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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	ghost_n	sin_n	sin_v	2,468	5	10.3762	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13560	Two treatises: the pearle of the Gospell, and the pilgrims profession to which is added a glasse for gentlewomen to dresse themselues by. By Thomas Taylor preacher of Gods Word to the towne of Reding.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632. Pilgrims profession. aut; Gunter, H.	1625 (1625)	STC 23855; ESTC S105335	69,884	472

husband to the honourable Countesse at whose request his Lady had taken her into her care To this Honourable Countesse shee came a most zealous Papist and resolute as soone as possibly shee could apprehend a fit opportunitie to conuey her selfe beyond the Seas and become a Nun for she then thought that that was the surest and likeliest way to get Heauen which as shee had an earnest desire to attaine so would shee take the neerest way which shee thought would bring her thither This religious care of the honourable Countesse as shee did all her life thankfully acknowledge it so is it very obseruable both for the high commendation of her honor and for the imitation of others of her honourable ranke But shee could not so closely carry her secret deuotions and intentions but that by the carefull eye of her Honourable Lady they were soone discouered and not sooner discouered than wisely preuented for presently her Lady tooke from her all her Popish books Beades and Images and all such trumpery and set a narrow watch ouer her that shee might bee kept from her Popish Prayers and not absent her selfe from the daily Prayers of the Family which were religiously obserued further requiring her to reade those Praiers that her honour daily vsed to haue in her priuate chamber with her women Her Ladiship also carefully preuented her from her Popish company and counsell by word or writing for neither might shee write nor receiue any letter without the view and consent of her Honour Shee also constrained her to bee countable for the Sermons which shee heard in the house which were constantly two euery Sabboth day for the increase of the sound knowledge of God which is the onely Hammer of Popery And heereby shee in short time obtained great ability to communicate to others the substance of those Sermons which shee heard the rather because it was constantly obserued by all the women in that honorable Family to come together after the last Sermon and make repetition of both And this shee did as yet for feare but still with this reseruation that shee would keepe her heart for Popery and trusted that God would bee mercifull vnto her as Naaman in this which shee did onely through feare and constraint But God who in his owne time worketh in his owne meanes began to worke in her first a staggering in her old way For when shee saw the holy conuersation of that Reuerend Preacher Master I. W. who was then Chaplin to the Countesse she began to perswade her selfe that surely this mans godlinesse must needs bring him to Heauen And then the reuerend respect of the man made her begin to giue some better care to his Doctrine to examine his proofes and to reuerence his Ministry whereby in short time Her new birth it pleased God that shee was wonne to beleeue the Truth and renounce her former superstition and ignorance And as it is the property of a true Conuert Iohn 1.45 being conuerted her selfe shee endeauoured the conuersion of others and was a great helpe and furtherance to the publique Ministery that way For this was a thing which that honourable Familie tooke speciall knowledge of and there were many that had great cause to blesse God for her in that respect Reuel 12. Now presently Satan that Dragon that watcheth to deuoure euery man-childe which shall bee borne vnto God begins to rage Her long and strong temptations and reach at her with strong and violent temptations and first hee terrified her in that shee had sinned the sinne against the holy Ghost for shee had played the deepe dissembler and being in heart a Papist yet ioyned with the Protestants whom shee held for Heretickes and all this against her knowledge and conscience and so fiercely and incessantly hee followed this temptation as that shee was perswaded it was impossible that euer this sinne should or could bee pardoned And this temptation was pointed and sharpened with that dreadfull and fowle suggestion of selfe murder as if the remedy of the sinne against the holy Ghost were to destroy ones selfe While shee was thus long tossed and tumbled in these waues and billowes of Satanicall suggestions wherein shee was so low cast and deiected still concealing her griefe as shee almost despaired of recouery It pleased God to direct that Reuerend Preacher who was her Father in Christ and whom shee euer after embraced with the most entyre loue of the most naturall Childe to entreat of this sinne and to shew what it was and by whom and in what manner it was committed To which Doctrine shee diligently hearkening and by examination of it and her selfe finding that shee had not so sinned after illumination nor with obstinate malice against God or his Truth which when shee was most superstitiously deuoted shee desired to finde out it pleased God to quiet her minde for that and so led her ouer that temptation But Satan that departed from our head Iesus Christ onely for a season was not long away from the molestation of this his member but returned and brought leuen worse spirits were it possible than before and now his name may be Legion for now hee would confound and oppresse her with multitudes of blasphemous thoughts and doubts Now must shee beleeue there is no God That the Scriptures are not his word but a Pollicie or if it were his word who must interpret it or how could shee a silly woman get the vnderstanding of such deepe mysteries as are contained in the same Besides as she was of minde that shee was gotten out of one errour so shee knew nothing but that shee was misled into another for how could shee bee sure that this was the truth which shee now professed seeing there are as many or more learned men of the one opinion as of the other and all of them maintaine their opinions by the Scriptures Thus was shee vexed and exercised with Armies of rouing and vnsetled conceits for fiue or sixe yeeres together till God whom she often sollicited for direction and assistance in the combat brought her to this resolution that shee would hold these conclusions whatsoeuer disputes Satan might weary her withall That there was not onely a God in himselfe but a God that was her God and whatsoeuer opinions there were in the world that there was but one Truth and that was to bee learned out of the Scriptures and though there were much in the Bible which shee did not vnderstand yet shee was perswaded that if shee would diligently reade and search the Scriptures with earnest Prayer to God for a good vnderstanding in them shee should attaine thence a measure of knowledge sufficient to bring her to heauen and holding strongly these groundes shee found the temptations waste away by degrees and her selfe daily more strongly setled vpon the foundation Neither was shee onely by the grace of God a Conquerour in these temptations but I may say with the Apostle in a