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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	day_n	life_n	think_v	5,509	5	4.3139	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11236	Be wise and be warned. Per I.S.	Sutton, J., fl. 1567-1573.	1573 (1573)	STC 21498; ESTC S110773	15,781	42

was for his arrogancye eaten wyth woormes and gaue vp the ghost with infinite numbers of like storyes which I might aledge but for breuety I let them passe But now if God haue thus shewed him selfe so mightie righteous a Iudge if hée haue thus bent his irefull countenance against his enemies and so terribly poured doune his wrath vpon them in those days suppose you he hath forgotten him selfe or think you that he will leaue you vntouched oh you Arch enemies of our tyme doo you imagen that he is eyther blynde and seeth not your tirannie and bloodye butcherly behauiour or that he is death and heareth not the lamētable gronings and outcryes of them that innocently haue yelded theyr lyues to the slaughter oh no deceyue not your selues for if the blood of Abel cryed vengance in the ears of God for the cruell dealing of his brother Cain was herd Thinke you that the aboundance of blood of so many thousandes of gods children which yee haue spilt wil not by God be required at your handes ●es bée assured the Lorde him selfe wil be reuenged vpon you The poure and force of our God is not decayed neyther his arme shortened but he is euen now the same God that he thē was Wherfore let this be known vnto you and wherof be you moste wel assured that the lenger that the mightie God withholdeth and deferreth his comming so with the more vehemency and fury and the whotter shall his wrathe be kindled agaynst you with the more greuouse plagues shall he vexe and punish you when he shall appoynt the tyme of hys comming And as the affliction crosse of the godly proceedeth from God to thē of loue to theyr comforte and consolation So shall your punishment procéede of gods wrath and sore displeasure to punish you as his enemyes aduersaries to your confusion and vtter destruction The quarell is his owne and he himself will reuenge it when the burthen wil-bée to heauy for you to beare that now glory and tryumphe in your gredy desire of blood Shall not God auenge his elect which cry day and night vnto him Yes he will auenge them and when he commeth he cōmeth speedely And who may abyde in his sight when he is angry saith Dauid For euen as vpon the sodayne he sente downe fyre from Heauen which consumed the Captaynes theyr bends so hath he his plagues prepared for you and shall crushe you and break in péeces with an Iron Rod or Septer euen lyke an earthen vessel and make you as duste to trample on His wrath shal be shortly kyndled agaynst you How wel hath the Prophet of God found you out For both your wordes and councels sayth hee are agaynst the lord ye prouoke the maiesty of god to anger Wo be vnto your souls for they shal be heauely rewarded bycause ye haue wasted your land and destroied your people ye shal be swept out with the béesom of destruction saith the lord of hostes For the generation of the wicked shal be without honour The malicious Tirantes when they dy are neyther in life nor in the resurrection For thou visitest them and rootest them oute and destroiest all the memorial of them I will stretch out my hand and destroye the destroier saith the Lord A great vengance wil I take vpon them and punish them cruelly that they may know howe that I am the Lord which haue au●nged mee of them Behold I come shortly and my reward with me to geue euery man according as his déeds shal be And to cōclude the abhominable murderers shall haue theyr part in the lake that burneth with fyre and Brimstone And the Author of this saying is worthy of credit But now my déere bretheren of Englād as none of vs are worthy to be accōpted of the slocke of Christ his folde that hath not with compassion in his hart the perfect feeling of the misery of our persecuted bretheren our neighbours and with a willing harte reléeue them to our poure and with gréefe of mynd in their behalf doe humbly call vpon God to strengthen them with patience constancy of fayth that they may mekely and humbly submit them selues vnder the crosse which it hath pleased God for their triall to lay vpon them And wherof at his good pleasure hee will agayne discharge them and vnburthen them So let vs agayne well knowe that all crosses and calamityes are as Sermondes from heauen for sin and are layd vpon our neighbors for vs to take exsample and warning by And preach as it were vnto vs that we shoold faul● to the amendmente of our lyfe betime least God caste vs of in his aunger For although it hath pleased god to giue vnto vs the vse of his gospel offring vnto vs therby soule health which is receiued by fayth through hearing yet is it not inough that the same be taught hard onlesse it be also kept to kepe the word is to learn what is herd to hold it to bebeleue it and to performe true obedyence to God through faith as did our father Abraham He hard the word he held it he beleued it yea and yelded such obedience to it by fayth that he would at gods apoyntmente rather slaye his only begotten sonne then break gods commaūdement But wher is he among vs that yeldeth this obediēce vnto god we wil be called Abrahams childrē but we wil not treade in our fathers foote steps would to God we had consideration of his promes to them that heare and obey it For they are blessed saith hée which is to say sette frée from wretchednes Oh that my people would obey me for if Israel wold walke in my wayes I should soone put downe theyr enemyes and turne myne hand agaynst theyr aduersaryes Let vs not now so much trust to our prosperity that according to the olde prouerb wée set cock on hoope and be ouermuch careles but in our prosperity let vs be afrai● to offend the maiestie of our louing Lord and god Who as thankes to him hath hetherto So he may henseforth carefully kepe vs from aduersitie and daunger of our enemies for as no man better vnderstandeth the cōmodities of libertie health then he that hath some times felt the hardnes of imprisonment and pains of sicknes So haue we good cause to be myndfull of our late lamentable state wherin we then lacking the libertie of our consience did tast of the lyke misery that our bretheren and neighbours about vs are now partakers of which may nowe giue vs due consideration to think with our selues how perillous and daūgerous a thing it would be for vs that haue professed our selues Christians to bring our selues again ●nder the Deuils yoke and into the trappes of Tirantes that thyrst after our bloud which as they vndoubttedly think long for so doth our wicked lyfe and conuersatyon euen hasten the performaunce of their greedy desire but

greeuous and extreame punishments which also extend them selues euen vnto their posteritie for the ofspringe for the most parte receyue their vyces of their auncetry as it were by inheritāce whose er●ours are to be detested bicause their trau●l tendeth to dep●iue vs of the worde of God wherein they declare and shewe themselues manifestlye to be the children of their father the Diuell and therefore cons●quently as muche as in them is are his instrumentes to hinder the saluation of man wherefore according to the olde prouerbe what is bredd in the bone will neuer oute of t●e flesh And what nature hath giuen is not easely to be remoued threfore such fath●r such children The posteritie of Caine will shew the propertie of theyr predecessor it is againe nature and kynde for thē to spare or saue that which they can destroy and make hauock of The broode of Caine will nedes be knowne by their bloudy recognisance the diuel that king of darknesse and his beloued Antichrist the Pope continually per●ecute bende all their force to this end that they may extinguish the true religion of Christ Their delight is in bloud They practise to spoyle the ship but al will not helpe nor preuayle for as Ieremy sayd they shall fight against thee but they shal not be able to ouercome thee for I am with thee sayth the Lord to defende thee And ye shall see mee in ioye when they shall be confounded be then of good chéere pluck vp your harts and be mery ye mariners that sayle in Christ his ship for it cannot be destroyed For God as hee is able to bring to passe that of the stones there shall ryse vp children vnto Abraham euen so hath hee by his wonderfull prouidence appoynted the bloud of the martyrs to be the séede of the gospel yea and of the ashes of those whom through tyrannie the fyers haue consumed God hath raysed great nombers now liuing whom he hath ordayned and appoynted for the furnature of his ship to the great glory of our God the colo●t of his flock And wherof to the great prayse of his name be it spoken we his people of Ingland haue had the experience and euen at this day to our consolation and comfort the Lord of his mercy so cōtinue it make vs thankefull to him for the same For greate is the loue that God hathe to hys church yet nothing do these miracles of our mightie God moue the hartes of his enemies whose eyes are so blynde that they sée not and theyr harts so hardened that they vnderstand not but euen stil at those dayes procéede go forward with their Cain like charitie according to the rule of the romish Antechristian church the Sucksessors of Cain For how rage the Heathen now how fret they howe fume they how lay they theyr heads together to conspyre against the Lord and his anoynted Alasse who seeth not howe cruelly they euen now persecute Christ in his members onely to suppresse and tred vnder foote the glorious gospell of Christ Iesu What beseeging of holdes and fortes What racyng of walles What destruction and sackyng of Cities townes What spoyling of Countreys What drowning what hanging what burning and outrageous horyble dealing with gods deadlyngs What blooddy and monsterous murderyng of the poore innocents sparyng no degree nor age but frō the no●lest to the meanest Man Woman Childe From the gray headded to the tenderest of yeares yea euen to the very babe sucking at his mothers brest geuing the dead bodyes of gods seruauntes to the fowles of the eyre to be deuowred the flesh of gods saynts to the beastes of the lande she●●ng theyr blood as water on euery side They go beyond Herod who went but to far but these theyr workes declare them and shew of what spirit they are that they be euen of that broode of turmagawnts and hell hounds that the prophet in the person of Christ speaketh of ye hate the good loue the euil ye pluck of mens skinnes and fleshe from theyr bones ye eate the fleshe of my people fley of theyr skinnes ye breake theyr bones ye chop them in peces as it were into a Cauldron Is this according to the commaundement thou shalt not kyll how agréeth this dealinge wyth the ex●resse wyl and commaundement of god loue thy n●ighbor as thy selfe loue huryteth not his neighbor therfore is loue the fulfylling of the law But oh ye bloody broode how fulfyl you the law wha● is loue become wyth you for they that loue be mercifull and they that be mercyfull do loue so the fountayne sh●weth the water the water the fountaie for loue merry are vnseperable Doth loue consist in cutting of throtes and murdering of innocents doth loue consyst in m●king spoyle and hauock of thē people of God Oh gredy deuowring wolues Oh blood thersty tyrantes O● bottomles bellyes who dayely em●●●yng your selues with and go●lpyng in the blood of gods sayntes a●e neuer full nor satesfyed but the ryght hande of the most highest shall change all Wherfore oh thou chosen flock of thy shepherd Christ Iesu dismay not discourage not faynt not murmor not grudge not repyne not neyther refuse to bear a lyttle peece of afflyction with thy master Christ who of loue to ease thée dyd himself ●ear the great and heauy burthen think no● much that thou being gyltie by meanes of thy manyfolde sinnes and forgetfulnes of thy dutie to thy master Christ Iesu do suffer some louing correction And fele the fauorable hand of thy heauenly father when he being gyltlesse did bear the burthen of thy sinne of the sinnes of the hole world in his body vppon the crosse but pluck vp thy hart oh Israel thou chosen generation peculyer people beloued of God and comfort thy self in him knowing that the crosse which is affliction of the body grefe of mynde losse of goods and frends hunger thyrst nakednes imprisonment and death is naturally incident vnto the churche of God and members of Iesu Christ For had not Iacob great gref of mynd for the losse of his sonne Ioseph and Ioseph likewise suffred affliction of the body in prison Lazarus felte hunger and the payne of his byles at the rich mans gates Micheas was buffeted and fedde with bread water Iobe lost his goods his children his house the Profet Esay was cutte in péeces with a sawe Ieremi was stoned to death Iohn Baptist was cast into prison and beheaded Iames the brother of Iohn was slain with the sword and did not Christ him selfe Suffer the most shamefull death of the Crosse the seruant therfore is not greater then his master if they haue persecuted mée so will they persecute you The time will come that whosoeuer killeth you will thinke he doth God good seruis In the world ye shall haue tribulation and hée that taketh not vp his Crosse and followeth after mée is not méete for mée for