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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	accuse_v	act_n	act_v	17	3	7.1844	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15520	A Christian dictionarie Opening the signification of the chiefe words dispersed generally through Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, tending to increase Christian knowledge. Whereunto is annexed, a perticular dictionary for the Reuelation of S. Iohn. For the Canticles or Song of Salomon. For the Epistle to the Hebrues. By Tho: Wilson minister of the Word, at Saint Georges in Canterbury.	Wilson, Thomas, 1563-1622.	1612 (1612)	STC 25786; ESTC S121081	469,452	830

vs and blesse vs verse 6. Prou 10 22. The blessing of the Lord maketh rich Thus the word Blesse is taken in good part 5 To flatter and please ones selfe and to boast of his doings to others Psal 10 2. The couetous blesseth himselfe Heere it is taken in euill part 6 The contrary namely cursing an Euphismos when vnseemly things are spoken in seemly words Iob 1 5 Least my sonnes haue blessed God so it is in the Originall that is Blasphemed 1. Kings 20 10. He hath blest God and the King so it is in the Originall for he hath Blasphemed Heere also it is taken in ill part To Blesse abundantly sig To heape benefits plentifully vpon one Heb 6 14. Surely I will aboundantly blesse thee Blessed sig All them which be in the estate of an happy life which consists in Gods loue and fauour Some bee such by nature as Adam in Paradise had naturall happinesse Some are blessed by grace as all the godly euen heere in this life Mat 5 2 3 4. Some are blessed by glory as the glorifyed Saints in Heauen Reuel 14 13. Blessednes sig The happy condition of such as are in the fauour of God hauing their sinnes forgiuen them by saith in Christ. Rom 4 6. Blessed is the man whose sinnes be forgiuen Blessing sig Gods prospering of vs and of our affayres and labours when all haue good successe and turne to our good Psal 3 8. His blessing is vpon his people 2 All good thinges be they spirituall or bodily earthly or heauenly They are in Scripture phrase called Gods blessings euen euery good guift from God to men Eph 1 4. Blessed be God who hath blessed vs with all spirituall blessings Deut 28 2. All these blessings shall come vpon thee blessed shalt thou bee in thy Cattle c. 3 A gift from man to man Gen 33 11. I praythee take my blessing Cup of Blessing sig Cup of Thankesgiuing which we take with giuing of thankes to God for the guift of his sonne 1. Cor 10 16. Blinde sig pro Such as by byrth or casualty lacke their naturall sight 2 Such as be ignorant and lacke knowledge which is the eye of the minde Rom 2 20. A guide to the blinde Math. 15 14. The blinde leade the blinde To make Blinde sig To keepe men from seeing the truth when the light of it is set before them Psal 69 23. Let their eyes be blinded 2 To encrease Ignoraunce for the abuse of former knowledge as happened to them spoken of 2. Thess. 2 11. and Esay 6 10. Blindnesse sig Want of knowledge or ignoraunce in matters of Saluation eyther in whole as in all natural men Eph 4 18. Thorow the ignorance that is in them or in part as in men regenerate who doo see and know but in part 1. Cor 13 12. We know in part we see as in a glasse Bloud sig Death or slaughter Psal 51 14. Deliuer mee from bloud Math 27 24. I am innocent of the bloud of this man Gen. 4 10. Will I require his bloud 2 Reuenge or punishment due for the shedding of blood Math 27 25. His blood be vpon vs our children 3 Cruelty Habak 2 12. Woe vnto him that buildeth a Citty with blood Esay 1 5. Your hands are full of blood 4 The slaine man Iosh. 20 5. If the auenger of blood pursue after him 5 The price of bloud Actes 1 13. The fielde of bloud that is purchased with the price of blood 6 Cause of their owne destruction Acts 18 6. Your blood be vpon your owne head 7 The vnpure beginnings of our birth and conception Iohn 1. 13. Not of blood Ezek. 16 6. 8 The first man of whom all men came as of the first stocke Acts 17 26. God hath made of one blood all mankinde 9 The iuice of the Grape Gen 49 11. And his Cloake in the blood of Grapes To betray innocent Bloud sig To deliuer by Treason an innocent person vnto death Mat. 27 4. Betraying the Innocent bloud Bloud of Christ. sig The death and whole sufferinges of Christ. One part of his sufferings being put for all Eph 1 7. By whom we haue redemption through his blood And often in the Romans and Hebrewes and throughout Paules Epistles is the bloud of Christ one part of his sufferinges put Sinecdochically for the whole sufferings visible and inuisible Therefore it is absurd to stick to the Letter concluding from thence that Christs outward visible suffering were sufficient For from the Letter of Scripture it wil follow that if this blood-shedding was enough therefore his flesh might be spared and all the paines felte therein also his soule with the heauinesse and sorrow thereof whereof there was as great need as of the rest For Christ suffered nothing in vaine our soule hauing sinned yea and that principally it was therefore to be redeemed no lesse then our bodies Blood of the Couenant sig The blood of Beasts sacrificed vnder the Law as signe and pledge of the olde Couenant which was administred in figures prefiguring or being type of the bloud of Christ wherewith the New Couenant is ratified Exod 24 8. Then Moses said Behold the bloud of the Couenant B. O. Body sig That part of man which is made of flesh bones 1. Cor 15 43. The Body is sowne in weaknesse 2 The whole man Rom 6 12. Let not sinne raigne in your mortal bodies that is in your selues which be mortall A Sinecdoche 3 Pith and substance Col 2 17. But the bodie is in Christ. 4 The vnregenerate part of man 1. Cor 9 28. I beat downe my body that is the Old-man Bodie of Christ. sig The one part of Christs man-hood distinct from his soule Heb 10 5. A body c. 2 Whole Christ with all his good things Mat. 26 26. 1. Cor. 10 8. This is my body that is a Sacramentall signe of me and of all that is mine Christs body is not made of bread 3 His Church which is his misticall body consisting of the faithfull onely Ephes 1 22. Head to the Church which is his body Col. 1 18. He is the head of the body of the Church The wicked are not of this body 4 The man-hoode of Christ onely 1. Pet. 2 24. Who bare our sinnes in his body Body of death and body of sin sig Sinne being as it were a body hauing many lusts as members annexed to it and a deadly thing deseruing and leading to death such as serue it Rom. 6 24. Who shal deliuer me from the body of this death Rom. 6 23. The wages of sinne is death Body of flesh sig The humane Nature of Christ. Col. 1 22. That body of his flesh 2 The Old-man and masse of corruption Col. 2 11. Putting off that sinfull body of the flesh Booke sig The whole Scripture or some part of it written together in one Volume Reuel 22 18. The Booke of this prophesie Luke 4 17. He tooke the Booke The Booke

a Candlesticke 3 Gladnesse and Ioy by benefits or deliuerances out of trouble Psal 18 28. God will light my Candle Prou 13 9. The word and Scripture of God is the only and all sufficient Candle Candle-light of the church 2. Tim 3 16 17. It teacheth all truth of saluation it conuictes all errour it instructs in all righteous workes it reprooues all sinnes The Church and Doctors are but the Candlesticke nor that neither except they beare out this light Candlestick sig A frame of Wood Iron or Brasse or other mettall wherein to sticke a Candle being lighted to giue light to them who are in the house 2 Some perticuler Churches or companie of men professing Christ and bearing out the truth of the Gospell in their Doctrine and liues as the Candle is set forth and shewed by the candlestick Reuel 1 20. The seauen Candlestickes which thou sawest are the seauen Churches Captiue sig pro One taken prisoner and held in ●●●ds Captiuity is the estate of such persons 1. Kings 8 26 47 48. In the Land of their enemies which ledde them away captiue 2 One who is bondor become prisoner to Satan and sinne So are the regenerate in part and the vnregenerate wholly Rom. 7 23. 2. Tim. 2 26. In which they are held captiues at his pleasure Captiuity led captiue sig Dauid making his enemies Tributary to him Ps. 68. 18. But especially Christ his ouercomming sinne death satan hell which held the elect prisoners Ephes. 4 8. Care sig A taking thought to please God in our owne persons by doing his will 2. Cor. 7 11. Yea what care 2 A thought-taking and study for the wel-fare of others 2. Cor 8 6. The same care for you Phil. 2 20. Who will care for your matters 3 A taking thought for the thinges of this life Which when it is moderate without distrust of God it is good and commendable If it be otherwise it is euill and forbid Mat. 6 34. Care not for tomorrow Carnall sig A fraile and transitory thing which vanished at the comming of Christ. Heb. 7 16. After the Law of the carnall commandement Thus he calleth the Leuiticall Law 2 One wholy infected with sinne Iohn 3 6. That which is borne of the flesh is flesh or carnall that is fleshly and sinfull 3 One who hath more sin then grace more flesh then spirit 1. Cor. 3 1. But as vnto carnall euen as vnto Babes c. 4 One who is in part corrupted by sinne yet hauing more grace then sinne Rom. 7 14. The Lawe is spirituall but I am carnall Cart-rope Sée Cords Catholicke sig Vniuersall or generall that which concernes not one person or place or people but reacheth vnto all people of al places times ages sex conditions Thus the church of Christ in our Creed is entituled Catholicke And the Epistles of Iames Peter and Iohn be so called The Epistle Catholicke of Iames c. Because they were sent not to one church as that to Corinth to Phillippi c. or to one person as to Philemon to Titus c but to all Iewes beleeuers euery where dispersed or to al beleeuing both Iewes and Gentiles in the world Howe this Title can agree vnto the Romain church being but a particular Church if she were as sound as shee is rotten let reasonable men iudge To say the Romish Catholicke church is asmuch as to say the whole English-Brittish-Nation Cauillation forged sig False and vniust accusation a malicious inuention to trouble a man Luke 19 8. If I haue taken from any man by forged Cauillation Zacheus being a Publican or collector of Tribute and hauing wronged many vnder pretence and colour of the Weal-publicke did therefore charge all such for enemies vnto the common-wealth whosoeuer found faulte with his robberies and harmes This was his forged cauillation A speech borrowed from such as told out who transported Figs from Athens contrary to a Law made in that behalfe to scrape some money from such as being accused by them were found guilty Cause sig Suite action controuersie Esay 1 23. The widdowes cause comes not before them 2 The matter or crime wherewith one is charged Acts 25 27. And not to shewe the causes which are laide against him C. E. Centurion sig A Captaine set ouer an hundred souldiors Acts 10 1. Mat. 8 5. C. H. Chaffe sig A Reprobate like vnto Chaffe for his vilenesse vnconstancy and barrennesse Mat. 3 12. 2 False Prophets with their false Doctrine Ier. 23 28. What is the Chaffe c Chaine sig A Collar of Siluer or Iron to weare about ones necke eyther for Ornament or punishment 2 The grace of Heauenly wisedom which is as a Chaine to decke and adorne one withall Prou. 1 9. 3 The crosse or afflictions for the Gospel 2. Tim. 1 16. He was not ashamed of my Chaine Chamber 3. sig pro Some secret place in an house Mat. 6 6. Enter into thy Chamber 2 The protection of God Esay 26 20. Enter into thy Chamber Chambering sig Vncleane and wanton behauiour Rom. 13 13. Not in chambering and wantonnesse Chaire of Moyses sig The Doctrine which God deliuered to Moyses and was taught by them that succeeded him in the Office of teaching Mat. 23 1. The Scribes Pharisies sit in Moyses Chaire heare them that is to say so long as they teach Moses Doctrine obey them Papistes are heerein deceiued interpreting this of place and succession of persons and not of truth of Doctrine Charge sig Commandement Mat. 9 30. Iesus gaue them charge 2. Tim. 4 1. Gen. 26 11. 2 Cost 2. Thes. 3 8. Because wee would not bee chargeable to others 3 Gouernment or function 1. Kings 2 3. And take heede to the charge of the Lord thy God Charity sig That affection of loue which moues vs to holde our Neighbors deare and to desire and seeke their good in euery thing which is deere vnto them and that for Christ sake according to the will of God 1. Cor. 13 4 5 6 7 8. where you haue the properties of Charity at large described Charret sig A carriage wherein were fighting men of war Iud. 1 19. Because they had Charrets of Iron 2 Captaines and strength 2. Kings 2 12. Charets of Israel 3 Angels 2. Kings 6 17. Mountaine was full of charrets Chast. Sig One borne with some naturall impediment This is naturall chastity Mat. 19 12 Sée Geld. One gelded or made chast by the Art of man This is Artificiall chastitie Mat. 19 12 Sée Geld. One fitted by God for the gift of continencie This is Christian chastitie Mat. 19 12 Sée Geld. to Chasten sig To correct in loue for our profit as a Father doth his childe Heb. 12 6. Whom the Lord loues he chasteneth Chastity sig An abstinence and forbearing not from mariage but from all strange and rouing lusts about the desire of Sex Titus 2 5. To be wise chast c. Chéerefulnesse sig A readinesse and willingnesse of minde in the doing of any good