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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	death_n	great_a	king_n	2,913	5	3.6168	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04816	The burthen of a loaden conscience: or the miserie of sinne set forth by the confession of a miserable sinner.	Kilby, Richard, d. 1617.	1608 (1608)	STC 14950; ESTC S100262	42,020	107

once by waie of restitution to him that could not claime so much as a peny due because I had formerly paide him his owne reckoning who thereupon held himselfe satisfied but my conscience did testifie that I owed more vnto him Some haue iudged me foolish and vaine-glorious because I appeared to succour some fewe poore people I doe not iustify my selfe for it is God that truly seeth and iudgeth all things But my conscience is that I am bounde to giue much by waie of recompence to the poore because many that I haue wronged are deade or if they be aliue I know not where to finde them and therefore must followe S. Pauls direction ●ph 4.28 who sayeth let him that stole steale no more but let him rather labour working with his hands that which is good that he may haue to impart vnto such as haue neede All christians ought to put themselues to take any paines yea such as they were neuer brought vp vnto rather then to maintaine themselues with the hinderance of other Beware of slouthfullnesse wastfullnes and vnthriftinesse for they will bring you into necessitie and then you must liue like a drone if not by wicked shifting yet by base beggerie Godly thrift is a great vertue hauing diligence to prouide things necessarie truly and righteously and care to saue and keepe things gotten yet without filthie niggardnesse and vnmercifulnesse Take heede least thorough your countenance counsell or commendation you cause one to suffer losse by an other for if you doe the losse before God shal be required at your hands If the word of God be true Prov. 19.9 as without doubt it is that a false witnesse shall not be vnpunished and he that speaketh lies shall perish then am I in a fearefull case for I haue made many lies and borne much false witnesse I haue signified many things otherwise then I thought of them I take much delight in telling strang reports and such as are either altogether vntrue or peeced vp with lies or at least verie vncertain and not like to be true Also I loue lies and when I heare them I vphold them some time for my owne aduantage some time to please other and some time to hurt them that I loue not Hereby it plainly appeareth whose child I am for God is the father of truth and the Deuill father of lying For Gods sake therefore all people I beseech you hate lying doe not signifie or maintaine any word that is vntrue although you might much benifit your selfe by it vnlesse in verie conscience you be perswaded and haue good reason to mooue you that such a thing is true vtter it not Be no common reporter of newes nor much giuen to talke for such people doe vtter many lies In bearing witnesse be well aduised what you saie with what intent for you may be a false witnes many waies and sometime not perceiue it your selfe False witnesse is a lie in matter or in meaning The matter testified is false altogether or in some part A testimonie altogether false is that wherein there is no word true as they which witnessed against Naboth ● king 21. ●2 13. that he had spoken against God and the king whereas he had not spoken any thing against God or the king A testimonie partly false is when somewhat is put to or put out or some word altered Of putting to we haue an example in the Iewes who accused Christ to Pilate the Emperours deputie Luk. 23. ● 2. that he did forbid men to paie tribute to the Emperour saying Mat. 22. that he was Christ a king It is true that he said he was Christ a king but false that he forbad men to paie tribute to the Emperour Mat. 17.25 26 2● for he willed people to paie yea and paide for himselfe Of leauing out we haue an example in the deuill who Mat. 4.6 Psal 91. ● to perswade Christ to throw himselfe downe from the top of the temple told him that it is written in the word of God the angels of God had a charge giuen them to keepe Christ from hurting himselfe Here the deuill left out these words In all thy waies which he would not speake because he intended that Christ should not take the waie to goe downe by staires but tempt God in falling from the toppe Of altering some word we haue an example in the two false witnesses Mat. 26. ● that accused Christ saying this man saide I can destroy the temple of God Ioh. 2.15 and build it in three daies Whereas Christ saide destroy ye this temple and I will build it in three daies You may testifie of an other that which he hath saide or done and yet mistake his meaning So when Christ saide Ioh. 2.10 destroy ye this temple he meant his bodie but his aduersaries tooke it that he meant the temple that was built of lime and stone When Dauid fled from the court of King Saul ●m 20. 〈◊〉 21. 〈◊〉 22. and came to Abimelec the Priest he knowing none otherwise but that he was still in the kings fauour gaue him intertainment and was therefore falsly accused of one Doeg to haue conspired with Dauid against the King who thereupon put him to death and all his kindred It is a grieuous thing to consider how both words and deedes are commonly mistaken to the great wrong of many people yea that which is more grieuous when a thing cannot in it selfe be mistaken wee presume to finde out some bad cause that mooued the partie to say it or doe it 〈◊〉 2.13 When the Apostles by the inspiration of the holy Ghost spake in strange languages good matter some saide they were drunck When Christ cast out deuills ●t 12.24 some saide he was a coniurer and wrought with the deuill Iob liuing an vpright life 〈◊〉 1.9 11. the deuill accused him that in his heart he was a dissember and would serue God no longer then God fed him with giftes and when he was prooued a lyer in that 〈◊〉 2.4 5. yet he vrged that if Iob were bodily punished with diseases hee would shew himselfe falshearted to God which also prooued a false witnesse Among all the apprentises that the deuill hath in the trade of false witnessing and lying none goe beyond them that will accuse men for well doing as they that accused Daniel for saying his praiers alleadging that therein he shewed an ill minde to the king Dan. 6. You may testifie against a man that which is true and yet before the face of God be within compasse of false witnesse as he that accused Moses of killing an Egyptian Exod. 2 gaue true testimonie for Moses did so indeede therefore the accuser spake the truth but not truly that is not in zeale to the truth but in malice to Moses who told him of his fault To keepe your selfe cleare from lying false witnessing you must first feare God for he is