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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	faith_n	patience_n	temperance_n	4,962	5	11.6128	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10057	Sauls prohibition staide. Or The apprehension, and examination of Saule And the inditement of all that persecute Christ, with a reproofe of those that traduce the honourable plantation of Virginia. Preached in a sermon commaunded at Pauls Crosse, vpon Rogation Sunday, being the 28. of May. 1609. By Daniel Price, Chapleine in ordinarie to the Prince, and Master of Artes of Exeter Colledge in Oxford.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1609 (1609)	STC 20302; ESTC S101915	22,573	47

Zechiels vision Ezech. 1.16 the face of a Lyon the face of a man there is a Cherubicall zeale let zeale and moderation be like Naomi and Ruth let them goe together or if that pace will not serue let them like Peter and Iohn at the Sepulchre runne together Vespasians Embleme on his coyne did well moralize the meaning of zeales moderation there was a Dolphin and an ancor the Dolphin out strips the shippe the anchor stayes the shippe if stayednesse and swiftnes earnestnes and peaceablnes did goe together then were zeale that true zeale that the holy Prophets and seruants of God had It was a feruent zeale that was in Dauid when hee cryed The zeale of thy house hath eaten me vp wherin Dauid cryed not My zeale hath almost eaten vp thy house but the zeale of thy house hath almost eaten me vp Austen Oscrius Saul was zealous as euer any was and in zeale as outragious as euer any hee was of the Tribe of Beniamin and was the true Beniamin Iacob on his death bed breathed and bequeathed him this blessing Beniamin shall rauin as a Wolfe in the morning he shall deuoure the praye and in the euening he shall diuide the spoyle Paul was this Beniamin Beniamin was Benoni Paul was this Benoni he was Beniamin the sonne of the right hand and hee was Benoni the sonne of sorrow Beniamin the ioy of his Father Benoni the death of his mother Bentamin filiorum minimus Lor. in Ps 75. Paulus Apostolorum vltimus Beniamin the death of Rachel his mother Paul the death of the Church vastans Ecclesiam sayeth Austen the death of the Synagogue Austen Hierome tollens legem sayeth Hierome Saul was a Wolfe indeed in the morning when he deuoured the pray c. and made a pray of the Church but in the euening hee did diuide the word richer then great spoiles The Vse of this Doctrine Vse is to direct and leuell your zeale aright that it neyther fall short nor flie ouer neither on the right hand nor on the left hand but that it ayme directly at the marke of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Iesus I come not hither this Spring to sneape your zeale with any frosty speech absit farre bee it from mee to speake it from you to thinke it I know that Palsies and Apoplexies are more commonly incident in Christian zeale then hote Agues wee neede not quench the Spirite O that we could kindle it But my desire is that you please so to moderate your zeale that ye adde with your zeale faith so with your faith knowledge and with knowledge temperance and with temperance patience and with patience brotherly kindnesse and with brotherly kindnesse loue or else if your zeale bee neuer so hote the hote feuer or feruour thereof shall not auaile you Ye shall be like to those Fishers with S. Peter Fish all night but catch nothing or those schollers in S. Paul being alwayes learning profiting nothing or those Petitioners in Saint Iames asking alwayes receyuing nothing Iames. 5. Bernard AElian var. hist Plutarch or the Eutichoei in S. Bernard Praying alwayes but obtaining nothing like Atalanta running but a farre off like Diogenes Archer shooting but a farre off like Peter following but farre off farre off indeed for your zeale shall make you enemies to the Crosse of Christ Oppressors maligners murtherers persecutors to whome these Presents shal come greeting Saul Saul why persecutest thou me If therefore any of you haue beene so zealous Barrowifts Brownistes Humorists Atheists DIVELS none else against Bishops that you could haue in zeale eaten vp Bishoprickes and Ecclesiasticall Endowments and in zeale haue persecuted our reuerend Fathers the Chariots of Israel the horsemen thereof know it that your zeale is a Saul a persecutor a Wolfe a Betraier of the Church of God Looke vpon Saul a Pharisie by his Father a Pharisie by his Master a Pharisie by birth breeding zeale sect and profession his knowledge more his tongues more his labours more then any Pharisie of our time yet he confesseth by zeale I persecuted the Church of God In the bowels of Christ Iesus truly with a religious soule consider it and so turne as hee did from an Impostor to a Pastor from a persecutor to a professor from a Wolfe among Lambes to a Lambe among Wolues from shedding their bloud to offer for them to shed his owne bloud from Saul to Paul from a fierce fiery furious mad monstrous Traitor to a holy happy gratious glorious Martyr for he was as zealous for the Church as euer against the Church witnesse his afflictions necessities distresses stripes prisons tumults labours watchings fastings and manifold sufferings in enduring the Crosse But I end this point and come from Paules Crosse to Christs Crosse in my last wordes Why persecutest thou me Maximam Emphasim habet illud me perfecutest me this was the word that stroke him to the earth Austen Chrysostome stroke him from his horse stroke him downe from his presumption Persecutest thou me it stroke him downe earth to earth The Fathers compare the state of Saul at this time vnto some riotous young man who by noctiuagating and nightly disorder in the streetes quarrels and fights and woundes whosoeuer hee meeteth at the length meeteth with his owne Father in the darke and woundeth him his Father at the length discerning him crieth out Sonne Sonne why hast thou slaine mee thou my flesh and blood and thou the shedder of my bloud I the cause of thy life and thou the cause of my death thou my sonne and I the father of thy beginning thy sworde my sonne and thou my sonne the father of my ending O Sonne why hast thou slaine me the Sonne replyeth what thee my Father my Father the light of my eyes breath of my nostrils ioy of my heart honour of my name what thee my Father It is I thy Father that thou hast wounded that thou hast slaine thy Father that begat thee bredde thee fed thee fostered thee nourished thee exalted thee endowed thee that thought nothing too deere for thee and now thou hast slaine mee All the goary gaping wounds that Caesar had came not so neere him as the stabbe that Brutus gaue him what thou my Sonne the Sonne of my hopes and the Sonne of my desire what Brutus my sonne what Absol●n my sonne my sonne hast thou rebelled hast thou persecuted me O the wonderment astonishment amazement of such a Father Osor Euan. Part. Hiem and of such a Son Such the Emphasis of this voice persecute me why was it not sufficient I was born poorly bred barely cloathed meanly fed miserably pursued violently entrapped betrayed treacherously but that yet thou must persecute me was not my hungring thirsting fainting sweating bleeding dying sufficient not all my labours in trauailing trauels in preaching temptations while I hungred sorrows when I fainted Austen feares when I retired teares while I