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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	earth_n	water_n	world_n	5,553	5	4.9981	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12254	Phōsphoros or A most heauenly and fruitfull sermon, preached the sixt of August. 1615 At the translation of the right Reuerend Father in God, the Archbishop of St. Andrewes to the sea thereof. By Mr. William Covvper B. of Galloway.	Cowper, William, 1568-1619.	1616 (1616)	STC 5932; ESTC S114580	30,693	94

Church to liue as he pleaseth and then thinke that he should be followed in all that liketh him Let this pride bee left to Antichristian Prelates and their Pope Caracalla that bloudy and incestuous Emperour learned it from his Step-mother Iulia and they haue receiued it from him Imperatoris esse leges dare non accipere their liberty they esteeme a lawe and their authority an argument good enough No thou art otherwise bound by the lawe of God thou must first bee formed by him thy selfe and according to that forme and none other must thou conforme his people S. Paul exhorts the Corinthians 1. Cor. 4. 16 to bee followers of him but expounds himself in another place Be ye followers of mee as I 1. Cor. 11. 1 am of Christ Yee are the light of the world take heed that the light Math. 5. 14 Luke 11. 35 which is in you bee not turned into darkenesse they who walke not according to this rule are blind Mat. 15. 14 Acts 9. 15 Such an ensample was S. PAVL who carried the message of Christ in his mouth the image of Christ in his life the markes of Christ in his body and pernicious guides of the people For where the blinde leadeth the blinde both must fall into the ditch A worrhy ensample was Saint Paul A chosen Vessell to beare the name of his Lord for he carrieth the message of CHRIST in his mouth the image of Christ in his life the markes of Christ in his body 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and such an ensample willeth he Titus and all other Bishops and Pastors to be first in themselues and then to shew it out vnto the others Shew thy selfe an ensample or as the word in the originall more significantly imports 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 exhibite thy selfe an ensample for the shewe of a good that is not endeth in shame Cum nihl simulatum sit diuturnum All Christians are bound to All Christians are bound to be ensamples shevving out Gods image to others be good ensamples vnto others for as no King will admit in his treasurie counterfait money nor suffer it to go for currant in merchandize among his people 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Macar hom 30. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 euen so a soule vnlesse it haue in it the image of Christ by secret light ingrauen is not meet to bee gathered into the heauenly treasure and the holy Apostles Merchants of the kingdome reiect it as counterfait money not rightly stamped which should not be receined among Saints But howsoeuer this be a common But they are most bound who come nee rest the Lord by a holy calling dutie required of all Christians certaine it is the neerer men come to the Lord in a holy calling the more are they bound to be ensamples of holiness vnto others In the order of Nature wee see the elements seated one aboue another and according to their place they excell one another in purity the earth is the lowest element most remote from heauen and it is the grossest the water naturally compasseth the earth and is purer then the earth the ayre is aboue the water and purer then the water the fire againe is aboue the ayre and a purer element then the ayre the Spheres of Heauen compasse all and are purer then the rest As the world so the Church How the whol Church is a circle the centre and circumference whereof is the Lord. is a circle the Centre and Circumference whereof is the Lord he is the Centre which drawes al to himselfe and in whom all his Saints shall meete in one at the last hee is the Circumference which compasseth vs about to keepe in his Saints that none of them goe from him Let it bee supposed that there are many circles betweene the Centre and the Circumference but these which are neerest the Centre are likest vnto it I will be sanctified Leuit. 10. 3 sayth the Lord in all that comes neere me the neerer by place calling thou come to the Lord the more requires he to be sanctified in thee When the Army of Israel camped in the Wildernesse they were cast in a quadrant three of their Tribes on the West three on the East three on the South and three on the North in the middest of them was the Arke they were all bound to be holy but these Leuites who came neerest the Ark and carried it were bound to be more holy then others In the Reuel 4. 4 new Testament the Church is cast in forme of a circle in the middest whereof God hath his throne all enioy his presence for they are round about him but as yee may see figured by S. Iohn in the type thereof they who are neerest the Throne excell others in holinesse When the Lord proclaimed A fearefull example of iudgment on such as corrupt their waies in a high and holy calling his Lawe vpon Mount Sinai the people were parted in 3. rankes some stood in the valley and might not touch the Mount vnder paine of death others were permitted to goe vp to the Mount as Aaron Nadab Abihu Exod. 24. 11. with the Nobles of Israel these saw the glory of God Ioshua was there also yet none but Moses Verse 18. went vp to the Mount and entred in the cloud That fearefull example of Nadab and Abihu consumed with strange fire from heauen because they became profane and presumptuous to offer strange fire to the Lord euen after that God had preferred them to such high dignitie and place aboue their brethren it should be an aw-band to all those whom GOD hath set neere to himselfe by a holy calling that they corrupt not their wayes before him but as they are warned by MALACHY They keepe themselues in the Spirit lest the like strange wrath from GOD should sodainely ouertake them Of good workes By this same Three rankes of good workes Tit. 2. 12 Apostle in this Chapter good workes are diuided into three rankes for they are eyther workes of Piety toward God or of Equitie toward our neighbour or Sobriety toward our selues and these bring out a threefold fruite most sweet and excellent for by them first God is glorified secondly thy neighbour is edified thirdly thy owne conscience comforted and confirmed in the assurance of thy saluation Of the first speaks the Apostle Let Seruants shewe all faithfulnesse that they may adorne Tit. 2. 10 the doctrine of God our Sauiour in all things there wee see that our The threefold fruit of them good works are an ornament to the Gospell Of the second and first also speakes our Sauiour Let your works so shine before men that they seeing them may glorifie Math. 5. 16 your Father that is in heauē there we see that God is glorified by our godly life and men thereby are edified and moued to do it Of the third speakes S. Peter Make sure your calling and election 2. Pet. 1.