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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	mount_n	14	3	8.6661	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01083	A godly and frutefull sermon, made at Maydestone in the county of Kent the fyrst sonday in Lent, in the presence of the most reuerend father in God Thomas archbishop of Canterbury. &c. / by M. Thomas Cole scholemayster there, againste dyuers erronious opinions of the Anabaptistes and others.	Cole, Thomas, d. 1571.	1553 (1553)	STC 5539; ESTC S124208	30,464	70

in a fylthy conuersation than to ouercome one man that exerciseth himself in vertue and godlynesse First therfore he byddeth battail to the vertuous man as to his most aduersary whose castell he knoweth to bee so stronge and vnsaultable that without diligent beatynge of his diuelish wittes he can by no meanes win it Stronge is that munition whose walles are brasse but stronger is that soule whose walle is the word of God inuincible is that forte whose rampyres are strongly couched to the walles and of great quantitye but more inuincible is that soule whose faith is suerly lynked to the woorde of God and in great quantity expresseth the frutes thereof thorowe vndefyled charitie yet is there no bastylion so stronge but by some meanes it may be ouercome For that that force often mysseth that doothe prodition brynge to passe and that that canne not bee doone by other is often thorowe pollicy doune by oure selues Of this the subtyle Satanas is not ignoraunte whose practise it hathe beene frome the beginnynge agaynst mans soule and wyll bee I feare mee vnto the ende We haue exaumple in Scripture that somme tyme by force of other hee caused menne to synne and sometyme he prouoked theymselues to be cause of their owne myschief Whylest Moyses was in the Mounte wyth God the dyuell knewe that the gouernmente of the people hanged vppon Aarons shoulders wherefore thoroughe the ignoraunce of God hee styrred vppe the heartes of the Israelytes to cause Aaron to make theym a molten Calfe after Exo. 32 the manner of Egypte Thus by force hee caused Aaron to bee their ymage maker contrarye to Goddes wyll But where thys feate serueth not hee occupieth the other namelye to make men betraye theim selues What needeth me to rehearse the good Kynge Ezechias whome the dyuell so myghtilye assaulted 4 Reg. 30. thorowe his cruell instrumentes the capitayn of Sennacherib kyng of Assyria tempting him with outragious blasphemy agaīst god to giue ouer his heart with the people thorowe incredulitye into the handes of the king of Assyria Yet could not the dyuell by these his ministers ouercome good Ezechias but the more thei proudly bragged the more 4 Reg. 20 Ezechias humbled himselfe The more they callyd to the people fearyng them with the name of the kyng of Assyria with his gestes and marciall feates to tourne their heartes from their kyng that kyng and people may fall into his hande so muche the more good kynge Ezechias called vnto God in feruent prayer to be defended from Gods enemye the enemye of his people the kyng of Assyria And god of his free mercy heard his prayer strengthened the peoples hearts and delyuered Ierusalem from the spoyle O victory of Faith Sathan therfore perceiuing that by this waies he could not preuayle agaynst Ezechias whose munition was so strong thorow Iesu Christe he wente an other way to woorke namely by prodicion to cause him to betray himself that hee myght by som mean cause him to offend After that god had giuen him peace and destroyed the hoste of Assyria the kynge of Babylon sente 2 Par. 22 guiftes to Ezechias The dyuell therwithall made him to forget his humilitie and thrust into his heart opinion of himself whereby he dydde not onely reioyse that so famous a kyng shuld seeke friendship at his handes by guiftes but also to ostentate his ryches and power hee shewed the messangers hys treasure house for the which the Prophete was sent to rebuke him he repented This hath been his fetche of olde as we here se this doth he practise nowe at this daye againste those that couette to leade a vertuous life whose fall is his only ioy because he is a deuourer Therfore where he perceyueth anye that haue pleasure in godlynes and to walk in the orcharde of Gods eternal woorde by whose pleasaunt sauours their soules might be consolated to infect those is his whole industrye which he can by no meanes doo but by makynge theim receiue the grace of God in vaine Seyng then that hee can not corrupt them with grosse synnes which thorow custome and exercise of vertu do continually watche that they may escape them he desyreth to corrupt them therin wherin they lest suspect to fall namely in doctrine and that bycause he seeth them greedy of knowledge and of the sweete sauour of the truth Therefore he gathereth togither a great heape of noysome floures which are beautifull to the eye and seme for their glosse and coulour to haue growen in the orcharde of the Lorde yet is their styncke deathly and pestiferous to theym that obstinately delyte in theyr sauoure and declareth theym not to be of the orchyarde of God but of the contagious palude of hell Those hee straweth before the godly lyuer that by their yll sauour he may be an euell speaker and so receiue the grace of God in vayne For as good sauour is comfortable to the body and a preseruer of his health so is sounde doctrine the preseruatiue of the soule As it is written Verba quae ego loquor spiritus vita sunt Ioh. 6 But as nothynge soeuer corrupteth the body than stynkyng sauour and impure ayre so nothynge soeuer kylleth the soule than impure doctrine As it is wrytten Erratis quia nescitis scripturas Seing that the Math. 22 dyuell straweth such flowers before good lyners prouokyng them by their couloure to poyson them self with their sauour charitye willeth that ye declare them least happelye anye man thorow ignoraunce shoulde smell there vnto and so receiue the grace of God in vaine Geue eare therefore and yee shall perceiue these flattering floures of the dyuell wherwith he laboureth to deceyne and beeware of them Fyrste That all menne bee so saued that none at length shal be dampned This floure seemeth to haue a goodlye colour the dyuell by the deceitfull beautye thereof entiseth some to put it to their nose that with smellyng therto their souls might be fylled with blyndnes and errour For it seemeth to be buylt vpon the mercy of God but so that vtterly it destroyeth his iustyce breedeth in manne a false securitie cleane rooteth oute of hys hearte the feare of God and obedience to hys woorde wherefore it is as Cycute and mortifyeth the soule For althoughe God bee mercifull as hee is in deede by the which he wylleth Eze. 18. not the death of a synner Sed magis vt viuat conuertatur yet is hee also iuste by the whiche hee condemneth the vnbeleuers and impenitente Therefore it is wrytten Eccl. 5. Eccl. 19 Ge. 6 19 Nume 14 ▪ Ne dica● Miseratio Domini magna est multitudis peccatorum meorum miserabitur Misericordia ira abillo cito proximant in peccatores respicit ira illius Non tardes conuerti ad Dominū ne differas de die in diem Subito enī venitira illius in die vindictae disperdet c. The worde of God therfore dooth