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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	father_n	holy_a	jesus_n	13,652	5	5.8822	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04506	A godly exhortation made vnto the people of Antioch, by Iohn Chrysostome, sometime arch bishop of Constantinople: touching the patience and suffering affliction, by the examples of Iob, and the three children: and of refraining from swearing. Translated out of Latin into English, by Robert Rowse minister of the word of God	John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407.; Rowse, Robert.	1597 (1597)	STC 14633; ESTC S107986	15,074	56

thy bodie againe with greater glorie and in steede of thy money hee wil giue thee such goods as do surmount all the power of reason to esteeme of For Iob sate naked vppon the dung-hill leading a life more greeuous thē a number of deaths but because hee reiected not godlinesse all his goods which he had at the first were restored vnto him with greater aboūdance the health and comely hue of his bodie the whole companie of his children and al his possessions that which is the greatest thing of all the glorious crowne of patience was giuen vnto him For as it happeneth in trees if a man take away the fruit with the leaues and cut off all the boughs yet if the roote remaineth the whole tree springeth vp againe with greater comlinesse So is it also with vs if the roote of godlinesse remaine in vs though our riches be taken away and our bodies corrupted or destroyed yet all things shall returne againe vnto vs with greater glorie Therefore casting away all sorrowfull anguish of the soule and superfluous care let vs returne again vnto our selues let vs garnish our bodyes and soules with the ornamēt of vertue making the members of our bodies weapons of righteousnesse and not of sinne And before all things lette vs teach our tongue to bee the minister of grace putting away out of our mouths all poysoned and malitious speech and the meditation of filthie words For by the grace of God assisting vs we may make euerie one of our members instruments of righteousnesse as they whom grace do not preuēt do make their members instruments of wickednes Heare therfore how some haue made their tongues weapons of sinne and how some haue made them weapons of righteousnesse The Prophet Dauid saith of some Psal 57.5 Psal 45.2 Their tongue is a sharpe sword but of himselfe he saith My tongue is the pen of a readie writer The tongue of the one wrote death the other did write the law of God Therfore the tongue of the one was a sword and the tongue of the other a penne not in respect of their owne nature but in regarde of the disposition of those that vsed them For the nature of the tongue both of the one party and of the other was all one but they had not both one operation And again the like we may see concerning the mouth for some had their mouth full of filthie corruption and wickednes therfore the prophet accusing them said Psal 10.7 Their mouth is full of cursing bitternes But his mouth was otherwise inclined Psal 49.3 therfore he saith My mouth shal speake of wisedom and my hart shal muse of vnderstanding Again some had hands full of wickednes blaming thē he said Iniquitie is in their hands Psal 26.10 and their right hād is ful of gifts but he had his hāds cheifly accustomed to nothing else but to be lifted vp toward heauen and therfore he also speaking of thē saith Psal 141.2 Let the lifting vp of my hands be an euening sacrifice And the like we may see in the hart for their hart was vain but his heart was true and vpright Therefore hee saith of them Psal 5.9 Psal 45.1 Their heart is foule and vain but of his own heart he saith My heart is inditing of a good matter And againe a man may see the like example concerning the hearing for some had such a kinde of hearing as beastes haue that is to say a fierce and impatient hearing and reproouing them hee saith Psal 58.4 They are like the deafe Adder that stoppeth her eares But his hearing was a receptacle of the words of God and this he declared saying I will incline mine eare vnto the Parable Psal 19.4 and shew my darke speech vpon the harp Therfore seeing that we know these things let vs arme our selues on euerie side with vertue so we shal escape the wrath of God And lette vs make our bodily members weapons of righteousnesse and let vs teach our eyes and our mouthes and our hands and our feete our heart and our tongue and all our body to bee conformable vnto vertue And let vs remēber those three precepts whereof I spake vnto you in the former Sermon desiring you that yee beare enimitie to no man neither speak ye euil of any of them that haue caused your sorrow and that yee would putte away that vngodly custome of swearing out of your mouths And of these two first precepts we shall intreate at an other time but all this present weeke wee will speake vnto you as touching swearing beginning at the easier precept For it is no labor to ouercome the custome of vaine oathes if we would bestow but a little studie one of vs to exhort another and to aduertise and marke one another requiring an account of our selues and rehearsing the punishments that we deserue for the the things which wee haue forgotten to obserue For I pray you what shall the abstinence from meates profit vs except we expell the wicked customes of the minde Beholde wee haue nowe passed this whole day in fasting in the euening therefore let vs set foorth our table not like as it was yesterday but lette our diet be changed and more moderate Can any of vs now say that this day hee hath changed his life as he hath changed his table that he hath changed his wicked custome of sinning as hee hath changed his diet else what shall our fasting profit vs Therefore I exhort you and cease not to exhort you that ye take euery seuerall precept by it selfe diligently bestow two or three daies in performing the same and so to proceede and per seuere in obedience And as there bee some that enuie others in fasting doo wonderfully cōtend about abstaining frō meats and some do passe two whole daies fasting and other some excluding from their table not only the vse of wine oyle but also euerie kind of dish do passe the whole time of Lent vsing only bread and water so let vs also cōtend to chase away the hurtfull showers of swearing and to banish that vngodly custome from vs for this is more profitable then al fasting this is more cōmodious then al straightnesse of liuing And the care that we haue about abstaining from meates lette vs employ it about refraining from swearing for we shall incur the crime of extreme follie if wee haue no regard to shunne the things that are forbiddē vs apply al our study about things indifferēt For to eate our meate is a thing not forbidden but to swear we are forbidden Dare we thē abstaining from things grāted commit things that are forbidden Therefore of charitie I exhort you to make some change of your euill life vpon this exhortation to shew a beginning hereof in yourselues For if wee shall accomplish this present fast with so great care putting this in effect namely that this weeke we wil not sweare and the weeke next insuing to extinguish wrath and enuie the next week after vtterly to root out backbiting and euill speaking and then after that amending other faults abuses so going forward the right way we shall by little little come to the high degree of vertue shal escape this present danger and shall pacifie the Lord our God and the multitude shal come againe vnto vs into the Citie And then wee shall teach them that are fallen away by flying to committe the hope of our safetie not to any strong munition of places nor to any vaine refuge or flying away but vnto godlines of mind good disposition and vertuous inclination And thus directing our liues in the feare of God we shall both enioy these temporal good things and also those eternall and vnspeakeable ioyes of heauen Of the which ioyes God grant that wee all may be made woorthie by the grace and bountifulnesse of our Lord Iesus Christ by whom and with whom all glorie honour and power be ascribed vnto the father with the most holy quickning and coeternal spirit now and for euermore Amen FINIS