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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	see_v	soul_n	14,522	5	5.2397	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64184	Misselanies, or, Fifty years gathering out of sundry authors in prose and verse being the studious readings, painful collections, and some of them are the composings of the writer and publisher heerof / John Taylor.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1652 (1652)	Wing T483A; ESTC R27535	17,565	42

MISSELANIES Or fifty Years GATHERINGS Out of Sundry Authors in Prose and Verse Being the studious Readings painful Collections and some of them are the Composings of the Writer and Publisher heerof To the Reader All these things heer collected are not mine But divers Grapes make but one sort of Wine So I from many Learned Authours took The Various Matters Printed in this Book What 's not mine own by me shall not be Father'd The most part I in 50. Years have gather'd Some things are very good pick out the best Good Wits compil'd them and I wrote the Rest If thou dost buy it it will quit thy cost Read it and all thy labour is not lost JOHN TAYLOR LONDON Printed in the Yeare 1652. MISSELANIES A Christians Crosses do begin his Glory but not end his Misery The Crosses figure is the letter Tau it is the last and lowest letter in the Hebrew Alphabet it is an Emblem or mark of Humility and all that were not marked with that mark were slain by the Angel Ex. 9. 4. Adam was not created an Infant he was made of full strength and vigour as at 40 or 50 yeares of age of perfect stature with an able body fit for Generation because he was to be the common Father by whom Mankind should be propagated his soul was furnished with all naturall Sciences he was the first Doctour to whom all Mankinde was to goe to Schoole to learn of him as of a Master the secrets of Nature the Inventions of Art the knowledge of God and the mysteries of Faith Inveterate and dispitefull malicious Enemies have oftentimes seemed to be reconciled but it hath been for the plotting contriving or attempting some perfidious and mischievous actions but they seldom or never did combine for any love which they bare either to the persons Manners Laws or Conditions of each other For the Heathen Nations had divers severall damnable gods and detestable Religions and by reason of their diversities of opinions they hated one another deadly with implacable and irreconcileable hatred yet in wickedness they could joyn and agree together against the true God and his Church as all times Ages and Histories have found and declared and most excellently hath the Kingly Prophet and Propheticall Psalmist described the doings and qualities of these various people in the 83. Psalm where he saith that Edomites Moabites Ishmalites Ammonites Amalekites Gebalites the Philistims Tirrians and Assyrians Ephraim against Manesses Manasses against Ephraim and in the New Testament there are described the sundry Opinions and disagreements of Saduces Pharisees Herodians Libertines Cilicians Cirenians Alexandrians and Asians Herod against Pilate Pilate against Herod yet all friends from the teeth outward and all agree against God against the Lords annoynted Christ and his Church this they have done this they doe and this they will doe in all Ages and Generations and if we have but common sence and reason we may perceive that those times which we now live in and Sectaries of these times may parrellel the worst of times Sin is of the Devils Creation The wicked mans Recreation The Fools immitation the Courts Ambition the Cities surfet and the Countries poyson Divinity hath opposed and threatned it Morality hath condemned it Epigrams hath Jeefd it Satyrs have whip'd it and if we do not truly Repent it God will justly Judge it Books and Epistles or Letters if they treat of Vertue they are not only good but the best company a man can keep but they are the wisest Counsellors for direction of mens lives and actions they have no fearfull hearts or hearts to fear they have no blushing faces or faces to blush they dare boldly call Nero a bloudy Tyrant Midas a covetous Asse Sardanapalus a lascivious Effeminate foole Heliogabalus a wastfull profuse Whoremaster and Messalina an insatiate and imperious Strumpet for Books do never alter their intended purpose nor breake off their discourse in hope of favour or fear of mens anger or displeasure A man that loves me well and a friend that is firme unto me they are both rare in these daies but if I were put to my choise which of those I would first lose or part withall then I would leave my Lover and keep my Friend For he that loves may not alwayes be a friend but it is certain that he that is a Friend alwaies loves God in pardoning of a sinner shews his great mercy his not pardoning is no injustice for if I do forgive one Debter and sue another I have shewed kindness to one and no wrong to the other Let us doe our best to doe our best and if power be not able let good endeavour not be idle let us be as wise as the unjust Steward if we cannot pay all that we owe let us pay all that we are able for God is so gracious that with him our good wills are taken for good deeds Our first miseries came by Eating and our Saviour suffered 40 daies fasting for it then as our Parents did eat themselves and us soul-sick so we must fast for our souls health for as eating with delight expulst us out of the Paradise Terrestriall so fasting and contrition must be our punishment and practise and helps to bring us to the Heavenly Jerusalem the Prodigall by fasting said I dye with hunger and that hunger made him say I will go to my Father c. The Epicures belly is his God his Kitchin is his Church his Priest is his Cooke his Sacrifices are his lushious Dishes and delicate Sauces his Prayers Graces Psalms Hymns and Anthems are prophane speeches obscean Rimes Baudy Songs lascivious Tunes and foul impieties Earth made no account of poor Lazarus when he was alive and Heaven made 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dives when he was dead for the misery of the one ended when the torments of the other began When the Devill had taken all Job's earthly goods insomuch that to the appearance of men he had nothing left him but extream poverty Botches and Scabs some may suppose that the Devill was kind in leaving him his Wife but the subtile Serpent had a further aime then to leave Job's Wife to be a helper or comfort unto him he saw that all that had been done to his body or children or estate could not make him impatient to blaspheam and he knew that the Law was that the Blaspheamer was to be stoned to death therefore he left his Wife to vex him and to tempt him to curse God and die whereby he had not only lost his life by the Law but also hazzarded his soule to the Devill for his impatiency and blasphemy This is the Devils kindness to leave a man a wicked Wife to worke his confusion Though Churches have the Names of Saints yet they are the houses of the Lord they are dedicated or given to God therefore they are Gods houses Bethel was the house of God Gen. 28. Judg. 18. And before the Temple was built when Davids son was dead