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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	according_a	heart_n	word_n	1,814	5	3.8480	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01449	A booke of angling, or fishing Wherein is shewed, by conference with scriptures, the agreement betweene the fishermen, fishes, fishing of both natures temporall, and spirtuall. By Samuel Gardiner Doctor of Diuinitie.	Gardiner, Samuel, b. 1563 or 4.	1606 (1606)	STC 11572; ESTC S115164	72,270	172

conuenient to bring it forth Diabolus omnium discutit consuetudines Bernard ventilat curas scrutatur affectus ibi quaerit causas nocendi vbi nos vidit magis occupari The deuill weyeth well our would wonts the course of our cares the fashions of his affections and out of the nature of our qualities worketh his malignities Like a subtile Souldier trayned vp the in warres that layeth seige to that place of the wall that is weakest hee obserueth our weaknesse and maketh great matter of it As a man when hee would stricke fire out of a flint marketh what ende of the flint is fittest for the blowe of the yron that it may sparkle the sooner So the vilde tempter obserueth the affection that leaneth to sinne and that he striketh only with his yron of temptation that a sparke of our consent thereunto being expressed the flame of sin which may consume the whole man may thereby be kindled Gregorius Prius complexionem vniuscuiusque aduersarius noster perspicit sic tentationis laqueos opponit alius laetis alius tristibus alius timidis alius elatis moribus existit Sathan seeth euery ones complexion and so spreadeth his nets of temptations One man is giuen to solace another to sorrow one to feare another to pride Let the good Fisherman in the wisedome of his God that is in his heart be as wise in working mens saluation as the enuious man the Deuili is in the implacable malice of his minde to bring vs to destruction This is the wisedome of the Serpent which the wisdome of Christ in the persons of the Apostles commendeth to his seruants Matth. 10.16 saying Be as wise as serpents Marke the inclination of a man whether he refort to the preached word if hee doth haue comfort in him and doubt not but by trowling and trameling for him thou shalt haue him For his outward comming to the Word giueth great hope of the inwarde comming of the spirit and so of his happy comming into the nette according to that which Christ saith They that are of God Iohn 8.47 heare Gods word Marke his conuersation his company for commonly as a man is consorted he is qualified The Lacedemonians The Lacedemonians when they did put their sonnes from schoole the better to make iudgement of their inclinations they inquired diligently after their companions It is a certaine saying of the Psalmist With the holy thou shalt bee holy Psal 18.25 26. and with the froward man thou shalt learne frowardnesse Another marke of the better sort of men doth Dauid in the fifteeneth Psalme giue mee He maketh much of such as feare the Lord. Psal 15.4 By this Rule I iudge of a Papist and an enemie to Religion hearing him blunder against Luther Caluin Beza and such like renowned Saintes and Seruants of God I will insist in such circumstances no longer a thousand such specialties may be inserted which I leaue to euery faithfull Fisherman to finde out in his own pastorall function to make wholsome and gainfull vse thereof in his best discretion only I say this that though I see not a Fish in the water yet when I perceiue that my corke or floate is vnder the water I know well enough that a Fish hath taken the baite So though we see not into the secret minde of man yet by outward effects one may determine of inward affects and certainely conclude that our godly admonitions which are our baytes we lay for soules are taken 5. It is the Anglers order when hee hath a great Fish hanging at his hooke to vse him gently with an euen lyne leading him vppe and downe vntill hee hath wearied him and then he layeth his hande vpon him and heaueth him vppe for if hee shall snatch him vp greedily at the first and deale rigorously with him with the poize and wayte of his body hee will break lyne and Angle-rodde and escape So let Gods angelicall Angler Amplecti venientes gently entertaine such as are comming on and haue taken downe the hooke they haue layde for them and by the coales of kindnesse heaped vpon their heades Rom. 12.20 worke their full conuersion least by beeing too seuere towards them they marre all they haue made and loose all together Some fishes may bee pulled vp sooner then other some according to the proportion of them and the holde wee haue of them Strangers are more fauourably to bee handled than our ordinary hearers Such as are but Catechumen and Neophites in the faith of the first planting are to bee ordered more tenderly than such as haue made furder progresse in the same This will well appeare if wee veiwe the course of the holy men of God in the execution of their Ministry in olde time When as Isaiah had to doe but with his owne people Isai 1.4 he was hotte at the beginning with them with this declamatorie exclamation making entrie into his Sermon Ah sinfull nation ah people laden with iniquitie a seed of the wicked corrupt children But when Ionas was sent out of his owne parish beeing preacher to the Iewes to denounce Gods Iudgement against the Niniuites who were of the Gentiles hee insisted only in his text of commination according to Iniunctiō Ion. 3.4 without any inlargement therof by way of pathetical seuere reprehension Acts. 17.24 c. When Paul was brought to Areopage a place out of his walke and iurisdiction he maintained his Phylosophy before them as they désired him forbearing all kinde of crimination against them 1. Cor. 5.1 2 3 4. 6.1 c. But when he was among his Congregation at Corinth he ratled them roundly especially that incestuous companion against whō he thundred his most dreadfull Excōmunication Acts 7.51 Stephen when he perceiued his Iewish people in a setled cōtumacie withstāding the truth he pointed his words like the point of a diamōd thus roused them for it Yee stiffe-necked and of vncircumcised hearts and eares yee haue alwayes resisted the holy Ghost Also according to their continuance in Gods Schoole and the time of their learning the Apostles framed their stiles of inditing Paul was ceremoniall when hee was to beget the yonger sort in faith and knowledge vnto God yet in the Galathians he will not endure them Acts 16.1.3 Gal. 3.1 2 3 4. c. Sathan skilfull in this angling occupation his trickes because they had otherwise a long time learned Christ The deuill I warrant you as hee is perfect in this angling occupation so hee knoweth how to handle a fish that hee hath hooked that hee may not breake from him Among other trickes that hee hath he will giue them line and libertie but he will not suffer him to walke further than he list but he draweth him in againe when it best pleaseth him Hee playeth with his Fish as the child playeth with his bird which he tyeth by the legge with a string and suffereth him