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spirit_n	beget_v	father_n	son_n	11,645	5	6.8465	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11792	The proiector Teaching a direct, sure, and ready vvay to restore the decayes of the Church and state both in honour and revenue. Deliuered in a sermon before the iudges in Norvvich, at summer assises there holden, anno 1620. By Thomas Scot Batchelor in Diuinity.	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.	1623 (1623)	STC 22081; ESTC S116987	26,622	45

Honor as betwixt light and darkenesse truth and falsehoode white and blacke God and Sathan hell and heauen It were a shame therefore to ioyne those things together which God hath opposed in Nature If Iustice therefore should make sinne eyther a wife or a childe or a friend or a seruant or a fauorite and companion at bed or at board or on the bench this could not be done without a Diabolicall contract a Sodomiticall mixture a sinne against Nature Therefore let Iustice make sinne a slaue a drudge a prisoner for if he waxe familiar once he will rule and reigne ouer thee and thou shalt not be master at home no not in thine owne house nay not in thine owne heart Genes 3. I haue put emnity saith God to Sathan betwixt thee and the woman and betwixt Her seed and thy seed This enmity must continue He shall breake thy head and thou shalt bruise his heele The best men may haue their heeles bruised and trodden on by Sathan sometime be ouertaken by sinne Euen holy Dauid tooke a nap holy Paule himselfe ● Cor. 12.7 felt a sting in the flesh vaine-glory began to puffe him vp out of the consideration of his knowledge zeale labor and heauenly reuelations the Messenger of Sathan was then sent to buffet him to humility But let not Sathan breake our heads no not with oyle with applauses with glibbe and smooth sinnes petty-seeming sinnes sinnes like vertues Much lesse let him blind our eyes with giftes for that 's the way to breake our heads indeed when wee can not see to defend our selues ● Sam. 4. Nay to breake our necks too from the Chayre of Moses with poore old weake blinde decrepid Ely To conclude all this Nation of ours at this day outsinnes all the Nations of the world euen in their proper sinnes for which they haue beene infamous Wee outdrab the Italian out-drinke the Dutch out-braue the Frenchman out-brag the Spaniard Surely as wee out-act these in sinne wee must out-suffer these in shame and is it not a shame wee should doe so wee that know so much more then they doe wee that liue in the cleare light of the Gospell wee that goe euery day to Church to heare Sermons with Bibles in our hands vnder our armes in our pockets when they heare no Sermons perhaps but once a quarter perhaps but once a yeere that at Lent a Lenten Sermon a Leaden Sermon a Latin Sermon and for the Bible know not a word of what is within it Why shame belongs to Bastards sinne is a note of bastardy for by sinne wee are Sathans children You are of Io. 8. 44. your father the Diuel saith our Saiuour for his works do yee Shame followes sinne it is all the Inheritance that Sathan giues his children except paine as an increase to the portion Honor belong to legitimates such succeede their fathers in the badges and cognizances of honor as in vertue and worth Iustice is a note wee are Gods children it is his character his stampe his seale his impresse his image and shewes that wee are begotten to good workes by the Grace of his holy Spirit the inheritance is glory heere an earnest of greater glory heereafter with the Lord. Of his infinite mercy graunt vnto vs for his Sonnes sake Christ Iesus Our Iustice our righteousnes our sacrific e for sinne our Preseruer Redeemer and Saiuour from shame To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all honor and glory giuen and ascribed by vs and by euery other Creature that he hath made for his glory this present time and for euermore Amen A Prayer for the whole state of the Realme O Lord thou hast made all things for thine owne glorie to manifest thy power thy wisdome bewtie love justice and holines and amongst all these things thou hast made man after thine image enduing him with originall power wisdome beautie love justice and holines And that he might not only have but exercise these vertues thou madest this inferiour world for him and didst subiect a world of Creatures to his rule and government so that he seemed a God vpon earth having so free so large so ample a comaund over his fellow Creatures He was naked and not ashamed for being framed by so perfect a workman and formed after thy image the image of perfection he knew that there was nothing within him or without him whereof he need be ashamed but much whereof to glorie and reioyce The more he saw and contemplated himselfe the more cause he saw there was to love himselfe for being like thee and to love thee for so making him This Sathan saw with envie and it was another hell for him to see it and hating thee and all things for thee he seduced man with pride and ambition causing him not to rest satisfied with what thou hadst given him but to desire all things which thou hadst made only for thy felfe And thus vainely and foolishly to neglect the rule of himselfe and the inferiour Creatures in justice contrarie to thy commaund and to affect the tree of knowledge of good and evill which thou hadst only forbidden him By this meanes O Lord seeking more then he should he lost what he had and labouring indirectly to be equall to thee he defaced thine image and whatsoever was within him like vnto thee So that his wisdome became foolish subtiltie his beautie painted vglinesse his love lustfull vncharitablenesse his justice extreame injurie and vnrighteousnes his holines either ydolatrie or prophanesse and the whole man a living ghost a golden Sepulchre And now as before thou didst cast Sathan out of Heaven for pride where no vncleane thing can stay or enter so didst thou eject man out of Paradice without hope of other inheritance for him and all his wretched posteritie then hell which he had deserved and wee in him But herein appeared thy exceeding and superaboundant love not only pardoning this sinne of his and ours but in sending thy Sonne into the world to dye for vs to satisfie thy justice and to purchase for vs a neerer and surer conjunction to thee then that which wee had before and lost even a conjunction betwixt thy love and our faith which the gates of hell cannot prevaile against And that Sathans envie might be more exasperated as a punishment vnto himselfe a glory vnto thee that which he intended for our curse thou hast turned to our crowne and wee are truly in a way to become like thee yea to be vnited to thee So that as if thou hadst made all things for man we have interest in all things in thee and all and thus are truly what Sathan falsely told vs wee should be become as Gods knovving good and evill the evill by present experience and fruition the good in future hope and expectation And that wee might not faint in this our wearie pilgrimage thou hast breathed thy Spirit into vs and given him to be our comforter who daily