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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
evil_n	good_a	life_n	tree_n	2,346	5	8.7759	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13711	Seauen sermons, or, The exercises of seuen sabbaoths 1 The prophet Dauids arithmeticke. 2 Peters repentance. 3 Christs last supper. 4 Christ combating with Satan. 5 The sea-mans carde. 6 The sinners bath. 7 The forming of Eue the first woman. Together with a short treatise vpon the commaundements.	Thomas, Lewis, b. 1567 or 8.	1599 (1599)	STC 24003; ESTC S111425	91,351	236

sayde to bee Christ and the saintes vnder the Altar are sayd to haue long robes shewing that nothing must be seene in the Saintes of God which is stained or polluted they must be all couered Their robes are said to be white shewing that the soules which rest in Christ must be clothed with innocency after the perfection of Christ A roab was giuen to euery oue of them shewing that one was not couered with the robe of another one soule might not be clothed with the perfection of another for the iust shalliue by his owne faith In the seuenth chapter the fourtenth verse it is said they had washed their ●obes and made them white shewing there is no clensing of sin but by his bloud that died for sin Being now made cleane and white let vs not pullute our selues againe let vs not anie more runne to the vomit of sinne for then we greeue the spirit of God and our ende is worse then our beginning Cant. 5 3. Let vs rather learne the song of Christes Spouse in the Canticles I haue washed my feete how shall I defile them againe I haue putte off my coate how shall I put it on And thus haue you seen the sinner wouded and salued sicke to death and yet recouered to life again like the Sunamites child Be not like those 9. Leapers who being clēsed forgot him that cured them are noted ●o all posterities of monstrous ingratitude Little will he yeeld which will not yeeld Iohn 8. 11. thankes which makes thee nothing the poorer nor him the richer that receiueth them As Christ sayde to the woman taken in adulterie Goe away and sinne no more lest a worse thing happen vnto thee so I saye that you are washed nowe and purged and clensed from all your sinnes goe and defile your selues no more lest some euill ouertake Heb. 10. 26 you and then no more sacrifice for sinnes shal preuaile as Christ said Remember Luk. 17 32. Lots wife so I say remember Esau who Gene. 27. could not gaine the blessing though he sought it with teares All will be learned if you thinke on this lesson that wee haue taught or rather which God hath deliuered vnto you If wee confesse our sinnes God is faithfull and iust to forgiue our sinnes and to clense vs from all vnrighteousnesse The God of peace make vs perfect in al good workes to do his will working in vs that which is pleasant in his sight through Iesus Christ to whome be praise for euer Amen The forming of Eue. ¶ Allso the Lorde saide it is not good that man shoulde bee alone I will make him an help meete for man There fore the Lord caused an heanie sleepe to fall upon the man and he slept and hee tooke one of the ribbes and closed vp the flesh insteede thereof and that ribbe which he had taken made he a woman Gen. 18. 21 22. THe philosophers being but profane men such as neuer acquainted themselues with Diuinitie the true sauing knowledge yet could say beeing guided by a naturall instinct of reason only that contemplation is the chiefest felicitie or the onely good thing whereunto all men of all sort should sacrifice their well bestowed labors This Idea was a continuall insight or serious consideration both of God and of his creatures And this in them was but a voyce of humanitie but certainely it conua●es vnto vs Christians my sticall matter of deepest diuinitie for it is the very loadestarre that by a speedie and easie course guides vs along to the hauen of true felicitie like those Angels that led foorth Lot to the place of refuge when others disdaining so good a guide perished worthily in the flames of Sodom This consideration wee find to be first planted in God himselfe and secondarily from him deriued vnto men It mooued God when hee did contemplate his owne glorie for the further promoting thereof to create the world the heauens and the earth and the creatures therein all to set foorth his glorie according to that in the nineteenth Psalme The heauens declare the glorie of God and the firmament sheweth his handy workes c. Diuine speculation performed this and the same in another sort but far inferior to this must prouoke vs carefully to meditate and consider of the Lords goodnes in crea●ing vs and gouerning vs which are so wonderfully made happie are we and then doe we shew forth the shining maiestie of God in vs yea then are we come to the full period of this Summum bonum this so great felicitie when we meditate how to glorifie God for his goodnesse And this holy lesson being indeede the Alpha and Omega of all perfection we can neuer haue learned till we can say as Dauid sayth I studie alwaies vppon thy lawes yea and I make it my continual exercise so holy a song could this sweete singer sound● forth would all Christians could sing the like song with the like spirit To presse a little neerer to the matter in hand as the creating of the world and after that the creating of man doth shew the gracious care and prouidence of God ouer vs so in this place we find a fresh president of the Lordes like goodnes towards vs noted in the words of my text Also the Lord said it is not good that man should be himselfe alone I will make him a helpe The words do offer these three things to our consideration First the consultation or conference had betweene God and his wisedome for the creating of the woman Secondly the effect of his conference in the 21. verse Thirdly the maner of the womans creation in these wordes God caused an heauie sleepe to fal vpon the man In this consultation or conference the loue of God and his prouident care vnder mankind is most liuely discouered After he had made man the worlds wonder and the most excellent of all his creatures beeing but a little inferior to the Angels and had made him Lord ouer the earth all things in it contained to gouerne the same by the diuine wisedome wherwith God had indued him hauing also placed him in Eden that so glorious a seat and so full of maiestie so plentifully stored with infinite varieties of rauishing pleasures For out of it made the Lord to growe euery tree pleasant to the sight and good for meate the tree of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and euill all this felicitie notwithstanding that Adam now possessed and more might not seeme to be required for the bettering of his estate for what can a man haue more then the whole world to command as Adam had after him Noah yet the Lord abounding in mercy as he is all compounded of goodnes and mercy saw some thing wanting Adam had not yet a companion that might pertake with him in this his felicitie al his ioy and pleasure and solace seemed nothing in regard of this one defect