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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	aaron_n	head_n	skirt_n	260	3	12.1871	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46692	Ta kannakou the tragedies of sin contemplated in the ruine of the angels, fall of man, destruction of the old world, confusion of Babel, conflagration of Sodom &c. : humbly recommended to the present age, for the designed ends of caution and terrour : together with Remarques on the life of the great Abraham / by Steph. Jay, rector of Chinner ...	Jay, Stephen, d. 1689.	1689 (1689)	Wing J498; ESTC R36028	189,911	392

Holy Testament of the Son of God and counting the Blood of the Covenant but a mean and unholy thing shall do this despite to the Spirit of Grace But Blessed God! pity the Blind and Pardon the Blasphemy of those miserable Creatures who tax Infinite and Incomprehensible Wisdom of Weakness and Defect in not cloathing the Imperial Ordinances in such proper Dress as should best set off their Beauty and Lustre and therefore run Whoring after the vain Ebullitions of humane Brains in Slight of the Divinity and Glory that every where sparkles thrô the Sacred Leaves of these Heavenly Volumes and which are so far from the least failure in the Majesty of their Meen that 't is That alone has smitten away their Eyes and now they idly Prate against the Sun whose powerful Darts have struck them blind and left them senseless And surely the Voice of the Lord is powerful the Voice of the Lord is full of Majesty And the Thunder that rattleth from the God of Glory through the Air of but Three Chapters in Job and but One or Two in Isaiah hath sent away in a Fright the loudest Hyperbole's as the Winds into their Caverns to hide their Heads in shame and silence and who sees not that the whole Vatican of all Created Wit shuts up it self in Despair and sneaks away perfectly baffled by them But it pitieth me to hear of any Son of Levi furthering the Conspiracy who is commanded to execute the Revenge and to sheath the Sword of his fiercest Rage in the very Bowels of this Lust 'T is insufferable to bring the Trayteress into the very Pulpit there to draw the Ark of God with Philistine Heifers yet there are who strongly infected with this Gnostick Humour blow up the Bladder of this Hypocondriack Vanity with most strenuous Sides and Lungs but to judge Charitably in an enforced Conformity to the proud Humour of the Age they Sing the Lord's Song in a strange Language while by the too ravishing Notes of their quavering Throats they faintly languish away the whole strength of their Errand and cause it all to dye into Air and Nothing feeding their Auditors with a flash of Wind and giving them Musick instead of Meat Though Nero was so Ambitious to be reputed the best Fidler in Rome yet 't is below the glory of a Prince to speak Romance Laws are delivered in the gravest Expressions God spake these Words and said is Oratory enough to Preface the Divine Mandates and enforce the World to obey them Who sees not how strangely Profaneness hath encroached upon us since we have fancied the Men of this Generation so easie and good Natur'd to be thus readily Complemented out of their very Right Hands when yet we see them keep their Purses so close and part from their Lusts and Money with the like Torment Though the Galathians Eyes were once at Paul's Service yet our People have Wit enough to keep theirs in their Heads Nay 't is observable too how well it pleaseth some of these Gentlemen to meet their Idea's at Church and he that with the finest hand can Anatomize their Lusts before them shall be Prophet to them while themselves with the Monster that ript up his Mother make a curious Inspection into the very Bowels of them and repeat them again by endearing Contemplation As that famous Usurer that so generously rewarded the Homilies that sunk his Extortions to the pit of Hell out of hopes that while they frighted others into some Reformation himself might continue them with the advantage of a better Trade The Spirit of the World which maintained so firm Possession in the Hearts of Ezekiel's Hearers had more Wit than to be play'd out by the sweet Minstrelsey of his pleasant Layes and sure we have less hope whose Lyres are not strung by Heaven that the Devil of Atheism that snugs so securely in the innermost lodges of Mens Souls and with the Serpent twists himself about their whole Hearts will be exorcis'd by the loudest Adjurations of any Son of Scaeva who shall idlely call on the Name without the Spirit or Power of the Holy Jesus and how far such have prospered in the attempt I must leave to the discretion of too sad and sensible Experience But still methinks it is pity the Fiend should so peaceably Nestle there while the effectual Charms of ever powerful Naked Truth would work more successfully to unloose and unkennel him Very Rams-Horns when blown by the Breath of Faith shall Rase the Foundations which all the Engines of Nature must ever despair to shake or pull down Thus by an Ominous Chymistry we are Calcining all the very substance of our Religion into Dust and Fancy and nothing less than a Miracle of Mercy can deliver us from the ill Effects of the same Humour in that Egyptian Dame who in a tottering Pinnace light as her Brains and Body driven with Purple Sails and Silver Oars and attended with infinite Consorts of Musick did thus lasciviously deliver her self up into the fatal Dalliances of the Roman Usurper and God knows how little Ballast of Solidity is left to secure us while we are whiffling away the Honour and Happiness of being once esteemed the most Sober and Excellent Nation in the World When now the Massey Gold of our former Reputation and Virtue is beaten into Leaf and with the hopes of being better is all taking flight into Air. 'T is not from the abundance but want of that Holy Oyl that once perfumed Aaron's Beard the true Unction that would Consecrate even us into Kings and Priests unto God if we had it that this Levity like a Dangerous Defluxion is passed down from our Heads upon the Skirts of our Garments A giddy Brain hath created in us a frothy Spirit hung all within with Vanity the very Soul wantonizing in her darkest Cells and then hating so close a Confinement makes haste to break Prison and open those Windows which expose her Meretricious Wares to publick View and Plague and to draw a more universal Trade and Custom the very Case whence this Raree-show stares out with her Whorish and bewitching Lights must be Glazed and Guilt O Dinah Dinah the too clear Mirrour of our Vnfortunate Age my Soul bleeds for thee the only Daughter of so great a Prince the Delight of his Eyes and Joy of his Life what a wound didst thou open in the Bosom of so dear a Parent What killing Sorrows did thy perhaps innocent and undesigning thô most Tragical Curiosity in gazing after such Prospects as these heap on his woful aking Heart but what dreadful effects to thy self the irrecoverable Loss of thine Honour and his Peace together And thou England the very Darling of Heaven who hast been wrapt in the distinguishing Coat of thy Father's Love to the Envy and Sorrow of thy treacherous Brethren who have been Trucking with Ishmaelites to sell thee into Egypt and dipping thy Coat already in Blood to represent thee as devour'd when