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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	know_v	think_v	3,328	5	3.8263	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15834	The nurses bosome· A sermon vvithin the Greene-yard in Norwich. On the guild-day when their maior takes his oath. On Tuesday Iune 18. 1616. Preached by the parson of Southwalsham. Hereunto is added, Iudahs penance, the sermon preached at Thetford before the iudges in Lent. Mar. 10. 1616.	Younger, William, b. 1572 or 3.	1617 (1617)	STC 26096; ESTC S120582	46,815	66

I can Lord I will offend thee no more I will be no more incontinent no more vnchaste I will be no more couetous contentious no more proud I will be no more false in my weights and measures I will be no more riotous drunke prophane I say againe blessed is the man that hath this remorse to renounce his pleasures to abandon his vices as Iudah here abandoned Thamar and as the Text saith lay with her no more The foole saith Salomon makes but a sport of sinne Prou. 14. Yet fares it with him as with the silly Flye who pleaseth it selfe with the light and burneth it selfe with the flame and I pray what folly is this that a man should purchase a small delight with an endlesse paine a short pleasure Breuis voluptas poena perpetua Hierom. with a perpetuall punishment Or that Natures corruption should strike as great a hand with vs as the Diuell doth with Citizens when he gets them to leaue their honest Trades and turne Vsurers So whereas the Apostle saith God hath not called vs to vncleannesse 1. Thes 4.7 verse 8. but vnto holinesse we despising this reiect the calling of the Saints holinesse and trade with that soule spirit in all vncleannesse But Iudah here in time bethinkes and recals himselfe Though he was auersus and had done naught yet vvould he not be peruersus and be worse then naughts though his bones had been defiled yet would he not haue them filled with the sinnes of his youth no Iob 20.11 Heb. 12 1. he entends now to cast away that which presseth downe his sinne which cleaued to him so fast to runne a new race and to set vp his rest with God It is said of Sertorius Plut. in vit Sert. that because in his life time he had beene assailed with many misfortunes therefore hee resolued to liue at the fortunate Hands Iudah I tell you had rubbed out some in his children in himselfe and hee thought this was not the way to runne on still therefore he wil diuert his course Acts 27.8 and ariue at the Cape De bona esperance as Paul at the faire Hauens so hee at the mercies of the most highest Now will he look vp vnto God and say with the same spirit that Dauid did Now verily I trust yet for all this to see thy goodnesse Psal 27.15 O Lord in the land of the liuing But I forget my selfe Why doe I stay so long in the porch let me goe vp to the Altar Iudah here tenders his Heart vnto you to be sacrificed For as Dauid saith A contrite heart is a sacrifice vp to God Psal 51.17 We wil turn it vp and downe view it a little and if wee can search the very secrets of it Hee resolues no more to fall into this sinne his heart is touched and touched with Remorse Let vs examine what might bee the causes of this his remorse and then iudge of the likeliest as we see cause First of all he might be touched in conscience with remorse for that hee had wronged Thamar by dissembling with her A man were better bee an open foe then a dissembling friend to weare a white garment lined with purple as Alexander spake of Antipater A man should not be foris Cato intus Nero carry heauen in his Face hell in his heart But the tongue and the heart they should be Relatiues In men they are so saith one but they are not so in women Iudah cannot bee free of this fault hee had promised to Thamar his third sonne Shelah and it seemes shee was impatient of the wrong For it is rendred for a reason why she attempted this this thing because Shelah was now growne vp and was not giuen vnto her he did but onely Verba dare courtiers fashion good words she had inough and honourable vsage but hee had no purpose in his heart to doe her right Now we know nothing gals a man more then when he reapes the fruit of his owne dissimulation and feeles the smart of it in his conscience and if you thinke this was no cause of his remorse we will goe further The consideration of her with whom he had committed this euill his daughter in Law Did he thinke it had not beene sinne inough to haue defiled himselfe with some other woman But with her who had beene the wife of two of his sons Er his first sonne Onan his second And with her to commit incest was it not odious was it not abominable Those Roman lads shall be infamous to the latest generations of the earth for their wickednesse in this kinde Fandi nefandi Quis ferre posset principem per cuncta caua corporis libidinem recipientem cum ne billuem quidem talem quisquam ferat Romae Lamprid. ad Const sup De Heliog What say you to Heliog abalus that vessell of filthinesse as his successor Alexander Seuerus called him Nero that monster of nature who knew his owne mother Tiberius who erected an Office in Rome neuer heard of before called à Voluptatibus Caligula Commodus and the rest All these the very Antesignani of this vice some with their Sisters some with their Neeces some with their Daughters And against one Emperour I thinke I might set fiue Popes those vn Holy Fathers Fathers indeede One wrote of Innocent the 8. Octo nocens pueros genuit totidemque puellas Hunc meritò poterit dicere Roma patrem Which I English thus Eight boyes eight girles bad Innocent begot To call this man Father Rome scorne it not But for their notorious and incestuous vitiousnesse in this kinde Monstra portenta Plat. Platina cals them Prodigious monsters against kinde What should I say silence is best in that which is so much abhorring to nature And if you thinke this no cause of his remorse we will goe yet further The consideration of the issue and birth it selfe that it was incestuous Phares and Zara borne I say not the children of Fornication but euen of Incest How might it make him blush and hang downe his head when he could not looke vpon the fruit of his body but he must behold the sinne of his soule He could not haue seene a spot in his face more plaine in a glasse then this soule spot of incest in the faces of these little ones borne vnto him Well Bor●●as in hunc locum that they are thus Non culpa est filiorum sed sola parentum It was no fault of the childrens but the sinfull act of their parents Wisd 4.6 And if it be true that wisedome speaketh That the children borne of the wicked bed they shall be witnesses against the wickednesse of their parents for by reason of their sinne Ecclus 41.10 they are in reproch Ecclus 41 surely this might touch the conscience of Iudah with some remorse For what wrong doe they to holy Marriage when they seeke to compasse the fruit of it quite out of that