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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	heart_n	lord_n	see_v	3,172	5	3.4596	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19280	The art of giuing Describing the true nature, and right vse of liberality: and prouing that these dayes of the gospell haue farre exceeded the former times of superstition in true charitie and magnificence. By Thomas Cooper.	Cooper, Thomas, fl. 1626.	1615 (1615)	STC 5692; ESTC S118543	43,483	144

so long as it lasts so long shall my daughter be beloued and it is not my daughter but her portion that shall be maried And seeing my purpose is that my daughter shall haue the blessing of mannage therefore I will rather make choice of a man who will take my daughter for loue and if there be loue there will be no lacke and what neede then my portion Notwithstanding I will respect my daughter in her place My God shall first be honoured with my substance and next his poore Saints my daughter if she stand more in neede then they shall not want necessary comfort otherwise she shall depend on the prouidence of God as I haue done and what is her portion she shall haue it in her place CHAP. XIX Other Tentations there are in regard of the pretended vnworthinesse of those that stand in need to be relieued 1 SAtan obiects That hereby many shall be first maintayned in their idlenesse Secondly Which will be hurtfull to the common-wealth 1 Though it be a sinne for the poore c. to liue idlely yet my entent is not by my liberality to maintayne them in sinne but relieue their want and so to obey the commandement of God If they abuse my mercy it is their greater sinne 2 Yet that they may not abuse it I will see they shall be set on worke if they be able if not I will relieue them that they may be able and then if they will not worke they shall not eate 3 Because I haue not authority to set them on worke therefore I will acquaint the Magistrate who will supply in this behalfe 4 And what is in my power shall not be wanting Namely godly exhortation and admonition to leaue their sinne as also more sparing reliefe as a kinde of punishment of their idlenesse By this meanes I shall performe reliefe both to soule and body Seeing some poore folkes are suspected of witchcraft and some conuinced shall I therefore giue to those If they be but suspected then they are to be relieued because Charity is not suspicious If conuinced yet I am to relieue them because hereby I shall heape coales on their head And still they are my flesh yea hereby I may be a meanes to bring them to repentance But if I giue them they by this means haue power ouer me c. If I accept of their company and yet suspect them to be such and so for feare that they may not hurt me doe giue them then it is iust with God to punish my infidelity But if they haue extreame neede and so are relieued not of feare but loue because my flesh I shall eyther preuent their malice or all will be for the best But Satan replies Though thou giue them neuer so much they are neuer the better for it all goes downe the throat it is little seene on them they haue still as much neede as euer they had and therefore it may seeme that God doth not blesse it vnto them and therefore secretly seemes to forbid thy charity towards them 1 Indeede to giue vsually as the world doth sparingly and miserable rather to linger on a pining state then to set the poore on their feete as wee say that they may be able to worke for themselues this as it doth them little good so it is not accepted of God who willeth vs to giue not sparingly but plentifully 2 And therefore I will giue that it may doe good with a large hand as God hath giuen to set them vp and prouide them of some stocke and withall to see to their following of their calling and thriuing therein 3 If for all my paines and cost I yet see them neuer the better yet heere is my comfort that God accepteth my purpose and my faith is heereby more tried that I cast my bread vpon the waters 4 Yet if still I see that no good will follow but rather my bounty is wilfully abused to be a cloake for sinne here I may lawfully change my soyle and sow my seede where there is better hope 5 And yet rather then the vilest should perish I am bound and wil relieue them though he sinne in receiuing yet I shall not sinne in giuing and my well-doing shall returne into mine owne bosome Oh but saith Satan the poore are the most vnthankfull wretches that may be and therefore what comfort canst thou haue in relieuing them 1 I doe not relieue them that they may be thankefull but because God hath commanded so and promised to recompence whose faithfulnesse shall content mee notwithstanding mans vnthankefulnesse And 2 If I should seeke praise of men I should dishonour my God and therefore it is his mercy that men should be vnthankefull that so I might giue him the whole glory of the worke Yet 3 Though I finde men vnthankfull yet let me not cease to doe good for hereby I shall in the end ouercome euill with good Rom. 12. Seest thou not saith Satan what dissemblers these professors are while they haue neede of thee who so holy as they but yet when their turne is serued they embrace the world And therefore seeing thou knowest not who are the houshold of faith nay indeede canst haue little hope but rather to maintaine hypocrisie cast not away thy mony c. 1 Though men may deceiue mee yet my God will not 2 And therefore my well-doing is not cast away though the person may be a cast-away 3 It may be I may win him hereby If not I make him without excuse 4 And what know I whether I may not adde sinne to sinne First in not relieuing him Secondly in iudging him an hypocrite seeing the sinne of hypocrisie is so hardly discerned 5 Howsoeuer the person may be yet will I not be cast off from doing good vnto him because it is not for his sake but for the Lords cause that I doe it who will accept my single heart herein ●owsoeuer he may punish the others hypocrisie 6 Lastly if I should play the hypocrite in not giuing where God commands vpon such and the like pretences where as indeede my wretched and couetous heart is the cause thereof What will it aduantage mee to complayne of the hypocrisie of others seeing therein I doe condemne my selfe And this will be the issue that hee will one day condemne me of hypocrisie for not giuing who now pretends his hypocrisie as not worthy to receiue CHAP. XX. Other tentations whereby couetous men would excuse one charge with another Hearken I pray how Satan assa●●ts them 1 VVHat art thou not charged sufficiently with expences for the Common-wealth and to the Prince how many occasions are offered to draw mony from thee Is not this sufficient for one are not these to goe for beneficence and may they not excuse thee to be more sparing another way Nay doest thou not giue as thou art ceased weekely contributions doest thou not moreouer giue some Almes at