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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	day_n	good_a	life_n	10,536	5	4.7272	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20981	Prodromus. Or The literall destruction of Ierusalem as it is described in the 79. Psalme: in which are handled these places: Inuocation vnder the crosse. Gods deserting of his people. Christian buriall. Contumelie. God the author of the euill of punishments. Reuenge. Church not euer visible to vs. Confessions of sinnes. True religion not euer prosperous.	Dunster, John.	1613 (1613)	STC 7355; ESTC S116691	13,635	47

haue defiled coinquinated prophaned eyther by ouerthrowing thine Altars and demolishing the Temple it selfe or by exportation of the holy vessels into prophane banquets Dan. 5. 1 Mac. 1.57 Stupris alijs immandicis illud polluerunt Haymon Remegius or by placing in thy Temple the Image of Iupiter Olympius or by abusing our wiues and daughters in thy Temple either by some or all these wayes haue they defiled thy Temple Fuerat hoc prorsùs nefas Sen. Danais inausum Templa violastis Haereditatem tuam Templū tuum Thine inheritance thy Temple Haue regard to thine owne worship defend thine owne Altars sauegard thy Priests keepe thine owne house I doe not say from Buyers and Sellers but from the inuasion of theeues who are already entred therein and haue made thereof a Den of theeues The zeale of thine house hath eaten mee vp and forceth me to say once againe O God! Deus ah Deus aspicis haec And made Ierusalem heapes of stones Ierusalem famous for her first Founder Melchisedech King of Salem a notable type of Christ for her Antiquitie builded in the dayes of Abraham for her situation and forme being the platforme and type of heauen for her Temple all of golde euen to the Snuffers for the Kingdome and Priesthood both resident in her for her name Ierusalem the vision of peace where the God of peace was to seale the couenant of peace and whence was to be sent abroad the Instrument of our peace the Gospell of Reconciliation This Ierusalem the Citie of God the holy Citie the Citie of the great King the Schoole of our Faith the cradle of our Saluation the bed in which the life of the world slept rose againe and ascended into heauen this Ierusalem is now made in Pomorum custodiam as a lodge in a Vineyard or Garden of Cucumbers nay in a lodge there is fashion of orderly building in aceruum lapidū heapes of stones Mat. 23. not one stone left vpon another in orderly building Columen euersum occidit Pollent is Asiae Sen. caelitum egregius labor Hostis horrei afflictam quoque Victāque quāuis videat haud credit sibi Potuisse vinci Is this the Citie that men call the perfection of beautie and ioy of the whole earth Lam. 2.15 O God the Heathen are come into thine inheritance Tollebant manus prae admiratione Thomas O quanta i●●tatio rerum Rupertus thine holy Temple haue they defiled and made Ierusalem heapes of stones c. Why God should thus forsake his inheritance and not remember his Foot-stoole in the day of his Wrath. The causes I take to be two 1 His loue to his People 2 His hatred to the sinne of his people His loue to his people Whom God loueth he correcteth You onely haue I knowne of all the Nations of the earth therefore I will visit you for all your iniquities Amos 3.2 hee scourgeth euery sonne whom he receiueth the more his anger the greater is his loue His best people chosen and culled out of all the nations of the earth tasted almost of an Anniuersary Captiuitie Ierusalem taken * 1 By Iebusites 2 By Dauid 3. 4. By Nabuchadnezzar 5 By Sesack King of Aegipt in Roboams time 6 By Alexander the great 7. 8. By Antiochus 9 By Pompey 10 By Herod tenne times before her desolation by Vespatian and Titus often captiuated yet neuer extinguished yea God hath reserued a remnant of Israell to be saued in the end of the world after their so long dispertion Moab is therefore more full of sinne because neuer dealt withall as Ierusalem neuer remoued from her lees neuer poured from vessell to vessell saith the Prophet While God striketh vs it argueth hee hath his face towards vs and not his backe which is the greatest iudgement of all when God goeth from vs as if not caring for vs. I will not visit your daughters when they are harlots nor your spouses when they are whores Hos 4.14 My wrath is departed from mee I will cease and be no more angry Ezek. 16. Nolo istam misericordiam I will none of that mercy saith S. Bernard Ser. super Cant. Misericordia puniens parcens crudelitas Aug. This pittie is beyond all wrath Hîc vrat hîc secet dùm parcat in aeternum let him cauterize let him vse incision in this life so he spare in the life to come Ex hoc intelligimus nos Deo curae esse quoniam cùm peccamus irascitur By this saith Lactantius wee know that God careth for vs because when we sinne hee is angry The bitter pill of afflictions is no way to be shunned of a good Christian 1 Because they come from GOD howbeit sometime inflicted by Sathan Gods instrument Behold it shall come to passe that the Diuell shall cast some of you into prison that yee may be tryed and yee shall haue tribulation tenne dayes Be thou faithfull vnto the death and I will giue thee the crowne of life Reu. 2.10 2 Because they worke for our good We are chastened of the Lord because wee should not be condemned with the world 1 Cor. 11.32 Amarasalubria bitter Potions are wholesome 3 Because they assimilate vs to Christ Hee suffered and so entred into his glory Hee went to heauen by weeping Crosse and we must follow him the same way It were monstrous there should be delicata membra sub capite spinoso saith Saint Bernard 4 Because howbeit they be grieuous yet they be but short for a little while haue I forsaken thee but with great compassion will I gather thee for a moment in mine anger I hid my face from thee for a little soason but with euerlasting mercy haue I had compassion on thee Isa 54.7.8 The Sunne is not alwayes ouercast with a cloud It is not euer winter Mariners feele not alwayes the fury of Windes Nec fera tempestas toto tamen errat in anno Ouid. in Fast Et tibi crede mihi tempora Veris erunt Euery affliction hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 2.10 a forth Intermissa gratior libertas ac reddita quàm seruata Petr. or an escape Sorrow and mourne ô Daughter Zion like a woman in trauaile for now thou shalt goe and dwell in the field and goe into Babell but there shalt thou be deliuered Micha 4.10 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hee hath hee doth and yet hee will deliuer vs There befalleth vs no other temptations 1 Cor. 10.11 but such as befall men According to our weakenesse God proportionateth his cup of affliction therefore I thinke called a Cuppe of affliction Matth. 20. because no Physitian more carefully assigneth a potion for his Patient nor waigheth out more accurately ounces and drams then God doth afflictions for his children 2 His hatred to the sinne of his people Puto saith Titus if the Romanes had not come vp against them they wold haue bin swallowed vp of the earth or perished in another Noës-floud or