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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	will_n	3,297	5	6.8462	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53112	The complaint of English subjects delivered in two parts. First part, is the complaint, of the poor, middle, and meanest sorts of subjects, concerning their bodily assistance. Second part, is the true Christians complaint, against vice, and wickedness, for the good of their soul's health. Also, werein is set forth, the late prodigious growth, of atheism, errors, and vice: with a call to repentance. As also, how needful it is, in these times, for every one of us, first of all, to look into our own hearts, and endeavour to amend what is their amiss. And lastly, a brief discourse, concerning our late unfruitful, and cold summers: as also, what is thought to be the real causes of it, by way of opposition, to the opinion of astrologers. By Richard Newnam of Tiverton in Devonshire.	Newnam, Richard.	1700 (1700)	Wing N935; ESTC R218651	71,890	130

Chinks of a Door that encloseth a dark Room And indeed and in truth I may very well now say that such evil Men as aforesaid do always delight to be in dark Rooms and they do not love Light nor do they any way desire that the Son of Righteousness should ever shine into their Rooms amongst them for then they know that all their black Deeds will be as plainly seen by all men as Earthly Atoms are seen in a dark Room by the Power and Strength of the Sun-beams when they are so contracted together and sent through such little Holes Chinks or Craneys of such a Door as it is before-mentioned Again I say Evil Examples are very malignant in their own Natures and that many ways as by woful experience it hath been oftentimes found for when the Father is a common Drunkard the Son often-times doth prove to be the like and indeed according to the course of Nature it is not much to be admired at for Custom is a second Nature and some men do by Custom bring up their Children so to do as they love to do themselves for when the Son goes to call his Drunken Father home from the Ale-house or Tavern he will then make his Child drink several times perhaps much against his Stomach and then when the Lads squemish Stomach loathes the taking in of so much Liquor then the drunken Father saith How Sarrah can't you drink what you dont know what 's good for your self Come drink it all up Boy and I 'll make you love good Liquor as well as my self for I find it to be a great Comfort to my Heart And this way the Drunkard in time makes his Son to become as common a Drunkard as himself But again sometimes if so comes to pass that the Son of a Debauch Lascivious Father in the days of his Infancy makes some observations of his Father's lewd Actions tho' at that time perhaps for want of Reason he is not capable to think it to be in his Father any way Immodest or Evil But then after that when he the Son comes to see more Years in the World and is then somewhat more Ripened in Age and his own wanton desires begin to display themselves within his own Brest Then perhaps he begins to recal to mind the former Actions that he had oftentimes seen by his Lascivious Father and then thinks he within himself Why may not I my self do the like And thus through want of good Examples he is prone to all manner of Evil and then he the Son presently le ts loose the Reins of his Will to run into all manner of Wickedness And thus such Evil Examples are oftentimes the chief secondary Causes that have corrupted so many Thousands of our brave Vigorous Young Men so as that thereby at last many of them have paid the Debt which they owed to Nature with their untimely Deaths and instead of a Christian Burial in the Church-yard they have been thrown into a most shameful Grave under the Gallows Again the same may be said concerning Mothers and Daughters for if the Mother throughout her whole Life and Conversation be Vitiously given to all manner of Lewdness and Wickedness Then 't is a rare thing to see the Daughter of such a Woman truly Vertuous tho' sometimes now and than 't is known that Wicked Parents have had good Children and good Parents have had Wicked Children but much more often 't is known that good Education and good Examples hath often times changed the corrupt Natures of many so as that by mean● thereof they at last have become tollerably good that otherwise would have been most notoriously Evil and by this also may be seen what Effect Good or Evil Examples can produce The like also concerning Good and Evil Examples may be said between Masters and Servants for if the Master be a common Swearer 't is much if the Servant is not also tempted to break out now and than with an Oath altho' originally he was otherwise taught by his Honest Parents for did not good Joseph learn to Swear by the Life of Pharoah after he had been but a little while in the Egyptians Court and it may be he had heard many of the Egyptians oftentimes so to swear see Genesis the 24th Chapter verse 15. But farther concerning Evil Examples I must say the greatest danger of them all is when they are found in Magistrates and Ministers for they hereby do not only corrupt single Persons or peculiar Families but whole Cities Towns and Villages But again The next thing that will come in this my way of Discourse I think will be to endeavour to set forth the sad and direful effects of such Evil Examples And now I farther say the Evil Examples that have been to frequently shewn in this our Age by almost all sorts of People of all Sexs and Ages have been the only secondary Causes that hath infused into our Hearts this now general reigning Corruption by means of which many ways we have highly offended God And therefore I now believe that the Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth now forth with doth expect from every one of us a true and hearty Repentance with the amendment of our Lives and Restitution made to those whom we have any way wronged or otherwise we may for ought I know to soon feel the weight of God's Wrath powered down upon us but yet nevertheless by experience it hath been found that before the Almighty God hath pouered down the Viols of his Wrath upon the Heads of the most Wicked and vilest Sinners he out of his great Mercy hath hitherto always given them warning before hand by the Signs and Tokens of his displeasure made manifest unto them both in Heaven and on Earth And if I mistake not I think the manifestation of such Tokens of God's displeasure against a Nation have or might of late Years been plainly seen in England But however when God is displeased with any Nation and People that it is then his Good will and Pleasure to give Warnings before he strikes is plainly to be made manifest and to prove this I need not use many Arguments for both Divine and Moral Histories are full of such Presidents And the first of them that I shall offer to you for the proof hereof shall be that of Josephus in his Moral History concerning the City of Jerusalem who if I mistake not therein saith That a Flaming Sword for a considerable time appeared over that City before the Destruction of it And if the Impenitent Jews had then at the sight thereof truly Repented who can tell but God might have had Mercy upon them But they did not Repent and therefore at last they felt the sad Effects of it But 2dly Divine History saith That the Wickedness of the Old World caused the Flood to be brought upon them and yet God in his Mercy then gave them One Hundred and Twenty Years to Repent as you may read