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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
evil_n	darkness_n	good_a	sweet_a	3,257	5	8.2420	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87807	Israel and England paralelled, in a sermon preached before the honorable society of Grayes-Inne, upon Sunday in the afternoon, Aprill 16. 1648. / By Paul Knell, Master in Arts of Clare-Hall in Cambridge. Sometimes chaplaine to a regiment of curiasiers in his Majesties Army.	Knell, Paul, 1615?-1664.	1648 (1648)	Wing K679; Thomason E437_1; ESTC R204676	15,730	23

of the Covenant which God made with our fathers saying unto Abraham And in thy seed shall all the kindred of the earth be blessed In thy seed that is in Christ who was the Israelites own Countryman which is their last prerogative recorded by the Apostle of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came Thus you have seen how God loaded the Israelites with blessings with privative and positive with temporall and spirituall You onely have I knowne of all the families of the Earth And now Israel as MOSES once said Deut. 10.12 What doth the Lord thy God require of thee but to fear the Lord thy God to walk in all his wayes and to love him and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul But alas the God of Israel is here forced to complain that notwithstanding all the cost he had bestowed upon his Vineyard whem he expected grapes from it it brought forth wilde grapes notwithstanding those many benefits he had bestowed upon his people they continually rewarded him evill for good they thought not of his hand nor of the day when had delivered them from the hand of the enemy how he wrought his miracles in Egypt and his wonders in the field of Zoan neither destroyed they the heathen but learned their works for they shed innocent blood even the blood of their sonnes and of their daughters whom they offered unto the Idols of Canaan and the land was defiled with blood In generall termes their sinnes are set down Deut. 9.6 7. but they are more particularly described in the third and fifth chapter of Isaiah in the third chapter you may see their womens sinnes the Prophet bringeth you as it were into the Exchange he sheweth you the pride and vanity of their womens dressings he giveth you such an inventory of their toyes as is able to make a very Ca●o change his countenance In the fifth chapter the Prophet sheweth you their mens sinnes after the catalogue of God's benefits he giveth you another catalogue of their sinnes at the seventh verse he sheweth you their oppression and injustice I looked for judgement but behold oppression for righteousnesse but behold a cry At the eighth verse their encroaching covetousnesse in joyning house to house and field to field untill there was no place that they might be placed alone in the middest of the earth At the eleventh and twelfth verses their drunkennesse and riot in rising up early to follow strong drink and continuing untill night till wine enflamed them having the Harp and the Viol the Tabret and Pipe and wine in their feasts At the eighteenth and nineteenth verses their contempt and slighting of God's Word in defiance of this drawing iniquity with coards of vanity and sinne as it were with a cart-rope saying let him doe his worst let him make speed and hasten his worke that we may see it and let the counsell of the holy one of Israel draw nigh and come that we may know it At the twentieth verse their Hypocrisie in calling evill good and good evill in putting darknesse for light and light for darknesse in putting bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter At the one and twentieth verse their selfe conceit being wise in their owne eyes and prudent in their owne sight At the two and twentieth verse their Pot-valour in that they were mighty to drinke Wine and men of strength to mingle strong drinke At the three and twentieth verse their bribery and corruption in justifying the wicked for reward and in taking away the righteousnesse of the righteous from him And shall I not visit for these things saith the Lord shall not my soule be avenged on such a Nation as this Yes the wrath of God was kindled against his people insomuch that he abhorred his owne inheritance for three transgressions of Judah and for foure he resolveth that he will not turne away the punishment thereof And so I am fallen upon the second part of the Text which is Comminatio supplicii the threatning of a future judgement therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities You have heard that God bestowed upon Israel two sorts of blessings both which he threatneth to withdraw for their unthankfulnesse First his private blessings they must expect no more deliverances from him He brought them forth out of the Iron Furnace even out of Egypt but they had so provoked him that he threatned to binde them Apprentices there the second time Apprentices nay worse he threatned to make Slaves of them so wee read Deutr. 28. ult The Lord saith Moses shall bring thee into Egypt againe with Ships by the way whereof I spake unto to thee thou shalt see it no more againe and there shall yee be sold offer your selves at least unto your enemies for Bo●d-men and Bond-women and no man shall buy you God threatneth to sell his people for nought and to take no money for them And whereas the Israelites were wont to have the better of their Enemies they had so angred the Lord of hosts that he threatned to give their Enemies the victory so we read Deutr. 28.25 The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies thou shalt goe out one way against them and shalt flee seven wayes before them and shall be removed into all the Kingdomes of the earth And I am sure they have beene thus dlspersed for many hundred yeeres they are strangers in all Countries they have lost both their place and Nation Secondly God threatneth to withdraw his positive blessings from them We have a plaine Text for this Isa 5.5 6. I will tell thee saith God what I will doe to my Vineyard I will take away the hedge thereof and it shall be eaten up and I will breake downe the wall thereof and it shall be troden downe and I will lay it waste it shall not be pruned nor digged I will also command the Clouds that they raine no more upon it So true is that of the Psalmist Psal 107.34 A fruitfull Land maketh he barren for the wickednesse of them that dwell therein For though the Land of Canaan were as the Garden of Eden yet for the iniquitie of the Inhabitants it shall be turned into a Wildernesse and though the Israelites had the blessings of the right hand and of the left yet for their ingratitude and disobedience God threatneth to withdraw both You onely have I knowne of all the Families of the earth therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities Therefore I will punish you You that were my darling mine owne peculiar people you that were as deare to me as the apple of mine eye because ye have broken my Cōmandemēts and been unmindfull of my loving kindnesse therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities And the observation from hence for our instruction is most obvious Gods hatred against sin is such that he will not let it go unpunished in his dearest children Adam was the master-piece of