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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
body_n	head_n	member_n	mystical_a	10,566	5	10.6497	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08488	Sions teares leading to ioy: or The vvaters of Marah sweetned First preached at Clonenagh in the Queenes County in seuerall sermons, and now published for the benefite of the Church. By Ri: Olmstead, minister of Gods word, and Master of Arts.	Olmstead, Richard.	1630 (1630)	STC 18811; ESTC S120808	86,010	266

It is as true that euery member of the Chusch wherof Christ is the Head must of necessity or else no true member of the Head Christ sympathize with their particular fellow members in all their wealth and woe euen the meanest of them so sayth that worthy Apostle Paul b 2 Cor. 11.29 who is weake and I not weake with him who is scandalized but I burne with it and so elsewhere c 1 Cor. 12.26 If any one member he honoured all the rest reioyce with it if any one suffer all the rest suffer with it Thus is it in the naturall body if any tread vpon or kicke the least toe or foot will no the head feele will not the tongue say why do you tread vpon or kicke me and thus it cannot but be in the mysticall body of Christ O Lord if this be true where are there any true members of Christ to be found in this age let mee but finde such a man or woman that when they see Christs members I meane his beleeuing neighbours hungry thirsty naked sicke imprisoned scandalized and he or shee humbly careth for them for care and ioy are the two fairest daughters of Loue and out of his care is affected with his miserie prayeth to God for his reliefe and indeauors to furnish his necessities So on the contrary if God turne the wheele of prosperity then to rejoyce with them especially in spirituall prosperitie after desertion and then I will beleeue that such a man or woman is the child of God hath attained to this blessed godly sorrow as a mostnecessary true symptome character thereof and if it be otherwise it plainly proueth is a black marke of reprobation as will appeare if wee consider these reasons 1. It plainely intimates d 1 Ioh. 5.14 we are but dead men and not translated from death to life e 1 Ioh. 2.10 that wee are still in darknes and without the true light it testifies to our selues Angels and men that we are not onely benummed or paraliticke members but rotten putrified mortified members which must be cut off these are like wooden legges that feele nothing of the bodies or members maladie how canst thou thinke thy selfe a true member of Christ and cryest not out vnder the afflictions of the poorest true beleeuer and expressest not thy sorrow by thine earnest indeauour to ease the crosse affliction what liuing members and feele nothing It is impossible that a true beleeuer member of Christ should bee thus blockish and sencelesse 2. It plainely manifests want of zeale to GOD and his glory when either the cause of the Churches calamitie or the particular afflictions of Gods people strike vs not at the very heart which should be more deare vnto vs shall I say then our owne wealth safetie life yea I may truely say then our owne saluation where is the zeale of Moses blot me out of the booke of life f Exo. 32 32. rather then destroying this people the heathen should insult and say because God was not able to bring his people into Canaan therefore hee destroyde them in wildernesse it was Gods Name that stroke Moses at the heart and this is oft eclipsed by the afflictions of Gods people Oh the miseries woes of infinite millions of men and women with whom it is all one what conditiō befals the Church or any particular member thereof Were old f 1 Sam. 4.18 19. Eli his daughter the wife of Phineas now aliue would not the captivity of the Arke be their deaths to heare of the desolations that are made in that famous and most auncient Church of Bohemia and her sister the Palatine with other partes thus wasted and depopulated the Name of the Lord of hostes to be dishonoured by that relation which our adversaries make of the victories triumphs and successes had by that Popish and Iherian faction and that vnnaturally by the Natiues and Popish English which should bee his Maiesties loyall subiects in this Iland But alas what doe I insist vpon these reasons to incite vs to commiserate the afflictions of the Churches of Christ abroad great is the dishonour of God at home euen in this Kingdome the state of both Sion and Ierusalem is so miserable that it giues vs just cause oh that wee had their affections to cry out g La● 1.2.16 La● 2.18 Ier. 13.27 mine eye droppeth c. Oh that we had not onely cause to say with the Prophet Ieremie Because of eathes the land mourneth but we haue just occasion to say with the Lord by the Prophet Hosea that h Hos 4.1.2 c. God hath a controuersie with vs because there is no mercy truth nor knowledge of God in the Land by swearing lying killing stealing whoring they breake out and bloud toucheth bloud therefore shall the Land mourne and all that are therein shall be cut off with the beasts of the field c. I may adde the abominable drunkennesse oppression idolatry with swarmes of those Locusts the Friers Priests and that Ignatian brood the Iesuites swarming in euery corner by scores seducing and beguiling vnstable soules robbing and impouerishing not only the poore Natiues but the whole Kingdome by their intollerable exactions it is almost incredible the masse and summes of money that they daily rake together I could not beleeue it vntill I saw it by probable demonstrations that at the least 500000 pound sterling and vpward of treasure is exhausted out of this poore Kingdome yearely to maintaine that woful generation at home and corroborate and animate the enemies abroad that the Kingdome of necessity must grow full of penurie their insolencie increaseth so fast and our sinnes provoking the Highest in such degree that except l Am●s 4.12 wee prepare to meet the Lord by speedy repentance as the Eternal himselfe adviseth his people what may we looke for but some bloudy massacres as in Paris and Vastie in the dayes of Charles the ninth in France or at Antvverpe in the Netherlands or else some other grieuous judgments another way Oh that we which are k Is 62.6 ● the Lords remembrancers vvould giue him no rest till he repaire his Ierusalem and Zion Oh yee Reuerend Fathers let these silent lines speake in your cares and be not incensed against them why doe you not imploy rhe Churches weapons which are praeces lachrymae to implore his Maiestie and the State for reformation of these horrible and detestable abominations GOD perswade your hearts to this I know it is the desire of sundry of your soules to see the prosperitie of Bethell and Zion the ruine and desolation of Bethauen and Babell and you Right Honorable the Nobility State of this Kingdome pardon the importunity of these rude lines and let them incite your noble spirits to intreat our God by vnfeigned and carnest supplications prayers l Heb. 5.7 with strong cryes and teares as our