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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	life_n	soul_n	spirit_n	4,592	5	5.4327	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03787	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the ix. of Februarie. Anno Dom. 1583. By I. Hudson, Maister of Arte, of Oxon	Hudson, John, M.A., Oxon.	1584 (1584)	STC 13904; ESTC S116559	46,934	118

degree and ●rade looke into mens actions turne ouer and sifte their proceedings con●●●● what is done in euerie place as you passe in halls in shops in streates in markets in secret cōferences in open meetings in pleading places in Iudgement seates in townes ●n countrie euen in this Citie what shif●ing pollices and deceates what subtle ●euises and euasions to ouerreache good ●awes what briberie and abhominable ●ains and vsurie is vsuall to be seene and ●ou shall find that of all things in price ●stimatiō amōg men there is nothing so ●ittle esteemed so carelesly regarded so ●arely to be found as a true hart sprinck●ed from an euill conscience You shall see 〈◊〉 verified that S. Ierom saith to Chroma●us In mea patria plerisque deus venter est et 〈◊〉 die in diem viuit●r et sāctior ille qui ditior 〈◊〉 in my coūtrie to the most mē their God 〈◊〉 their belly and they liue secure and carelesse from daie to daie and hee is the holiest which is the richest man you shal● here many men complaine of their losses and mishaps by sea by lande by death by falshood and deceipt by buying and setting and many other waies but no man almost for the losse of a good conscience and yet if I might speake my conscience there is greater losse and shipwrack dayly made that waye then all the teares of our eyes can sufficiently bewayle or the riches of this world recompence agayne you shall see suche running and posting such care and trauell and trouble nighte and day sustained such earely rising and late lying downe and eating breade of carefulnesse to heape vp riches to p●rchase landes to builde fayre houses to procure dignities and offices which were woont so haue a charge of conscience imposed with their reasonable fee but nowe most vnreasonable fees still growing and enhaun●ed haue put out and discharged all charge of conscience annexed to the same and euery way shall you see men so to prouide for the pleasure ease and welfare of this body nothing touched or reclaimed with remorse of a guilty consci●nce as though you turned away his face●ud would not see it as though there were here an abiding Citie for euer As ●eath were not approching or the burning flames of hel were but an old wiues ●able So that either we say with Medea Video meliora probo deteriora sequor I see better thinges and I allow well of them but I follow according to my sensuall appetite that which is worse or with y e wicked described by Iob Recede a nobis goe from vs we desire not the knowledge of thy waies who is the almightie that wee should serue him or what profite shall we haue to pray vnto him or with Sardanapalus eat drink and be merrie after death there is no pleasure or with the fleshlie Epicure discribed by Gregorie Nazian 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ' Giue me that is presēt let god alon with that that is to come we vtter thus much I say but how not in our wordes and speaches no our hipocrisy is the greater in our double harts in our corrupt consciences in our wicked liues in our deedes and actions which is a greate deale worse and soundeth like the blood of Abell more loude in the eares of God for vengaunce then can our tongues expresse by words and ●iltables vnto men But let vs not be deceaued God is not mocked whatsoeuer a man soweth that shall he reape if ye sowe in the flesh ye shall reape corruption if ye sowe winde ye shall reape a storme if ye sow but wordes and weedes and chaffe of hipocrisie and dissimulation your haruest wil be therafter of bitternes and worme-wood colours and shadowes and emptie apparitions cannot long continue their blossom is but froth their fruite as rottennes they shall vanish with the wind fal away as the smoke The Lord wil not iudge according to the outward appearaunce he seeth not as a man seeth but he trieth the harts reines all thinges are bare and naked in his sight The hipocrits hope saith Iob shall soone come to naught and the ioy of the wicked continueth but a moment his light shall soone be put out and the sparke of his fire shall not shine the snare is laide for him in the grounde and a pitfall in the waie the grinne shall take him by the heeles and the steppes of his strength shall bee restrained his roote shall be dried vp beneath and aboue shall his braunche bee cutte downe and wither And therfore if we meane to enter into the holy place with boldnesse in assurance of faith we must cost away all hipocrisie and dissimulation 〈◊〉 falshoode and fained muffling of our faces wherby we semble to be that which we are not and dissemble to be that which wee are and so drawe nere with a true and single hart sprinckled from an euill conscience and washed in our bodies with pure water so as no vncleanes of sinne remaine either in body or soule wherby we should offende the maiestie of God We are for the most part very precise and ouercuriously nice in this point of washing purging clensing and adorning our houses our bodies our furniture and apparel and all things belonging to them both that is subiect to our senses And yet is this nothing lesse then to washe them with pure water which is onely the effect● of the blood of Christ that washeth and restraineth vs from sinne that doth defile vs yet heereby at least let vs learne thus much that if the purging and clensing of sensible things be so much esteemed of vs which are yet our selues defiled and vncleane how acceptable shall the washing of our bodies and soules wi●h pure water of repentaunce and holinesse of life be vnto the 〈◊〉 of gods spirite whiche will behold n● vncleane thing nor rest in the soule that is subiect to sinne and if to entertain our friend or superiour we take such care and paines to haue all thinges cleane sweet● and pleasant that nothing be offensiue how much more shoulde wee do this in our selues in this Tabernacle this house and temple of our bodies to entertain so noble a guest so deere a friend as the sonne of God is who as S. Iohn sayth standeth at the dore of our hartes and knocketh if any man heare his voyce and open vnto him hee will enter in and suppe with him But I praye God it fall not out with vs as it did sometimes with Diogenes hosse whether he was inuited who being himselfe a verye vnhandsome and vnciuill man yet hauing his house and all ornamentes thereto belonging very fine and curiously adorned Diogenes seeking where to spit and finding al● corners so neate and cleane and the ma● so homely and vnhandsome he spit on th● good man himselfe saying that hee was the fowlest and therfore the meetest plac● in the house to receaue such excrements Let vs not in like sort be