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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	life_n	work_n	7,030	5	6.3476	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85798	A sermon appointed for Saint Pauls Crosse, but preached in Saint Pauls Church, on the day of His Maiesties happy inavgvration. March 27. 1642. By Richard Gardyner, D.D. and Canon of Christ-Church, Oxon.	Gardiner, Richard, 1591-1670.	1642 (1642)	Wing G231; Thomason E141_29; ESTC R16286	13,868	41

booke that the piety of such holy persons and sacred acts which are expressed by those visible objects ought to be imitated in their lives and deaths But such a fober construction hits not the scope of their meaning for they instruct the people downe-right to Idolize them Bellarmine the Atlas of their predominant Hierarchy doth not tremble terminis terminantibus in expresse termes to averre that the Images of Christ De Imagin Sancto l. 2. c. 21. and the Saints are to be worshipped not onely improperly but properly and by themselves so that they terminate the worship presented to them For my owne part as I will not contend with shadowes so I shall never any way strive for shadowes being resolved to approve no further these externall decorements and other circumstantials in Gods house then the Policy of the Land wherein I live shall thinke good to support And this I suppose is to keepe within the compasse of leading a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty which is the close of my Text and the totall summe of Christianity The heathen Orator could say Tull. l. 1. de Offic Inter bonos benè agere oportet among good and honest men must be good and honest dealing much more they who professe themselves Christians should be thus affected For since man is a sociable Creature every one owes that naturally to another by which humane society is conserved But men cannot live and converse if they may not beleeve and trust one another in godlinesse and honesty For this seeming zeale this formall honesty is like the Trojan horse in Virgil which was pretended the gift of Minerva but proved the ruine of Troy So that godlinesse and honesty faith and good workes must not be set at oddes but connexed and linked in our peaceable life as the cause and the effect the Sunne and the light For peace without godlinesse is a prophane unhallowed peace and peace without honesty is an adulterate a counterfeit peace it turnes the grace of God into wantonnes In godlinesse otherwise our peaceable life is no better then consenting in a faction in a combination for there 's Concors Odium unity in hatred when men make a league against a common good Jn honesty that you doe not by holy pretenses swallow widowes houses and by colour of distributing to pious uses scrape together what is not your owne build an Hospitall for a few and purloyne from many Such a liberality being no better then bountifull cruelty But our lives must be lead in all godlinesse and honesty squaring our drifts by our religion and not our religion by our drifts as the Ephesians did who cry'd up Diana Diana but gaine was in it they had learn'd to varnish their filthy lucre with devotion and to make their godlinesse yea their goddesse the handmaid the Stalking horse to their owne private Interest We are to pray for such a peace as Christ gave to his Disciples a peace knit together in all godlinesse and honesty I will follow my Apostle and end as I beganne exhorting all in their supplications prayers Intercessions and thanksgivings to magnify the Almighty by the providence of whose goodnesse we have a renowned King who is an indulgent carefull Father of the Church and Common-wealth a constant Exemplary Encourager and Advancer of all godlinesse and honesty Some Kings have beene so compos'd that Jngentes Virtutes ingentia vitia eminent vices no lesse then eminent vertues held a joynt concurrence in them as we see the drosse runnes with the metall but his gratious Majesty is of so refin'd so sanctified a temper that envy it selfe cannot find the least tracke of a raigning vice in him Who see 's not hee is Rex Mitioris Jngenij His clemency and moderation Proclaime him a King of his passions as well as of Nations And therefore Continue him O Lord long long continue him unto us Protect him against inbred and forraine Adversaries against the Foxe at home and ravening wolves abroad Let his enemies bescattered and those slaine that hate him Make his seed to endure for ever and his throne as the dayes of heaven Establish so firme an unity with the Head and the whole Body of the Kingdome that there ever be an happy entercourse of Love and Protection obedience and service Let no cunning of Satan nor any machination of his adherents be able to withdraw them from leading quiet and peaceable lives in all godlinesse and honesty through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen FINIS