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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	child_n	servant_n	wife_n	7,379	5	6.5654	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64246	The confession or declaration of the ministers or pastors which in the United Provinces are called Remonstrants, concerning the chief points of Christian religion; Confessio sive declaratio sententiae pastorum qui in Foederato Belgio Remonstrantes vocantur super praecipuis articulis religionis Christianae. English	Remonstrantse Broederschap.; Episcopius, Simon, 1583-1643.; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1676 (1676)	Wing T564; ESTC R10771	123,629	274

without any true and reall want or debility of body and on the contrary to pass it in Peace and Tranquillity and to attend upon and with a serious cheerfulness of Mind and Spirits diligently to apply our selves and to mind those things that are most sacred and holy and that those things which he hath already given us and bountifully bestowed upon us he would be pleased continually further to bless them unto us that so being by their help and means as by a Staff sustained and supported we may the better be employed in sanctifying of his Name propagating of his Kingdom and in the doing of his Will and indeed apply our studies and time unto Godliness without distraction 10. The fifth is that he would forgive us our Debts as we also forgive our Debtors that is that he would graciously pardon unto us in Christ all our sins at any time committed either through error and mistake or Infirmity or chiefly through Wickedness and Malice even as we also do from our Heart pardon and are always ready to pardon all Injuries and Offences and that upon this account only because he willeth and commandeth it to all those who at any time have hurt or wronged us 11. The sixth is that he would not lead us into Temptation but deliver us from evil that is that he would not at any time suffer us to be opprest by too sore and long Temptations much less to be overcome by them or to endangered above our strength but that he would always according to his singular power and also Fatherly Love strengthen and support us by his Holy Spirit especially in sore Afflictions difficult Dangers and Calamities and other evils of that kind by which Satan assayeth altogether to destroy us and to turn us from God lest haply being too much prest thereby we design and commit any thing which may be contrary to his Divine Will and prejudicial to our own Salvation or a good Conscience Lastly that he would always together with the Temptation afford an happy event or issue that we may be able to bear it and so at length be delivered from all the snares and enticements and all the fraud and force of Satan yea and freed from all danger of everlasting perd●tion 12. The Conclusion hath a threefold ground or reason why we should make bold to desire and ask of God in Prayer those things of which we have already spoken and consequently why it becometh us to ask them Because indeed his is the Kingdom that is because he himself only is absolute and obnoxious or subject to none being King and Lord of all and who hath command and right over all and therefore over even Satan himself though God and Prince of this World Because also his is the Power that is because he alone can do that is give take away send turn away permit hinder whatsoever he will and that according to his own alone Mind and good pleasure and therefore is he one against whom Satan together with the whole World cannot at all prevail so as for to destroy us Lastly because his is the Glory that is because it is he alone and he only to whom we ought to ascribe whatsoever good we either wish for and desire or already have and possess and unto whose alone Glory as to its last end our whole and universal good is to redound 13. But because those who piously worship God are certainly perswaded of their Prayers being heard which they pour out or make according to the Will of God and because they wish and most earnestly desire that the everlasting Glory of God and their own Salvation may more and more be promoted by the same therefore is there subjoyned the word Amen Which partly contains a certain Affirmation or avouching of the things propounded and partly also a pious Wish and religious Vow of a faithful or believing Soul 14. The other part or kind or sort of Prayer largely taken is giving of thanks whereby we give thanks unto God by Jesus Christ for benefits already received whether pertaining to this Life or to that which is to come and that both in publick and in private especially in his Church and testify and declare a thankful and mindful Heart both by a singular study and exercise of Piety and by Praises Psalms Hymns Almsdeeds and other pious Duties and such as make for the Glory of God and the Good of Neighbour according to the quality and quantity both of our own Abilities and of the Benefits and Mercies we have received CHAP. XV. Of special Callings and of the Precepts and Traditions of Men. 1. ANd this indeed is the sum of those Commandments which are injoyned us of Jesus Christ in common or which are necessary for all Christians to observe alike for to obtain Salvation Besides which notwithstanding every Believer hath his particular calling which every one is diligently to mind As for instance of Magistrates Subjects Parents Children Masters Servants also of Husbands Wives single Persons Virgins Widows of Rich Poor c. Of all which we have already before in some part treated of in our exposition of the Decalogue and of the rest there are special instructions or admonitions but proportionable to those already spoken of and agreeable to every mans state in particular every where easy to meet with in the Holy Scriptures 2. Of these in general we must hold that rule of the Apostle Let every one abide in that Calling wherein he was called The which notwithstanding if we can with the salvage of piety better it is free for us so to do For all these conditions of themselves are indifferent and therefore do neither commend us unto Christ nor make us hateful or or less acceptable to him Wherefore for instance there is no greater Sanctity to be attributed to Virginity or a single estate or life than unto a married estate nor to Poverty than to a wealthy estate c. Neither are rash vows to be made unto God concerning these things whereby to wit we perpetually tye our selves to this or that yea whereby we tempt God and cast a snare upon our selves and our own liberty 3. But all other works especially such as are merely outward which are counted Religious and which are devised by man's Spirit besides and without the Word of God whether they be imposed upon mens consciences with or by the authority of others especially of the Church under the pretence of Traditions or whether they be freely and voluntarily performed by us with an opinion of Worship if not altogether necessary yet at least meritorious or satisfactory they certainly are not necessary to Salvation Yea further they are in no wise to be thought worthy of the specious or goodly title of works truly good or of divine worship