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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	comfort_n	life_n	soul_n	4,622	5	4.8883	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08131	The Bible-bearer. By A.N. sometimes of Trinity Colledge in Oxford	Newman, Arthur.	1607 (1607)	STC 18495; ESTC S113226	23,490	50

in rebus tam multis consertium etim vita tam in explicabile dissidium In so many thinges fellowship and in life no friendship Theo. It is for this that men for wealth will be Hypocrites and dissemble Religion carry books to shew an inward zeale and yet being all one body in the members no Sympathy being al one spirit and in the affections no harmony All one hope of heauen and in Coheirs no Symphony All one Lord yet in fellow Seruants no vnity All one faith yet in opinions no Siminetrie All sworne in one Baptisme yet in fellow Souldiors no Symmac●ic All adopted by one father yet in brethrē much discord and no fraternity Thus riches enchanting the minde causeth a man to thinke himselfe wise when he is but foolish strong when he is but weak fenced when hee is but naked to leaue the true Tower and strength of his defence and to trust in the weak and rotten walles of wealth For mans nature is composed of two contraries of a mortall body the Earth and an eternall soule which is from heauen and they are as contrary as Heauen and earth whilest either of these parties are naturally mooued to conserue the good of his owne nature It commeth to passe that both this base and earthly part drawes a man vehemently to be attent vpon earthly things and contrary to that diuine and heauenly part doth couer to carry men vp into heauen from whence he is descended by meanes of which repugnancy in mans nature it is brought to passe that man is wonderfully drawne into contrary desires endeuoring to ioyne things together which of their owne nature are seuered farthest asunder wearying himselfe with infinite toyle how to ioyne with God and the world together To partalie of corporall pleasures and spirituall ioyes To possesse the prosperity of earth and the felicity of Heauen This is the cause of so little faith amongest Men or dissention Hypocrisie and all Neutrality at this day For many would faine bee Christians and worldlings too worship God and Mammon too Tast the swéetnesse of Heauen and of the earth and so would be Neuters that is hot and cold too Po. Are there many of this sort thinke you The. Too many Poli. both men and Women that like the Ambidexter Gebionites play on both sides and halt betwéene opinions If the head bee for their profit they goe after it If the eie they goe after it And these Neuters or rather Vters are like those Sea-Calues Crocadiles Otters and Sea-Colts in Aristotle and Pliny which are one while in the water another while on the land for greater booty iustly tearmed Dubia by Isodoro because you cannot tell where to haue them Sometime they are Natatilia and swim with the tide other sometimes Gressabilia and go back for aduantage but amongst many there are few found that side neither to the right hand nor the left but go straight forward without Hypocrisie Poli. Are there women also that are shew-carrying Bible-bearers Hypocrites and dissemblers The. I Po. and that sexe is very dangerous There are many that to bee reckoned religions frequent Sermons haue their Bibles fayrely bound and hanging by their sides when they cannot so much as read them much lesse haue them imprinted in their hearts These maske their euill vnder a vaile of purity and vnder a faire shew shadow much mischief Their eies are snares their wordes charmes their deceite much and their desires more Their consciences like a Pumyce-stone light and full of holes for lucre prone to change to any humor Po. What is the punishment assigned for such Newters Hypocrites or dissembling Bible-bearers The. The paine is no lesse then to be vomited out of the Lordes mouth That is that all Neuters for their Hypocrisie and dissimulation should be cast out of fauor with the Sonne of GOD which is a wofull and importable chastisement if wee consider his diuine Nature rightly what the son of God is namely that he is the same God that is vnto vs the cause of our béeing the Fountaine of life and the founder of all ioy Poli. Is that onely meant by Vomiting The. No By this vomiting is meant more then a bare eiecting out of fauour For therein is expressed a feareful and violent casting out in anger In this Simile the Church is compared to the stomack The Luke warme Newter or Hypocrite to the Luke-warme Water and their grievous disturbance to noisome vomitings The Church is compared to the stomack because as the stomack b● altering and concocting the nourishment receiued feedeth and preserueth the partes of the bodye So the Church by concocting and disgesting the foode of li●e doeth nourish and preserue the body of Christ euen in such sort as from out of food in the stomacke the liuor draweth blood the hart Spirit the braine Sence the sinnewes strength the vaines norishment the body life So out of the food of immortality which is the word of God that is in the church to euery member of Christ doth the hart draw faith the will obedience the vnderstanding knowledge the conscience Comfort the body immortality and the soule all felicity And that also after so rare and stupendious an order that euen as the stomacke So doeth it quicken by killing reuiue by destroying grow wise by foolishnes obey by rebelling against it owne flesh obtaine life through death felicity through misery and eternity out of mortality Po. Why is the Newter or Hypocrite compared to Luke warme water The. For that luke-warm water to a fasting stomack being receiued is hurtfull while it remaineth is grieffull and being eiected is shamefull Became all Newters and Hypocrites are euen such in Gods Church not onely by hindring the work of Gods spirit in the church but by the vnquieting and disturbing of the same Poly. Why are their disturbings compare to noisome vomitings Theo. Because as that which bréedeth vomiting is cast out with hatred for that it is enemy to Nature with violence because it oppresseth the stomack with shamefulnes because the defilings thereof are laid open to the eie and lastly so eiected as neuer againe to be receiued So al Hypocritical Bible-bearers al incorrigible Newters shal by the Lorde himselfe bee throwne out of the Church as filthy vomitings out of the stomacke and that with hatred because they are enemies to Christe and deceiuers of his people with violence because they hurt and oppresse the Church with shame because their Hypocrisie shall be made knowne and lastly cast out of the Church neuer againe to be receiued because while they were in the Church they could neuer be amended Thus the hatred of eiection doeth shewe the detestation of the Crime the violence the mightines of the paine The shame the horrour of Confusion And the neuer receiuing the eternity of destruction Po. But these Hypocrites perhaps will say as much by others as you say by them Theo. Not vnlike so for they are apt enough to iustifie theyr owne weakenes but I