Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	able_a	body_n	kill_v	9,832	5	8.7625	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15797	The sincere preacher prouing that in whom is adulation, auarice, or ambition, he cannot be sincere. Deliuered in three sermons in Dartmouth in Deuon, vpon I. Thes. 2. 5.6. By Walter Wylshman, Mr. of Art, and minister of the Word there.	Wylshman, Walter, 1571 or 2-1636.	1616 (1616)	STC 26058; ESTC S114199	31,536	100

returue vnto thee but returne not vnto them thou Ier. 15. 19. shalt bee a consuming fire and they shall bee stubble before thee When Moses sought to refuse the message and thought himselfe ouer simple to goe vnto Pharaoh God answered certainly I will bee with thee Exod. 3. 12. Exod. 7. 1. 2. Mat 10. 27. 28. and after he saith I haue made thee Pharaohs God and thou shalt speake all that I command thee So Christ saith What I tell you in darknesse that speake you in the light what ye heare in the eare that speake ye on the houses and feare yee not them that kill the body but are not able to kill the soule but rather feare him that is able to destroy both body and soule in hell The consideration hereof euer moued the Prophets and Apostles to warrant their sayings with authority from God and to set apart all feare when they speake in his name When Ahab reproued Elias Art not thou he that troubleth Israel hee answered I 1. King 18. 18. haue not troubled Israel but thou and thy fathers house in that ye haue for saken the commandements of the Lord and thou hast followed Baalim The Prophet Isaiah is bold with the Princes of Iuda and Ierusalem saith Heare the word of the Lord Isa 1. 10. ye Princes of Sodome hearken vnto the law of our God O people of Gomorrah Iohn the Baptist is nothing Mat. 14. 4. afraid to tell Herod a mighty Prince It is not lawfull for thee to haue her to wife If Balake would Numb 24. 13. giue mee his house fall of siluer and gold saith Balaam I cannot passe the commandement of the Lord to doe good or bad of mine owne mind what the Lord shall command that same will I speake So that these Ministers that for fauour or feare flatter the people are worse then Balaam that was but a wizard And thus you heare what is the Ministers dutie namely to deale sincerely and not to flatter for any respect The second dutie is for the people that if the Minister ought to speake sincerely without flatterie then the people ought to haue sound eares and hearts to heare without pride for where pride is in the heart of the hearer hee will not suffer wholsome doctrine with 2. Tim. 4. 3. his eare but hauing his eares it ching after his owne praise he will after the lusts of his proud heart get him an heape of teachers as the Apostle speaketh for selfe-loue hauing blinded his iudgement hee thinkes he must walke on without all controlement whereupon Salomon saith truly Seest thou a man Prou. 26. 12. wise in his own conceit there is more hope of a foole then of him therefore his counsel is speake not in the eares of a foole for he will despise the wisdome Pro. 23. 9. of thy words And hereof come these slanders against them that speake with most sincerenesse of describing of men and of pointing at men in the publike and such like For as Salomon saith A wise man Pro. 4. 16. feareth and departeth from euill but a foole rageth and is carelesse And Prou. 15. 12. a scorner loueth not him that rebuketh him neither will he goe into the way of the wise whereas poore soules did they know who speaketh in the Minister viz. God and what hee speaketh viz. his word and to what end he speaketh viz. for their good they would feare the author and loue the meanes and imbrace the end and finding the secrets of their hearts to bee made manifest they would fall downe on their faces and worship God say plainly 1. Cor. 14. 25. that God is in the Minister indeed as the Apostle saith But because hee hath no purpose to bee reformed therefore he hath no pleasure to bee reproued And heere hence is it that when Ieroboam 1. King 12. 31. gaue himselfe ouer to commit wickednesse with greedinesse to the intent that hee might follow his prophanesse without all kinde of reproofe the holy Ghost noteth that he set vp to bee priests of the lowest and basest of the people such as had neither will nor wit knowledge nor conscience nor courage to reproue him and by this meanes he made al Israel to sinne with him A policy that the diuell hath long practised as the most strong stratagemme still to vphold his kingdome of darkenesse and ignorance by Here hence came in our impropriations of the Ecclesiasticall liuings of the most populous and the most frequēted places if you marke it in this land that priuate men hauing away these Church-liuings the inhabitants might either content thēselues with a Sir Iohn lack-learning as Micha did with a running Leuite for ten shekles of siluer by Iudg. 17. 10. the yeere and so be without all instruction or else if they hire a Preacher by a voluntary contribution their paying might bee as a meanes of his pleasing them by flattering and soothing them in their sinnes For as Iesus the sonne of Syrake Ecclus 29. 26. saith where a man is a stranger or befriended he dares not open his mouth And here hence is it that in many of these populous and vntaught places sinne doth not onely crawle in corners but euen standeth vp and walketh and ietteth in the streets with a whorish forehead that will Ier. 3. 3. not bee ashamed as Ieremie saith and he yeelds a reason of it cap. 23. 14. For the prophets strengthen the hands of the wicked that none can returne from their wickednes Therfore I beseech you my brethren all present I beseech you I say to heare the word of God with reuerence and conscience and pray for mee that I may deliuer it with such soundnesse and sincerenesse that Christ our Soueraigne may keepe regiment in our hearts by the scepter of his word that Satan the vncleane spirit being cast out hee may no more returne amongst vs. You know what Christ telleth his Disciples Matth. 5. 13. Ye are the sale of the earth and ye are the light of the world Now all know that salt must needs be sharpe to a rotten or greene wound and light must needs be painfull to a feeble or tender eye yet euen as the patient will willingly vndergoe the displeasure of the cure rather then hee will forgoe the pleasantnesse of the remedie so must we doe to bee freed of our soules maladies and miseries A good Physition must needs disquiet his sicke patient befor hee can heale his disease and a good Chirurgion must lance and rip vp festred wounds before he can apply helpfull and healing incarnatiues We are spirituall Physitians and Chirurgions the word of God the soules potion and the wine oyle of the soules sores is committed to vs that by vs it might be applied to season supple and salue all maladies If it seeme vnpleasing yet it is most profitable therefore endure it which that you may doe with willingnesse and cheerfulnesse I