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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	drink_v	eat_v	guilty_a	6,505	4	9.4260	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60681	Agapai aspilai The Norfolk feast : a sermon preached at St. Dunstans in the East, upon the 18th of July, 1671, being the day of the anniversary feast for that county, for some years omitted, but now intended to be continued / by a minister of that county.	Smythies, William, d. 1715.	1671 (1671)	Wing S4366; ESTC R223729	14,570	43

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From the Guests intruding if not voluntarily entertained or from their Deportment when they were Feasting 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sine metu timore They neither feared Gods displeasure nor cared for his love I begin with the first Feasting is lawful had I said commendable the expression in the Text would have born it out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Feasts of Love in which you express a love of complacency which you take in the enjoyment of a Christian Society and by which you take opportunity to shew your love of Pity to those that are in want though absent both which are Christian Practises highly commendable I intend not here to prove the Assertion by the Instances of those Religious Feasts which God commanded nor shall I need for there are instances enough concerning civil Feasting which though not commanded by God yet are recorded amongst other commendable practices of good men in Holy Writ for our imitation or at least to secure us that we shall not offend God unless it be accidentally as we may do in our most Religious Services Lot Feasted the Angels Abraham Feasted at the weaning of his Son Isaac Gen. 19.3 21.8 26.30 2 Sam. 3.20 Isaac Feasted Abimelech and others David Feasted Abner These were all good Men who valued the favour of God above all earthly enjoyments and were as ready to Fast as to Feast and as willing to be in houses of Mourning as of Rejoycing yet when there was extraordinary occasion of rejoycing they did no more omit that then the other But why should I mention these instances our Saviour himself was present at several Feasts nay the leading Miracle was at one of them at which he did not turn Bread into Stones to dis-appoint them by which unlawfulness might have been supposed but their water into wine thereby allowing what they did and encouraging them in it More particularly it appears that Feasting is lawful 1. From the bounty of God from the kindness of whose Providence we furnish our Tables with plenty of meat and drink whose are the Cattel upon a thousand hills and who giveth us our meat and our drink in their season 1. The bounty of God appears in the aboundance of the creatures bestowed on us far more then what are necessary for mans subsistence Some think that half the Creatures might be spared if God who made nothing in vain did not intend man should take delight in the extraordinary use of them Deus multo plura condidit Beza quibus carere possumus quam quibus necessario nobis opus est There are some of the Creatures might be wholly spared from mans necessity they being in their very natures only delightful and adorning as Oyl to make the Face to shine and wine to chear mans Heart What needs the Silk Worm spin out its own bowels working it self to death when the Sheep can very well spare its Fleece from its own back to make man a covering for his What need a thousand that is an innumerable company of Hills be covered with Cattel ready to be driven down to the Slaughter-house when as the Corn and Herbs might preserve the life of man as some think with a more healthful constistution Many impute the long lives of the Fathers before the Flood to such a kind of dyet as one cause of them Wine is not necessary and yet God does not only give it for the use of man but gives it in abundance That as Solomon saith the presses burst forth with new Wine Pro. 3.10 'T is very observable that in the forementioned place Jo. 2 our Saviour did not only turn the water into wine but for the quality of it into that which was very good which they might delight to drink of So pleasant it was that the Ruler of the Feast wished he had had it sooner and doubtless feared that there was but little of it but he needed not for besides the delightfulness of it as to the quality there was a very great quantity five water-pots containing two or three Firkins a piece I might mention to you the abundance of that Provision Lenten fare which the Sea affords enough for ought I know to Feast all the world I am sure it could not but be a very extravagant expression in Moses and proceeding from his passion as meek as he was when he said Shall all the Fish of the Sea be gathered together to suffice them Num. 11.22 although there were six hundred thousand footmen who might probably be very hungry Travellers To conclude this particular if the great provider affords such plenty we may well think that he intends an extraordinary entertainment when the great House-keeper lays in so much Provision we may conclude he intends a Feast 2. Gods bounty does not only appear in the Creature bestowed but also in the manner of giving which is with delight and cheerfulness God doth not only afford us his creatures but bids us eat and drink abundantly how great soever our entertainment be we are welcome to it He gives liberally and upbraideth not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not telling us of our sin of what faults we have been guilty which would make our meat unpleasant to us He that did not grudge us the Blood of his Son will not grudge us the Fruits of the Earth He that spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all How shall he not with him also freely give us all things Rom. 8.32 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he gives gratis whatsoever we do cannot pay God for our meat and drink though we never Feasted nor does God expect any thing as a satisfaction from us but whatsoever service and obedience we perform is requited in another world we have not only our Corn but our Money in our Sacks I am sure good men have little reason to question this when they consider the bounty of God to those that are wicked because they are his Creatures and so of his Houshold we are not to imagine that the worst of men steal their Riches from God or that their substance is disposed to them by an unwilling Providence but from the free pleasure of their Creator who gives them Portions in this life who refuse the inheritance of the Saints in light The Earth is given into the hand of the wicked Job 9.24 And the expression in the Parable of the rich man Luke 16. tells us that he had a lawful propriety in what he enjoyed Thou in thy life time hadst thy good things God does not only give but liberally and chearfully He is kind to the unthankful and to the evil Luke 6.35 2. As Feasting appears lawful from the bounty of God the great Feast hainer so likewise from the good that is occasioned by it 1. It is the occasion of rejoycing and this is no ways offensive but acceptable and pleasing unto God who hath caused all the Creatures to rejoyce in the good which they do