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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	hate_v	love_v	neighbour_n	2,885	5	9.0438	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B15838	Tvvo sermons preached by Master Henry Smith: with a prayer for the morning thereunto adioyned. And published by a more perfect copy then heeretofore; Sermons. Selected sermons	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1610 (1610)	STC 22768; ESTC S117490	89,948	135

not you shall follow me but you shall denie your selues and take vp your crosse but if any will follow me let him deny himselfe and take vp his crosse Let him The same is to be seene in the Canticles Cantic 5. 2. where he saith Open vnto me my sister my loue my doue my vndefiled For mine head is full of deaw and my lockes with the droppes of the night For 3. when she opened not vnto him making most vnmeete excuses though he had most louingly praied and liuely vrged her to open and she most vnkindly most vnworthily had denied yet the went his way mildly without 2. 4. 6. any threats But the spirit of Sathan takes an other course For when by lying and deceit he cannot allure to sinne he threatens most fearfully with sinne griefe or losse of goods solitarines and want of pleasure and somtime by his ministers impes of his owne likenesse hee threatens death and deadly torments whatsoeuer they may inflict vpon any Christ saith If you will follow me If you will but he saith I will make ye follow me and doe as I bid you you shall haue fire and fagot scalding lead and burning pitch if you will not follow mee you shall whether you will or no we will make you doe as we command saith his eldest sonne Antichrist vsurping authority ouer nations and inflicting torments on the Saints His order of tempting is first to make vs doubt of the word of God whether such and such doctrine be true such and such an action bee commanded such and such a promise such and such a threatning be certain Then secondly he falles to flat denying of it this doctrine these promises these threatnings are false this thing is not commanded this action is not condemned And then comes he in with his contradiction contrary assertions countermands For there is no commandement of God but the diuell commands the contrary he is euer gaine saying that which Gen. 2. 17. God saith For our God saith vnto Adam if you eate of the forbidden fruit you shall surely die the diuell came and he told them first ti is not certaine you shall die then you shall not die then thirdly you shal be as gods knowing Gen. 3. 4. 5. 1. Pet. 5. 5. good from euill God saith submit your selues one to another in brotherly loue the diuell saith first you neede not to abase your selues so much secondly you should not yeelde to others then thirdly aduance your selues and contemne others God saith Loue thy neighbour Mat. 22. 39. as thy selfe the diuel saith first loue little and ourwardly then loue none but thy selfe then thirdly hate thine enemies enuie thy betters disdaine thine equalls despise thine inferiours God saith Labor for that foode that perisheth not the diuell saith first care not much Ioh. 6. 27. for it then secondly contemne it then thirdly stirre not an inch for it God saith Forsake the world the Diuell saith first neglect not the world then loue Rom. 12. 2. 1. Iohn 3. 18. the world then thirdly giue ouer your selues vnto the world aboue all follow the world with all the lusts thereof Now the meanes whereby the diuell tempts are arguments fetcht some from the wit and reason of man or from the customes of the world some from the holy Scriptures either corrupted or wrong applied now in consideration of the persons then in regard of the thing it selfe c. In respect of the persons to whom hee should preach and himselfe Ionah is here tempted and so thus reasoneth with himselfe I haue long preached vnto the Iewes which are the chosen people of God seeing they will not heare me it is in vaine to preach vnto these Gentiles which neuer heard of God or godlines and therefore will esteeme my words the lesse Thus Ionah is loath to lose his labour and puts in a doubt where he needes not because he considered not the great power of God in mens harts The Niniuites are heathen people and therefore saith Ionah why should I venture my selfe amongst them For seeing my owne countrymen kicke against my wordes and cannot abide to heare the word which commeth from the Lord to reprooue sinne then how much more shall I be despised these and persecuted to death Thus flesh and blood standeth staggering when it should doe any good misdoubting troubles iealous of his owne ease but when it goeth about to doe any mischiefe it neuer considereth the danger it weighteth not the following wo yet doing good it is vncertaine whether all will not according or euen aboue our hope succeede it is more likelie we should be kept safe but doing euill mischiefe most certainely is procured not danger onely but losse of the best things commonly peace of conscience or spirituall graces of some blessings alway or at least not receit of those things which much would reioyce vs. For sure this was a sore temptation to bid a man being in reasonable good estate touching his body and life that hee should goe and preach vnto a sauage heathen people that neuer Deut. 6 4. heard of preaching and that this doctrine that there is but one onely true God to them who will serue a thousand and cannot abide the contrary to be spoken If a Preacher were commanded to goe and preach at Rome gates against Antichrists iurisdiction the idolatry that is so inordinately vsed in that Sinagogue of vncleannes seeing that is a matter for which they torment and kill all that preach it sincerely I feare it would hardly come to passe at all that this preacher would go from a reasonable quiet estate touching his body to venture his life among such cruell tyrants I feare hee would rather content himselfe with his present ease then commit himselfe to so likely miserie If I goe to preach vnto these infidels saying yet forty daies and Niniuie shall be destroyed then saith Ionah it may be they will repent God wil haue mercy vpon them so I shall be counted a false Prophet for my labour And thus we regard our credite more then the glory of God in the obedience of his will and rather then wee would receiue any reproch by your doings in the sight of the world we rather choose to enter into no great action touching the glory of God and the good of the Church In respect of the Israelites and himselfe If I leaue mine owne people and preach vnto the Gentiles saith Ionah I shall bring shame vpon Israel before all people because a Prophet is gone from them for their obstinacie choosing rather to preach vnto vncircumcised Gentiles then vnto them as if there were more hope of the Gentiles then of them So Ionah more feareth the childrens disgrace then the Fathers dishonour and their despight then his displeasure Sathan is too well acquainted with mans nature and so more cartainelie knowes then we wisely consider that all Adams sonnes are from labour easily brought to