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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	earth_n	good_a	lord_n	9,702	5	3.6330	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14104	A shorte and pithie discourse, concerning the engendring, tokens, and effects of all earthquakes in generall particularly applyed and conferred with that most strange and terrible worke of the Lord in shaking the earth, not only within the citie of London, but also in most partes of all Englande: vvhich hapned vpon VVensday in Easter weeke last past, which was the sixt day of April, almost at sixe a clocke in the euening, in the yeare of our Lord God. 1580. Written by T.T. the 13. of April. 1580.	Twyne, Thomas, 1543-1613.	1580 (1580)	STC 24413; ESTC S118790	14,356	23

and daungerously brused is yet liuing and like to recouer who were both seruauntes in one house vnto Iohn Spurlinge a shoomaker dwellinge in S. Botulphes parish without Aldersgate nigh London 30. Now perhaps some would expect at my handes that I should set down my iudgement farther concerning the efficient causes also the consequents of this Earthquake by the position of the Heauens and aspectes of the Planets and fixed Starres for that presente time which now I must needes omit for breuitie sake till some other time more conuenient And if likewise I were farther demaunded what mine opinion is concerninge this Earthquake whither I thinke it altogeather naturall or not Surely I am otherwise perswaded and so I iudge many other to bée that haue entred into y e déepe consideration therof But let it bee as it is surely it cannot bée without y e speciall finger of God whither it bée for our comforte or terrour as euery mans conscience shal beare him recorde although I am sure there bée none that can excuse them selues of sinne 31. But whether the Angell of the Lorde in passinge by vs in visitation hath shaken our habitations with his presence as some haue reuerently iudged or in respect of the ripenesse of our sinnes our most mercifull God hath caused the earth to tremble to the intente to mooue vs to repentaunce as it may well bee coniectured Let vs not stay I béeséeche you in the bowels of his deare Sonne Jesus Christ euery one to powre out his complaint béefore the fountaine of mercy and to call vpon him to turne from vs those plagues of Pestilence Sword Famine which by such quakinges are euermore foreshewed and our sinnes doo woorthily deserue For to admit that it procéeded but of a méere naturall cause so great and so many are the poysons corruptions cankers and rustes of mettalles and minerall bodies within the earth that the venomous aire that issueth forth from them by the eruption of the exhalation in an Earthquake is of sufficient force without the speciall prouidence of God to the contrary to infect and suffocate both Man Beast and Foule immediatly 32. But shall wée now againe coniecture somewhat vnto our owne comforte and not altogeather vnprobably Since at all times these one and twentie yeares and vpward duringe the raigne of our most deere and dread Soueraigne and most gratious Queene Elizabeth the Gospell hath béene sincerely and truely preached vnto vs and that now duringe this time of Lente last past and since Easter not only in her Maiesties Courte but also in her emperiall Cittie of London as also in all other places of her dominions most choice men for godlines and learninge haue béene appointed to sow the séede of life and to open the way vnto the kingdome of Heauen what if in token of consent good liking and conclusion of that which hath béene so manifoldly spoken the Lorde would vouchsafe to giue a nod with his head wherat as the holy Ghost speaketh by the mouth of the Prophet Dauid All the earth doth shake and the hilles doo smoake and the whole frame of the world is mooued 33. Neuerthelesse if the giltinesse of our owne consciences cannot so content vs but that as rightly we ought we be put in minde of most iust punishment for our offences doubtlesse I am most enclined vnto that persuasion which with al my hart I wish wée al followed that with spéed And herein I pray you let no man flatter or falsely persuade himself with a natural cause or with the mischance of two poore childrens death for that shall not serue when the time cōmeth For was their death casuall thinke you I know it was not since there falleth not a poore Sparrow to the earth without y e prouidēce of God Or were they the greatest sinners in y e cōpany God knoweth their yeares may somewhat answere for thē I think they were not more than they vpon whom the Towre fell in Siloa But surely if wee repent not wee shall all likewise perish 34. The iudgement if wee perceiue it is already begun at y e house of God what fauour then shall others looke for If it haue ha●ned thus in the gréen trée what shal become of the drie Good brethren let vs looke to this geare y t the Lords mightie hand light not vpon vs vnlooked for The Axe is not only set to the roote of the tree but it hath now hewen many strokes and some of the branches are fallen alreadie The Lorde is comming in maiestie to iudge the Earth and to auenge himselfe vpon his enemies and doubtlesse hée is not far of Our strange and hot and drie tokens séene of late time as the wonderfull blazinge Starre and the rare exhalations shew that hée w●l come shortly to consume all with fire But how vnprouided hée shall finde vs the sodaine comminge vpon vs of this Earthquake doth declare 35. Now I beseech you againe let euery man call himselfe to an accompt and looke narrowly into his owne life Let the Blasphemer cease to abuse the Lords name and power to his damnation Let the Adulterer leaue of and sinne no more Let the Usurer take heede how hee can answere the Lorde for his Brothers hurte Let the Murtherer remember that Abels bloud crieth for vengeaunce Let the malicious man know that the Lorde searcheth the harte and reynes Let the Glutton learne that the holy Ghost forbiddeth him to make his belly his God Let the Drunckard begin to abhorre the daunger and abomination of intemperance Let the couetous person perceiue that the rust of his money shall consume his fleshe Let the hollow harted Christian and subiect vnto God and his Prince vnderstand that as the hollownesse was the cause of the shakinge of the Earth euen so for his false and hollow hartes sake the Lorde will shake him from out his beloued flocke of Israell and cast him into that wofull place where hée shal receiue his reward with Dissemblers and Hipocrites and with Traytours and Atheistes togeather with their great Maisters Iudas and Iulian that lye perpetually tormented in vnquenchable Hell fire 36. And last of all let the worldly man consider what certentie he hath in his ritches or assurance in any thing vpon the earth when as euen that also is subiect to shakinge and mouing wheron hee reposeth his felicitie And although the witte of man haue deuised remedies against the threatninges of Heauen yet when the earth quaketh where shall hee repose himselfe in safety Augustus Caesar had a Denne made vnder the ground to shrowd himselfe in from the rage of thunder which remaineth yet to bée séene nigh Rome But indeede there is no fléeinge from the face of the Lorde who as the holy Psalmist sayeth where euer wee goe to hide our selues is present with vs whether wee ascend into Heauen or goe downe into Hell or take the winges of the morning or