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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	die_v	let_v	live_v	10,424	5	5.9728	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84677	An alarm to trumpets or, Mounte chival to every dejected, remisse, and secure trumpet, either in England, Scotland, or Ireland. By E. F.	E. F. (Edward Ford), fl. 1630?-1660.	1651 (1651)	Wing F1458A; Thomason E1361_3; ESTC R209188	12,639	31

or Horse Lament i' th field and low for want of grasse The reason is because thy Leprous lust Has burn'd the grasse and hay so neare to dust That they can get no food for to suffice Their bodies without which thy body dyes In brief since we perceive the efficient cause Of all our sorrowes is the breach of Lawes 'T is meet we doe repent while we have breath Before the Nation bleed it selfe to death And that we seriously reforme our wayes Before the Sword and Famine end our dayes Look North-ward and behold a cloud of bloud And then look South-ward and behold no good Take a Prospective-glasse and view the West Alas the East and that is like the rest Now seeing that no safety can be found On Irish Scottish no nor English ground Let 's goe to Christ for it is he will teach us Away to live where Armies cannot reach us And therefore in all dangers let 's imbrace And make the King of Kings our hiding place So shall we be secure when stormes arise Living in blisse when our poore bodies dyes Let me crave your patience to peruse a few lines more and I have done Deare friends According to my meane ability you have had a little taste of the Lords extraordinary love and lenity to us and our empty returnes of obedience to him againe Now as we have had a feast of his favour could he but have a little relish of our love to him it would doe well it is not unknowne to you that there is but three paces more especially that doth direct a man either to paine or Paradise He that by his little and small sins as he accounts slowly creeps to Hell doth very bad but he that by his more known and scandalous offences goes a round pace thither doth a great deale worse but he that by his more profuse and riotous living runs thither doth worst of all So on the contrary he that by his small and feeble faith endeavours for to creep to Christ doth well but he that by a stronger faith goes lustily doth better but he that by the mighty power of God with cheerfulnesse and alacrity doth sweetly run his wayes doth best of all O that we could so run as through the strength of Christ we might obtaine Deare Sirs let us consider and a little recollect our memory what we came into this world for was it doe you think to sport like the Leviathan in the Sea and for to wast our dayes in wanton dalliance surely no alas you know our errand hither was to get God glory and to save our poore soules but how neglective we have been in he one and constantly remisse in the other ●s you know knowne unto the Searcher and Trier of the reines farre better then to us for we doe finde by sad experience Judgements has not deterr'd us Menaces has not warn'd us nor many mercies won us and though the Sword be drawne yet we cannot be drawn from the vaine vanities of this present life and fading pleasures of this wicked world There is a notable passage in the second of Kings the fift chap. and about the 26 27 ver where covetous Gehazi abusing the name of his kinde Master to Naaman the Syrian by which meanes he receives of him two tallents of Silver in two baggs and the two changes of Garments without the consent of the good old man but the businesse being understood and clear'd up to him he sharply doth reprove him for his fault saying unto him Is this a time to receive mony garments olive-yards vine-yards sheep oxen men servants and maid servants and in few words told him that the Leprosie of Naaman should cleave to him and his posterity and strait way he went out of his presence a Leper as white as Snow Why even so might all the good Elisha's the Ministers of the truth justly reprove say to us when in our frantick mood we are no whit ashamed to knock and call for Wine when wee have Wine enough and with our Trumpet openly proclaime our follies to the world may they not then alleadge is this a time for to drink wine in Bowls and sound shril healths til we are sick againe is this a time for to spend all our time to purchase change of Garments for the body and to neglect the covering of the soule is this a time to ravell out our dayes in filthy idle jests and spend our precious minuts in obscene and scurrilous discourse is this a time to visit Theators sit in a Tavern sing rejoyce and laugh when as the pious party and holy people of the Land sit by the Waters of Babylon weeping and have hung their Harps upon the Willows and wil not be comforted because God is displeased One pregnant passage more betweene David and Vriah and I shall conclude it is in the second of Samuel the 11. Chap. the 8 9 10 and 11. verses After the Prophet David had demanded of Vriah how Joab did how the people did and how the wasting Warre did prosper he being willing to win him to his bed he doth use some modest motives to invite him thither but when his purpose would not take effect he uses another argument to perswade him that he had rid a very tedious and toylsome Journey and therefore thought it meet and necessary hee should repose and rest himselfe a while but pray observe his warlike answer to him And Vriah said unto David The arke and Israel and Judah abide in tents and my Lord Joab and the servants of my Lord are encamped in the open fields shall I then goe unto my house to eat and drinke and to lie with my wife as thou livest and as thy soule liveth I will not doe this thing The Application that we may easily collect from hence is this That if this gallant and heroick Christian did so readily refuse these pleasures and refreshments that were very good and lawfull of themselves as to goe downe to his house to eat and drinke and to embrace his Wife because the Arke Joab and many of Gods people were incamped in the open fields and might for ought he knew bee ingaged with the enemies of the truth before he might returne back to the Campe againe how should this move us then now that the Arke I mean the Cause of God is in dispute and many of Gods people hath bin encamp●d in open field many a Winters night and tedious stormie day how should this I say solemnly invite us to forsake our former foolish disports and utterly to abandon and relinquish every unlawfull lust pleasure whatsoever and if our hearts be so obdurate that we cannot bring them to suffer for the Lord in open field let us never suffer them to sin against him in a private roome and if wee cannot be wooed to joyne with the people of God for the testimony of the truth and a good Conscience let us never joyn with the people of the world