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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	adam_n	fall_n	sin_n	2,091	5	5.4392	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62398	A true history of the several honourable families of the right honourable name of Scot in the shires of Roxburgh and Selkirk, and others adjacent. Gathered out of ancient chronicles, histories, and traditions of our fathers. By Captain Walter Scot, an old souldier, and no scholler, and one that can write nane, but just the letters of his name.	Scot, Walter, ca. 1614-ca. 1694.	1688 (1688)	Wing S948; ESTC R219942	82,296	178

night water earth herbs trees Let there be sun moon stars fish fowl that flies Beast of the field he said let there be All things were created as we may see Thus every sensible and sensless thing The high Creators VVord to pass did bring And as in viewing of his Works he stood He said that all things were exceeding good Thus having finish'd Seas and Earth and Skyes Aboundantly with all Varieties Like a magnificent and sumptuous Feast To th'intertainment of some welcome Guest When Beasts and Birds and every living Creature And the Earths fruits did multiply by Nature Then did the Eternal Trinity betake It self to council and said let us make Not let there be as unto all things else But let us make man that the rest excells According to our Image let us make Man and then the Almighty red earth did take With which he formed Adam every Limb And having made him breathed life in him Lo thus the first man never was a Child No way with sin original defil'd But with high Super-natural understanding He over all the Word had sole commanding Yet though to him the Regency was given As Earths Leivetennant to the God of Heaven Though he commanded all created things As Deputy under the King of kings Though he so highly here was dignified To humble him not to be puft with pride He could not brag nor boast of high born birth For he was formed out of slime and earth No beast fish worm fowl herb wood stone tree But are of a more antient house than he For they were made before him which prove this That their Antiquity is more than his Thus both himself and his beloved Spouse Are by creation of the younger house And whilst they liv'd in perfect holiness Their richest Garments were bare Nakedness True Innocence were their chiefest Weeds For Righteousness no Mask or Vizard needs The Royalist Robes that our first Parents had Was a free Conscience with uprightness clade They needed not to shift the Cloaths they wore Was Nakedness and they desir'd no more Until at last that Hell-polluting Sin With Disobedience sold their Soul within And having lost their Holiest perfection They held their nakedness in imperfection Then being both asham'd they both did frame Garments as Weeds of their deserved shame Thus when as sin had brought Gods curse on Man Then shame to make Apparel first began E're men had said most plain it does appear He neither did nor needed cause menswear For his Apparel did at first begin To be the Robs of pennance for his Sin Thus all the brood of Adam and of Eve The true use of Apparel may perceive That they are Liveries Badges unto all Of our Sins and our Parents woful fall Then more than mad the Mad-brain'd people be Or else they see and will not seem to see The same Robs of Pride that makes them swell Are tokens that our best deserts are Hell Much like unto a Traitor to his King Which would his Countrey into destruction bring Whose treacheries being prov'd apparently He by the Law is justly Iudg'd to die And when the Books for his deserved Death A Pardon comes and gives him longer Breath I think this man most madly would appear That would a Halter in a Glory wear Of Life to be quite dis-inherited But if he should vain gloriously persist To make a Rop of Silk or Golden Twist And wear it 's a more honourable show Of his Rebellion than course Hemp or Tow Might not men justly say he were an Ass Triumphing that he once a Villan was And that wears an halter for the nonce In pride that he deserv'd a hanging once Such with our Heavenly Father is the case Of our first Parents and their fruitful Race Apparel is the miserable Sign That we are Traitors to our Lord Divine And we like Rebels still most pride do take In that which still most humble should us make Apparel is the Prison for our Sin Which most should shame yet most we glory in Apparel is the sheet of shame as it were For man apparel never did receive Till he Eternal Death deserv'd to have How vain is it for Man a clod of Earth To boast of his Progeny or Birth Because perhaps his Ancestors were good And sprung from Royal or from Noble Blood Where Vertues worth did in their minds inherit They enjoy'd their Honour by Desert and Merit Great Alexander King of Macedon Dislain'd to be his Father Philips Son But he from Iupiter would be descended And as a god be honour'd and attended Yet when at Babylon he prov'd but a Man His god-head ended foolish as 't began There was in Cicily a proud Physician Menecrates and he through high ambition To be a god himself would needs prefer And would forsooth be deemed Iupiter King Dionysius making a great Feast The Fool god disguis'd to be a great Beast Who by himself was at a Table plac'd Because as god he should the more be grac'd The other Guests themselves did feed and sill He at an empty table still sat still At last with humble low Sir Reverence A fellow came with sire and frankincense And offered to his god-ship saying then Persumes were fit for gods and meat for men The god in anger raise incontinent Who laughed and in hunger homeward went. The Roman Emperor Domitian Would be a god was murdered by a man. Calligola would be a god of wonders And counterfit the Lightning and the thunders Yet every real heavenly thunder crack This cateif in such fear and terrour strake That he would quake and shake and hide his head In any hole or underneath his bed And when this godless god had many slain A Preband dasht out his ungodly brain And thus the Almighty still against pride doth frown And casts ambition head-long tumbling down Great Pompey would be all the Worlds Superior And Cesar unto none would be Inferior But as they both did live ambitiously So both of them untimeous deaths did die The one in AEgypt had his final fall The other murdered in the Capital A number more examples are beside Which shows the miserable fall of Pride For Pride of State Birth Wisdom Beauty Strength And Pride in any thing will fall at length But to be proud of Garments that we wear Is the most foolish Pride a Heart can bear Know that of thine own thou doth possess Nothing but Sin and woful Wretchedness A Christian's Pride should only be in this When he can say that God his Father is When Grace and Mercy well apply'd afford To make him Brother unto Christ his Lord When he unto the Holy Ghost can say Thou art my School-master whom I will obey When he can call the Saints his Fellows and Say to the Angels for my Guard you stand This is a laudable and Christian-Pride To know Christ and to know him Crucified This is that meek Ambition low Aspiring Which all Men should be earnest in desiring Thus to be proudly