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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	earth_n	heaven_n	life_n	8,760	5	4.3162	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08158	Verbum sempiternum	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1616 (1616)	STC 23811; ESTC S123181	8,541	284

Greatnesse guards the least frō Enuies Iawes So I the worst that in these times doe write Implores your Grace t' accept this worthlesse mite IO. TAYL OR To the Reader HEere Reader maist thou read for little cost How thou wast ransom'd when thou quite wast lost Mans gracelesnes and Gods exceeding Grace Thou heere maist read and see in little space I. T. S. Matthew LO here the blessed Sonne of God and man New borne who was before all worlds began Of heau'nly seed th' eternall liuing Rocke Of humane race of kingly Dauids stocke Our blest Redeemer whom the Prophets old In their true preachings hadso oft foretold In figures ceremonies types and trops He here fulfils their words confirms their hopes The worlds saluations sole and totall sum Poore mankinds Sauiour lesus Christ is come From maried Mary wife virgin springs This heauenly earthly supreme King of Kings Hee 's naked born in a manger laid Where he and 's mother blessed wife and maid Are by the Wise men sought and seeking found And hauing found their ioyes doe all abound Where they their loue their zeale their faith vnfold And offer inense mirre and purest gold False hearted Herod seeketh to destroy This newborne infant our eternall ioy But Ioseph by a dreame is warn'd by night T'ward Egypt with the Babe to take his flight Amongst th' Egyptians he not long soiournes But backe to Naz'reth he again returnes To end the law the Babe was circumcis'd And then by Iohn in Iorden was baptiz'd When loe the Father from his glorious throne Sends down the Holy ghost vpon his Sonne In likenes of a pure vnspotted Doue Which did his birth and baptism both approue Now subtill Sathans he attempt● and tempts him And fasting to the wildernesse exempts him But Iesus power the foule fiends power destroi'd Commanding Sathan hence Auoid auoid The fearful diuel doth flee Christ goes preaches And in the mountaine multitudes he teaches He said Repentance wipes away transgressings And to the godly be pronounced blessings He makes the lame to goe the blinde to see Deafe heare dumbe speake the leapers clensed be The diuels from the possessed out he draue The dead are rais'd the poore the Gospell haue Such things he doth as none but God can doe And al 's to bring his flocke his fold vnto All that are laden come to mee quoth he And I will ease you therefore come to me You of your heauie sins I doe acquit My yoke is easie and my burden's light Vpon Mount Tabor there our blest Messias Doth shew himselfe with Moses and Elias Yet all these mighty wonders that he wrought Nor al the heau'nly teachings that he taught The stiffeneck'd stubborne Iewes could not conuert But they Remain obdurate hard of heart The man quoth som by whō these things are done It is the Carpenters poore Iosephs sonne Some said how he these things to passe did bring By power of Belzebub th' infernal king Thus with the poyson of their enuious tongues They guerdon good with ill and right with wrongs His owne not knowes him Iudas doth betray him To Annas and to Caiphas they conuey him From Caiphan back to Annas from thence Is sent this euerlasting blessed Prince Thus is this death this sin this Sathan killer Mongst sinfull wretches tost frō post to piller Hee 's flouted spitted on derided stript Hee 's most vnmercifully scourg'd and whipt By impious people hee 's blasphem'd and raild And of the Iewes in scorne as king is hail'd He like a lambe vnto his death is led Nail'd on the Crosse for man his heart-bloud shed He after three daies glorious doth arise He leaues the sinfull earth and mounts the skies But first to his Disciples hee appeares Where he their drooping halfe ded spirits cheers S. Marke S. Marke declares how blest bapti●ing Iohn Forerunner was of Gods eternall Sonne Which Iohn in wildernesse baptises teaches And of contrition and remission preaches Our Sauiour ●alles no Pharises or Scribes Or princely people out of Iudah● Tribes But Simon Andrew Iames and Iohn are those Poore toiling Fishermen which Iesus chose To shew that with the humblest smallest things God greatest matters to perfection brings By sundry wondrous works our Sauiour Iesus From sin and Sathan lab'reth to release vs. And in requitall the vngratefull Iewes Deuise their blest Redeemer to abuse Some inwardly doe hate him some belye him His seruants all forsake him or deny him But Peter thou wast blest in thy deniall Of thy presuming thou hast found the triall Repentance washt away thy frailties crimes And thou a patterne art to after-times The sonne and heire of neuer fading heau'n Into the hands of sinful men is giuen Hee dies hee 's buried in glorie rises Triumphing ouer all his foes deuices S. Luke Heere Marie and old Zacharias sings In ioyfull manner to the King of Kings And aged Simeon in his armes doth take The Lord of life and doth reioycings make Christ teaches preaches mercy vnto all That by amendment will for mercie call Hee 's tane and by false witnesses accus'd Hee 's beaten scoffed scorned and abus'd Hee 's hang'd vpon the Crosse betwixt two theeues The one doth raile on him and one beleeues He dies hee 's buried rising he doth quell And conquer al ●is foes sin death and hell S. Iohn In the beginning was th' eternall word The word with God was and that word the Lord. In the beginning the same word with God Was and for euer hath with him aboad With it was al things made and made was nough● Without this word the which was made or wrought Here Christs diuinitie is told by Iohn The blessed Trinity one three three one How God had now perform'd the oth he swore To Abram and to Israel long before How Christ should come to ransome Adams losse And satisfie Gods iustice on the Crosse Though times and places far in sunder be Yet Prophets and Euangelists agree In Iesus birth his doctrine life and death Whereby our dying soules gaines liuing breath If all things should be writ which erst was don By Iesus Christ Gods euerlasting Sonne From Cratch to Crosse frō cradle to his tombe To hold the books the world would scarce be roome Acts. Th' Apostles praising God and singing songs The holy Ghost in firy clouen tongues Descends vpon them who are all inspir'd With learned lāguages adorn'd admir'd Saint Peter preaching telles the people plaine How they the liuing Lord of life had slaine Some flout and mocke remaining stubborne harted And many soules peruerted are cōuerted The Church encreases daily nūbers comes And to the Gospels furthring ●iues great sums False Ananias and his faithlesse wife In dreadful maner lost their wretched life The enui●us people stone the martyr Steuen He praying for his foes leaues earth for heauen The Churches archfoe persecuting Saul Is made a conuert and a preaching Paul He 's clapt in prison manacled fetter'd And through his troubles stil his zeale is

better'd Th' Apostle Iames by Herod's put to death And Herod eat with lice lost hatefull breath Th' increasing Church amongst the Gentiles spreds By Nero Paul Peter lost their heads Romans Th'apostle Pau● from Corinth writ to Rome To strength the●● faith tel the● Christ is come He shewes how high and low both Iew and Greeke Are one with God who faithfully him seeke He tels how si● in mortall bodie● lurks How wee ar● sau'd by faith not by works In louing terms ●he people he ●oth moue To faith to ●ope to charitie ●●d loue 1. Corinths Paul to Corinthus from Phillippy sends Their zeale faith hee louingly commends Hee tels them 〈◊〉 Gods seruice ●●ey regard Th' eternall ●owne of life is ●●eir reward 2. Corinthians In this saint Paul sends the Corinthians word Afflictions are the blessings of the Lord. He doth desire their faith may still increase He wishes their prosperitie and peace Galathians Hee tels them that their whole saluations cause Is all in Christ and not in Moses ●awes The law 's a glasse where men their sinnes doe see And that by Christ wee onely saued be Ephesians Paul bids Cast off the old man with his vice And put on Christ our blest redemptions price Philippians Hee bids them of false Teachers to beware He telles them that humilitie is rare And though they liue here in a vaile of striffe Yet for them is laid vp the crown of life Collossians Th' Apostle doth reioice and praiseth God That these Collossians in true faith abode Hee praiseth them he bids thē watch and pray That sinne and Satan worke not their decay 1 Thessalonians Hee thanketh God his labour 's not in vaine So stedfast in the faith these men remaine That they to others are a blessed light By their example how to liue spright 2. Thessalonians Againe to them hee louingly doth write Hee bids them pray the Gospell prosper might He wishes them prosperitie and wealth And in the end soules euerlasting health 1. 2. to Timothy Paul shewes to Timothy a Bishop must In life and doctrine bee sincere and iust And how the Scriptures power haue to perswade Whereby the man of God is perfect made Titus To Titus mongst the Creetans Paul doth send And warns him what t' allow or reprehend Philemon Paul earnestly the master doth request To pardon his poore man that had transgrest Hebrewes Although this booke doth beare no Authors name It shews the lews how they their liues shuld frame And that the Ceremoniall law is ended In Christ in whom all grace is comprehended S. Iame● Heare speake and doe well the Apostle saith For by thy works a man may see thy faith 1. 2. to Peter He counsels vs be sober watch and pray And still be readie for the Iudgement day 1 2 3. of Iohn He shewes Christ di'de and from the graue arose To saue his friends to confound his foes S. Iude. Iude bids them in all godlinesse proceede And of deceiuing teachers to take heede Reuelation Diuine S. Iohn to Pathmos I le euilde This heauenly work t' instruct vs he compilde Hee tels the godly God shall be their gaines He threats the godlesse with eternal paines He shewes how Antichrist should raigne and rage And how our Sauiour should his pride asswage How Christ in glory shall to iudgement come And how a● people must abid● his doome Praier Oh thou whose name is greatest of all names Preserue and keepe the Race of Roiall Iamet That Britaines throne for euer may besure Of one of them whilst Sunne and Moone endure Amen