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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	scripture_n	19,615	5	6.1818	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64184	Misselanies, or, Fifty years gathering out of sundry authors in prose and verse being the studious readings, painful collections, and some of them are the composings of the writer and publisher heerof / John Taylor.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1652 (1652)	Wing T483A; ESTC R27535	17,565	42

another they were of sundry Countries Nations and Languages they lived a● sundry times and different Ages they were also of differings callings and qualities as some were Kings some were Princes some were Priests some were shepheards some were heardsmen they prophecied of severall passages and actions of our Saviour and his sufferings one wrote of his being promised another of the time when the Scepter should depart from Iuda some foretold his conception others spake of his Birth his Circumcision his life his stripes buffetings patience silence passion death buriall Resurrection and Ascension all these Prophets and Seers were directed by one and the same Spirit the Holy Ghost he 70. Interpreters were of sundry Nations and Languages many of them having never conversed or spake to nor scarce saw each other yet they were all guided and inspired by the same Spirit that they miraculously interpreted and in an unity collected an uniform and exact Originall Translation of the sacred Scriptures both Mysticall and Historicall Imitations are sometimes dangerous to follow for when the Israelites past into the Red Sea Pharaoh was none of the wisest to follow them for their high way was a Grave to him and all his army The 7. Sleepers were brethren born in Ephesinum they lived in the tyrannous Raign of the Emperour Decius Ann. 447. their names were 1. Marcus 2. Maximilianus 3. Martinianus 4. Dionysius 5. Johannes 6. Serapion and the seventh was Constantius These brothers fled from the great Persecution which was then and hid themselves in a Cave where they slept 200. yeeres This story is related by many Authors of whom I will instance but one which is Mr. Thomas Heywood in his Tractate of Angels the 9. Book page 606. Also the Church hath ordayned that their memories should be celebrated on the 27. of July as appeares in the Almanacke If we compare the times past with the dayes wherein we live we shall finde much alteration for I read that in the 11. yeer of the Raign of King Edward the third that a quarter of Wheat was but at the price of 2s a far Oxe 6s 8d a fat sheep 6d 6. Pidgeons 1d a fat Goose 2d a fat Pig 1d and the Rates of all Rents and all other necessaries were at Prices according And it is probable that there were as many people in those dayes as are now for in the 22 yeer of the same King there was a great Plague and mortality of People in England so that in lesse then 6. months from the 12. of January to the last of June there died in London and the Liberties 57374. persons and in Yarmouth there died 7052. So likewise the Infection was so hot spred over the Kingdome that it swept many thousands away in many places by which may bee perceived how populous England was 400. yeers ago Also Ireland did then pay 30000. yeerly tribute to the English crown See Sir Richard Bakers Chronicle God is more mercifuil then Man can be sinfull if Man can bee truly sorrowfull Nor can Man commit any sinne but against it the Father of Mercies hath provided many wayes and meanes to restraine it hee hath given us a Law of Nature and a reason to obey that Law he hath printed and graved in the hearts and bodies of men and this Law doth shew and teach us what to doe and what not to doe it makes us to know good and evill it directs us to vertue it resists vices and this much the very law of Nature hath dictated into the reasonable soules of men But to this unwritten law of Nature Almighty God was pleased to adde a supernaturall written Law declared in the Decalogue or ten Commandements But when time was fulfilled and Prophesies accomplished of Christs comming he being come from him wee had a new Law to guide us to that perfection as becomes Christians And because this Law is petpetuall and unalterable our great and gratious Law giver hath appointed Pastors and Preachers to direct us in the observation thereof and he hath also ordayned Magistrates to have power and command to see the Law put in execution and to inflict punishment upon the contemners and transgressors of the same For the further direction and observation of this Law God hath placed a sharpe and just Judge called Conscience in the breast of every man or woman which Judge doth impartially accuse or excuse the unjust or just This Judge Conscience deters and affrights us from many uncleane and unlawfull words and works it binds us as it were to the good behaviour it keeps us in aw it is both a schoolmaster and a Corrector it teacheth us our duties it tells us our faults without flattery it is the eye of the soule for as the body is ruled and directed by the eye so is the soul guided comforted and corrected by the Conscience It tells us what is lawfull what is illegall it is a witness that accuseth and evidenceth against us it is a Judge that condemnes or acquits us as it findes us guilty or not guilty it is also a terrible Executioner of Justice and justly it torments with due punishment all our misdoings In Naturall reason wee may perceive Conscience to be a binding Law for when a man is about to put in practise any wicked act eyther of prophanenesse against God or abuse towards men presently Conscience forbids it and commands him to remember that God sees his thoughts and actions and to have that just precept in his minde Whatsoever thou wouldst that men should doe unto thee doe thou the same unto them for Conscience is a Law wherein no excuse is to bee admitted no evasion or illusion no bribe cloke cover or dispensation can make this Evidence mute for it will declare the Truth and the whole Truth without the abatement of a tittle Thus is Conscience not onely a Law but a witnesse against us for all our open and secret transgressions whether wee bee on Sea or on Land sleep or awake at bed or boord at home or abroad in company or alone Conscience still cryes out against the guilty This Witnesse is a true and a stout Preacher diligent in his function he is no idle non Resident and though a man be never so secret and silent yet his Conscience will not be put to silence Thou canst not stop the cars of thy soul but it will ever heare thy Conscience cry out and it will be ever telling thee such things as thou couldst wish were not our first Parents after their great sinne of disobedience their Conscience so accused them that for fear and shame they hid themselves amongst Bushes Cains Conscience was so shrill and vehement in crying out against him for his murdering of his innocent brother Abel that he cried out and in despairing of mercy from God confest his crime to bee more then God would or could forgive The sonnes of Jacob when they were in distresse their Consciences plainly told them that their afflictions fell