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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	aaron_n	bring_v	moses_n	109	3	6.5875	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48917	Baulme for bleeding England and Ireland, or, Seasonable instructions for persecuted Christians delivered in severall sermons / by Nicholas Lockyer.	Lockyer, Nicholas, 1611-1685.	1643 (1643)	Wing L2783; ESTC R30503	161,977	432

in the eyes of many great and small as ever was Moses in the eye of Corah and his company for discharging his conscience This spirit became very spreading then and so strong that God was faine to make Israels misery long till he had cut off all that were unworthy of that which Moses and Aaron laboured to bring them to so may this spirit make our sufferings long so long till God hath cut off al these proud jostling spirits which are altogether unworthy of those great mercies which our honest-hearted Parliament painefully labours to bring us to A third thing that makes our troubles have a long visage in my eye is this That the one thing necessary to publique welfare is not preferred and prosecuted as such a thing that is according to its dignity and our duty The maine thing I conceive to our publique wel-fare is to perfect our reformation of Religion to raise up and finish that building the foundation whereof our Fathers bravely laid in their owne bloud Israel suffer'd much and suffer'd long a consumption followed them till it had brought them almost to nothing because they grew slack about the maine and preferr'd their owne houses the seiling and finishing of them before Gods House At first when they came togegether to Jerusalem they were hot upon Gods House but being diverted by troubles they grew cold and involved their spirits in their owne affaires which cost them deare and brought them into a deepe consumption I am affraid this is our case Our Parliament at first comming together seem'd very hot about Church affaires though not so hot then as I could have wish't God had his Committee amongst many other of our owne I meane a Committee about scandalous Ministers and matters wherein God is most immediately concerned this Committee was of life and heat a time and the dread and Majesty of that great Court hereby great many troubles came in and this Committee laid downe and other things relateing to this stay'd off by meanes of which the Majesty of that honourable House is much weakened because God much neglected I am affraide this will bring us into a deepe consumption and make Englands sufferings long because wee make God suffer so long all the Kingdome over by blinde worship and blind Ministers who are now the activest Engines against us A fourth thing which makes our troubles looke with a long visage in my eye is this God hath suffered our troubles to grow beyond our Tiller as the Archers terme is our bow is made too strong for us to bend this makes long worke to bee ready If an unruly child creep up under the lenity of Parents to become an unruly boy one in bodily strength suiteable to his spirit before taken downe this speakes long suffering to such parents this is Englands case Our wicked children are growne up under the wing and lenity of the Parliament to virility to mans estate to externall strength suiteable to their internall temper this I am affraid speakes long suffering to thee O poore England Justice doth not looke as if shee would lay down her rod presently when shee is gathering more and more twigs A few malignants are become many many without Armes many in Armes our locusts goe forth by troopes Justice doth not use to make a rod of so many and so great twigs for a little worke strong twigs and rods are gather'd to last for long work A fift thing that makes Englands troubles looke with a long visage in my eye is this A heavy spirit seemes to be fallen upon us Make their eares heavy saith God their Eares that is their hearts I am affraid that plague is heavily fallen upon us Heavy jades are shap'd to much beating a little will not make them goe Men come up to their light like a beare to the stake how heavy hath our motion beene to blast the Common Prayer Booke by publique vote how heavily brought on to judge it an agreement how heavily brought on to clip the power of Bishops how heavily brought on to vote them quite downe although such as had voted and almost acted downe God and all good in the Land how much farther hath many Parliament men gone in matters of Gods worship then droven I keepe honour in my breast towards them who have done throughout truely honorably For the execution of thorough Justice are they not now by the sword droven and will they goe now My heart bleeds to consider this what a heavy spirit is upon us in the prosecution of that worke which God hath thrust us upon Our eyes are halfe open as heavy-headed mens eyes are to see our advantages and our handes in our bosom like heavy sluggards when wee should take and prosecute advantages which God wonderfully gives us A heavy spirit speakes heavy misery suffering much and suffering long a heavy spirit makes heavy misery necessary such a temper otherwise will never go so far in good as it should The last thing which makes our sufferings looke with a long visage in my eye is this suffering doth not soften our fire doth not melt but harden and make brawny the heart of the most The weekly newes of our bleeding is become as the weekly bill of the plague read over and throwne a side Many bodies kill'd how many soules more alive then were What heart goes in secret and bleeds in his brethrens wounds Many kill'd many more worse then kil'd maim'd spoil'd turn'd out of all and likely to starue to death goe weeping wailing and wringing their hands up and down the Country yea up and downe here and doe fully looke some of you in the face and yet I see no signe of all this in your faces Their tone is dolefull doe wee eccho to them The spoiled mourne to the saved doe we weepe with them that weep doe we beare their burden as our own Let every mans conscience speake and acquit him if it can Doth not this saddly speak more suffering because no man will suffer till Justice bring suffering to his own doore No man will be afflicted till it come to his owne turne no man will afflict himselfe all is put upon God he must doe it man by man many will not be afflicted in few this will be long worke I can sadly tell you of hearts more brawny then these hearts that would not have spoiling cease because it inricheth them no not killing cease because 't is their gainfull trade that see bloud and desolation dayly and yet have no bowells but feare this wil end too soon that cut out their worke to last this is not the spirit of a Souldier but the spirit of a Butcher that lives by killing as his Trades and pockets up the prize of bloud and misery with joy This a Souldier a Judas a Wolfe that growes fat upon the carkasses of the slaine Men that strive after places to kill bodies for gaine Ah Lord who hath kill'd such soules This is the spirit of a Souldier

cannot suffer long A naturall heart an engaged heart a carelesse heart Can nothing endure much much long Can man beare much which hath no shoulders Can a profane heart an hypocriticall heart or what else carnall heart you can name beare much they know not for what suffer long and tast not inwardly for what A Iudas will kisse Christ and depart and hang himselfe rather then be hang'd for Christ Gold endures fire long as long as you will cast a Ioseph an upright man into prison and he will lie there long as long as the devill will till the Iron enter into his soule Truth will live and die with truth I will not wager a straw upon any man for his parts let them be what they will in point of long suffering what is the man at heart that will he be for continuance in hardship for truth Naturall courage may doe much in a desperate way but deliberate tryall long suffering tyres this quite Nature can goe no further then shee can The old man cannot travell long paines and toile will make him petition for a Quietus est for an accommodation for any peace so he may sit downe quiet and sleep in a whole skin An engaged heart cannot suffer long A Sampson will give up at last and betray his owne life that is engaged in heart to please a wife a friend his own unmortifyed heart any one before GOD. A heart that will bee drawne was never will never be a long sufferer this is the worst temper of all for long worke this man has his disadvantage within Satan will often visit him to spare himselfe and this heart will finde so much discretion at last as to hearken to him and chuse sinne rather then suffering then suffering long I never knew a man that could be made but Satan could doe it first or last Either the glory of this World or the terrour of this World the casting down from a pinacle will fetch about that man in whose heart Satan when hee comes finds something some selfe-engagement The heart so far as engaged is selfish so far as man is selfish so far wil he admit of parley with the evil one the divell was never admitted to parley with man but he carried it his Parliament will sway every selfish man to looke to his skin and his life above his soule A carelesse spirit will never suffer long 'T is some mans spirit to make little of much at a distance such men usually sinke under a little when come upon them Confident men never prove long suffering men justice makes such know that they are but bubles a little stir breakes them a little heate dissolves them They are never in that good Kings strait We know not what to doe so long as troubles keep at any distance if it be but at skin distance till troubles come to touch the skin and touch to the quick and then they know not what to doe indeed 'T is worse then long suffering to some men to be told of it or to thinke of it they drinke downe all and feast dead their feares and I feare their soules Doe yee not see this Is not London wanton and voluptuous still What table can yee come at that speakes this London is like to suffer long Will feasting fit for hungring and starving will the killing of your soules fit you for the killing of your bodies Ah Lord will wicked wantons beastly belly-gods drunken careles Nabals prove long sufferers for truth will persons that cannot now live without excesse without too much and too fine doe well when they shall want necessaries and want them long longer then many others for much more abuse Surely these wretches will be doubly miserable when misery comes they will wish themselves any where to be delivered from the fruit of their wayes All the Armour of God should be look'd after with all diligence to make fit for long suffering and carelesse soules looke after none and yet they dreame they shall suffer as long and as well as the best but they doe but dreame They will lose their soules in a dreame their carelesnesse will make their long suffering as long as eternity I have spoken to take off security I will also speake something to take off scandall so passe this point Sufferings for truth fall out sometimes to be many and long this is the point and this is likely to be our condition Englands troubles looke as if they would be long they have a long visage in my eye two or three things make mee thinke our suffering wil be long The first is this a spirit of confusion is power'd out upon us 't is very generall and very strong 'T was so when the Jewes came first out of Babylon when they came to Herusalem to set about the building of Gods house then fell in a spirit of strong confusion amongst them some were for the old house some for the new some Cried to thinke of the externall glory of the old house others joy'd to see the beginnings of a more spirituall house but this is very observable the worst note was the lowdest a man could not discerne the noise of the shout of joy for the beginnings of the new house the noise of the weeping and crying of the people for the old was so great out of this spirit of confusion sprung up Vipers and Serpents such as tooke this advantage and hindered that great worke of the Lord many yeares and made their suffering long as you may see exactly in that story This is our case at this day there are many joy to see some beginnings of a more pure worship some hopes of raiseing and finishing this raiseth their hearts but there be many more which cry and take on for the old house for the pomp and glory of Bishops garments pipes carnall ordinances which please carnall sences and the cry of these is so loud that the joy of Gods people cannot be heard 't is now as quite buried Out of this confusion hath sprung up Sanballats and Tobias strong adversaries so strong and so many that they are likely to hinder Gods building much and make our suffering long A second thing that gives our troubles a long visage in my eye is this A jostling spirit of pride and frowardnesse against authority against those which God hath wonderfully raised to deliver us as wonderfully as ever he raised Moses to deliver Israel out of Egypt Yee take too much upon you said Corah and his company seeing all the Congregation is holy i holy enough already This is the very spirit and language of many great ones and small ones at this very day respecting the Parliament They take too much upon them things were well enough as under the government of Bishops and as in Queene Elizabeths time King Iame's time Reformation in Church and state according as our present condition and the increase of light calles for because this attempted renders the Parliament as odious