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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	good_a	seed_n	tare_n	1,657	5	12.7414	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04261	Hierons last fare-vvell A sermon preached at Modbury in Devon, at the funerall of that reuerend and faithfull seruant of Iesus Christ, Master Samuel Hieron, sometimes Preacher there. By I. B.	Barlow, John, b. 1580 or 81.	1618 (1618)	STC 1438; ESTC S114789	24,463	42

the cracke or noyse and after come great showres of wet and water so God as at the Creation sayth Let there bee light in the time of our Regeneration after we find a strange working in the Soule a Quarrell a Wound and then commeth the sweete dew from Heauen to helpe vs to heale vs. Will you see the reasons of this shall arguments further confirme it Reason 1 Doe we not read in Scripture of a Prince a Chiefetaine or Captaine And shall hee haue no followers must he want his Souldiers No for if the one bee the other is The Father presupposeth a Child the Shepheard a Flocke the cause his effect the shaddow a body and so doth a Captaine Souldiers Souldiers a Combat for these are Relatiue Arguments and the one dependeth necessarily on the other Reason 2 Againe is not mention made of weapons are wee not bidden to take to vs the whole or complete Armour of God If Dauid take his Sling Peter his Sword Ionathan his Bow Sampson his Iawbone and Shamgar his Goad is it not for an end Why then to fight for the Enemies are in Armes the Philistims bee in the Field Goliah is vaunting and daring to Battaile and the Combat prepared Reason 3 And haue not the faithfull foes Doe not the Canaanites campe in the Valleys Are not the Aramites and Arabians in the Mountaines What shall I say The sonnes of Anakim are not all slaine though their father sleepe And these foes bee either forraine or neerer home within vs or without vs without vs first Satan secondly all his Souldiers within vs first corruption secondly death And first for Satan was hee not a Murtherer from the beginning doth he not daily goe about Like a roaring Lion seeking whom he may deuoure Is not this that Red Dragon that coloureth and choaketh himselfe with the bloud of the Saints Doe you thinke that this Herod is dead Will Time alter his nature or will the death of many satisfie him No he groweth worse and worse and hauing the lesser time to quarrell the greater woe shall be to the Inhabitants of the Earth Wee are commanded to resist the Deuill Then shall he not oppose Was Adam the first Iob the Iust Paul the Prince of the Apostles and Iesus Christ the Righteous tempted wounded buffetted and mooued from place to place by him and dost thou thinke to escape his hote his fierie Darts Let Israel goe out of Egypt to serue his God this Pharaoh will be vp in Armes and pursue Let the Babe Iesus bee borne The Infants shall be beheaded Let a little corne and good seed bee sowne in the furrowes of the Soule This enuious man will be casting in Tares or else hee shall haue his Kingdome weakned his Scepter remooued and not so large a Crop of Cockle at the time of Haruest Againe his friends will also be our foes and dare vs daily to fight If this Iehu but cry Who is on my side who multitudes will follow him this Ahab hath his hundreds of false prophets this Serpent hath brood of his owne bowels that like the Want or Mole can swimme the Sea creepe vnder the Earth transforme themselues into Angels of Light and bee readie to blow vp Prince and Nobles with fire and Gunpowder Hee hath Caine to kill Ismael to scoffe Rabshakeh to rayle especially if they bee intreated to speake in another Language At a word he hath Sanballats Tobiahs Siluer-smiths Copper-smiths and of all kinds of Callings to set vp his Kingdome Esau cryed out hee was vndone Dauid Woe is mee and why for they dwelt amongst a people of polluted lips and that abhorred peace Their throats were an open Sepulchre their Tongues like Razours hote as the coales of Iuniper the poyson of Aspes vnder their lips and their mouthes full of cursing and bitternesse their feete swift to shead bloud destruction and calamitie in their wayes and no feare of God before their eyes Ieremiah complained that his Mother had brought him forth a man of Contention he heard the rayling of many all his familiars watched for his halting saying It may be that hee is deceiued so shall wee preuaile against him and execute our vengeance vpon him For these being of their Father the Deuill his worke they will doe though they goe at the last to ruine and destruction with him And thus much for our forraine foes that seeme the further from vs Our home-bred and more dangerous aduersaries follow being two also And the one of them is corruption so called because that he rotteth and corrupteth as much as in him is his contrarie This olde man will send out whole swarmes of lusts to destroy the new Hence wee are bidden as Strangers and Pilgrimes to abstaine from fleshly lusts that fight against the Soule This pricke or stab was sent to buffet Paul and neuer could he be rid of it till death It is called a pricke in the flesh by which I vnderstand omitting all other interpretations the verie act or motion of the vnregenerate part often called flesh who by his contrarie lusting hindreth a man in the performance of all good duties And the reasons of this interpretation are two first in all probabilitie that which Paul complaines the most against elsewhere is that that he most praid against in this place and it was the bodie of death the Law in his flesh rebelling against the Law of his minde and leading him captiue vnto the Law of sinne which was in his members Secondly thus I also reason that which doth most molest and trouble all Gods Children is it that did the most trouble Paul Paul as a Christian But this prick the act of corruption the stab of the old man doth most molest all Gods Children Ergo Paul why Aske an experienced Professor what doth the most trouble him in any good dutie his answere will bee In Prayer wandering thoughts carrying the mind from God so that like a man who maketh a round Circle fetching a circumference wee neuer come neere him but in the first word Our and last word Amen as the two points in the very period of the Motion and the Circles perfection Also let a man speake or preach the Word of God how is a good man grieued that this pricke buffets him striking his head awry that he aimes not at the right end or marke weakning the spirit that his speech wants Salt to season it Grace to powder it causing the poore Soule when she comes to her selfe and viewes her wandering to cry out What haue I done so that I had the rather apply it to many then one particular sin or act Obiect 1 But it is called the Messenger of Satan Answere True for Satan was the Authour of it at the beginning sinne had his originall from Satan and is the accursed seed of a cursed father Againe Satan is no more willing to send this Messenger but he is as