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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	cloud_n	day_n	pillar_n	4,681	5	10.5980	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14322	The right way to heauen and the true testimonie of a faithfull and loyall subiect. Compiled by Richard Vennard of Lincolnes Inne.	R. V. (Richard Vennard), d. 1615?	1601 (1601)	STC 24637; ESTC S120185	25,162	65

gather more then is commanded in mistrust of Gods benefits infect the whole land with the vice of Auarice You ought rather to be like Pellicans in the wildernesse who in tender loue peck the blood from their breast to feed their yong ones You see with your visible eies how wonderfull almightie God hath alwaies preserued the Queenes Maiestie from the snares of hir manifold enemies And in you pr●ncipally lies the sacrifice of thancks giuing it is you that ought to daunce before the tabernacle to goe with the people to the Arke Num. 17. 8 of couenant that your righteousnesse may bud like Arons rod. It is you that ought to flie foorth from this tossed Arke like the Doue bring the Oliue braunch of peace in your mouthes tell Gen. 8. 11. the people that if they returne God wil be their God and send a truce to their distressed soules by you his ambassadors Flie not to Tharsis when you are sent to Niniue least deuouring distruction attend you nor with the Man of God goe not out of the way least a Lion teare you in peeces But still be conuersant with the Lord that your saces may shine with Exo. 34. 30 Moses when he came from the Mount and bring the image of Gods glory to the people in your foreheads you must beare with Aron the brest-plate of iudgement vpon your harts There must Exo. 38. 30 be grauen vpon your forefronts Holinesse to the Exo. 35 36 Lord and your soundes must be heard when you goe into the holy places before him So shall yee stand like mount Synay neuer to be remoued and your golden candlesticke shine in the Temple of the Lord. Remember the charge your maister Christ gaue to his seruant Peter binding him three times aboue all things by his feruent loue and the deere affection he bare to his Maister to feede his sheep to bee with Paul the faithfull Ambassadors of Iesus Christ as though God did beseech you through vs we pray you in Christs steed that ye be reconciled to God With Paul like 2. Cor. 5. 2. wife to be an example of life doctrine as in these words And follow hard toward the mark for the Phil. 3. 14. price of the high calling of God in Christ Iesus Let vs therefore as many as be perfect be thus mindded if ye be otherwise God shall reueale euen the same vnto you Yee are most Reuerent the salt of the earth Mat 15. 13 which wanting sauour is to be troden vnder foot ye are the light of the world a citie that is set on a hill cannot bee hid let your light therefore shine that they that see your good workes may glorifie your father which is in Heauen Thus vnworthie to counsaile so graue aduisements as if the body should instruct the Soule I onely like a trauailer in his pilgrimage seeing a King goe out of his way tell him there is a better a more perfect and a straighter So referring you to your Masters reward who hates a hidden talent I beseech that God who guideth Israell by day Exo. 13 21 in a piller of clowde by night in a piller of fire to direct your earthly bodies spirituall soules to his seruice Amen To the true Nobilitie of this Realme TO ye Right Honorable that are the props supporters of a kingdome that like Atlas should beare the waight of Heauen on your shoulders giue me leaue to stretch forth the Artires of my hart as in a tempestious time in peace vnite you together like one body obedient to one principall head In that worthie member the Hart the monarch seate of our Microcosmos should be your residence with in whose center as in a Princes Court are diuers receptacles for you to inhabit in Then as branches extending from the lofty Ceder being fed by one roote doe notwithstanding cherish one another with their naturall sap So like the true stocke of Nobilitie discended from your worthie ancestors be you combined in a coniunction of vnseperable aide that the body of the tree may be comforted in so happy an issue in the proudest blast of conspiracy keepe you stil vnremouable Be ye like faithfull Mardocheus spotles in your waies when Esser traitors like proud Haman shall perish in their own complets For if yee please to peruse our Histories both ecclesiasticall and prophane yee shall finde that neuer traitor to his natiue Prince but had his reward threefold return'd into his wicked bosom And though it hath pleased God sometime to suffer them the cause best knowne to his sacred pleasure to bring to passe their hatefull purposes yet as a woe pronounced to them by whom such euils come their mischiefe hath not past without greater mischiefe reguerdond There is none of your Honorable societie but knowes that treason is the deuider and seperater of all good things a fatall disioyner of perfection bringing with it ruine and the mercilesse substitutes of war where on the contrary obedience is the sinowes of the state glewes the harts of Nobilitie together like one indiuisible substance And as the seauen leane Kine in Pharaohs dreame deuoured the seauen fat Gene. 41. 4 yet themselues not the fatter so stands it with treason like a cormerant it deuoures all yet is it felfe the better by nothing What greater paterne of miserie can ther be then a kingdome deuided in it selfe it is like the dangerous Eclipse of the Sun nay like the vnnaturall seperation of Heauen that brings all danger and distruction No plague of Egipt comparable to that miserie for ciuile discention is the gate to let in ruine and forraine inuasiō it is like a wedge of iron that entring into an Oke disseuers both sides in seuerall peeces makes them both fit for the fire The florishing state of Rome was deuoured by that Monster and all tranquilitie swallowed at a bit by that hedius Leuiathan It is like the blinde Mole that louing still to bee mischieuously labouring tosseth vp hir owne destruction Let then Right Honorable that acceptable sacrifice of your harts be offred to our gratious Soueraigne which far exceeds the externall offices of fained affection who with an eye of vigilance will no doubt regard your vertues and like the cheerefull comfort of the Sunne with hir blessed countenance make your yong blossomes come to pleasant fruit and bring the fruit by comfortable warmth to full maturetie By this meanes shall your Phenix liue still you be made most happie in hir fresh renuing God so direct your harts to worke in you vnfained loyaltie to hir sacred Maiestie and deadly hatred to selfe deuouring treason Amen To the Ciuile Maiestrates the Lord Maior and the Shrifes of London and other inferiour off●cers THe naturall care that your loyalties haue euer borne to your Soueraigne since your first florishing time both in peace and war hath in ages past as deedes worth registring beene