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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	drink_v	eat_v	let_v	15,915	5	5.9494	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40977	The Fatall feasts, or, Gods finger upon the wall appearing at the great thanksgiving festivall (upon Cains slaughter of his brother Abel) solemnized by the generall, army, Parliament, councell of state and city of London, at Grocers-hall, June the 7, 1649.		1649 (1649)	Wing F543; ESTC R39528	5,783	9

vaine man renounces the cleer judgment of God in his own conscience goeth on in wayes of blood cruelty and injustice and if God immediately take not vengeance he addes iniquity to iniquity and boasts that God by successe haah given cleer testimony of the righteousnesse of his cause of the equity of his proceedings and in effect that Cain is more righteous then Abel because Cain was too strong and too politique and slew him But this is so deceitfull a way of judging as it is wonderfull a time admitting the least dram of Christian knowledg should admit The experience of all times ages places persons evidencing the weaknesse or wickednesse thereof I saw saith David the wicked flourish but I looked and behold his place was no more to be seen fatall are the rejoycings of the hypocrites and of the man that pursueth the righteous unto blood What greater wickednesse can there be in the earth then for a man to hate his Brother because God loves him to hate him to the death because he offers unto God a more acceptable sacrifice because his heart is more cleer and more large in thankefulnesse unto God for his extraordinary favours Yet this is the case betwixt men that have long time lived together as brethren in these times men that have been bosome friends children of one cause made dear unto each other by mutuall obligations of love of friendship and of defence carrying their lives and their strength in their hands more for others safeties then for themselves yet now in processe of time that they have been at Peace and have gotten sheep to keep and land to till shame in some and conscience in others importunes for sacrifices of thanksgiving unto the Lord of Hosts that hath preserved them and given them strength to goe through with so many victories The effects of shame produce leane sacrifices those that when they were in the storme and doubtfull how to get forth that promised mountains of freedom and redresse of grievances to the people in thankfulnesse to God are no sooner out of the Storme but Mole-hils a●● great m●tters with these our first-born Officers And becau●e our well meaning Abels are mindfull what they promised what the poor people that stuck to them deserve and in conscience and thankfulness● to God off●r now the fi●stlings of their fl●cks the best they can imagine and of the fat the pu●est of the●r love and thinke the utmost of their freedome and the rem●vall of all gri●vances and that for ever by an Agreement of the People littl●●nough in lieu of so great merci●s so large and fair opportuniti●e of doing good B●cause God manif●sts his accep●●nce unto the sacrifice of those innocent Abels ●y th● T●stimony of all u … el●sh men increasing their num●ers continually and manif●sts his di●resp●ct to those Cains and their Musty-●ffering by the Generall complaints of all goo●-hearted people Our Cains grew v●ry wroth and their countenance fell and the Lord said un●o them by his faithfull Servant Master Sal●marsh Why are yee wroth and why are your coun●enanc●s fall●● if you doe well and performe your promises and e●g●gem●nts to the people your conscien●es cannot witnesse agai●st you shall you not be a●●epta●l● both of God and man but if you doe evil if you break all promises and engagem●nts with all sorts of people as yee have done and now thinke to fl●tter God and man with crying Corban with s●tting dayes apart to fast in and to hang down the head for a da● like a B●lrush Nay to give no more to the Nation ●or all the bloud and misery it hath suff●red but a Bulrush but the shad●w of Freedom and ease of Burthens nor to render no more honour to God for all his mercies but to set up your selves in t●e places 〈◊〉 those you have removed with the price of oth●●s bloud If you doe this evill know then saith he sinne lyeth at the door and the Judg●ment of God shall pursue you as it did Cain yee shall in time be cast out as un●●vory salt that hath lost its saltn●sse the love of God and the aff●ction of the peopl● shall forsake you and the feare of Cain shall be upon you you shall be afraid of your selves and thos● that a●● neerest to you and though ye may prevaile against some of the Abels and sl●y them yet in time yee shall be as vagabonds and runagates upon the earth and your consciences shall tell you continually that it sha●l come to passe that every one that is neer you shall slay you every one that findeth your delusion shall destroy you But though God by him in effect told them long since thus much yea and though already they have found much of it come to passe yet all this and more hath but hardened the hearts of all our Cains nor would they give eare to the voice either of God his servants or their own consciences but with Ahab they have sold themselves to worke wickednesse They have TALKED with those Abels they have flattered them they have taken them out-into the field upon renewed promises and renewed repentances they have made them a Game a●d v●ntured their lives in their defence but all this in treachery and now at length in processe of time it s come to passe that those Cains arose against those Ab●ls in time of Treaty and to●k them and murthered them And having done hand joynes in hand and as before a Jesabels F●ast was proclaimed and men of B●lial hired to sweare those Abels and Nabot●s sough● to destroy all R●ligion and to levell all mens estates so having killed and taken possession their conscienc●s are yet more dead then Cains they having notice that those Abels and Naboths were sto●ed and dead these Jesabels worse then Cains said to Ahab their confederates Come let us rise and take poss●ssion let us eat drinke and be merry let us Proclaime a day of Thanksgiving Almighty God who hath owned our cause and given testimony against these Atheists these Levellers as he hath done against other enemies by giving us Successe the undoubted testimony of his approbation he hath blessed our perfidiousnesse our cruelty and our murthering of our Brothers as he blessed Cain against Abel his Brother and Jesabel and Ahab against Naboth Therefore let us eat our meat with gladnesse and drinke our wine with merry hearts for God now accepteth our facrifice But being at Grocers-hall in the midst of their Jollity Pride and Feasting the spirit of Eliah comes into the Consciences of these Caines with this dismall Message from the Lord. Hast thou killed and taken possession are ye so proud and pompered with success in the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth of Lockier and the rest shall dogs lick thy blood even thine O Faixfax and thine O Crumwel and thine and thine O Parliament O Councel of State O Major O Aldermen that thus countenance those bloody inhumane and treacherous Monsters and thine O Officer and thine O Souldier that willingly hadst an hand in slaying thy most innocent and righteous Brethren Abells and Naboths under the name of Levellers and I will bring evill upon thee and will take away thy prosperity and will cut off from thee him that pisseth against the wall and thy Feasts shall prove unto the chiefest guests as the Earl of Sommersets Feast when he espoused a Strumpet as ye have done corrupt interests as Buckinghams Feast before his fall against whom no complaint could be heard as the Kings Feasts at Mayor Freemans when he had corrupted him as ye have done this covetous Mayor to betray the Nations Liberties calling it the triumph of Peace he never prospered after it The Mayors tongue was cankered and cut out that had made a false report for white sope Essex was so Feasted and Hollis and his Facton was so Feasted rejoycing in iniquity but they are all perished and become as the dung of the Earth Look look saith conscience and tremble see you not Belshazzar like an hand writing upon the wall R●ad what wr●tes it what sh●ke ye ye stoutest men of war fear ye ye men of greatness ●tart ye ye covetous wretches what writes it that ye are so much amazed the thing is truth your own consciences will tell you so when you woul● sl●ep your Kingdom is rent from you your reign is at an end your wine i● mingled with innocent blood and your venison is the fl●sh of free-born English-men and it shall breed a Pestilence among y● that shall d●vour you God will awaken the Consciences of the upright in the Army and all places and they shall abhor and detest you yea a devouring seed shall be raised up that shall tear you in peeces and there shall be none to deliver you for the very hope of such Hypocrites shall rott after this so Impudent Abominable Atheisticall or blasphemous Defiance of God never never look to prosper your strength is departed from you the people hate you God and your own consciences must be your Enemies and ye may truly say with Cain my punishment is greater then I can bear I and I and I shall be a Fugitive and vagabond upon the Earth and it shall come to pass that every one that findeth me shall slay me So may all thine Enemies perish O Lord God FINIS