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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
B11962	Certaine godly and necessarie sermons, preached by M. Thomas Carew of Bilston in the countie of Suffolke ...	Carew, Thomas, Preacher.	1603 (1603)	STC 4616; ESTC S118335	148,213	348

that can recompence this paine looke of this ritche man who sometime sported himselfe in his sinnes and forgat himselfe of his duties now hee lyes crying out of his paine and desiring release of his miseries and cannot haue it hee may bee compared to a Kings sumpter Horse who all daye goeth loaden with gould and siluer but at night his treasure and trappings are taken from him and he is turned into a foule stable hauing nothing left him but his galled backe So such wicked men that are all their life braue and wealthie but when they dye those things are laide aside and they are turned into the prison of hell hauing nothing left them but their galled conscience It is said being in hell in torments Hee lift vp his eyes and sawe Abraham c. all that follow to the end of the chapter as I saide in the beginning are Parabolicall speeches seruing to amplifie the miserie of this man for it was a great increase of his torments to see Lazarus so exalted and himselfe so cast downe As it was a great vexation to Haman to see Mordecai sitte Hester on the Kings Horse in royall apparrell and himselfe to hould his Stirrop It did much increase this mans torment that hee must begge of Lazarus that had beene his begger and that a droppe of water which was a lesse almes then the other had begged of him and could not haue it it was a great increase of his torment to heare of his faults now when hee could not amend them and to heare of Moses and the Prophets that had shewed him the waye to preuent this miserie and he did not regard them It was a great increase of his miserie to heare that Lazarus was comforted when hee was tormented it was a great increase of his torment to heare that the barre of Gods eternall predestination had so bound him that hee could neuer bee remooued from his condemnation and that Gods election had setled Lazarus in a permanent and happy condition This did greatly increase his miserie that in his life time he had many seruants at commaundement and now no body would doe any thing for him no not the begger in this life he might haue riden or gone whether he would but now hee was bound hand and foote and could goe no whether in this life hee might haue taught his brethren and friends any thing but now hee could doe them no good In this life if hee would haue made an earnest prayer to God for a greater matter hee might haue had it but nowe it was too late the time of mercie was past the time of iustice was come therefore saith the Scripture To daye if yee will heare his voyce harden not your hearts it was to daye with Pharao when Moses and Aaron preached to him it was to morrowe when he was drowned in the Red sea It is to day with men while they liue here and may repent of their sinnes and amend their liues it will bee to morrowe when they are gone from hence for as the day of death leaues vs so the day of doome shall finde vs as we see in this mans example Which glasse let all ritch men looke on and see how it is runne out A Iem for Gentlemen DEVTRO 16. 18. Iudges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy Citties which the Lord thy God giueth thee thorow-out thy Tribes and they shall iudge the people with righteous iudgement 19. Wrest not the lawe nor respect any person neither take rewarde for the rewarde blindeth the eyes of the wise and peruerteth the words of the iust 20. That which is iust c. that thou mayest liue o. AFter the Lorde had brought the people of Israell out of Aegipt he prescribed thē laws for gouernement and here he willes them to apoint officers to execute them and not in some few places but thorowout all their Citties and Tribes and commaunds those who shall bee chosen for officers to rule and iudge according to trueth and iustice and because they should haue many temptations to doe otherwise he giues them warning of three vices that are most incident to their calling as wresting the lawe respecting of persons and taking rewardes Last of all hee makes a promise to those that gouerne according to this direction they shall liue which hath included in it a secret and contrary threatning to those that doe not they shall dye Whereas God commaundes them to appoint Iudges wee may see that maiestracie is not an ordinance taken vp by the will of man but by the will and commaundemente of God The chiefe maiestracie belongs to God himselfe who is called the King of Kings Lorde Gen. 18. of Lordes and Iudge of all the worlde as appeares by punishing the Angels before Iude. there were any gouernours vppon earth and as appeares by punishing some gouernours for fayling in gouernment as Saul Ieroboham Ahab c. Paul sayth There is no power but of God and Rom. 13. the powers that bee are ordayned of God Therefore hee willeth Christians to bee subiect to them for conscience to paye tribute to them and to praye for them and the Apostle Iude reprooues those that 2. Tim. 2. dispise them and speake euill of them Againe in that God commaunds them to choose Iudges it shewes the necessitie of Maiestrates and not onely among Heathens as the Anabaptistes would haue it but also among Christians in the church as this precept was giuen to Israell and therefore Esay the Propher calles Kings Esa 49. 23. Foster-fathers and Queenes Nursing-mothers of the Church for although there bee some godlye men and women in the Church whose consciences are a lawe to themselues yet there bee also many hipocrites that haue no conscience and although Maiestrates are not so necessarie to restraine the godlye from hurting other yet they are necessarie and needefull to restraine other from hurting them There bee many faultes that God doth not punish himselfe immediately in this worlde especially with apparant punishments but dooth turne them ouer to his Liefetenants and Maiestrates Indeede if sinne had not come into the worlde there should not haue beene so much neede of Maiestrates to bridle men from iniquitie and spurre them to dutie but since pride enuie hatred couetousnesse and such corruptions came into mans nature it was necessarie there should bee authoritie in some to suppresse disorders In the booke of Iudges it is said When there Iudg. 20. was no Maiestrate euery one did that was good in his owne eyes then Micha had a Teraphin then the Beniamites defiled the Leuites wife to death and so it would be now if the feare of the Maiestrate did not restraine the most for the feare of God doth restraine but a fewe it were better to liue vnder the cruellest tyrant in the worlde then in an anarchie where there is no gouernement for then euery one would bee a tyrant It is better saith one to