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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	love_v	sin_n	son_n	9,084	5	5.9424	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14757	VVoe to drunkards A sermon by Samuel Ward preacher of Ipswich.	Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640.	1622 (1622)	STC 25055; ESTC S111607	15,586	56

hee speakes here more briefly It stings like the Serpent and bites like the Cockatrice To the which I may not vnfitly adde that of Pauls and think I ought to write of such with more passion and compassion then he did of the Christians in his time which sure were not such monsters as ours in the shapes of christians Whose God is their belly whom they serue with drinke offerings whose glory is their shame and whose end is damnation What then take wee pleasure in thundring out Hell against Drunkards is there nothing but death and damnation to Drunkards Nothing else to them so continuing so dying But what is there no helpe nor hope no Amulet Antidote or Triacle are there no presidents found of recouery Ambrose I remember tels of one that hauing been aspectacle of Drunkennesse prooued after his conuersion a patterne of sobriety And I my selfe must confesse that one haue I knowne yet liuing who hauing drunke out his bodily eyes had his spirituall eyes opened prooued diligent in hearing and practising Though the pit bee deepe mierie and narrow like that Dungeon into which Ieremy was put yet if it please God to let down the Cords of his diuine mercy and cause the party to lay hold thereon its possible they may escape the snares of death There is euē for the most debauched Drunkard that euer was a soueraigne medicine a rich treacle of force enough to cure and recouer his disease to obtaine his pardon and to furnish him with strength to ouercome this deadly poyson fatall to the most And though wee may well say of it as men out of experience doe of quartane agues that it is the disgrace of all mortall Physick of all reproofes counsels and admonitions Yet is there a salue for this sore there came one from heauen that trode the Winepresse of his Fathers fiercenesse drunke of a cup tempered with all the bitternesse of Gods wrath and the diuels malice that hee might heale euen such as haue drunke deepest of the sweete cup of sinne And let all such know that in all the former discouerie of this poyson I haue onely aimed to cause them feele their sting and that they might with earnest eyes behold the Brasen Serpent and seriously repaire to him for mercie and grace who is perfectly able to eiect euen this kind which so rarely and hardly is thrown out where once he gets possession This seed of the Woman is able to bruise this Serpents head Oh that they would listen to the gratious offers of Christ If once there be wrought in thy soule a spirituall thirst after mercy as the thirstie land hath after raine a longing appetite after the water that comes out of the Rocke after the bloud that was shed for thee then let him that is a thirst come let him drinke of the water of life without any money of which if thou hast tooke but one true and thorow draught thou wilt neuer long after thy old puddle waters of sinne any more Easie will it be for thee after thou hast tasted of the Bread and VVine in thy Fathers house euer to loath the husks and swill thou wert wont to follow after with greedinesse The Lord Christ will bring thee into his mothers house cause thee to drinke of his spiced wine of the new wine of the Pomegramate Yea he will bring thee into his cellar spread his Banner of loue ouer thee stay thee with flagons fill thee with his loue till thou beest ficke and ouercome with the sweetnesse of his consolations In other drink there is excesse but here can be no danger The diuell hath his inuitation Come let vs drinke and Christ hath his inebriamini Be ye filled with the spirit Here is a fountaine set open and proclamation made And if it were possible for the brutishest Drunkard in the world to know who it is that offereth and what kind of water hee offereth hee would aske and God would giue it frankely without money he should drinke liberally be satisfied and out of his belly should sally springs of the water of life quenching and extinguishing all his inordinate longings after stolne waters of sin and death All this while little hope haue I to worke vpon many Drunkards especially by a Sermon read on lesse life and force in Gods ordinance and in it owne nature then preached my first drift is to stirre-vp the spirits of Parents and Masters who in all places complaine of this euill robbing them of good seruants and dutifull children by all care and industrie to preuent it in their domesticall education by carrying a watchfull and restraining hand ouer them Parents if you loue either soule or body thrift or pietie looke to keep them from this infection Lay all the barres of your authoritie cautions threats and charges for the auoyding of this epidemicall pestilence If any of them bee bitten of this Cockatrice sleepe not rest not till you haue cured them of it if you loue their health husbandry grace their present or future liues Dead are they while they liue if they liue in this sinne Mothers lay about you as Bathsheba with all entreaties What my sonne my sonne of my loues and delights Wine is not for you c. My next hope is to arouse and awaken the vigilancy of all faithfull Pastors and Teachers I speake not to such Starres as this Dragon hath swept downe from heauen with it tayle for of such the Prophets the Fathers of the Primitiue yea all ages complaine of I hate and abhorre to mention this abomination to alter the Prouerbe As drunke as a Beggar to a Gentleman is odious but to a Man of God to an Angell how harsh and hellish a sound is it in a Christians eares I speake therefore to sober Watchmen Watch and be sober and labour to keepe your Charges sober and watchful that they may be so found of him that comes like a thiefe in the night Two meanes haue you of great vertue for the quelling of this Serpent zealous preaching and praying against it It s an old receiued Antidote that mans spittle especially fasting spittle is mortall to Serpents Saint Donatus is famous in storie for spitting vpon a Dragon that kept an high way and deuoured many passengers This haue I made good obseruation of that where God hath raised vp zealous Preachers in such townes this Serpent hath no nestling no stabling or denning If this will not doe Augustine enforceth another which I conceiue Gods and Mans lawes allow vs vpon the reason he giues If Paul saith he forbid to eate with such our common bread in our owne priuate houses how much more the Lords body in Church assemblies if in our times this were strictly obserued the Serpent would soone languish and vanish In the time of an Epidemicall disease such as the Sweating or Neezing sicknesse a wise Physitian would leaue the study of all other diseases to find out the cure of the present