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death_n	body_n	kill_v	soul_n	5,768	5	5.6613	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10342	A sermon vpon part of the prophesie of Obadiah touching the destruction, as of Idumæans, so of Papists; and meanes whereby it must be wrought: preached at Saint Maries in Oxford by Iohn Rainoldes, on the 28. of October last. 1584.	Rainolds, John, 1549-1607.	1584 (1584)	STC 20623; ESTC S106047	14,278	33

his goods and honour you as highly as Pharao did Ioseph yea hee shall reward you with a crown of glorie an incorruptible crown and yee shall shine as starres for euer and euer But if ye thinke his cōming to be farre of and so begin to smite the seruants and the maidens nay I would to God yee did smite them onely so that ye taught them too for that were a benefite but if ye famishe them and play the good felowes your selues with the world eate drink be drunken your master will come in a day when ye looke not for him in an houre that ye are not ware of wil cut you in peeces giue you your portion with the vnbeleeuers By the Roman lawes of the 12. tables if a man owed money vnto sundry creditours after iudgement giuen did not agree with thē himself or others for him his creditours might after certain daies respite cut his body in peeces take them ech a part therof Phauorinus the Philosopher reprooued this lawe as cruell barbarous But Caecilius the Lawier replyed well vpon him that so great a punishmēt was appointed of purpose that they might neuer com vnto it For now we see many said he laid vp fast cast into fetters because the paine of fetters is cōtemned by lewd persons But I neuer read nor heard that of olde time any was cut in peeces because they could not set light by that punishement Metius Fufetius the Prince of the Albanes hauing promised the Romane king Tullus Hostilius to succour him against his enemies did treacherously deceiue him by whō he was therfore tied to two carts his handes to the one his feet to the other so the horses being driuē contrary wayes he was torne in peeces Liuie misliketh this punishment as ouer sharp saith that ther was smal regard of humane lawes had in it But Uirgil weighing better the greatnesse of the fault aloweth it with graue censure At tu dictis Albane maneres Traitours in our dayes though they be not torne with horses as Metius yet are they rent in peeces as Metius was quartered The Papists complaine therof to foreine natiōs as of outragious tyrānie when they are put vnto it for traiterous factes against our prince But it is vsuall and lawful for the Pope as Leo the tenthes practise in Guicc●…ardin doth witnesse to quarter men for treason wrought against him Now this seuere punishment which hath bin thought fit by mortal Iudges to be laid vpon vnfaithful debters vpō treacherous persons vpon rebellious Traitours is the same that Christ the immortal iudge denounceth vnto you if ye be disloyall to God your soueraine Lord if ye breake promise with him and his seruants if yee pay them not the debt which yee owe them and giue them their portion of meat in due season A very greeuous punishment yet nothing to that which Christ importeth by it For hee doth import as the wordes following shew that yee shall haue your portion with the vnbeleeuers And the vnbeleeuers shall haue their portion in the lake that burneth with fire brimstone which is the second death Of Damocles a Heathen man it is recorded that whē Dionysius the Tyrant entertained him magnificently princely although at the first bee thought him selfe happie respecting the traine of men attendant on him the place of gold and siluer the gorgeous cloathes the sweet perfumes the Uiands most delicate all furniture rich and royall yet after seeing a sworde hanging by a threed let downe ouer his head he could take no ioy of his entertainment nay hee tooke griefe and desired earnestly to be dimissed from it How much lesse ioy should you take in your eating your drinking your pleasures with which as worldly baites the Prince of this world doth pamper your flesh against the day of slaughter sith there hangeth ouer your neckes an axe of vengeaunce not that may perhaps but that will assuredly not kyll your bodies onely but both bodies and soules not with temporall death but with euerlasting into hel fit ●… there shalbe weeping and gnashing of teeth O consider this yee that forget God least he teare you in peeces and there be none that can deliuer you The warriour that spoi leth the Idumaeans shall honour him and he that watcheth ouer the Israelites to saue thē shall see the saluation of God And thus much to them who through want of wil search not the secrete thinges of Esau. As for the defect which this exploite suffereth through want of habilitie because such as should doo it are eyther not trayned or not maintained to it in sufficient sort that is so much hurtfuller to vs then the former by how much the contagion of it spreadeth farder For souldiours ought to learne and practise feates of warre as x expert men haue noted before they deale in martiall affayeres with their enemies and as y they should employ themselues to no businesse but to their seruice onely so shoulde they be allowed victuals other necessaries that they need not to doe it Wherupon the Lord appointing Priestes and Leuites to serue him in this a warfare as Moses termeth it ministery alotted thē b offerings first frutes and tithes of all the land to liue by with c Cities to dwell in and groundes annexed therunto And beside the cōuentence of their abode together in Ierusalem and other Cities that they might the better betrained from their infancie to skill of the priestly and Leuitical duties to teach y e law of God and offer incense and Sacrifice there were also e Colleges and companies of Prophetes wherein the younger learned vnder the elder as children vnder fathers to be mē of God to prayse his name and teach his wil. These orders receiued by the Church of Israel should bee followed by ours though not in all particulars yet in the general equitie For as they who serued about the holy thinges did eate of the temple they who wayted at the Altar were partakers wyth the Altar so the Lord ordeined too that they who preach the Gospel should liue of the Gospel And Timothee who was chosen to serue in this warfare as a souldiour of Christ did not onely knowe the Scriptures frō his infancie but also was brought vp to the ministerie by S. Paul whose doctrine behauiour framed him vnto it In which consideration our Auncetours prouided houses Glebeland Tithes other profites for the commodious dwelling and maintenance of Pastours and endowed Byshoprickes Cathedral and Collegiat Churches as we call them with landes and reuenewes that learned godly Teachers being placed there myght instruct others by their doctrine and behauiour as S. Paul did Timothe For the fuller perfecting finishing of whom to all the Lordes worke they founded Uniuersities and Colleges therein also But I would to God these nurseries