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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bear_v	truth_n	witness_n	3,073	5	8.6773	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07429	A candle lighted at the lampe of sacred scriptures. Or, A catechisme conteining all truths fundamentall, and none but fundamentalls. By Richard Bifield, minister of Gods word, and pastor in Long Dutton..	Byfield, Richard, 1598?-1664.	1627 (1627)	STC 4237.5; ESTC S91269	24,615	54

incurable and infectious members escape or any ot●er way of secret or open practise that weakeneth estates Q. How in warre A. By vniust warre by not offering first conditions of peace by destroying 2 Sa 20 ●8 Dent 20 19 20. fruite trees and graine by insulting cruelty in victory and rashnesse in attempts Q. May any wrong bee offered to our neighbours dead A. Yea Inhumanity in not burying their corpses or the like are murthers Psa 79 2 3 Q. You said that cruelty towards the beasts is condemned A. Very right for saith Solomon Pro. 12. 1● the righteous regardeth the life of his beast wherefore the ouer-labouring of cattell the sports or Beare-baiting Bul-baiting and Cock-pits are vnlawfull Q. Rehearse the seauenth Commandement A. Thou shalt not commit adultery Exo. 20. 14 Q. What is condemned vnder adultery 1 Cor. 6. 9. 18. Mat. 15. 19. Col. 3. 5 1 Cor. 7. 2. Mat. 5. 27. Gen 39. 7. Ro 13 13. Esai 3. 16. Col 3 8. Ephe 5. 4. Not the vncleanenesse of marryed persons alone but also fornication vncleane thoughts inordinate affections burning lusts a wanton eye or vnchast lookes chambering and wantonnesse in our gestures and filthy speaking Q. What else The painting of the face the attire or dresse that is whorish as the garments 2 Kin 9 30. 22. Deu 22 9 Hos 2 2. 1 Cor 11. 1 Tim 2 9. 1 Pet 3 3. Esa 3. 16. 18 24 Zep 1 8. Esa 3 2● 23. Prou. 7. 10. of another sexe naked breasts the vncouered haire in women all art in the haire to moue others the inticements of perfumes strange apparrell the fashions of infamous persons and all dresse that is against shamefastnesse and modesty with all the instruments that belong to this vanity of apparrell Q. What else is condemned A. The occasions of vncleanenesse as idlenes pride and fulnesse of bread Mat ● Ez● 16 49. pro 7 11. 1 Tim ● 13. Zeph 1 9. mar 6 22. 1 The. 5 23. 1 Cor 5 ● ● 1 Cor. 7 2 8. pratling and gadding from house to house lasciuious dancings bookes songs pictures and stage playes the companying with fornicators the resorting to lewd houses the maintaining of stewes the making light of others fornication and the not marrying when we haue not the gift of continency Q. Are there not some monstrous transgressions condemned here A. Yes buggery Sodomity incest polygamy selfe pollution the vnnaturall Gen 38 9. Mal 2 11. filthines of women with women the transgression of Onan the marrying of the daughter of a strange god the putting Mat 19. 9. away ones wife not for fornication the marrying of the betrothed or vniustly diuorced Q. To auoide these euills more to keepe chastity in body and spirit and to possesse our vessells in holinesse and honour R●hearse the eight Commandement A Thou shalt not steale Q. What is here charged vpon vs A. That we study no● our owne so much as euery man anothers wealth ● cor 10. 2● Q. What is stealing A. The vniust taking away or keeping backe of persons or things perteining to God or man Q. How doe men steale from God A. By deuouring that which is holy Pro. 20. 25 Mal. 3. 8. 9 10. Act. 8 18 19. 1● 24. 25. that is which is consecrated to the maintenance of Gods worship and of schooles and vniuersities and to the releife of the poore by setting to sale the gifts of Gods spirit and faculties to dispense those gifts and by making gaine of things hindering piety furthering superstition Q. How do men steale from themselues 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 The. 3 ●● Eph 4 28. prov 18 9. 19 15 21 25. 23 21. Ioh 6 12. Pro. 11. 1● Eccle 5. 19. A. By liuing without a calling * by idlenes in their calling by prodigality in dyet apparrell or otherwise by vnthriftines not sauing that wee haue that nothing be lost and by rash suretiship and by niggardlinesse Q. How steale we from our neighbors by withholding more then is meete A. When we imploy not our owne Iam 5. 2 ● Pro. 11 ●● 26. Iam ● ● Psa 37. 21. Prov 3 27. 2● mat 21. 41. Lev. 6. ● Luc. 19. 8. goods when wee withhold corne or wages or debt or releife from the poore or things left in trust or things found if we know the owner or things vniustly gotten without making restitution with the better if we be able Q. How steale we by taking away A. By force as robbery and piracy Pro 28 28. Pro 20 2● Deut 15 9 10 18 9 10 11. Pro. 22. 6. Gal. 3. 19. 1 The. 4. 6. Pro. 29. 24 34. or fraud in bargaining or out of ●argaining as is vsury oppression fa●●e weights the practise of vnlawfull arts gaming the falsifying o● the ●i●l of the dead with all deceit or p●rtakeing with o● concealing of th●s●●●ef●s Q. By these sinnes we may easily know the contrary dueties enioyned Reh●●●●e the ninth Commandement A. Thou shalt not beare false witnes against thy neighbour Q. What wayes may this be done A. In iudgement and out of iudgement Q. Out of iudgement how A. By tales by backbiting whispering Leu. 19. 16. Pro. 16. 28. Ier. 20. 10. Rom 1 29. 30. Ephes 4. 25. Prov. 27. 24. and 15. 15. 24. 24. lying and slandering by flattery and vaine glory by censuring and euill suspicious and by justifying the wicked Q. In iudgement how A. When the witnesse is wholly 1 Kin. 21. 13. Mat. 26. 61 Iohn 2. 29. 1 Sa. 22. 9. Zep. 3. 4. Exod 23. 1. Psa 15. 5. false or in part or if true yet it is of enuy and when the Iudge wrests the law or furthers euill causes or taketh Bribes though for the innocent Q. Who ●lse b●areth false witnesse A. He that con●emne 〈…〉 without Deu. 19. 15. Reu. 21. 8. Leu. 5. 1. witnesse he t●●t is feareful to beare witnesse ●o the truth he that co●cealeth the tru●h and he that betrayeth cause ●● collusion Q. Rehearse the tenth Commandement A. Thou sha●t not couet c. Q. What is meant by coueting A. The fi●st inclinations risings Rom. 7 7. Iam. 1. 14. of the thoughts and affections inordinately which tickle the heart with some ioy and delight and entise it called Col. 3. 5. euill concupiscence Q. Why is there added thy neighbors wife his seruant his maid his oxe or asse or any thing that is his A. To shew that the first motions of the soule in lusting against our neighbonrs dignity life wife possessions and good name are euill though I neuer giue full consent to them Q. What is here required A. The purity of the heart and the Ier. ● 14. Gal. 5. 17. holy concupiscence and the lusting of the spirit Q. You haue vnfolded the precepts of the Law Giue me now the precepts of the Gospell A. First it chargeth all men euery Act. 17. 30. 31. Mat. 9 13.