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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	eat_v	fruit_n	garden_n	1,548	5	10.7452	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11792	The proiector Teaching a direct, sure, and ready vvay to restore the decayes of the Church and state both in honour and revenue. Deliuered in a sermon before the iudges in Norvvich, at summer assises there holden, anno 1620. By Thomas Scot Batchelor in Diuinity.	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.	1623 (1623)	STC 22081; ESTC S116987	26,622	45

hauing one iust man the Magistrate A Kingdome is honoured by hauing a iust and wise King but when all or the greatest part of men are iust in the houshold and all or the greatest part of housholds are iust in the Citie and all or the greatest part of those Cities and Counties are iust in a Kingdome when iustice raignes thus vniuersally then then is that verified which Salomon here affirmes Iustice maketh a Kingdome or Nation glorious or Iustice exalteth a Nation For as in old Rome all the Senators seemed Kings so here the Magistrates seeme gods resembling God in iustice I haue sayd ye are gods the Ministers seeme Angels resembling Angels in sanctitie and diligence the people seeme blessed spirits liuing in loue in peace in holinesse and happinesse and the whole Common-wealth seemes a heauen vpon earth full of sobrietie iustice and godlinesse Euill men may malice it the Kings of the earth may conspire against it Satan and his associates may vndermine it but God protects it with his arme guides it with his Word and Spirit and guilds it with his glorious presence Take one example without exception for all euen the Raigne of that euer-memorable Queene Elizabeth within whose heart as all royall Vertue was enshrined and in her Raigne all true Religion and Iustice flourished so for the confirming of this Maxime after her death this Elogium was engraued vpon her Tombe by the commandement of her vnpartiall Successor which is the more remarkable for the honour both of the liuing and of the dead because Princes can hardly with patience heare the praises of their Predecessors much lesse write them or command them to be written Religion reformed Peace vvell grounded Monie reduced to the true valevv a Navy vvell furnished in readinesse Honour at Sea restored Rebelliō extinguished England for the space of fortie and fovvre yeeres most vvisely governed inriched and fortified Scotland freed from the French Fraunce relieved Netherlands supported Spaine avved Ireland quieted and the vvhole Globe of the Earth tvvise sayled round about What could be more yet all this was true and much more And thus were we happy And thus we see how Iustice exalteth a Nation when it giues Sinne his due punishment and Vertue his due reward when the Countriman dares trauell safely abroad or sleepe at home vnder his owne Vine without feare of theeues or enemies when the Merchant dares trade without feare of Pirates at Sea or Farmers and watchers at Land when euery man dares buy and sell without feare of cousening dares flie to the Courts of Conscience without feare of vndoing dares plant and plow and sow and reape and grow honestly rich and be knowne to bee so without feare of Empson and Dudley or the like when if men haue no other capitall crime Innocence shall not be accounted one when all men dare serue one God after one and the selfe same manner deuoutly and none dares serue him otherwise vvhen things are generally thus disposed this makes a flourishing estate this makes a nation glorious And thus much of the first proposition or Aphorisme Iustice exalteth a Nation We come to the second But sinne is a shame to any people Aug. de 2. animal Peccatum est volunt as retinendi vel consequendi quod justitia vetatur And heere that rule holdes Iniustitia vniver sa justitiae opposita non pars vitij est se vniversum vitium Arist Eth. lib. 5. As justice before contayned all vertues but especially the carriage of one man to another as the most supreme and sensible vertue so heere all sinne is intended but especially injustice as the proper and most apparant opposite to justice And that to let vs see how in justice vvhich is justice mis-done corruptly or left vndonenegligently is the cause of all sinne and so consequently of all shame the reward of sinne as justice duly executed is the cause of all vertue and so by consequence of glory the reward or crowne of vertue both heere and heereafter To cleere this looke into Paradise looke into Hell looke into Heauen and looke vpon the Earth for examples 1. In Paradise when God had made man according to his image in originall justice and giuen him the law of Nature to be his guide and to teach him how to obay God and command the Creature with this one easie and expresse prohibition not to eate of the fruite in the midst of the Garden Sathan comes to the woman and like a Sophister perswades her that if Man would eate thereof he should be like God knowing both good and euill They vvere like gods before being created the image of God but in coueting more they lost vvhat they had And obserue the vvayes and degrees of precipitation Euah that vvas made to obay would needs command for the text saith the Serpent perswaded her but shee gaue to the Man like a Mistresse and it is sayd he did eate thereof as if he durst do no othervvise So priuate justice being infringed it made vvay to publique and the particular lavv being broken the vniversall defection follovved Before this vvhilst Adam stood in integrity of Iustice he vvas naked and not ashamed nay hee neede Genes 2. 2● not be ashamed for he vvas a most glorious creature God himselfe approues him for such and beholding him so pronounceth him to bee good But presently after vvhen justice vvas transgrest and the lavv broken it is sayd Their eyes were opened and they saw that they were Genes 3. 7. naked They were then ashamed and therefore made Genes 3. 8. themselues aprons of fig-leaues They were then afrayd and therefore hid themselues in the shadow of the trees For they knevv that God vvas just euen justice it selfe and therefore as the sentence vvas gone out of his mouth The Genes 2. 19 day that thou shalt eate thereof thou shalt dye the death so the svvord of Iustice follovves to execute and they must dye and all their posterity No sinne shall goe vnpunished without shame All must dye vvith him since all sinned in him And thus vvee see hovv shame follovves sinne naturally and hovv till man had sinned there vvas no shame but now Pudor est timor justae vituperationis Shame is a feare of a just reprehension nay rather Shame is a feare of a just reiection vvhich man had by sinne deserued 2. Looke into hell see the sinne of Diues repayd vvith Shame and that according to the rule of justice Lege Talionis ●uc 16. He beg'd a drop of water and could not haue it because he denyed a crumme of bread before when Lazarus beg'd it Doubtlesse had he giuen a crumme he should haue receiued a drop There is lesse mercy showne to him then to a dog he could not be suffered to lap a little water to coole his tongue because he shewed lesse mercy to Lazarus then the dogs did vvho lickt his sores with their tongues 3. Looke into heauen see Abrahams heart