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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	aaron_n	calf_n	commit_v	13	3	6.3144	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02058	An alarum to England sounding the most fearefull and terrible example of Gods vengeance, that euer was inflicted in this world vpon mankind for sinne: seruing generally as a warning for all people to eschew sinne, lest they partake of the like vengeance. By Robert Gray, preacher of the Word of God.	Gray, Robert, 16th/17th cent.	1609 (1609)	STC 12203; ESTC S120400	50,215	146

sayd he is able to giue wisdome vnto men but Alexander is so proud that there is no place for wisdome to take place in him And lastly a proud man is in danger to lose those good gifts and qualities which hée already hath according to that old prouerbe Inficit egregios adiuncta superbia mores Where pride is there all excellent conditions are infected and poysoned so that they eyther dye or grow so weake that they are not able to performe any good office or duety This made Dauid pray Let not the foot of pride come against mee for well he was assured that if pride set in a foot against him hee should haue extreme wrong offered him Pride then being one of the sins of Sodom it is manifest that there was no religion there no séeking after God nor any care of his worship or seruice neither was there any iustice iudgement or equitie in the land but all kinde of oppression and wrong all grace goodnesse was exiled thence neither was there any place for vertue godlinesse in that place and therefore no maruel it was if God brought such a fearefull destruction vpon such a proude place and people for pride brings alwayes destruction with it as Salomon saith Pride goes before destructiō and an high minde before a fall So that a man is neuer néere a mischiefe till hée grow proud for thē he procures Gods hatred towards him as it is in y e Prophet The Lord hath sworne by himselfe I hate the excellency of Iacob And this hatred that God beares against pride prouoketh him to resist the proud to crosse them and by sundry meanes to reuenge himselfe vpon them This shall they haue for their pride sayth the Prophet The Lord will be terrible vnto them as he hath threatned by the Prophet Ieremy saying Behold I come vnto thee O proud man And The proud shall stumble and fall and none shall raise him vp and I will kindle a fire in his cityes and it shall deuoure all about him All these threatnings against pride did the LORD bring vpon Sodom and her Cityes in such sort as they are héere remembred for an example vnto all posterityes the same threatnings he will likewise bring vpon all those that are infected with it The second sinne of Sodom was fulnes of bread By bread is signified all such meats drinks as are vsed for the nutriment of the body which this people of Sodom did vse with such saturity and ingurgitation as did not relieue nature but destroy Grace Nature is content with a little Grace with lesse but where this fulnesse and repletion of bread is there nature is depraued and grace destroyed This sinne is the baite which the diuell vseth to prouoke men to yéeld vnto all his temptations for as the Faulconer when he would call his Hawke to his fist doth not hold out his bare fist vnto her but sheweth her a piece of flesh vnto which shee willingly comes and so is taken so the deuill when he would tempt a man to any sinne he offers him the baite of deliciousnesse knowing that the more the body is repleate the more emptie is the soule of all grace and goodnesse One cause why Diues was so vnmercifull towards poore Lazarus was because he fared deliciously euery day for a full belly is neuer touched with the féeling of others miseries The cause why the Israelites were not sorry for the affliction of Ioseph nor pitied the distressed estate of their brethren was because they ate the lambs of the flocke and the calues of the stall and drunke their wine in bowles The cause why euery man among them neyed after his neighbours wife was because they did rise in the morning like fed horses And the cause why they committed idolatry and worshipped the golden calues which Aaron made them was because they cram'd themselues excessiuely with meat drinke and that made them forget God which had done so great things for them Whereby it is euident that the repletion of the belly is the confusion of the soule and that the deuill hath the greatest aduantage against vs to tempt vs and wee the least strength to withstand him in this repletion and fulnesse of bread therefore Dauid calleth the table of delicious féeders a snare for euen as birds are caught in that place where they come to féed euen so are they that fare deliciously caught in the Deuils net whiles they féed For this cause the Wise man forbids vs to bée companions with those which cramme themselues with flesh lest by eating and drinking excessiuely we giue the deuil aduantage to tempt vs to some grieuous sinne And in like maner did Almighty God forbid the Prophet to go into y e house of feasting to sit there to eate and drinke for as he saith in another place When men are filled their hearts are exalted and then they forget God And as this fulnesse of bread plungeth the soule into many inexplicable dangers makes it subiect to diuers temptations so is this vnmeasurable féeding hurtfull obnoxious to the body for when the stomake receiueth such aboundance so many kindes of meat and drink it is oppressed rather then relieued Therefore saith Salomon that the saciety of the rich will not suffer him to sleepe his body is so distempered by his féeding that his quiet rest departeth from him We estéem the goodnes of a medicine not by the pleasantnes nor by y e great quantity but by the wholesome good operation of it so ought we to estéeme of meat not by the deliciousnesse of it nor by the abundance of it but by the health it bringeth to our bodyes Nothing bréeds a surfet sooner then this fulnesse of bread out of all doubt this vnmeasureable féeding hath brought many to an vntimely death If therefore thou wilt kéepe thy body in health vse thy meat and drinke as thou vsest medicines that is seldome and in small measure for in fiue things doe wée especially offend in eating and drinking First when wee make it our first worke in the morning being no sooner out of our beds but our minde is vpon our meat for which cause Salomon denounceth a wo vnto that land whose Princes eat in the morning for such as eate in the morning are fit for nothing all the day after Secondly wée offend in eating and drinking when we are too curious and nice in our dyet not contenting our selues with ordinary and common meates and drinkes but longing after strange and vnusuall things and those must be most costly and curiously drest this was the sinne of the Israelites which loathing Manna desired flesh for their lust for which curiositie of theirs God destroyed them euen whiles the meat was in their mouthes And the Emperour Augustus did cause one Erotes a Lieutenant in Egypt to bée naild to the mast of a ship