he by this saying I defiled them in their owne giftes and gaue them vp to a reprobate sense that they might destroy the first borne of their owne children in sacrificing them to the Idoll Moloc The like to this Paule also threatneth that shall happen vnto men in the latter dayes and in the times of Antichrist that forsomuch as they will not loue the truth God will bring vpon them an effectuall illusion that they may beleeue lyes to the ende that all may be iudged which would not giue credite to the truth After I hadde brought them into the lande for the which I lifted vp c. Nowe followeth howe Waywardly and disobediently their Fathers behaued themselues after they came into y land of Chanaan For the greater benefices that God of his goodnesse had bestowed vpon them the more readie were they to Fall from his true worship to the Idolatrie and superstition of the Gentiles They serued the Lorde Truly all the dayes of Iosuah and of the Elders that followed him as it is written in the seconde of the Iudges But in the next generation the children of Israel dealt wickedly in the sight of the Lorde and serued all maner of Idols The whole Booke of the Iudges is nothing but as it were a Register of their inconstancie and light flitting from the True seruice of God notwithstanding that he did sundrie times of his great mercie Rayse diuerse Gouernours to deliuer them And afterwarde did they in like maner in the Reigne of many euill kings both of Israell and Iuda And I sayd vnto them what is that high place wherevnto you resort c. The Patriarkes and Saintes of God did alway Sacrifice vnto God as appeareth by Abell Noah Abraham and other Which were not therefore acceptable and pleasant vnto god because they were full Satisfaction for sinnes but rather partly as Thankesgiuing for his benefites partly as figures of the true Redemption and Satisfaction that shoulde be made by the oblation and Sacrifice of Christ Iesu vpon the Crosse Afterwarde God by Moyses distincted those Sacrifices into sundrie sortes and appointed one Place where he would be serued that is at his tabernacle before the time of Salomon and in his temple of Hierusalem after it was by him builded But the Israelites making small account of this order and appoyntment of God builded aulters in euery high place and on the same offered Sacrifice not onely to the liuing God pretending the imitation of the Patriarkes against the prescript of Gods worde but also in the like places offered to Idols and straunge Gods according to the imitation of the Gentiles as in diuerse Chapiters before I haue noted Thus sayth the Lord God are you not defiled in the wayes of your fathers c. After that God hath layde before them the rebellious wickednesse of their Fathers in Aegypt in the wildernesse and in the land of Chanaan that they might not * glorie in the holinesse of their fathers as some time they were woont to do he now commeth to themselues and declareth ▪ that whatsoeuer by Hypocrisie they pretended yet in deede and in truth they were as euill and wicked as they in all kinde of abhomination and spirituall whoredome And in one example especially he maketh proofe of the whole reciting that which of all other was most Horrible that is the Offering of theyr children vnto Idols Wherefore he sayth he will not answere them to their questions nor will not be sought vntoby such Hypocrites as they are And that which commeth into your minds shall not be at all which you say c. These Elders came to the Prophete vnder fayre pretence to Learne at his hande howe they might behaue themselues and howe long the captiuitie shoulde endure but in the meane time they reuolued in their mindes howe they might haue a reasonable colour and pretence cleane to reiect the law of God and to serue Idols of wood and stone euen as the heathen did Happily they surmised that the Prophete would haue tolde them that the * captiuitie should endue 70. yeares as it was then commonly spred from the mouth of Hieremie And then would they haue answered that seeing it was so that they should tary so long in Babilon it should be best for them to applie themselues to the Religion and maners of the people of that Countrey Otherwise if they did sticke to stifly to their former Religion and so much differ from the Babilonians they shoulde be sure to finde them the more grieuous Lordes and Maisters to them But God detecteth this their vnhappie purpose and sayth they shall haue due correction for it As truely as I liue sayth the Lord I my selfe will rule you with a mightie c. I know sayth God this