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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	earthquake_n	lord_n	wind_n	4,960	5	10.8107	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19091	A vvedding sermon preached at Bentley in Darby-shire vpon Michaelmasse day last past anno Domini. 1607. Wherein is set forth the bond and preseruation. ... By R. Abbot ...	Abbot, Robert, 1560-1618.	1608 (1608)	STC 55; ESTC S100549	22,610	74

regard and care so to cary themselues each to other as that there may be accord peace betwixt them Otherwise if they be yokefellowes agree not but one draw one way and another another way what doe they but gall the necks and breake the hearts one of another what is the husband in this case but a tyrant to his wife what is the wife to the husbād but according to the quality of the ribbe whereof shee was made a crooked rib in stead of a help a hurt in stead of a woman a wound and a wo to man The scripture telleth vs that GOD is the l Heb. 13. 20. God of peace m Cor. 14. 33. not the author of confusion but of peace n Psal 68. 6. vulgat that hee maketh them to be of one mind that dwell in a house If the worke of God be peace if he make them of one minde that are in a house what shall we say of them who vnmake that which God hath made and maintaine war in stead of peace what doe they but destroy the worke of god and turne him out of dores that hee may haue no place to dwell with them we read that when God would speake to Elias the Prophet there o 1. King 19. 11. went before the LORD a mightie strong winde which rent the mountaines and brake the rockes but the Lord was not in the wind and after the winde came an earthquake but the Lord was not in the earthquake after the earthquake came fire but the Lord was not in the fire and after the fire came a soft still voice and therin the Lord spake Euen so is it in this case where in a house there are the tēpestuous and stormy winds the earthquakes and raging fires of brawles and contentions of quarrelling and vnquietnes the Lord is not there the Lord is in the soft and still and louely voice betwixt the husband and the wife For the preseruing of this concord and peace betwixt man and wife there are three things specially to bee required religion affection and patience Religion deliuereth the precepts of walking together affection practiseth them patience remooueth those stumbling blockes which befall in the way to the interrupting and weakening both of religion and affection Religion and the feare of God as it is generally the foundation of all humane happinesse and felicity so must it in speciall bee accounted the ground of all that comfort and blisse which man and wife desire to find in the enioying each of other It hath speciall promises made vnto it by God to the man p psa 112. 1 Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord that hath great delight in his commandements to the woman q pro. 31. 30. Fauour is deceitfull and beauty is vanitie a fit of an ague staineth it time decayeth it old age weareth it quite out but the woman that feareth the Lord she shall be blessed r 1. Tim. 4. 8 Godlinesse saith the Apostle is profitable for all things and hath the promises both of this life and of that that is to come They therefore whom it concerneth to walke together both for the things of this life and for the obtaining of the life to come must learne to account ſ 1. Tim. 6. 6 godlinesse great gaine and then thinke they thriue best when amidst their worldly thrift they best thriue in religion towards God The feare of God worketh that t 1. Pet. 3. 4 meeke and quiet spirit which Saint Peter commendeth and namely in the wife which as it is a thing with God much set by so it is a thing louely and amiable amongst men and betwixt maried persons yeeldeth that contentment and sweetnesse that holdeth them from repenting of that society which is become so ioyous and comfortable vnto them It is a prety obseruation which u Aben Ezra in prou 2 ●7 apud Pag nin in Lexic 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Iewish Rabbine giueth of the Hebrew words before mentioned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ish the man or the husband and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ishah the woman or the wife that there is contained in them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iah which is the name of God the letters and vowels whereof being taken out there remaineth nothing to be made of the rest but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 esh and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 esh that is to say fire and fire Whereby hee would giue to vnderstand that if God be not betwixt the husband and the wife if there be not in them the feare of God and conscience of duty towards him nothing can bee expected betwixt them but fire and fire fire of debate and strife fire of vexation and grieuance fire of Gods curse consuming and wasting both them and theirs But if God bee in their hearts if they haue in them the feare of God howsoeuer there may be sometimes vpon occasions offence and anger yet farre is it off from danger of separation and there is paine till the breach be repaired and healed againe 17 Religion prescribeth to husband and wife the bounds within which they are to walke each with other the duties which they are to performe one to another for the preseruing of that peace and agreement which God requireth It setteth foorth x Ephes 5. 23. the husband to be the wiues head not onely to import that he is to be her director and y Pro. 2. 17. guide as the head is of the body but as the head in naturall compassion and loue stoopeth and inclineth it selfe to the debilities and weaknesses of the meanest part of the body and vseth the tongue to aske and the eare to heare and the eye to looke for the easing and helping thereof and though he cannot preuaile for the curing of it yet doth not in mad furie torment his owne flesh nor aggrauateth or exasperateth the maladie but still cherisheth the part and maketh the best of all so and much more ought the husband to yeelde the same affection and honour to his wife to apply the vnderstanding and discretion that God hath endewed him with aboue his wife to the couering and hiding of her imperfections and infirmities alwayes to make the best of them and either medicinally to cure them if it may be or with patience to beare what hee cannot cure considering alwayes his wife to be made not of the basest or vilest parts as if she were to be reputed or intreated like his vassall or slaue euen the very heathen man accounting it z Bodin de repub lib. 1 cap. 3. ex Catone a point of sacriledge for a man to strike his wife but of a part neerest to his heart and therefore that shee hath still right aboue all other to challenge a place there On the other side it teacheth the wife to remember her selfe as not made of the foot to be troden vpon so neither of the head to be as a master