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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
A21049	The mischiefe and miserie of scandals both taken, and giuen. By Ier. Dyke, minister of Epping in Essex	Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639.	1631 (1631)	STC 7419; ESTC S100164	93,861	283

dilige legem Dei non tibi erit scandalum teneamus indeclinabilem confessionem diligamus legem Dei vt euadamus quod dictum est vae mundo à scandalis Aug. yet I will by Gods grace take heed for all that of stumbling at Godlines or thinking ere the worse of the profession of Religion Nay I will be so farre from flying off that I will cleaue the closer and the faster to God and the wayes of Truth I will hold my profession so much the faster and loue that Word so much the more that so I may auoid this heauie woe Doe in this case when scandals fall out and so snares bee set as Dauid did when wicked men hid a Snare for him and laid Nets to catch him Psal 140. 5. The proud haue hid a snare for mee and cordes they haue spread a net by the way side they haue set grinnes for me And what doth Dauid now doe in this case See Verse 6. I said vnto the Lord Thou art my God So when Scandals fall out Snares and Nets and Grinnes are laid What shall we doe then Shall we distaste and dislike Godlinesse and Religion No by no meanes that is the way to bee ensnared and caught But then specially say vnto the Lord Thou art my God I will cleaue close to thee and to thy Truth these euents shall not cause mee to dislike of Godlinesse and Religion Say of wisdom notwithstanding such euents that she is shall be thy sister Though d Illa scilicet Iobi vxor scandalum erat sed illi non erat Aug. in Psal 141. these persons be scandals yet shall they be none to me e Non egredia● à Christo non incidam in muscipulam Ibid. I will not for all this goe from Christ Godlinesse and Religion for then am I caught in the trap I will take heed for all this of blaspheming God and his Truth I will for all this take heed of iustifying my selfe in any euil wayes and how I harden my selfe in my sinnes for if I doe thus then am I in the trap then I stumble at the stumbling blocke then hath the woe of the scandal light vpon and taken hold of me God giue mee grace and warinesse to looke to one Because scandalous euents are dangerous euents this should bee therefore our wisdome warinesse and caution when they happen Surely the more dangerous they are the more cautelous should we be and in their euents be so far from being staggered as to sticke closer to religion and to perseuere the more resolutely f Scandala non defutura praedixit quibus fidem nostram exerceri probari oporteret Ait enim quoniam abundauit iniquitas refrigescet charitas multorum sed continu subijcit Qui autem perseuerauit vsque in finem saluus erit August Epist 136. Because Iniquitie shall abound the loue of many shall waxe cold Math. 24. 12. It so commonly fals out that when iniquities scandalous iniquities of such as professe the truth fall out that many that it may be had some good affection to and liking of goodnes are started and stumbled at Religion and their loue growes cold But how should it bee with vs in such cases But he that endures to the end shal be saued Verse 13. As much as to say that euen great and foule scandalous iniquities abounding mens loue and liking to Religion should not be abated but they should for all that cleaue close to it and hold out and endure to the end and not bee started and stumbled by scandals Are scandalous euents then wofull euents And when scandals come doth woe come Then bee so wise though thou couldest not preuent the scandal yet to preuent the woe that the woe it brings with it may none of it light vpon thine head In euery scandal there is a guilt and a woe a sinne and a curse The guilt and the sinne is the persons that offends but the woe and the curse fals vpon others Now when scandals doe come so looke to thy selfe that thou mayest haue as little share in the curse and the woe as thou hast in the guilt and the sinne Adders Snakes Serpents how shie are men in medling with them and all because they are venemous and haue a sting Euery scandal caries a sting with it a woe with it and when they come they come to sting some men mortally to the very death Scandals to many proue as those fierie Serpents to the Israelites Numb 21. 6. And the Lord sent fierie Serpents amongst the people and they bit the people and much people of Israel died Therefore concernes it men to carrie themselues as warily when they meet with scandals as if they met with Serpents and bee as much afraid of a Scandals wo as of a Serpents sting Amongst the extraordinarie signes that should follow them that belieue this is one that they shall take vp Serpents and they shall not hurt them Marke 16. 18. Now such should our wisdome and warines be that when these fierie Serpents come we might so take them vp as they might not hurt vs that wee might see the Serpent but not feele the sting Scandals are like Ezekiels roll Ezek. 2. 10. There was written therin lamentations and mourning and woe Ezekiel he was commanded to eat the roule Had it beene a matter left to his owne choice like enough he would scarce haue medled with it See how it fared with him when he had eaten it Ezek. 3. 14. I went in bitternesse in the heat of my spirit All Scandals when they come are roules of woe it is great wisedome for a man to take heed how he eate such roules least a man get away with bitternesse in the end A wise man sees a plague and hides himselfe but fooles goe on and are punished Prou. 22. When the plague comes how warie are men how cautelous and carefull to looke to themselues And what makes them so but onely because it is a wofull and a fatal disease By the same reason should men be no lesse cautelous and wisely warie in the euent of Scandals because when they come a woe comes with them and therefore should people be as feareful of the wo that comes with a Scandal as they would bee of the infection that is in the plague CHAP. VII The sharpe and seuere Iustice of God vpon such as giue Scandal ANd thus haue we seene the first Mischiefe and Woe that comes by Scandals namely that which comes to the scandalized World now followes the second mischiefe and woe that which is to the parties scādalizing and to such as giue the offence But woe to the man by whom the offence commeth that is A necessitie there is of scandalous euents but that necessitie shal be no excuse or protection to the offender but as there is a woe for the taker so there is a woe for the giuer of the offence woe be to him by whom the offence commeth In which