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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	faith_n	save_v	4,872	5	7.1588	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02054	Heauen and earth reconcil'd A sermon preached at Saint Paules church in Bedford, October. 3. 1612. At the visitation of the right Wor. M. Eland, Archdeacon of Bedford. By Tho. Adams ...	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1613 (1613)	STC 122; ESTC S100418	32,838	52

be due to vs iure diuino by the law of God or whether the with-holders come within the compasse of that Curse Ye are cursed with a curse because ye haue spoyled me in Tithes and Offrings Since the Law present allowes no power to sue such on an action of detinue to omit that Melchisedeck had Tythes and that of Abraham euen by the law of Nature besides the Leuiticall of the Iewes which they say is abrogated that would say no lesse of the morall law of God for an aduantage Yet Paul● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in all his goods must needs euince that the Minister must haue some share in his peoples substaunce if any why not that portion which in all ages and Churches hath been giuen them If they be consecrated to Iesus Christ I say not by blinded superstition but by true and warrantable deuotion before the Pope euer put out his apparant hornes who dares robbe our Sauiour of them that neuer passed fine of his royall prerogatiue to any purchaser If they were his whose are they let them prooue he hath assigned them to Gentlemen and I will cleare them from that menace of Salomon Jt is a destruction to deuoure holy thinges c. Ministers were once helde Angels now vnlesse they doe bring Angels in their purses Ibis Homere foras for all their musicke they are shut out of dores They say the Italian Ducades make their Priestes Duces Princes Captaines braue fellowes The Spanish Pistolets make their Priestes terrours to be feared the word signifying Tormentigenus a kind of torment witnesse the Jnquisition The French Crownes crowne their Priestes with wealth and dignitie but Defectu● Angelorum Anglicorum the want of English Angels leaues our Ministrie in the dust The wordes of so reuerend and honourable a Prelate come heere to my minde Time was Religion did eate vp Polici● and the Church deuoured the Common-wealth but now Polici● eates vp religion the Common-wealth deuoures the Church Men are profest Politicians Floreat respublica copijs referta c. et quid ad nos Let the Common-wealth prosper and what care we for the Church If we had no soules this might be some shadaw of equitie but seeing we haue it is the substaunce of rancke impietie And let me say if men would imagine and plot a course to loose the soules that Christ hath bought they could not find a directer for if Learning begge studie Artes that list will be the generall voyce If there be none to preach there will be no beleeuing if no beleeuing 〈◊〉 sauing Neuer plead your Fayth in the Gospell whiles you rewarde it not perhappes you can afforde Desert some bare and naked commendations but we are not Camelions to liue on the ayre of commendations It is certaine and inuincible trueth not relieue the Gospell not beleeue the Gospell God graunt that our corruption this way bringes not Paganisme and flat Atheisme in the end Needes must you loose con sci Deuotion and Knowledge when you take from vs entia our Liuinges It is a shame that we should cease studying of Sermons and be driuen to study for Bread to put in our mouthes the mouthes of our Families It was a sinne in the old Law to destroy Matrem cum filijs the old with the young and can it be lesse in conscience to pine to death those two fruitfull Mothers the Vniuersities and starue the Children in their bosomes At which two Fountaines of learning before we are suffered to drinke how many miserable and wearie a day doe we passe ouer in the inferiour Schooles then not without much paine to our selues cost to our Parentes we are sent to one of those glorious Sunnes to ripen our b●ddes the exhibition they there allow vs they charge vs to take for our Patrimonie and to expect no further meanes at their handes We restraine our thoughtes I say not onely from pleasure whereof to haue no small measure is some Vnhappinesse vnder the Sunne but euen from competent experience in the world who had need be wise as Serpents in these Machiauellian dayes We subiect our bodyes to many Diseases and groue out our remayning dayes vnder the burden of some wasting sicknesse at last Cru●●●hym● Plena hauing stored our selues with the riches of Art we come into our Countrey to exchange them for their riches of earth and yet how vnworthy a thing is Calestibus mercari terrena to buy corporall things with spirituall and to choppe Heauen for Earth After all this how hardly is any thing attained without paying to the Patron either a Fine or an annuall Rent or reseruation of his owne Tythes or some way aboue the rate of a Copy-hold to haue a Lease during a sickly and spent life Were the Goodes of the Church for this intrusted to Gentlemen and Lordes of the Mannours that they should set them to sale and turne the Benefite into their owne Purses Why were not the Donations in the handes of the poore who haue more need It is supposed Gentlemen by nurture well instructed can make the fittest choyce for Gods glory and not for their priuate gaine Must we then runne Per vari●● casus per tot discrimina rerum through so many dangers and difficulties cares and troubles and in the end arriue at Beggars hauen a necessary and enforced penurie Oh! Jnuitatus ad haec aliquis de ponte negabit a Beggar in the high way will in the end scorne to be a Minister There is no vocation in the land honest in it selfe and industriously followed by the professour wherein a man may not liue well except onely in the Ministrie and heere like the Jewes vnder the tyranny of Egipt when we should make Bricke worke in our profession we are forced to gather Straw labour for sustenaunce But in vaine we speake the Sonnes of Zeruiah will be too hard for vs there is small hope to stench this bloody issue till Christ touch their heartes by Fayth But you will say many of the Clergie are rich they are few if any one of these foure sortes 1. Either enriched by some Patrimonie or gift of Friendes 2. Or else such as distill a dry Rose-cake for Water I meane by Parsymonie and miserablenesse get something out of Gentlemens leauinges like the gleaning after the Vintage for others carry away the croppe 3. Or else such as haue lighted on the vnruined thinges of this Land which stood out of the Popes way and in that sicknesse of Superstition scap'd the plague of Impropriation Benefices which the Deuils Surgion Sacriledge hath not let blood by custome composition enclossing depopulation though the Grape gatherers come would they not leaue some Grapes if theeues come in the night they will but destroy till they haue enough 4. Or lastly they are those Antiqui Hero●● nati me●●oribus annis that came to their Liuinges when that good Queene Elizabeth came to her Crowne at which time