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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	blood_n	lord_n	shed_v	1,770	5	9.8115	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25383	Apospasmatia sacra, or, A collection of posthumous and orphan lectures delivered at St. Pauls and St. Giles his church / by the Right Honourable and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrews ...	Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.	1657 (1657)	Wing A3125; ESTC R2104	798,302	742

sanguinum The Lessons to be learned hence are First matter of Faith for the ancient Fathers upon these words The voice of thy brothers blood cryeth compared with the Apostles Hebrews the eleventh chapter and the fourth verse by the which Abel being dead yet speaketh doe ground the immortality of Abel nam qui loquitur vivit of which we are to be perswaded in regard of the truth of Gods promises made for God in his first Sermon said If thou doe well shalt thou not be rewarded As for Abel albeit he did well yet he was not rewarded in this life therefore it followes there is another life wherein Abel must have his reward for his good service to God For it is a righteous thing with God to recompence tribulation to them that trouble the godly and to the afflicted rest when the Lord shall shew himself from heaven in the second epistle to the Thessalonians the first chapter and the sixt verse And God is not unjust to forget our works and labour of love Hebrews the sixth chapter and the tenth verse And for a third proof if God be the God of Abraham as he affirmeth himself to be the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob then no doubt but Abel liveth no lesse than Abraham because as Christ affirmeth deus non est mortuorum deus sed viventium Luke the twentieth chapter Secondly hence we have commended to us morall doctrine against those which doubt not without all fear to dispatch and rid out of the way whatsoever is a stay or let to them because as they speak mortui non mordent but such are to learn from hence that albeit they whose blood they doubt not to spill doe not bite yet they crye out to God for revenge even when they are dead as Abel for if they crie not the stones in the street will crie as Christ speaks as albeit Abel be dead yet the voice of his blood cryeth to God for vengeance Concerning which six points are to be noted First It is true that the souls of them that are deceased are brought in crying for vengeance Revelations the sixt chapter How long Lord but it is not here affirmed of Abel that his soul in heaven cryeth for vengeance as he kept innocency so no doubt he kept a brotherly affect on to Cain though he deserved it not at his hands As Stephen did not 〈◊〉 for vengeance but prayed Lord lay not this sinne to their charge Acts the seventh chapter and our Saviour Luke the twenty third chapter Father forgive them they know not what they doe but it is his blood that cryeth and his blood not de corpore but de terra that is though the soul out of heaven complain not yet his blood out of the earth shall crie to God for vengeance Secondly His blood though it be separated from his body and concorporate with the dust of the earth shall crie and speak to God if the blood of beasts offered in Sacrifice doe speak to God so as they make him answer by fire in the 〈◊〉 of Kings the eighteenth chapter then much more shall the blood of man when it is shed have a voice to speak to God for revenge and so forcible is the vocie of that blood that there is no expiation but by blood and the land cannot be clean'ed but by the blood of him that hath shed blood Numbers the thirty fift chapter If the blood of them crie the blood of Innocents shall speak to God for vengeance and so when the Israelites offered their Sonnes and daughters and shed innocent blood the wrath of the Lord was kindled against them Psalm the one hundred and sixt and thirty seventh verse but the blood shed by Cain was the blood of an Innocent even of righteous Abel Matthew the twenty third chapter and therefore must needs receive an answer sooner from God than the blood of beasts Revelations the sixteenth chapter and the sixt verse and the ninteenth chapter and the second verse The third point is that the word blood is expressed in the plurall number sanguinum clamantium to note that in killing Abel he did not only shed his blood but the blood of all those that might have proceeded of Abel if he had lived and married whereby his fact is the more grievous in that it is committed in tantâ paucitate gener is humani Others say it is expressed plurally because every drop of Abels blood did crie for vengeance so there was blood crying with many voices for revenge Fourthly This voice is not every ordinary voice but vox clamantis which sheweth that murther is no light sinne but great and hainous for as the Heathen man saith leves loquuntur ingentes clamant peccatum cum voce is nothing but ordinary sinne but peccatum cum clamore is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Romans the seventh chapter it is one of those sinnes which crie and therefore shall have vengeance They are in Scripture four First wilfull murther as Cains in this place Secondly the sinne of Sodom against nature which cried to God for vengeance Genesis the eighteenth chapter which by the qualitie of the punishment appeareth how filthie it was for it was punished with stinking brimstone as the sin it self above all others doth most stinck before God Thirdly the oppression of the poor Exodus the second chapter and the twenty third verse which crieth to God Note for as God plagued the Egyptians for oppressing the poor Israelites so he will plague them that oppress the stranger and poor Exodus the twenty second and the twenty first verse The fourth is Deuteronomie the twenty fourth chapter and the fourteenth verse that of other poor the poor Labourer must not be oppressed nor his hire delayed from him when he hath taken pains for as the Apostle saith James the fift chapter ecce merces operantis clamat in auribus domini These are the sinnes that speak not but crie to God for vengeance Fiftly for the nature of the crie it is in Hebrew vox preconis or proclamantis of such a one as hath strong sides of which we have an example Genesis the fourty first and the fourty third verse where Pharoah causeth one to crie with a Trumpet before Joseph Abreck so forcible was the crie of the blood of Abel in the eares of God The sixt point is that which maketh it up sure for where there is no voice of any Cryer be he never so strong that can be heard up to the top of high hills or steeples the voice of this crie is heard higher than any hill or tower whatsoever it is heard de terra ad me saith God it pierceth the very heavens ecce quousque volat vox sanguinis That which we are to learn from hence is First matter of comfort to those of Abels side that suffer wrong Abel said never a word though his Brother slew him neither doth his soul from heaven it is his blood from the earth that