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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
child_n	breast_n	mother_n	suck_v	2,417	5	10.4894	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61626	Sermons preached on several occasions to which a discourse is annexed concerning the true reason of the sufferings of Christ : wherein Crellius his answer to Grotius is considered / by Edward Stillingfleet ...; Sermons. Selections	Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.	1673 (1673)	Wing S5666; ESTC R14142	389,972	404

looked better than his neighbours they thereby suspecting he had some concealed provisions They brake into the houses of such whom they imagined to be eating and if they found them so they either forced the meat out of their mouths or choaked them with attempting to do it It was no news then for a Woman to forget her sucking Child so as not to have compassion upon the Son of her Womb for the story is remarkable in Iosephus of a Mother that not only eat part of her Son who sucked at her breast but when the smell had tempted some to break in upon her and take part with her and were struck with horror at the sight of it What saith she will you shew your selves more tender than a Woman or more compassionate than a Mother It was no news to see Parents and Children destroying one another for a piece of bread to see the streets and tops of houses covered with the bodies of those who dropt down for want of food in so much that the stench of their carcases soon brought a Plague among them which and the Famine raged together with that violence that when there was no possibility of burying their dead they threw them over the Walls of the City and Titus beholding the incredible numbers of them lift up his hands to Heaven and cryed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that it was none of his doing For he used all possible means to prevent the ruine of the City and Temple as well as the destruction of the People but all to no purpose for now the time of Gods vengeance was come yea the full time of his wrath was come So that Titus often confessed he never saw such an instance of divine vengeance upon a people that when their Enemies designed to save them they were resolved to destroy themselves And Philostratus tells us that when the neighbour Provinces offered Titus a Crown in token of his conquest of Iudaea he utterly refused it with this saying that he had nothing to do in the glory of that action for he was only the instrument of Gods vengeance upon the Iews Which we may easily believe if we consider almost the incredible number of those who were destroyed at that time 1100000 reckoned in that number in the time of eight months siege and 90000 carried away captive which might have been thought incredible but for one circumstance which is mentioned by their own Historian that at the time of the siege Hierusalem was filled with Jews coming from all parts to the solemnity of the Passover where they were shut up asin a Prison and their Prison made their place of Execution Yea so prodigious were the calamities which besel this people not only at Hierusalem but at Caesarea Antioch Scythopolis Alexandria and almost all the Cities of Syria that Eliazer one of the heads of the Faction when he saw they could not hold out against the Romans at Massada perswaded them all to kill one another by this argument that it was now apparent that God from the beginning of the War had designed their destruction and they had better be the executioners of his vengeance themselves than suffer the Romans to be so Upon which they all miserably destroyed each other who were the last who opposed the Roman Power What shall we say then to these things Have we any ground to suspect the truth of the story as either made by Christians in hatred of the Jews or improved mightily to their disadvantage Not so certainly when all the circumstances are related by Jewish and Roman Writers who had no kindness at all for Christians Or shall we say there was nothing extraordinary in all this but that the Jews were a wild and seditious people that destroyed themselves and their nation but it is evident they were not always so they had been a people that had flourished with the reputation of wisdom and conduct and had great success against their enemies And the Romans themselves at this time acknowledged they never saw a people of a more invincible spirit and less afraid of dying than these were But all this turned to their greater prejudice and they who had been so famous in former ages for miraculous deliverances from the power of their enemies were now not only given up into their hands but into those which were far more cruel which were their own What then can we imagine should make so great an alteration in the State of their affairs now but that God was their friend then and their enemy now He gave then success beyond their Counsels and without preparation now he blasts all their designs divides their counsels and makes their contrivances end in their speedier ruine Now they felt the effect of what God had threatned long before Woe be unto you when I depart from you Now their strength their wisdom their peace their honour their safety were all departed from them Whereby we see how much the welfare of a Nation depends upon Gods Favour and that no other security is comparable to that of true Religion The Nation of the Jews was for all that we know never more numerous than at this time never more resolute and couragious to venture their lives never better provided of fortified Towns and strong places of retreat and all provisions for War but there was a hand writing upon the Wall against them Mene Tekel Peres God had weighed them in the ballance and found them too light he divides their Nation and removes his Kingdom from them and leaves them to an utter desolation Neither can we say this was some present infatuation upon them for ever since all their attempts for recovering their own land have but increased their miseries and made their condition worse than before Witness that great attempt under Barchocebas in the time of Adrian in which the Jews themselves say there perished double the number of what came out of Egypt i. e. above 1200000 men After which they were not only wholly banished their land but forbid so much as to look on the place where the Temple had stood and were fain to purchase at a dear rate the liberty of weeping over it ut qui quondam emerant sanguinem Christi emant lachrymas suas as St. Hierom speaks i. e. that they who had bought the blood of Christ were now fain to buy their own tears It would be endless to pursue the miseries of this wretched people in all ages ever since the slavery disgrace universal contempt the frequent banishments confiscations of estates constant oppressions which they have laboured under So that from that time to this they have scarce had any estates but never any Country which they could call their own So that St. Augustin hath truly said the curse of Cain is upon them for they are vagabonds in the earth they have a mark upon them so that they are not destroyed and