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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	evil_a	good_a	sin_n	7,176	5	5.3331	4	true

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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

because they may never taste them curse the bloud of Christ shed on the Cross because it hath satisfied for millions and done their unbelieving souls no good curse the Angels and Saints in heaven because they see them in joy and themselves in torment Cursings shall be their sins and their chief ease Blasphemies their prayers Lachrymae their notes Lamentation all their harmony these shall be their evening songs their morning songs their mourning songs for ever and ever And indeed who shall go to Hell if Cursers should be left out Wherefore let all those learn to bless that look to be heirs of the blessing Sect. 7. But to be in Hell and there to continue everlastingly in a bed of quenchless flames is not all For this is the portion even of Negative and viceless Christians if they be not vertuous Of such as do not swear except they fear an Oath That abound in good duties if they do them not out of faith and because God commands them that he may be glorified and others edified thereby Whereas thou dost supererogate of Satan in damning many souls besides thine own Thou hast had a double portion of sin to other men here and therefore must have a double portion of torment to them hereafter The number and measure of thy torments shall be according to the multitude and magnitude of thine offences Rev. 20.12 13. 22.12 Luk. 12.47 Mat. 10.15 Rom. 2.5 6. And those offences if I could stand to aggravate them by their several circumstances would appear to be out of measure great and numerous I 'le mention but one of ten With thy swearing and cursing thou dost not only wound thine own soul worse than the Baalites wounded their own bodies for thou wilfully murtherest thine own soul and that without any inducement as hath been proved But thou art so pernicious that this is the least part of thy m●schief for thou drawest vengeance upon thousands by thy infectious and damnable example as how can it be otherwise Thou dost not only infect thy companions but almost all that hear or come near thee Yea little children in the streets have learnt of thee to rap out oaths and belch out curses and scoffs almost as frequently as thy self and through thy accustomary swearing learned to speak English and Oaths together and so to blaspheme God almost so soon as he hath made them And not onely so but thy example infects others and they spread it abroad to more like a malicious man sick of the plague that runs into the throng to disperse his infection whose mischief out-weighs all penalty It is like the setting a mans own house on fire it burns many of his neighbours houses and he shall answer for all the spoil So that the infection of sin is much worse than the act Sect. 8. Nor wilt thou cease to sin when thou shalt cease to live but thy wickedness will continue longer than thy life For as if we sow good works succession shall reap them and we shall be happy in making them so so on the contrary wicked men leave their evil practices to posterity and though dead are still tempting unto sin and still they sin in that temptation they sin so long as they cause sin This was Jeroboams case in making Israel to sin for let him be dead yet so long as any worshipped his Calves Jeroboam sinned Neither was his sin soon forgotten Nadab his son and Baasha his successor Zimri and Omri and Ahab and Ahaziah and Jehoram all these walked in the wayes of Jeroboam which made Israel to sin and not they alone but millions of the people with them So that it is easie for a mans sin to live when himself is dead and to lead that exemplary way to Hell which by the number of his followers shall continually aggravate his torments As O what infinite torments doth Mahomet endure when every Turk that perisheth by his jugling doth daily add to the pile of his unspeakable horrors And so each sinner according to his proportion and the number of souls which miscarry through the contagion of his evil example And look to it for the blood of so many souls as thou hast seduced will be required at thy hands and thou must give an account for the sins perhaps of a thousand Thou dost not more increase other mens wickedness on earth than their wickedness shall increase thy damnation in hell Luk. 16. Sect. 9. It were easie to go on in aggravating thy sin and wretchedness and making it out of measure great and the souls that miscarry through the contagion of thy evil example numerous For is not the Gospel and the Name of God blasphemed among the very Turks Jews and Infidels and an evil scandal raised upon the whole Church through thy superlative wickedness and other thy fellovvs Yea does not this keep them off from embracing the Christian Religion and cause them to protest against their ovvn conversion Which makes me vvonder that Swearers Drunkards and such vvicked and prophane wretches are not like dirt in the house of God throvvn out into the street by excommunication Or as excrements and bad humours in mans body vvhich is never at ease till it be thereof disburthened as Austin vvell notes That they are not marked vvith a black coal of infamy and their company avoided as by the Apostles order they ought Rom. 16.17 2 Thes 3.6 14. Eph. 5.5 7. 1 Cor. 5.5 11. 1 Tim. 1.20 That they are not to us as Lepers vvere among the Jews or as men full of plague sores are amongst us We vvell knovv the good husbandman weeds his field of hurtful plants that they may not spoil the good corn And when fire hath taken an house we use to pull it down lest it should fire also the neighbours houses Yea the good Chirurgion cuts off a rotten member betimes that the sound may not be endangered Nor will the Church of England ever flourish or be happy in her Reformation until such a course is taken Memb. 4. Swearer Sir I unfeignedly bless God for what I have heard from you for formerly I had not the least thought that swearing by faith troth or any other creature was so grievous a sin as you have made it appear from the Word And I hope it shall be a sufficient warning to me for time to come Sect. 1. Mestenger If so you have cause to bless God indeed For all of you have heard the self-same Word but one goes away bettered others exasperated and enraged wherein Will only makes the difference And who makes the difference of Wills but God that made them He that creates the new heart leaves a stone in one bosom puts flesh into another Sect. 2. Of Hearers there are usually four sorts Mat. 13. 19 to 24. as first an honest and good heart will not return from hearing the Word unbettered Yea he will so note what is spoken to his own sin that it shall encrease his knowledge and lessen his