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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	aaron_n	begin_v	moses_n	75	3	7.3497	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20650	A sermon, preached to the Kings Mtie. at Whitehall, 24 Febr. 1625. By Iohn Donne Deane of Saint Pauls, London. And now by his Maiestes [sic] commandment published	Donne, John, 1572-1631.	1626 (1626)	STC 7050; ESTC S109972	19,456	62

breasts hee hath applied you But if all this be done it is not done out of any tyrannicall wantonnesse in God for For your iniquities you are sold and for your transgressions is your Mother put away So God is fully dischargd in the first part But least in the second it should lye heauy vpon Man for howsoeuer God be dischargd He does not kill me though I dy it is but poore comfort to me if I must dye to be told that I haue killd my selfe God tells me here there is no such necessitie I need not dye show the bill of Diuorce sayes he which makes your case so desperate and see if I haue not left you wayes of returning to me show the bill of Sale which makes your state so irrecouerable and see if I haue not left my selfe wayes of redeeming you And in these few branches of these two parts I shall exercise your Deuotion and holy patience at this time First then for the first branch of the first part the Ecce Behold this will fall vpon you Vpon those words of Dauid Ecce intenderunt Ecce parauerunt Behold the wicked haue bent ther bow and Behold they haue made ready their arrow Origen saies Ecce antequam vulneremur monemur Before our Enemies hit vs God giues vs warning that they meane to doe so When God himselfe is so far incensd against vs That he is turned to be our enemy and to fight against vs It was come to that in this Prophet when he hath bent his how against vs as an Enemy It was come to that in the Prophet Ieremy yet still he giues vs warning before hand and still there comes a lightning before his thunder God comes seldome to that dispatch a word and a blow but to a blow without a word to an execution without a warning neuer Cain tooke offence at his brother Abel The quarrell was Gods because he had accepted Abels Sacrifice Therefore God ioynes himselfe to Abels partie and so the party being too strong for Cain to subsist GOD would not surprise Cain but he tells him his danger Why is thy Countenance cast downe If thou doest not well sinne lyes at thy dore you may proceed if you will but if you will needs you will loose by it at last Saul persecutes Christ in the Christians Christ meets him vpon the way speakes to him strikes him to the ground telles him vocally and tels him actually That he hath vndertaken too hard a worke in opposing him This which GOD did to Saul reduces him that which God did to Cain wrought not vpon him but still GOD went his owne way in both to speake before hee strikes to lighten before he thunders to warne before he wounds In Dathan and Abirams case God may seeme to proceede apace towards Execution but yet it had all these pauses in arrest of iudgement these reprieues before Execution First when Moses had information evidence of their factious Proceeding hee falls not vpon them but he falls vpon his face before GOD and laments and deprecates in their behalfe Hee calls them to a faire tryall and examination the next day To morrow the Lord will show who are his and are holy And they sayd we will not come And againe which implies that Moses cited them againe we will not come Then GOD vpon their contumacy when they would stand mute and not plead takes a resolution to consume them in a Moment And then Moses Aaron returne to petition for thē O God the God of the spirits of all flesh shall one Man sinne and wilt thou bee wroth with the whole Congregation And Moses went vp to them againe And the Elders of Israel followed and all preuaild not And then Moses comes to pronounce Iudgement These men shall not dye a common death and after and yet not presently after that he gaue iudgement Execution followd The earth opened and swallowd them but God begun not there God opened his Mouth and Moses his and Aaron his and the Elders theirs before the Earth opened hers It is our case in the Text For whether this Iudgement wrapt vp in the text This selling away and this putting away haue relation to the Captiuitie of the Iewes in Babylon before Christ or to the Dispertion of the Iewes since Christ some Expositors take it one some the other way still it is of a future thing The Prophecie came before the Calamitie whersoeuer you pitch it wheresoeuer you pitch it stil there was a lightning before the thunder a word before the blow a warning before the wound In which as we see that God alwaies leaues a latitude between his Sentence and the Execution for that Interim is Sphaera actiuitatis the Spheare in which our Repentance and his Mercy moue and direct themselues in a benigne aspect towards one another so where this repentance is deferd and this Mercie neglected the execution is so certaine so infallible as that though this in the Text be intended for a future Iudgement a future Captiuitie a future Dispersion yet in the Text it is presented as present nay more then so as past and executed alreadie it is venditi estis you are sold sold alreadie and Dimissa Mater your Mother is put away put away already All gathers and con-centers it selfe in this Gods Iudgements and executions are not sodaine there is alwayes roome for Repentance and Mercie but his iudgements and Executions are certaine there is no roome for Presumption nor Collusion To pursue then the Holy Ghosts two Metaphors of selling away and putting away First venditi estis sayes our Prophet to the Iewes and to all Behold you are sold And so they were sold thrice ouer sold by Adam first sold by themselues euery day and at last sold by God For the first generall sale by Adam wee complaine now that Land will not sell that 20. is come to 15. yeares purchase but doe wee not take too late a Medium too low a time to reckon by How cheape was Land at first how cheape were we what was Paradise sold for What was Heauen what was Mankinde sold for Immortalitie was sold and what yeares Purchase was that worth Immortalitie is our Eternitie God hath another manner of eternitie in him He hath a whole eternall day an eternall afternoone and an eternall forenoone too for as he shall haue no end so hee neuer had beginning we haue an eternall afternoone in our immortalitie we shall no more see an end then God hath seene a beginning and Millions of yeares multiplied by Millions make not vp a Minute to this Eternitie this Immortalitie When Diues values a droppe of water at so high a price what would he giue for a Riuer How poore a Clod of of Earth is a Mannor how poore an inch a Shire how poore a spanne a Kingdome how poore a pace the whole World and yet how prodigally