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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	sin_n	soul_n	13,963	5	5.3517	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20957	A preparation to suffer for the Gospell of Iesus Christ. Or, A most Christian exercise full of comfort and consolation for these present times. Written in French by the learned, and zealous, Peter Du Moulin, Profresor of Diuinitie, in the Vniuersitie of Sedan	Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; Darcie, Abraham, fl. 1625.	1623 (1623)	STC 7336; ESTC S118563	17,868	86

his colds humidities and raines the Spring with its beauty sweetnes flowers Summer with its heat siccitie and drought who likewise discerne not the leafeles trees to reassume their verdure and ornament dead plants to resprout withered herbs to reflorish and corrupt seeds to reuiue for that which thou sowest cānot quicken before it first die Cor. 15 A most wonderful thing that Nature should destroy to preserue take away to restore ruinate to maintain corrupt to reuiue and consume to augment and that things by her defeated shold be restor'd made more beautifull and abundant the which thou maist euidently see in the wheat which being laid in the parts of the earth as in sepulchres or graues after it hath putrified it coms vp again much more rich and plentiful then before And to say truth the condition of all things in this Vniuers is renued by their losse and suffer a falling away for their further reparation so that all these ordinary reuolutions these mutable rowling orders of things are nothing but testimonies and intimations vnto vs and as it were a delineation and draught of the Resurrection of the dead the wonder whereof God hath rather exprest in his works then declared by his Ministers by his power rather then by his word and by Nature rather then by Prophesie that so thou mightest be made more fit for the doctrin of Faith being instructed by the experience of this world and so thereupon they should resolue and firmly beleeue that he will likewise reestablish thy person for as thou seest hee reestablisheth all things Wherfore then should we fear either the destruction or endurances of this body seeing it must be restor'd yea into a glorious estate conformable to the body of Iesus Christ why should we fear the hatred of the world which cannot exceed the respects of this world nor bee any obstacle to the accomplishment of our saluation Let vs perseuer vnto the end for he that suffers to the ende shall bee saued So as there is no temptation that can shake our constancy neither the cruelties of oppression nor the perplexities of pain anguish nor the rigor of persecution nor the hardnes of famine neither the ignominy of nakednes or the horror of perill neither the furie of the sword nor the miseries of life neither the violence of death nor the force of all the creatures ioyn'd in one But by reason that in this general hatred of all men against the Church we perceiue the wrath of God kindled against vs because of the extremity of our sins let vs acknowledge them in their horror with a detestation renunciation of them let vs lament with a profound contrition in sighs and teares imploring Gods mercy to the end that his indignation ceasing he may stay the power and fury of such as hate vs. And let vs be cōforted in that if we are hated of the world we are beloued of God that as we cannot loue God and the world together so both God and the world cannot ioyntly loue vs. If we ought to endure for the name of Christ it is freely giuen vs not onely to beleeue in him but also to suffer for him thogh men make war vpon vs yet can they not take from vs the peace of God nor the peace of our consciences If we be depriu'd of our earthly commodities yet shall we not be exempted from the treasures of heauen we may take ioyfully the being stript of our goods and chuse rather to be afflicted with the people of God then to enioy for a time the delights of sinne esteeming opprobries for Christ greater riches thē the treasures of Egypt in respect of their renumeration If we suffer any losse of the body we shal find gain of the soule and that is a good return when we lose for to gaine for in these losses the spirit profits and purchaseth incomparably more then the flesh loseth If we be put to triall by banishment why all the earth is the Lords and though we should bee dispearsed into the most sauage Desarts yet should we not be separated from God nor lose the priuiledge of being Citizens in heauen If most violent aduersities assaile vs the indurances of the time present are not comparable to the glory to come Our light afflictions which doe but euen passe ouer head produce in vs an eternal ioy of a glory superexcellent For if in this transitory world we see a number of men expose themselues to the extreamest hazards and perils be it out of a thirst after glory desire of riches be it for ambitions quarrels or the wars of their Princes should wee refuse to suffer for Gods cause such things as others suffer for meer worldly respects If we be vrg'd to imprisonment the Spirit of God will enter in with vs to giue vs consolation and to reside with vs and in vs. And though the prison were like the deuils house yet by the spirit of our God and by the efficacy of our prayers we may be able to assault and subdue him in his own house we shall put him to flight to the greatest profundities of his depths as an Adder or Snake who being pursued betakes himself to his hole concauity keepes himselfe in folds himselfe vp in his twists hides himselfe and dares not appeare we shall send him from the prison to his hell from the gaole to his place of torments And it need not be hard for vs to be sequestred from the things of this world seeing we are but strangers to the world in that the world is worse then a prison for the prison hath no such darknes in it as that of the world which blindes mens vnderstandings neither are there any such strong bonds as those of the world which doe so hamper the soule nor so euill sents as the odors of the world which are stinking affections and infected corruptions that defile both heauen and earth It holds not so many wicked ones within the precincts of it as the world which comprehends them all neither expects such terrible Iudgement as the world which shal heare the sentence of eternall condemnation To conclude if the prison hath darknesse our selues be light in God if bonds we are free in the Lord if odious stinches we are a good odor to God through Iesus Christ if we are found guilty we are iustified before God if the Iudge bee there ready to giue iudgement wee shall one day iudge as assistants with Christ Iudges of all the world in like manner For if a Christian out of prison renounceth the world how much being in prison ought he to doe the like And what matters it what hee is in this world seeing he is out of the world And thogh his be enclosed within a prison for are not all things open and at liberty to the Spirit who wil not forbear to breake through roofes or vaults when in spirit hee may take his free carriere glide vp to heauen and make his happy sallies euen into Paradise That euen as they that descend into a deepe dark well they see there at all times the stars of heauen so likewise the faithfull in the deepest obscuritie of the dungeon faile not with the eyes of faith to behold the glory of the heauens the radiant light of Gods countenance which brings replenishment of ioy and then questionles may a man be sayd to haue lost his earthly condition when the spirit is rauished vp into heauen for the body then hardly feeles any misery when its soule is with God and conuerseth with the blessed But if in being released out of prison we must indure death or martyrdome Christ will be benefit and gaine vnto vs both in life death 2. Tim. 2. If we die with him we shall also liue with him and happy is that death which brings with it life and opens vnto vs the gate of immortality And further it will bee much glory for vs to set together and cyment the Church of God with our blood and ashes And if this death be outwardly odious and ignominious we do but in it contemne the dishonour of the world we being for the name of Christ annihilated in worldly honor calling to mind how Christ was first crowned with thornes before with glory hee did first climb the crosse before he moūted vp into heauen and nayled therunto between two theeues before he sat at the right hand of God his Father If this death be painfull our soule shall be victorious ouer all bodily torments by the diuine vertue of our Lord who out of his deare loue transforming vs into himselfe will make vs incompatible euen as he hath done many other zealous constant Martyrs which haue suffred in their bodies as in strange and different flesh who without astonishment beheld their bodies all on a light fire their entrailes hanging downe their members burnt off and falling downe piece by piece and their ●iuely flesh brought to dust and ashes By their heauenly notes they haue drowned the wind and rumour of the ●●ames and by the and our of their zeale vanquished that of the burning fire and in the midst of fire-hot coales as if it had bin vpon a bed of flowers th●y haue ioyfully exalted their happy and blessed soules Whereunto may further be added that the more cruell torm●●ting our kind of death is so much more excellent and eminent w●●●e constan●y of our 〈…〉