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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	life_n	see_v	word_n	6,113	5	4.0840	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36289	A pick-tooth for swearers, or, A looking glass for atheists and prophane persons wherein the greatness of the party offended, the solemn giving of the law, together with the strickness and purity thereof, the unquestionable verity of the Holy Scriptures, and what fearfull sentence the wiked may expect in the great day are briefly touched.	Donaldson, James, fl. 1697-1713.	1698 (1698)	Wing D1854; ESTC R25002	12,163	24

Sharper are by Far Than Dragons Claws or red Hot Pincers were Thy Heart and Bowels plucking out At Once Or Rav'nous Birds thy Flesh tear from thy Bones Hot Burning Coals of Juniper shall be Thy Bed of Down and then to Cover thee A Quilt of Boyling Brimstone thou must take And Wrap thee in till thou full Payment make To Divine Justice for thy great Offence In that thou hast without due Reverence My Hallowed Name Prophan'd and tane in Vain Thou surely shall endure Eternal Pain Because thy Sufferings no Proportion have To that Infinite Offence which thou gave The Head the Hand the Nose the Ear the Eye Yea every Member shall tormented be Apart and such exquisite Tortures fill Each Joint as would great Leviathan kill Yet thy frail Body I 'le make to subsist Under such Torments while I do exist No Wine or Beer is there to quench thy Drowth Nor liquid Drop at all to cool thy Mouth But bitter Dreggs of that great Cup of Wine Of Indignation in my Hand Divine Which without Mixture every Soul shall Take And drink and Vomit in that Burning Lake My holy Sabbath see thy self thou keep And every Soul within thy Gates that Sleep Thy Parents Honour and thy Days Prolong And Kill thou not nor do thy Neighbour Wrong Form all Unchastness keep thy Body pure And do not Wealth by wrongful Means Procure Bear not False Witness Neither Covet thou Thy Neighbour's Wife his Servant Ox or Cow WHILE Israel stood and all these Words did hear Their Hearts did Fail Almost i distract'd by Fear To Moses came and trembling they Beseech Th' Almighty ONE may please no more to Preach In such a Dreadfull most Confounding way Least by his Presence Mortal Flesh should dye But rather by his Prophets speak and They His holy Laws will willingly Obey Their Sute is Granted and th' Almighty ONE Approves the Motion as they 've said 't is Done He sends them Prophets of their Bretheren Men Of such like Passions with Themselves that when They speak his Word their Presence may not Make Their Hearers tremble not their Joints to shake But such is Man's perverse Corrupted Will That out of Good he had Engendereth Still To have the Message of th' Almighty King Brought by frail Men like us in every Thing To whom with freedom we Recourse may have To solved be of Doubts and Counsel Crave To have the Bread of Life brought down from Heav'n In Earthen Pots and to Mens Children Giv'n If Right Consider'd special Mercies Are And so by Israel they esteemed Were In that dread Day when the Almighty GOD From top of Sinai Thundred Mighty Lowd No Man nor Beast the Hallowed Mount might Touch Nor to the Borders thereof durst Approach Save Moses self But now it is not so All Men may freely to the Altar go And Offerings Glad of Joy and Praise present And back Receive Heav'ns Liberal Complement And by the Prophets be instructed Still In every Thing that 's the Almighty's Will Yea all the Prophets from that very Day Do early Rise and to the People say Repent do Justice o Mercy love and see Ye with your GOD all Humble Walkers be But froward perverse Man replys I hate To Curb my Lusts or at the Narrow Gate Once strive to Enter since along I May Not take my Darling Sins in Company Tush what is said by yonder Man we 're Sure The Mickle Devil himself cannot indure What tell us live like Hermits Pray and Whin Abstain from pleasure Falsly Nick-nam'd Sin These Babling Preists may Superstitious Wives Charm by their Doctrine to reform their Lives Or make some timerous simple Fools amuz'd But gallant Sp'rits will not be so abus'd We plainly see Priest-Craft is but a Trade And don 't believe one Word of what is said Further then Interest or Self-gain doth go In every Land and Countrey is 't not so Do not all Sects and Parties stiffly plead Their way is only Right what further need Of Proof to show that all Religion 's Vain By Priests invented meerly for Self-gain The Turks the Pagans Papists and what not Of Thousands more would all be thought Devote Yet Black and White are more alike then they Therefore in short ther 's nothing Truth they Say But grant there be a GOD as they Give out He is so very good we do not doubt He 'l Spare and will not Torture nor Afflict Poor Mortal Flesh yea sure he 's not so Strict Severe and Rigid as those Bablers tell And fright the Simple with a Scarcrow-Hell If Hell there be at all 't is only This A bare exclusion from Coelestial Bless Which to speak plainly we almost wou'd Chuse And all the Toilsom joys of Saints Refuse Since constantly they must give Praise Divine A work to which we do not much incline O Wretched Athiest doth thou think indeed These Scriptures which thou frequently may Read Are forg'd by Art or Subtile Mans Ingine And are not Marked with a Stamp Divine The dreadfull Plagues made knowen on Egypt Land Redeeming Isra'l with a Mighty hand The Sea divided Jordans Streams back turn'd And Law emitted while the Mountain Burn'd Are these Romances Lies or Forged Tales Were not Divine Unquestion'd useful Seals Fixt to the Law Commencing from the Day These Acts were Done Pray there fore show what Way Could Isra'l be Impos'd on or Deceiv'd When all the Laws and Statutes they Receiv'd Enforced were from what their Eyes had Seen And to their Sense Demonstrated had Been These very words which all the Camp heard Spoke From midst the Cloud the Fire and dreadfull Smoak Ingraven are on Tables made of Stone And short time after to the People showen And Copies thereof all Requir'd to take And on their Wals and Door-Posts fast them make And both the Tables in the Ark uplaid In time to come to shew what GOD had said 'T is more then Plain had not the thing been true When Moses first expos'd unto their view These Sacred Tables and Commanded All To mind so said the GOD of Israel From top of Sinai which your selves did Hear Their Answer had been thus 't is more then Clear We never Heard such words nor Saw such things As by this Doctrine to our Ears thou brings We never heard this Law from Sinai Giv'n Nor saw the Fire which almost rached Heav'n We never saw these Plagues on Land of Ham Nor through the Sea on dry Land ever Came. We never saw proud Jordans Channel dry Nor there Stons Fix'd for furture Memory Therefore these Laws we 'll not Receive at all Nor to our Offspring e're commit them shall Since none of these wrought in our Sight have been Nor any Shadow thereof have we seen But so it was that on the self same Day The Angel did all * Egypt's first born Slay The Israelits first Solemniz'd the Feast And every Year they kill'd that hallowed Beast The