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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	call_v	great_a	lord_n	5,583	4	3.6442	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08981	A sharp arrovv darted against the anabaptists, &c. being an apology, or defence of the visible church upon Earth, and an objection to all such persons as doe rebaptize men and women, and against being covered at the divine exercise of preaching the word of God to the people, as also against those that deny to say the Lords Prayer / David Edmonds.	Edmonds, David, fl. 1652.	1652 (1652)	Wing E177B; ESTC R233358	12,532	20

Bethshemites slaine for looking unreverently upon the Ark of the Covenant and Uzzah was strucken dead by the hand of the Lord for but touching the Ark as you may read Chron. 13. 9. 10. And when they came to the threshing floor of Chidon Uzzah put forth his hand to hold the Arke for the Oxen stumbled And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah and he smote him because hee put his hand to the Arke and there he died before God The Preacher is the Ark of the Covenant of the New Testament and when hee preaches unto us of Gods judgements wee should then pray in our hearts to divert those judgements from us and when he treats and speaks of Gods mercies we should then pray in our hearts to participate of those mercies you shall finde it in one place that S. Paul writes that it is a shame for a woman to bee uncovered in the Church as much as if the same Apostle had sayd that it is a shame for a man to be covered in the Church therefore I beseech all those that love God and the true Reformation of the Church of God to reform this enormous abuse lest wee should any further be evill spoken of and derided by Turks Papists Pagans and Infidels that are not enspired to make recognition of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ lest that their blind wayes should at the last day rise up in judgement against us for assuredly unlesse that this and other abuses that are now committed in the Church of God bee amended we shall be in great danger to bee those or like those that the Apostle Peter writes of 1. Pet. 5. the two last verses It had beene better for you never to have known the way of truth then to know it and turne from it For ye shall bee like a dog that turns againe to his owne vomit or like a sow that is washed in the River and goes wallowing againe in the mire I can in no wise bridle my tongue from speaking nor with-hold my hand from writing of the wrongs that are now done unto certaine Clergy men that taught and preached the Gospel in precedent times yet let no man conjecture that I by no meanes doe write of their sides in generall for I know abundance of them would not bee contented to walke upon the Battlements of the Church but did mount themselves up to the turrets of civill policy that did nothing belong unto them Some of them have been responsall for it before men already and suffered and therefore I shall conclude of such persons with the old Proverb which sayes de mortibus nil nisi bonum of the dead nothing but good I take God to Reco●d my Lord Generall CROMVVELL as his Excellency was going for Ireland upon the walls of Tenbigh told the Gentlemen there about him I cannot perceive sayes he but this man is of the selfe same Religion as my selfe is of meaning my selfe For my owne part I shall sooth no man be he ever so great if his Excellency do agree to extirpe out of the Vineyard all the Clergy in times past his Excellency is as wide from my tenents in Religion as the East is from the West but methinks as many of them should be thrust out of the Vineyard as had evill will at Sion and none of the rest for to put them all out we have no such warant neither out of the Old nor the New Testament for in the Old Testament we read that in the last request of Abraham to God for Sodome and Gomorrah if there sayes God be ten righteous persons in those two Cities I will not destroy it for the tens sake But there was found there but one righteous Lot and for that one righteous man God had provided a Zoar a City of refuge during the time that the Lords anger was kindled against those two great Cities in destroying of them with fire and Brimstone from his Celestiall habitation And now it should seeme that in a small measure his Majesty is offended with certaine men that he called to be his Ministers and especiall Members of his Church but it cannot be that all the Clergy in times past could be culpable of adhering to Popery or the like and in this fire from Heaven which is the Lords small anger or his small deluge emerging the former Clergy men if there I say be but one amongst them that can say and prove himselfe not guilty where is his Zoar or any City of refuge Elias a great Prophet and a chosen of the Lord desired of the Lord that he might be taken away from amongst the children of men saying they have killed thy Prophets c. and I onely am left and they seeke my life also in answer to Elias God saies I have reserved seven thousand chosen men in Israell that have not bended their knees to Baal It should seeme by those words though Eliah had the inspiration of Gods spirit in him in a high nature yet hee did not know the mentall reservations of all men and women towards their God in Israel And so according to morall reason that the noble Estates of the Land doe not know of every particular wrong that is now done to some of the former Clergy men every vessell should stand upon its owne bottome why because there is so much Drunkennesse must there be no wine nor strong drink and because there is so much Leachery must there be no women God forbid Now I prove that those Clergy men heeretofore that had not a hand to bring in Popery into the Church of God neither did in no wise intend to quench or put out the light of the Gospel but behaved themselves reverently and prudently in their vocations ought not to be put out of their Benefices nay if they had committed some faults yet they ought not to bee put and thrust out of the Vineyard in this kind for one particular fault for why let some of the sons and daughters of men but think with themselves ●hat if God in the dreadfull day of judgement should deale with us as we deale heere below one with another what would become of us assuredly wee should goe on the left hand with the Goats Goe ye cursed c. Concerning the remission that many of the former Clergy men should have to prove it We read that our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ when he came into the Vineyard and there found a Tree that bare no fruit he bad the Vineyard dresser cut it down why cumbreth it the ground Nay sayes the Vineyard dresser I will entrench and dig about it one yeer more wee doe not read that our Saviour did contradict the Vineyeard dresser in that busines For one particular man a Clergy man one Mr. FRANCIS DAVIES of Llangaine in the County of Glamorgane in Wales a man that would never hear of Mariage his reason was lest the care of a wife and children should in part take him off from the