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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	acknowledge_v	lord_n	zion_n	19	3	8.5807	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68850	A mothers teares ouer hir seduced sonne: or A dissuasiue from idolatry penned in way of a dialogue, by occasion of a late letter from the sonne now at Doway, to his mother: which is also printed vvith the letter, and is fully set downe in the sonnes part, for the substance, though with some addition in forme.; Answere of a mother unto hir seduced sonnes letter.		1627 (1627)	STC 24903.5; ESTC S114250	89,317	193

her breasts and suckled thee so feeding thee with milke till thou couldst beare strong meate Now thou risest up as a gaine saying child against the mother her house hast thou dealt truely with this Mother hast thou Harken unto me that the Lord may harken unto thee Hast thou dealt faithfully with thy owne soule Thou hast left the fatnes of the Oliue the sweetnesse of the Figtree the wine of the Vine and thou hast put thy trust under the shadow of the Bramble It is true of all the trees of the Forrest non so ready to boast of protection as is the Bramble It is strange what a shadow it seemes to cast like that we read off in the 4 of Daniell the Cedars may come under it nay must they will not be safe else but it is a dreame-Doest thou not know whether the Bramble must goe Can it stand against the fire Can it keepe off the he●● at noone I●na● was exceeding glad of his go●●d but did it sheilter him when the 〈…〉 one the head of 〈…〉 fainting time will come child and ●he strongest man this day living shall find it so a vehement wind the Sunne at noone will beate upon thy head and then it will be too late to seeke for a sheilte● we must thinke of this fainting time vvhile it is to day Novv there is a tree whose l●●ves 〈◊〉 heale the nations under which there is a sure shadow the bramble not so The olive 〈◊〉 hath much fatness●● the bramble not so The f●ggtr●● much sweetness● the bramble not so The Vine cheareth mans heart the bramble not so It is prepared for the fire the end is burning so is the its that trust under hir shadow as thou shalt heare anon Hast thou dealt faithfully with thy owne soule Then doe thou re●●●ce●● the Bramble and let the Bramble reioyce in th●e But if not then yet let thy soule hearken unto thy Mother that the Lord may hearken unto thee If the Lord hath left thee to the counsail● of thy owne heart which he may doe as not bound to the creature a rebellious creature and this is to be acknowledged let him accept an offering even the ●alv●● of thy lipps that he who i● the tr … wold lead th●● into all truth See thy face towards heaven resigne thy selfe to God to be guided in the way thither a● David did who know the way better th●● thou or I with ●●y whole heare have I sought th●● O let me not w●●der from thy commandements But if they be the children of men who have entised thee and beguiled thy poore soule which vvill likewise be acknowledged I will not pronounce the Lords curse against them for I have not Davids spirit but the Lord be mercifull to the blind leaders of the blind and remember them not after their dealing for they have driven thee out this day from the abiding in the inheritance of the Lord saying so sake the rock even the only rock of thy salvation and goe serve other gods I am now at the bottome of thy letter that shall conclude my Answer Thou seemedst to perswade thy selfe thou art another Ioseph sent before to prouide for thy Mother and hir Children and were it so and that now I have heard from thee let hir who hath the heart of a Mother c is acquainted vvith the yearnings of the bovvells say vvhether she thinks not althogh novvagon is come that I vvould presently take my staffe and trudge avvay yea and not feele the vveary stepps though my legs be old this thought vvould still be better then vvine to refresh me I shall see my Sonne before I die But alas the case is different hovv doth a beguiled heart deceive thee your Aegypt hath proved an iron furnace to our Israell and at the best a staffe of reed I dare not venture my selfe so no nor yet thy brother neither though thou like a good Iudah wilt undertake for thy brother Beniamen thy Mother will not trust thee to be thy brothers keeper unlesse thou couldest keep thy selfe better why should I be robbed of both my Children Alas Child I well knovv your Aegypt is full of inchantments aske a Mother now and she will tell thee whether she will venture a Child as boyes venture pi●s and points hazard two that they may find one she will not doe it a Child is dearer then so Againe why should I send my Child over to you for bread Why our staffe is not yet broken it is Gods goodnesse it is not if it should be which our unthankfulnesse threatens what have we to doe with the broken reed of Aegypt that would deceive us we have yet store of bread in our fathers house rebellious children though we are but through our fathers patience we have it and the children are fat and well liking upon it but if we were thrust out of dore as we have well deserved it yet we could not eate your Gibeonitish bread which hath nothing to shew its antiquity but that it is dry and mouldy nor could we goe to eat among the swine Husks such empty things we do daily pray Lord give us evermore of this bread But if the Lord be deafe towards us as he may justly be he bath called to us and we have not hearkned how could we expect that Baall could heare us I trust we should never seek to Eckron we know we have a God in Israell and we hope we shall not goe from the living to the dead To speak yet more plainly we have Moyses and the Prophets and thy are read amongst us even to this day and it is wonderfull in our eyes and the Saints see wonders in it if we do not belieue them neither should we believe though some of us were sent unto your dead or some of your dead were sent unto us But to cut of all hope of comming over unto you and yet to confirme this hope of thy returne unto us I tell thee besides that Christ hath set a sword to stop the way unto thee which in some cases must divide betweene Mother and Child brother and sister there is a kind of gulfe betwixt us yet passable on thy part that strengtheneth my hope a se● betwixt us no lesse full of blood then that other is of water For is it not plaine unto thee what havock the whore hath made of the Churches what threatnings she hath breathed forth what rivers of blood she hath shed how she hath killed and scourged persecuted the Saints Martyrs of the Lord Iesus that may come upon hir all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of all the Prophetts Apostles and Martyrs that have beene slaine O Child what a sea is here Certainly he that hath any light will not venture here he that hath no●e walketh in darknesse and knowes not where he shall fall and plunge himselfe Then there is no comming for us to

done Why he was no more able to hurt then a dead dog could bite and therefore art thou O Lord my King and thou also Abner alive at this time and your eyes may behold both the speare and pott that was so nigh thy Masters Pillovv and my Master Saul may heare too and now I hope both my Lord and Abner from this very day will be able to discerne truth and innocency from wickednesse which ever proceedeth from the wicked man and be able to point at it too with the finger saying there it is behold Child Saul doth it he knowes the voice of David and it melts him into teares and see what he saith thou art more righteous then I thou hast rewarded me good when I rewarded thee evill and now my Child rhou hast seene truths guize and hir childrens carriage how meeke how harmlesse Thou maist likewise discerne the Beasts mark and from whence wickednesse doth proceed I know no motive in the world except the secret working of Gods Spirit more prevalent to cause thee to come away unlesse thou hast not a Sauls discerning But because I know thou art blind folded and hast no light but what comes in by chaunes and crevises I will contract what hath been sayd concerning these two Mothers into an Embleme one or two which thou maist perceiue by the least glimmering Then I will turne thee to two places of Scriptures from which thou shalt make thine owne collection The first Emblem shall bee of the holy Mother and a Mother shall be it An Hecuba in travell with a fire brand and forth it comes rushing into the Bush of the Church Or a Iezabell plotting the death of poore Naboth because he will not part with the Vinyard the inheritance of his Fathers She must not keep it for all her painting downe she must be cast like a milstone The Doggs did eate the flesh of Iezabel Take the Embleme of hir eldest sonnes and sonnes shall be it Samsons three hundred foxes running about the field with firebrands at their tailes see what hurt they doe the shock● are burnt Or for variety sake look upon the Gadarens heard of swine but not running into the lake though an evill spirit be in them The day of recompence for Sions controversie is not yet yet the enemy is not brought to the valley of Iehosophat to bee iudged there we must looke on them running into the vineyard that must be more w●st we leave them rooting there But here is the cōfort Is it wast is Sharon a wildernes now I will up saith the Lord I will give to Israel the opening of the month in the midst of them and they shall know that I am the Lord. Ezech. 29. 21. Take the Embleme of she true Mother and that is made to our hands you heard hir begging of the Childs life Take the Embleme of hir Children David cursed and pelted at by Shimes and praying the while Steven stoning and even then saying Lord lay not this ot their charge We have done with the Emblemes wee turne to the Scriptures the first is 1 Kings 19. 11. There came a great strong wind but the Lord was not in the wind nor in the earth-quake nor in the fire There came a still and soft voice there the Lord was Make thy collection now here are two both would be Mothers both would speake in the evidence of the same spirits which of these comes like a wind renting as it goes like an earth-quake opening graves as it goes like a fire scorching as it goes or in a still and soft voice instructing perswading blessing praying as it goes with whom the soft voice is there the Lord is Answer this unto him who understands thy thoughts long before I have done with that Scripture we find the other 2 Sam. 7. compared with 1 Chron. 22. 8. where is something will hold us from our purpose a little for the Readers sake We find David sitting in his house and in peace yet not confined to his owne particular interest and looking no further one eye is on his house the other on the Arke and he sees no correspondency And yet he that hath Davids observation may observe a greater disproportion betwixt his conveniences the Arks now then was betwixt Davids and the Arkes then he sitts in his house of hewed stone he heares no complaining in the streetes Gods footstepps drop fatnesse towards him there are his conveniences What are the Arkes The enemy hath raised a mighty storme and the Arke hath scarce curtaines to keep it off I know well on the glory there i● a defence but I speak of that covering the outward eye may discerne Certainly if the consideration of David be this mans precept the practise of David will be his patterne whose mind was presently on worke how he might build an house for the Arke too Yet Nathan must stay his hand that must not be put to the worke We came purposely hither to enquire the reason of that but I desire the Reader would marke one thing by the way Though it were taken out of the power of Davids hand to build an house for the Arke yet the Lord tells him thou didst well in that it was in thy heart 2 Chro. 6. 8. A mans hand may be kept from the Arke every one cannot visibly worke the securitie of it nor bring it within Cedars Nay though the Arke shake every hand is not worthy to hold it up A man must looke to his warrant specially when he goes about the busines of the Arke But marke this they shall prosper that loue thee We wish you prosperitie in the name of the Lord O it is a gratious thing even when the hand can doe nothing But M●roz with the inhabitants were curs● bitterly Iudg 5. 23. And the men of S●c●oth were taught that i● the word by briers and th●r●●● Iudg. 8. 16. That was a sore teaching but who can help it They that will not be taught by instruction must be taught by paine 2. Esd 9. 12. It is Apocryph● thou maist keep it in thy Bible when it ●out of thy Creed and let it teach thee when thou look'st upon thy house of Ceder I meane thy many many conveniences many positrue many privatiue to haue the Arke in thy heart for this is to remember the Chare●● of Israel and the horse men thereof that is the Church The glory of Israel that is the Gospell The Paules in prison and she Iaseps in affliction for this glorie for thy sake are we killed all the day long now what thou doest for these or any of these they ●●e so like thou canst not distinguish them thou doest it to Christ and thou shewest mercy to thy owe soule For these will pray that thy mercy may be returned to thee thine in the tempestivitie of time The Lord ●●ew mercy to Onesiphorus in that day Nor is that all the Lord shew mercy to the whole house of Onesiphorus Now to