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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	harden_v	israel_n	pharaoh_n	2,701	5	10.6543	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06196	Vox clamantis. Mark 1. 3 A stil voice, to the three thrice-honourable estates of Parliament: and in them, to all the soules of this our nation, of what state or condition soeuer they be. By William Loe, Doctor of Diuinitie, and chaplaine to the Kings most excellent Maiestie.	Loe, William, d. 1645.	1621 (1621)	STC 16691; ESTC S108813	47,008	92

Church-men Who art thou that iudgest an other mans seruant And what wiseman careth to be iudged of the world Who knowes not that thousands haue bin condemned in the world for euill doers that are Angells in heauen and who knowes not that Traitors Emissaries and Assasinates of villanie haue beene canonized by the Popelings for Saints that haue beene on earth the organs of Sathan and firebrands of matchlesse mischiefe Neuer was any people more blessed then this our Nation with painefull maisters of the Assemblies preaching Prelates and carefull Church-men whose names are famous in transmarine parts yea thousands there are of Church-men of little account in England that are able God be blessed to cope and encounter with the proudest Cardinall in the Conclaue at Rome Yet I am perswaded and it is easie to demonstrate that the Seminaries of the Romish Church that are imprisoned in London and else-where liue in better content then some worthy conformable Church-men in England For what betweene the Seminaries and Iesuites without and those that are auerse to the present gouernment within together with the prophane on euery side griping Patrons peeuish Parishioners and the like the poore Conformalist so liues that hee may neuer feare a Purgatory heereafter he shall be throughly purged I warrant him before hee dies to cause his passage easie if need be Insomuch that in the day of Iudgement God may call out some of the heathen to condemne this generation which despiseth the Priesthood Out of the Graecians Alexander the Great who kneeled downe to Iaddo the High-priest Out of the Barbarians furious Attilas who was appeased with the Oration of Leo Bishop of Rome The ancient Persians condemne our neglect of Church-men who honoured their Magi. The olde Romans who dignified their Vestall Virgins the auncient Gaules who magnified their Druides and the Indies who deified their Gymnosophistes yea among Christians the ignorant Moscouites or Russites who trauelling vp to Mosco from Boristhenes and other remote places carrying thither their children to be baptized bring also with them their rich Felles and Furres to lay vnder the Priests feete in the extreamitie of colde that they may take no harme in the time they baptize their children and our ignorant fore-fathers will rise to condemne vs who pretend to haue all the knowledge for if they could haue got but a sottish Masse-priest in a corner Oh how would they crouch and cap yea kneele to him as if he had beene some deitie and we their posterity sleight the Euangelicall ministers of Iesus Christ But what thinke you hardens the hearts of prophane persons against Churchmen Surely this for that they see Gods owne deare Children as much punished yea often more then others The Arke of God is taken by the Philistimes and Israel flies good Iosiah is slaine by wicked Pharoh Neco in the field of Megiddo Turkes subdue Christians Dauid Gods darling doth but number the people and is plagued Augustus Caesar taxeth the whole World and is secure Therefore they resolue that surely it is better to serue Mammon then the Mediator But let all Worldlings take heed of such reasoning and let all despiser stand amazed and wonder For God is not slacke concerning his promise as some men account flacknesse but is long-suffering to vs-ward not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance let them answere God in this Doest thou despise the riches of Gods goodnesse forbearance and long-suffering not knowing that the goodnesse of God leadeth thee to repentance Saint Augustine will tell the worldlings that in the world to come so good things shall be giuen to the good that the wicked shall not so much as haue either a sight or taste of them and so euill things shall befall the cursed that the good shall not once touch them for if in this life all wickednesses and all euils were punished there would be nothing to be iudged in the other life and yet if nothing at all were here exemplarily punished by God the worldlings would take no notice of his prouidence In conclusion therefore Church-men must learne rather to reason with Saint Peter If God spared not the Angels that sinned but cast them downe to hell and deliuered them into the chaines of darkenesse to be reserued vnto iudgement will he spare them that are either wandering starres or starres of worme-wood The big-bon'd Nimrods of the World that put far from them the euill day must lesson themselues from Saint Peter If the iust and righteous be scarcely saued where shall the vngodly and sinner appeare What then remaines but that earnest prayers be poured out for my selfe and my brethren the Ministers of Christ O Iehouah Eloim grant to our Prelates that whiles they are here the zeale of thy house may ea●e them vp that they may guide thy people with the sincerity of their hearts and with the discretion of their hands and when they are gone hence that they may shine with thee as the starres of Heauen in glory Grant to all Preachers that their hearts may be cloathed with thy righteousnesse their mindes rectified with thy sauing knowledge and their mouthes filled with thy most holy Word Grant Lord that both the life and learning of Prelates and Preachers both in saying well and doing well may be to thy people by the power of thy Word the Water of life the Bread of Heauen a Touchstone for discerning of heresies a Sword for decision of Controuersies the Keyes to open Heauen the Harpe of Dauid to comfort the distressed and that all thy people may esteeme of Church●men as the co●uoyes of thy grace of thy most sacred treasure and of the most holy reliques of Iesus Christ. Grant Lord to Prince Priests and People such grace that they make vp their accounts with diligence against thy Iudgement and great audite day O let the faithfull witnesse in Heauen say hereunto Amen O ye House of Israel In a religious Common-wealth the common people are incompassed with blessings from God on euery side from the Church and from the Court both set vp by God for blessings to their soules bodies goods and good names THE Church-men hath beene summoned in the first place the Common-wealthes men follow in the second with these termes of Summons Hearken O ye House of Israel That they are an House is a speciall fauour but that they are an House of Israel is a supereminent blessing Whence I obserue that forasmuch as the people are ranged betweene the Priests and the Princes and tearmed The House of Israel it sheweth that In a religious Common-wealth the common people are encompassed with blessings from God on euery side from the Church and from the Court both set vp by God for blessings to their soules bodies goods and good names This appeares out of the very words of the Text For these people not long before were the House of bondage and slauery but now are setled in an