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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	anger_n	angry_a	just_a	1,601	5	7.4510	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39813	A fathers testament. Written long since for the benefit of the particular relations of the authour, Phin. Fletcher; sometime Minister of the Gospel at Hillgay in Norfolk. And now made publick at the desire of friends.	Fletcher, Phineas, 1582-1650.	1670 (1670)	Wing F1355; ESTC R201787	98,546	240

or wantonness less dangerous or loathsome The more ye grow up to youth the more closely cleave to the guide of your youth Prov. 2.17 See Psal. 119.9 Lay neer to heart nay lock up in the midst of your heart all those precious counsels of that Eternal wisdom and your heavenly Father My Son give me thy heart and let thine eyes observe my wayes for a whore is ● deep ditch and a strange woman a narrow pitt Prov. 23.26 27. Read and even get by heart Prov. 2.23 to the end and 7. ch Were it possible to cut off your arm and to graft it into a Bear and the Bears leg into your shoulder how would your soul abhorr such an exchange How much worse is it to take the members of Christ and make them members of an harlot 1 Cor. 6.15 Be careful also and very watchful with all instance I charge you to avoid all single uncleanness Onans sin Gen. 38. which is the more dangerous as it is less regarded Give up your hearts day and night in prayer to God and put them into his hand importunately beseech him who keeps his Israel to watch over you and to fence you from tentation and looking up unto his gracious providence timely as God shall provide for you retire unto his Ordinance of marriage if the Lord endow you not with the gift of continence Remember your bo●dies and souls are espoused to Christ and the wife hath not power over her own body but t●e husband 1 Cor. 7.4 Offer up therefore your bodies to him as a living sacrifice Rom. 12.1 and glorifie him both in your bodies and spi●its for they are Gods 1 Cor. 6.20 Lastly in your estate this virtue will ●each you to pray as Agur Give me neither ●overtie nor riches ●eed me with food convenient for me lest I be full and deny thee and ●ay who is the Lord or lest I be poor and steal ●●d take the name of my God in vain Prov. ●0 8 9. A great sayl to a little boat is more ●angerous than helpful That Philosopher in ●is Poetrie will teach you Boetius Libr. 2. Metr 4. If safe thou wouldst and quiet dwell Re●use a Palace chuse a cell Wouldst thou burn out thy fenced light In peace when winds storms tempests fight Wouldst thou despise the curl'd-head waves And laugh when gaping Neptune raves Let not thy house on mountains soar Trust not the swilling spewing shore There envious winds and spiteful blasts Reign rage and tear there nothing lasts Here sinking earth and bibbing sands B●tray the weight here nothing stands Climb not aloft to seek f●esh ayer Or pleasant seat build sure not fair The lowly Rock make thy foundation A strong a lasting situ●ation When thundring storms with ruins fill The pleasant shore and mounting hill Lodgd in thy trenches safely lying Fierce winds and ●oming seas defying Safe maist thou mock the angry skie And quiet live and quiet dy This was the first branch of holiness Sobrietie CAP. XVIII What is the Second THe second branch is Righteousness or Iustice that grace whereby We render to all their dues Rom. 13.7 not only which Civil but divine laws prescribe And the fulfilling of all righteousness in one word is love Read Rom. 13.7 8 9 10. The object of love is general All men e●en enemies not excluded Matth. 5.44 The ●ubject or seat of love is not the mouth in ●omplement 1 Ioh. 3.18 but the heart ●ithout dissimulation Rom. 12.9 The mea●ure or quantitie must be dispensed accor●ing to those relations in which God hath ●ed us Some must have an higher place in ●ur hearts than others 1 Thes. 5.13 The ●ruit of love is doing good which must be ●rdered and distributed generally to all ●en specially to the houshold of faith Gal. ● 10 To handle all these particulars would ●k a large volume For that referring you 〈◊〉 your best Father and his divine instru●●ions fully set out unto you in his double● ●estament I desire to cull out some few d●●rections and commend them to your practice and his blessing In conversing with men look first to your heart secondly to your actions Cease from anger and forsake wrath Psal. 37.8 put it off Col. 3.8 Be not hasty in spirit to be angry Eccl. 7.9 for discretion in a man deferreth his anger Prov. 19.11 In anger si● not Eph. 4.26 Be sure the cause be just Matth. 5.22 and the extent justifiable for it rests in the bosome of fools Eccl. 7.9 and where it lodgeth all night it hath the Divel for a bedfellow Eph. 4.26 27. Hate nothing in any man but sin and his hate of God and therefore hate the sin because ye love the man and love the man to cast out that hate and plant in the love of God Fall not out with any man but so as to reconcile him to God See Lev. 19.17 Above all beware of repaying hate for love Psal. 109.5 and tremble to hate whom God loves Psal. 38.20 It is the brand and seal of Satan upon his cattel Have nothing at all to do with Envie Anger and Hatred may be and often are evil but Envie cannot be good Love can b● angry and love can hate but love cannot envie 1 Cor. 13.4 The mouth is the dore of life Prov. 13.3 ●●ep it therefore under lock and key Hel● it self is not a more proper shop of the Divel than a wicked mouth His special warehouse is a sinful heart and an evil mouth his shop where he readily vents his wares Thither he brings that fire of hell Jam. 3.6 Wicked lips are a burning fire Prov. 16.27 The tongue his hammer by which he frames those hellish weapons lies slanders mocks to sadd the hearts of the righteous to arm and strengthen the hands of the wicked Psal. 109.2 Remember the tongue is an unruly and untamed evil Jam. 3.8 Deal with it as that man after Gods own heart He watches it keeps it as with a bridle Psal. 39.1 But finding his own hand too weak he calls in better help Set a watch oh Lord before my mouth and keep the dore of my lips Psal. 141.3 Learn that excellent lesson Speak evil of no man Tit. 3.2 Iugde no man Rom. 14.13 Neither only keep your tongues from wounding other mens ears but barricado your ears also and keep out wicked tongues The ear is the hearts factour Prov. 18.15 and if the ear be naught neither heart nor hand is good for a wicked doer gives heed to false lips and a Lier gives ear to a naughty tongue Pro. 17.4 Love peace Zech. 8.19 follow peace with all men Heb. 12.14 yea all things which concern peace Rom. 14.19 If it be possible as much as lies in you have peace with all men Rom. 12.18 And if you dwell with them that hate peace be you for peace when they are for war Psal. 120.6 7. The world will advise you to take no wrong but God commands you to do none Ier. 22.3 Not to take wrong here