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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	call_v	father_n	son_n	4,487	5	4.8552	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12373	Satans compassing the earth. By Henrie Smith	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1592 (1592)	STC 22692; ESTC S107437	17,258	55

Englande or Irelande or Fraunce or Germanie or Spaine but of the world that is of al the countries and cities and townes and villages houses The Pope talkes of his kingdome how many prouinces are vnder his dominion but the deuils circuit is greater then the Popes one woulde think that he could neuer tende halfe his flock because he is vicar of so great a monarchie and yet he is neuer non resident You may see his steps euerie where so brim and fresh as thogh they were printed in ashes if God make you see your countrie naked your temples desolate your cities ruined your houses spoiled you will say the Spaniards haue been here so when you see your mindes corrupted your hearts hardened your willes peruerted your charitie cooled your iudges bribers your rulers persecutors your lawiers brablers your marchantes vsurers your landlords extortioners your patrones symonistes your pastors loyterers you may say the deuill hath beene here Seeing then these weedes grow in euerie ground you may beare the deuill witnes that hee doth compasse all the earth If a man loue his frend he will say I will goe an hundred miles to doe him good but if the deuill hate a man he will goe a thousand miles to do him hurt The deuil doth not goe his progresse like a king onlie for delight but all the way as he goeth Peter saith He seeketh whom he may deuour The deuill goeth a visiting hee will teach the sicke how they shall recouer their health he will whisper the poore how they shall come by riches he will tel the captiues how they shal redeeme their libertie but to deuour is the end of his visitation Therfore Peter called him a Lion and said that he went about and tolde vs that he sought as he went at last he saith to deuour there he ends shewing that deuouring is his end now you shall heare whom he compasseth to what he cōpasseth how he cōpasseth When it is said that the deuil compasseth the earth it is meant that he compasseth the men of the earth out of which I gather first of all creatures he compasseth men secondly that he compasseth all men and by consequence that he compasseth good men The deuil is like an Archer and man is his marke and temptations are his arows As Peter is called a fisher of men so the deuil may be called a hunter of men for of al creatures his enuie is onelie to men because man was made to serue God and inherite the ioyes which he hath lost therfore he is called no slear but a manslear When there are no men vpon earth then the deuill will compasse the earth no more Secondly he assaulteth al men like Ismael which was against all It is saide of Saul and Dauid Saul hath slain his thousand and Dauid his tenne thousand but if you put in Satan you may set vp the number and say Satan hath slayne his hundred thousand As there is a legion of men so there is a legion of deuils that as they said Peters angell so they may say Peters deuil for Christ would not haue called Peter Satan if Satan had not backed him as death killeth al so the deuil tempteth al whē he hath Eue he hunteth for Adam when he hath Adam he hunteth for Cain as the father was tempted so must the sonnes as the mother was tempted so must her daughters Euery man but Christ may say I haue bin ouercome but Christ himselfe cannot say I haue not bin tempted In the Spanish inquisitiō the protestants are examined but the papists slip by but in the deuils inquisition papist and protestant and Atheist and Puritan all are examined He is not a captain of forties nor of fifties nor of sixties nor of hundreds but he is general ouer al which fight not vnder Christs baner he possessed the two Gergesites which were men he possessed Mary which was a woman he possessed the mans son which was a child Nimrod is called a mightie Hunter which killed beastes but this is a mightie hunter which killed Nimrod himselfe God keep vs out of his chase Thirdly he warreth against the righteous euen because they are righteous as God makes the barren fruitful and the fruitful to bear more fruit so the deuill would haue them serue him which serue him not they which serue him to serue him more and therfore as the Giant encountred with Dauid so the deuil encoūtred with Dauid and with Dauids Lord he which gaue him leaue here to tempt Iob was after tempted himselfe although the net brake the bird escaped yet as he tempted Christ thrise together and as he desired to sift Peter more then other so they that follow Christ and are like Peter are sifted more then other For this viper is like the viper which ceased vpon Paul Among many which stóode by the fire the viper chose out Paul lighted vpō him before al the rest so if one be holier then another this viper will battayle with him there is great reason why the godly are tempted more then the wicked because the wicked are his fernants and do tempt others As he tempteth al men so he tempteth to al sinnes for hel and the deuil are alike therfore as hel is neuer filled with sinners so the deuil is neuer filled with sinnes and therefore when thee had made Peter denie his master once he made him deny him twise when he had made him denie him twise hee made him denie him thrise For this cause our sinnes are counted amongst those things which are infinit because the deuil and our flesh meete together euerie day to ingender new sinnes All the deuils riches is in baites he hath a packful of othes for euery one which wil sweare a pack ful of lies for euerie one which wil deceiue a packe full of excuses for euerie one which wil dissemble As he dooth goe through the streetes into euerie shoppe he castes a short measure or a false balance as he passeth by the tauernes he sets dissention betwixt frends as hee passeth by euery Inne he casts a paire of cards and a paire of dice and a paire of tables as he passeth by the courtes and findes the Lawiers at the bar he casts among them false euidences forged writings and counterset seales Thus in euerie place where hee comes like a foggie mist he leaues an euil sauour behind him The murmuring of Moses the dissimulation of Abraham the idolatrie of Aaron the incest of Lot the dronkennes of Noah the adulterie of Dauid the flight of Ionah the deniall of Peter name Satan and thou hast named the verie spawne of al sinnes which with his taile plucked downe the Starres from heauen How many hate their enemies and frends too and yet imbrace his enemies because he kisseth when hee betrayeth as thogh he would not betray Auarice saith I wil make thee amiable tyrannie saith I wil make thee dreadfull sloth saith I wil make thee