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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	great_a	world_n	3,255	5	4.3685	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46221	Work for a cooper being an answer to a libel, written by Thomas Wynne the cooper, the ale-man, the quack, and the speaking-Quaker : with a brief account how that dissembling people differ at this day from what at first they were / by one who abundantly pities their ignorance and folly.	Jones, William, fl. 1679-1710.	1679 (1679)	Wing J1002; ESTC R12360	16,124	36

them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost And would invalidate that most gracious condescention of our Lord in saying As my Father sent me so send I you And thus be would destroy and root up even what the Lord himself hath planted Now what can be said bad enough of this miserable Charon this wicked Ferry-man of Hell that thus Rows one way and looks another that sets up a trade of Teaching and at the same time tells the people that they need none Giving us indeed not the Waters of Life but a World of Nonsence freely and ought certainly to be as freely chastis'd and corrected for 't But if we look to the bottom of his wicked designe the main of his Artillery lies levell'd against those that serve at God's Altar and is hugely ill at ease that God and Man hath appointed such any thing to live upon as thinking it abundantly sitter they should be forc'd to beg their Bread And this because he considers that some encouragement some assistances even from this world are but necessary to whet the industry of the Ingenious for their better and more chearful progress in true Piety and good Learning and might consider also that not onely for this but likewise for our everlasting concerns in the other world there is an allow'd respect to a recompense of reward But the destruction of all good seems to be the principal thing he aims it knowing that as long as ever Holiness and pious Education Devotion and Sincerity have any countenance in the world so long will the Ignorance and the Folly the Malice and the Hypocrisie of Quakers be discover'd and condemn'd He therefore charges the main encouragers of Vertue and true Religion by the woful name of Hirelings and thinks it a most fine and glib way to depreciate and bring disparagement upon the best of men as if he were infected with the Plague and could not endure to see any body sound and well The Tythes the chief cause of all his grumbling are but a portion which God himself out of his own world hath given to such as minister about holy things And may not the Great God of Heaven and Earth do what he will with his own Is thy eye evil said our Saviour because I am good 'T was never likely that God would be less kinde to the Servants of his own House than he had been to any body else or that he meant to exclude them onely from the benefit of his good Providence They that will not work neither let them eat is most authentically true yet not in all cases nor of all persons nor of any at all times The labour of the Body profits little that of the Minde must of necessity be of as much greater value as it is of a higher importance 'T is therefore but in vain to say that no man works but he that goes to Plough or that no man is charitable but he that gives his whole Estate away He that watches and takes care over the Flock of Christ that labours in the Vineyard of the Lord or in the work of the Ministry may certainly with good reason be said to work and it is very eminently known who it was Saint Paul called his fellow-worker in the Lord. In Gen. 47.22 it is said The Priests had a Portion assigned them and that holy Joseph that knew better than any Quaker living both what to do and what to leave undone would not meddle with any part of that Portion And God making a Prohibition by the Prophet Hos. 4.4 says Let no man strive nor reprove another for this people are as they that strive with the Priest And the holy Patriarch Abraham whose Faith Wisdom and Obedience did infinitely surpass all that our Thomas is endu'd with gave a tenth part of all that he had to the Priest Hebr. 2.7 which me thinks might be enough to stop those unhallow'd Mouths that so inveterately rail against such as they ought with humble reverence to honour and esteem at least for their work-sake as being the Ministers and the Ambassadors of God To which might be added the obedience due to every Ordinance of Man for the Lord's sake and then what was confirm'd by Magna Charta and by Charta de Foresta in the 9th year of Hen. 3. may very reasonably take place The words are We have granted to God and by this Our present Charter have Confirmed for Vs and our Heirs for ever That the Church of England shall be free and shall have all her Holy Rights and Liberties inviolable This stood good then and does so still with such as have not lost all sense of Honesty as well as of Religion for 't is a Maxime in all Laws Quod Nostrum est sine facto Nostro transferri non potest And Solomon says to such as refuse obedience in much the like case He that turns away his ear from hearing the Law even his prayer shall be an abomination nor was it ever doubted by any man of Justice and Integrity but that an estate in Tythes or otherwise belonging to the Church was as truly and justly the Right and Property of every Incumbent Canonically Ordain'd Instituted and Inducted as any thing an honest man lawfully enjoys can possibly be his All which the holy Apostle justifies when speaking of what he and others might do by God's own Order 1 Cor. 9.6 11 13 14. Have not we says he power to forbear working If we have sown unto you spiritual things is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the Temple and that they which wait at the Altar are partakers with the Altar Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel But our Lay-preacher this infallible Cooper hates as well the name of Priest as the paying of his Tythes and shews it in saying in his fifth Page That the Priests did bemoan the death of Oliver and that this had been the manner of the Priests of all sorts All which is a most abominable untruth For when did ever any true Protestant-minister of the Church of England make any fawning Addresses to Richard Cromwel or bemoan and grieve for the death of Oliver speak Thomas and call thy self a Liar and a Fool and then peradventure God may give thee Grace to repent before it be too late And remember that our Blessed Lord was himself both a Bishop and a Priest and is said by the Author to the Hebrews to be a Priest for ever after the Order of Melchisedec and in another place to be the great Shepherd and Bishop of our Souls Near the latter end of his waste Paper which he has been taught to call Postscript seems to lodge the greatest Foolery of any in the whole Project for he calls us all his Friends Oh his dear Friends a mighty