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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	believe_v	lie_n	truth_n	1,698	5	6.1293	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67779	A sovereign antidote, or, A precious mithridate for recovery of souls twice dead in sin, and buried in the grave of long custome, to the life of grace. With hopeful means (God blessing the same) to prevent that three-fold (and worse than Ægyptian) plague of the heart; drunkenness, swearing, and profaneness. Wherein is a sweet composition of severity and mercy: of indignation against sin, of compassion and commiseration to the sinner; with such Christian moderation, as may argue zeal without malice; and a desire to win souls, no will to gall them. By R. Younge of Roxwell in Essex.	Younge, Richard.	1664 (1664)	Wing Y191A; ESTC R218572	39,339	35

excess in sin with further obduration not only delivers them up ●o Satan the God of this world who so blinds their minds and deludes their understanding● that the light of the glorious Gosp●l of Christ shall not shine unto them 2 Cor. 4.3 4. Eph. 2.2 2 Thes 2.9 But he gives them up even to a reprobate judgment to the hardness of their hearts and to walk in their own counsels Psal ●1 11 12. Rom. 1.21 to 32. And better be given up to Satan as the incestuous Corinthian was than thus to be given up For he was thereby converted saved as God used the matter making the Scorpion a medicine against the sting of the Scorpion the Horseleech a means to abate the vicious and superfluous bloud so ordering Satans craft and malice to ends which himself intended not Whereas these are given over as a desperate Patient is given over by his Physician when there is no hope of his recovery As thus Because they will not receive the truth in love that they might be saved for this cause God gives them up to strong delusions that they should believe lies that all they might be damned who believe not the truth but take pleasure in unrighteousness they are the very words of the Holy Ghost 2 Thes 2.10 11 12. If any vvould see more touching the woful condition of a deluded worldling and how Satan gulls wicked men with a world of misprisions that he may the better cheat them of their souls Let them read The Drunkards Character and The Cure of Misprision for in this I study all possible brevity being loath either to surfeit or cloy the Swearer who is commonly short-breathed in well-doing and lest adding more should hinder him from hearing this for Satan and his corrupt heart will not condescend he shall hold out to hear his beloved sin so spoken against Memb. 5. Sect. 1. Only I will insert a few notions aphorisms or conclusions touching the former point of Gods forbearing to punish the most flagitious sinners when they so horribly provoke him together with some pregnant examples of some that he hath executed Martial Law upon even in this life Cornelius Gallus not to mention many nor any that every Author sets down died in the very act of his filthiness as Plutarch well notes Nitingal Parson of Crondall in Kent was struck dead in the Pulpit as he was belching out his spleen against Religion and zealous Professors of the Gospel It was the usual imprecation of Henry Earl of Schuartzbourg Let me be drowned in a Jakes if it be not so and such was his end You may remember one Lieutenant of the Tower was hanged it had wont to be his usual imprecation as he confessed at his death Earl Godwin wishing at the Kings Table that the bread he eat might choak him if he were guilty of Alphreds death whom he had before slain was presently choaked and fell down dead Yea his lands also sunk into the Sea and are called Godwins sands where thousands since have made shipwrack It was usual with John Peter mentioned in the Book of Martyrs 〈…〉 say If it be not true I pray God I may rot ere I die and God saying Ame 〈…〉 t he rotted away indeed A Serving-man in Lincolnshire for every trifle used to swear Gods precious bloud and would not be warned by his friends to leave it insomuch that hearing the bell tole in the very anguish of death he started up in his bed and swore by the former oath that bell toled for him whereupon immediately the bloud most fearfully issued as it were in streams from all parts of his body not one place left free and so died Popiel King of Poland had ever this wish in his mouth If it be not true I would the Rats might eat me and so it came to pass for he was so assailed by them at a banquet that neither his guards nor fire nor water could defend him from them as Munster mentions The Jews said Let his bloud be upon us and upon our children and what followed Sixteen hundred years are now past since they wished themselves thus wretched and have they not ever since been the hate and scorn of the world Did they not many of them live to see their City buried in ashes and drowned in bloud to see themselves no Nation Was there ever any people under heaven that was made so famous a spectacle of misery and desolation They have had what they called for to the ful and it 's just that they who long for a curse should have it Yet how many among us do familiarly curse their wives children c Nor is it seldom that God pay them in their own coin men profane Gods Name and he makes their names to stink When the pestilence rageth in our streets blasphemy and execration must confess that they have their due wages Blasphemers live swearing and die raving it is but their wages Sect. 2. He punisheth some in the Suburbs of Hell that they might never come into the City it self The evil he now suffers uncorrected he refers to be condemned Sin knows the doom it must smart here or hereafter Outward plagues are but favour in comparison of spiritual judgments and spiritual judgments but light to eternal torments God doth not punish all flagitious sinners here that he may allow some space to repent and that none may doubt his promise of a General Judgment nor does he forbear all here lest the World should deny his providence and question his justice Memb. 6. Sect. 1. But what do I urge reason to men of a reprobate judgment to admonish them is to no more purpose than if one should speak to life-less stones or sence-less plants or wit-less beasts for they will never fear any thing till they be in Hell-fire wherefore God leaves them to be confuted with fire and brimstone since nothing else will do it If there be any here that believe a Resurrection as I hope better things of some of you all such I would beseech by the mercies of God before mentioned that they would not be so desperately wicked as to mock their admonisher scoff at the means to be saved and make themselves merry with their own damnations but that they would entertain this message as if it were an Epistle sent from God himself to invite and call them to repentance Yea consider seriously what I have said and do not oh do not mock at Gods Word nor sport away your souls into those pains which are easeless endless remediless Shall we give an account at the day of judgment for every idle word we speak Mat. 12.36 never give a reckoning for our wicked swearing and cursing We shall be judged by our words v. 37. Are you willing to be saved if you are Break off your sins by repentance Dan. 4.27 Cease to do evil learn to do well Isa 1.16 17. Seriously grieve and bewail for the millions of times that you have