Selected quad for the lemma: father_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
father_n	ghost_n	glory_n	son_n	22,021	5	5.9032	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40446	A dehortation from all sinne, but particularly the sinne of drinking. By George Freman sonne to Sr Raphe Freman master of requests	Freeman, George, Sir.	1663 (1663)	Wing F2167A; ESTC R224156	6,153	13

and give it relief after serious employments and to exercise the body for the preservation of health being altogether subordinate to greater ends and this is one reason why Taverns are so much frequented because Libraryes are out of request and holy learned or serious communications do not relish with us but this is not sufficient to excuse them for though men either want education or stifle it yet they cannot extinguish reason and lose the principles of Religion which they have in their Catechismes in their Bibles and by Preaching and therefore upon that account it is expected by God that they yeeld obedience to him proportionably to this common and generall Knowledge which if any man fails to do want of education will not be a sufficient plea because it will be found to be an act of his will running contrary to these degrees of Knowledge if any man shall say at the Tribunal of Christ that he spent his time in drinking and idle pastimes because he was not brought up to Learning what will that avail him who did live under the means of Grace which were sufficient for his salvation for though he had no knowledge in Tongues and Sciences yet he knew the Commandements of God and could not plead ignorance in presumptuous sins and though he that cannot read and understand Greek or Latin yet if he can read English let him spend a part of his time in reading the Bible and other good Books and though he cannot discourse in Naturall or Morall Philosophy or in the Metaphysicks nor much in practicall Divinity yet let him speak within the limits of his knowledge let him reprove common sins and give all encouragement to the generals of a holy life both by word and example and if he be sooner tir'd with discourse than men of greater knowledge would be then let him betake himself as I advis'd before to some honest divertisements but not to any thing that hath the least appearance of evil in it the result of this is that whether a man be literate or illiterate he may serve God and those Gentlemen of our Nation that are not members of the Commonwealth of Learning may yet be members of the Mysticall Body of Christ and though their delight in great Studies in Polemicall discourses and Meditations are lost proportionably to the decay of their Knowledge yet their time may be the more spent in the Agenda of Religion and they may be allow'd a more frequent use of lawfull recreations but not of drinking though but to good-fellowship which though the word sounds finely a man can hardly do it and secure his innocence but since the remedy of continuall employment is not sufficient for an accustomed drinker he must unravell the habit by little and little to which the shunning of idleness will very much help him To conclude Let us be carefull to resist all the species and kindes of sin whatsoever for it is only sin which can deprive us of the favour of God which if once we are excluded from we are eternally lost but especially the sin of Drinking which is the unhappy Parent of all other sins and therefore the more carefully to be withstood which care if this short Admonition may but stir up in one soul I should more rejoyce to know than to have the greatest honour of the Nation confer'd upon me Now to God the Father God the Son and God the holy Ghost be all honour glory praise and adoration given by me and by all his creatures from hence forth to all eternity Amen FINIS