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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	call_v	sin_n	soul_n	6,275	5	5.1181	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56457	Seasonable counsel to an afflicted people in a letter to the distressed inhabitants of Wem in the county of Salop, after the dreadful fire, which consumed that market-town, March 3. 1676/7. Written by Andrew Parsons, M.A. and sometime minister there.	Parsons, Andrew, 1615 or 16-1684.	1677 (1677)	Wing P559D; ESTC R220462	17,781	51

that ye might be meet to dwell in that brave House though it burnt your earthly tabernacles together That wind did blow you good indeed if the Spirit of God was in it consuming the while your sins and purifying your Souls were your Houses built to day and burned again to morrow you might afford to bear it if Christs Fathers House in Heaven by the Spirit of adoption be sealed securely unto you which then it would be Now my Brethren having this house I have been speaking of in hope if you do repent which this present Providence crys and calls aloud to you to do if it had been done sooner your houses might have stood if it be not done now your houses may never be re-built if they be you may not live to dwell in them and where shall ye dwell then Oh the houses in Hell are woful houses will you without delay obey this voice Oh that while I am writing I could be assured you are repenting that some good man or other would come to me with good tidings The people of Wem are much changed and refined by the Fire there are like to be more new creatures among the poorer sort than new cottages the Church is burnt yet the people passionately say Come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob weeping as they go I will not despair I hope God will hear prayers and give you repentance unto life After Gods voice I beseech you by the mercies of God let the voice of his and sometime your unworthy Minister be heard repent and amend your lives I need not go to particulars to press this repentance the sad Providence of God hath wrought so I hope as to save me this labour and brought your sins fresh to your remembrance Though I cannot yet sure God doth hear your own Consciences peaching you viz. Ah this is for my going prayerless to bed if our houses had been Churches and we spiritual Priests to offer morning and evening Sacrifices unto God of broken and contrite hearts this would this might never have been but I did rise early and made more haste than good speed out of my own house that I might be in the Ale-house rise early to follow strong drink follow it indeed when I stand at it the whole day I came thither a man but I went thence a brute Shall I mention burning my house 't is the infinite mercy of God I my self am not burning in Hell Yonder yonder stood the house where I consumed so much precious time where I spent most of that which cost me so much sweat and labour where I was drinking and debauching my self while my family at home wept and sighed for want of bread or something else This fire was for our profanation of the Sabbath a Judgment particularly threatned for this sin Jer. 17.27 God threatneth Zach. 5.4 to burn houses for swearing and forswearing and was it not a wonder of mercy my house stood so long O the Scripture sure is the Word of God I 'le go no farther than the fulfilling of it for a proof O my folly my folly saith this and twenty men more whose hearts ran after their covetousness I have cared and laboured plotted and contrived with all my might a whole age for that which thieves might have stolen which fire hath utterly consumed in one hour How shall I answer God who gave me so long time since I have nothing left now to shew what I did all this while I have little knowledg of the things of God to shew I have few good works to shew I was a true lover of the Mammon of unrighteousness it was in my heart so that I was an Idolater and sacralegious person all that while What have I employed a soul a precious and immortal Being about things that it could never have content in And are these now gone in an hours time Look yonder all that I laboured for and loved above my soul is now some carts full of rubbish and a few handfuls of ashes I have spent my time well that am now level'd with the poor man that could arrive to no more than to see a little meat in his cubbard My Heaven hath took Wings and fled from me and what a Heaven now shall I have Lord shew me my folly or I am undone The House of God is burnt saith another And now if God should reckon with me for all the sins I have been guilty of there What a fire did I deserve to feel Here stood my seat where I slept so much while I waked my ears were stopt because my mind was devising evil devices and was prejudiced against the Preacher and his Doctrine both especially the Application I do now wonder and wonder again at my self that while I heard there the glad tidings of the Gospel sounding in my ears I should be no more affected than the pillar I leaned unto There I was invited to the marriage-supper yea I was promised in case I would consent my Maker would be my husband and if I would be for him he would be for me Matth. 18. But I made light of it and disdainfully said I pray have me excused though that while I had no other sutors than the Devil the World and the Flesh whose motions I embraced though my early vow in baptism enjoyned me by the Command of God upon greatest penalties to forsake them all There we call to remembrance the Minister cited and applied the words of Moses to the two Tribes and half Numb 32.22 Behold you have sinned against the Lord and be sure your sin will find you out We were told there over and over that we had God to serve souls to save death to pay an account to give a sentence to receive and eternity to live in But these things did not move us so as to stop our running to all excess and committing iniquity with greediness as if we could not soon enough provide fuel not only for this fire which hath consumed us but for a worse which if God be not infinitely gracious to us through Jesus Christ will be consuming of us for ever And now methinks I hear you sigh and cry Men of God help us what shall we do The wrath of the Lord is gone forth the fire of his indignation hath begun upon our houses what must be done to quench it that it might not reach our souls that we may not suffer the vengance of eternal fire Christs Counsel to the impotent man John 5.14 Sin no more lest a worse thing come unto thee is proper and seasonable for me and you My friends come let us return unto the Lord for he hath torn us and he will bind us up he hath burnt you and he will then build you up Knowing the terror of the Lord sure this Exhortation will obtain Burnt children will dread the fire O tell thy lusts that have been as dear as thy right