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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	able_a	abraham_n	heart_n	28	3	3.8918	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14976	The flaming bush. Or, An embleme of the true Church. Written by Thomas Westerne, minister of Gods Word at Alderleigh in Cheshire	Westerne, Thomas.	1624 (1624)	STC 25284; ESTC S119681	39,521	118

speakes for many generations But because many of these are not milde but wild not fertile but stertile not streight but crooked branches some like Cain butchering their brothers some like Nero murthering their mothers some like Ammon defiling their sisters and others like Ham reuiling their Fathers let vs cast our eyes a ventre ad verbum from the issue of the wombe to the issue of the word As many as are begotten by the word of God are branches of the bush members of the Church of God God husbandeth the Sacrament watereth the Spirit refresheth repentance moysteneth the minister planteth the word seedeth and feedeth and breedeth then the Branch springeth Ioh. 15 35. O powerful Sperm able to make Foelix quake the iaylor shake of stony harts to rayse vp children to Abrahā metamorphize the most obdurate Lyons into lambs beares into kids the couetous as mercifull as Iob and liberall as Zache the timerous as bold as Laurence and couragious as the Martyrs the luxurious as chast as Ioseph and continent as Iudeth the blood-thirsty as tender-hearted as Zippora and detesting blood as Iacob finally the vicious as penitent as Peter and louing Christ as Mary modo pateant aures sitiant sapientiam pectus These are the branches of the true vine Ioh. 15. King Abibeiba Lanct lib. 3. inst 26. Pet Mart. Dec. lib. 3. had his pallace in a tree I am sure Iehoua dwells in these Branches for though the world be his consistory and the Scripture his dying room yet is euer the soule of the righteous Heb. 3. 6. Psal 132. his Bedde-chamber Wee are his house Where he sets his rest And builds his nest And thinkes it best to tarry If we to sinne Our soule within Doe not begin to marry But why doe I throstle so long in these branches I must leaue them Leaues and come to the leaues The Bush hath them the Church doth not want them The leaues are part of that blessing which God doth impart to such as are best to such as are blest He shall bee like a Iuniper a Bush a Palme a Date a tree Date-tree Psal 1. Palm-tree planted by the water side his regeneration which shall bring forth fruite in due season his sanctification whose leaues shall not fall his continuation he begins Trem. in Psal 1. well goes on well ends well so all is well Quid per folium nisi fidem amorem What other are these not falling leaues not falsing leaues not fayling leaues not fainting leaues but faith and loue Faith and loue are the louely leaues of this liuely Bush Faith in the great little Diocesse Fayth of the soule though loue be the Chancelour memory the Register conscience the Paritour prayse the Choristour is the Arch-bishop Metropolitan superintendent of all other graces Fides est prima quae subiugat animam deo Faith is that which being Aug. animam deo Faith is that which being first or best tyes the soule first and fast to the first and last Alpha and Omega the Vne and Trine Trine and Vne blessed God Loue is the kernell in the Nut the pearle in the Oyster Dyamond in the ring luster of the Sunne chast Diana among her maydes humility is her handmayde charity her kitchin-mayde chastity her chamber-mayde and gracious sobrietie a mayd of honour Oh you vestall nymphes let not hautinesse wooe you nor couetousnesse winne you nor concupiscence wed you nor surfetting beuomit you Be wise virgins that your lampe may be loue and oyle faith If you haue faith you cannot want loue for one of these leaues buds from the other loue from faith righteousnesse from holinesse Faith is fire fire is operatiue where there is fire there will be heat the greater fire the greater heat the lesser fire the lesser heat no fire no heat no heat no fire Fides Luther Gal 5. 6. debet pinguescere operibus Our fayth must worke by loue if wee haue no loue our fire is extinct our candle Ientile●● out Let it neuer bee sayd of vs as one sometime of the Monkes of his time that their fasts were fat and ptayers leane our faith hot our loue cold Oh shame that the child of heauen should resemble hell Hell hath fire Qui non credent sentient but that fire hath no light I doubt wee haue too many such fire-brands of hell that haue a flashing fire of faith in their toung but the fire of their faith makes not their loue boyle their light doth not shine out before men leauelesse trees empty clouds waterlesse wells like the Mat. 5. 16. sumptuous Sumpter-mules of that vaine-glorious Cardinall seeming without wondrous rich but nothing within saue old shooes and bootes stones and rubbish Gods child is Gods Priest therefore must beare on his breast not onely Vrim Science but Thummim too conscience cursed be those that like Adonibezecke want these thumbs and in his skirts not onely Bells a sounding profession but Pomegranates too a sound deuotion faith must haue a nature as well as a name otherwise it is fides nuda fides nulla a bare faith a no faith and wants leaues to couer it nakednesse Once more these leaues are physicall of condition greene of complexion Phisical leaues the leaues shal be for Physicall Ezech. 47. 12 13. Reu. 2. 22. medcine the leaues shall bee for the healing of nations Faith and loue the leaues of our Bush heale and helpe cure and recouer the Vertigo of drunkennesse hecticke of lasciuiousnes lethergie of idlenesse wolfe of vsury consumption of enuy quotidian of blasphemie with other the like spirituall diseases Doe but plucke these leaues with the hand of deuotion mixe them with the Syrrup of discretion bruise them in the morter of a good conscience and boyle them on the fire of true repentance apply them to thy soule both ful and fasting morning noone and euening and thou shalt see a miracle a dead man restored to life Greene leaues her leaues Greene. le● 17. 8. Psal 1. 5. shall be green both summer and winter i. e. in the tempe of prosperitie and tempest of aduersitie alwayes greene the leaues shall not wither the frost shall not nip them nor the ayre blast them nor the wind scatter them Faith and loue on the altar of Ioh. 5. 24. the heart are like fire on the altar not to goe out or depart like the stone in Plinie which being once made not could neuer be cold I confesse indeed they may sometime bee seene in the Orient in their full heat feruor somtime in the occident in the declining of their luster but men Angels diuells can neuer extinguish them for hee that beleeueth is passed already from death to life and he that loueth neuer faileth 1. Cor. 13. 8. or falleth from God but is so hotte much water cannot quench it Nec immergent nubes neither can the Cant. 8. 7. cloudes drowne it The Cardinall otherwise that a man may