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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	serpent_n	sin_n	sting_n	4,692	5	12.2188	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13745	Esoptron basilikon. Or A kenning-glasse for a Christian king Taken out of the 19. chapter of the gospell of Saint Iohn, the 5. verse, in the words 3 Behold the man. And treated on by William Thorne, Deane of Chichester, and his Maiesties Hebrew reader in the Vniuersity of Oxford.	Thorne, William, 1568 or 9-1630.	1603 (1603)	STC 24041; ESTC S113932	29,555	84

Esay was to bee stoned but as Ieremye was to bee cast to the Lyons but as Daniel to the Sworde but as Paule to the Crosse but as Christ I would dye but as an Hebrew and like a Christian and for Christe and so come when thou wilt Salua sancta crux Of our compassion wee may resolue in like Christian sort and this wee extend to our crucifiers Iud. 9 and exemplyfie thus The Archangell Michael when hee disputed about the body of Moses with the Diuell himselfe durst not intreate him with any cursed language but saide The Lorde rebuke thee Sathan How is it then that wee against our bretheren are so bloudylie bent to take the staffe indeede out of Gods owne hand Vengeance is mine Rō 12.19 Act 7.60 and for euery trifle to crie Reuenge The Protomartyr Saint Stephen when the Iewes stoned him to death kneeled downe and prayed Lorde laie not this sinne to their charge how is it then that wee cannot learne this lesson of him Math 5.44 Collect on S. Stephens day to loue our enimies to praye for our persecutors The Archangell of all Angelles and Martyr of Martyrs our Lorde and Maister Iesus Christ himselfe when hee was reuiled 2. Pet. 2 23 hee reuiled not againe 2. Pet. the 2 23. when he suffered be threatned not againe but committed it to him Luc. 23.34 that iudgeth righteously eyther praying father forgiue them they know not what they doe Zach 3.2 Iud. 9. or saying at most The Lorde rebuke thee Sathan euen the Lorde that hath chosen Hierusalem rebuke thee How is it then Coloss 3.12.13 that as the elect of God holye and like Christians wee put not on these bowelles of compassion of long suffering of mercies of kindenesse of meekenesse forbearing one another and forgiuing one another if any man hath a quarrell to another euen as Christ hath doone euen soe doe wee The third diuision of the third generall circūstance the third last distinction O Compasse mee sweete Iesus with this thy compassion Thirdly I willed you to beholde him in his Session and intercession and that with the eye of affiance and consolatiō Numbr 21.9 In the one twētith of Numbers when as the people of Israel were stung to death for their sinnes with fiery Serpents It is written that Moses by the commaundement of God erected a Serpent of Brasse for a signe and when a Serpent had bitten a man then he looked vp to the Serpent of Brasse and liued The signification or moral of which mystery Saint Iohn in his Gospell and thirde Chapter dooth plainely set downe Iohn 3.14.15 As Moses lift vp the Serpent saith he in the Wildernesse euen so must the sonne of man be lift vp that whosoeuer beholdeth him and beleeueth on him doe not perish but haue life euerlasting Suppose then whole generations of Vipers all the fierye Serpentes of thy sinnes enuyron thee on euerye side the canker of couetousnesse frette thee the flame of concupiscence burne thee the prickles of pride stinge thee to death straight wayes for thy comfort thou knowest what thou hast to doe make vp by the wing of faith to that sanctified serpent Christ Iesus and thou art saued the signe of that serpent wil easilie breake this serpents head Now I beseech you brethren by the mercifulnesse of God attend now vnto this which I shall say vnto you and embrace I pray you this Doctrine of consolation A Demonstration of the saluation of Gods Elect. with a right hand as I entend it you We read oft-times in the volume of this booke a certaine challenge as it were sent downe from that righteous iudge vnto all the inhabitants of the earth If any man durst stand in iudgement with him Now therefore O inhabitants of Ierusalem and men of Iudah Isaiah 5.3 iudge I pray you saith he betweene me and my vineyard for I will be tryed by your selues Iob. 16.21 O Lord Oh if a man might plead with God O Lord thou art I know a seuere yet righteous iudge I know thou knowest my very heart reines yet if so it seeme good in thine eyes I as sinfull a man as I am euen I am content to enter into iudgment with thee Yea in the name of Christ Iesus I waxe confident and bold let all the diuels in hell accuse me all their Angels beare true or false witnesse against mee mine owne conscience cōdemne me thine owne selfe secundum allegata et probata proceede in iudgement against me Only let me be weighed but in a iust ballance Iob. 31.6 and I will iustifie my selfe before thee and yet will neuer appeale from thee I will be tryed by thine owne selfe Isay 50.8 Iob. 33.6 For let me see who will contend in Gods steed with me Let vs stand together who is mine aduersarie let him come neere to me what can he lay to my charge A matter of haughtinesse perchance or an high looke I confesse that and more toe But Ecce homo Behold this man And so I haue recompenced that with the humilitie of my Iesus Some reuelling perchance or some riot I grant that too But Ecce homo Behold this man and so I haue salued that sore with the sobrietie of my Sauiour A murder it may bee or a robbery or something worse be it as bad as bad may be my prayer and plea shall alway be the same Domine Iesu responde pro me O my Lord Iesus answer for me and Ecce homo behold this man And why did he die the death but for this Méshichca Ps 84.9 O looke vpon the face of thy Christ Turbatur conscientia Bernard in Cant. Serm 61. non perturbatur quia vulnerū domini recordabor O hide me in the holes of thy wounds I dispute not of the torment paine of his passion whether solie in bodie or partly in soule it is the infinite merit and price of his passion in respect of the person or subiect that suffered which I speake of Euery drop of his blood sufficient to had redeemed ten thousand worlds then whereat shall we prize the Ocean thereof Quod libet finitum they say Quantumcunque magnum Alphons Thostat Abulens paradox 5.45 in infinitum exceditur ab eo quod est infinitum Whatsoeuer is finite of what quantitie soeuer it be compare it with that which is infinite and it is alwayes exceeded infinitely Collect then all thy sinnes whereof thou hast or maiest be guiltie from the day of thy birth to the houre of thy death thy sinnes originall and actuall thy sinnes in thought worde and worke and not thine owne onely but mine and thine and the sinnes of all men vpon the face of the earth and not of men onely but of Angelles too Lucifer I meane and all his fellow Angelles that fell from heauen and not of them onely but of Beelzebub himselfe and all the damned diuels in hell Collect