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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	faith_n	reason_n	true_a	3,392	5	5.0227	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20559	The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A familiar and learned exposition on the ten commandements gathered from the mouth of a faithfull pastor by a gracious young man, sometime scholler in Cambridge.; Plaine and familiar exposition of the Ten Commandments	Dod, John, 1549?-1645.; Cleaver, Robert, 1561 or 2-ca. 1625.	1603 (1603)	STC 6967.5; ESTC S5010	304,208	396

wicked men men are reckoned boasters those that because there is no true matter of praises to be seene in them will get praise by speaking great things for themselues So Saule whereas he had saued the king and all the best of the cattle he comes bragging to Samuel blessed be thou of the Lord saith hee I haue fulfilled the word of the Lord when it was nothing so he had done nothing lesse then fulfilled the word of the Lord. Heere he lyed now in bragging of himselfe And all in excusing ones fault more then one should The thing wherein Saul sinned in the same matter for when his lie would not goe for currant but Samuel caught him why hast thou done the worke of God that he cōmanded then all should be dead how comes it to passe then I heare bleating lowing Make these two agree that all be dead and yet I heare some bleat vvhen this vvas a plaine case now he had not done his dutie then he shifts it thus indeed a few of the best of them vve haue kept for sacrifice but I hope that is no harme But vvhen this vvould not serue the turne neither but Samuel followes him close O saith he hath God as much delight in sacrifice as vvhen his vvord is obeyed then he fals to an other excuse and castes it on the people I feared the people saith hee as vvho should say it vvas their fault and none of mine thus if any credit had beene to be gotten he would haue had that to himselfe alone but now that no credit could be had he leaues it for the people to deuide among themselues And this excusing is a comon thing amongst all men Ye shall not haue the most simple person the most ignorant and sillie bodie in a vvhole towne that hath the most shallow capacitie dull vvit that can be but he is verie sharpe and vvittie to finde an excuse he can scamble and vvinde and vvill make hard shift to vvring his necke out of the collar that hardly can any reproofe be fastened vpon him And men thinke by so doing to lessen their fault but in truth it is nothing so For vvhat haue they gotten but that now a man may say yonder 's a lyar that is ill accounted of both before God and also before men he vvas ill before but now he is farre vvorse It is a verie ill thing vvhen one hath vvounded himselfe by sinne to goe to the diuell for a medicine he is the vvorst phisition that can be and his phisicke is the vvorst phisicke in the vvorld for he vvill sure enough giue them that that shall make them vvorse and not better One may thinke that these excusings be plasters but in truth they be but poysons that venime the soule a great deale more then before Thirdly a man lies against himselfe by excusing as vvhen men in a kinde of proud humilitie vvill denie their gifts vvith an intent to get more credit oh alasse I haue no gifts no vvit no learning a simple scholler and vveake memorie and such like contrarie to that one knows thinkes now this depresing ones selfe falsely is not humilitie but iniquitie for one should make himself neither better nor worse thē God hath made him but if he haue good calling to speake of himselfe plainly as the matter is in truth And now if when they lye of themselues say they haue no wit no learning no good parts c. one saith why in truth it is true you say well it is right you haue none of all these things Indeed they would thinke such a man did them great wrong scarce take him for their friend For his desire is that others should crosse him and say nay say not so you are an excellent man worthie to be regarded c. and so he will discommend himselfe long enough if he heare an other commend him for this is it which he delights to heare But a man must neither wrong God nor himselfe in diminishing and concealing the things that God in goodnesse hath giuen him not to denie them but to vse them to his glorie So for matters of this life come to men for worke of mercie and and then there is such a whining how poore they be what a great charge they haue what losses they haue sustained and I know not what then they will needs be poore whereas their owne soule beares them witnesse that they are vvealthie and haue much more then many men that doe a great deale more good then themselues Therefore though a man doe not slaunder his neighbour yet if he slaunder himselfe he is to be reprooued as a lyar Heerein diuers of Gods children faile much in time of contemplation Those that haue beene and are sound and true hearted Christians if they haue lost their feeling a while cannot finde that reioycing in God and comfort in good things that in former times they haue then comes the accuser of the brethren Satan that olde and subtile serpent and he striues to make them accuse themselues falsely On saith he if you had beene good indeed and had had a true heart to God he vvould neuer haue forsaken you thus and giuen you ouer to such a deadnesse and then through vveaknesse Gods children are readie to ioyne vvith the diuell against themselues and to thinke it is true sure I vvas but an hypocrite and hollow hearted my former comforts were but delusions presumptions if they had be beene true I should not haue lost them But this ought not to be neuer yeeld to Satan but if he striue to accuse do you striue to excuse if he would cast you down by so much the more lift vp your selfe by reasons out of Gods word and by former experience in your selfe other Christians For that is no good reason because you haue no feeling therefore you haue no faith and because you haue lost the sence of your comfort therefore it was no true comfort this is no true conclusion for those whom God once loued he loued to the end and will neuer forsake them Take heed of making such conclusions for a man may want the feeling of his faith and crie and call againe and againe for it and feele nothing all this while yet neuerthelesse haue true and sound faith if he feele not faith but he feeles the want of faith and the desire of it this is an infallible signe that he hath true faith But doe not agree with the diuell to persecute your selfe fight against him not with him against your selfe you shall find he is strong enough alone you had not need ioyne with him but rather set to resist him if one be once the child of God in truth he is so for euer if once in the fauour of God for euer in the fauour of God If God loued once he loues euer for though our feeling alter yet there is no chaunge in him Thus much for breaking this commaundement by speaking