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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	aaron_n	moses_n	son_n	49	3	4.3410	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09069	A booke of Christian exercise appertaining to resolution, that is, shewing how that we should resolve our selves to become Christians indeed: by R.P. Perused, and accompanied now with a treatise tending to pacification: by Edm. Bunny.; Booke of Christian exercise. Part 1.	Bunny, Edmund, 1540-1619.; Bunny, Edmund, 1540-1619. Treatise tending to pacification.; Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610. Christian directory.	1584 (1584)	STC 19355; ESTC S105868	310,605	572

for him he blessed them both and finally shewed al possible tokens of love that might be But what insued Adam committed but one sin and that at the intisement of another and that also a sin not of so verie great importance as it may seem to mans reason being but the eating of the tree forbidden and yet the matter was no sooner done but al frindship was broken between God and him he was thrust out of paradise condemned to perpetual miserie and al his posteritie to eternal damnation togither with himselfe if he had not repented And how severely this greevous sentence is executed may sufficiently appeer by this that infinite millions of people even the whole race of mankind is for it cast down unto the unspeakable torments of hel excepting those few that since are ransomed by the comming down of Gods own son the second person in Trinitie into this flesh and by his intollerable sufferings and death in the same 9 The two miracles of the world Moises and Aaron were of singular authoritie and favor with God insomuch as they could obtain great things at his hands for other men yet when they offended God once themselves at the waters of contradictiō in the desart of Sin for that they dowted somwhat of the miracle promised to them from God therby did dishonor his majestie before the people as he saith they were presently rebuked most sharply for the same though they repented hartily that offence and so obtained remission of the fault or guilt yet was there laid upon them a greevous chastisement for the same and that was that they shuld not enter themselves into the land of promise but should die when they came within the sight therof And albeit they intreated God most earnestly for the release of this penance yet could they never obtain the same at his hands but alwais he answered them Seeing you have dishonored me before the people you shal die for it and shal not enter into the land of promise 10 In what special great favor was Saul with God when he chose him to be the first king of the peple caused Samuel the prophet so much to honor him and to anoint him prince upon Gods own inheritance as he calleth it When he commended him so much and took such tender care over him And yet afterward for that he brake Gods commandement in reserving certain spoils of war which he should have destroied yea though he reserved them to honor God withal as he pretended yet was he presently cast off by God degraded of his dignitie given over to the hands of an evil spirit brought to infinite miseries though he shifted out for a time and finally so forsaken and abandoned by God as he slew himselfe his sons were crucified or hanged on a crosse by his enimies and al his family and linage extinguished for ever 11 David was the chosen and deer frind of God and honored with the title of One that was according to Gods own hart But yet assoon as he had sinned the prophet Nathan was sent to denounce Gods heavie displeasure and punishment upon him And so it insued notwithstanding that he sorrowed and humbled himselfe so much as he did for the sin that he had done as may appeer by his fasting praier weeping wearing of sak eating of ashes and the like By which is evident that how great Gods mercie is to them that fear him so great is his justice to them that offend him 12 The scripture hath infinite examples of this matter as the rejection of Cain and his posteritie streight upon his murder the pittiful drowning of the whole world in the time of Noe the dreadful consuming of Sodom and Gomorra with the cities about by fire and brimstone the sending down quik to hel of Chore Dathan and Abyron with the slaughter of two hundred and fiftie their adherents and many thousands of the people besides for rebellion against Moises Aaron the sudden killing of Nadab and Abju sons of Aaron and chosen preests for once offering of other fire on the altar than was appointed them the most terrible striking dead of Ananias and Saphira for retaining some part of their own goods by deceit from the apostles with manie mo such examples which the scripture doth recount 13 And for the greevousnes of Gods justice and heavines of his hand when it lighteth upon us though it may appeer sufficiently by al these examples before alleged wherin the particular punishments as you see are most rigorous yet wil I repeat one act of God more out of the scripture which expresseth the same in woonderful maner It is wel known that Benjamin among al the twelve sons of Iacob was the deerest unto his father as appeereth in the book of Genesis and therfore also greatly respected by God and his tribe placed in the best part of al the land of promise upon the division therof having Ierusalem Iericho and other the best cities within it Yet notwithstanding for one only sin committed by certain private men in the citie of Gabaa upon the wife of a levite God punished the whole tribe in this order as the scripture recounteth He caused al the other eleven tribes to rise against them and first to come to the house of God in Silo to aske his advise and follow his directiō in this war against their brethren And thence having by Gods appointment entered battel twice with the tribe of Benjamin the third day God gave them so great a victorie as they slew al the living creatures within the compasse of that tribe except only six hundred men that escaped away into the desart the rest were slain both man woman children and infants togither with al the beasts and cattel and al the cities villages and houses burnt with fire And al this for one sin committed only at one time with one woman 14 And who wil not then confesse with Moises that God is a iust God a great God and a terririble God Who wil not confesse with Saint Paul It is horrible to fal into the hands of the living God Who wil not say with holie David A iudicijs tuis timui I have feared at the remembrance of thy iudgements If God would not spare the destroieng of a whole tribe for on sin only if he would not pardon Chore Dathan and Abiron for once the sons of Aaron for once Ananias and Saphyra for once if he would not forgive Esau though afterward he sought the blessing with tears as the apostle saith if he would not remit the punishment of one fault to Moises and Aaron though they asked it with great instance if he would not forgive one prowd cogitation unto the angels nor once eating of the tree forbidden unto Adam without infinite punishment nor would passe over the cup of affliction from his own Son though he