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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	body_n	foot_n	part_n	5,540	5	4.6773	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01085	Eirenopolis: = the citie of peace Surueyed and commended to all Christians. By Tho. Adams.	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1622 (1622)	STC 112; ESTC S115261	32,650	192

distressed rectifying the weaknesse of those that are vnsetled informing the ignorance of those that are seduced and reforming the errors of those that are peruerted all endeauoring the deliuerāce of the oppressed The mēbers prouide one for another the eye sees not only for it selfe but for the Body the hand works not only for it self but for the Body the eare hearkens the tongue talkes the foote walkes all parts exercise their functions for the good of the whole In the Citie of peace men must not only seek their owne but the glory of their Maker and the good of their Society That God who hath giuen vs honour by our Ancestors would also haue vs adde honour to our Successors To preferre a priuate good before a publike is to famish and starue the whole Body to fatt a toe or pleafe a finger Such Monopolies and Patents as impouerish the whole to enrich a part are not tolerable in the Citie of Peace There is no enuy and grudging among the members the eye doth not grieue to see the arme grow strong nor the foote to bee sensible of the Stomacks health In this Citie one should not enuy anothers thriuing as if all were taken from our selues that is giuen to our neighbours The Lord sees that an inequality is best for his glory distributing to whomsoeuer lest yet to euery one more then hee deserues Shall the Eare say Because I am not the Eye I am not of the Body No but as Iohn Baptist said of Christ He commeth after me yet is before me Some come after vs in wealth that may goe before vs in grace The poore man is not so many pounds behinde the rich for this world as he may be talents before him for the world to come They often with their pouertie miserie ignominy are saued whiles others with all their honour and opulencie goe to hell If one member suffer the rest suffer with it If there be a thorne in the foote the eye shedds a teare the heart akes the head grieues the hand is ready to pull it out If a man tread on our toe wee say Why doe you tread on Me Quod cuiquam cuivis let vs sorrow for the afflictions of others as if we were in the body He is no sonn of Peace that forgets the breaking of his brother Ioseph The Walls of the Citie must bee whole no breaches in them least this aduantage the enemies entrance There must bee no schisme in a Citie as no diuision in the Body one must not be for Paul another for Apollos another for Cephas but all for Christ all for Peace Many euill men may haue one will in wickednesse It is said of Pilate Tradidit Iesum volun●a ti●earum Hee deliuered Iesus to their Will not wills many sinners one will Shall then the Sonnes of grace iarre The Children of Peace be mutinous Vnica columba mea saith Christ My Doue is but one the Doue is a Bird of peace Many of them can agree louingly together in one house euery one hath a litle cottage by her selfe wherein shee sits content without disquieting her neighbours Thus Dum singulae quaerunt vnionem omnes conseruant vnitatem Wee haue them that rush into others Tabernacles swallowing a man and his heritage would Doues doe thus Poore Nabaoths portion is many a rich Ahabs eye-sore would Doues doe thus Numbers are still on the wing to prey vpon prostrate fortunes these bee Rauens not Doues If the Law cannot make worke for their malice their malice shall make worke for the law This is like Cockes of the Game to pecke out one anothers eyes to make the Lawyers sport When two friends are fallen out of loues into blows and are fighting a third aduersary hath a faire aduantage to kill them both We haue an enemy that watcheth his time and while wee wound one another hee wounds vs all If the members bee pulled a sunder they all rott the distraction of parts is the dissolution of the whole If we forsake the peace of our Mother wee put our selues vpon record for bastards Discontēt with our owne portions and places ouerthrowes the Citie of Peace When the Woods and the Floods were at variance the Sand and the Fire were fain● to quiet their insurrections While men will not rest satisfied with their owne determinate stations but inuade the seueralls and proprieties of others what can bee expected but destruction If there be Contention on this side and Ambition on that side there will bee confusion on all sides While Iudah was hot against Israel and Israel hott against Iudah the King of Syria smote them both God shall supply the part of Syria and when brother is against brother hee will bee against them all He that doth not what he can to mainetaine the walles doth what he can to betray the Citie So I come from the Walles to the Gates The first Gate Is Innocence and this may bee called Bishopsgate the Ministers of the Gospell being both the Preachers and Precedents of Innocencie If men would abstaine from doing wrong the Peace could not be broken St. Bernard writes of the Doue that Felle caret she hath no Gall Let vs bee such Doues to purge our harts from all bitternesse Now the first shelfe that wracks Innocence is Anger It were rare if the wrath of man should fulfill the righteòusnesse of God euen a curst anger breakes the Peace It is an euidence whereby God will iudge men guilty now there is no malefactor going to the barre for his try all would willingly haue that euidence found about him that should cast him Iratus non videt legem sed Lex videt iratum The wrathfull man takes no notice of the Law but the Lawe takes notice of the wrathfull man Let vs take heede lest wee carry our anger with vs vnto God That which offends our eyes we remoue either our sight from it or it from our sight but that which offends our soules we too often lay next our heart But it is the voice of transportiue fury I cannot moderate my anger Cannot Wherfore serueth grace but to mortifie such natural yea rather vnnatural passions How easily doth this rage often inueter at making some so angry with men that they will searse bee pleased with God himselfe And either he must take thē with their anger or let them alone So soone it rankles into malice that is full opposite to Innocence What shall a man do In this sudden fitt shall he come to the Lords Table or forbeare it Si non accesserit periculum Si accesserit damnum To refuse the Sacrament in anger is euill to receiue it in anger that 's worse Is the Body Bloud of Christ no more worth but that for loue of a peeuish humour we should neglect it Shall we starue our consciences to feed our misbegotten passions What is then to be done in this straight The answer is easie