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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	build_v	great_a	king_n	5,770	4	3.5361	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12526	A preparation vnto fasting and repentance. By Peter Moulin, and translated by I.B.; Preparation à jeune et repentance. English	Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; J. B. (John Bulteel), d. 1669.	1620 (1620)	STC 7336.5; ESTC S113623	21,955	107

whom doe ye spore your selues c. Nay which is more God hauing lifted vp his hand to turne vpside downe heauen and earth because they are become a temple of idols and the kingdome of the deuill is stopped and withheld from doing it because there are a few of the faithfull mingled among the wicked least in rooting vp the darnell hee should also plucke vp by the rootes the good corne therefore it is said to the soules of them that were slaine for the Word of God that were vnder the altar and cryed for vengeance against them that dwell on earth Apocal. 6. that they should rest yet for a little season vntill their fellow seruants and their brethren that should be killed as they were should be fulfilled that being once done the end of the world will necessarily follow for should the world be so possest by the diuell that God should haue no part in it or should the Sunne rise onely to giue light to those that doe euill It is therefore one of the reasons for the which the faithfull are called the salt of the earth Matth. 5. Because it is that part that preserues the rest of the Inhabitants of the earth and protects the world from corruption And to apply these things to our selues I esteeme that these last dayes past when our Churches were in great danger God cast his eyes vpon vs hee considered therein many mischiefes and maladies that infect the flocke that couetousnesse is very rise among vs so that wee esteeme of men as wee esteeme of bagges of money that is to say according to the money they haue the man is esteemed as nothing as the bagge is nothing esteemed That euery one tels lyes and liues subtilly with his neighbour That destruction hatred suspition are among vs in the highest degree that vsury whoredome and blasphemies are to be found among vs to the great dishonour of the Gospell that so soone as there is neuer so little prosperitie excesse not and superfluity of apparell doe incontinently appeare and that charity towards the poore and the zeale of the honour of God is waxed colde while as the superstitious powere out their goods at the feete of an Idoll doe lay foundations of new religions build Churches giue offrings buy masses and seruices at a great rate and with an extreame cost that is to say that superstition is seruent in them but true religion key-cold in vs that they to make a molten Calfe doe contribute euen vnto their iewels and golden eare-rings whiles that the seruice of the honour of God is ill maintained For these causes he had already sent his destroying Angels and had snatcht away his word from vs had it not beene that euen hee the same vnto whom Abraham spake who is his onely Sonne our Lord and Sauiour Iesus hath stayed his wrath and therevpon hee hath considered ten righteous amidst this corruption that is to say some few of the number of the true faithfull and of holy soules that feare him and groane vnder the generall corruption for whose sake he suspends as yet his iudgements and spares the flocke and those perhaps not the greatest ones nor the richest nor the most noble but perhaps some poore whom we know not and to whom we as vngratefull con little thankes He hath stopt and stayed Gods iudgements and hath stood in the gap and hath beene in the publicke commotion like the lifting vp of the hands of Moses that did more then Iosuahs sword which is the obseruation that the wise-man makes in the 9. of Ecclesiastes That there was a little City and few men within it and there came a great King against it and besieged it and built great bulwarkes against it now there was found in it a poore wise-man and he by his wisedome deliuered the City yet no man remembred that poore man Seing then that the number of those that feare the Lord among vs is the defence and the safety of the Church and as King Ioram said of Elisha the Chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof for whose sake God pardoneth the rest Let vs labour to increase the number of them and that notten not thirty not fifty but that the whole troupe and flocke be truely the holy nation and the portion of the Lord. Let vs make our sinnes hold their peace that cry and that their crie be ouercome with the crye of repentance which powres vnto the feete of our Sauiour Iesus that precious ointment with an holy griefe and bedewes them with herteares as heretofore Mary did whose teares were a thousand times more odoriferous then her precious ointment for this filled the chamber with a sweet pleasing smell but her repentance is euen yet of good fauour in the Church of God And in stead of that heauy burthen of sinnes wherof Christ Iesus doth discharge vs Let vs charge and take vpon vs his yoake which is easie and his burthen which is light whether by this yoake and burthen we vnderstand his crosse or whether wee take it in generall for our subiection vnto his word that hereafter we haue no other will then his no other trust and confidence then in his promises no other ioy then in his loue And that wee may make vse of our vices and giue to our desires a lawfull imploiment and occupation let not the violent haue hereafter any other violence then that which taketh by force the Kingdome of heauen Let vsurers giue themselues to giuing to the poore for that is to lend vnto God by vsury Let the couerous gather a treasure in heauen Let the quarrellers make an irreconcillable warre against their vices Let the haughty and ambitious glory in the knowledge of God and in that they are the children of the most high If ye doe so God who desires not the death of a sinner but his conuersion whose compassions are alwaies open towards those that seeke him will watch for your safegard hee will blow vpon the enterprizes of our enemies and will frustrate their hopes his prouidence shall be as a wall of fire about his Church If you feare GOD you will not feare men Beare your selues couragious against mens threatnings but tremble at Gods Word who hath bought and redeemed you with too great a price to leaue you He will not deny you things necessary for this present life seeing that from the foundation of the world he hath prepared for you an euerlasting kingdome as he himselfe will proclaime in the last day Come yee blessed of my Father inherito the kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world To whom be ascribed all honour power and dominion for euer and euer Amen FINIS