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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	bring_v	conceive_v	sin_n	7,234	5	6.3984	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72333	The holy sinner a tractate meditated on some passages of the storie of the penitent woman in the Pharisees house. by [sic] W.H.	Hodson, William, fl. 1625-1640.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1639 (1639)	STC 13555; ESTC S123530	25,322	116

Solomon precisely affirmeth in the dedication of his Temple God hath concluded all under sinne 1. Kings 8.46 Yet we must note that the word Sinner is oftentimes taken in Scripture antonomasticè in a more speciall sense In the Old Testament The Amalekites those sinners 1. Sam. 15.18 In the New Testament the Gentiles are also called sinners as likewise publicanes and harlots not so much because they had sinne in them as that they were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 transcendent sinners out of measure sinfull The seeds of all sinnes are in all men the seeds not the practice there is not in all the same eruption there is in all the same corruption Some be not kites others hawks and the rest eagles from one and the same eyrie He that bears man about him he that 's apparelled with flesh and bloud cannot but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 though he do not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Though wickednesse cannot be kept from me because of the tentation yet may I be kept from it because of the repulse And here must I take up a distinction Aliud est concupiscere aliud post concupiscentias ire It is one thing to dart and glance a wanton desire another thing to court and plead it Though the motions of the flesh be alike in the carnall and spirituall man yet the humouring of those motions is not Again aliud est peccare aliud peccatum facere as the Fathers distinguish It is one thing for a man to sinne another thing to give himself over to the commission of sinne And the distinction is no idle one for it is not onely grounded upon S. Johns phrase John 3.9 but also upon S. James his gradation James 1.14 15. Men are enticed by their lust then lust conceiveth and bringeth forth sinne and sinne being perfected bringeth forth death And this perfection of sinne is properly the doing of sin And this doing of sinne this perfection of sinne this continuance in any notorious sinne is not onely a grave to bury the soul but a great stone rolled to the mouth thereof to keep it down That which Erasmus saith of Paris that after a man hath acquainted himself with the odious sent of it hospitibus magìs ac magìs adlubescit Of custome in sinne it grows into his liking more and more is too true of sinne which by long entertainment becomes customary and not easie of dismission We know that ●n Vrinator an expert swimmer being under water feeleth not the weight of a full-fraughted ship of a thousand tunnes riding perpendicularly over his head So while miserable men swim in the custome of any pleasing sinne they are insensible of the burden of it That which our Canonists say in another kind is too true here Custome can give a jurisdiction neither is there any stronger law then it The continuance of any known sinne gives a strong habituation as Gerson phraseth it and works an utter senselesnesse in brawnie hearts for frequency of sinning doth flesh us in immodesty assiduity in impudence and that sinne is almost incurable which is steeled by custome In this compasse of my discourse the needle pointeth right at this woman for the Evangelist saith not Behold a woman that had sinned but a woman that was a sinner It is not a transient but a permanent condition that gives the denomination Her long continuance in her trade had branded her with this title Peccatrix mulier A woman that was a sinner SECT IIII. THis woman as it is generally received was noted for a luxurious and ●ncontinent life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 habet emphasim quasi admirationis de excellentia scu enormitate Chemnitius so that Sinons words might here take place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Quae qualis est haec mulier She was as they conjecture of a noble stock and in those ●oose dayes wherein Herod erected his theatres and his amphitheatres a gap was set open to much impiety and wantonnesse Virorum exemplo mulieres copiosae honest is familiis natae impudicè vivebant non ut quaestum corpori facerent sed insaniâ libidinis saith my * Cardinal Conzen in locum Authour However wantons may flatter themselves with the devils dispensation a detur aliquid aetati however they take that for true doctrine which the unwise Tutour sometimes spake in the Comedie Non est crede mihi adolescenti It is no such fault in a young man to follow harlots yet shall their souls need no other conveyance to hell then this For it is such a sinne as commonly drives two to the devil at once Lust a sinne which yeelded unto becomes a pleasant madnesse Aug. de civit Dei lib. 21. cap. I reade in S. Augustine of a certain well in Epirus that when firebrands are put into it it will quench them and yet when they are quenched it will presently set them on fire again Such a bewitching water is a lascivious woman when she quencheth the lust of the bodie for a season she sets it on fire afterwards a great deal more Fonseca Wittily therefore have some emblem'd forth this vice by the phenix which doth revive and renew her self by the fire which she kindleth by the motion of her wings Thou mournest perhaps and bewailest and repentest thee of the dishonest sinne thou hast committed and desirest to give it over that it may die in thee but with the wings of thy thoughts thou blowest those coals afresh and makest them flame more then before Thus in the midst of thy tears thou becomest like the self-enamoured boy in the poet Narcissus Ipse sibi mediis qui fuit ignis aquis For the wicked in circuitu ambulant still walk the round first they act a sinne because the thought hath pleased them then they think that sinne over again because the act hath pleased them Thus by a damned arithmetick do they multiply one sinne into a thousand Among such a deal of varietie of sinnes for sinne is like a continued quantity that admits of infinite sections there is no one more plausible more pleasing to nature then wantonnesse How many set their souls burning in the flames thereof as Nero set Rome on fire and behold them with affectation How many a silly wretch like the foolish lark while it playeth with the feather and stoupeth to the glasse is caught in the fowlers net For an harlot to give a short but true character of her is the devils pitfall The character of an harlot a trap to catch our souls Her eyes like free-booters live upon the spoil of stragglers she baits her desires with a million of prostituted countenances her displayed breasts and loose dangling locks wantonly erring over her shoulders her artificiall complexion the counterfeit of the great seal of nature her curled and crisped hairs the circles and sophistries of that old cunning serpent her high washes calamistrations cerussations nescio quot pudenda mysteria are