Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	bread_n	eat_v	manna_n	4,436	5	12.4770	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01562	Practique theories: or, Votiue speculations vpon Abrahams entertainment of the three angels Sarah, and Hagars contention. Isaacs Marriage with Rebekah. Iohn Baptists natiuity or birth decollation or beheading. S. Peters calling. confession. denyall. repentance. vpon Sauls cruely. Pauls conuersion. By Iohn Gaule.	Gaule, John, 1604?-1687.	1630 (1630)	STC 11690; ESTC S118745	112,147	433

Kings Courts He that dwels but in the Desart is clad onely in Camels hayre Not Silke not Linnen not Wooll but Hayre not the wolly fleece but bristly shreds and shearings of a Beast Could they haue wouen a courser excrement of Beasts or Earth he would no doubt haue worne it This bodily habit shewed the vertue of his minde that he that seemed outwardly so sordid was notwithstanding all glorious within It seemeth strange so tender a Body and harmelesse could indure such hardnesse as not onely not to cherish but to afflict the Body Why blessed Baptist though thou wouldest not be so vaine as to adorne thy carcasse yet this was enough to couer thy nakednesse is this then that thou wouldest humble or subdue thy flesh Or wouldest thou bring men to their first and frugall fashion Or tell them of a more excellent Adam then euer was he that at first neither had nor wanted rayment Or would a Prophet clad in the excrements of an vncleane Beast betoken that a Sauiour was to be clad in the similitude of sinfull flesh or strict girt wouldest thou condemne our loose liuing Or waiting to be cloathed from aboue didst thou contemne the Wearings of a world Or being borne vnder the Law wouldest thou teach them men to liue according to the Law or towards the liberty of the Gospell wouldest thou betake thee to a more seuerity then of the Law Or wouldest thou let men see their dissolutenesse in thy strictnesse Or wouldest thou moue men by thy liuing more then preaching Or was such habit pertaining to thy profession By many reasons wee may consider and coniecture the cloathings of a man and many times examine and censure the man by his cloathing The man is aptly clad that is clad accordingly whose Habit chiefely is agreeable to himselfe How is it that one weares aboue his ability another not according to his Calling One shewes his vanity in his apparell another therein shelters his iniquity There goes an Asse in a Lyons skinne and here comes a Wolfe in Sheepes cloathing One is regular in his habit almost to a Superstition another is euen to a scandall vnconformable to his Profession Many a mans Habit beares more shew of holinesse then his life brings forth fruit His conuersation is no better then before the change is onely of his Name and Coate Iohn Baptist clad himselfe agreeable to his office how vnprofitable are we to our Professions Iohn Baptist went meanely clad that was both Great and Holy why goe wee so gay that are so Base and Bad Iohn Baptists garments were girt vnto him but Lord what loosenesse of our Apparell The Saint was not vngirt vnblest how fluttering goe we wretches and vnfortunate Hee girt him accordingly to fit him for his Trauell and Employments Besides our sloath wee fashion vs so fluidly as shaming to apply our Garments to our Shap●s Farre ●e it from me so to adulterate Natures art by mine owne inuentions as to make my selfe a Picture whom God hath made his Creature Howeuer I am made is Gods worke thus and thus to fashion my selfe is the deuils art Neither sordid let my garment be nor sumptuous neither scanted nor superfluous Not such soft rayments lest they prooue nests of lusts not too hard lest they weare mee and not I them I would have them clad onely not puffe vp not perplexe my Body Sauiour Christ aboue all cloath me with thy Righteousnesse that is a Garment an Ornament necessary and comely both to cloth and decke me Hauing put on Christ Iesus and tyed him close to me with the Girdle of veritie I am better clad then was the Baptist in his coate of Camels hayre and a leatherne Girdle Both in his Dwelling and Cloathing the Baptist had a Companion but in his Dye● was himselfe alone Elias was also in the Wildernesse and had on a Coate of hayre girt to him with a leatherne Girdle Mat. 3.4 Iohn onely liued on Locusts and wilde honey Locusts and wilde honey was his appointed food Wine and strong liquour were drinks forbidden him Because his meate and drinke was so meane Christ reckons them as none Iohn came neither eating nor drinking Mat 11.18 It skilleth not to dispute the kinde of his meate and drinke but note the end no matter to inquire whether the Locusts were Roots or Flyes the Wilde honey was a Pith or a Dew The last of each is likeliest But this is to be obserued He contented himselfe with such Food as the place afforded with such as was soone prepared Hee tooke what was neere and ready he stood not so to fetch and dresse his Food Each Country of old was sufficed with it selfe All now are sought to satisfie the appetite of one Euery Country was formerly noted for their proper Foo● and Apparell In a confusion are we now fed and clad There is a curiosity to dresse more Dishes then euer God appointed for Food God at first appoynted nothing for Food which is not so in it selfe wee haue inuented our varieties which indeed are no Food but in the Cooking Men haue an art of their owne to teach and supply nature as both ignorant and improuident for it selfe Nature is sufficed with few things no ma●uell they craue so many that eate all by Art In his Appetite is man onely vnmeasurable Few eate to refresh many to vomit and lust Bread and Water was the first Fare Food and Rayment is a Christians sufficiency Locusts and wilde honey were delicate to content and nourishing enough to strengthen Christs Fore-runner We complaine of course meates Oh! they are hard heauy cold windy Thus feede we after the Physitians rules rather then Gods precepts and eate rather according to our Complexions then our Professions My Sauiour sayes Mat. 6.25 The life is more then meate and the body then rayment This I know Life Body Food Rayment my Soule is more then all A man hath nothing more to value then his soule He teaches me how to prize it that so inualuably compares it What shall a man giue in exchange for his Soule Mat 16.26 My Food shall serue my Body so as my Body may serue my Soule Neither would I haue my Body to be my Soules Master nor slaue Nor my soule to be my bodies Pander nor executioner .. So farre forth would I suffer it as to preserue me in Health and so farre forth subdue it as not to prouoke mee to lust Christianity requires vs to a Sobernesse not to a wretchednesse of Life The honest Christians are not the seuere and scrupulous but the modest and ingenuous But set aside this bodily food which perisheth together with the body Oh satisfie my soule with thee thou Food of my soule which indurest and strengthenest to eternall Life I mortall wretch and sinfull liue not by Bread onely but by thee the Bread of Life Our Fathers ha●e eaten Manna and are dead Oh! let me eate thee and I shall liue for euer Practique Theories