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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	child_n	love_v	parent_n	9,558	5	9.1054	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20507	The drousie disease; or, An alarme to awake church-sleepers Wherein not onely the dangers hereof are described, but remedies also prescribed for this sleeping evill.; Drousie disease.		1638 (1638)	STC 6913.5; ESTC S122417	51,584	164

the heavens earth and Isa 1 2. mountaines so might wee well doe considering the generall drowsinesse which hath taken hold on most men and women As the Prophet of old Who Isa 53. 1. hath beleeved so may wee now who hath heard our report How many like the dormouse sleepe all Winter that it may live the better in Summer So doe they sleepe at Church that they may wake about their worldly businesses Alexander the Great knew Eras Apophth himselfe to bee a man by sleepe so maist thou know thy selfe to bee a sinfull man by sleeping at Church What a shame is it that when for the time yee ought Heb. 5. 12. to bee Teachers yee have need that one teach you againe which bee the first Principles of the Oracles of God and are become such as have need of milke and not of strong meat What is the reason how commeth this to passe after so Prompt sap ●eformat pag. 456. many Sermons Even because yee are dull of hearing either heare not at all or to no purpose 7. Which when the Sermon is done will not sticke to cut the points delivered into question and dispute about the same themselves notwithstanding for the most part having beene asleepe thereat or when they are come from Church will commend the Preacher and his Sermon telling how zealous how learned how eloquent it was c. when as haply they heare but a little thereof Thou commendest it It is well so may a sick person commend a physitian whose Physick hee never tried but what profit hast thou gained thereby what fruit hath it produced on thee If none thou wert no otherwise an hearer but in imagination Sect. 2. Exhortation to Preachers Vse of exhortation unto Preachers People Preachers Be wee carefull as well to prevent this evill as to remove it when it seazeth on our Auditors As wee are not to have Iam. 2. 1. the faith of our Lord Iesus Christ the Lord of glory with respect of persons So let not our Sermons bee with respect of persons but so study and so preach at all times that thereby wee may enforce hearing eares and the eyes of all may be set on us Lift wee up our voyces like trumpets especially when we shall observe our people drowsie So shall wee nill they will they rowse them up Endevour wee also that our Auditors may truly love us as children their parents for where the man is despised how is it possible that his doctrine should bee regarded which they will doe through our love of them and their soules salvation Whatsoever may bring our ministry into contempt be wee carefull to avoid being assured that such as shall loath our doctrine though haply they come to Church that thereby they may avoid the danger of the law will rather set themselves to sleepe then give eare thereunto Such indeed will take exceptions at our doctrine as being either too harsh or too mild too vehement or too cold at our utterance as being either too slow or too quicke at our voice as either being too high or too low and at our conversation as being either too loose or too austere but wee must not be discouraged But why should I offer to instruct you both knowing what you should doe and doing what you know People People When thou commest unto Gods house give not sleepe unto Prov. 6. 4. thine eyes nor slumber unto thine eye-lids Here must thou keepe the watch of the 2 Chro. 23. 6 Lord yea lest sleepe should assault thee to thy prejudice thou must set a watch against the same as the Israelites did against Sanballat and Tobijah Neh. 4. 9. Psal 123. 2 Behold as the eyes of servants looke unto the hand of their masters and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistresse So here especially should our eares and eyes wait upon the Lord our God If thou sleepest at Church thou shalt assuredly find that Gods judgements sleepe not yea if Rev. 3. 3. thou shalt not watch hee will come on thee as a thiefe wee are all children of the light and children of the day wee are not of the night nor of darknesse 1 Thes 5. 5. Eph. 5. 14. therefore let us not sleepe as doe others but let us watch Sleepest thou Oh! awake thou that sleepest The eyes of all wait on the Lord oh let Psal 145. 15. thine also wait on him love not Pro. 20. 13. sleepe lest thou come to poverty sleepe not at Church lest thou be poore in grace As Abraham Gen. 15. 11. drave away the fowles from his sacrifice so must thou drowsinesse or what else may bring thee to sleepe at Church A wake here as thou wouldst ●ro 6. 22. have the Word to keepe thee when thou sleepest else-where Didst thou consider how Satan hath intangled thee from which thou canst not be loosed but by the Word thou wouldest not give sleepe to thine eyes nor slumber to thine eye-lids ●rov 6. 4 5. till by heating the Word thou went delivered as a Roe ●erse 6. from the hunter and as a bird from the hand of the fowler Goe to the Ant thou sluggard consider her wayes and bee wise The sleepe of a labouring man Eccles 5. 12. is sweet whether hee eate little or much but such will not bee thine at Church Lydia heard Act. 16. 14. attentively and profited wonderfully for hearing is the sense of learning so if thou wouldst learne thou must needs heare Here especially let not thine eye bee satisfied with seeing Eccles 1. 8. nor thine eare with hearing Yea attention being the forerunner which prepareth the way to the Preacher as the plough-share cutteth up the ground that it may receive the seed doe thou carefully attend unto the Word preached neither let Satan who labours either to stay thee from comming to Church or comming from hearing or hearing from marking or marking from liking or liking from practising prevaile against thee either way Resist him and hee will flie from Iam. 4. 7. Ionah 1. 5. thee Jonah was fast asleepe when the boat was ready to perish assuredly now there is no time for us to sleepe considering Gods judgements hanging over our heads The Prophet said of Baal unto ● King 18. 17 Baals Priests by way of ironie peradventure hee sleepeth I would that touching us there were a peradventure and not rather that wee doe indeed Turkish hist ●ag 654. He was murhered slee●ing because Solyman ● whilst he ●as in fa●our had worne to ●im that hee ●ould never ●ill him ●hilst hee li●ed whom ●●w being a●●epe he did ●pute as ●ad and so ● used him to ●e murthe●●d sleepe at Church and as Baal doe not heare at all Abraham the Turkish Basha would not have so carelesly laid himselfe downe to slumber if hee had knowne that then the angry Sultan would inflict on him the fury of his wrath to his destruction and thou wouldst not at Church if thou didst conceive that the Lord would then cut thee off by his destroying angell What meanes doth not the Lord use to awake us mercies judgements promises and what not Oh that some of them or all of them would awake us throughly Thou hast heretofore slept at Church but haply as Sampson forgot belike that the Philistins Iudg. 16. 19. had once and againe bound him whilst hee was asleepe and so still ventured on Dalilah to his destruction thou hast not taken notice of the hurt which hath come through the same Hadst thou remembred it thou wouldst bee more vigilant whereunto also if thou wouldst consider thine heavy constitution and drowsie disposition thou couldst not but be stirred up The Disciples said of Lazarus If hee Ioh. 11. 12. sleepe hee shall doe well But contrarily if thou sleepest at Church thou shalt doe ill Christ would awake thee Christ calleth upon thee doe thou therefore awake and heare lest as unto his Disciples hee say unto thee in justice Sleepe on now There is that Eccles 8. 16. neither day nor night seeth sleepe with his eyes saith the Preacher So let it so may it bee said of thee whilst thou art at Church The Spirit truly Mar. 14. 38. is ready but the flesh is weake watch yee therefore and pray lest yee enter into temptation And what I say unto you I say unto all in one word Mar. 13. 37. of our Saviour Watch. 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