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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	dead_a	life_n	raise_v	9,308	5	6.9695	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86056	The life of the apostle St Paul, written in French by the famous Bishop of Grasse, and now Englished by a person of honour.	Godeau, Antoine, 1605-1672.	1653 (1653)	Wing G923; Thomason E1546_1; ESTC R209455	108,894	368

envy jealousie and quarrels Children have been disobedient to their parents Fathers have lost the love which they owe to their children 〈◊〉 in summe the earth has beheld nothing but iniquity malice covetousness deceit slanders false accusations strifes warres murders Parricides Robberies and sacriledges During this profound darkness the Jewes have been a little enlightned Moyses by the appointment of God instructed them what they owe to him as their Sovereign and to men as their Brethren He has given them a holy law to draw them to good by reward and to divert them from evil by the threats of punishment But many are content to heare this law yet care not to observe it others that have kept it are become proud and have attributed to themselves the glory of their good works instead of referring it to God Thus all men were found to be slaves to sin and worthy of death which is the price of sin Concupiscence raigned absolutely over them and at every moment soyled them after some new manner In this unhappy condition God had pity on humane nature seeing that Philosophy could not cure the Gentiles nor the Law those who made profession of it All being intangled in infidelity as in nets he sent down his only son to the end that by his bloud he shouldleffect that which was impossible for the law to do that be himself should be given up for the redemption of all as a holy and acceptable victime to God This he has wrought by dying upon the Cross whereunto he was fastned by the envy of the Priests suborning the people so that by how much it has been heretofore infamous by so much the more is it now glorious and adorable This is the Tree on which we must necessarily be ingraffed if we will have true life Jesus Christ is dead to the end we should die with him and if this death be real and compleat we are assured to live eternally in his society for he now is living at the right hand of his Father who raised him the third day There are many now alive witnesses of this and their deposition cannot well be suspected for they are not weak persons easily to be deceived not interessed in it to deceive others These who publish this verity can hope for nothing at present but chaines persecutions prisons and all sorts of infamy It distastes all that hear it and passes for a kinde of madness Those then certainly who defend it with so much constancy and who are otherwise irreprovable in their manner of life ought to be believed as faithfull Ministers of God and not reputed as absurd impostors For my selfe I speak as an eye witness Jesus of Nazareth hath vouchsafed to appear unto me although I be but as an abortive and not worthy the name of an Apostle having so much persecuted his Church I am so much the more to be credited because I was farre from believing in him and my former actions clearly shewed the zeal I had for the Law of my Fore-fathers Open your eyes O Felix and you Drusilla who is letter ins●ructed then he in that which I am about to say acknowledge the divine Redcemer figured in Abel killed by his brother in Isaac under the knife of Abraham in the Serpent lifted up in the desart against the biting of Serpents in Josuah when he brought the people into the land of Promise and in so many other things of our Law as were too tedious to relate He excludes no person from salvation nor chooses out one Nation more then another but by faith he will justifie all sorts of persons great little Kings Subjects rich poore so that all may come to eternall life I do require of you a thing that is not very hard believe and you shall receive innocency Believe and you shall live for faith is the life of the just mans soul Hee that lives this lise is not troubled to submit to what the Law prescribes for he knowes that he is a member consecrated to God and so not to be soyled in Formcation much less in Adultery Other sinnes which we commit are without us but when wee are given to impurity we sinne against our selves against our owne bodies ' which we dishonour and which is not made for that use but to be a Temple of the holy Ghost From the beginning of the world God instituted marriage for the propagation of mankinde hee blest man and woman and said They were two in one flesh but they must be carefull to possess their bodies in sanctity and not suffer them to follow the disorders of Concupiscence and those Brutalities which are common amongst Gentiles Their bed is holy and their conjunction not onely lawfull but honorable Death onely can dissolve them for that which God hath united who can or dare separate From thence therefore judge what a horrible crime Adultery is which makes this disunion and at the same time offends both God and the Husband Man sometimes is constrained by force to endure so great an injury and God bears a long time with those who commit it But when the measure of their iniquity is filled when they have without reflection provoked his utmost anger at last by the greatness of the punishment he sati●fies for his long forbearance He shewes a sinner that be was neither asleep nor blinde but expected onely his repentance He revenges himself at one bl●w for his insolency in despising the riches of his goodness and his long patience by an adominable obstinacy O it is a dreadfull thing Felix to fall into the hands of the living God He is a Judge not to be deceived for hee reads in the depth of hearts and makes the conscience of a sinner serve against himself he has power to revenge and will do it eternally by the fire of hell which is never extinguished and by inward remorses which exceed in heat eve● this fire Fel●x being touched with these last words interrupted the Apostle whom otherwise the heat of zeal would have transported to a higher pitch He had after this frequent conferences with him but they produced neither the reformation of the one nor liberty of the other Felix would have had money and the prisoner had not wherewith to content his avarice In the mean time Pallas who was his brother lost the favour of Nero the successour of Claudius and upon that Felix was recalled and Portius Festus appointed by the Emperor to succeed him No sooner came this new Governor to Hierusalem but the Princes of the Priests and the chiefest amongst the Jewes whose malice time could not sweeten addrest themselves unto him and prest him extreamly to send for the Apostle whom Felix to content them had left prisoner at Cesarea their designe was to murther him in the way which Feseus perhaps understanding told them He meant to stay onely a few daies at Hierusalem that therefore they should meet him at Cesarea where he would hear their accusations and