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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	harden_v	moses_n	pharaoh_n	4,537	5	10.9869	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03481	The burthen of the ministerie Gathered out of the sixt chapiter of the Epistles of S. Paul to the Galathians, the first verse. Verie profitable to be read of euery faithfull subiect, and of all that desire to be taught in the waie of truth. By Iohn Holme.	Holme, John.	1592 (1592)	STC 13601; ESTC S117238	18,041	50

England it did swallowe vp and spoile the goods of the Church but hearken ye deafe Adders it is meete for you to dwell in your seeled houses and the house of God to ly waste 1. Hag. And therefore it is that many of vs in England haue sowen muche and bring in little and haue eaten but had not enough drunke and were not filled wee haue cloathed ourselues and yet we be not warme and he that earneth wages hath put it in a broken bagge Ye looked for much saith the Prophet and loe it came to lyttle and when ye brought it home I did blowe vpon it saith the Lord because of my house that it is waste and ye run euery man to his owne house The Lord hath placed vs heere in a friutful land and yet for this sinne of robbing the Church the dew of heauen did not fal vpon the earth to moisten it and so all our riches could not deliuer vs from great penury thy destruction therefore is of thy selfe ô England repent therefore betime runne not a whoring after thine owne inuentions and now build a second Church farre more glorious then the first and goe about it betime The children of the Iewes were hindred had many lets because they let slip the opportunitie Restore the goods of the Church betymes and you shall see if your little doe not encrease to aboundaunce and then euerye student will labour for knowledge and Religion to benefit the Church to the confusion of Antichrist to the conforming and conducting of your soules through the wildernes of this worlde to the kingdome of Heauen this burthen if there were no moe in England it were sufficient to bring fire and brimstone suddenlye to consume vs but at the preaching of Ionas the Niniuites repented though his sermon was very shorte yet 40. daies and Niniuie shall be destroyed turned the wreath of the Almightie cleane away from them And it may bee likewise that the reading of this little Pamphlet will at the least make some of them blush when they consider how many learned men they hinder that are fain to stay stil in Cambridge for the great want that is in the Countrey abroad The Lord in times past had a controuersie with the children of Israel because there was no trueth no mercie no knowledge of God in their land Ose 4.1 And what wil he doe with this mercilesse nation wherein by the wicked the Prophets are almost stoned yet in the best part they are scourged and whipt by extreame penurie VVill hee not haue a controuersie with vs and hath he not shewed tokens of it These last yeares when a mightie nation did rise vp against vs like the sandes of the sea though at that instant wee had some good motions yet now when the peril is past our hearts are hardened with Pharao and we returne with the dogge to his vomit Pharaoh had tenne mightie blowes at his heart and yet would not be reclaimed and England hath had a thousand warnings and yet still is hardened Moses smit the rocke and water gushed out to the comforting of the children of Israel And I would to God that teares of repentance might make suche men to weep day night for the desolation of this Ierusalem and is it not a confusion of our owne faces that beeing vnder such a most gratious Queene by whose gouernement now this 33. yeeres wee haue enioyed all blessinges both spirituall and temporall more than all our neighbor countreys about vs that we I say should deale so vngratiously in with-holding the goodes of the Church which by the bountifull hands of so gratious a Queene and so prudent a Councell is bestowed vppon vs and yet this burthen doth seeme to vs to bee so light that we can wipe our mouthes and say wee haue not sinned Let Fraunce confirme vs in this doctrine for by this sinne there came vp sectes and heresies and had increased to a great and vnquenchable flame had not the sling of Dauid and the sword of Gedeon bene giuen into the Kings hand to fight the battell of the Almightie God for true religion and for the establishing of the Church Lord prosper his iourney that through his hand Israel may be deliuered from Aegypt where it lyeth in bondage vnder the Pope or vnder the Turke that the God of England may shew himselfe to be the true God and therefore that it is impossible for them to kicke against the pricke or for dust and ashes to wage warre against the immortall euer-liuing God whose power indeede no creature is able to resist I haue dwelt long as you may see in setting forth one of the burthens of this lande But I may excuse my selfe for this one is all and where this one is remooued there all other burthens may easily be taken away So indeede it is a rocke of offence a stone to stumble at which except it bee taken out of out way it is impossible that we shuld passe by it except it be such men as will strayne a gnat and swallow vp a cammell And vnto these what is it but is possible who can speak to the Church out of euerie text all thinges and these be they that condemn learning in Sermons because indeede they haue none themselues And this is the cause that the common people can better tell of cappe and surplesse than of faith and a good conscience which that sect wants for the most part Our Sauiour pronounced a woe to the Scribes Pharisies because they were diligent in tything mint and rue and euerie little trifle leauing the weightier points of the lawe But what if Christ were on the earth againe doe you thinke they should escape with a thousand woes because they haue beene the destruction of many mens souls driuing them to desperation as by wofull experience wee see it daily and all for want of learning Such deale with our auncient Fathers writings as they that haue cutte a purse who takes the mony and casts the purse away for fear their wickednes should be knowne to the world and they for all that they cannot abide our Fathers yet they are faine to flie to their writings to releeue their necessitie yet they cast away the purse But all is for vaineglorie to set out themselues as though it were theyr owne inuentions or their owne arme which helped them Thus they set at varience the minds of the people one holding of Apollo another of Paul the third of Cephas one of this man another of that man which things except they be lookt too in time doe foretell the ruine of the Church to come And though by reason of our most gratious Queene it come not in our dayes yet it may come in the time of our posteritie and the ages that are to come to the end of the world and though our life be short or lighter than vanitie because our dayes are numbred yet let vs worke those thinges in this short life