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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	good_a	sin_n	sinner_n	3,410	5	7.5691	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77605	Cases considered and resolved. Wherein all the tender godly conscientious ministers in England (whether for a Congregationall, or a Presbyteriall way) are concerned. Or pills to purge malignants. And all prophane, ignorant, and scandalous persons. (But more particularly calculated for the meridian of Margarets Fishstreet-hill) from those grosse conceits that they have of their childrens right to baptisme; and of their owne right to the Supper of the Lord, &c. Also good councell to bad men. Or friendly advise (in severall particulars) to unfriendly neighbours. By Thomas Brooks, a willing servant unto God, and the faith of his people, in the glorious Gospel of Christ, at Margarets Fishstreet-hill.	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1653 (1653)	Wing B4938; Thomason E684_28; ESTC R207067	29,466	37

should much rejoyce and blesse the Lord if he would be pleased to work such a thorow work of grace upon all your hearts as that I might without sinne dispence all the precious things of Christ to you Ah t is not a joy but a real grief to my soul that others han't that right and can't come to those Ordinances which God hath made so sweet and advantagious to me and many others of the sons of Sion Oh! how willing should I be and those that walk with me to give you the right-hand of Fellowship if we could but see that the Lord has taken you into fellowship with his blessed Self that so the Ordinance might be a cordial and not poyson to you I do professe before the Lord that I do from my soul forgive you the wrong and injuries that you have done me or attempted to do God has been good to me notwithstanding my failing towards him and my sins against him And the sense of his love and rich goodness makes my bowels to earn towards you Oh! 'T is a mercy more worth then a world to me that God hath given me such a frame of spirit as that I can pray for your souls and weep over your sins and that I am ready to serve you in all those waies wherein I may further the eternall welfare of your souls c. Lihnod lelammed Wee therefore learn that we may teach is a Proverb among the Rabbins I could have dealt with you in another way had I not intended the good of your souls Jer. 44.15 ult Acts 20.26 27. Ezek. 3.17 18 19. 1 Cor. 9.20 21 22. John 12.48 2 Cor. 5.10 Rom. 8.28 Micah 7.8 9 10. Jer. 20.9 10 11 12. Mal. 3.17 18. Isa 49. 4 5. Prayer is porta coeli clavis paradisi the gate of Heaven a key to let us in to Paradise Heb. 3 7-12 Nec Christus nec coelum patitur hyperbolen A man cannot hyperbolize in speaking of Christ and Heaven Omne bonum in summo bono All good is in the chiefest good Isai 1.16 17. Make use of me in any thing wherein I may serve you without sin and see whether I shall not be willing to act for your good notwithstanding all provocations to the contrary 5. For a close because I would not be over tedious I shall draw many things within a narrow compasse you may be confident that my end in writing is your due conviction and satisfaction that you may weigh my Arguments and clearly see that 't is not will nor humour c. but Conscience Reason and Religion that acts me If notwithstanding what I have said you shall continue in your malice envy hatred c. I shall have comfort in this that I have in all faithfullnesse freed my selfe from being guilty of the blood of your souls and in that I have declared to all the world my willingnesse to serve the interest of your souls in all chings wherein I may without sin And most confident I am that if what I have written do not better you it will be a witnesse against you when you and I shall meet before Christs judgement seat And confident I am that God will bring much good to me out of all the plots designs and actings that have been or that shall be by vain men against me And confident I am that the more you stir in any way of basenesse or wickednesse the more the Lord will make you to stink and the more contempt he will pour upon you and the more bright he will cause my innocency to shine and the more weighty shall be my Crowne in the day of Christ My desires for you before the Lord are these That you may have such a sight of your sins as may work you to kisse the Son lest he be angry and you perish when his wrath is kindled but a little And that you may not trifle away the day of grace and the things that belong to your eternall peace least God should swear in his wrath that you shall never enter into his rest Oh that in the light of the Spirit you may see Christ to be the greatest good the most desireable good the most necessary good the most suitable good to be a totall good an only good and an eternall good that so your souls may in good earnest fall in love with Christ and may cry out with that Martyr None but Christ none but Christ Oh none but Christ to save us and none but Christ to rule us none but Christ to justifie us and none but Christ to command us Oh that you may cease from doing evill and learn to do well that so you may be happy in life blessed in death and glorious in the morning of the Resurrection FINIS

c. Well but if for argument sake we should grant that Judas did receive the Lords Supper it will not from thence follow that t is lawful for those that are openly prophane wicked scandalous and malignant to receive it and that upon these following grounds Reason 1. Secreta mea mecum My secret is with my self is an Hebrew Proverb We are not to look to mens hearts but to their lives and conversations and according as they are good or bad so to proceed For that Judas was a close hypocrites and carried his sin so secretly that nothing appeared openly against him for Christ yet to refuse him Hypocrisie is spun of a fine thred and not easily discerned Matth. 26.21 22. And as they did eat he said Verily I say unto you that one of you shall betray me And they were exceeding sorrowful and began every one of them to say unto him Lord is it I Sincere hearts are more jealous of themselves then of others and will rather judge a thousand hypocrites to be Saints then one Saint to be an hypocrite Reason 2. Because Judas was a member of the Church and had done nothing openly that could cast him out and by vertue of this membership he might justly claim it as his due he being called into fellowship by Christ himself Now what advantage is this to such open prophane wicked persons as de jure ought and de facto are excluded from the Lords Supper as I have before cleerly and fully proved Reason 3. Judas as Tertullian thinks was pretty honest till he carried the bag It is hard to be in office and not to put conscience out of office Several other Writers were of Tertullians opinion concerning Judas Isa 50.1 2. Prov. 28.21 Cato hits M. Caelius in the teeth with this basenesse that for a morsel of bread hee would sell either his tongue or his silence Isa 53.2 3. Act. 5.30 31. Rom. 8.34 Ephes 1.20 21 22 23. Prov. 15.21 Matth. 27.3 4 5. Prov. 30.20 Because in respect of wickednesse and all prophanesse they go beyond Judas Judas was no drunkard swearer mocker scoffer he did not sin openly and glory in his sin He did not by any open way of wickednesse sad and quench Christ his Spirit or Disciples he was so far from giving any scandall or offence to his fellow-Disciples that when Christ told them one of you shall betray me they were all jealous of themselves none of them were jealous of Judas And they began every one of them to say unto him Lord is it I Judas betrayed Christ for thirty pieces of silver but open prophane wicked persons they betray Christ his word his people and their own souls for a thing of naught They will transgresse for a morsel of bread as Solomon speaks for a trifle They will fell the greatest and the choicest things dog-cheap even at the poorest and the lowest rate that the world or the god of this world shall bid Judas betrayed Christ once and open prophane wicked persons by their open treasons and transgressions do oftentimes in a day betray the Crown Scepter and dignity of King Jesus Judas plotted treason against Christ when he was in a low afflicted despised condition but such as are openly prophane and wicked they plot and act treason against Christ now he is exalted crowned and set down at the right-hand of God in that glory and Majesty that can neither be conceived nor expressed by any mortal creature Judas betraies Christ and is struck with dreadful horror and terror but such as are openly wicked they betray Christ and yet joy in their transgressions which are as so many treasons against Christ Judas betrayes Christ and yet justifies the innocency of Christ he repents and confesseth his sin but such as are openly wicked proceed from evil to evil and yet with the harlot they wipe their mouthes and say What evil have we done Reas 4. Because Had Christ as a God and searcher of the heart kept out Judas from the Passover because he knew his heart was naught he had left us a pattern to eject such as the Church should be jealous of that their hearts are not right before the Lord when there is nothing detected Christ gave the blessed Sacrament Ministerially as he was man leaving them a pattern to walk by that should come after him and such was the carriage of Christ toward Judas all along Christ did not act toward Judas as he was an all-seeing God nor as he was the heart-maker the heart-searcher the heart-observer the heart-discoverer but he acted towards him ministerially Neither do I see how it could stand with the holinesse justice faithfulnesse and wisdom of Christ to give that holy Ordinance to Judas whom he knew as he was God to be such a dog a devil considering how he had bound all his servants from casting pearls before swine To affirm that Christ gave the Sacrament to Judas as he was God what is this but to make Christs practise fight against his own precepts which for any to do is doubtlesse blasphemy in the highest degree And now I appeal to the consciences of all prophane wicked malignant persons whether they were not better a thousand times to be shut out from this glorious Ordinance of the Lords Supper till the Lord shall in mercy if it be his good pleasure fit them for it then to think to get in at this door by making Judas the Porter I shall now adresse my self to give some good counsel to the Petitioners and so conclude GOOD COUNCEL TO Bad Men. OR FRIENDLY ADVICE TO Unfriendly Neighbours and their Abettors YOUR Petitioning against me to all underderstanding men was a compounded evil an evil made up of pride envy malice discontent ignorance c. Dan 4.27 Isai 50.11 Isai 33.14 Vtinam ubique de gehenna dissereretur Chrysostom I could wish that men would discourse much and oft of hell My councel to you is to breake off your sins by repentance that it may go well with you for ever if you will not justice will be above you and in the close you must lye down in sorrow Tell me Can you dwell with the devouring fire Can you dwell with everlasting burnings 'T was a good saying of Chrysostom speaking of hell Ne quaeramus ubi sit sed quomodo illam fugiamus Let us not seek where it is but how we shall escape it Grievous is the torment of the damned for the bitterness of the punishments but it is more grievous for the diversitie of the punishments but most grievous for the eternity of the punishments Ah consider before it be too late what a sad thing t is for souls at last to have the gate of Mercy the gate of Indulgence the gate of Hope the gate of Glory shut upon them Matth. 25.10 When a sinner is in hell shall another Christ be found to dye for him or will the same Christ be crucified again Oh no oh that you