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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	love_n	love_v	neighbour_n	2,121	5	9.0617	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14015	A sermon preached on Palme-Sunday, before King Henry the VIII by Cuthbert Tonstall ...	Tunstall, Cuthbert, 1474-1559.	1633 (1633)	STC 24323; ESTC S1387	33,985	52

devill and his disciples be against thee for God thy protectour is stronger then he and they and shall by his grace give him and them a fall And to shew unto thee that God is on thy side consider that it is written in the 6. chapter of the Proverbs that amongst many crimes there rehearsed that God hateth chiefly he doth detest those persons that sow discord among their brethren as all we christian men be brethren under our heavenly Father also it is written in the 8. chapter of Iohn that those that doe stirre men to murther be children of the divell which was from the beginning of mankinde a murtherer and brought Adam to sinne and thereby to death as the Iewes his children stirred the people to put Christ to death Saint Paul also in the last chapter to the Romans warneth them to beware of those that doe make dissention and debate among them against the doctrine that he had taught them and biddeth them eschue their company wherein the holy Ghost wrought in Paul for these many yeeres past little warre hath beene in these parts of Christendome but the Bishop of Rome eyther hath beene a stirrer of it or a nourisher of it and seldome any compounder of it unlesse it were for his ambition or profit Wherefore since as Saint Paul saith in the 14. chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians that God is not God of dissention but of peace who commandeth by his word peace alwaies to be kept wee are sure that all those that goe about to breake peace betweene Realmes and to bring them to warre are the children of the divell what holy names soever they pretend to cloake their pestilent malice withall which cloaking under hypocrisie a double divellishnesse and of Christ most detested because under his blessed name they doe play the divels part And therefore since Christ is on our side against them let us not feare them at all But putting our confidence in Almighty God and cleaving fast to the Kings Majestie our supreame head in earth next under Christ of this Church of England as faithfull Subjects by Gods law ought to doe though they goe about to stirre Gog and Magog and all the ravenours of the world against us We trust in God verily and doubt not but they shall have such a ruine and ouerthrow as is prophecied by Ezechiel in the 39. chapter against Gog and Magog going about to destroy the people of God whom the people of God shall so vanquish and overthrow on the mountaines of Israel that none of them shal escape but their carcasses there to lye to be devoured by Kites and Crowes and birds of the ayre And if they shall persist in their pestilent malice to make invasion into this Realme then let us wish that their great Captaine Gog I meane the Bishop of Rome may come with them to drinke with them of the same cup that he maliciously goeth about to prepare for us that the people of God might after surely live in peace And now that we have spoken of disobedience done to man against Gods law let us somewhat speake of disobedience daily done to God by us all against Gods law which our disobedience is so great that the tongue of man cannot expresse it for Christ saith in the 19. chapter of Matthew to him that asked what he should doe to come to everlasting life If thou wilt enter into everlasting life keepe the Commandements which he there rehearsed unto him when he asked which they were they be written in the 20. chapter of Exodus tenne in number And because I doubt not but ye know them for briefenesse of time I shall omit to rehearse them In the old law which expresseth rewards temporall for the capacitie of the grosse carnall people of Israel many worldly pleasures and rewards be promised to the keepers of those commandements and mervailous great troubles and paines be threatned to the breakers and transgressors of them All which be contained in the 28. chapter of Deuteronomie in so much that in the 8. chapter of that Booke the people of Israel is threatned by Almighty God to be expelled out of the land promised unto them if they should not keepe those Comandements and lawes by him given unto them The Prophet David saith also in the 88. Psalme If the children of David leave my lawes and keepe not my commandements I shall with a rod visite their iniquities and their sinnes with beatings But our Saviour Christ regarding the forgetfulnesse of mans memory lest he should not remember the whole number of tenne hath brought them all into two Commandements comprising in effect the whole tenne of the which two expressed in the 22. chapter of Matthew the first is Thou shalt love thy Lord God with all thy heart with all thy soule with all thy minde This is the first and greatest Commandement containing in it foure Commandements of the first table which be these Thou shalt have no other Gods in my sight Thou shalt grave no image of things that be in heaven above or in earth beneath or in the water under the earth nor with adoration worship them Thou shalt not take the name of God in vaine Thou shalt sanctifie thy Sabbath day No man will breake any of these foure Commandements that loveth God above all things The second Commandement given there by Christ is like unto the first that thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy selfe which comprehendeth all the sixe Commandements of the second Table which be these Thou shalt honour thy father and thy mother Thou shalt not commit adultry Thou shalt not steale Thou shalt not beare false witnesse Thou shalt not lust to have thy neighbours house nor his wife nor his servant nor his maide nor any of his goods No man that loveth his neighbour as himselfe will offend him in any of these for since he loveth himselfe so well that he cannot be content that his neighbour shall offend him in any of these hee in loving his neighbour as himselfe will not offend his neighbour in any of these In these two Commandements saith Christ all the law and the Prophets be contained But for all this we thus plainely being taught by Christ doe fall headlong into all kindes of vices for where we ought to love God above all things we love the world and worldly things above God against the counsell of Saint Iohn in the 2. chapter of his first Epistle For we be so given to concupiscence of the flesh that whatsoever it Iusteth to have we minister it unto it to the concupiscence of our eyes that whatsoever we doe see that liketh us we will have it by one meanes or other Wee be so high also of minde and proud in heart that wee will mount above our degree suffering none to be above us which three faults doe comprehend all vices of the world so that we may say with the Prophet Osee in his 4. chapter There is no truth