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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	fruit_n	good_a	tree_n	12,773	5	9.6998	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01573	The gallants burden A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, the twentie nine of March, being the fift Sunday in Lent. 1612. By Tho. Adams ...	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1612 (1612)	STC 117; ESTC S100383	48,604	74

vnto Iudgement But You gaue them not therefore lie maledictj Goe ye cursed so Come yee blessed What because ye dealt iustly and gaue euery man his due no these vertues may be in morall men that want Fayth and Christianitie But You gaue them your owne bread Hungry and clad them Naked with your owne cloathes therefore Come ye blessed What vse you will make of this I know not what vse you should make I know If the Tree without good fruite shal be burned what shall become of the Tree that hath euill If Barrennesse be cast into the fire what doth Rapine and Robberie deserue If it be damnation enough to deny our owne Bread what is it to take away the onely Loafe Coate or Cottage of our poore brother Woe to the Backe that weares the Garment to the Bellies that deuowers the Food they neuer sweate for I meane that by force or fraud tooke them from the owners If Naball and Diues burne for not giuing their owne what shall become of Ahab and Iesabell for taking away the Vineyard of Naboth If the righteous be scarcely saued where shall the vngodly and the sinner appeare Now if after this Phisicke giuen I should aske many how they feele the Pulses of their Consciences beate I presume on this reply Notum loq●eris you but guild Gold and minister to vs such Phisicke as we haue taken before All this we know we doe not euermore ply your vnderstandinges with new thinges but lay old almost dead forgotten fresh to the Conscience I aske further how much of this haue you practised and still looke for an affirmatiue answere All this haue I kept from my youth Let vs reason discusse this matter a litle To Enquire is hearing or rather harkning to the word to Returne is repenting to Come is beleeuing or rather looking more toward perfection proceeding into the ripenesse of Fayth This latter is so necessarie that we can not come to God with his acceptance our comfort if wee leaue our Fayth behind vs without this impossible to please him to be rewarded of him This our Charter wherby we hold all our Priuiledges our Title in Capi●e to Earth and Heauen But Sub ●udice Lis est the great Iudge of Heauen shall one day censure it meane time giue me leaue to helpe thee peruse this euidence of thy Fayth whereon thou so presumest Christ dying made a Will sealed it with his owne Blood wherein he bequeathed a certaine Inheritaunce to his breathren the Conueyance is the Gospell this his Testament the executor of this Will is the Holy ghost our Tenure and Euidence is our Fayth Now thou layest title to Ierusalem for a childs part What 's thy title in Christes name and right what conueyance did Christ euer make thee of such a portion Yees he conueyed it to mee by Will What by a speciall name no but by a generall title to all beleeuers That I am one of these heires my euidence my Fayth Let God alone to try thy Fayth If thou commest to me for counsell sayth S. Iames thou must shew me another euidence Shew me thy faith by thy works If thy heart be corrupt thy hands filthy thy tongue false thy euidence is but counterfaite Christ giues not title of inheritaunce in Heauen to such as haue no holinesse on Earth Know ye not that the vnrighteous shall not inherite the kingdome of God Be not deceiued neither Fornicato●s c. And there shall enter into it no vncleane thing nor any thing that worketh abhomination or lyes Perhappes thou wilt yet stand vpon it produce thy witnesses they are onely two thy Life thy Conscience they cannot speake with thee against their maker and thine Thy life speakes lowde and plaine Thy pride drunkennesse oppression cousenage lustes blasphemies manifest thou hast but a broken title and Paul pleads against thee from this cleere aduantage Protest to them yee beleeue in God that they be carefull to shew foorth good workes They that haue the euidence of faith must haue the witnes of workes It is a poore deed without witnesses Thy conscience speakes plaine too that thy faith is but a carnall perswasion bred of securitie a forged Euidence made by a false Scriuener the Diuell to deceiue thy owne eyes and the worldes not Gods Now where is thy claime stand vpon good assurance lest when that subtile winnower Satan comes to fift thee graine after graine thou prouest Chaffe we may come with this carnall perswasion little better then reprobate hope to the Temples to the Pulpittes to the Sacraments but if we come so to the tribunall of Christ woe vnto vs the too much trusting to a verball leane sicke starued faith deceiues many a Soule whiles we couet to be solifidians in opinion wee prooue nullifidians in practise no matter for wisedome in the Soule grace in the conscience honesty in the life if the profession of faith be in the tongue but the Poore may say as he in the Comedie Oculatae mihi sunt manus credunt quod vident My handes haue eyes and they beleeue what they see wee carry the formes and outsides of Christians and thinke God beholding to vs for gracing his materiall earthly Temples when in the Temples of our owne heartes wee sette vp the Idolls of our owne affections yet are these the Temples wherein he is best pleased to dwell But if we be come to God by faith he is also come to vs by grace The spirit of Christ is in vs if we be not Reprobates And if this spirit be in vs the body of sinne is dead At least hath his deathes-wound But alasse in how many of vs doth sinne liue dwell I would I might stay there nay euen raigne as if Christ had come to destroy the Diuell and not the workes of the Diuill to free vs from the damnation and not the dominion of sinne but he that tooke from sinne the power to condemne vs tooke also the power to raigne in our mortall Bodyes And the second is but a consequent of the first postscribed with that word of inference now then c. Thus Christ came not onely to binde the Diuell but to loose and dissolue his workes I haue read and obserued in the Historie of Scotland a certaine controuersie betwixt that Kingdome and Ireland for a little Iland that lay betweene them eyther claimes it as theit due and the strife growing hotte was falling from wordes to blowes but reason moderated both sides and they put it to the decision of a Frenchman who thus iudged it he caused lyning Serpents to be put into that Iland if they liued and thriued there he iudged it Scotlands if they pyned and dyed he gaue it for Ireland You can apply it easily If the venemous Serpents poysons and corruptions of our natures batten and thriue in vs wee are Satans if they languish and consume wee are Gods thus is the title ended for