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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
A20786	The divine lanthorne, or, A sermon preached in S. Pauls Church appointed for the crosse the 17. of July M.DC.XXXCI. by Thomas Drant of Shaston in Com. Dorset.	Drant, Thomas, b. 1601 or 2.	1637 (1637)	STC 7164.3; ESTC S4093	30,788	62

downe the soule to the lowest hell I am yet to learne what those veniall sinnes are which we need not rinse of with our penitent teares in Andradius nor for them fall downe at the footstoole of mercy with a Forgive us our trespasses as the Rhemists Sure I am that Saint Basil once askt in earnest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who dares say of a sinne it is little when the least is able to plunge him into the bottomelesse pit Who would judge that leake small which sinkes the vessell or that a slight wound which gives a suddaine i●●●● to death the raine that falls in small drops makes the earth mirie our drislingst slips bedash and dirtie the soule which spots fire shall wash away if penitence doe not As Saint Paul saies to the Corinths would GOD yee could suffer me a little many have sung Panegyricks hence my tune is to waile out an Epicedium This Iland of ours may be called the Image of Heaven as Mereurius Trismegistus spake of Aegypt This City the Temple of the Iland What complaints have beene in her streetes One cries out of hunger as Esua another of treacherous friends with the Psalmist a third of that eues-dropping or tame fury a bad wife as Iob One is pain'd in his belly with the Prophet another in his head with the Shunamites Sonne a third in his bowels with Israel this man mournes as a Dove in the courts of his house that chatters as a Swallow on his house top I will weepe bitterly a third protests with Isaiah and wishes a fourth with Ieremy O that my head were waters and my eyes a fountaine of teares Not a few put up their moane with the Psalmist O LORD thou feedest us with the bread of teares and givest us teares to drinke in great measure these have beene your City cries yet not so loud as the cry of your sinnes but I spare you here the daies can tell you when this populous and what the Epirot spake of Rome this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath beene so shaken into emptinesse that scarce the gleaning grapes have beene left O for a friend cals one here to close my eyes at the houre of death Who shall lay me out for buriall saies another there or carry my bones to the grave in peace Now a David throbs out an Elegie and saies O my Sonne my Sonne anon the Orphan blubbers his cheekes and sighs with Elisha O my Father my Father Your whole City than was one Theator and woefull Spectacle of sorrow and the whole Countrey lookt amazedly on whilst you acted your dying parts GOD hath now drawne His bowe againe and scattered some of His arrowes here and there as on your skirts I hope as Ionathan did direct his three flights to David to warne you out of his tendernesse and love but if in these Characters yee spell not GODS meaning let Saint Cyprian reade and heare how he lessons his Demetrius Are you shaken with Warres are you molested with Dearth and Famine is your health crushed with raging diseases is mankinde generally tormented with Epidemicall maladies 't is all for your sinnes for which we roare like Beares in the Prophet So Sion when she sings a sadding of her misery for that her crowne was falne from her head shee makes this the burden of her song Woe unto us for wee have sinned O than as you desire the wellfare of this your Hierusalem let uncleannesse be purged out of her streetes prophanenesse whipt out of her Temples may not Drunkennesse reele here or Sacriledge-rifle there 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in that hony-mouth'd Father and the worst stealth is to rob GOD both are deeds of the night Surgunt de nocte latrones it is by night that theeves spoile and destroy and they who are drunke are drunke in the night bee sure if yee crosse not with GOD nor fall at odds with Him by your sinnes He will be your Sun and shield your shield to safe-guard your Sun to lighten you Spread O LORD the Light of thy grace into our hearts and blesse us with the Light of thy countenance direct our steps in thy waies which are the waies of Light and so bring us to that Light which shall not change as the Moone nor be ecclipst as the Sun nor set as the Starres even thy glorious selfe O LORD for thou art Light And so much of the fourth property betwixt GOD and Light as both are enemies to darkenesse and sinne The fift property in which GOD and Light agree is the spreading vertue of both Light is a quality diffusive the Sunne as 't is a most perfect lampe and spring of Light so most largely spreades his heate and lends his operative influence to quicken and cheere this Sublunary globe of ours 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Sun Eustathius will have so cal'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the heate which is embosom'd in that bright and opacous bodie and in the Psalmist nothing is hid from the heate thereof GOD is in this respect Light The day is His and the night is His He made the Light and the Sun wherefore made Hee it for the Heavens alone or the godly alone Neither He makes His Sun to rise upon the evill and good the riches of His goodnesse all things tast of every creature is enricht from His maintenancy none ever enterd the porch of life but enjoyed the Light and heate of the visible Sun none ever walkt on the pavement of the earth but was lead by the hand of His invisible goodnesse the Psalmist sweetely warbles it O give thankes unto the LORD for Hee is good for His mercy endureth for ever there is a goodnesse Subjectivò which is tanquum lux in lucido this is GODS but wee see it not 't is coverd with a curtaine of sacred secrecy and dwelle in Light as unaccessable as GOD Himselfe there is goodnesse in the Object which is tanquam lumen in Diaphano this is GODS and we feele it 't is not confin'd to the Orbe of Israel onely nor coopt up within the pale of Iury no tenure entayld to the fleshly heires of Abraham GOD powres out of His treasures upon all even reprobates have a pension out of His Exchequer the whole earth is full of the goodnesse of the LORD GODS goodnesse alike extends her sphere with His Soveraignty for as the eyes of all things waite upon Him in the front so in the heele of the verse He filleth all things with plenteousnesse There is a goodnesse proper to the Elect the Apostle stiles it the riches of His goodnesse Rom. 2. and elsewhere the riches of His grace Ephes. 2. this is that blessing which maketh rich and fills not our garners with store but our hearts with gladnesse GOD at His owne cost maintaines the whole world and showres downe the happy influences of Heaven upon the unjust mans