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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	earth_n	lord_n	praise_n	7,070	5	7.8145	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89544	The reformed gentleman, or, The old English morals rescued from the immoralities of the present age shewing how inconsistent those pretended genteel accomplishments of [brace] swearing, drinking, [brace] whoring and Sabbath-breaking are with the true generosity of an English man : being vices not only contrary to the law of God and the constitutions of our government both ecclesiastical and civil, but such as cry loud for vengeance without a speedy reformation : to which is added a modest advice to ministers and civil magistrates, with an abridgement of the laws relating thereto, the King's proclamation and Queens letter to the justices of Middlesex, with their several orders thereupon / by A.M. of the Church of England.	A. M., of the Church of England.; Bouche, Peter Paul, b. ca. 1646.	1693 (1693)	Wing M6; ESTC R20084	100,071	189

your Impieties Are you able with the Salamander to live in Fire Can you dwell in everlasting Burnings Do you know what the Worm that never dies is And can you tell what the Fire unquenchable means If these things be not fictitious and imaginary if you are sensible that there is really a Heaven for the Good and a Hell for the Bad and are desirous to escape the one and be blessed in the other Leave off then pleading for your Vices and argue not the prevalency of any Temptation or the strength of Custom for your persevering in your Impieties Be no longer fond of your Disease your Fetters your Calamities But shake off your shackles wherewith you have been so long confined and break off your Sins by Repentance Let that Mouth which has Blasphemed Blaspheme no more but praise and magnifie the Name of the Lord for ever for his Name only is excellent and his Glory above the Earth and the Heaven 25. And here I cannot but take notice of the madness of those who seem to be fearful of taking God's Blessed Name in vain themselves The guilt of such as Swear not themselves but delight to hear others Swear and yet delight to hear others Swear and Blaspheme I blush to say that now-a days 't is the Gusto of company to have one prophane Wretch or other by his horrid Imprecations and unaccountable Oaths to move the rest to a fit of Laughter And there 's scarce any pleasant Harmony in Society without fearful sounding Execrations to fill up the Chorus But know Oh wretched Man whosoever thou art that makest as it were a Conscience of not Swearing thy self and yet takest pleasure in hearing others Blaspheme that thou art under the same Condemnation For they all shall be damned that have pleasure in unrighteousness A bare Connivance and Misprision as I may so say of this horrid High Treason against Heaven is enough to make thee a Traitor How much more then shall thy consenting to it in thy Will and countenancing it openly by thy complacency therein add to thy Guilt and Condemnation too Hate not then thy Brother in thy Heart by suffering and encouraging so great a Sin upon him but correct and hinder it if thou canst Or if 't is out of thy Power to do that yet be not of that Devillish Society which makes that a matter of Sport which should be the Cause of their greatest Humiliation and Rejoyce Triumph and Laugh at that which makes the Damned in Hell shed Rivers of Tears 26. I proceed to the last Species of Profaning God's Name 4ly Perjury considered whether by Circumvention or by Subornation viz. by that horrid Sin of Perjury And now I could wish with all my Soul there were no reason to cry aloud and exclaim mightily against this Wickedness I could wish none were guilty of it but Rash Swearers but we find that how much soever they may by a fatal Consequence slip into it yet there are too many who do it out of design and have their ends to serve therein 'T is too visible how common Circumventions and Over-reachings are and those Ushered in too frequently with the solemnity of an Oath 'T is a Mystery belonging to each Man's trade to be upon the sharp and tho' they Lie and Aequivocate Swear and Forswear themselves yet they are paid well enough they think can they get but the least gains imaginable thereby Nor is Profit the only Loadstone that draws men to the committing this great Impiety but the Gratifying the humours of Malice and Revenge works upon them altogether as much Hence do we often see Subornations and False-witnesses sinister Tricks and unlawful Quibbles so much in use in those times Can they but betray the Innocent to the severity of the Laws retaliate an Injury and expose the object of their hatred to the Censures of either church or State can they but procure either Sequestration or Excommunication against him how do they triumph and rejoyce in their inhuman Proceedings and proudly boast of their Malicious success But let such Impudent out-daring Knights of the Post know that this stretching of their Faith and Consciences tho' it has cast a Mist before the Inferiour Courts of Justice yet they cannot corrupt the Righteous Judge of all the World who will do right He will unmask their false Evidences Reverse the Decrees issued out against the Innocent and fix the Judgment where it should be upon the Perjurious Creatures head He will laugh at their Calamity and mock when their fear Cometh when their fear cometh as a desolation and their Destruction as a Whirlewind Prov. 1.26 27. 27. So common is this Wickedness The Difficulty of persuading men to leave this Sin of Perjury and so advantageous is it grown to carry on Mens Trades and Designs that 't is almost morally impossible to dissuade them from it You will seem to do them the greatest Injury imaginable should you be so impertinent to advise them to be men of their Words to speak the truth in sincerity and to be conscientious in their Calling You would destroy the greatest Pillar of their Trade take away the very support of their Merchandizing should you go about to straitlace their Conscience as they call it and keep them off from an Advantageous straining their Faiths when occasion requires The whole World are turned Sharpers and shall we say they be so scrupulous as to be afraid of u●●ng the same Methods of advancing our Interest as is genenerally used Fallere Fallentem non est Frans To Deceive the Deceiver is too well known a Maxim and too often practised by our Wicked Generation But to reclaim if possible those vile Exorbitancies I shall offer two Motives drawn 1. from the Consideration of the very Nature of the Crime and 2ly also from the greatness of the Punishment subsequent on the Guilt 28. Of what a Crimson Dye and Scarlet Grain this Sin is in its own Nature will appear First Motive to leave off this Sin is drawn from the greatness of it in its own Nature if we consider that the Offender incurs the guilt of breaking the whole Law and transgressing that general Duty he owes to God his Neighbour and Himself 1. He offers the greatest affront possible to God either in his ordinary Calling or in a more solemn manner when called to a Court of Judicature when he invokes the Father of Spirits and a Being that cannot Lie to be a Witness to his untruth and Malicious Falshoods 2. He commits a piece of Injustice against the whole Community of Mankind as well as deceives circumvents or fasly accuses any Particular person He not only injures the Object of his Revenge but perverts the Current and turns the stream of the Laws of Nations Blinds the Jury Corrupts the Judge puts the trick upon the whole Bench and makes Justice stand as a Blank or rather as a Mask to cover his Knaves Face withall 3. He is not