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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	life_n	mortal_a	4,247	5	8.6378	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07668	A target for tillage briefly containing the most necessary, pretious, and profitable vse thereof both for king and state. By Iohn Moore Minister of Gods word, and Parson of Knaptoft in Leicestershire. Anno 1611.	Moore, John, d. 1619.	1612 (1612)	STC 18058; ESTC S120561	22,755	74

ground When he hath made it plaine will he not then sow the Fitches and cast in Wheate by measure and the appointed Barley and Rie in their place For his God doth instruct him to haue discretion and doth teach him Who then dare despise this necessary calling whereof God is the Author and the knowledge whereof he himselfe is the teacher and not rather glorifie God who giueth seed to the sower skill to the plower and increase to his labour to rid the earth from the curse of penurie and barrennesse and so by this sanctified meanes to make it yeeld food for mans reliefe But howsoeuer great men haue vndergone this calling to omit the ancient and famous houses of the Romans recorded in histories being called Cicerones Fabij Pisones of the graine they sowed and labour they delighted in this is most sure that there were neuer any mighty Potentates which maintained not the plow whether Pagans or Professors Pharaoh that Egyptian king how famous was he for his treasury of corne by that means throughout all the world becoming a nourse to all nations and the keeper aliue of the whole Church of God And it is recorded of Nebuzaradan the king of Babels steward after the sacking of Ierusalem that he left of the poorer sort no doubt by the kings cōmandemēt to dresse the vineyards and to till the land So Vzziah the king of Iuda not onely builded towers but increased plowmen and dressers of vines without the which it had bene in vaine to haue medled with the other and the reason is added of this his indeauor and care for that he loued husbandry Moreouer how is it possible for Princes guards and troopes at home besides their huge hoasts and scattering armies abroad to be maintained without the plow For if in the multitude of the people the honor of the king consisteth for the want whereof he cometh sodainly to destruction and if many people cannot be maintained without much food and if much prouision of food cannot possibly be come by but by much tillage since the plow according to the prouerbe bringeth enough then must this consequent be as necessary that neither the king himselfe nor his subiects and followers can be vpholden without much tillage for what can the king do when he wanteth food for his people As the king of Israel said to a woman in the siege of Samaria crying out to him saying Helpe my Lord ô king Seeing the Lord saith he doth not succor thee how shall I helpe thee with the barne or with the winepresse And how fearefull lamentable was the estate of the honorable Lords and delicate Ladies in the siege of Ierusalem for want of food as before we obserued The reason is Gods ordinance iniunction that Adam all his issue shall labor for their liuing and so prouide their bread with painfulnesse sorrow a iust reward for sinne Man I cōfes liues not by bread alone yet as the end of Gods prouidence is that man should liue so the meanes of his prouidence is that mā should liue by bread which bread must needs be got by his trauell and tillage A corporall substance is to be maintained by corporall sustenance as mā at the first was takē out of the earth so will God haue the fruits of the earth to be his food as the fruite of his trauell that so by the bread of the earth our bodies of earth may be norished relieued Our mortal life is vpholden by earthly meanes and as meates are ordained for the belly and the belly for meates so death shall dissolue both it and them to earth againe The consideration whereof must cause vs with all chearefulnesse to honour God in the meanes and so to vse them to his glory and our necessary good He that will eate must labour in a lawfull calling and get his liuing by his Christian painfulnesse The slothfull man lusteth and his soule hath nought he will not plow because of winter therefore he shall beg in sommer and haue nothing Therefore loue not sleepe lest thou come to pouerty but open thy eies thou shalt be satisfied with bread His meaning is that the slothfull person shall fall into extreme pouertie and though he beg to get his liuing yet men shall haue no remorse of his miserie And therefore such carelesse persons must take heed in time and apply their businesses if they will haue plenty and abundance against the time of need for as much food is in the field of the poore so is the field destroyed without discretion Be the ground neuer so barren yet by Gods blessing it will yeeld the poore husbandman increase enough by his diligent labour in tilling and sowing the same in due season And many a one who hath a good stocke fruitfull soyle by neglecting the meanes and not ordering things aright waste all that they haue and come greatly behind hand For he that will not sow shall not mow and iustice it is with God and men that he that will not worke shall not eate Christians must not now looke for miracles but vse all lawfull and ordinary meanes for meate Christ would not turne stones into bread as the diuel would haue him but reacheth vs to be diligent in our callings though without carking and distrustfull care and then sufficient for the day will be the trauell thereof Secondly it reproueth and condemneth all such as hinder this abundance of Gods blessings by intercepting or vtterly abolishing this mystery of tillage to wit all such persons as decay both houses and husbandries that lay the land waste and labour to make it a wildernesse in regard of men fit only for a few such monsters in mens shape and all kind of their cattell which they desire to keepe hauing rooted out men the image of the eternall God turned houses into bushes and poore people into sheepe preferring the fellowship of beasts before the societie of men made like to God Such kind of spoylers of their countrey may in stead of their neighbours whom they haue rooted out salute their oxen sheepe and horses which they haue nourished increased A fearefull wo is pronounced against all such as thus dwell alone with the destruction of their brethren Ioyning house to house and field to field till there be no place for the poore that so they may be placed by themselues in the middest of the earth This is in mine eares saith the Lord of hoasts and for this shall their owne houses one day be desolate and their great and stately pallaces without inhabitant These are wasters of their countrey who delight rather in Abimelechs plow to sow the land with salt as he did the city to make it barren and fruitlesse then with good seede of corne and graine for the plentifull prouision of food for Gods people and take greater pleasure to sow the soyle