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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
head_n	gate_n	glory_n	lift_v	2,774	5	10.4118	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00819	Five godlie sermons, preached by R.T. Bachiler of diuinitie. 1. The charge of the cleargie. 2. The crowne of Christians. 3. The annointment of Christ, or Christian ointment. 4. A festiuall sermon vpon the Natiuitie of Christ. 5. The fruits of hypocrisie..; Five godlie and learned sermons	Tyrer, Ralph, d. 1627.	1602 (1602)	STC 24475.5; ESTC S106205	127,399	317

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but also the preposition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 purporteth a restoring againe or receiuing a dignitie or honour of which he was partaker before when he thought it no robberie to be equall with God his Father as our Apostle Phil. 2. or els finally as the Phrase wil beare a recouering againe of his fathers fauour as being accepted againe and receaued into the bosome of God his father from whence he descended when he tooke vpon him our flesh And yet the word being all on with that which al the Euangelists vse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his assūption being nothing els but a volūtary ascentiō a passion in him in respect of his humanitie yet an action of him in regard of his diuinitie that as he saith of him selfe as he had power to lay downe his life and power to take it againe vnto him euen so as he had power to descend to take vpon him our flesh so likewise had he power to ascend to resume againe vnto him selfe his owne glorie being caught or rapt vp in a cloude as he was man and yet taking vnto himselfe the winges of the morning to flie vp into his holy sanctuarie as he was God as a worme in respect of his incarnation in creeping on the earth but an eagle in regard of his ascention in mounting vp into heauen That as a captaine conquerer and Consull of Rome when he had vanquished any enimie won any cittie or subdued any contrie was wonte to ride in triumph with a royall Pompe before him and a greate traine behind him vp into the Capitoll the gates whereof were wide open to receaue him Euen so our Sauiour Christ Iesus after he had ouercome Sathan his grand enimie and by death as the Apostle saith subdued him that had the power of death and with all vanquished the graue and hell and did triumph ouer them Saying as it is in the Prophet Esay and Osee and the Apostle Paule Death is swallowed vp in victorie O death where is thy stinge O graue where is thy victorie and so ascended on highe and led captiuitie captiue and made a shew of them openly hauing his mightie armes of heauenlie souldiars with him As the Psalm 1. discribeth them The chariotes of the Lord are twentie thowsands of Angels and he is in the middest of them as in his holy place of Sinaie and vnto whom the gates of the Capitoll of heauen stoode open as being gladde and readie to receaue him into glorie as the Prophet Dauid expresseth the same Psalm 24. When he saith in the person of the Lord God Lifte vp your heades O yee gates and be yee lifte vp yee euerlasting dooers that the King of glorie may come in Here then as our heade is exalted highly and aduanced vnto his glorie so shall we also his members be partakers of the same honour for if we die with him we shall liue with him if we suffer with him we shall be glorified with him For as his Father appointed vnto him a kingdome so hath he appointed vnto vs a kingdome Iohn 5. As the father hath crowned him with glorie and worshipe Psalm 8. So will he being the greate shephard of the sheepe giue vnto vs an incorruptible crowne of glorie as he sitteth with his father in his throne so will he cause vs to sit with him in his throne whē as our vile bodies shall be made conformable to his glorious bodie of mortall becomming immortall of corruptible becomming incorruptible of carnall spirituall of naturall supernatuall of earthly Heauenly finally of temporall eternall in the kingdome of heauen where they shall reape and receaue fulnesse os ioye and at the right hand of God haue full fruition and plenarie possession of surpassinge Pleasure for euer more Which God the Father hath prepared of his mercie and Christ Iesus purchased by his merite for vs those which haue beene promised vs from the beginning of the wotld and shall be perfourmed vnto vs after the ende of the world in the Celestiall Paradise where the Sunne shineth not nor the Moone giueth noe light and yet where the Sunne setteth not nor the Moone changeth not but where only the glorie of God and the Lambe giueth light Ap. 21.24 Where there is pleasure for euer without paine victorie without skirmish triumphe without warre perpetuitie without time desire without default sweenesse without varietie and varietie without sacietie where there is Ioye with out gesture Knowledge with out discipline and conference without speache where there is rest with out motion partaking without enuie and vnderstanding without reasoning vbi lex veritas pax charitas modus aeternitas as Austin FINIS THE FRVITS OF HYPOCRISIE MATTH 23. v. 5. All their workes they doe to bee seene of men THese wordes which I haue reade vnto you as also those in the verse immediately going before are a confirmation in particular pointes of that reason contained in the last words of the third verse of which I haue spoken at large heretofore So that hauing before said that these Scribes and Pharises did far otherwise leade their liues then they did teach and preach now he addeth for the more certaintie and assurance of that which he affirmed before that if they had any good thing in them at all in show and in semblance that the same was altogether vaine and trifeling false and fained because they had noe other thing in their purpose and intente but palpably to please men as it here appeareth to set out and shew forth themselues These Scribes therefore and Pharises did either most manifestly transgresse the Law of God or els did so notoriously dissemble that they seemed to be altogether honest and holy when they were nothing so nor so hauing a foule visage vnder a faire visarde for as all is not gould that glistereth so all are not perfect that appeare so nor all good and godly that giue an outward glosse of integritie and sanctimonie For as Tullie saith Frons vultus oculi saepe mentiuntur oratio vero saepissime and as the Poet. Fallit enim vitium specie vertutis vmbra So that oftentimes counterfaite in the militant Church here on earth such is the deceite of sinne the fashion of this world goeth for currant such are the cloakes and coulours of hypocrisie for euerie hypocrite is like the Camelion that can chang himselfe into euery coullour at commande and like to Protheus who can Metamorphose himselfe into euerie fourme forth with and lastly like vnto the wethercocke that can turne it self according to euerie wind And here may we behould and see the nature of sinne in generall that it is neuer single of it selfe but hath alwaies some companions and copartners conioyned with it not vnlike the serpēt Hydra a monster of many heads and to the beast mentioned in the Apocal. On which the whoore of Babilon is said to sitie hauing many heades and many hornes But more particularly of the sinne of