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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	lay_v	thief_n	treasure_n	2,291	5	9.6844	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02265	Mystical bedlam, or the vvorld of mad-men. By Tho: Adams	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1615 (1615)	STC 124; ESTC S100419	52,572	90

sayth the Prouerbe Let the buyer take heed in this let the seller looke to it Make no marte nor market with Sathan Non benè pro multo libertas venditur auro The heart is ill solde what euer the price be Thirdly for the borrower Lend not thy heart in hope of interest lest thou lose the principall Lend him not any implement in thy house any affection in thy heart but to spare the best vessell to such an abuser is no lesse then mad charity Lastly ware the theefe and let his subtilty excite thy more prouident preuention Many a man keepes his goods safe enough from beggers buyers borrowers yet is met withall by theeues Therefore locke vp this vessell with the Key of faith barre it with resolution against sinne guard it with supervisiting diligence and repose it in the bosom of thy Sauiour There it is safe from all obsidious or insidious oppugnations from the reach of fraud or violence Let it not stray from this home lest like Dinah it be defloured If wee keepe this vessell our selues wee indanger the losse Iacob bought Esau's birth-right Satha stole Adams Paradise whiles the tenure was in their owne hands An Apple beguiled the one a messe of pottage the other Trust not thy heart in thine owne custody but lay it vp in heauen with thy treasure Commit it to Him that is the maker and preseruer of men who will lappe it vp with peace and lay it in a bed of ioy where no aduersary power cā inuade it nor theefe break through to steale it 3. The Liquor this vessel holds is euill Euill is double eyther of Sinne or of Punishment the deseruing and retribution the one of mans owne affecting the other of Gods iust inflicting The former is simpliciter malum simply euill of it owne nature the latter but secundum quid in respect of the sufferer being good in regard of Gods glory as an act of his Iustice. For the Euils of our sufferings as not intended here I pretermit Onely when they come we learne hence how to intertaine them in our opinion as our due rewards in our patience as men as Saints that tribulation may as well produce patience as sinne hath procured tribulation Non sentire mala sua non est hominis non ferre non est viri He that feeles not his miseries sensibly is not a man and he that beares them not couragiously is not a Christian. The iuyce in the heart of the sonnes of men is euill all haue corrupted their wayes Solomon speakes not here in indiuiduo this or that sonne of man but generally with an vniuersall extent the sonnes of men And leauing the plurall with the Possessors by a significant salaecisme he names the vessell in the singular the heart not hearts as if all mankind had cor vnum in vnitate malitiae one heart in the vnity of sinne the matter of the vessell being of one polluted lumpe that euery man that hath an hart hath naturally an euill heart Adam had no sooner by his one sinne slaine his posterity but hee begote a sonne that slew his brother Adam was planted by God a good Vine but his Apostasie made all his children sowre grapes Our nature was sowne good behold wee are come vp euill Through whose default ariseth this badnesse God created this vessell good man poyson'd it in the seasoning And being thus distayned in the tender newnesse seruat odorem testa diu it smels of the olde infection till a new iuyce bee put into it or rather it selfe made new As Dauid prayes Create in me oh Lord a cleane heart and renew a right spirit within me GOD made vs good we haue mar'd ourseluesa nd behold wee call on him to make vs good againe Yea euen the vessel thus recreated is not without a tang of the former corruption Paul confesseth in himselfe a body of Death as well as Dauid a natiue vncleannesse The best graine sends forth that chaffe whereof before the sowing it was purged by the fanne Our contracted euill had been the lesse intolerable if we had not been made so perfectly good Hee that made heauen and earth ayre and fire Sunne and Moone all elements all creatures good surely would not make him euill for whom these good things were made How comes he thus bad Deus hominem fecit homo se interfecit In the words of our Royall Preacher Eccles. 7. Loe this onelie I haue found that God hath made man vpright but they haue sought out many inuentions Man was created happy but hee found out trickes to make himselfe miserable And his misery had been lesse if he had neuer beene so blessed the better wee were we are the worse Like the posterity of some profuse or tainted Progenitour wee may tell of the Lands Lordshippes honours titles that were once ours and then sigh out the song fuimus Troes we haue been blessed If the heart were thus good by creation or is thus good by redemption how can it bee the continent of such euill liquour when by the word of His mouth that neuer erred A good tree cannot bring forth bad fruits I answere that saying must be construed in sensu composito a good tree continuing good cannot produce euill fruites The heart borne of God in quanto renatum est not peccat doth not commit sinne so farre as it is borne of GOD. Yet euen in this vessell whiles it walkes on earth are some droppes of the first poyson And so Dat dulces fons vnus aquas qui et praebet amaras The same fountaine sends forth sweet water and bitter though not at the same place as Saint Iames propounds it But Solomon speakes here of the heart as it is generate or degenerate not as regenerate what it is by nature not by grace as it is from the first Adam not from the second It is thus a vessell of euill Sinne was brewed in it hath brewed it into sinne It is strangely I know not how truely reported of a vessell that changeth some kind of liquour put into it into it selfe as fire transformes the fuell into fire But heere the content doth change the continent as some minerall veynes doe the earth that holdes them This euill iuyce turnes the whole heart into euill as water powred vpon snow turnes it to water The wickednesse of man was so great in the earth that it made euery imagination of the thoughts of his heart onely euill continually Here if wee consider the dignity of the vessell the filthinesse of the euill it holds or is rather holden of for non tam tenet quam tenetur the comparison is sufficient to astonish vs. Quàm malè conueniunt vas aureum atrumque venenum Oh! ingrate in considerate man to whom God hath giuen so good a vessell and hee filles it with so euill sappe In a great house there be vessels of honour and vessels of dishonour some for better