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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	know_v	lord_n	see_v	3,997	5	3.2299	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09576	Gods generall summons to his last parliament. By George Phillips	Phillips, George, fl. 1597.	1595 (1595)	STC 19859; ESTC S114702	14,661	50

that were called to the supper of that King which made a marriage for his sonne requited his kindnes with I pray ye hold me excused for I haue bought oxen and I goe to trie them The second with I haue bought a farme and I must go and see it And the third with I haue married a wife and I cannot come If they were so loth to come when hee called them of his mercie how vnwilling will they be thinke you to appeare when hee calleth them of his iustice when they cannot beare him in hande that men are so simple to buy oxen before they trye oxen or to lay out money for the pigge in the poke that the money shall be told before the farme be bought and sold that they will first pay for it then suruey it no but he sayd trueth that confessed and sayd I haue married a wife and I cannot come for they that are married to the world as a man to his wife they send God answer that they cānot leaue the world their wife till their dying day And then neither I pray thee excuse mee may serue the turne nor I cannot come bee taken for an aunswere but corpus cum causa must be returned to the iudgement seate of Christ They do wel then who walk worthie of their calling by walking according to the same like the Apostles who sayd Acts. 6 4. VVee will giue our selues to prayer to the ministratiō of the word continually Godlinesse must be as carefully kept as it is painfully gotten 1. Timo. 6 20. least like ebbing waters at full tide wee hasten to our fall Paul telleth vs of a Iudgement because thereby a difference shall bee made betwixt the better and the worse sorte of people for as there was no time when nor companie whom the diuell chose before the sonnes of God Iob. 1. when they were assembled before the Lorde so it is with the wicked who resemble the brasen faced strumpets who couet the companie of honest women placing their grace in such because themselues are graceles For as God blessed Laban for the loue he had to Iacob Gen. 30 27. so they knowe that the worse fareth well for the betters sake Mark 13.26 Matth. 13.48 This made the tares creepe vp anon after the good corne The frie to slip into the net with the good fish the vngodly to sit in the sunne-shine with godly that they might haue a being for a time for when iudgement cōmeth they shall appeare but as Satan amongst the sonnes of God that is in the company Iob. 2.1 but not of the company of Gods elect and as the theefe at the barre not for his good that he hath done but for the euill hee hath committed Matth. 17.3 but the rest like Moses and Elias familiar with Christ The reason of this is that Christ being the true light might shew himselfe to be so indeed by leauing nothing that is a deed of darknes vndetected to the children of light that he may be iustified in his sayings and cleere whē he is iudged The wicked must bee detected of what they haue been and the vngodly must be noted for what they are and all this must be brought to light by the light for as mens sins haue been smothered in the world so haue they bin buried in the graue You see thē that the iustice of Christ and the vnrighteousnes of man doth bring a iudgement Luk. 23.19 As Barrabas his insurrection and the lawes equitie caused his imprisonment The vse of this is as fit for our age as Iethroes counsell was for his son in lawe Moses in aduising him not only to make Iudges in Israel but also prescribed such principall qualities as should be predomināt in their calling As a good courage Exod. 18 21. the feare of GOD true dealing and cleerenes from the corruption of bribe taking so that if a man in the spirit of Dauid should demand of thē this question Are your mindes set vpon righteousnes O yee congregation Psalm 58 1. and doe yee iudge the thing that is right O yee sonnes of men They durst appeale to God like Dauid that said Psalm 26.1 Be thou my Iudge O Lorde whether I haue walked innocently or not For thus should men learne to iudge as they would be iudged Iustice hath both her handes full continually in signe whereof her right hand gripeth a sword and her left hād lifteth vp a paire of ballance Teaching Magistrates to way euery matter in the ballance of a good conscience that they may know which cause is the lighter So Dauid intreateth God Psalm 5.1 Ponder my cause O Lord. And then deuide to each man his owne as Salomons sword ceased the strife betwixt the womē that stroue for the liuing child 2. King 3.25 But if the sword bee swayed before the waytes haue wayed then may you see Annanias who should iudge according to law commanding to strike Paul against law Ioh. 18.10 Then may you see Peter step in with the sword and strike off Malcus eare Then doe you see the Magistrate deale more hastely thē wisely Thē receiueth the very law it selfe a maime at the hande of the Magistrate Dauid commending the flourishing state of Ierusalem said There is the seate of iudgement euen the seate of the house of Dauid This seate Dauid calleth the seate for iustice to shew the right vse of the iudgement seate the house of Dauid noting what men should sit there euen iust men like the seede of Dauid Luk. 23.22.24 or els as Pilate iudged Christ faultles Acts 24.28 and yet put him to death And as Felix to please the Iewes left Paul in prison so they will set their consciences on the tainter hookes Susan 52. and be as olde in euill as in age like the vniust Iudge reproued by Daniel But the good Magistrate is like the munition that ouerpeereth the cities walles in time of warre threatning the enemies that are without and comforting the inhabitās which are within or such a preseruatiue as the pitch was to Noas Arke sticking fast vnto the sides without and within or like a hedge to the vine to keep it from the destroyer Exod. 6.14 or like the tree that Nabucadnezzar sawe refreshing such as came vnder his shadow or like Moses Exod. 2.13 seeking to set them at one that striue or like Iob helping them that lye at the gate Iob. 31.21 and are not able to helpe themselues or like Dorcas making clothes at his owne cost for the poore Acts 9.39 that such may lament the losse of him when he is gone as reioyced by him when hee was here But if he bee not such a one as hath a godly care of those that are committed to his charge there is such a fault in the chosers as was in the trees of the wood who annoynted a brāble in stead of a better tree