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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	king_n	law_n	liberty_n	6,707	5	6.5575	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54805	The creples complaint, or, A sermon preached Sept. 29, 1661 at Akly, near Buckingham, upon some sad occasion in which among many motives unto loyalty and other religious duties is proved, by lamentable experience, that good things are better known when they are not, than when they are enjoyed / by Thomas Philpot.	Philpot, Thomas, b. 1588?	1662 (1662)	Wing P2124A; ESTC R28438	45,670	51

pick out the eyes of rotten sheep while they are yet alive so the flatterers pick out the eyes of those that love to be flattered insomuch that they have not sence to see how much they suffer in being so abused and as in the Epigram 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Crow and the Flatterer in Greek as they differ but in a letter Corax a Crow Colax a Flatterer so they differ not much in the matter both by nature being devourers the one when a man is dead the other while he is alive First such flattering friends had Alexander who being fortunate in all his fights was perswaded by his Sichophants that he was a God and begot by the God Amos and not of Philip King of Macedon but being afterward wounded in a battel cried out Hiccine sanguis do the gods use to bleed such blood as this and upon his recovery did banish all flatterers out of his Court as Urbanus Octavus did all Jesuites out of Rome Secondly such flatterers Ahab and Jehosapha had perswading them to go up to Ramoth Gilead promising prosperity but Ahab being wounded found that all the balme in Gilead could not help him Thirdly such a friend had Faustus if any faith may be given to his History whose name was Mephaustophilus who made him do more miracles than all Pharaoh his Magicians could do but withal did cheat him by a Bill of exchange which was much after this manner 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 giving him Brass for Gold or making him enjoy the pleasures of this World for a season and then seized on his Soul But had Faustus looked into the nature of the name of his flattering Familiar he would have found that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mephaustophilus had been no friend to Faustus no more than many are who are Favourites unto many That friend then that must have such a part as Tully speaketh of must be such a one who by his Councel may cure all our claudicant and lame diseases First Of our Podagra or Lameness in coming to serve God Secondly Of our Genogra or Slovenly Behaviour in our Sacrifices or serving God considering also that the want of the wedding-garment in the Gospel may be want of this our sivility Thirdly to cure us of our Chiragra or lamenesse in our hands where by we cannot suppeditate or help those that support us to whom we should be in our benevolences Rhetoricians with open hands as Gods hands are open unto us and nor Logicians with such clutcht fists and withered hands that Citius fust um ex manu Herculis men should sooner wrest a clubbe out of the hand of Hereules than any benevolences out of our hands that should come either to God or his Vicegerents We read of a malevolent company of hide-bound members who prescribing abstinence to the appetite and debarring the belly of its due within a small time Paller in ore sedit macies in corpore toto their froward faces grew formidable and each member grew macilent and leane insomuch that they all looked like Pharaoh his leane kine as all malicious men will do that pine away with repining at other mens prosperity Of which Envie thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Envie though the most hatefulest sin of all the seven deadly ones yet she hath one good quality in her Suppliciumque suum est she hurteth none but her self And in such condition are all those who are costive in their contributions and benevolences especially to those that are their best Benefactors For on strict examination we shall find that a subject hath nothing that he can properly call his own but what he hath from his Soveraign First it is true that our Lordships do descend from our ancestors but who doth defend them doth not the ancient Law and who doth defend the Law doth not the King Yes nor doth he only defend the Law our Liberties our life but our Religion also for He is the Defender of our Faith Secondly it is true that we have our lives from our natural fathers and mothers but what is nature without a Nurse Kings and Queens are our nursing Fathers and nursing Mothers Isa 49.23 and Moses his life was not preserved by his mother as she was his mother but as she was the Nurse whom Pharaoh's daughter had provided for him There was a question among the Moralists Whether Alexander was more beholding to Aristotle who was his Tutor to instruct him or to Philip his father that did beget him It was held Affirmative on the Tutors side And thence it will follow That we are more beholding to Him by whom our Estates are defended than to them from whom they are descended Such a Protector of our Estates such an Omen or Foster-Father as the Hebrew termeth Him have we who is a Nourisher and Cherisher even of His Churlish Children and well may He be termed an Omen who was Destined and Ordained for our Deliverance when we were left as Perdues in Despair from whom also we have received so many favours and by Him do daily enjoy by Gods great mercy so many blessings that we may justly say O fortunatos nimium bona si sua norint Angligines Our Lot is fallen in a fair ground yea our Fortunes by the fruition of Him are too fair unless we had some of us more grace to consider it Had we an Abimelech an Usurping Bramble who would Bathe and Imbrue his hands in the blood of his Brethren or one of whom it might be said Omnia te adversum spectantia nulla retorsum Conspicimus We see all Goods come to thee but no Good come from thee Than to have said Nolumus hunc Regnare This Man shall not Reign over us had been a Noble Resolution Then to have inquired whether the PVBLICK-FAITH had any Executor or Administrator who should secure those Sums which a man should lend had been in earnest as one asked in jest a discreet question Then with old Piso to have said Parcatur sumptui To what end is this waste had been worth the asking Then with the ill Neighbour in the Proverbs to have said Non sum non possum non libet esse domi I cannot lend to day come again to morrow the Answer might have been tolerated and if the morrow had been less apt to lend than the day that day had been the better But when there was a Man sent from God yea and by an admired Miracle when a Cato Nuper de Coelo Newly as it were come down from Heaven when we had a King that sought not our Lives and Estates but our Good yea and more than His own What good man should think any thing too good for Him The Jewes questioning with Christ whether they should give Tribute to Caesar or not yet when they saw Caesar's Image and Superscription which was Augustus augusto Deo Augustus giveth himself to God the very sight of the Tribute-money made them silent and