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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	ghost_n	holy_a	word_n	3,221	5	4.0038	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44432	A blow at profaneness in a description and a rebuke of it, taken out of the right reverend Bishop Hopkins exposition of the Ten Commandments.	Hopkins, Ezekiel, 1634-1690.	1692 (1692)	Wing H2728A; ESTC R218440	4,089	12

Ends that can warrant and justifie the use of any of God's Names Titles and Attributes And they are 1 Gods Glory and 2. The Edification of our selves and others Gods terrible Name is so full of Glory and Majesty that it should never be uttered but where the Discourse is Serious and Weighty Those who rend it with Oaths and Blasphemies ought to be punished by the Judges And would to God Law were put in severe Execution to cramp the Black Tongues of all such Profane Wretches Others fill up their Familiar Tattles with the Name of GOD and LORD making them to express some small Wonderment and fill up a gap in their Discourses These God will not hold Guiltless He holds himself contemned and will revenge the Dishonour that they do him by it What! Will you dare to bolt out the great Name of God without considering it Is it a Name to be sported with To be tost to and fro upon every light and vain Tongue Whenever we mention it we ought to bow our Hearts in the deepest prostration before it to which all the Powers in Heaven and Earth bow down with most humble Veneration Canst thou in Duty easily compose thy self to Reverence the holy and dreadfu● Name When thou hast accustomed thy self to Name him without any Respect in thy common Discourses Let me beseech you O Christians as you tender his Glory of which He is jealous whensoever you speak of God or bu● mention his Name Do it with an Holy Awe and Dread of his Divine Majesty And you who are Masters of Families and have Children beware that you stop in them the growing Sin of profaning God's Name To attest any thing by their Faith or by their Truth is a wicked Oath More Impious in effect than Louder ones The By-word Marry is no less than Swearing by the Virgin Mary It is a notable Device of the Devil to bring foolish masked words into common use 1. That they may Swear who use them though they know it not And 2. That by using unknown Oaths they may be brought in time to take up known ones Vehement Asseverations be also dangerous beginnings of Oaths By the Customary use of them we shall insensibly be tripping upon an Oath This and more see p. 163. and up and down on the third Commandment To return Many Profane Gods Sabbaths invade impiously the Time that he hath set apart for himself his own Worship and Service Many make the Bible their jest-Jest-Book prostituting those Expressions which God hath sanctified to convey to us the knowledge of Himself and of Eternal Life unto the Laughter and Mirth of their loose Companions Those very words which the Holy Ghost inspired for the Edification of the Church the Devil inspires into these profane Wretches for their own Damnation and the Damnation of those that have pleasure in such horrid Profaneness Seventhly He is a Profane Person who despiseth Spiritual Priviledges and Enjoyments Upon this very account the Scripture sets a black and indelible Brand upon Esau Lest there be any Fornicator or Profane Person as Esau who for one morsel of Meat sol● his Birthright Heb. 12.16 They are Profane who vilify the Ministry in Themselves and in Others Who dishonour God's Embassadors And who despise his Children whom God so highly honours as to adopt them into his Family He who despiseth him that is Begotten despiseth him likewise that Begetteth Contempt of Children and Servants argues secret contempt of the Master and Father Now lay these things to your own Hearts and bring them home to your own Consciences and see whether you are in none of these particulars guilty of Profaneness Do none of you think slightly of Religion accounting it a Politick Design or a Needless Preciseness Are none of you Negligent in the Publick Worship of God Nor in Private and Family Duties Or if you perform them is it not very carelesly and perfunctorily Or if you seem Zealous in them is not your Zeal excited by some Temporal Advantages and Worldly Designs Do you not make that Common and Vnholy which God hath made Holy Either by Abusing his Name Polluting his Sabbaths or Vilifying his Word in your ordinary Raillery Lastly Do none of you Despise Spiritual Priviledges and the Persons who are invested with them If you do how fair soever your Lives and Actions may be although you may think the rude debauched Sinner at a vast distance from your selves and account him the only Profane Person yet certainly this black stile belongs as properly to you And you are profane Violaters of the First Commandment Which requires you to take the Lord for your God and accordingly to Honour and Reverence Him and whatsoever appertains unto Him FINIS London Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the B●ble and Three Crowns in Cheapside nea● Mercers-Chapel 1692.