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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	apprehend_v	body_n	great_a	32	3	2.1422	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03308	Three sermons 1. The good fight. Preached at the funerall of Henry Sommaster of Pens-ford in the country of Deuon, Esquire. Ian. 1606. 2. The worth of the water of life. 3. Dauids longing, and Dauids loue. By Sam. Hieron.	Hieron, Samuel, 1576?-1617.	1607 (1607)	STC 13426; ESTC S116031	56,277	76

side in those times and in those Coasts very famous in respect of the Author thereof whose name it still caried being called Iacobs Well He sitting there out commeth me a woman of the adioyning city Sichar to drawe water from thence for her houshold vses Christ partly to refresh his bodily thirst but especially as I take it to satisfie that his neuer-ceasing desire to doe good made a motion to her to affoord him some of the water that he might drinke Shee being as appeareth by her aunswers something a shrewd-tongued woman by and by cut him vp short what quoth shee you Iewes be so fine and proud that you scorne vs the poore Inhabitants of Samaria How is it then that thou being a Iew askest drinke of me a forlorne and despised Samaritane Our sauiour to giue vs an instance of the accomplishment of that auncient promise that he would be b Isa 65.1 found of them that sought him not doth neither forbeare to commune with her nor yet as the manner of the world is doth frame an vntoward speach to her crosse aunswer but seeming to pity her Ignorance and blindenes telleth her Alas good woman if thou knewest the great mercy of God toward thee and the excellency of his person and office which requesteth thee thou wouldest become a suter to him rather and he would giue thee another manner of water then this euen the water of life The woman aunswereth him with a scoffe well inough vnderstanding his meaning but yet shee iestes it out as though shee knew it not what art thou quoth shee that talkest of the water of life canst thou be better then our father Iacob who first founded this well or can there be any better water then this well affords thou seemest therefore to me to bragge of more then thou art any way able to performe Marke now Christes aunswer Oh woman saith he thou art very ignorant or very froward I speake not to thee of any visable water seruing for the bodies nourishment but of a matter of farre more infinite worth if thy heart were opened to apprehend it I know the water of this well is excellent and Iacob in his time was a holy man but behould here another fountaine behould a greater then Iacob is here euen the staffe of the hope of thy father Iacob This streame here relieueth the body for a time but cannot affoord a perpetuall filling the water which I haue to giue shall euerlastingly satisfie the thirst of the receiuers of it and it shall be in their bowels as a neuer-dryed fountaine springing vp to euerlasting life Thus haue you the course of the communication betwixt Christ and the Samaritane thus farre By which you may perceiue that the maine scope of this Text is to shew the difference betwixt the things of this present life and the things of a better life the weaknesse of the one and the worth of the other The former is set downe vers 13. Whosoeuer drinketh of this water c. the latter ver 14. But whosoeuer drinketh of the water which c. Concerning the former I know that Christ expresly and by name speaketh of water onely yet considering the chiefe drift of the place is to draw men from the things which are seene to the things which are not seen The doctrine from things temporall to things eternall from the things which are on earth to the things which are aboue therfore we may safely from hence draw this doctrine That nothing in this present world is able to affoord any true satisfying any filling as it were vnto a mans soule For that which Christ said here of the water of this well whosoeuer drinketh thereof shall thirst againe may truly be said of all things else whatsoeuer which the men of this world do ayme at in their courses viz. they do rather encrease then kill the desire rather inflame then quench the appetite they are all like to cold drinke taken by a man labouring of a hote Ague which though it seeme to satisfie for the present yet indeed it increaseth the former drought and maketh both the need and the desire of moysture greater then before It were no hard thing to shew this to be true by the enumeration of particulars but my meaning is not to insist vpon this point but only to vse it as a preparatiue to the rest This is all I will say and I will therein craue no better witnesse then each mans owne experience If a man liuing here in the world should do as Salomon did namely Whatsoeuer his c Eccl. 2.10 eyes desire should not withhold it from them nor withdraw his heart from any ioy but should euen studie as it were to glut himselfe with the things of this life yet in the end he should find his heart like the sea of which the same Wise man saith that though d Eccl. 1.7 All the riuers go into it yet it is not full so neither shall his eye be satisfied with seeing nor his eare with hearing nor his heart with enioying but he shall be like to a man in a maze wherein when he hath laboured long yet at last he is as farre from that which he sought for as he was at the beginning And the reason hereof is expresse the mind is immortall but all these things are transitorie so that it is vnpossible for the mind to be filled with earthly things as it is for a chest of wood to be filled with spirituall things It is wittily said and to good purpose by those which reason from the forme of the world and the fashion of the hart the world is round and the heart three cornered As therefore it cannot be that a round thing should fill that which is three squared because the corners must needes remaine emptie so neither can the things of this world which Iohn diuideth into three kindes 1. Ioh. 2.16 The lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life replenish a mans soule but some one corner as it were or other thereof will remaine vnfilled This briefe discourse serueth to shew the truth of this point let vs as briefely make vse of it The vse I remember the speach of the Prophet Isaiah cap. 55. whereby solemne proclamation prouoking all men to come to Christ that they may enioy that same gratious fauour which our Sauiour maketh offer in this place he doth notably reprooue the folly of the greatest part of men in these Wordes f Is 55.2 wherefore doe you lay out siluer and not for bread and your Labour without being satisfied as if he had said what folly is this or what madnesse is it which possesseth your hearts O ye sonnes of Men that you doe so busie your selues and spend your best Endeauours about such things which cannot satisfie think you it is a possible Thing to be fedde with the Wind or will you cast your affections vpon that which is Nothing This