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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	effect_n	reason_n	see_v	2,645	5	3.6710	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10062	The eagles flight or six principall notes, or sure markes for euery true Christian to soare vp to the euerlasting nest of Gods eternall kingdome. As it was deliuered in a most godly and fruitfull sermon at Paules Crosse. By Maister Price of S. Iohns in Oxford.	Price, Henry, 1566 or 7-1600.	1599 (1599)	STC 20307; ESTC S100876	32,251	86

the Fathers were they so They could not mee thinks misse of eyther that of Leo It is so obuious Necessarium est trepidare de monito Religiosum gaudere de dono Be thou neuer so good yet must thou learne to builde so little on it as to tremble at the thought of it And bee heauen giuen neuer so free cost yet so downe must thy stout hearte on this condition to bee glad to accept it Or that of Bernardus Merita habere cures merita data noueris frùctum speres dei miseric ordiam Doe not like the men of this barren generation of ours who as securely as they sit are the next doore to cursing and in the way to burning too Heb. 6. for that 's the issue they shoulde finde of so little fruite after so long tilling Bee doing a Gods name and God though he will not sell the yet will giue thee heauen but yet see thou bee sure to remember of whom it is giuen thee to be able to do this good and then in any case let thy Plea be Not mine owne merit but his mercie A third sort of men there is who build and about the rocke too but not on the top of the rocke as Iob tels vs the Eagles doe but where the storme hath worne a hole in the rocke These are rather Plinies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so termed because they naturally want feete and cannot stand in english Martinets who as the same Author lib. 10 chap. 39. of his naturall history writeth haue certaine good qualities First they bee very rife court and contry swarme with them Then they are as busie as rife His quies nisi in nido nulla aut pendent aut iacent They are still stirring but in their nests and there you shall not take thē but either hanging or lying Last they are as diuerse as either rife or busie ingenia aequè varia scarce two of them in one minde First they builde in the Ruines of the Rocke for what betwene the sacrilegious preferrer which will not beg all but haue some And the Simonicall gratifier who like our new kinde of purchasers makes away land to get Lordshippes by sea and the fantastique Reformer Qu● nomine imperij impugnat imperium Act 5.38 who hath beene so long building the Church till hee hath almost puld downe the Church for there are more kinde of Martinets than the Libellers neuer wrought Hannibals scalding vineger vpon the Alpes as these fellowes as hote as tart Spirits doe vpon this poore Rocke the Church to make it moulder downe But the comfort is they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they haue noe feete For if Paule his tutors rule holde and by Saint Luke registring it it should seme it doth This councell of theirs which is not of God cannot stand the roote of that cannot bee but rottennesse whose fruite is but corruption and no longer can this fog of their greatnesse last than till the Sunne be risen to dispell it and towards day it cannot but alreadie bee so many Cocks haue crowed against them This of the first note of an Eagle the nest and such as by it may be knowne to be no Eagles Now a worde of the second to witte the eye which be you of the right male is al waies so quicke as to ken a farre off so strong as to looke straight against the Sunne For her eyes behold a farre off saith Iob Plin. lib. 10. cap. 3. Illi acies contra radios solis stat firma her eye will neuer water though she gase into the Sun And these two vertues shall you still marke in their eyes who shall bee gathered hither Iob. 39.32 See the first in Abraham in whose bosome Diues would faine haue beene he can see and reioyce at Christs day almost 2000. yeares off See the second in Eagle Iohn himselfe and his fellowes he runnes not with bare 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wee haue seene but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ioh. 8.56 our eyes haue serued vs to stande and gase vpon no lesse than euen his glorie yet what manner glory was his very such as is the onely begotten sonnes of the Father Gratious God how farre are the Atheists of our age from both this strength and sharpnes of sight Light it selfe is so dym they cannot see it themselues are so farre off they cannot discerne themselues for God is light so saith the truth and their soules are themselues so faies their Philosophie They cannot see a God that is the fountain of al natures in so cleare a glasse as the Mirrour of all creatures A worke so faire would in reason proue a workeman as skilfull For to an effect aboue the bent of his owne nature can no cause any better reach than a childes wit can to the building of this Church And yet can they Bussards as they are see a worlde that is a building infinity admirable for the firmnes capacitie maiestie vse order motion of it And not finde as much as the tracte of any creatures either omnipotēce in that fitmenes or infinitnesse in that capacitie or glorie in that maiestie or goodnesse in that vse or wisdome in that order or life in that motion of it Suppose one of these pollitike depose-Gods were but a maister Chimick as such working wits are verie ingenious hauing don me the fauour to shew me some one of his especial Magistrals as greatnes of skill pride in kindenes are oft cōpenions should heare me iudge it to be the destillation of some Pedler Aqua-vitae-man would he not take mee to be of small iudgement in that Arte And then demaunde I of him whosoeuer hee be whether as meane an opinion for his iudgemēt in very nature may not be wel had of him who seeing an heauen which hee confesseth abundant in varietie of influence and they all as maruelous as manic managed by a consort of motions which thwart and yet disturbe not one another Who treading vpon an earth which yealdes breade to strengthen him wine to comfort him golde to enrich him drugs to heale him wonders to astonish him who sailing vpon a sea which hee knowes is water that is a humor naturally spreeding and yet sees it higher than the earth that is against nature without limit solid can yet surmise so hab-nab a cause as chance nay anie but so aboue nature a cause as GOD could bee the compactor of this heauen the endower of this earth the controller of this sea Hee sees huge Elements earth water and aire yet so ouerawde as to giue their substance moisture and breath to the nourishing little plants and hearbes Hee sees fierce sturdie beasts yet so ouerruled as to yeelde their backs to seruing their liues to feeding weake and little man O can he doubt there is an vmpire of impeachable right vnmatchable power vnsoundable wisdom which could without repining subiect those so greate to these so little Let mee beg of him be there any present