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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	aaron_n	moses_n	priest_n	79	3	5.9082	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08695	The dumbe diuine speaker, or: Dumbe speaker of Diuinity A learned and excellent treatise, in praise of silence: shewing both the dignitie, and defectes of the tongue. Written in Italian, by Fra. Giacomo Affinati d'Acuto Romano. And truelie translated by A.M.	Affinati, Giacomo.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1605 (1605)	STC 190; ESTC S115940	324,313	360

toucht In the booke of examples the ninth distinction and the 57. example it is registred of a man of religious habite but one very vicious in his life who was greatly addicted to the sin of detraction And finding himselfe to waxe very sick hee was exhorted by diuers of his friends to send for some reuerend diuine and betweene God and his soule to remember the bad course of his life past that hee might aduise him to the speedier repentance but he made them answere that he could not doe it because his case was dispatcht already They not giuing him ouer so but still earnestly solliciting him desired him not so much to regard the greeuousnesse of his sinnes as to thinke on the infinite mercies of God who neuer withdrawes his eye from a repentant sinner Suddenly his tongue in this his stiffe impenitencie started out of his head whereat hee making an offer in anger to strike wrote afterward these words with his finger on the wall This wicked tongue is the cause of my damnation Furthermore it is sayd that his tongue continued swelling in such strange manner as hee could by no meanes drawe it back into his mouth but dying in this horrible manner gaue a feareful example of eternall damnation to al detractors Let vs fly then from this diuelish vice and get farre enough off from the like infamous tongues because their wicked company is to be shunned of all men that are weake in vertue Detractoribus ne miscearis Seeke therefore to conuerse and company with such as are grounded in vertue and do hold in due esteem true sanctity of life For as the Sun beames on foule mud is not a iot attainted but brings that moist filthinesse to dry dust Or as good strong wine swallows vp and conuerts water into his own substance And quenched coales are by close keeping quickly kindled againe Euen so doe vertuous men reduce the vitious into perfection without any taint or iniury to their owne goodnesse Lodouico I am of opinion my Lord that it is better keeping off a loofe then comming neere to such diabolicall tongues because we are then more secure that they cannot contaminate vs how weake soeuer we be then we are certaine to win them from their innated vices Saul prophecied among the holy Prophets yet for all that among vile men he was the very vilest Laban by Iacob became exceeding rich in substance but yet was very poor in beleef and goodnesse Potiphar by Ioseph grew euermore to be a maruellous substantiall man but in himselfe he increased the largest measure of wickednesse Wherby we may for a certainty perceiue that the saying of the Lyrick Poet is most true Quo semel est imbuta recens seruabit odorem testa diù Finis Cap. 12. The Argument Murmuring is an infectious sinne worse then any other disease and easie to be taken therefore it behooueth vs to flye the company of talkeatiue detractors because they are the originall of many euilles Whence it is that murmuring first ariseth VVhat punishment God hath inflicted on murmurers who haue leapt out of themselues as it were to fasten hold on other mens imperfections and stealing much lesse then they looked for at last vtterly lost all How they haue ioyned the tongue with the eare how they haue deceiued themselues ouer-much in iudgement by their owne dangerous facility in speaking euill of all men to which God will giue as a chastisement a perpetuall silence With an exhortation of the holy ghost not to defame but to refraine speaking euill of our neighbor Chap. 13. CLAVDIO We neede make no doubt but that it is much better to keep our selues far off then to abide neer such wickednesse knowing our owne weaknesse least while we seek other mens health we foolishly loose our own Neuerthelesse whosoeuer can reduce such tongues to perpetuall silence it wil appeare in him to be a very great office of charity Murmuring is an infectious disease for we may read that Myriam the sister of Moses murmuring and speaking euil against her sayd brother suddenly she became a Leaper quite couered ouer with a white ougly scurfe not much vnlike a fold of snowe And this happened by the iust iudgement of God who appearing in the piller of the cloude after her thundring foorth those disdaynefull speeches in the presence of the two brethren Moses and Aaron Myriam was smitten with the aforenamed leprosie Now albeit Moses and Aaron were great in the fauour of God and laboured him very instantly with their godly prayers for her yet could they not otherwise preuaile but that for seauen dayes she must be sequestred from the people If the punishmēt shold alwayes be inflicted answerable to the sin detraction murmuring beeing such an infectious euil as nothing in the world whatsoeuer sooner hurteth iudge you by the chastisement of Moses sister with leaprosie what should bee layde on such as sinne therein the disease beeing as readye in catching as the lauish tongue is in detracting Lodouico Woorthily in mine opinion was it so ordered to sunder such a byting tongue from all the other people least it might also happen to infect them too For heere was not any regard how euen but a little before they had prophecied in composing this worthy song Cantemus Domino gloriose enim magnificatus est equum ascensorem deiecit in mare We wil sing vnto the Lord for he hath triumphed gloriously the horse and him that rode vpon him hath he throwne in the sea Neither was there any respect made of Moses and Aaron his brother the one a Prince the other the high Priest both beloued of the Lord wherefore thus in iustice the lord did punish her If god shold alwayes thus chastice this great sin there would not be found neither could there be heard so many detracting grudging tongues a meer infectious plague among the people but silence wold be held in more venerable esteem and found to be not so necessary as profitable Cla. It is such a pernicious thing I meane this hellish vice of murmuring that oftentimes of very few words do arise infinite discords for the holy ghost saith by the mouth of Salomon A scintilla vna augetur ignis ab vno doloso augetur sāguis Of one little spark is made a great fire of one deceitful mā is bloud encreased As of one spark a great flame is kindled so by one malitious murmurer greate sins are encreased Sometimes a foolish body puts a spark of fire to the side of a poore mans house without doing any further harme departeth But then there comes another more foolish or rather more malitious then the first who so stirs blowes the little sparke that it breaks forth into a great flame which burnes consumes brings the whole house into ashes If the secōd had not stird blown it the spark perhaps had dyed of