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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	burn_v	hot_a	zone_n	34	3	12.4938	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81449	Look to it London, threatned to be fired by wilde-fire-zeal, schismatical-faction, & militant-mammon. Discovered July 15. 1648. in a discourse with one Croply and Hide, by one John Dias, one of Captain Whaleys regiment, extant in a printed schedule, here verbatim inserted and commented.		1648 (1648)	Wing D1380; Thomason E457_27; ESTC R32487	16,291	16

in the blood of the Lutherans but God so sought for the Protestants yea the winds and the waves as once for Honorius as the Red Sea once against Pharaoh the Stars and the River Kishon against Sisera halistones from Heaven against the Amalakites and Hornets against the Canaanites that all these felt and found what it was to fight against God to kick against the prick and to reckon without their Host as this fond Braggadocheo sells the Fox skin before he be catcht and reckons his chickens before they be harcht All would be their own All their own What will not part serve as some Gentleman pay their debts by a kind of Synecdoche cal'd pars pro toto a part for the whole will he and his outstrip the Pope that great Participle who takes part from the Clergy part from the Secular and part from both Will these Harpies play sweep-stake and take all both stock and thwatch harvest and gleanings all from Courts Carts and Crown from City and Country from Church and State All both Gold and Government Power and Pelf Will they as Cormorants devour all before them as the Gothes and Vandals when they over ran Italy and Lumbardy will they swallow up all as flap Dragons Gods part and all Will they rob Altars make with Pompey Temples Stables for Horses shave off Esculapius golden beard reave the Tholous gold rake not only as the Spaniards with the Indians and the Romans with the Iews into the guts of the living but as Darius once into the sepulchres of the dead for gold Oh will these Catepillers eat all the green things of the Land as the Aegyptian Locusts called Monks and Fryers oft in this our Albion our Terra florida Will they monopolize all and leave neither the Clergies part the tenth nor the widows part the thirds Will they rob the spittle and shear the Ape Will they make a mad medley of the dogs hair and the wool of a Baboon Oh sure however such as are the botts and glaunders in the Army the Achans in the Camp seed on such base and sordid projects as Scarabean fleas on dunghils who mayfor all their gaping jaws miss their fat morsels as Aesops dog mist the substance for a snatched shadow and as Ixion imbraced a Cloud for Iuno their brag being a good dog yet catching nothing yet I am perswaded the noble and generous spirits in the Army yea still in my old phrase the best and the most are as far from such dunghil thoughts and from stooping to such base Lures that if Satan or his organs did but dart them into their hearts they would pump them out again as Mariners waters out of their ships yea cast them out as new wines poyson out of the barrels and the seas their froth to the shores God forbid we should condemn all the Disciples for some Iudasses or all professors for some Anani-asses and Sapphiraes But still to follow them and to overtake them as the Hound the Fox in slow running Commeating further That if the Army should thus declare the City and Kingdom would rise as Dias was told Would rise Else they had an asinine patience a sleepish simplicity without any mixture of serpentine calidity to lie stil in a ditch til the ravens pluck their pelts and pulld out their eyes yea their right eyes as Naash the Ammonite projected to those of Iabes Gilead 1 Sam. 11. since nature teacheth the worm turn again if she be trod on the crows to chatter and wrens to wrangle if their nests be pulld down else where were the old English valor if cowed and over-awed as the Britains once with a Danish a Popish an Aegyptian yoke some being fit to be abused yea to sleep to Mecanas like a sawning Courtier a timerous Traveller and a Coriatized odcomb to receive injuries and give thanks but an English-man rightly bred is not fit to be abused though a grated Lion may perhaps be pluckt by the beard yet its dangerous to anger his whelps abroad and to provoke them too far if by any fair and square way of Truce or Treaty they may be appeased He answered Anser is Latin for a Goose They regarded not the City But the City hath both regarded and rewarded them and is she now shaken off as the spaniel shakes off the water when he hath used it to swim to his desired duck Have they climbed their own ends by her and will they now throw her by like broken Ladders Have they no more need of her men nor of her moneys the nerves and sinews of War Nor of her Ammunition which they carry away in Cart-loads full of kindness even many a man that makes Matrimony a matter of money regards the silver feathers if not the flesh of the bird which he takes into his nest but this is not commune malum But could fire it at pleasure At pleasure Oh Gunpowder spirits Jesuited Ignatians who would conclude all in ferio in ferro flamma as the Spanish inquisition and Bonner once and Gardner all are not guilty of this those who are gracious in the Army are also grateful in their invincible arguments of fire and faggot When Iames and Iohn would have fetcht fire from heaven to burn the Samaritans Christ told them they knew not of what spirit they were Luk. 9. But without being at cost with a. Herald we may derive some spirits from the torrid Zone from the pedigree and hot line of Thais that hot harlotrcausing Alexander to burn Persepolis of the mad Greeks firing Troy fired first by the lust of Paris of Nero firing Rome and singing funeral Elegies to it as to second Troy of the Tartars firing the great city Mosco of Faux the firebrand in his devilish intention and invention of a Parliament But to proceed where they exceed Fire the City Alas it s fired already First by wilde fire Sects and Schisms flaming like a sulphureous Aetna unquenchable as the coals of Jumper yea wel nigh as hell-fire either by the milk of the Word or the waters of the sanctuary still fuellized by zealous ignorance and arrogance the divisions of Reuben being great thoughts of heart Iudges 5. Most blinded Sectaries rather breaking like Oaks chiefly Hereticks like Arrius Nestorius Anastasius Valens Marcion Manes and others who all came to tragical ends then bowing like Reeds shutting their eyes against the Sun of truth Secondly fired by wilde-fire wrath and spleen burning and raging inwardly like fire close smothered in divided hearts breaking out into fiery factions and fractions in houses and families amongst those that are neerest united in the bonds of blood marriage nature consanguinity and affinity Withall the phrase of firing the City makes me start back as Moses from his rod turn'd serpent makes my hand stupid et vox faucibus haret and my tongue speechless as if I had seen a fiery-eyed Wolf and it speaks demonstratively to me that there is no sin so gross so grievous so hainous so