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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	church_n	good_a	great_a	3,182	5	2.6384	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05281	Great Britaines, great deliuerance, from the great danger of Popish powder by way of meditation, vpon the late intended treason against the Kings most excellent Maiestie, the Queene, the Prince, and all their royall issue: with the high court of Parliament at Westminster, there to haue been blowne vp by the Popish faction, the fift of Nouember, 1605. If God of his great mercy had not preuented the mischiefe.; Great Britaines, great deliverance, from the great danger of Popish powder.	Leigh, William, 1550-1639.	1606 (1606)	STC 15425; ESTC S103613	18,263	36

rods and euer so Vt nec vigor sit rigor nec mansuetudo dissoluta as neither your force be rigorous nor your forbearing retchlesse but say with the Orator in the temper of both Natur a me clementem fecit Respub seuerum postulat sed neque natura nequeresp me crudelem efficiet Nature hath made mee mild the commō-weale requires I should be seuere yet neither Nature nor the common-weale shall euer make me cruell And if any man shall scandilize thee of crueltie in thy iust seueritie say ô where is loue I answer Ne timeas cōtra charitatē esse sivnius scandalū multorūpace cōpensaueris Melius est vt pereat vnus quam vnitas Neuer feare the breach of Charitie where with the scandall of one yee may recompence the peace of many for better it is that one dye of many then that the vnitie of all should be dissolued He was wise that said it and I hope the wisedome of this age will approue it take the drosse from the siluer and there shall proceed a vessell for the Finer take away the wicked from the King and his throne shall be established in righteousnesse but beware of delaies for they are dangerous in the executiō of iustice they are deadly dangerous according to that Because sentence against an euill worke is not executed speedily therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to do euill Witnesseth Ely his impunitie towards his children which lost him the Priesthood with his life and brought vpon him and all Israel so heauie a iudgement as Phinchas wife dying left the memory thereof for all succeeding ages whē she bore a sonne and called him Iuabod that is the glory is gone frō Israel Happily Ely spared them for that they were his children and out of his loue and fatherly affection towardes them He deemed it lesse sin to shew some indulgence but one saith well Iustitia non nouit patrē non nouit maetrem non nouit seipsum Responde mihi Iuditium dixit Nathan sic Dauid dedit inditium contra seipsum Dauid gaue iudgement against himselfe in a Plea of faith and fact How then may Princes spare others if they bee found guiltie in either of both Hierome is more peremptorie in a case of like importance When hee saith Licet paruulus excollo pendeat nepos licet sparso crine scissis vestibus Vbera quibus tenutriuit mater ostendit licet inlimine pater iaciat percucatum perge patrem siuis oculis ad vexillum crucis euola solum pietatis genus est in hacre esse crudelem gladium tenet hostis vt me perimat ego de matris lacrimis cogitabo propter Patrem Christi militiam deseram cui etiam sepulturam christi cause non debeo which I may English thus Although thy little Grandchild cling about thy necke and say spare father Although the mother come forth with spred haire and torne raiment and shewe thee the pappes where once thou-sucked thy life with her loue and say spare sonne Although the father cast himselfe downe vpon thy threshold to keepe them tread vpon thy father and with dry cheekes fly to the execution of thy profession It is an onely point of godlines in this case to be cruel and a soueraigne Pittie to be pittilesse Shall the enemie hold vp his hand to Wound the Church and shall I think vpon the teares of my mother shal I because of my father cease to fight for my Christ to whom I owe no buriall for the cause of my Christ but am to leaue the dead to burie the dead whilest I followe him Whereupon I may wel say that mercy may haue it excesse and pittie may be great crueltie especially then when it ouerflow ●●to the good mans danger mistake mee not I like of loue but when it is tempred with feare I like it better I know it may do much with the better sort but not with the greater according to that of Augustine Meliores sunt quos dirigit Amor sed plures sunt quos corrigit timor They be better whō loue directeth but they be moe whō feare correcteth and therfore the temper of both is melodious in the eare of a sanctified setled estate And so to draw towards an end and at last to conclude out of that which hath bene spoken both of former Popish cruelties and out of our happie deliuerance from their last entended treasons powdered with so many mischiefes I say in caution of future peril by mē of that generation Take heed of Poperie take heed of Papists and tollerate neither their cause nor person for if you tollerate the cause it will infect the person if you tollerate the person it will credit the cause therefore to tollerate neither of both in a state so sanctified as ours is I hold it safest What then is to be done will some say away with both head and taile for Poperie kept vnder will practise treason if it get aloft it will play the tyrant therefore no way to haue it is safest and with least danger Further my aduise is that you trust them as little as you may neuer cōuerse with thē but for their cōuersiō if after once or twice admonitiō they grow refractary Deuita knowing that he that is such is peruerted and sinneth being damned of his owne selfe I say trust them not for they are faithlesse and hold it for a doctrine that fides non ●st seruanda-cum Hereticis of which number they reckon all the Protestants of this land to be Againe take heede of them for they are busie bodies and walke inordinately amongst you they are impatient of our profession great peace and much plentie they compasse Sea and land to make one of their owne profession and when he is made he becomes two-fold more the child of hel then he was before These busie bodies take no rest and to haue no rest day nor night is proper to such as worship the beast and his Image and to whomsoeuer receiueth the print of his name Beware of their blind guides Iesuits Seminaries and Seedsmen who to betray the truth sowe the tares of all treasons at all times and in all places they are the Frogs of Egypt that leap into kings chambers busily possesse the Courts of Princes mightie men either to poison their hearts with the enchaunted Cup of Romish superstition or to bereaue them of their liues if they fashion not to their deuotions they leaue the Pulpits they flye from the hornes of the Altar they disclaime the Oratories and they become men of estate managing the Empire and marshalling the common-weale of Princes so as I may well say of these new Nouices as was said of the Monks of old Quicquid agit Mundus Monachus vult esse secundus Where euer the world is one the Romish Cleargie will be another Lastly beware of mixture and shun the sinnes of Samaria