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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	king_n	read_v	write_v	2,895	5	5.5794	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01573	The gallants burden A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, the twentie nine of March, being the fift Sunday in Lent. 1612. By Tho. Adams ...	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1612 (1612)	STC 117; ESTC S100383	48,604	74

the name he intendes to take blessings from the person when Ieconiah's curse is written in the cutting off his Posteritie from the throne of Dauid and himselfe from the prosperitie of the earth he is called Co●●●h the reason is added He is a despised person let him haue a shortned name a broken Idoll and an vnpleasant Vessell c. Thus God crosseth the worlds fashion by putting them in his Chronicle which are not heere thought of and leauing those out which the world boastes of as her glorie to a soule that hath more Affection in her then Religion it seemes a great matter of pitty that Plato Cato Alexander some of those mighty Romane Cesars honored with the graces of Nature the bounties of Fortune the greatest glory the fore'd world could yeeld them should yet want a name in Gods Booke a place in his Kingdome Greatnes is the fairest obiect to the eye of the world Goodnes to the eye of Heauen There is a glorious splendour in pompous Honour to draw the eyes of admiration after it it litle affectes the sight of God if Vertue giues it not a Lustre hee that is goodnesse and greatnesse it selfe when others haue it in the concrete good and great he hath and deserues it in the abstract is pleased to preferre his title of Optimus before that of Maximus and first to be called Good and then Great His affections should be ours he is the absolute precedent of our imitation There are infinite wayes that conduct to seeming Honour excluding Vertue the end of them al is shame since of a naturall man it is true that Quan●ò ornatior tantò nequ●or The more adorned the more wicked our Bonnets vaile our Knees bow to many whom the sight of Heauen and Vertue scornes This imparitie of men lyuing is made euen by death who sweepes all Beggar and Prince with his impartiall Beesome into one Bagge and when Iudgement comes they are made odde and vnequall againe for then the least in the worldes estimation shall sit downe with the blessed Kinges and Patriarches in Heauen when Kinges and Patriottes without grace shal be excluded If you desire your names to be registred with the pen of Eternitie write them your selues with the pen of Charitie the Booke of Grace is the counterpaine to the Booke of Election they are written in Heauen first and there God reades them Wee cannot see into this Booke through the thicke cloudes of the Ayre and Sinne let vs write them in the leaues of Obedience and there read them they stand sure with God before not sure to vs till now Write them in the entrals of the Poore in the ruines of the Church by you bettered repayred maintayned Non norunt haec monumenta mor● and you shall one day heare the Iudge himselfe read them in the audience of all the world to your ioy crowne eternitie of blisse Christ diuerted his Apostles triumph to an other honour they were litle lesse then proud that the Deuils were subdued vnto them through his name whom they serued True sayth Christ I saw Sathan fall from heauen like lightning neuerthelesse reioyce not that the spirits obey you but reioyce that your names are written in Heauen Reioyce not of your innobled bloodes admired with liuing praises rescued from the iawes of obliuion by sumptuous Sepulchers there is small matter of ioy that the name liues in bright honour on Earth when the Soule lyes in the rusting miseries of Hell but reioyce on your assurance of memoriall with God The memorie of the iust shall be blessed but the name of the wicked shall rotte A great name commonly ariseth either from Blood popular applause or Golden trappinges the last vseth a man like a Counter that standes now for a Million instantly for a Penny The first findes Honour perhaps deserues it not leaues it by succession The middlemost is vnconstant as the causes are the vulgar opinions whose distracted voyces seldome hit on the same tune or neuer keepe it long The Monarches of the world haue large and tedious Titles according to their seuerall Dominions good lucke haue they with that Honour which the hand of God reacheth foorth vnto them there is a Title that betters all theirs those are foulded vp in time that perisheth this bringes Honour without end or limits to be a Christian such haue their names producted in Gods booke to shew that they stand written with Golden letters in the Lambes booke of Heauen Abram shal be called Abraham Iacob Israell The Hebrewes well obserue that God to those he loued added a letter of his owne name that tetragrammaton Iehouah as the letter He to Abrahams and Sarahs name the letter Iod to Iehoshua's who was before called Hoshea It was happy for Mordecaj that his name stood in the Persian Chronicles that Ahashverosh might read him his seruice shal be found out with rewardes array him with the Kinges Robe set him on the Kinges Chariot and proclaime his name through the popular streetes This is the man whom the King will honour It is more blessed to stand in the Chronicles of Heauen registred by the Penne of that eternall Spirit wee shall one sit with the King in his Throne Vnicenti dabitur sedere c. and put on his robe of Glorie Be fashioned like his glorious body Such honour haue all his Saintes It is the decree and promise of him whose word is more stable then the foundations of the Earth Those that hon●●r me I will honour Reuolue then his sacred Name in your sanctified mouthes sing Hosa●na's to it heere that you may ●ing Halle●uia's hereafter hauing drunke heartie draughts of his Waters of Mercie blesse with Dauid his great and glorious Name the honour of your owne names is attayned nay consistes in this maintaine the glory of it with your strengthes sound it with your prayses and if need be seale it with your bloodes and God shall write your Names not shortned like Dumahs but at full length in a Booke neuer to be blotted out The nature of the Prophecie followes being that other branch of the Inscription A Burden a matter not easily portable but will weigh heauie on whom soeuer imposed the Burden is in 2. respectes 1. of the Prophet that beare it 2. of the People that were to suffer it 1. The Word of the Lord is to the Prophets a heauy Burden till they are deliuered of it there is no rest in the bones to the surcharged Conscience no more then to the pregnant Woman till she be eased I confesse that Securitie Vanitie abundance of Wealth setting their shoulders to this Burden make many a Prophet forgoe all sense of the weight Ionas loden with his Commission for Niniueh lay as securely in the sides of the Shippe as if the God of Israel had layd no Burden on him but himselfe was a Burden to the Shippe and the furie of