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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	believe_v	mouth_n	speak_v	1,983	5	4.6782	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15765	A summons for sleepers Wherein most grieuous and notorious offenders are cited to bring forth true frutes of repentance, before the day of the Lord now at hand. Hereunto is annexed, a patterne for pastors, deciphering briefly the dueties pertaining to that function, by Leonard Wright.	Wright, Leonard, b. 1555 or 6.	1589 (1589)	STC 26034.3; ESTC S121115	49,627	64

sacrifice vnto God it is a greater fault to let goe a Wolfe than to kill a lambe in the flocke and a greater offence to pardon a rebell or a traitor than to kill a true man but these are not called rebelles as they are because they are not hanged vp as they should He that hath a dogge that is a shéepe biter must by lawe either hang him vp or else pay for the shéepe he hath wearied euen so the Christian magistrate whome it hath pleased God to set in authoritie and giuen charge to gouerne and defend his poore shéepe knowing notorious biters lying in waite to deuoure them must either hang vp those curres or answere to God for those shéepe that they doe wearie The bridle sayth Salomon belongeth to the horse a whip to the Asse and a rod for the fooles back Correct a wise man with a nod but a foole with club we sée that nodding will not serue nor becking will not serue nor winking will not serue it must be a club a hatchet or a halter or else such busie headed fooles as disdaine to be ruled will neuer be quiet till they may rule themselues without controulment Their wordes and reasons vnto many séeme big in sound yet in truth are but small in weight great in shewe little in substance full of terrour voide of wisedome rather bugs to fray babes than matter to moue any staide Christian greate persuasions to seduce weake flesh yet not sufficient to satisfie consciences they may stirre vp coniectures in some vnstaide braines which like weake réedes will moue and wagge with euerie blast of winde yet not able to staie assurance in such constant Christian subiectes as stande firme and faithfull to God their Prince and Countrie like oaks so that Helleborus were more fit to purge their frantike braines than arguments to confute their trifling errors To procéede our delicate and fruitfull Countrie hath ingendered a multitude of daintie and vicious people proude prodigall wasters miserable pinching proulers false dissembling liars faire lookes and smooth tongues without good meaning some cruell as Lions some craftie as Foxes some rauenous as Wolues some enuious as dogges some lecherous as Goates some filthie as Swine the most part either hypocrites wicked liuers or ignorant of God euery one in loue with his owne face like Narcissus the higher sort contemning their inferiors with snuffing scorne and the lower sort sto●●aking their superiours with grudging spight It is said that a Cameleon can transforme himselfe into al colours saue white and our people haue all conditions saue honestie I thinke in Sodome was neuer more filthines in Flanders more dronkennes in Crete more lying in France more dissimulation nor in Iewrie more hypocrisie than is now practised in England And as good men would gladly haue euill men amended so euil men would rather haue good men consumed The multitude of sinners haue to chased awaie the shame of sinne that common wickednesse is taken for no priuate offence there is such vnmerciful bribing oppressing and wringing the poore as though there were neither God to honour deuil to dread heauen to hope for nor hell to eschue Euery one is more liberall to lend another his conscience than his money and his seale is of more credit than his soule One crowe will not picke out the eies of another but for mony one man wil not sticke to picke another to the hard bones according to the Prouerbe Homo homini Lupus est Man to man is no man but a Wolfe These people therefore are possessed with deuils they sleepe in sinne and it is high time to awake thm The glory of the Romanes in olde time was to speake lyttle and doe much of the Gréekes to speake much and doe lyttle and of our dissembling Protestants to talke much but earne to amend nothing at all Our Elders were rude in spéech and ciuil in manners we ciuil in spéech and rude in manners they beléeued as Pagans and liued like Christians we beléeue as Christians and liue like Pagans they preached not the word nor we liue according to the word the name of God is in our tongues but his feare is not in our hearts the Papists doe call vs Solifidians but our workes declare vs rather Nullifidians wee are like the Athenians the more good we know y e lesse good we do or pepper which is hotte in the mouth but colde in the bellie so wee frie in wordes but fréese in deedes speake by elles but worke by inches We reade of one Pambo who after he had heard one lesson would heare no mo till hée had learned to practise that one wée desire to heare thousands and yet frame our selues to practise none our preachers for the better instruction of the people in all truth and godlynesse haue paynefully indeauoured themselues to beate downe the superstitious abuse of fasting prayers and almes déedes commending the thing it selfe as verie pleasant and acceptable in Gods sight but they vnderstanding as it were with theyr héeles vpon a wylfull neglygence haue taken occasion thereby to cast awaye both fasting prayer and almes déedes with feastes of the poore and all together Againe some Preachers teach the people at the hearing of the name of Iesus to bowe the knee another sorte denie it as vnlawfull to yeelde more reuerence to that name than to God the Father and the holy Ghost the people hearing that thinke scorne to bowe their knée to any of all the thrée Thus they make theyr libertie a cloake of loosenesse turne the grace of God vnto wantonnesse and the Gospell of Christ vnto lewdnesse they haue changed works into wordes godly deuotion into bare knowledge and are become rather lippe Gospellers than life Gospellers The Papistes were not so zealous to gilde their Temples with golde but our Protestantes are as neglygent to gilde theyr soules with vertue They were beneficiall and diligent both in decking the false dead pictures of Saincts and féeding the true liuely members of Christ and wee séeme to condemne the one and leaue the other vndone They vsed fasting from meates we neither from meate nor sinne they praied often we seldome or neuer they were bountifull to the poore but we liue onely to our selues they wrought of intent to merit heauen but we neither do good for merite nor yet of charitie and duetie yea wée are come from blinde zeale to wylfull wickednesse and from superstition to no religion For the worlde is nowe growen to this point that if a man of godly zeale and deuotion doe accustome orderlie to frequent the Church he is accounted an hypocrite If he bee giuen religiously to fast and praie he is taken for a Papist And if he kéep a good house for reléefe of the poore he is called a merite monger Wherby fasting is despised praier contemned and almes déeds abhorred Thus haue we cast off the workes of Simon Peter are become in manners