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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	cold_a	dry_a	moist_a	4,796	5	10.4311	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11802	Vox Dei	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.	1623 (1623)	STC 22097A; ESTC S1715	58,947	100

yet they are easely married together as they are both hott Soe the water is cold and moist and the earth cold and dry as the one is moist and thother dry they haue neede of each other and yet they fall out and fight but as they are both cold they easely agree and are compounded in one body And thus it is in the members of the humane body composed of these elements and thus is it in the Church and Comon-wealth which is a mysticall and politique body composed of these men Now therefore hauing thus beheld the comunity of the parts even in nature let vs looke into a few examples following this reason or law of nature and there see how actions otherwise questionable are warranted and justified by necessity when they respect the publique The King of Sodome rebells against Chedorlaomer King of Elam Gen. 14. 4. It is vnlawfull to rebell vnlawfull to assist rebells yet Lot takes his part and is taken prisoner Abraham thinks it noe injustice to joyne in confederacy with this rebelling King but that it is lawfull to make an invasiue warre to rescue his brother Lot The reason is nature bynds him to it and if hee should neglect his duty in this case he were worse then an infidell Nay religion bynds him to it and a righteous family calls for helpe Herein Abraham though he assailes doth but defend according to the law of nature for if they had not first inuaded the Church and taken Lot Abraham had sate still but now his assault is taken as a defence for otherwise the Church faith of the church could not be defended The Church is in distresse in hazard to receiue a blowe by this meanes Hee is noe living parte of the Church that suffers any parte to fall whilest his hand can vpholde it I had rather pull the house with Sampson ouer my head then grynde in a mill like an idolatrous and blynde beast all my life to the rejoycing of vncircumcised Philistims Surely Sampsons death Iud. 16. 30. 2 King 25 Num. 31. 6. was more honorable thē Zedechias life yet both lost their eyes when religion is at the stake the Preist who is a man of peace maye excite to the warre nay must blow the trumpet must sound the Alarum And then doubtles Salomon the peaceable builder of the Temple may draw his sword for the glosse or brightnes of that sword of justice is not stayned nor the edge bated with any other spott or stroke then the touch of innocent blood But that like as Aqua fortis eats into steele or as the blood of Goates softens Diamonds doth indeede soften the mettall and soe turnes the edge of authority that it cuts not at all or only cuts the abuser and perverter of it This wee see in Abraham who after this very warre and only then is blessed by Melchisedesk the King and Preift of peace Yea Melchisedeck accepts the tythe of the spoiles by his acceptance confirme's vs in the lawfulnes of the like acquisition for had the goods beene ill gotten as they must needs bee were the warre vnlawfull that King of justice would not haue pertaken nor receaued any portion of it for himself or for God but now his acceptance approues the action and warrants our imitation soe that if any man question the fact shall beholde Abraham stands foorth Like David in this place and saith what haue I now done Is their not a cause Moses beholding with sorow the bondage of his Country-men and how basely the Egyptians insulted over them provoked by the necessity of the case offered himself to be their deliverer and in revenge of a wronged Isralite slew an oppressing Egyptian but they notwithstanding Gods worke for their weale were loth to be admonished of any error therefore where he laboured to vnite them in loue they requite him with accusation and cast in his teeth what he had done for their good with the hazard of his owne life This make's him slee but they smart for it fourty yeares after Phineas in case of necessity though a Preist a man of peace when he beholds manners corrupted religion profaned Iustice contemned steps vp and armes himself with the weapens of warr and executes judgment vpon two impudent offenders hauing the necessity of the case sor his calling and the approbation of God after the fact to encourage our zeale in the like The noblenes of blood should be noe warrant to protect notorions sinners from shame and punishment Num. 25. 7. if like Phineas our harts were inflamed with the loue of God and his truth Deborah a woman modest vertuous in the time of necessity becomes a Iudge becomes a Captaine At other times to doe thus had neither beene the part of a modest nor vertuous wooman now not to doe it when necessity calls her out were to become as beastly and slauish as those be who should censure or condemne her for doing it Iud. 4. 4. 9 Sheba flying into Abel Ioab beseigeth him therein The Citty being brought to extremity 2 Sam. 20. 13. 15. noe way likely to auoyd ruine a woman steps vp among the Captayns and Councellors and by her wisdome in case of necessity finds a meanes to satiffie Ioab and to secure the City In case of necessity Azariah withstand's the King saying It pertaineth not to thee Vzziah to burne in cense vnto the Lord but to the Preists the sonnes of Aaron that are consecrated for to offer incense Goe forth of the sanctuary for thou hast transgressed 2 Chr. 26. 18. and thou shalt haue noe honour of the Lord God Had not the Preist bene stout in this case he had bene worthy of that leprosy which the Prince was plagued withall for being too stout It was here found true which Salomon saith Better is a poore a wise child Eccl. 4. 13 then an olde and foolish King which will noe more be admonished The Iewes vnder Ahazhuerus are in great daunger of a generall massacre by the practise of an ambitious and irreligious favorite Mordocay sends word to Esther who is safe her self and secure in the armes of the King that shee would remember her inocent Countrey-men and bestirre her self in the time of this extreame necessity shee resolue's presently to doe her best in this buisines and layidg a side all respect of the Ceremony of the Court the Majesty of the King Est. 4. 14. 15. 16. the terror of a contrary law shee goe's on with this resolution If I perish I perish Let these examples that follow be of credit with the Reader according to the credit of those Apocriphall books from whence they are taken Yet this will follow that those who penned the books were of this judgment the times wherein these books were penned approued and praised these actions and soe would haue done the like if in these dayes they had liued and met the like occasion as was then offered them And

for Mordocaies sake he will bee revenged of the whole nation but pretend's publique good Ester 4. ●5 it is not saith he for the Kings proffit to suffer them Herod is pleased in seeing the daughter of Herodias daunce and therefore Iohn Baptist's head must pay for the musicke Neither could the innocency of the man saue his life but Herods byrth-day most become the day of his death The Church mournes when Tyrants are borne and the Godly fast and pray and weepe when the wicked feast and play revell Herod hath sworne and therefore religiously will keepe his vowe Iohn Baptist must dye O superstitious hypocrite noe necessity caused the to vowe nor is their any to make thee keepe it To doe good at all times necessitie comaunds vs to doe mischeife at any time noe necessitie compell's vs. In this thou art religious but to keepe Herodias they brother Phillips wife that never troubles thy conscience Hypocrite strayne out guats and swallow camells Soe Lewis the eleueneh of France would not sweare by the Crosse of Saim Loro of Angiers but any other oath he would take and hauing broken them kisse the leaden God which he wore in his cap and all was well his conscience was quiet Assuredly what pretence soever men make he that liue's in any open sinne without remorse and repentance hath noe religion in him Superstition may posesse him and guild him without true wisedome and devotion cannot secure him within Demetrius the Silver-smith pretends religion to stop the doctrine of Saint Paul Yet couetousnes his priuate proffit was the end of his vproare and for that cause he gather's together a factious troope of persons interressed in the same crafte and comodity Act. 19. 24. 28. with a greedy acclamation saying Great is Diana of the Ephesians Now all these might and did pretend causes to extenuate the haynousnes of their facts nay perhaps to justify them altogether for there is noe act but hath his cause and be it neuer soe fowle put 's on a fayre vyzour but none of these can cleare themselues to haue any other impulsiue cause then the corruption and praevarication of their ownevile natures They cannot say that either necessitie to prevent some imniment danger or to procure some certaine or probable good excited them to worke neither can they justifie themselues with such an expostulation as our Duellist here doeth saying what haue wee now done Is their not a cause They must therefore confesse their actions to be grounded vpon ambition pride vayne-glory malice envye or some other oblique and crooked cause and soe to be sinfull censurable together with all such as shall hereafter resemble them CONCLVSION 2. A Second Conclusion from hence deduced is that necessitie supplie's the place of an ordinary calling and warrants the vndertaking of any action for the avoyding of a certaine mischeife either to the state where wee liue or the true religion which wee professe WEe see in nature that when the eye waxeth blynd the hand grope's the foote beat 's for way and the eare by listening seeke's to guide the body right and to supplie the place of an eye Soe the eye where men are deafe and dumbe borne apprehend's by signes and sends back her owne conceptions by a visible kind of language One member supplie's the place of an other in service of the whole body neither doth the head where reason reside's find fault with the comunitie of partes and exchange of their portions The mouth in case of necessitie think 's noe scorne to become a draught and purging place to the stomack by vomit neither doth the stomack in case of necessitie refuse meate that is sent vp by glisters Nature makes vse of any parte in any office for preservation of the whole man from ruine In the reasonable faculties of the soule the jmagmation stand's in stead of memorie by begetting newe Ideas in braines that be inclyned to be ouer-hott and drye and the memorie supplie's the defect of judgment by following former presidents where the brayne inclyne's to ouermuch moysture and all parts bringing intelligenc to the reasonable soule the Governesse of all shee reject's none before examination nor censure 's any for doing the office which belong's to an other whilst the other is defectiue and this doth not neglect it 's proper function Soe that the soule hauing neede of all maks vse of all for the comon benefit In-soemuch as if the foote by tripping giue 's her warning of that which the eye should haue seene she doth not therefore neglect to looke out because the intelligence come's from a blynd guide but therefore she looke's out to see if the foote say true or noe soe let 's the eye see it 's owne fault in the dilligence of the foote The Apostle vseth this argument to perswade the Corinthians to vnity 1 Cor. 12. 21. 22. 23 24. shewe's that there is a fellow-vse or neede that one member hath of anotther and that likewise their ought to be a fellow care one for an other 1. Cor. 12. 25. and also a fellow feeling or compassion of common afflictions one with an other And since euery member partak's with the head and whole body 1 Cor. 12. 26. in paine or pleasure in houor or dishonor therefore it concern's euery member to looke to the preservation both of themselues in perticuler and of others in generall Because noe member can say they are absolute in themselues and haue noe needs of another The eye doth not see for it self alone but for the foote and whole body It concerne's the Eye therefore to watch that if the eare by accident should be negligent or lett slip a remarkeable observation which concernes necessarily the whole body that the eye might be in stead of an eare and giue notice to the soule by some visible motion And thus wee see the eye steadfastly fastned vpon the speaker or any other object keepes the imagination from wandring and makes the eare more attentiue to the voyce and apprehensiue of the meaning And soe whilst the eye takes a napp or in the darke when it cannot see it concernes the eare towatch for it selfe for the eye for the whole body for though it be true that the eye cannot heare nor the eare see yet there is some such affinity betwixt all these members in their seuerall operations as inables the one to supply the defects of an other Nature hath ordinarily made the tongue to speake to the eare but God extra ordinarily did speake by the tongue to the eye Act. 2. 3. and knits all in a perfect and happy society As wee see in the elements though nothing be more opposed then the fyre and water yet they are mixt in the ayre which is hott and moist the fyre is hott and dry and the ayre is hott and moist Now though the ayre and fyre be diuerse yea meere contraries as the one is dry and the other moist