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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	breathe_v	dead_a	great_a	71	3	2.1566	3	false

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A87570	A ministers mite cast into the stocke of a weake memory: helpt by rules and experiments. VVith a winter night schoole tutoring discourse to generous youth.	Jerome, Stephen, fl. 1604-1650.	1650 (1650)	Wing J681CA; Thomason E1361_1; ESTC R209182	21,533	64

fellow Pu. One Caesar in Rome one Generall in a Campe as one Master Bee in a Hive one Master in a house one friend like Jouathan Socrates or Crates the Thebane to converse with one Plato in stead of all one Cato to consult with one Fedus Achates to walke with one wise Abigail or patient Grizel or Willobeyes Avisa or Overburies Wife described to live with and that Wife to have but one good tongue to talke with many tongues of Dutch French Spanish Italian Latin in a woman being suspitious to be all good oft breeding a Babels confusion Pr. What is the first thing that lives in Man Pu. His heart which is also sayd to be the last that dies as in some women the tongue is the last which moves aut metiuntur Poetae Pr. What is the tamer of all shrewes Pu. Not words nor swords nor blows which quiet a Zantippe as stones throwne at an angry dog or red colors Turky cocks and Unicornes but Morpheus or Mors death or deadly sleep which makes a shrew a sheep a sounding vowell as silent as a Turkish mute Pr. What creatures begin their workes in the midst Pu. All Birds and Swallowes their nests the silke wormes their clewes the bees their honey-combes and the spiders their webs as in generation God first framed the heart in the midst of man and in regeneration infuseth grace into that midst as was seene in the Jewes pricked and repentant and in the Aethiopian Eunuch beleeving first in their hearts ere grace was knowne and showne in their lives Rom. 10. v. 10. Pr. What is it for meere Legall Preachers to preach and presse duties to bee done and sinnes to be left and loathed to carnall Auditors ere ever they know or feele the power of Fayth or Evangelicall Repentance the roots of duties and the conque●●rs of corruptions Heb. 11.6 John 15.1.2.3.4 1. John 5.4 Pu. This is to require an apple ere there be an ingrafted tree an egge where there is no hen breathing where there is no soul yea to expect sucking and crying in a dead child Eph. 2.1 Musicke in Organ-pipes where be no blowing bellowes feeling in a woodden leg and an eye of glasse where there is no participation of vitall and animall spirits and to looke for fruit of dead trees dried up cut downe and withered this meerely sets the cart before the horse the effect before the cause and will needes bring forth a son to God to beleeving Abraham Gal. 3.7 and a daughter to Sarah ere there be any mother or any regenerating immortall seed 1. Pet. 1.21 in which most of our strict stearne Legall and austere Ministers who neither experimentally know Christ nor how to reveale him to others goe in a tract to convert soules as if they should walke with their heads downward and heeles upward or reare up a firme house without a foundation urging morall duties to unbeleevers which honest Pagans Jewes and Turkes have done and may doe to no purpose without a Christ Acts 4.12 Matth. 15.13 Acts 10.43 Pr. What is the best knowledge in a Preacher Pu. As in a Physitian that which is experimentall drawing that which he preacheth and presseth to others as the spider her webs and the silkeworme her clew out of the bowels of his owne experience without which he talks as a Parret by rote connes by heart his part and his Quew like a Player patcheth up as a Taylour his shreds what he can scrape and snap from Polyanthea Granateusis his Silva and every Author and often as the eccho of Mr. Perkins Smith Bisiald Taylour Bayne Greenham Dike Deering repeats as good Sermons or homely Homelies as any hee can buy for money Pr. What 's the best Embleme of a Preacher Pu. A Cocke first clapping his wings to awaken himselfe then crowing to awaken others like that Cocke which preacht Christs rehearsall Sermon to Peter peceant and penitent Pr. What 's the best Embleme of a good Hearer Pu. First to be as swift to heare as slow to speake and as studious to meditate as the Scholars of Pythagoras or Thomas Aquinas of a long time called Bos mutus a dumbe Oxe for his silent Soliloquies as is sayd of yong Nightingales that they sit solitarily on boughes and repeat by themselves what notes and tones they heare from the old ones Camerarius reports the like of Elephants musing on their Masters lessons directing their dancings on hard stones to the sound of musick Pr. What helps did I prescribe you for Memory with the reasons that most remember Sermons no better Pu. First want of attention their wandring eyes or walking tongues carrying their hearts a woolgathering from their eares whereas a History Musicke and Sermons should have strict attention Luke 4.20 21. Secondly the seed of the word is choaked with the thornes of carking cares Luke 8.7 or drowned in the bogges and quags of lusts or washt out of their minds with the lutulent waters of sensuall thoughts or overgrowne with weeds of wrath James 1.21 Thirdly one nayle drives out another the rusty nayle of the world the golden nayle of the word carnall discourses causing forgetting of that in the Church-yard which they got in the Church their streams turned into other torrents makes their hearts so dry their lives so barren and their braynes so shallow Fourthly want of love to the word for had a man as many children as Ahab and Prianus a schoolemaster as many scholars as Jo. Scotus Erigona or Orbilius once or Ramus they would bee remembred because all are loved it being no marvel that Cynus Mitloridates and Scipio remembred their souldiers names so well because their hearts were upon them and they loved them as well as Alexander and Caesar their souldiers whom they called their Commilitones fellow-soldiers Fisthly want of compunction because their hearts are not pricked nor their consciences wounded in hearing nor cut with the sword of the spirit Heb. 4.12 Jer. 22.29 more then the Smiths Anvile or the scales of a Dragon harder for beating and hammering being unmelted with the fire their hearts take no print for a man remembers where when and how hee was wounded by pike sword or pistoll all the dayes of his life Sixthly want of practice the souldier scarce forgetting the postures he hath learned to practice Seventhly there is oft most fault in Preachers 1. eyther in their dull and dead preaching without light life or power which charmes them asleepe as Mercuries pipe did Argus 2 or stupifies them as Henbane doth payned teeth 3. Or clawes them like Tygers to a tamenesle 4. or sowes pillows under their elbowes for the drowsie naps of security 5. or by their immethodicall luxate and unoynted preaching they lose themselves and hearers method being the mother of Memory 6. or by too high and sublime preaching they intangle their hearers in intricate Laborinths and Meanders out of which they cannot unwinde themselves 7. or their truantly reading their Sermons like words from a faint sick man making

her Ph. He indeed that will prevent sinne mustprevent the occasion as he that hath a dizzy brain must not walk over a narrow Bridge and he that will not be bit with Wine as with a Serpent must not looke at the colour of it as the fond Fly if she will not be scorched must not dally with the flame besides he must quench the heates of Love or lust as Factions in the Church and fractions in a State in their first sparks cruch them like serpents in the head and Cockatrices in their shells in their first risings ere they get head as young Hauks are caught in Ayries ere they get wing but among those who were culpable in their eyes who most abused their tongues Pu. Ahab who falsely accused Jezabel who threatned the Zelous Thisbite Turtullus who traduced Paul Diotrephes who prated against John the Divine Shemei who reviled Michall who mocked Saul who vituperated Goliab who blasphemed holy David as Rabshekah both God and Hezekiah with all the Priests and false Prophets who scandalized Jeremiah the proud and profane Jewes who smote him with the tongue the same Jews who contradicted blasphemed scandalized both Paul Steven Christ himself as the Arians in the Primitive times did Athanasius Narcissus Eugenius and all the Orthodox as Cocleus Belserus Stapleton Feverdentius Scurrilous Kellison all the Romish Rabshekah's tongue poysoned Luther Melancton Calvin Beza all our most famous Belgick Divines praetermitting the muttering mouch-murthering tongues of Corah Dathan Abiram and the hard hearted Idolatrous Jewes against Moses and Aaron and the poysons in the tongus of some Priests as if like Popery and frenzy running in a bloud against old Hierom the Trilinguist Hierom of Prague Hierom Savanorola Hierom Zanchius and others Ph. Who like many a Monsieur mendax gulling Guzman lying Lazarillo lewd Lentulus and Hell hatched hereticks of our dayes had his lying tongue more than Latin tongue Pu. Gehezi who was a Leaper for his labour and his seed after him Ph. Who used their tongues as instruments of Gods glory and the good of others Pu. Moses Aaron Samuell Daniell Phineas old Simeon in praying and Prophesying Deborah and Baruck Elkanaes Anna Judith the Beththulian and the Virgin Mother in praising God chiefly David whose tongue was the Pen of a ready Writer who had ever an Eucharisticall Song and Psalme for God as God had a mercy of Adornation and Preservation for him in delivering him from the Beare the Lion Doeg the Dog Achitophel the Fox Saul the Tyger Goliah the Monster the treacherous Ziphims Shebah Absolous and the Philistines Ph. It is remarkable also that when Augustine and Ambrose met they composed in mutuall answers that te Deum we praise thee O God And when our Doctour Sibbs and Doctour Preston met they found ever to discourse on some further excellencies in God as did also as the best president for women Elizabeth and the Mother of Christ reasonating Gods praises not like carnall Gossips abusing their tongues and mispending their time in pratlings traducing the absent often the innocent Hence its easie to resolve which be the best or worst of all Dishes Pu. Aesop long since told his Masters they were tongues as they were well or ill drest and layd in Pickle seasoned with the salt of the Sanctuary yea washed in the best holy water sage the best of them or Rotten ripe for rotting like the tongue of Nestorius the worst of them Ph. What trade is most profitable least prejudiciall to others least envyed most honoured with the greatest which yet at last will fail though now the most professe it Pu. It is neither Law Physick Divinity Merchandizing Surgery nor any other Function Liberall or Mechanick by sea nor by Land but in one word begging Ph. You say true for to illustrate all my proposalls by demonstration first it s most profitable litterally 1 and English or a Scotch Courtier praetermitting all the quondam gaines of it in the Courts of Alexander Pirrbus Augustus as also in their Camps getting more in one morning by begging whilome from King James than a Preacher by spending his Lights and Lungs or an Advocate by pleading halfe Nestors years 2. Withall It s least prejudiciall in a metaphoricall sence begging by prayer it being in the Order of Petitioners as in the Order of Predicants and true Elemosinarians the more the better though it hold in few other professions in Troynovant the moe Hounds the better hunting moe Spaniels beter Hauking there multitudes being as prejudiciall to their thriving as many Physitians were to the health of Adrian one in a manner devouring another not as Pharaohs lean Kine the fat and empty ears the full but the fat the lean as great Pikes the little fry and greater beasts and birds the lesser 3. Withall whereas in other trades aemulation is a great stickler plaguing it selfe and others this is the least envyed 4. Withall however other trades are respected by men chiefly liberall Artists yet never had any Galenist Justmian Baldus Bartolus or Hermolaus Barbarus that respect with Grandees no not Ennius with Scipio Virgil with Augustus or Cyneas with Pyrrhus as the poor soul hath with Christ by a praying spirit 5. Last of all it s most gainfull though not with the men of the earth yet against the men of the earth and with the great God of Heaven as for instance this begging and petitioning by prayer hath brought fire from heaven shut and opened the heavens in Elias his time stayd the course of the Sun in Joshua's time brought Manna from heaven water out of a Rock plagued Pharaoh drowned an Army divided the Sea in Moses his time raised two children with Dorcas Lazarus and Jairus his daughter healed Ezekiah divided Joràane twice wrestled and prevailed with God and with men healed Leprosies and all diseases dispossessed Demoniacks and as Faiths Daughter did ever as great marvels and miracles as did the mother yet for all this this trade must at last faile after the Resurrection there will be no more use of it in the full fruition of foelicity than of Faith and hope But this subject having drawn on an enlargement to abbreviate the rest Who were Martyrs yet never Confessors nor Disputants for the Faith nor Petitioners to the Court of Heaven Pu. All the Infants of Bethelem as innocent Lambes destroyed by Herod the Fox Ph. Who was wiser than his Teachers Pu. David more wise than Gad and Nathan Moses wiser than Jethro his Counsellour Paul a greater Proficient in Christs Colledge than Gamaliel Apollos more eloquent than Aquila and Priscilla and amongst Moralists Aristotle in his Philosophy exceeded his Master Plato and of Divines Thomas Aquinas out shined his Master Albert how ever like Basil called great Ph. Where was vertue truely in the midst Pu. Christ in the midst of the Doctors in the Temple and in the midst of his Disciples after his Resurrection as the Sun in the midst of the Planets as