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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	son_n	41,079	5	6.0417	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73288	VVaters of Marah, and Meribah: or, the source of bitternes, and strife, sweetned and allayed by way of aduice, refutation, censure, against the pseudo-zelots of our age: by Humphrey Sydenham, master of arts, late fellow of Wadham Colledge in Oxford.	Sydenham, Humphrey, 1591-1650?	1630 (1630)	STC 23574; ESTC S125548	26,958	48

But Hee was made all vnto All partly by commiserating them partly by doing something like Theirs which notwithstanding did not oppose the Law of God or else as Saint Augustine paraphrases it Compassione misericordiae non similitudine fall aciae or else Non mentientis actu sed compatientis affectu Augusi ctiam lib q. 83. q. in his ninth Epistle to Jerome and more voluminously in his booke contra mendaeium 12. v. 1. chapter Neither was he all to All in way of Conuersation onely but also in matters of Discipline and Aduice in which he deales with the Delinquent as a disereet Husbandman with a tender plant or tree He waters it and digs about it and if then it leafe and bud onely and not fructifie He puts his Axe vnto it not to roote and fell it but to prune it He lops off a sprig or a branch but He preserues the body Thus the Inordinate must bee admonished onely not threatned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Greeke not Corripite or Castigate as Castellie and Erasmus would haue it but Monete saith Beza Eez. Annot. in 2. Thes 5.14 warne them that are vnruly 1. Thess 5.14 So also the Feeble-minded must bee solac'd and incourag'd not rebuk'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Consolamini Comfort the Feeble-minded the same chapter and verse Lastly the Weake must not be depressed but supported Support those that are weake among you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Subleuate hold vp Sustinete infirmu-opitulamini sic ex Ambros Tertul. Bez. vt supra as a Crutch doth a Body that is lame or a Beame a house that is ruined which word hath reference to that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Acts Suscipere Infirmos or Sustinere I haue shewed you all things how that so labouring yee ought to Support the weake Act. 20.35 Here then are Weake and Feeble-minded and vnruly and these must be supported and comforted and warnd no more I finde no authority for Indignation I doe for patience for patience to all these nay to all men in the heele and cloze of the same verse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be patient towards all men 1. Thes 5.14 and not onely so but to all men with all patience too so Timothy is aduis'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Exhort with all long suffering and Doctrine 2. Tim. 4.2 And indeed this Doctrine of Long suffering is a Mercifull Doctrine we seldome finde true patience without Commiseration Mercy is the badge and Cognizance of a Christian It markes him from a Caniball or a Pagan And doubtlesse Those that haue not this tendernesse of Affection whether in the Naturall or in the Spirituall Man are but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Sauage and barbarous Condition Tygers and not Men And therefore as Mercy diuides a Man from a Beast so doth it a Christian from a meere Man He must be Mercifull Mar. 6. as his Father which is in Heauen is Mercifull O how beautifull vpon the Mountaines sayes that great Oracle of God are the feete of him that bringeth glad tydings of good things Esay 52.7 that preacheth peace that publisheth saluation that saith vnto Sion Thy God raigneth Esay 52.7 Those were said to haue beautiful feete amongst the Hebrewes whose Messages were shod with loy Estius in Rom. cap. 10. vers 15. who spake comfort to the people and not Terror Now what such Ioy and Comfort to the Children of Sion as the glad tydings of good things those excellent good things Preaching of Peace Publishing of Saluation How beautifull vpon the Mountains are the feete of him that doth it Aug. lib. 32. contra Faust c. 10. Quam speciosi pedes as Augustine reades it how Precious or Quàmtempestiui Maturi as Tertullian how Mature and timely Tertul. lib. 5. contra Marcionem cap. 2. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saies the Septuagint Quàm pulchri quàm decori how Faire and Comely which some of the Ancients and with them Leo Castrensis in Esay 52.7 S. Ierome haue read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cutting off the three latter vowels which they expound sicut Hora that is as they say sicut tempus opportunum or tempus vernum as the Spring time when all things florish so that making the Text mutilated and impersect they would haue the words runne thus Schol. Roman sequens septuagint Sicut horaa super montes sic Pedes Euangelizantis Pacem As the Spring vpon the mountaines so are the feete of him that preacheth peace where all things are greene and fragrant when we are led into fresh and sweet and pleasing pastures the pastures of the Spirit the Staffe and Rod of the Lord to comfort vs his Peace and his Saluation whereby we may walke cheerefully in the paths of Righteousnes and so following the great Shepheard of our Soules who will feede vs as his chosen flocke wee shall graze at length vpon the Mountaines the euer-springing mountaines the Mountaines of Israel And are the feete of him that preacheth peace that publisheth saluation so beautifull beautifull on the mountaines too what shall we thinke then of the feete of those the Blacke feete of those who like the possess'd man in the Gospell Marke 5.2 still keepe among the Tombes tread nothing but destruction and the graue and as if they still walk'd in the vale of darkenesse and the shadow of death beate nothing but Hell vnto their Auditors which by continuall thundring of Iudgements so shake the foundations of a weake-built faith that they sometimes destroy the Temple they should build vp and in this harsh and austere manner of proceeding they oftentimes exceed their Commission when pressing too farre the rigour of the Law they trench on the liberty of the Gospell as the Disciples did Luke 9.55 who requiring fire from heauen to consume the Samaritans they text it with the seuerity of Eliah 2. King 1.10 As Eliah did vnto the Moabites But the Lord of mercy is so farre from approuing this fiery zeale that Hee not onely rebukes it but the spirit that suggested it You know not of what spirit yee are for the Sonne of Man is not come to destroy mens liues but to saue them Luk. 9.56 And doubtlesse the destroying spirit is not the right Spirit The Holy Ghost you know appeared in the forme of a Doue and as the Doue is without gall so should the Organ of the Spirit be the Preacher Detrabendum est aliquid seuer itati saith Augustine to Boniface vt maioribus malis sanandis Aug. ad Bonifacde Cor. Donat. charitas sincera subueniat Who would not taxe it in a Iudge as a crime and custome too vniust to be mou'd to choller against a Delinquent or Malefactor when charity should guide him and not passion He doubles the offence that doth both exaggerate and punish it That Diuine labours too preposterously the reformation of his hearer that chides bitterly when he should but admonish