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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	understand_v	zeal_n	zealous_a	42	3	9.5573	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02698	Gods goodnes and mercy Layd open in a sermon, preached at Pauls-Crosse on the last of Iune. 1622. By Mr Robert Harris, pastour of the church of God in Hanvvell in Oxfordshire.	Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.	1622 (1622)	STC 12831; ESTC S116602	18,118	38

they should heale themselues because their actions are all exemplary then their families by establishing Nebuchadnezzars order Dan. 3.29 that no man speake much lesse doe any thing amisse against the God of Heaven thirdly the oppressed and wounded they should rescue the poore as did noble Iob plead for them ride for them speake to Maiestie it selfe for them where povertie hath not accesse So shall they be common blessings Filij herôum noxae and prevent the censure of former Ages We close this Vse with Magistrates and Iustices Itinerant or others Rom. 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Saint Paul tells them their errand it is the common good and chalkes out their way they must be terrors and comforts first terrors to the evill else evill-doers will be a terror to them for sin is impudent and incroaching as experience hath taught vs bribery will be sometimes bolder then innocency falshood then truth a man that doth more then deliberate of Rebellion which yet a Tacitus could call Rebellion Lib. 2. Histor he will embarke himselfe in actions of State embroyle Kingdomes transferre for his publique good v. Carer l. 2. ae potesst Ro Pont. c. 19. any Crowne speake most basely of annointed Princes and yet such a man as this will be neere hand heard as loud from the Barre as Iustice from the Bench a Gentleman-swearer drunkard whore-master stabber will soone out-stare a Iustice an Alderman and a Noble-mans mans man will so amaze Iustice if shee take not the more heart that shee is left speechlesse a long time after O Iob Phineas Nehemiah c. what 's become of your spirit You would driue sinne and sinners into their holes now they dare the light and stare Iustice in the face as if they would out-face her arise ye living Images of God cloth your selues with zeale as with a cloake put on Iustice as a garment vnderstand that there is a King in Israell a God in heaven and make sin vnderstand that you haue zeale in your hearts and a sword in your hands Secondly You must be incouragers of goodnes goodnesse I say both spirituall and morall religion and righteousnesse for Religion where is zeale comely if not there when if not now when false zeale blazeth and true cooles View a zealous Papist in that name and respect better then a meere Newter and he dares tell vs to our heads that our Religion is errour our selues heretickes our end destruction that one Heaven cannot hold vs hereafter one Church now that living and dying Lutherans Cam. ca. 10. Barel Paraen Brist Mot. 36. Coster res●ad Ruf. Luc. Osiand c. we shall be certainely damned if we be not he will be damned for vs Now if our Faith stand vpon better pillars then his why should not we be as resolute and confident as he View againe the Atheist and he flieth vpon Religion as a Bird vpon the Candle he disgraces it and will not you then grace it He smites it and will not you defend it Yes Religion calls in your sword to her succour chiefely when she is opposed in her Prophets they are the men of sorrowes Rerū Vocabula amisimus Salust they find the Historian true that we haue lost the names againe the Atheist of things Darkenesse is called light light darkenesse the Shepheard is hunted and the Foxe hunts him Many a man cryes out of blasphemie against God and the King and the blasphemie is but this Naboth will not part with a peece of his Fleese many a fearefull Bill is framed against a Preacher when the Enditement should run thus Bonus vir sed ideo malus quia Christianus Tertull Apolloget at lest Christinuncius My Fathers and reverent Iudges open your mouthes in the cause of the afflicted remember that you owe your Hoods Gownes Liues selues to the Gospell did not our Ministry awe mens Consciences nor you nor the world would be one yeare elder should you cease to countenance vs in our righteous causes you should betray your right hand with the left Now as Religion brings the greatest good and therefore must be most respected so Iustice the next and therefore must be carefully administred And here we shall not need to mind you of the Oratours dust or the Heathens note Tac l. 15. Annal. How that many more offend by seeking favour then offending it shall suffice to referre your wisedomes to two Scriptures in Iob the first Chap. 15.34 is Chap. 15. vers 34 and it s this Fire shall consume the Tabernacles of Bribery if Bribery however disguised get into the house whether by the master or mistresse or sonne or servant God will fire it out or fire the house over it The second is Chap. 13. vers 10. Chap. 13.10 He will surely reproue you if you secretly accept persons Carry it never so smoothly yet if vnder-hand you preferre a Laick to a Churchman a Lord to a Plough-man a kinsman to a stranger a Courtier to a peasant and take away the righteousnesse of the innocent God will certainely reproue you chide smite curse you for it and so set it on as no man shall be able to take it off that God that will not suffer you to be partiall for the poore Iob 13. for himselfe will never brooke other warpings and partialities Oh then looke vpward pervse your Oth deale equally betweene party and party plea and plea and if you will needs heare any in private heare the poore man speake whose counsell dares not speake sometimes in publique and if you will hasten any hence hasten him who languisheth whilst head and body stand a hundred myles a-sunder And when you ride circuit I beseech you remember that you ride circuit not post take time to heare poore mens grievances your selues lest in a Reference you leaue the Hare in the Hunts-mans-hands and the Commissioner deputed vmpire the matter as once they did at Rome The Aedeates Aricini c. betweene Neighbours the ground is neyther the Plaintifs nor Defendants it is the Iudges To wind vp all nor you nor wee of the Ministry to whom I had more to say if the place suited nor any present haue done the good wee should let vs say for the time past That we haue beene vnprofitable servants and henceforward resolue with the Church of old Nos non cloquimur magnased vivimus Not to talke but to liue The maine dispatcht we would speake the rest if we could with one breath Is God good Then loue him v. Minut. in Octav. for Goodnesse is the obiect of loue now loue is a desire of vnion it vnites vs to God by conforming and transforming vs so that then our loue shall appeare to be true when out of a desire to be made one with God wee conforme to his ordinances and be transformed into his image Againe is God good then let him be iustified and every mouth stopped we instance As B●llar and