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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	aaron_n	become_v	rod_n	64	3	9.9946	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86974	A sermon preach't to his Maiesty, at the court of White-hall. Aug.8. / By Jos. B. of Exon.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1641 (1641)	Wing H414; Thomason E1100_2; ESTC R208332	12,915	54

ye not smile at the child which when he hath raised a large bubble out of his wallnut-shell joyes in that aery globe and wonders at the goodly colours he sees in it which whiles he is showing his owne face and his play-fellowes in that sleight reflection vanishes away leaves nothing but a little froathy spittle behind it so ridiculous are wee whiles we dote upon these fugitive contentments The captive Prince in the story noted well when he lookt back upon the charet of his proud victor that still one spoake of the wheele went downe as another rose Think of the world as it is O yee great ones it turnes round and so doe all things in it Great Saladine caused it to be proclaimed that he had nothing left him but his winding-sheet The famous Generall that thrise rescued Rome came to Date obolū Belisario one single half-penny to Bellisarius Take your turnes then for these earthly preeminences but look at them still as perishing and if you ayme at rest looke for it above all these whirling orbes of the visible heavens say of that Empyreall heaven as God said of the holy of holies which was the figure of it Hic requies mea in aeternum Here shall be my rest for ever there as Bernard well is the true day that never sets yea there is the perpetuall high-noone of that day which admits no shadow Oh then over-look all these sublunary vanities set your affections on things above not on things on the earth seek those things which are above where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God There only shall you find true rest and constant glory This for the act of the turning the termes or subjest of it followes A fruitfull land into barrennesse Philosophy hath wont to teach us that every change is to the contrary here it is so plainly Fruitfull into barren yea into the abstract Barrennesse it selfe Small alterations are not noted the growing of the grasse the daily declining into age though not without a kind of change are insensible but for Aarons dry rod to be budded blossomed almoned in a night for the vigorous and curled prisoner to become gray headed by morning for the flourishing Pentapolis to be turned suddainly into sulphurous heapes and salt-pits these things fill the eye not without an astonishment of the heart The best beauty decaies by leasure but for a fleshy Idoll at the Court to become suddainly a leprous Miriam is a plain judgement Thus when the faire face of the earth shall be turned from a youthly and flourishing greennesse into a parched and withered deformity the leaves which are the hayres fall off and give way to a loathsome baldnesse the towred Cities which are the chaplets and dresses of that head are torne downe and turned to rubbish the fountaines and rivers which are the crystalline humours of those eyes are dryed up the surface which is the skin of that great body is chopped and chinked with drought and burnt up with heat those sweet waters of heaven and those balmy drops of fatnesse wherewith it was wont to be besprinkled are restrained and have given place to unwholsome serenenesse and killing vapors shortly that pampered plenty wherewith it was glutted is turned into a pinching want this change is not more sensible then wofull It is a great judgement this of barrennesse the curse of the disappointing fig-tree was but this Never fruit grow more on thee as contrarily the creature was blessed in no other tearmes then Crescite multiplicamini Increase and multiply A barren womb was Michols plague for her scoffing at devotion It was held by Abimelec no small judgement that God inflicted on him in closing up all the wombs of the house of Abimelec Gen. 20.18 and therefore it is said Abraham prayed v. 17. and God healed Abimelec and his wife and his maid-servants And surely as the Iewes held this the reproch among women though ours have not the same opinion nor the same reason Luc. 1.25 in so much as Canta sterilis had been a strange word Ep. 54.1 were it not for that which followeth The desolate shall have more children then the married So this is opprobrium terrae the reproch of our common mother an unbearing womb and dry brests Ose 9.14 What followes hence but miserable famine leannesse of body languishing of strength hollownesse of eyes drinesse of bones blacknes of skin wringing of mawes gnawing and clinging of guts and in the end the pale horse of death followes the black horse of famine Revel 6.8 And Those that are slaine by the sword are better then they that are slaine with hunger Lament 4.9 Yet let me tell you by the way the earthly and externall barrennesse is nothing to the inward and spirituall where the heart is barren of grace where the life is barren of good works the man is not neare to cursing but is under it Ye know who said Give me children or else I dye Gen. 30.1 It was an over passionate word of a good woman many a one lives and that with lesse griefe and care and more ease without them she might have lived happy though unfruitfull but surely a barren soule is both miserable and deadly God sayes of it as the Lord of the soyle said of the fruitlesse fig-tree Exscindatur Cut it up why keepeth it the ground barren If then wee find our selves in this condition let us doe as Solomon sayes the fashion is of the barren womb cry Give Give and never leave importunate craving till we finde the twins of grace striving in the womb of our soules But yet if a dry Arabian desert yeeld not a spire of grasse or the whitish sands of Egypt where Nile toucheth not yeeld nothing but their Suhit and Gazul fit for the furnace not the mouth or if some ill-natur'd wast yeeld nothing but heath and furres we never wonder at it these doe but their kinde But for a fruitfull land to be turned to barrennesse is an uncouth thing the very excellency of it aggravates the shame And surely God would not doe it if it were not wondrous he fetches light not out of glimmering but out of darknesse he fetches not indifferent but good out of evill Wee weak agents such all naturall and other voluntary are descend by degrees from an extreme by the staires of a meane and that oft-times sensible mutation God who is most free and infinite is not tyed to our termes he can in an instant turne faire into foule fruitfull into barren light into darknesse something yea all things into nothing Present fruitfulnesse therefore is no security against future barrennesse It is the folly of nature to think it selfe upon too sleight grounds sure of what it hath Non movebor David confesses was his note once but he soone changed it and so shall wee Thou art rich in good works as that churle was in provision and saist Soule take thy ease let thy hand be out of ure