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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	appear_v	life_n	sin_n	4,010	5	4.7063	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04576	Dauids teacher, or The true teacher of the right-vvay to heauen Discouering erroneous teachers and seditious sectuaries. Preached at Paules-Crosse the 3. of September. 1609. By Ro: Iohnson, M. of Arts, chaplaine to the Right Reuerend Father in God, the L. Bishop of Lincolne.	Johnson, Robert, chaplain to the Bishop of Lincoln.	1609 (1609)	STC 14694; ESTC S107451	26,498	52

stil to continue in these sinnes of pride couetousnesse whoredome and drunkennesse These are peccata clamantia and vastantia conscientiam These are crying sinnes heynous sinnes and a man knoweth not where to appeare before him when God shall summon him by death to appeare before him so that to sinne is of weakenesse but to continue and perseuer in sinne this is not onelie a sinfull life but a life of sinne it selfe If therefore wee will not learne by his word nor by his blessings he will teach vs by his afflictions and plagues He will cause his Angell to strike yet more then seauenty thousand of the plague and pestilence as he hath done alreadie in this Citie Nay hee will stretch ouer Ierusalem the line of Samaria the plummet of the house of Ahab he will wipe Ierusalem as a man wipeth a dish and turneth it vpside downe hee will forsake the remnant of his inheritance because wee haue done euill in his sight and prouoked him to anger because wee haue forsaken the Lord our God that hath so louingly taught vs by his word and blessing and yet wee will receiue no instruction but stil continue a sinful people a people ladē with iniquitie a seed of the wicked corrupt children which haue forsaken the Lord and prouoked the holy one of Israell to anger these are the meanes wherby God teacheth vs. Neither hath hee taught vs onlie by this late sicknesse of plague and mortalitie for this is the easiest punishment And Dauid chose this to fal in the hand of God but also by these late inundations of raine water wherby he seemeth so angrie with the world that were it not for his promise hee would vtterlie drowne it again such is the wickednesse of men and the thoughts of their hearts inclining to euil that it euen repenteth God that hee made man Gen. 6. And though hee hath made him yet he will destroy him again with waters Neither doth he send this plague of raine and waters at such time of the yeare when it should refresh and comfort the drie earth and do good vnto men but euen in the time of Haruest when we should reape and receiue the fruits of the earth Whereby as wee haue made frustrate his expectation of receiuing fruits at our hands of his word so hath hee made frustrate our expectation of receiuing the fruites of the earth whereby I say hee seemeth so more then much mooued with our sinnes that hee threatneth by these raines and waters that which is farre worse then a plague euen a famine the most greeuous punishment of all punishments When as ten acars of vines shall giue but a quart and thirtie bushels of seed shall giue but an Epha that he should breake the staffe of bread in Ierusalem and that wee should eate bread by weight and drinke water with astonishment That we should haue cleannesse of teeth in all our Cities and scarsnesse of bread in all our Coasts For so did the Lord when he would destroy Ierusalem stretch out his own hand against it by a famin to ouerthrow it when the father did catch meat from the Son the sonne from the Father the mother from her childe the childe from the mother the husband from the wife the wife from the husband and their Children died holding bread betweene their teeth Our sinnes I say haue deserued these plagues this horrible intollerable plague of famin The sicknesse of plague and pestilence is a great and greeuous punishment when we are suddenly strucken that our friends forsake vs and are oftentimes suddenlie called away before repentance The sword of our enemies is a greater punishment when we should flie before our enemies they pursuing vs with swords in their hands to sacrifice vs when in vaine we should cry out to our mercilesse murderers to saue our liues the liues of our wiues and children when there is no iot of mercie or compassion in them but drawe out their swords and sheath them in our bodies the bodies of our Sonnes and of our Daughters but the rod of famine doth farre exceed all these and passeth the degree of admiration Letvs therefore by our timely repentance preuent these plagues and leaue when God teacheth vs by these plagues and punishments to walke in his waies And thus wee haue heard by what meanes God teacheth vs by his word by his blessings and by his afflictions and also who is our teacher euen the Lord God himselfe God the Father God the sonne and God the holy Ghost which spake by the mouth of all his prophets since the world began Teach mee O Lord. I have told you of some teachers yet I haue not shewed you all I haue shewed you Dauids teacher who it is the Lord God is the elects teacher This is the best teacher and it shall be very necessarie for vs to know the worst teacher also that wee may auoide his schoole and take heede of his Doctrine As therefore God teacheth the Elect his schollers so the deuill that olde serpent and sathan teacheth the wicked his schollers most subtilly and cunningly to beguile and deceiue them And his teaching he did begin betimes euen with our parents in Paradice in the beginning anon after God had begun to teach our parents the law the deuil he snatched away that doctrin out of their hearts and insteed thereof taught them another pernitious lesson and doctrine to their owne woe and miserie and ruine of themselues and their whole issue And like a most cunning teacher that hee might vnderstand the minde and disposition of his scholler how shee stood affected to apprehend his Doctrine hee subtillie mooued a question yea hath God said yee shall not eate of euerie tree in the Garden by moouing of which question he had a wonderfull aduantage aud had laied a snare to entrap her howsoeuer for if he found her affection but lame and halting in the Commandement of God not absolutely and resolutely affected thereunto then hee was readie by his suggestion and instinct to make her giue as much credit to a coūtercōmand Ye shall not die at all and thereunto added pleasing obiects the beauty of the Apple and that they should be Gods and know good and euill Thus the Deuill teacheth cunningly subtilly and powerfully he is an ancient teacher of long standing therfore he teacheth cūningly He is a Serpēt there 's his subtiltie he is a Dragon there 's his crueltie Hee is a Lyon there 's his power he is a Prince Ephes. 2. There 's his potencie The Prince that ruleth in the Aire and that worketh in the Children of disobedience He is a cunning Rhetorician he hath artemad vnguem oratory at his fingers end to perswade He is a cunning Arithmetician he can number our vertues thirteene for twelue and thereby puffe vs vp in pride and ambition So he did the Pharisie I am not as other men are extortioners vniust or as this Publican I