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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	pomp_n	renounce_v	vanity_n	3,174	5	10.1762	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01281	Englands sicknes, comparatively conferred with Israels Diuided into two sermons, by Tho: Adams.	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1615 (1615)	STC 114; ESTC S100411	68,934	100

nights lodging which onely truely can make the heart merry He striues to be merry but his mirth is madnesse Hee cannot dance vnlesse vanity be his mate and iniquity his Minstrell All his ioy is vel in vitys vel in diuiti●s eyther in his wealth or his wickednesse He cannot be merry if God bee in the company For the good onely keepe Christmas all the yeare in their conscience though not at their table Hee hath three inducements to perswade and three defects to disswade the soule from accepting his loue If the former induce any to him let the latter reduce them from him 1. His first allurement is a mellifluous language able to blanch mischiefe His words drop Nectar as if hee had beene brought vp at Court And by his Logicke hee can make quidlibit ex quolibet anything of euery thing so by his Rhetoricke hee can make stones hard hearted worldlings dance to his pipe as it is fabled of Orpheus Cusus ex ore non tam ver●a quam mella fluunt as I haue read of Origem Euery syllable is like a drop of honey from his lips Magicis verborum viribus quasi transformat homines There lies a magicke in his tempt●ng speech able to inchant and transforme mens hearts making a voluptuous man a hogge an oppressor a Wolfe the lustfull a Goate the Drunkard a Diuell His arguments are not empty but carry the weight of golden eloquence the musicall sound of profite and pleasure 2 Besides his captiuing elocution hee mends the ill fabricke of his person with rich acoutrements He weares all his cloathes as Saint Paul saith in the fashion Hee hath change of suites Hee puts on pride when he goes to the Court Bribery when hee goes to the Hall Ebriety when to a Tauerne Prodigality when he shufles in among Gallants Vsurie when hee would walke in the Exchange Oppression when hee would ride downe into the Country Onely Auarice is the girdle of his loines he is neuer without it It is fashion to be of any fashion to apply himselfe to thy humour whom he courts He hath a sute to speed of his suite to please thy affection 3 This is not all he tenders thee a faire and large iointure Giue him but marriage and he will giue thee maintenance Iura periura Defraude dissemble sweare for sweare bribe flatter temporize make vse of all men loue onely thy selfe and riches with preferment in his company shall seeke thee out Thou shalt hazard no Straights climbe no Alpes prison not thy selfe in a study nor apprentice thy life to the warres entertaine but the worlde for thy husband and thou art out of all hunger and cold wealth shal come trolling in euē whiles thou sleepest But happy is hee that can bee rich with honesty or poore with content These are the glories whereof hee would enamour thee thus would hee possesse thee with his possessions But hee hath three deterringes heare them 1 He hath sore eyes bleare and raw with cares for hee is euer in expectation either of remedy to griefes or supply to wants What opulency can boast immunity from sorrow exemption from crosses And such is the secure worldlings impatience when once angred with afflictions that a little misery makes him greatly miserable He makes his yoke the more troublous to him because he hath not learned to draw quietly in it Though hee hath alreadie more then enough he keepes his eyes sore with seeking for addition In the quest of wealth hee denies himselfe rest Needes must his eyes be sore that sleepeth not This is one disease incident to the world 2 He hath swolne legges diseased with surfets For the world comprehends more then couetousnesse by the testimony of S. Iohn The lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes the pride of life is of the world Wee renounced in our Baptism with the world pompes and vanities Riot lust intemperance Epicurisme dissolutenes are members of the world as well as auarice Tam I say if not tantum And therfore our Sauiour by that terrible sentence against rich men intends not couetousnesse for a sole and singular obstacle yeelde it a principall but pride ambition lust vaine-glory luxurie the effects of an opulent state as well as couetice There are more burdens to loade the Cammell when he should passe through the smal posterne of Grace that needlesse eye then onely auarous affections What lesson of vice is not the rich man apt to learne Therefore this makes the world haue swolne legges as the other sore eyes Hee is blinde hee is lame both ill qualities in a Sutour 3 He hath a very weak tenur of al he possesseth he is Gods tenant at will hath leasse of nothing but durante Domini bene placito during the great Landlord of heauen earth his fauour At vtmost his hold is but for terme of life that a warish short and transient life scarce so long as the first line of an indenture Nay hee hath right to nothing for he holds not in Capite from the Lord of all Iesus Christ. Therefore euery wordling shall be accountant for each crumme of bread and droppe of water which they haue receiued For the right of the creatures lost in the first Adam cannot be recouered but by the second So that hee enters on them as an Intruder and possesseth them as an Vsurper his title being so bad his tenure is certaine in nothing but in being vncertaine Sic transit gloria mundi So the fashion of this world passeth away What soule soeuer marries him either he leaues his wife or his wife must leaue him without euer being satisfied You see then the fraudulent proffers of your personable wooer the world What is there in him that any daughter of Ierusalem should affect him Only be you simple as Doues in not louing him but wi●e as Serpents in liuing by him Loue not the world saith Saint Iohn yet make vse of it saith Saint Paule Vtere mundo fruero Deo Vse the world but enioy God for the world wax●th old as a garment and fadeth away but Iesus Christ yesterday and to day and the same for euer The world like fire may be a good seruant will bee an ill Master Make it thy slaue it is not good ynough to be thy husband How base is it for a freewoman to marry her seruant 3 The third is the Flesh. This Sutour comes boldly in like a home-borne childe and hopes to speede for old acquaintance He can plead more then familiaritie euen inherence inheritance of what nature hath left vs. He is not only collaterall but connaturall to vs. One house hath held vs one breath serued vs one nutriment fed vs euer since one conception bred vs. Like Hippocrates twinnes we should haue inseparably liued togither and loued together if the prerogatiue Court of grace and mercie had not diuorced vs. And euen in the sanctified this impudent wooer cannot be quite

pleading of it But in vain doth the beggars sonne boast himselfe of the bloud royall or the wicked soule of partaking the diuine nature when hee cannot demonstrate his adoption by his sanctification So that as we giue comfort to them that except themselues so terror to them that accept themselues when God doth not make sure to thy soule that thou art once Gods and my life for thine thou shalt euer be his Lastly from this titular phrase obserue that the daughter of Ierusalem is our mother Ierusalem which is aboue is free which is the mother of vs all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The holy Church is our mother if the most holy God be our Father She feedes vs with sincere milke from her two breastes the scriptures of both the Testaments those Oracles which God hath committed to her keeping God doth beget vs of unmortallseed by the word which liueth and abideth for euer but not without the wombe of the Church Non enim nascimur ●edrenascimur Christian● wee are not Christians by our first but by our second birth Neither is she the mother of all but vs all whom God hath chosen before all time and called in time to himselfe Qui sic sunt in dom● Dei vt ipsi sint dom●s Dei who are so in the House of God that themselues are the house of God He that ouercommeth I will write vpon him the name of my God and the name of the City of my God which is now Ierusalem that commeth out of heauen from my God So that à quo dominatio ab ●o denominatio our name is giuen vs according to her name that cherisheth and is Mother vnto vs. Hence euery beleeuing soule is a daughter of Ierusalem and a spouse of Christ. Anima credentis est sponsaredimentis The soule of him that beleeues is the spouse of him that saues As a multitude is but a heape of vnites so the Church is a congregation of Saints And as that which belongs to the body belongs to euery member so the priuiledges of our mother Ierusalem are the prerogatiues of all her children not onely the daughter of Sion her selfe but euery daughter of hers euery faithfull soule ' is a pure virgin and so to be presented to Iesus Christ. As Paul to his particular Church of Corinth I am iealous ouer you with a godly iealousie for I haue espoused you to one husband that I may present you as a chast virgin to Christ. Mans soule is of an excellent nature and like a beautious damsel hath many Sutours 1. First the Deuill who comes like an old dotard neatly tricked and licked vp his wrinckled hide smoothed and sleeked with tentations he comes euer masqu'd and dares not shew his face Take away his vizour and the soule is worse then a witch that can affect him And as when hee temptes wretched Sorceresses to some reall couenant with him hee assumes the forme of familiar and vnfeared creatures left in a horrid and strange shape they should not endure him So in his spirituall circumuentions for the more facile flie and suspect●esse insinuation into mortall hearts Hee transformes himselfe into an Angell of light The promises of this Sutour are large and faire hee offers the soule if it will bee his spouse a greater Ioynture Iudas shall haue money Esau pleasures Naball plenty Christ himselfe shall bee ioyntu●'d in many kingdoms but euer hee indents that wee must loue him and ioyne with him in marriage Doeg shall haue a place in the court so he will maligne Gods Priests Pilate shall be Iudge so he will ply his vsury hard The Proctor shall bee made an Eccle●asticall Iudge if he will promise more conuiuence then conscience and suffer Master bribery to giue the censure Euery Bal●am shall be promoted that is readier to curse then blesse the people These things to the wicked doth Sathan forme in speculation though not performe in action Hee is an ill wooer that wanteth wordes Heare his voyce and see not his face belieue his promises and consider him not as a lyer as a murderer and he will goe neere to carry thy hart from all But he that hath two infirmities nay enormities that betray him a stinking breath and a halting foot 1 For his breath though it smell of sulphure and the hote steame of sinne and hell yet hee hath art to sweeten it So hee can rellish couetice with thrift●nes voluptuousnes with good diet idlenes with good quiet drunkennes because it is very sowre fulsome and odious ●u●n to nature and reason shall be season'd sweeten'd with good fellowship Malice is the argument of a noble Spirit and murder the maintenance of reputation Lust is the direction of nature and swearing a gracefull testimony to the truth of our speeches With such luscious confections he labours to conserue his lungs from stinking If it were not for those mists and shadowes sinne would want both fautors and factors 2 But his lame foot cannot bee hidden as they once foolishly fabled among the vulgar that his clouen foote could not bee changed for his disobedience is manifest If hee saith Steale and God saieth Thou shalt not steale Sweare when God saith Sweare not dissemble when hee cries Woe against hypocrites bee an vsurer when God sayeth thou shalt not then dwell in my glory what pretences soeuer glosse his Text his lamenesse cannot bee hidden All his pollicy cannot deuise a boot to keepe him from this halting This is the first worst Sutour 2 The World comes in like a blustering Captaine with more nations on his backe then crownes in his purse or at least vertues in his conscience This wooer is handsomely breasted but ill backed better to meete then to follow for hee is all vanity before all vexation behind by the witnesse of him that tried and knew him Sometimes trouble followes him but surely followes him The desire of money is the roote of all euill which while sons coueted after they haue erred from the faith and pierced themselues through with many sorrowes Hee is like a Bee or an Epigram all his sting is in his tayle Hee is troubled with a thousand diseases and is attended on with more plagues then euer was Galens study He is now growne exceeding olde and hath but a few minutes to liue Hee is decayed both in stature and nature especially hee is troubled with a stooping and a stopping a stooping in his ioynts a stopping in his lungs He neither hath an vpright face nor a light heart 1 For the former hee is euer poring on the earth as if he had no other heauen or were set to digge there for Paradise His eye neuer lookes vp to heauen but to obserue what weather it will be This is his curuitie hee is a warped aged and decrepite Sutour There is no straightnes in him 2 For the other hee cannot be lightsome because hee neuer did giue good conscience one