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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	lord_n	soul_n	15,609	5	5.1843	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13822	The house-holder: or, Perfect man. Preached in three sermons lately by Ed: Topsell, preacher at Saint Buttolphs without Aldersgate	Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?	1610 (1610)	STC 24126; ESTC S121017	58,032	209

for the pleasure and partiality of Malefactious offendors nor so much as draw the Curtain vpon Learning for the tender eyes of any ignorant vaine men whatsoeuer And so Lord If these men curse yet blesse thou our church our King our State our Learning our People for euermore 15 Giue mee leaue yet to leade you along in the spirit as God did Ezechiell and as he said to him Behold more abhominations so I to you Behold more fooles We read of a strange kind of foolish people called Psylli in Affrica who were of a very low stature of bodie but of a much lower and meaner wit and conceipt For they hauing a Citty much annoyed by the South-winde vpon a season espying their opportunity in a calme and peaceable weather armed themselues to go out into the sandy Sea or wildernesse of sand to seeke this their enemy the South-winde and to bid it battell hoping vtterly to vanquish it so as it might neuer more blow vpon them while they ranged too and fro to seeke this their aduersary suddainely the Windes arose and so tossed the sand vppon them that in a short space they were all swallowed vp therewith These are worthily punnished for their folly will euery man say for what can a sharp sword do against the cold winde No more then to cast stones and what simplicitie were it to thinke that the Winde were a liuing creature and had eyther bloud or spirit to loose Or if it had that mortal men could meet or match it Well out of these sands which drowned these Psylli people are arose a generation almost as foolish as they Namely those which think by carnal means to ouercome Spirituall daungers For if the soule haue no affinitie with Golde the one being a Corporeall the other a Spirituall substance what is there in Magical inchauntment as a Fishes Liuer to driue away a Deuill And Gold to satisfie for mens sinnes the griefe of Conscience cannot be cured by Musicke nor carnal Precepts ouerthrow our Spirituall foe Your spirituall daungers are greatest therefore trust in the Lord who is a spirit and therefore fittest to dispel conquer them but as for King or Man or Horse or Speare or Spel or Medicine they cannot help the soule against the Lordes wrath It is best to yeild our bodies to Spirituall blastes and let the minde bee compassed about with him whom Winde and Seas obey Honesty externall is a necessarie Armour against the malice of man yet our Spirituall foe wil not feare it vnlesse it be accompanied with Prayer and Spirituall Weapons also 16 Thus haue I shewed you the more generall Fooles now I will proceede against the more particular and speciall And in the first place I will ranke the Hypocrite which taketh but the vaile or garment of Religion letting goe the pithe and Marrow thereof I may wel compare him to that Asinus Cumanus Asse of Cuma An Asse finding a Lyons skin to the end to make himselfe more terrible to the foolish Citizens put himself thereinto and then ietted fearefully vp and downe in the same to the terrour of as many of that Cittie as saw him euery one thinking him indeede to be a Lyon and when he had helde them a good time in that dreadful opinion at last a stranger came that way who hearing the general bruite of this strange Beast was desirous to see him and at the very first beholding his eares knew him to bee an Asse in a Lyons skin and went boldly to him before al the multitude plucked off the Lyons skin and so discouered the Asses practise This I know doth very wel suite with an Hypocrite first because no wise man will be a counterfaite but only som shalow-witted person therfore fitly resembled to an asse apt to bear both Gods wrath Mans Gods because hee disliketh him that is not so good as he seemeth Mans because men of this worlde hate him that seemes to bee good although he be not Now the Lyons skinne signifieth Christ for he is the Lyon of the Tribe of Iuda in whose garments wee are blessed of God as Iacob was of Isaac in the garmentes of his elder Brother How glad are some men if for a season they can counterfait godlinesse for that is both our Sauiors coate and skinne and then they beguile simple people that suspect no fraude for they will pray read heare giue praise Vertue dispraise Vice and what not So as they may get an estimation of piety to couer their more odious and secret practises But GOD shall send a man a stranger of more skill and Wisedome to plucke the skin ouer these Hypocrites eares that all the worlde may know and deride this folly that they themselues may likewise vnderstande that dissembled Religion and Piety shall haue her shame in this world and in the world to come 17 Worldly men are also very much troubled with Ignorance want of experience in diuine matters I meane matters of Conscience whereof one Callicon a notable foole may giue them a taste and in his action apt to be derided they may take a view of their own faces This silly fellow being sleepy and wanting a Pillow or Bolster to beare vp his head layed vnneath it a Vessell of glasse which being very hard and not tollerable to his tender head-peece hee remembred that he had hearde that Feathers make Pillowes soft whervppon he went and filled it full of Feathers and so lay downe vpon it againe but with no more ease then before And surely no maruaile for except the out-side were apt to yeeld vpon any pressure in vaine was it stuffed with any softe matter You laugh that hear this who can forbeare to deride such a folly vpon so litle harme But turne to your-selues I beseech you and tell me Who hath the iudgement to procure quiet sleepe to his soule when it is weary First out of Nature we know that it wanteth rest and out of that knowledge wee labour to prouide it but what doe wee rest our soules heade vppon Namely a harde brittle shining heape of some worldly pelfe vpon which our soule can take no more rest then the fooles head vpon the glasse for as the Lyon delighteth not in straw nor the Horse in flesh no more doth the soule in wealth of Gold and Siluer Then we hear of another rest more soft then glasse which is learned or gathered from the Fowles of Heauen I meane the Saints which bring vnto vs the holy worde of God that we prouide and misplace it in the the former brittle harde Vessell of worldly heapes and so thinke to sleepe more easily vpon our former Pillowe by reason of the new inward stuffing but all in vaine for if the bottle be all hard and fast stopped we may suck the skin off from our lips before we draw the Wine through Put not new Wine into old Vessels then saith our Sauiour it will be lost and put the soft