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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	accuse_v	law_n	nature_n	2,158	5	6.6427	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27163	The theatre of Gods judgements wherein is represented the admirable justice of God against all notorious sinners ... / collected out of sacred, ecclesiasticall, and pagan histories by two most reverend doctors in divinity, Thomas Beard ... and Tho. Taylor ...	Beard, Thomas, d. 1632.; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1642 (1642)	Wing B1565; ESTC R7603	428,820	368

be punished by man and that humane lawes can lay no hold upon them so much the rather God himselfe becommeth executioner of his owne justice upon their pates and in such sort that every man may perceive his hand to be on them Let any adversity or affliction light upon a man of low degree or which is poore and desolate no man considereth of it rightly but talking thereof m●n cease not to impute the cause of this poore soules misery either to poverty or want of succour or some other such like cause Therefore if any such be in griefe or by chance fallen into some pit and drowned or robbed and killed in the way by theeves straightway this is the saying of the world That it commeth thus to passe either because he was alone without company or destitute of help or not well looked to and regarded and thus they passe over the matter But as concerning great men when they are any way afflicted no such pretences or excuses can be alleadged seeing they want neither servants to attend upon them nor any other means of help to succor them therefore when these men are overtaken and surprised with any great evill which by no means they can eschew and when their bold and wicked enterprises are pursued and concluded with strange and lamentable events in this we must acknowledge an especiall hand of God who can intangle and pull downe the proudest and arrogantest He that lives and those whom the world feareth to meddle withall These proud gallants are they against whom God displaieth his banner of power more openly than against meaner and baser persons because these poore soules finde oftentimes to their paines that they are punished without cause and tormented and vexed by those tyrants not having committed any offence at all to deserve it whereas as Philip Comine saith who dare be so bold as to controll or reprehend a King and his favorites or to make enquiry of his misdeeds or having made inquisition of them who dare presume to informe the Iudge therof who dare stand up to accuse them who dare sit down to judge them Nay who dare take knowledge of them and lastly who dare assay to punish them Seeing then in this case that our worldly justice hath her hands bound behind her from executing that which is right it must needs be that the sovereigne Monarch of heaven and earth should mount up into his Throne of Iudgement and from thence give his definitive unchangable sentence to deliver up the most guilty and hainous sinners to those paines and torments which they have deserved and that after a strange and extraordinary manner which may serve for an example to all others CHAP. V. How all men both by the Law of God and Nature are inexcusable in their sinnes NOw to the end that no man should pretend ignorance for an excuse God hath bestowed upon every one a certaine knowledge and judgement of good and evill which being naturally engraven in the tables of mans heart is commonly called the Law of Nature wherby every mans owne conscience giveth sufficient testimony unto it selfe when in his most secret thoughts it either accuseth or excuseth him for there is not a man living which doth not know in his heart that he doth an evill deed when he wrongeth another although he had never been instructed elsewhere in that point So although that in Tarquinius Superbus time Cicero saith there was no written Law established in Rome forbidding the ravishing and deflouring of wives and virgins yet the wicked sonne of this Tarquine was not therefore lesse guilty of an hainous crime when contrary to the Law of Nature he violently robbed Lucrece of her chastity for no man can be ignorant that it is a most grievous crime to lay siege to the chastity of a married woman with such outrage and so the whole people of Rome did esteeme of it as a crime most wicked strange and intolerable and worthy of grievous punishment Every man knoweth thus much that hee ought not to doe that to another which he would not another should do to him which sentence the Emperour Severus made alwaies to bee spoken aloud and declared by the sound of the trumpet in the way of advertisement as often as punishment was taken upon any offendor as if it were a generall Law pertaining to all men This is that equity and justice which ought to be ingraffed in our hearts whereof nature her self is the schoolmistresse from this fountaine all humane and civill Lawes are derived if we had not rather say that they are derived from that true spring of equity which is in the Law of God which Law he hath given for a plaine and familiar manifestation of his will concerning just holy and reasonable things touching the service honour and glory which is due unto himselfe and the mutuall duty friendship and good will which men owe one to another whereunto he exhorteth and enticeth every one by faire and gracious promises and forbiddeth the contrary by great and terrible threatnings so gentle and mercifull is he towards us and desirous of our good This is that Law which was published before the face of more than six hundred thousand persons with the mighty and resounding noise of Trumpet with earthquake fire and smoake and with thunders and lightnings to make men more attentive to heare and more prepared to receive it with all humility feare and reverence and also to put them in minde that if they were disobedient and rebellious he wanted no power and ability to punish them for he hath lightning thunder and fire prepared instruments to execute his just vengeance which no creature under heaven is able to avoid when by the obstinate transgression of wicked men he is provoked to anger and indignation against them This is that holy law which hath been set forth by the Prophets by the rule whereof all their warnings exhortings and reproovings have been squared To this Law the onely begotten Son of God our Saviour and Redeemer Iesus Christ conformed his most holy doctrine bringing men to the true use and observation thereof from which they had declined and whereof he is the end the scope and perfect accomplishment so that so farre it is that a Christian man may be ignorant of it and have it in contempt that none can be counted and reputed a true Christian if hee frame not his life by the rule thereof if not fully yet at least as farre forth as hee is able otherwise what a shame and reproach is it for men to call themselves by the name of Gods children Christians and Catholiques and yet to doe every thing clean contrary to the will of God to make no reckoning of his Law to lead a dissolute and disordered life and to be as evill if not worse than the vilest miscreants and Infidels in the world God willeth and requireth that he alone should bee worshipped and prayed unto and yet the greater part of