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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	wood_n	word_n	wound_n	12	3	7.6057	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23626	Allēolkrisia, a treatise concerning judging one another being several discourses on the occasion of our Saviours precept Matt. 7:l, judg [sic] not, that you be not judged.		1675 (1675)	Wing A1017; ESTC R28940	73,907	221

no selfishness no hatred or contempt of the Person in general but of love rather to him out of hatred or contempt of the particular Vice or Imperfection only and one would be glad it were otherwise And then as to our Prudence never to do it but when seeing the necessity thereof we are in Wisdom as well as Charity obliged to it Be not a Witness against thy Neighbour without cause i. e. Without some foreseen so good an effect as ought to be a cause thereof Prov. 24.28 And ver 17. Rejoyce not when thine Enemy falleth Nor let thy Heart be glad when he stumbleth And hitherto is referr'd the telling stories to one Person of what another Person hath said of him or done towards him behind his back and again to the latter what the former hath said of him If this be frequent it is usually out of Talkativeness Busibodiness Hatred or Flattery either to do a Person an ill turn by ill disposing his Neighbour towards him setting him against him or to do ones self a good turn by getting the favour of the Person to whom we report as seeming so much concern'd for his Credit and good Reputation or other Good Though this may be done too sometimes out of a hearty sincere Charity and Prudence without any ultimate Self-end Where no Wood is saith the Wiseman there the Fire goeth out So where there is no Tale-bearer the strife ceaseth Prov. 26.20 As Wood is usually conceived the cause of Fire so such Stories or Reports whether true or false of one to another are the cause of Strife and Contention And ver 22. The words of a Tale-bearer are as Wounds and go down into the innermost parts of the Belly That is Usually the stories of such Persons affect deeply their Minds to whom they are told with keen smart violent and piercing Passions of Vexation Anger Revenge And Prov. 16.28 A froward Man sendeth forth strife and a Whisperer separateth chief Friends Such a Person by his frequent stories if he be believed puts Enmity not only between Strangers but Friends not Friends only but chief Friends for so probably the Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may there signifie it otherwise signifying Excellency and Superiority A great many sayings you have in the Proverbs of the like nature Sect. VI. VI. The ill Consequences of judging out of Hatred Revenge Pride Envy Anger Contempt c. Are 1. The increase of these Passions and their Principles in our selves by use and in others by our example which in the degree or so far forth as they habitually possess our Souls render us unworthy of Life or Beeing For so far forth we do as much Mischief as in us lies and surely as far as we see 't were better than in that respect that we were out of the World And although Self-love and Fear may oft-times restrain and hinder us from being the Authors of such Mischief to our Neighbour whereby we may be Obnoxious to humane Laws yet there may be as much of these in our Hearts as may render us detestable to God whose Knowledg and Punishment we can neither conceal our selves from nor escape But there are infinite Mischiefs which we are capable of doing one to another which humane Laws cannot take notice of In so much that a Place Company or Society may be weary of us and yet cannot tell how to be rid of us These dispositions make us like Dragons and Basilisks that where ever we come we kill and and do mischief with our very Breaths and Eyes These are the Frenzie the Plague of our Souls which make every Body very reasonably shun and run away from us Finally some make themselves hereby Enemies both to God and Men and fit company only for the Infernal Spirits whom we are most like and by their being as bad as our selves their company will be a very sutable punishment for us Further one of the worst mischiefs of such Principles and Tempers is that by our example we infect others and make others like our selves we make to our selves company of the like nature to us and to one another We propagate it we give occasion to and stir up the same Lusts and wicked Inclinations in others we help to make them more common and ordinary and therefore the less shameful and the less suspected and believed to be so bad as they are 2. It exposeth us to the Hatred Anger Revenge and Contempt of others If these Qualities in us when but suspected as in our Judgment sometimes of the worst side were the occasion thereof how much more when they but too evidently appear to be the principles of our Judgments All prejudices of Judgment concerning others from ultimate Self-love render us generally contemned or hated more ore less according to the degree thereof that appears at least pitied by the Best and Wisest Nothing generally more hated than Hatred it self Ill-nature Malignity Pride of which unreasonable and unjust Contempt is one sort I say it exposeth to their hatred and contempt sometimes justly when they judg truly of us most-what unjustly and more than we deserve Men seldom observe due measures in these Passions sometimes by way of Justice most what by way of Imitation or mixture of both And now when we are thus affected to Men our selves and they by our Example and out of Justice or Ill-nature or both are so affected to us again and to one another How innumerable are the Mischiefs which are consequent viz. Just all that we see in the World Men are properly the Causes and Authors of one to another All Mens mischievous Wills and Intentions one towards another proceed from want of Charity from Hatred in themselves or from the same ill Qualities in others really or supposed and presumed either because Men hate one another when it is not deservedly or when it is 3. But a more particular mischief of our judging others out of Hatred is their judging by way of Revenge untruly of us in general of our Qualities Principles or Actions Whence our Example in any thing that is Good in us is rendred ineffectual all our Actions though never so good are either not taken notice of neglected or interpreted in the worse sense that is those that come from never so good Principles and are very natural signs thereof will be deemed Signs of bad or meer Signs and Hypocritical It is true this will often happen through Persons ill-nature and aptness therefore to judg on the worst side when there is no occasion or cause on our part given and then we being not able to help it at all or not without loss of time better spent may do well to glance a little Pity and so neglect and take no further notice But when we our selves are the Cause or give the occasion by our uncharitable or imprudent Judgments of others we cannot spend time better than by removing them to take away the prejudice against the example of any thing