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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	aaron_n	breast_n	plate_n	36	3	9.6188	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58345	God's plea for Nineveh, or, London's precedent for mercy delivered in certain sermons within the city of London / by Thomas Reeve ...	Reeve, Thomas, 1594-1672.	1657 (1657)	Wing R690; ESTC R14279	394,720	366

is not this City able to do I wish it may be able to examine and to extricate her self I cannot but love your City for her brest that she proved such a kind Nourse to them which had neither milk nor maintenance when upon the death of their Mother they were as exposed children All the gratitude which I can expresse is to piety this Nourse upon her sick-Couch and if I can preserve her alive upon her bed of anguishing till there may be some signes of her recovery I shall not cease to visit her and if she will admit me he as a ghostly Father to her that she may confesse her inward disease and apply that spirituall remedy which will certainly and can onely work her proper cure I thought once to have called in all the Nobility and Gentry of the Nation to joyn in this work for the Heralds office is in the City and why should not they which are comparable to fine gold cast in their talent for the advance of this pious design Yes they are too high if they do not humble themselves to the earth for her which all this while with a trusty hand hath kept their Pedegrees I would have invited the Reverendest of the Clergy to have assisted in this religious service for Sancta Maria de Arcubus is in the City why should not they deprecate judgements from her which hath retained for them a place where they have received their first Consecration Aaron doth carry upon his brest plate the names of the Tribes of Israel the Priests must not be absent from the Sacrifi●e these must weep between the Porch and Altar I would have drawn in all the Civill and common Lawyers to plead in Heaven for this City for they having been so often retained in her Counsell and learned all their honoured skill here the Inns of Court being nigh to the body of the City and Doctours Commons within the bowells of the City why should not they sollicit the highest Court for a release from her extremities I would have summoned-in all the Physitians to administer a soveraign potion to this City for their Colledge being within her walles and they having raised vast estates out of their City practise why should not they prepare an Elixir for her out of their suppled eyes rent-heartstrings extracted consciences to preserve her at an exigent yea I thought once to have sent down to all the Cities in the Kingdome to have repaired hither their selves or to have sent their faithfull substitute Proxey their conversion to officiate for the City in her greatest perill For seeing this is the Metropolis why should not all the Daughters do their duty to their Mother and wait upon her with their prayers and tears and humiliation and mortification yes they here vending all their commodities and buying here all their principall wares it is convenient that they should blesse her with their repentance which hath blessed them with revenue But because the most proper cure is that which is personall people being able to prepare their Antidote therefore ye knowing both the malady and the medicine what need I trouble others when ye are able if ye will to do the work your selves and to be your own Physitians And now that I have left you in your own hands setting Life and Death before you oh that I could speak to the City in generall that as all Nineveh so all your City would be unaninous to unite their repentance to keep off a judgement But I see such a complicated disease of bad opinions and such a cakexy of evill life amongst you some onely magnfying the virtues of the City others going on in an insensibility of any thing that it is either sin or danger that I despair to find the generality apprehensive either of disease or cure Acron could onely paint the Cypresse tree so there are some amongst you Erasm which can only draw the picture of their own self-grounds and selfe-ends why then should these mens pensils be desired to delineate this piece no I remember that Calcedon was called The Town of the blind because they would not suffer an experienced Workman to build their houses Pliny l. 5. c. ult And so such a blind City shall I leave you if I set on work half-sighted Architects which can neither see errours nor foresee hazards Therefore I set by all the humourous and vicious amongst you and apply my selfe onely to those which are truly religious which have the most conscience to discover sin and the most remorse to reconcile an offended God It is a singular work and there must be singular Agents engaged in it It is that great City and it must be that Great or good Party which must invert the state and avert the judgement of the City All ye then which are of mine own Religion and repentance be ye my Patrones out of affection the Cities out of relation deny not your own City nor me for your Cities sake this shall be my engagement and I hope not the Cities envy that I should desire you to do that for the City which the City will not do for it selfe I cannot expect you to be absolute Saints I my selfe am not innocent but I desire to be penitent and I besceech you let us both center together in this qualification Make this subject if ye can your Altar where ye may work an attonement or your Sanctuary where ye may find refuge howsoever make it your Crucifix or Sepulchre even to dye in mortifying exercises to procure the Cities release and rescue Ye have been often at the Pulpit and learned much perhaps for information but one Sermon practised is better then a thousand heard if ye have any Christianity in you let the abridgement of it be found in repentance neither your soules nor your City can be blessed by you with a virtue more beneficiall If ye had the understanding of Joseph the knowledge of Daniel the wisdome of Solomon or the insight into all those secrets which were revealed unto St Paul in the third heavens ye these were but glimmering speculations without repentance To have the loyns girt up and the lamps burning is more then to divide the waters of Jordan to fetch water out of the Rock to command the Sun to stand still in the midst of heaven to remove mountaines or to raise the dead * The Lady Capell of Oxted lay speechless a long time by fervent prayer was restored to speech and dyed in a most ravishing manner Mr. Gale in S. Johns street distracted and despairing by prayer recovered his senses dyed calmly peaceablely Christianly A Gentleman in Bishops Court in Grayes-Inn-lane visited assaulted by the Devil by prayer within the space of three days was delivered from that Obsession Mr. Barmes in Fountain Alley in Holborn having for halfe a year almost starch sometime hot somtimes cold rained through his tiled house into his Kitchin and nothing seen in the