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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	reign_v	sin_n	sin_v	4,155	5	9.6123	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03099	Physicke for body and soule Shevving that the maladies of the one, proceede from the sinnes of the other: with a remedie against both, prescribed by our heauenly physitian Iesus Christ. Deliuered in a sermon at Buckden in Huntingtonsh, before the right reuerend Father in God the Lord Bishop of Lincolne then being, by E. Heron Bachelor of Diuinitie, and sometime fellow of Trin. Colledge in Cambridge.	Heron, Edward, d. 1650.	1621 (1621)	STC 13227; ESTC S115187	17,320	54

of maladies seazed one mans body tugging hailing him to his long home the Palsie shakes him the crampe pinches him the megrime possesses the head the squinācy seazes the throate the feuer hectique apprehends the whole body Eccl. 12. vntill the keepers of his house begin to tremble and the strong men bow themselues the grinders cease and they that looke out at the windowes wax dimme and the golden ewer and pitcher is broken and then dust returns to dust and the spirit to God that gaue it The best elixor that we can extract out of this miserable condition Rom. 5.12 is that whereas sinne is the mother of all sorrow yea of death it selfe we should for Christs sake set the daughter against the mother by sorrowing a goodly sorrow vnto true repentance so may we haply preuent that tribulation and anguish that hangs ouer euery soule that sinneth at leastwise make death become no death vnto vs but a happy passage to a more happy life 3. From the Commination Least a worse thing happen vnto thee The conclusion is That multiplication of sinne does necessarily inferre multiplication of misery and that in regard of punishment both Temporall and Eternall For the first the Heathen said it Arist Eth. Qui alium ebrius percusserit and that whosoeuer beeing in his cups did strike his fellow should receiue double punishment because his sin was doubled Gen. 18.25 shal man be thus iust and shal not the iudge of all the world doe right yea surely the sentence is already gone out of Gods owne mouth Reward her double according to her works Reu. 18.6 and as much as she hath glorified her selfe liued in pleasure so much giue yea to her sorrow and torment And S. Chrysostome renders a reason on Gods behalfe why he should thus prosecute reuenge vpon refractary sinners Chrysostom in locum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aristotle Si grauem priorum scelerū paenam dederimus c. If we haue beene formerly chasticed for our faults and no whit bettered wee prepare for our selues the seuerer punishment because wee seeme either Stupidi sencelesse stocks more dull then the Asse who wil hearken to the admonition of the whippe though he be the dullest creature Or else Contemptores contemners of the chastisement of the Lord spurning at Gods punishments as obdurate Pharao did who though admonished by many plagues as so many summons to call him to repentance yet would not relent and let Israel goe and therefore as he multiplied his sinne of obstinacy so God measured out his punishment with greater seuerity Secondly for eternall Math. 16.17 2. Cor. 3.10 when Christ the righteous iudge shal come in the glory of his father then shall hee giue to euery man according to his deedes not onely in quali euill for euill malū paenae for malum culpae sed in quanto the greater euil of punishmēt for the greater euil of sin As it was a paradox with the Stoicks to hold 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that all sinnes are equall so is it as great a paradox with vs to hold that the hellish punishment admits no difference or degrees Vnus ignis saies S. Gregory omnes concludet sed non aequaliter omnes comburet One fire shal encompasse the damned crue but shall not worke vpon all alike It shall bee easier for Tyre and Sydon then for Corazin and Bethsaida yet all fowre shall meete in one place Hell The seruant that knowes not his masters will c. shall be beaten with few stripes but he that knowes it and does it not shall suffer many if those barbarous nations shall one day wring their hands and weep waile because they haue knowne so little and practised lesse much more shall we Christians for knowing much to little practise All which may giue aduertisement to two sorts of sinners Desperat ille vt peccet Sperat iste vt peccit Aug. in Psal 144. The first would seeme to despaire of saluation and makes that an encitement to him to take a full draught of the pleasures of this life because they continue but for a season The second rushes vpon all manner of sinne presumption of pardon though he drinke vp iniquity like waters and deuoures sinne with greedines S. Augustine concludes Vtrumque metuendum Es 5.8 the case of both of them is most fearefull because as they draw on iniquity with the cords of vanity and sinne as with cartropes so are they drawne sayes Clemm Alexan. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 like staled oxen to the slaughter with cords of their own making treasuring vp vnto themselues wrath against the day of wrath which is all one as if a man should bee euery day gathering of sticks and fewell to make the fire greater wherewith himselfe should be burned Seeing thererefore we are by nature forgetful of Gods benefits Seeing that all kinds of sinne are to be auoided by vs whether against the 1. or 2. table whether small or great whether sinnes of youth age complexion conformitie intension either by a feruent desire setled reluctation or constant endeauor as the onely cause of all woe and misery incident to the nature of man Let vs alwaies be mindfull of God the giuer to render due thanks for all his blessings let vs so demeane our selues in all godly conuersation that though sinne must dwell in our mortall bodies so long as we dwell in this earthly tabernacle yet that it may not raigne in thē to the obeying it in the lusts therof So may we preuent sins attendants affliction of body griefe and anguish of soule yea that last of al punishments eternall death Which that wee may doe Christ Iesus our heauenly Physitian who hath left vnto vs this wholesome prescript of sinning no more grant vnto euery one of vs To whom with the Father and Holy Ghost three Persons in Vnity and one God in Trinity be all prayse and power ascribed now and for euer Amen FINIS