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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	air_n	earth_n	element_n	2,483	5	9.5484	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44938	A fast-sermon, preached to the Lords in the High-Court of Parliament assembled on the day of solemn humiliation for the continuing pestilence, Octob. 3, 1666 and by their order published by George, Lord Bishop of Chester.	Hall, George, 1612?-1668.	1666 (1666)	Wing H335; ESTC R228	15,058	32

Ut scenam desiderent They want onely saith he open Theaters or Belconies to be seen acting their lewdness upon Omnem omnino pudorem c. Modesty is put out of countenance nay Adeo lupanar quoque verecundum est a very Brothel house is modest in comparison Tertullian thought he had complained enough and he never wanted expressiveness when he said Delicti durior frons est ab ipso delicto impudentiam docto c. and when he taxed some of the other sex calling them Pudoris sui interemtrices infelicissimas publicarum libidinum victimas I am loth to English it The holy Bishop and Martyr Cyprian thought himself no doubt a sowre and severe Reprover when he complained to the Proconsul of Africa that there was no shame of wickedness remaining and men did so offend Quasi per ipsa peccata placeatur and so Salvian Quasi liceat quasi oporteat but truly all those were soft and gentle redargutions like old Eli's Nay my sons which Reverend Du Moulin call'd whipping them with Rosemary they were not smart enough for this Brawny Age those Times brought forth but Punies and Pigmies in comparison of our Anakims in wickedness Now sure when it is come to such a formidable height it is time for good men to be upon their knees to pray that it may come to an end The general Concernment for this is so great that interim ut fit they being let alone nothing could be imagined to follow but the worst that can be imagined We will dispute no longer in the Schools whether sin be a meer Privation Whether it hath any Positive Entity Be it a privation it is such a one as hath very real influxe and is the efficient of most horrdi mischiefs being enough to bring Heaven and Earth together Lord what dismal and amazing changes will this make What Elijah's powerful prayer did for the better this will do for the worse when there is a clear skye like a Molten Looking-Glass as it is most elegantly called not a Cloud to be seen of the bigness of a mans hand all on the sudden this shall overspread with black Clouds the whole face of the Heavens and make a Meridian night the Sun going down at noon-day What effects will it not have upon Nature it self upon every Element Upon the Air to corrupt and poyson it till it become Pestilential and make the breath we draw and live by the savour of death unto us our present case and complaint Upon the Earth to make it quake under the Inhabitants or open its mouth to swallow them up Upon the Water to make such an opening of the Windows of Heaven and the Fountains of the deep as shall let in a Deluge to drown a world Upon the Seasons of the Year to make them so unkindly and interfering one with another as if Nature had quite forgot it self Upon the Soyle making a fruitful Land barren Upon the very Name of a People changing it from Ammi to Loammi as it changed Pashur's Name to Magor Missabib of which David was the Interpreter Fear on every side was it his Name or is it not ours Upon Cities O thou Enemy thou hast destroyed Cities their memorial is perished with them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a terrible word importing plucking up by the roots utter destruction ipsae periêre ruinae and so that their memorial is perished with them unless it be in the Stories of their ruine there are no remainders of them nay there is more also in it if the Seventy did not mistake for they read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with a sound The ruine is so made that the World rings of it Upon a Church what disorders will it not bring what evil Angels or Asmodei will it not send the raisers of all our storms the Authors and Fomenters of all our intestine Divisions Factions and Schisms the setters of all the Close Juncto's for the carrying on of endless Commotions And now if such a world of mischiefs as I cannot name do follow upon wickedness and that also is so far from coming to an end what shall I say or think of our condition We will give glory to God this day though to the confusion of our own faces It was time for thee Lord to lay to thine hand to take hold of Vengeance to spend thine arrows upon us as thou didst once threaten Deut. 32.23 I will spend my Arrows upon them and didst bid the Archers to spare no arrows against Babylon to shoot at her for she hath sinned against the Lord. One of those arrows the first commonly of the three which God makes use of and of which we have frequent mention Warre hath been not onely upon the string but drawn and shot so that it sticks still in us and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God onely knows who is the Lord of Hosts and great Arbiter of War what the issue will be As happily as we have been engaged against our Enemies being blessed with glorious Successes under an excellent Conduct The Apostles counsel is good and proper for us Be not high-minded but fear The Alternations of the success of VVar have been every Ages Experiences Homer's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was not more elegant than certain And suppose the best I cannot but sadly think what a lost labour what a damp we may put upon all those most hazardous and valiant Engagements of our Friends at Sea if while they do their work to the heighth of our wishes and prayers making themselves formidable to the flying Enemy we being at such an unhappy distance from God by our unrepented wickedness do seem to enter prohibitions in heaven against our enjoyment of our Successes Alas what is it to prosper and prevail at Sea where the Righteousness of our Cause in the hands of our just God to whom we appealed makes us Victors if in the mean time the unrighteousness of our persons and practices do so continue to provoke God by Land that he cannot but set his face against us and break out upon us We may possibly still beat and Master them but God I am sure will be too hard for us they may flee before us one way but we may be put to flee if we could from Gods wrath seven ways we may be potent abroad but feeble and undone at home God give us hearts to consider it The other poysoned Arrow of Pestilence is that which we now sigh and groan under which fires our blood and kills us Haeret lateri lethalis arundo How this hath flown by day and night on this hand of us and on that lighting a little short of us and beyond us how it hath never missed its mark though it could never glance aside to hit any but its mark Thousands have faln beside us and ten thousand at our right hands Our hearts do yet bleed with the thought of it the