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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	church_n	holy_a	word_n	6,560	5	4.2187	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08002	Christs teares ouer Ierusalem Whereunto is annexed a comparatiue admonition to London. By Tho. Nash.	Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601.	1613 (1613)	STC 18368; ESTC S113095	114,515	208

father of Discontent One of the greatest miseries of the damned shall be discontent No thing so much prouoketh God to iudgement as discontent Hee destroyed the children of Israell whiles the meate was in their mouthes in the Wildernes for murmurring or being discontent their discontent was sayd to afflict him Many a time and oft haue they afflicted mee euen from my youth vp saith Dauid in Gods person speaking of their repining at the waters of strife Therefore whosoeuer is discontent with any crosse or calamity the Lord layeth vppon him aflicteth God and must looke for speedy confusion Nothing in this life reuengeth he so much as it Hence it is so many stabbe hang and drowne themselues and thereby endaunger their owne soules beyond mercy It is the grieuousest sentence God can pronounce against man as to be his own Executioner whereby it appeareth that Discontent is the grieuousest sinne that man can commit When did you euer heare of any but the discontented man that offered violence to himselfe What is the sinne against the holy Ghost which Augustine concludeth to be nothing but Desperatio morientis to giue vp a mans soule in despaire but a special branch of discontent Wherefote did our Saniour thunder forth such a terrible woe against the causers of offence or discontent but that it was the most heynous scourge-procuring transgression of all others Ionas the Lords annointed Prophet for he was discontent and grudged when he should haue beene sent vnto Niniui had a torment like hel for the time inflicted vpon him In the Whales belly full of horror dispaire stinch and darknes three dayes and three nights he was shut Hardly can God abstaine from throwing any man downe into Hell that is vpbraidingly discontent As the merry man of all other best thriueth in that he goes about so the discontented man of all other is most fore-spoken and vnluckie in his enterprises Few discontented men shall you obserue that giue vp the ghost in their beds There is a Discontent cōtrary to Pride which is most pleasing to God which is when a man grieues is discōtent because he cannot chuse but sin rebel against God Also when he is wearied and discontent with the vanities of the world So was the Preacher when he cried Vanity of vanities all thing is vanitie There is a tollerable Discontent likewise which Dauid and Iob had when they complained that the Tabernacles of Robbers did prosper and they were in safety that prouokt God But so little of this true discontent is there in London that almost there is no content in it but in robbing and prouoking God Sin is no sin saith an auncient Father except it be voluntary and we take a content in committing it Who is there that oppresseth committeth adultery is prodigall sweareth or forsweareth but taketh a content in committing it There we place content where we should take vp discontent and there are wee discontent were wee should repose our whole gladnes and felicity We are discontent if wee heare our sinnes ript vp sharply We are discontent if we be detained in the seruice of God but half an houre extraordinary We are discontent if we be constrained to giue to the poore Euery man here in London is discontent with the state wherein he liues Euery one seeketh to vndermine another No two of one trade but as they are of one trade enuy one another Not two conioined in one office but ouerthwart emulate one another and one of them vndoes what the other hath done The Court is the true kingdom of discontent There Pride raigning most Discontent cannot chuse but be a hanger on No conspiracie or warre ciuil or outward but first springeth from discontent What makes a number of our wanton wiues in London conspire the deaths of their old doting husbands but the discontent of a death-cold bed Discontent makes Hereticks Discontent is the cause of al the Traytors beyond Sea Discontent caused Ierusalems house to be left desolate vnto her Discontent O London will be thy destitution if thou takest not the better heede The fift Sonne of Pride is Contention which beeing the youngest sonne hee hath is harder to be yoked or kept in then any of the other fowre It is euer in Armes neuer out of brabblements Look what Ambition Vaine-glory Atheism Discontent shal consult or deuise it enacteth and goes thorow with It is the Lawyers liuing the Hereticks food the Swizers house and Land No Crowne but he challengeth a share in No Church but he will be of On words amphibologies equiuocations quiddities and quantities he stands He hunteth not after truth but strife He coueteth not so much to ouer-come as contend These two little words Ex and Per as Cornelius Agrippa hath obserued held the Greeke Latine Churches play many yeeres together they litigiously debating whether the holy Ghost proceeded of the Father and the Sonne or not of the Son but of the Father by the Sonne So this word Nisi in this sentence Nisi manducaueritis carnem set all the Counsaile of Basil in an vprore This word Donec as Ioseph non agnouit vxorem suam donec Ioseph knew not his wife vntill caused the Antidicomariatans and Eludians to denie the perpetuall virginity of the Virgine Mary With a thousand such errors Contention raiseth his Kingdome Our Diuines in these dayes though they yet retaine many contentions of the olde Churches haue found out certaine new ones of their owne They contend about standing and sitting about forms and substances about prescription and confusion of prayers They argue An ater sit contrarius albo whether it bee better to weare a white Surplesse or a black gowne in ministring the Sacraments Which is like the conflict in Rome betwixt the Augustine Fryers and the vulgar Chanons whether Augustine did weare a blacke Weede vpon a white Coate or a white Weede vpon a black Coate Like the Geometritians they square about points and lines and the vtter shew of things As this point is too-long this point is too-short this figure is too-much affected this line runnes not smooth this syllogisme limpeth As Preachers they labour not to speake properly but intricately In stead of Bread they giue the children of their Ministery stones to throw at one another and in stead of Fish Serpents to sting one another In the 13. of Mathew the Sower that went foorth to sow scattered some seede by the high-way side which the Foules of the ayre peckt vp not vnlike to them whose Hawkes and Field-sports peck vp all the seeds of Christianity that should be sowne in their hearts and a million of others whose eyes the Foules of the valley pecke out before the seede of saluation can haue any rooting in their soules Other seede the Sower scattered amongst stones and the Sunn e arising it withered for want of earth resembling these stony streetes of London where nothing will spring vp but oppression auarice and infidelitie Other seede he disperst amongst