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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	day_n	lord_n	sabbath_n	19,256	5	10.0267	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11244	The pitifull estate of the time present A Christian consideration of the miseries of this time, with an exhortation to amendement of life: compiled by one zealous in the lawe of God, and set forth by publike autority, being perused and allowed by the same.	I. S., fl. 1564.; Stubbes, John, 1543-1591, attributed name.	1564 (1564)	STC 21504; ESTC S112130	22,439	64

of suche vice as I know not how it might haue bene put to a better vse to haue benefited the common wealth or sometime likewise in London with a little carting it is remembred though to many that discrue it come not to the promotion And therfore according to the olde prouerb better is sometime a frende in court than a penny in purse But take heede I say yee Magistrates beware of parcialitie Yet to saye truth whether carting or a flappe wyth a Fore tayle all is to one purpose and therefore euen as good neuer a whit as neuer the better for carting doth but make them carelesse and shamelesse and rather to continue in theire beastlinesse than bring them to honesty and repentaunce of their euill Wherefore if it be not the soner otherwyse looked to and a sharper sause prouided for such filthye whores whoremongers yee shall shortlye in place of honest modest Matrones and vndefiled virgins haue the Realme replenished with a company of cankered corrupte lothsome whores whereof the filthy flocke encreaseth a pace and to fast And here may yee see and bcholde howe vice aboundeth for lacke of the iuste rewarde that therunto belongeth which should be seuere iustice for neglecting whereof as the Magistrates incurre the displeasure of God so are the wicked that still sleepe in theire sinne incouraged to become and continue the members of the deuill But oh ye Magistrates looke to your charge oh yee lothsome whores and whoremongers let Sodome and Gommorra be your looking glasses wherin without your repentaunce and amendement of your beastlye lyfe yee may moste plainely beholde your vtter destruction But now to proceede The abuse of the Saboth day as concerning the Sabboth daye or rather the Lordes day how well it is obserued I reporte mee to those delicate feeders whose seruaunts euen iust vpon that daye when they shoulde be at Churche to heare the deuine seruice and haue theire duties taught them must then forsoth runne a gadding from market to market to make prouision for a dishe of needenot for the latter course when there is alredye to much for the first which wasteful money were better bestowed in the workes of Faith helping by charity thy needefull brethren that haue not so wel to fyl their hūgrie bellies but the is forgottē or scant thought on Also other some there bee who when they should congregate themselues in the Temple or Church which is a place appointed to inuocate the name of GOD and to praise him for his manifolde benefites then are they packed vp togither in Tauernes and Alehouses yelling for vittailes to fill their filthy paunche But oh beastlye bellie whether is the Lorde thy God or thou fyrste to be serued Iwys I remember there was not long a go a godlye order made in London by the Lorde Maior and the worshipfull the Aldermen that the doores of tauernes and vittailing houses should be kept shut in seruice time which order is commēdable if it were obserued according to the good meaning that the doores should I saye be kept shut in seruice time to keepe out such bellie bibbers but now they first fill and furnishe their houses w e gestes and then they shutte the doores But alas what mockery is this with God the Magistrates God and the Magistrats mocked by the typplers which are but harborers of vnthriftes for the which vnlesse they maye feele the smarte it wil be the longer the worse before it be better For in vaine are good lawes made vnlesse they be thorowlye executed and therefore I wishe that there were certaine in eche parrishe appointed that on the Saboth daye might visite the vitailing houses and as well to make report of those that are the receyuers of such gestes that they might for so receiuing of them bee considered according to their deseruing as also to driue from thence those gredie gluttōs that minde so much theire bellies and bring them to Gods banketting house that he might haue more store of gests to feede Faithfullye with hungrye spirites vpon his holy worde which is the comfortable foode that nourisheth the soule of man and that the Children and seruaunts by the godly and vertuous lyfe of those theire Parentes and Maisters might both learne to knowe their duties to God praising his holye name as also theire due obedience to their elders The want of good ensample of Elders is the distruction of Youth for want of whose good examples and their to much libertie giuing the riotous youth the more is the pitie runne to fast hedlong to destruction But no maruell for neither cā an euill tree bring forthe good fruite nor thornes can bring forth Grapes and therefore such carpenters such tooles and such maisters such seruants But yet a little more concerning the abusing of the Lordes day vpon the which almost euen as though of necessity the beares at Parris garden muste be bayted Beatbayting on the Sabboth abhominable but so vglye are not the beares as the ydle lookers on are beastly God for hys mercye defende that the deuyll baite not the soules of suche as delight so beastlie to spende the day of the Lorde God of Saboth But to proceede on that daye the maisters and schollers of Fence muste shewe themselues and their cunning whereas after oft meeting with foynes and florishes and dealing of desperate and bosterous blowes they part wyth broken heads maimed armes hands and bloody faces finishing vp the matter with such swearing terrible tearing of GOD that it is great wonder that God w e the sworde of hys displeasure layeth not on loade amongst them beating their weapons to their heades and them into the earth Loe thus is the day of the Lorde turned to the daye of bloudsheading and blasphemie thorow the schole houses of Fence naye rather of mischiefe Schoole-houses of Fence brede theeues to fede the gallowes for thereby are to many loitering schollers vacabundes encouraged to mischief bearing themselues so bolde of their Fence that they are as readye to keepe a standing in the hye wayes as the strongest theefe in England and so in the ende to many the more is the pitie for all theire cunning are to seeke of Fence to keepe their necks from the halter Loe what folly Fence bredeth And thus wyth these many other abuses is the Lordes daye polluted But let vs not thinke that the Lorde our God who punished wyth Death the man for gathering stickes onely on the Saboth daye Numeri 15 wyll leaue vs vnpunished that so shamefully abuse the same which so expressely he hath commaunded to be kept holy and appointed to worship hym on Let vs be assured wee shall knowe the price thereof as well as also for the wonderfull wickednesse the otherwyse raigneth amongst vs that are voide of all Godlinesse and full of abhomination and sinne For truely there is amongst vs no purenesse in heart no truthe in mouthe no vprightnesse in dealing