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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
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
A83980	Englands new-yeares gift, or, A pearle for a prince: with such grapes from thornes, and fruits from foes, to the whole land, as none shall be worse for wrongs, nor hurt by any but themselves, though the times should prove worse and worse.		1648 (1648)	Wing E3004; Thomason E424_4; ESTC R204545	38,288	40

the raging waves indeed and wraths of Tyrants and hell-hatched Hereticks may bluster against the out-side of the Church built on Christ the true Rock as the stormes beat against the out-walls of a house a Pallace or a Temple but they disturb not nor distract not the Inhabitants or Sojourners within the insides of Rocks are not penetrated by the most roaring and surging seas enemies indeed like serpents and toads and ravenous beasts may manducare terram lick this dust of ours feed as wolves on Carrion on our outward mould our terrestriall part but ultra alam fortunae they hurt our soules no more if sanctified anchored and setled in our present Fluctuations then a sword or a speare doth a spirit or an Angell or the chop of an axe the beames of the Sun which shine upon a blocke now what great hurt is there in the cracking of a shell and the saving of the kernell in the losse of a rotten purse emblemes of our bodies the soul like pure gold being reserved and preserved safe When Zuinglius that zealous Belgick Light received his deaths wound in the wars of the Quinque Pagi about Religion his last words as his ultimum vale to the world were these Corpus occidi potest animam occidere non possunt my enemies can kill my body but they cannot kill the soule this divinae particula aurae this celestiall heavenly infused soule as it is immateriall so it is no more penetrable by any terrestriall weapons then the Sun the Moon the Planets and the Angells and Intelligences which more them this soule is extra alam beyond the power of Tyranny and Cruelty a note above the Ela of humane hostilitie tunde Anaxarchi Vasculum Anaxarchum non laedis a Phalaris a Busiris an Anacreon may knock in pieces the out-vessell the out-cask the out-cabinet the out-cage of the body the continent of the soule but the soule it selfe which is in a manner totum hominis the whole man or the best of man this inward wine they cannot tilt this inclosed Pearle of Pearles better worth then a world they cannot plunder this Phoenix this bird of Paradise they cannot kill though the lightning which we see and the thunder that we heare breaking the inclosed clouds chiefly the condensate bolt oft breake the bones and the mettled sword without any great signalls on the flesh or the scabberd according to Aristotle and Seneca yet when truculent Tyrants speak lapides fulmina stones and fire-bolts and lighten and thunder as Jezabel once against Elias Eudoxia that second Herodias against S. Chrisostome Innocent or Nocent the third against the Emperour Otho Innocent the fourth against Fredericke Gregory the second against Leo Isaurus Zacharias against the French Childericke Pius or Impius Quintus against Queen Elizabeth yet these Bruta Fulmina as the French Authour derides them a See the Booke called Brutum Fulmen and our Roffensis b Adversus Bellarminum pag. 944. pag. 974. these roaring Bulls of Basan these squibs and fire-workes how ere like Davusses or Devills they disturbed the peace of their States and Kingdomes as their Incendiaries and Fire-brands the Jesuits have set all in a Phaetonian confusion in Moravia Helvetia Silesia Austria France England and Ireland yet they wrought and brought no more prejudice to sanctified soules then the curses of the Witch Balaam to Gods owne Israelites Numb 23.19 20. Hence it was a wise Consolatory speech of Augustus Caesar to his daughters Livia and Julia telling him that all the people of Rome spoke evill of them he thanking his Gods that though they spoke evill of them yet it was not in their power to doe them any evill Apud Plutarchum and therefore wished them to suffer free speech in a free Citie which free speech all the wit and worth of man yea of Innocency it selfe can no more curb in malignant minds and mouthes then they can stay the winds or stint the waves or shackle the Hellespont or do such impossible things as once Xerxes and Canutus attempted since Lions have been tamed and Elephants in the warres of King Porus and Pyrrhus Otters have been tamed like Water-Spaniels Ravens have been tamed and lured as Hawks Wolves and Foxes wild and vild Dogs have been tamed as houshold Curres Quoy-ducks have been tamed to deceive the tame so Storks Cranes Crowes c Ave Caesar Popinjayes all kind of birds and some kinds of Serpents and Fishes d See instances in Cornelins de Lapi de in cap. 3. Jacobi but the tongue-like Panthers and Field-mice is indomable without the help of Mors and Morpheus death and deadly sleep Angells men and Devills cannot tame it the wild fire in it kindled from hell Jam. 3.6 like the coales of Juniper yea like hell-fire it selfe unquenchable the Innocencie of an Elias counted a troubler of Israel 1 King 18.17 of Paul held a factious fellow Act. 24.5 of Joseph of Hippolitus the Paganish Joseph of Susanna of Abner of Eugenius accused of incontinency of Athanasius called Sathanasius and taxed as a Murtherer c Apud Centur Magdeburg passim of Cato and Scipio oft produced and traduced before the Romane Senate of S. Jerome branded by the Priests of Rome d Of which he complains in many Epistles for his holy and honest conversing with Paula Paulina Eustochium Demetriades and other chast Matrons and Maids yea the purity of Christ himselfe conversing with Publicans and Sinners as the Sun shines upon Quagmires and rotten Bogs without any contamination could cause none of these to escape the aspersions and calumnies of scandalizing tongues no more then the Sun and the Moon can muzzle the barkings of some dogs against their lusterous shines as Doegs and emulalating Momists and Zoilists still will bark invita Minerva against shining gifts and graces and places amongst Arts and Armes yet as we have a greater and more certaine tutelary God then Augustus had we may condignely thanke this God that though in unbloudy persecutions we daily heare the mocks of Romish Michols 2 Sam. 6.20 the railing of Atheisticall and Papisticall Rabshakehs 2 King 19.22 the flouts of rejected Ismaels Gen. 21.9 the curses of Sathanicall Shemcis 2 Sam. 16. the scoffes of malignant Tobiahs Nehem. 4.3 and Sanballats all haters of God of the godly and of all goodnesse all opposers Remoraes and obstacles of Religion and Reformation all as intestine enemies to all of the house of David Zech. 12.8.9 all Ezekiasses Ezraes and Nehemiahs who would rebuild and purge our polluted Temples as ever Hanniball was unto the Romanes a sworne Antagonist or Haman the cursed Amalekite to Esther Mardocheus and all the religious Jewes yet Gratias superis God be praised these whelps of Cerberus though they barke and shew their tongues and their teeth they cannot bite further then God pleases to unchaine them and unmuzzle them and set them upon us for our playing the pranks of wild Heifers and indomable Bullocks breaking over the