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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	commandment_n	love_v	neighbour_n	9,503	5	9.2051	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15108	A sermo[n] preached at Pawles Crosse on Sunday the thirde of Nouember 1577. in the time of the plague, by T.W.	White, Thomas, ca. 1550-1624.	1578 (1578)	STC 25406; ESTC S111738	33,572	100

therefore the cause of plagues are playes Quicquid est causa causae est causa causati Shall I reckon vp the monstrous birds that brede in this nest without doubt I am ashamed I should surely offende your chast cares but the olde world is matched and Sodome ouercome for more horrible enormities and swelling sins are set out by those stages then euery mā thinks for or some would beléeue if I shold paint thē out in their colours without doubt you can scātly name me a sinne that by that sincke is not set a gogge theft and whoredome pride and prodigality villanie and blasphemie these thrée couples of helhoundes neuer ceasse barking there and bite manye so as they are vncurable euer after so that many a man hath the leuder wife and many a wife the shreuder husband by it and it can not otherwise be but that whiche robbeth flatlye the Lord of all his honor and is directly against the whole first table of his law shoulde make no bones of breache of the second also which is toward our neighbour only Wherefore if thou be a father thou losest thy child if thou be a maister thou losest thy seruaunt and thou be what thou canst be thou losest thy selfe that hauntest those scholes of vice dennes of Théeues Theatres of all leudnesse and if it be not suppressed in time it will make such a Tragedie that all London may well mourne whyle it is London for it is no playing time and euery man bethinke him wel but time to pray rather but faith is fainted and when the sonne of man coms shall he finde faith vppon the earthe Blessed is the seruant whom when his maister commeth shall finde doing not playing but working and doing not euill but good for that is our dutie that are Gods seruauntes but Sathans slaues do runne another race And cruell Citie This is the other parte of his accusation wherein whether hée allude to that generall breach of this commaundement Thou shalt loue thy neyghbour as thy selfe for as Charitie in this respecte performeth the law so Crueltie breaketh the same and therefore is it sayde on thys word Loue dependeth the whole law and the Prophets bycause all their labours haue no other ende than to raise vp our affections al our desires and delightes to be in loue with God and to moue oure compassion and tender bowels in charitie towarde our neyghbour or whether by this worde cruell he meanes a speciall vice whiche is couetousnesse euer vnmercifull and it is néerer the sense for that I reade in some translation Vae direptrici ciuitati Wo to hir that is a robbing Citie It was boldly done of Zophony to call them all théeues surely deceypte deserues no better name and therefore as Dauid counsayles you in the sixtie and two Psalme O trust not to wrongs and robberies gyue not your selues to vanities if ryches encrease sette not your heart vpon them Héere is the difference that Théeues steale wythoute the compasse of mans lawe and dye for it and you doe it wythin youre compasse and escape they in the hygh wayes you in youre Shoppes they playnely ynough but yet wyth force you vse no force indéede but suttletie is youre shifte Well though the lawe bée on youre syde and layeth no Item to youre charge yet I am assured the Gospell is cléere agaynste you and therefore remember the lawe of GOD and hys barre where though the countrey quitte you héere yet thy conscience shall condemne thée there and GOD is greater than thy conscience Couetousnesse is the roote of all euill that is no euill but hathe issued out thereof Auri sacra fames quid non mortalia Pectora cogis sayeth the Poete What dothe not the loue of money make a manne to doe Idolatrie Adulterye Murther Thefte Lying Swearyng yea Treason bothe agaynste Chryste and Chrystyan Kyngdomes are the naturall fruites of thys monstrous trée and the bitterest Berrie that thys roote beares I hadde almoste forgotten Usurye a yonger Spryg and later graffe indéede than anye of those I shewed you before but yet for mischiefe it doth surpasse them all excepting euer Idolatrie I thinke in my conscience the Deuill is the only life thereof and as a man hauing manye children yet sometimes the last doth most resemble his father so can not I sée the Diuels countenance complexion and condition more liuely naturall in any one thā in this bramble of Hell. How oft wyll you heare of this geare withoute amendmente there is small or no hope left for aftercommers to do any good at all therein and yet we must speake stil against it for all that The Prophetes hadde not all successe nor the Apostles preuayled euerye where and Chryste hymselfe ceassed not to giue it oute though he knewe the peruersenesse of the proude Pharises would not learne Wisedome nor receyue Counsayle of the Lorde As a nette full of birdes so are youre hooses full of thinges gotten by deceypte sayeth Ieremie will you neuer enter thys in youre accompte when I haue gotten the whole worlde and lost my owne soule what haue I gotten or what shall I gyue to buy it agayne no no there is nothyng left you muste lette that alone for euer .49 Psalme It cost more to redéeme a soule not gold nor syluer but the precious bloude of Iesus Chryste as of a Lambe vndefyled c. It were a golden sentence therefore and worthye to be prefixed ouer all youre reckonings and dealings whiche the wise Kyng hathe Kéepe thy hearte wyth all diligence for thereout springeth life Shal I not saye that you are couetous and cruell can you for conscience denie it if slyght wares and lyghte waightes if lying wordes and false othes wyll proue both then maye I safely conclude both What trade can you name me that Sathan is not as frée of as the best I list not to blowe vppe youre skirtes or to shewe youre sh●me abroade but youre selues doe not hyde it and it is displayed in a manner to all the worlde youre entertaynemente of Sathan is so good you preferre hym and plucke hym in wyth both handes and many trulyer serue him than the Lord himselfe and therefore as Saincte Paule sayeth Romaynes .6 you are hys seruauntes whome you obey If you be out of obedience of God you are straightway out of seruice and by consequent out of wages and wherefore else is the Diuell called the Prince of thys worlde but for hys multitude of Subiectes the waye to Hell is wyde and broade and manye doe trample and runne in it I can compare couetous menne to the Gyauntes in Noahs tyme whyche were not onely cruell but fylthye wyth the daughters of men whyche broughte in robberye and spoyle firste into the worlde suche monsters were theyr fathers and suche Camels are theyr Chyldren and therefore it goeth harde wyth them and there is a sore tryall remayning for them For it shall bée easyer for a Cammell to goe