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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	enter_v	righteousness_n	scribe_n	2,630	5	11.0710	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22141	Brotherly reconcilement preached in Oxford for the vnion of some, and now published with larger meditations for the vnitie of all in this Church and common-wealth: with an apologie of the vse of fathers, and secular learning in sermons. By Egeon Askevv of Queens Colledge.	Askew, Egeon, b. 1576.	1605 (1605)	STC 855; ESTC S100302	331,965	366

b Mat. 5. 47. saith Christ and if ye go no further what reward shall ye haue This is but imperfectae charitatis saith c 2. 2. Quaest 27 art 7. Thomas out of d Euchir cap. 73 Austine a point and signe of imperfect charitie nay vsura charitatis but the vsury and gainefull vse of loue For shame then of our profession at least for feare of losing our reward let vs go before Publicanes and sinners in the kingdome of grace lest Publicans and sinners go before vs into the kingdome of heauen For how great punishment shall we be worthie of e Homil. 18. ●● Mat. 5. saith Chrysostome if when we should as children follow our heauenly Father and be perfect in this as he is perfect we be found but equall and perchance inferior to the very Gentils that know not God if when we are commaunded to exceede Scribes and Pharisees in our righteousnesse we come short of the Ethnick pagans what torments shall we suffer We reade that euen heathen men haue done good to their very enemies f Li 5 exem c. 3. Sabellicus and g Li. exemp c. 2. Fulgosus bring a cloud of witnesses as of Lycurgus the Lacedemonian to Alexander a boy whom when by chance he had strucke out his eye he tooke home intreated him curteously and instructed him wisely Of Caesar to Catullus whom notwithstanding his defaming verses he inuited to supper and fed his foe Of Augustus his bountie to his enemie L. C●nna Vespasian to Vitellius and Titus his son ●o those two patricians that affected his Empire These were their humani affectus saith mine author a part and point of humanity but ours should be more Pietatis religionis partus the birth of religion and the fruites of the spirit But what do I speake of mens reason when the vnreasonable beasts are friendly to their feeders The Oxe knoweth his owner and the stupid Asse not onely the crib but his masters crib What shall I tell you of horses as of h Plin. nat hist lib. 8. cap. 42. Alexanders Bucephalus who in peculiar affection and loue to his louing Lord would suffer no man but him to ride him and though when being wounded at the Theban siege he was vnfit for the saddle yet suffered he him not to get vpon another for that seruice in reward of which brutish kindnesse he made him a tombe at his death and called the towne Bucephalon after his horses name as many histories report What shall I tell you of Antiochus his horse who to reuenge his masters death by Centoratus when that enemie after conquest triumphantly ascended him head-strongly gallopped to a steepe and from thence did precipitate him and his rider as the same author and i Lib ● de hist an●mal cap. 43. Aelian doth relate And therefore when k Homer I ●ad lib. ● Hector had fed his horses for the Troian warre Now rush stoutly into the battell saith he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 now remember your masters cribbe and repay me my prouender my strong wheate and sweete wine And if we go no further then these our gold is but drosse and horse-gold our charitie is but vsurie and horse-loue who claweth his fellow to be clawed againe Saint l Hexam l. ● c 4 Ambrose giues as great witnesse to mastiues and curs as we shall to our friends thus performe for when Ful●e● lib. 5. exempl cap 2. T. Sabinus was imprisoned his dog whom often he had fed would neuer forsake him in his bonds but when his Lord was brought forth to be cast headlong into Tyber like a mourner kind curre he stood howling beside his master and when the standers by gaue him bread to stop his mouth Ori domini admouebat he held it vp to his masters mouth and leapt after him into the riuer to hold vp his head But why shew I that at home which dayly your eyes may behold Let vs go into the wildernesse and there shall you see both the n Plin. hist nat lib. 8. cap. 59. Serpents in Tyrinthe and snakes in Syria though strangers they destroy yet spare the inhabitants in whose land they are nourished There shall ye see that an Elephant grieuously wounded with Porus in the warre against Alexander neglected his owne hurts softly with his trunke pulled the darts out of his masters body till by extreame bleeding he perceiued him to faint and then little by little and softly bowed downe himselfe least Porus his body falling too high should more be grieued with so great a fall But why do I speake of these milder beasts the very ramping and roring Lion who o Prouer. 30. 30 feareth not any at whose roare the beasts of the field do tremble is not behind men in this behalfe For when one Androcles a seruant for some notable misdemeanure in Rome had run from his master into the wildernesse of Africa there to shade himselfe from the scorching of the sun he entred a caue which was a Lions lodging gone about his prey whereto the sauage beast after rauen returning with a thorne in his foote he mildly beheld this fugitiue and held him his foot to plucke out the prick after which cure the Lion for his fee fed him as his guest and gaue him his diet of his pray if p Aelian li. 7. de hist animal c. 43 vide Plin. lib. 8. cap. 16. stories store not vp vntruth for three yeares together After which this vagabond leauing his solitary life and rouing about Rome was apprehended by his maister and cast as those bestiarij were in Rome to this Lybian Lion which by chance had then bene caught who seeing his old guest acknowledged his benefactor and in signe of requital fawned vpon him and lay prostrate at his feet yea tore a Pardale to whom his friend was exposed Thus beasts in reason fauour their friends when men become vnreasonable And therefore when some q 〈◊〉 Courtiers about Alphonsus defended that some beasts excelled many men as the Turtle in chastitie the Emmet in prouidence the dog in sagacitie the Storke in pietie and the Bee in industry and reuerence towards his King that good K. of Arragon answered wisely that whether these vertues were in-bred in beasts by nature or giuē thē by Gods donatiō surely they were granted them for no other cause but to shame vs if reason shall not exceed sense and men beasts in the workes of humanitie Wherefore except your righteousnesse exceed the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees who hate their enemie except it exceed saith Christ the charitie of Publicanes and sinners who loue but their friend nay surely except it exceed the righteousnesse of sauage beasts and your charitie the loue of cruell Lions how can ye hope to enter into the kingdome of heauen when ye do but as horse and mule which haue no vnderstanding and as Dogs or Lions beasts that perish It was diuellish policie which that Florentine