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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	affection_n	love_v	nature_n	2,758	5	5.1983	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17215	Of the end of the world and iudgement of our Lord Iesus Christe to come, and of the moste perillous dangers of this our moste corrupt age, and by what meanes the godly may auoid the harmes thereof, sermons preached in latin in the assembly of the clergie by Henry Bullinger, and now lately englished by Thomas Potter	Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575.; Potter, Thomas, fl. 1580.	1580 (1580)	STC 4070; ESTC S109532	41,593	112

intent to teach and commend the same but to the end wee might knowe them the better iudge therof not according to the flesh but according to the spirite of God and also that we might warely auoid them And more ouer apparently beholding those things to be fulfilled in the world which the holy Prophets of God and the Apostles of Christe haue foretolde should come to passe we might vnderstand that those times are now at hand corrupted and perillous and for that cause should pray the more ernestly and watch the more diligently The Apostle therfore about the beginning of the Chapter a litle before the words that I haue resited dooth reherse in a lōg beadroll diuers wicked acts and wicked men And saith that all ages all kindes and all degrees of men in this our last time shall be moste corrupt The discrption of the manners or men of the last age This knovve thou saith he that in the last daies shall come moste hard and perillous times For men shal be loouers of them selues standing greatly in their ovvne conceits and seeking for their owne gaine louers of their owne gaine louers of money scraping the same by hook and by crooke not refraining from very sacriledge nor from moste filthy Simony Men shal be very disdainful puffed vp proude and vain glorious also blasphemers moste cheefly against God secondly against holy men and against the trueth it felt and against holy things They shal be disobedient to their Fathers to their mothers to their magistrats to their maisters and to their teachers beeing not onely vnthankful to God and to men but also requiting good turnes vvith euil They shal be vvicked men such as haue no fear nor reuerence and such as impudētly run hedlōg vnto all kind of mischeuoꝰ acts They shal be Astorgoi vvithout any harty and feruent charitie vvithout any zelus remorse of loue godlines and humanitie not louing somuch as those that be neer vnto thē as Fathers mothers Children VViues and kinsfolkes But bitter cruel and vngentle endued vtterly vvith vvilde and vnciuil manners vvho also haue not the common sence and remorse of nature measuring all things by affection by couetousnes by ambition and greedy desire They shal be vnmindeful of their couenāts of their faith of their bargaines and of their promises beeing vnfaithful and moste vain and vtterly inconstant and moste light persons finally back biters and slanderers scoffers and mockers of holy good honest thīgs peruerting also things vvel spoken into a peruerst meaning and vvresting things after their levvd affections that are singly and plainly vttered They shal be vvanton and outragious namely in the apparel of their bodies in buildings in garments in meat and drink filthy gluttōs drounckerds whoremongers adulterers and Sodomits proud Pecoks nice and folish Phrigians They shal be moreouer Anemeroi vngentle vnciuil rude barbarous and euen vvilde men rowe wild vndfihisch lijt therfore Aphilagathoj such as greatly regard not or looue not good and honest men neither delight in their company For as they abhorre the best things and accustome themselues to the vvorst so they cannot abide a faithful Counceller Therfore they shall betray these men that looue trueth and godlines They shall doo no thing sincerely and vncorruptly but shall intangle all things vvith practises as they call them vvith crafty fetches and traitorly suttleties Moreouer they shal be heddy and vvilful dooing nothing by the rule of reason and iudgement but all things rashly stoutly and obstinately For they shal be of a minde altogither proud puffed vp and svvelling They shall looue their pleasures more then God him self and godly things For they shall conuert the very religion in to gaine to the intent they may haue to bestovve vppō their pleasure Certes thou maist sée very many that more hartily delight in Tauernes then in Temples doo more estéeme the furnished daintie yea drunken feasts then ecclesiasticall preachings sober and ful of the spirite of God For the matter is now come to this point that moste men haue in déede an outward shewe and resemblance of godlinesse and will be called moste holy moste spirituall moste catholike moste right belonging and very good Christians but yet in the mean season they lack the vertue and power of godlines and true Religion and are moste vaine Hipocrites and dissemblers men without all religion and humanitie abominable and execrable And hitherto hath the Apostle declared these things concerning the corrupt men that shal be in the last time and the naughty conditions of all kindes of all ages and of all degrées But haue not the Prophets and euen Iesus Christe him self the Lord of Prophets foreshewed these things also before hand For in the Gospel omitting the Prophets he speaking moste manifestly said Luke 18. But vvhen the Sonne of man shall come shall he finde faith vppon the Earth Math. 24. And again Iniquitie shall vtterly abound and the looue of many shall abate And yet again moste manyfestly As were the daies of Noe saith hée so shall be also the comming of the sonne of man For as they were in the daies before the flud eating and drinking marying and maried euen vnto the day when Noe entred into the Arke and knewe of nothing vntill the Flud came and tooke them all awaiy so shal be the comming of the Sonne of man Luke 17. In like manner also as it happened in the daies of Loth they did eat drink bie sel plant and build But what day as Loth went foorth from the Sodomits it rained fire and brimstone from Heauen and destroyed them all so shal be also the day in vvhich the Sonne of man sbalbe reueled Wherfore there is no cause to shew forth in many woords what kinde of men they were in the daies of Noe and Loth seeing our Lord him self hath most plentifully declared the same vnto vs namely that they were men altogither carnall vtterly despising diuine and holy things séeking nothing but carnall matters so that they might séem to degenerate or be turned in to certain brute and wilde beastes But who can deny that such are at this day the greatest parte of the common people and the nobilitie and rulers and almoste all wise men Beholde what Kings and Princes doo and also the spiritual fathers like wise the learned and excellent men in the world Harken what the common people talketh of Religion of rightuousnesse of honestie and of the hope of the world to come You shal be forced to cry out with the Prophet and say There is none righteous no not one Rom. 3. There is none that hath vnderstanding There is none that seeketh after God All are turned aside and are become vnprofitable There is none that dooth good no not one Their throte is an open Sepulchre they haue vsed their tungs vnto disceit and the poyson of Asps is vnder their lips whose mouth is ful of curssing and bitternes their feet are swift to