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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	aaron_n	brother_n	put_v	21	3	4.8300	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96707	Spicilegium, or, A glean of mixtling by John Winter, minister of East Dearham in Norfolke.	Winter, John, 1621?-1698?	1664 (1664)	Wing W3083B; ESTC R42990	32,830	47

blame men for so doing seeing blood defileth a land Acts. 28.3 and bringeth a curse upon the earth The poor barbarous Islanders of Melita who had nothing to guid them but the light of nature 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 were perswaded that vengeance pursued Murderers both by sea and land And now lest any should think God favours those Murderers who by flight escape the hand of the Magistrate and keep from the axe and the halter let them but seriously reflect upon Cain's case and then they will be brought to understand that the Lord can sufficiently punish a murderer though he suffers him long to live upon earth and exempts him form a bloody death That God who afterward so solemenly said Gen. 9.6 Who so sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed and commanded that no satisfaction should be taken by the Magistrate Num. 35.31 for the life of a Murderer That God I say did let Cain live after his murther for the which may be given these two reasons First For the paucity of Mankind Had Cain died for his fact by the hand of men Adam must have been his Executioner But though the Devill sets one brother to kill another yet God doth not set the father to kill the sonne much less the sonne to kill the father the servant to kill the Master or the subject to kil the King Though it pleased the Devill that wicked Cain should kill righteous Abell yet it pleased not God that father Adam should kill wicked Cain secondly Therefore is Cain delivered from exemplary death because he is marked out and designed for eternall vengeance So farre is his security from safety and his reprieve from mercy that it is a dreadfull judgment and a sore severity And it had been well for some murderers that they had not escaped so well in this world as they have done It had doubtless been much better for their famillies and posterity in this world and it might have been better with themselves in the next Deliver us from blood-guiltyness O God and let the blood of thy Sonne Jesus Christ appear for us in thy sight And hear thou that speaking better things than that of Abell Tumultuous Resolutions tend not to Edification Gen. 11. WItness the story of the Bable-Builders who pretending to be wiser than their forefathers devised a way how to be above all mischances By building a City and a Tower whose top should reach to Heaven This was a conceit above the Moon though the work came farre short of it Oh how people please themselves with a strong conceit of going to Heaven a new way which none ever went before them A fool's paradise is his own invention But the multitude go the wrong way It must be a prodigious unlucky Building where every one is a master-workman and the defign to top God in his throne He that sits in Heaven laughs such projectors to scorn and hath such politicians in derision Go to said they let us found and build up Go to said God let us go down and confound The people were all then of one mind and God scatter'd them by making them of many Languages God then made the people of many Languages to hinder the building of Babel But now the Devil hath made the people of as many or more opinions to help Babel forward And as they of old misunderstanding one another brought brick for mortar a hammer in stead of a trowell and fire in stead of water so men now mistake rudeness for Religion Religion for superstition madness for Christian zeal prophaneness for wit and ruine for reformation Pretending to sink Babylon to the pit of hell they have cryed up Babel to the Heavens by setting their mouths wide open against the Church of God saying Down with it down with it even to the groud Church-Men Church-habits THe words of the Lord to Moses for this putpose are these Exod. 28.2 And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory and for Beauty Moses as Prince by God's appointment was to put Aaron and his sons and the Levites into their distinct Canonicall habits according to the respective dignity of their Persons and places Which ornaments and Vestments they were enjoyned upon pain of Death to have upon them when they came in unto the Tabernacle of the Congregation or ministred in the holy place As appear's in the last verse of that Chapter I know not how it came to pass but so it was that a Priestly Habit in Divine Worship and Sacred Administrations hath been had in as much Disgrace amongst Christians as ever it was had in Reverence amongst the Jews God made it as much as their lives were worth for the Priests in the Law to minister without their peculiar Habit And Men made it as much as their lives were worth for the Priests to minister in their Ecclesiasticall Habits in the time of the Gospell Yea there have been some who pretended that the Clericall Vestments debilitated the Pastours parts srustrated the graces of the Spirit and hazarded the soules of the flock And whereas God enjoyned his Priests of old to have robes for Glory and for Beauty they would not allow his houshold-servants the use of those garments which God's vicegerents had enjoyned them for uniformity and for deceney They put scorn contempt and opprobious terms both upon the things and Persons according to the foolish invention of their giddy brains An Episcocall Habit was they said the Livery of Antichrist and the Surplice the Smock of of the whore of Babylon Surely these people had forgotten that God was the instituter of the first Mitre and the Linnen Ephod They considered not how in respect of their use though not for their first Principles whereof they are made even garments appropriate unto Persons in Holy Orders are called Holy and that by God's example It is too gross too carnall and too rude for men and women who pretend to more than an ordinary illumination to pick a hole in the Priest's Coat about the externall form and figure to think that a Hood makes a Monk or a Mitre an Antichrist or that the Mysticall Whore of Babylon is circumscribed within a materiall small Linnen Ephod I would not have the female Sex such as are called Holy Sisters of all things quarrell with clean Linnen lest they bring themselves whthin the compass of the Cotholick Inquisition for sluttery Let them hate the garments spotted with the flesh As for Surplices howsoever they have been contrived and used by them since their dear sacreligious brethren stole them from the Church and brought them to their hands they were never formerly the Smock of a Whore It is possible since they converted them to their own use they may properly so be called For Thieves and Harlots go hand in hand together in the World as Publcans and Sinners go in the Gospell It is a pitifull thing I mean quarrell when people fall out with their Ministers