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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	soul_n	whole_a	worth_a	1,913	5	9.2236	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19873	Seven sermons on, the wonderfull combate (for Gods glorie and mans saluation) betweene Christ and Sathan Delivered by the Reuerend Father in God, Doct. Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, lately deceased.; Wonderfull combate (for Gods glorie and mans salvation) betweene Christ and Satan	Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.	1627 (1627)	STC 630; ESTC S119227	63,833	118

to me seest thou not that I haue power to crucifie thee or to let thee go Iohn 19 10. that his fauour might raise a man so high as Haman was exalted aboue all the Princes Hest. 3 1. and his disfauour or the least word of his mouth quite ouerthrow him as Haman was verse 7 8. by picking some small quarrell against him But this is not all neither for the same garish apparell wherein many do delight is contayned vnder this Haec omnia Not onely embroydered with gold but euen gold it selfe and smels of the finest scent Psal. 45. 8. and 9. And as for the delights of the flesh if he can see any that delight him better than other it is no more than with Dauid 2. Sam. 11 4. to send for her and haue her she was straight at his command Neither must any say it was vnlawfull no not Iohn Baptist if he loue his head Mark 6 17. He may command what he list if any gainesay it he may dispatch him out of the way for hee may kill and wound whom he list Dan. 5 19. Hee may command all mens tongues 2 Sam. 14 10. that they dare not once open their mouth to speake against him Nay he shall haue all mens tongues and pens ready to extoll all that he doth and say The King is like an Angell of God 2 Sam. 19. or that it is the voyce of God and not of man Act. 12 22. Why then to haue all mens hands feet bodies faces tongues and pens this may bee well said All to haue not onely one kingdome but all to haue all the power and glory of those kingdomes here is euen all the kingdome the power and the glory He comes not after a pelting manner he shewes himselfe a franke chapman he saith not that Godlinesse is great gaine and a minde content with his lot 1 Tim. 6 6. and wils him to be content with food and raiment ver 8. He comes not with Illae which we shall not once behold till another world come and whether there be any such or no many doubt He shewes him a mount that may bee touched Heb. 12 18. he comes with haec that is with ready money in his hand he not onely offers but stakes downe And whereas God faith that in the Sweat of our fore-head we shall eate our bread Gen. 3. 19. the Diuell requires no such thing This is a donatiue Haec omnia dabo What say ye now Shal Christ take it or no The Heathen man saith If a man be to violate his faith for any thing it is for a kingdome Christ hath here offered him all kingdomes a very enticing bayt but is there neuer a hooke hidden vnder it The woman was fine and braue and had a cup of gold in her hand but it was full of abhomination Apoc 17 14. So here for all these faire shewes if you will gaine any thing by the deuill you must worship him that is the condition annexed to the grant it is no absolute gift the deuill is not so kinde as to part from all that for nothing It is such a gift as the Lawyers call Excambium that is Exchange I will giue you this if you will giue me that But yet one would thinke it a very large offer to giue so great a lieu for so small a seruice it is but a little externall reuerence the bowing of the knee you may notwithstanding in heart thinke what ye list Well we may thinke there was some what in it that the deuill offered so much for so little and yet Christ refused it Indeed Christ had great reason to refuse it for hee should haue beene a looser by the bargaine I will stand to it he had beene better to haue yeelded to either of the two former temptations than to this hee should full deerely haue bought all his kingdomes hee had beene better to haue cast himselfe downe from the Pinacle For that which the deuill here demaundeth in lieu is as much worth as both the glory of God and the redemption of man Of his glory God saith That he will not giue it to another Esay 42 8. If to no other then not to the deuill of all other And therefore the Angel would not haue a burnt offering offered to him but to God Iudg. 13 16. The Angell would not let Iohn fall downe and worship him but bad him worship God Reuel 19 10. For hee knew that God was very iealous of his honour stood precisely vpon that point If he would not impart this honour with the Angels much lesse would hee with the deuill for there are degrees in idolatry Rom. 1 23. It is not so ill to turne the glory of God into the image of a man as into birds and beasts Secondly if we looke into the desire that he had to satisfie his ancient enuy by the destruction of mankinde wee must needs commend the deuils wit in making such a bargaine It had been the best penyworth that euer was bought For if we marke how Christ rateth one onely soule we may see how he that to gaine all the kingdomes of the world shall loose his owne soule Math. 16 26. makes but a foolish bargaine Then what rate shall be made of all mens soules if one bee worth kingdomes all which had beene lost if Christ had consented to that which the deuill here requireth for then hee could not haue said I restored that which I tooke not Psal. 69 4. By his death he paied the price for the sinnes of the whole World he should then haue had a score of his owne to haue payd and his death could haue beene sufficient but for himselfe onely If he had fallen downe and worshipped him he could no haue sayd That the Prince of this world had nothing to say against him Iohn 14 3. Now let vs apply this to our selues BVt wee will peraduenture say the deuill neuer made vs any such offer and therefore what needs any dmonishment in this behalfe But I answer though the deuill come not in person to vs as he did to Christ yet hee comes by his instruments When Balaac sent to Balaam to come and curse the Israelites and promised him great rewards Numb 22 17. it was not Balaacks messengers that spake but the deuill vsed them as instruments to speake So when Simon Magus would haue bought the holy Ghost with money the Diuell there in tempted the Apostles with Symonie Simon was but the trunke through which the deuill spake Acts 8. Againe there be some that will say they were neuer tempted with Kingdomes it may well be for it needs not when lesse will serue It was Christ onely that was thus tempted in him lay a heroicall mind that could not bee allured with small matters But with vs it is nothing so we esteeme farre more basely of our selues wee set our wares at a very easie price he may buy vs euen dagger cheape as we say he neede neuer carry