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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	death_n	know_v	resurrection_n	1,580	5	9.6777	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19582	The Iesuites gospell: vvritten by themselues. Discouered and published by W. Crashaw, B. of Diuinity, and preacher at White-chappell	Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.; Sribanius, Carolus, 1561-1629.	1621 (1621)	STC 6017; ESTC S109062	67,429	118

blasphemy for all the learned Papists in the world may be chalenged to proue if they can out of Gods word and the grounds of religion that she was any more thē another holy woman sauing this prerogatiue that she was his mother according to the flesh or any more then a Saint of God sanctified by the spirit and saued by the bloud of Iesus Christ whose mother shee was in regard of his flesh or that her milke had any vertue in the world but to nourish the body as doth the milke of other women their children for was not hee a man like vnto vs in all things sin excepted and if Christ take it no preiudice to himselfe to be like vnto men shall it be a wrong to her to be like to other women Nay we dare goe further and aske them if God haue vouchsafed once in the whole new Testament so much as to name the milke of the Virgin Mary whereas almost in euery Chapter hee extolleth the bloud of Christ and is euer magnifying the vertue merits and efficacy of the same if this bee so then what shall we say to that Religion and to those men who make it as questionable whether Christ Iesus his bloud excell the bloud of other men as whether the Virgin Maries milke exceede the milke of other women is this Romish religion is this popish diuinity then see what followeth But it cannot be proued either to reason or to faith that her milke excelleth other womens in any spirituall or corporall vertue or operation therefore it is not to be prou●ed that Christs bloud is more precious then other mens See here my deare countrymen how you are mis-led see what doctrine you are fed withall by your teachers open your eyes and bee no longer deceiued offer not this iniury to him that gaue his life for you to make this vnequall comparison if they will not teach you holy and sound diuinity then hate them and learne from vs or rather with vs from the holy scriptures that his bloud is the price of our redemptiō but as for her milke wee know no such thing since shee liued on earth acknowledge with vs that it is a fundamentall ground of Christian faith that his bloud is more worth then ten worlds but that her milke is now of any vallue can nether bee perswaded to reason nor beleeued by saith and yet dare this malignant sinagoue make that as likely as probable as certaine as the other If enemies of Religion take hold heere and say that therefore the ground of our Christianity are vncertaine and so blaspheme the blessed bloud of our Sauiour we can say no more but our Church is innocent our hearts are free our hands are cleere of it woe be to them by whom the offence commeth But now let us see how the Iesuite concludes and whether his end be any beter then his beginnning O quando lactabor ab vbere vulnere pascar delitijs que fruar mamma latus que tuis Parce Deus magno si te clamore fatigem non potis imperio non poti arte regi Exagitante siti Patientia perdit habenas clamores si vis tollere tolle sitim Pluris ego clauis saturasti sanguine clauos lanceaque erubuit sanguine tincta tuo Pluris ego pannis maduerent vndi que panni natia vulneribus Matris ab vberibus That is Ah when shall I with these be satisfied when shall I swim in ioyes of brest and side pardon O God mine eager earnestnesse If I thy lawes and reasons bounds transgresse Where thirst ore-swayes Patience is thrust away stay but my thirst and then my cryes will stay Better am I then nayles yet did astreame of thy deare bloud wash both the Launce and them More worthy I then clouts yet them a floud moystned of Mothers milke and of Sonnes bloud Now comes he to his conclusion but alas his iniquity is as much at the last as at the first for still hee persists in his impiety without repentance without remorce without sorrow or sence of the euill hee hath done for still he sings his old song O when shall I suck the milke of these brests when shall I drinke the bloud of these wounds His soule thirsteth but for what for milke and for bloud but first for milke and then for bloud If this be tollerable diuinity nay if this bee holy deuotion then what did our blessed Sauiour meane to cry out to all weary and thirsty soules If any man thirst let him come vnto me and drinke I wish the Iesuits would tell vs what they thinke whether he did well or no to leaue out the Virgin Mary for if this diuinity of theirs bee good then he ought to haue said If any man thirst let him come to my mother or to me to drinke and surely if her milke be thus equall in vallue price and merrit to his bloud then wee doe no longer maruell that they teach how the Virgin Mary did rise from the dead and was assumed into heauen corporally that as Christ rose ascended to apply make good the merrit of his death so did she also to make effectuall the merrit of her milk But then good Paul how farre art thou to blame that esteemest all things in the world dunge and drosse and only that thou mightest know the vertue of the resurrection for then it seemes thou wilt giue little ●or nothing to know the vertue of her assumption But it may bee thou art halfe an Heretike and beleeuest not any such assumption but if thou couldest bee taken within the reach of the holy inquisitiō thou shouldst pay well for such thy hereticall incredulity If now thou wert aliue thy better and more holy brethren the Iesuites could reprooue thee for many indiscreete passages and teach thee better diuinity then thou seemest to know for whereas thou durst say thou esteemedst to know nothing Phil. 3. 8 9 10 but Iesus Christ and him crucified they can tell thee thou art farre short in thy duty and but cold in zeale in respect of them for they stand in doubt whether to esteeme now the bloud of his wounds or the milke of her Paps and whereas thou wilt giue all to know the vertue of his resurrection they can but wonder at thy ignorance who carest not to know the vertue of her resurrection ascention also Be thou content to know the one they for their parts will know both and if thou be so precise for thy Master that thou canst not be cōtēt to say that he purgeth our sins but must exclude all other and say that he by himselfe purgeth our sins know thou that they dare be so bold as to put out that word by himselfe out of the text and when they reade Heb. 1. 3 thy Epistles they are halfe ashamed to see what a bloudy man thou art for thou art all in bloud bloud insomuch as twenty times at least thou art still vpon bloud as