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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	death_n	grace_n	life_n	2,752	5	5.0962	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66766	A paraphrase on the ten commandments in divine poems illustrated with twelve copper plates, shewing how personal punishments has been inflicted on the transgressors of these commandment, as is recorded in the Holy Scripture, never before printed : also, a metrical paraphrase upon the creed and Lord's Prayer / written by George Wither ...	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1697 (1697)	Wing W3177; ESTC R11576	41,427	136

to go we must confess But yet it shews a way to happiness And they who can but love it when they know it Shall either be vouchsafed strength to go it By mediate help or by immediate Grace Exalted be to their desired place It cannot merit Love But it may shew Whether or no our Love be false or true Though 't is not life It is the death of Sin Whereby the life of grace doth first begin To shew that living Faith wherein consists The truth of their profession who are Christ's And they are not suspected without cause False Christians who conform not to these Laws It is a needful Tutor though it stand With looks still frowning and with Rod in hand 'T is truly Good though Ill thereby we know And at befriends us though it seem a Foe It all condemns not though it puts in fear It brings to Christ and then it leaves us there In brief this Law shall ever be in force Though from Believers God remove the Curse It shall in Essence never fail a jot Although some Accidents continue not And therefore they whose Faith shall them prefer Observe it as a good REMEMBRANCER To these for comfort and encouragement The promise which attends it we present With all the circumstances which may give Assurances of what they well believe Without those Plagues or Terrors which we find Presented to correct a slavish mind For they that love their Founder need no bands But love to keep them true to these commands Love is the Laws fulfilling 't is that end To which both Laws and all good Actions tend And he that Loves unto himself is made A Law whereto we nothing need to add Before the rest our Muse to fright them sets The Tipes of punishments and horrid Threats If either may bring home the Soul that errs God's be the praise the Comfort of it theirs And let me share the prayers and the bliss Of those that shall pe profited by this Amen I. Thou shalt have none other Gods but me c. Pharoh by great wonders wrought To acknowledge God was brought And had Reasons light to see Who his only God should be Had he well that Guift employ'd Special Grace had been enjoy'd But no use thereof he made And so lost the gift he had Stubborn too the Fool did grow And ran headlong to his woe Command I. Serve but one God and let him be That God who made and ransom'd thee TO such as love our God of Love makes known A Duty and a benefit bestown That they might know the object of their Creed And in the way of Righteousness proceed For by the Preface of what follows here A freedom from a Bondage doth appear And by the Substance of this great Command A Duty we may likewise understand To them whom no kind usage may perswade From sinful Paths till they afraid are made We here exhibit Pharoh as a chief Of those who suffered for an Vnbelief Join with contempt of God that such from thence Might moved be to faithful penitence To them that shall with Reverence and fear Receive the holy precept which they hear We shew with love and mercy how they may Observe the Streight and Shun the crooked way There is one God alone That God is he By whom we formed and reformed be And they who serve another or deny His Attributes commit impiety This God that 's God indeed though he might say My will and pleasure is you shall obey Me only as your Lord and unto us No reason render why it should be thus Proceeds not so but hath declared why We should accept him for our Deity And peradventure this vouchsafed he To teach them knowledge who his Viccars be And shew to us by being meek and kind How from false Gods the true one we may find For to be God is to be good and so In Goodness infinite to overflow That all may tast thereof excepting none Such is my God and he is God alone The Egyptian Bondage tipified all The Race of Adam in their native Thrall And as their temporal Saviour Moses than Left not behind one hoof much less a man Inslav'd to Pharoh so the blessed Son Of this Great God hath ransom'd every one From that sad house of Bondage and of pain Where we without Redemption else had lain For which great favour he from us doth crave That we no other God but him should have And that we love him with a Reverent awe Which is the whole fulfilling of this Law This Gracious God by many is rejected And as they understand or stand affected They take or make up New ones of such things As almost to contempt the Godhead brings He of himself would make some Deity Who his own power so much doth magnify As if by that he thought to gain access To present and to future happiness He makes the World his God who thinketh fit To love to follow serve and honour it As many do and they who much incline To love this God are enemies to mine He makes his Lust a God who doth fulfil In every thing his own unbridled Will This Tyrant many serve Yea this is He Who makes them Bondslaves whom God setteth free He makes the worst men Gods who doth obey Their Pleasures in an unapproved way Or their imperious threatning so much feareth As think it from his Duty him deterreth He makes the Devil God who doth believe By evil means good blessings to receive Which very many very often doe Whose words deny him and defie him too But some of us not only Guilty stand Of being breakers of this first Command By serving Gods beside and more than him Who from Death Sin and Hell did us redeem But either we neglect him also quite Or practise works to him so opposite That into worse impieties we fall Than such as yet confess no God at all For by distrust self-love backsliding fear Inconstancy Presumption fruitless Care Impatience Grudging Frowardness or Pride With other such our God we have deny'd More oft than once and oftner fear we shall ●nto this error through our frailty fall This Law in some degree is also broke Unless we to our powers due care have took To Shun each cause of breaking it The Chief ●s Ignorance the ground of misbelief The next is to be oft and willingly Among Professors of Idolatry The Third is Servile fear which many ways The Heart unto Idolatry betrays The last not least is when the sway we give To any Lust or Sin For thus believe Such men to gain the full of their delight Will change their God or leave Religion quite Yea they who hate at first so gross a Sin Are by the Devil this way hooked in This Meditation here had found an end But that there are some others who offend Against this Law in such a high Degree As that they must not quite unmention'd be The truest God confessed is by them Their only God They serve