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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	body_n	fear_v	life_n	4,543	5	5.0312	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85381	Anti-Cavalierisme, or, Truth pleading as well the necessity, as the lawfulness of this present vvar, for the suppressing of that butcherly brood of cavaliering incendiaries, who are now hammering England, to make an Ireland of it: wherein all the materiall objections against the lawfulness of this undertaking, are fully cleered and answered, and all men that either love God, themselves, or good men, exhorted to contribute all manner of assistance hereunto. By Jo: Goodwin.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1642 (1642)	Wing G1146; Thomason E123_25; ESTC R3123	51,456	53

your might to oppose shall ever get the upper hand We know it is this assembly that have stood by you and stucke close to your liberties and the truth and purity of that Religion you professe that are the bulwarke and defence against the furious impressions of those wicked ones upon you and all that is yours And they know as much too and looke upon them accordingly they are they that have robed these beares of their whelpes that have shaken the foundation of Popery Prelacy and prophannesse in the Land and that are at worke upon it night and day to make it a land of righteousnesse which is an element that these kinde of Creatures know not how to live in And in this regard these are the men of their rage and hatred above others these are the mountaines that stand in their way and what will they not doe what will they not suffer to remove them or cast them downe and make them into a plaine doubtlesse they are sicke and long for their blood as much as ever David longed for the waters of the well of Bethleem And if they shall ever be but able to dissolve the power and proceedings of this Parliament now sitting the way will be open and ready for them either to stave off all Parliaments for the future or which is of more dangerous consequence of the two to make them themselves and so the Sunne of the glory and peace of this Nation is like to set upon it for ever Therefore now consider I beseech you of how lamentable and unsupportable a consequence it would be if this Spring should be troubled as Solomons comparison is if these righteous shall fall before these wicked ones and Cavaliers Swords drinke Senators blood And how would it be a blot upon you and make your memoriall an infamy and reproach throughout all generations if it should be said that you sate still and did nothing but keepe up your mony while these men perished at your side who had beene a guard and safety to you and to all that you had yea that laboured and travailed with the honours and safetie of the whole Land and were ready to cry out and to have beene delivered but that in the very breaking forth of the children your covetousnesse and your unfaithfulnesse and remissenesse betrayed them into the hands of their enemies who cruelly destroyed both Parents and Children at once Not to feede your enemie when hee hungers or when he is thirsty not to give him drinke is by the Holy Ghost himselfe interpreted to be a revenging your selves on him and withall to be a matter of high displeasure and offence unto God I beseech you if not to save the life of an enemy when it is in danger nay if not to supplie such necessities of his which yet perhaps doe not touch his life be a sin of that provocation in the sight of God What sin will that be or by what name shall it be called or what shall the measure of the provocation of it in the eyes of God be when men shall suffer the greatest and faithfullest freinds they have that for a long time together have laboured for them in the very fire night and day in the very midst of their sore conflicts and strivings with men and that cheifely for their sakes to perish by the hand of their enemies when it was in their hand and power to relieve them Surely men must create a New Name and God will create a new punishment or hell for such a sin 5. And lastly for matter of this worlds concernment what doe you thinke of your lives themselves if those men of blood shall carry the day and ever come to set up their banners amongst you Will they not be sold as cheap as Sparrows were among the Jewes five for two farthings Nay will they not be trodden down and trampled upon like clay and mire in the Streetes by the foot of the pride and rage and insolency of these men Would not your flesh be as a feast of fat things unto them and your blood as new Wine Or if they did spare your lives would it not be only out of a desire and intent to adde unto your miseries to gaine opportunity of inflicting many deaths upon you Perhaps they have learned a deliberate cruelty from that bloody Emperour Nero who when any person that was accused and under the stroke and dint of his power desired of him that he might be dispatched and put to death was wont to make answer Non ita tecum in gratiam redii .i. He was not yet so far friends with him as to give him leave to die he meant to have more satisfaction out of them then so So if these men give you your lives for a time you must not looke to have them given you upon such termes as God sometimes in common destructions gives his servants their lives viz. For a prey or booty No they will be given you only as meanes or engines wherewith to torment you It may be they will desire to reserve and keep you aliue to make spectators of you of all that bloody Tragedy they meane to act upon all that belongs to you in setting your Houses and Cities on fire in taking away your goods in offering villany to your wives and your daughters and then mangling and massacring them when they have done And then when they have throughly scourged you with such scorpions as these it is like they will deliver you into the hand of death Certaine it is that the spirit that works in these cursed children of disobedience which are now your adversaries lusts not onely to your temporall ruine and destruction but to your everlasting ruine and destruction also as farre as it knowes how to bee active in it Our Saviour himselfe seemes to imply as much Matth. 10. 28. where he commands us not to feare those which kill the body but are not able to kill the soule as farre as they are able to goe in hatred and malice against the Saints they doe goe they doe kill the body saith our Saviour Hee doth not say feare not those that can kill the body but which doe actually frequently and from time to time kill the body but are not able to kill the soule doubtlesse intimating that if they were able they would kill body and soule and all And somewhat more plainely I conceive Joh. 10. and I give unto them eternall life and they shall never perish neither shall any man plucke or pull them out of mine hand cleerely implying that the divell and his instruments wicked men are ready to pull and tugge hard to get even his elect themselves out of his hands out of that hand of election and grace which hee hath layd upon them and whereby he holds them fast Thus the story of the martyrs report that when the Popish Prelates and Priests were ready to have execution done upon that faithfull servant of God John Husse they

used these words Now wee commit thy soule unto the Divell And when Hierom of Prague through long and grievous imprisonment grew very sicke and as himselfe thought neere unto death desired that hee might have a confessor being it seemes consciencious this way the story saith that very hardly and with great importunitie it could bee obteyned which shewes that it was griefe and torment to his enemies that hee should have any thing that in their opinion might bee a meanes to save his soule after hee was dead besides many other like streynes of the same spirit which that story presents unto the diligent Reader Now then there being a spirit of this profound deepe and divellish enmitie against you working in the Bowells and inward parts of these men to desire not onely your temporall but eternall death also it is none other like but if they suspect and doubt of the strength of their arme for the sending of you by death into Hell as I make little question but they doe they have no great hope of hunting your soules into the bottomlesse pit which is reserved for their owne they will themselves create a Hell for you as full of torment and cruell burnings as they can make it and cast you into it themselves before you die and so be gotten out of their reach So that there is nothing to bee looked for from these men but death or that which is worse then death a life to contribute towards the increase of the paines and sorrowes of your death and so indeed death howsoever Therefore I beseech you consider the weight of this branch of the present motive also Will you thinke of keeping or saving your estates to the losse or imminent danger of your lives Shall you not keepe your money to make a goodly purchase if you bring all these great evills and miseries upon you thereby Though in many other cases you might make much gaine and advantage by making the Divell a lier yet it will bee your wisedome to justifie him in that his saying skinne for skinne or rather skinne after skinne or skinne upon skinne and all that hee hath will a man give for his life If you have so much of men in you as Sathan your enemy supposeth it seemes that you have to value your lives at any such rate above all your possessions whatsoever shew it this day and make a fortification and bulwarke of all that you have for their defence and safetie Solomon we know made some hundreds of Targets and Shields of Gold it should not be grievous to any man to sacrifice his estate his Gold and Silver upon the service of his life There is a time to keepe saith Solomon and a time to spend or to cast away Eccles. 3. 6. Certainely of all other that is no time to keepe when a mans life lies at the stake and is in all likelihood not to bee redeemed but by casting away Thus much for your temporall and outward injoyments they are all involved and concerned to the utmost in the present occasion and service which you have beene exhorted to promote and further with all your strength and all your power But secondly it were well at least it were lesse to bee layd to heart it were a matter of farre lighter moment and importance if your outward concernments onely though it were even to life it selfe were imported in that great occasion which is now on foot and hath beene againe and againe recommended unto you but behold greater things then these Your spirituall concernments also are like to suffer and that in a very high degree if Gog and Magog prevaile if ever you come to bee at the allowance of Cavaliers Papists and Athiests that have taken the field against you for the things of Heaven You are like to have stones in stead of bread and Scorpions in stead of Fish Those golden Pipes by which Heaven and Earth are as it were joyned together and have lively communion each with other I meane your pure ordinances of worship which have both the wisedome and grace and goodnesse of God abundantly in their frame will be cut off and others of Lead laid in their stead ordinances I meane of an humane constitution and frame whose chiefe substance or ingredients will bee the wisedome and will i. e. the folly and corrupt affections of men by which not Heaven but Hell and the world will bee joyned together and the trade and traffique betweene both places much quickned and advanced ordinances which will bee ready to bee cast as dung into your faces by God when you have beene exercised in them You must never looke to see the goings of God in the Sanctuary as you have done to see any more visions of life and immortalitie let downe from Heaven unto you in these houses of vision those excellent ravishments and raptures of spirit those takings up into the third Heaven by seeing him that was greater then Solomon in all his glory will cease from you Those pure streames of the Gospell will bee all bemired and soyled when they are given unto you to drinke Yea happily and poysoned too by the influence of the corrupt minds and judgements of those that shall give them unto you You must looke to have the Gospell turned upside downe and to be made to stand in perfect conjunction with Hell with loosenesse wickednesse and prophanenesse and in opposition to Heaven Grace and Holinesse to be made a Savour of death to those that shall bee saved and a Savour of life to those that shall perish It will bee made to frowne upon those that are godly and to looke cheerefully and comfortably upon loose men So that if your soule shall lust for these Sommer fruits if you shall desire to have communion with God in communion and fellowship with his Saints If you shall desire at any time to bee rained upon by a shower of life and peace from Heaven you must repaire againe to the woods and mountaines or to the covert of some close and secret place where you must eate the bread of your soules in perill of your lives as your forefathers did in Queene Maries dayes on with danger of suffering whatever the malice and revengefull spirit of your enemies shall thinke good or can devise to inflict upon you Therefore now consider you that have had the liberty of your Sanctuaries and of your publike assemblies that have beene fed with hony out of the Rocke and with the finest wheate of Heaven you that have had an open and free trade to Heaven and have had glorious returnes from them day after day to whom the Ministery of the Gospell hath beene as the wings of the morning as Chariots of fire to carry you up and downe as it were in spirituall state and triumph betweene Heaven and earth Oh how will that day be as the shaddow of death unto you wherein you must exchange your Quailes and Manna from Heaven for the Garlike and Onyons