Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	day_n	holy_a	sabbath_n	1,012	5	9.4280	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60508	A Sabbath of rest to be kept by the saints here, or, A treatise of the Sabbath, and such holy and religious duties as are required for the sanctification of it, the great Sabbath of rest that remaineth to be kept by God's saints hereafter delivered in divers sermons upon Heb. 4. 9. / by Nicholas Smith ...	Smith, Nicholas, d. 1680.	1675 (1675)	Wing S4139; ESTC R12921	26,607	40

thou mayst when thou wilt Rest from Labour God hath appointed a time when the Man-Servant and the Maid-Servant may do this as well as thy self and that is upon his Sabbath of Rest Now thy Man-Servant and thy Maid-Servant may Rest as well as thou yea thou art bound in equity and Conscience to favour thy Servants and after a special manner give them Rest on the Lords day Not that Servants or Labourers are exempted from Sanctifying God's Sabbaths by performing in them Holy and Religious Exercises But this I say if they keep the Church duly and shew no distaste or dislike of Houshold Piety but are willing to hear the Word read and to Pray with their Masters on the Lords day when they are required They should in Mercy and Compassion to them give them some time wherein they may rest from Labour and have a Relaxation from Spiritual and Divine Duties The Spirit truly is willing but the Flesh is weak and Masters of Families cannot so Sanctifie God's Sabbath that they should spend it wholly in Religious Exercises and therefore they should not wonder at their Servants if they be willing on the Sabbath-day to have some time wherein they may Rest from Labour and have a Relaxation from Spiritual and Divine Duties Yea the wisdom of Governours considering the impossibility that all the world should be wholly devoted to Holy and Religious Exercises on the Lords day did think fitting to permit Day-Labourers Men-servants and Maid-servants to recreate themselves at seasonable times on the Lords day lest while they Rested from Labour and were vacant from Spiritual and Divine Duties they should run out into Riot and Excess or into some worse sins This Toleration of sports and pastimes on the Lords day did no more disprove the Morality of the Sabbath nor no more prove sports and pastimes on the Lords day to be Lawful than the Statute that stinteth Usury at a certain summe in the hundred proveth Usury to be Lawful by the Word of God Whereas the Statute is express that no Man should Collect from that Statute that that Usury or any Usury was Law-Lawful in Religion and Conscience But it hath been Objected heretofore by some and it may be will be Objected again That there was never any Law made heretofore for the toleration of Sports and Pastimes on the Lords day Because there is an Act of Parliament that doth expresly forbid that no Persons should go out of their own Parish to use any sports and pastimes whatsoever To this I Answer that it was usual in times of Popery of blindness and of Ignorance Many Parishes did meet at one Parish to Celebrate Bacchanalian Feasts and to have tumultuous Assemblies Drunken Wakes and Disordered Meetings And the wisdom of Governours did prudently provide against this mischief But it may be probably Collected and reasonably Concluded that the Honourable Assembly the High Court of Parliament by prohibiting People to go out of their own Parishes to use sports and pastimes on the Lords day did tacitely yield that if they did keep themselves within their own Parishes they might at seasonable times use such sports and pastimes on the Lords day as were judged Lawful on other days But if the Honourable Assembly the High Court of Parliament shall Declare that this is not the meaning of that Act and shall hereafter with the consent of his Sacred Majesty make an Act against Peoples using all sports and pastimes whatsoever as well in their own Parishes as out of them It becometh me and all peaceable Sons of the Church to judge That no body ought to tolerate themselves or to countenance or encourage others in the use of any sports and pastimes on the Lords day whether in their own Parishes or out of them But yet this I say the Holy Man Job in the Profession of his Innocency Job 31. 13. layeth it down How he did not despise the Cause of his Man-Servant or of his Maid-Servant when they contended with him And Masters of Families while they look to restrain their Servants from using sports and Pastimes on the Lords day they should take heed how they constrain them to work It is usual with some Masters of Families who seem to be very Pious very watchful over their Servants that they use no sports and pastimes on the Lords day they very frequently constrain them to work on the Lords day Set them to mend yea to make Hedges no necessity constraining Yea many times they set them to Brew and do Actions as painful and laborious as any are done on the week days Masters of Families if they do Observe in their Servants a care of Religion and Piety that they are willing to be present at Divine Duties Publickly at Gods House Privately in their Houses they should be compassionate towards them allow them some times to refresh themselves to rest from Labour on the Lords day Yea they should be thus Merciful to the dumb Beasts for God many times heareth the groans of their Ox and their Asse and much more will he hear the Cry of their Servants when they cry against them They should be more Compassionate to them in the bowels of Compassion they should look upon their Servants and esteem of them as their Fellow-Servants in Christ Jesus and think that God hath made them Lords not Tyrants over them to cause them to drudge and droyl without any Intermission Besides times of Rest on the Lords day which they ought and are bound to allow their Servants they should think of it and allow them sometimes to recreate themselves The Church hath Constituted Holy-days and though they ought principally to be kept by performing in them Holy and Religious Exercises yet without doubt sports and pastimes at seasonable times may be used on these days And Merciful Masters if their Servants keep the Church duly and be present at publique Prayers on Holy-days they should allow them Liberty to Recreate themselves on these days to use sports and pastimes None of us can Sanctifie a Sabbath of Rest as we should in this World we should Serve God on week days on Holy-days but especially on the Lords day we have many failings and fallings and fall short of our Duties Let us bear with one anothers Infirmities and the good God shall pardon all our Infirmities and accept of our weak and imperfect Serving him APPLICATION I Have spoken of a Sabbath of Rest and indeed we should all the days of our Life keep a Sabbath unto God We should Rest from sin pray unto him always and be constantly devout But the day that he hath Sanctified and set apart for his Worship and Service we should above all days remember that after a peculiar manner Sanctifie it and spend it in Holy and Religious Exercises This is the King the Queen of Days and of all other days ought to be had in chiefest estimation It is a great Errour of the Papists when they cause the Maid to Exalt her self above

of them as they have reference to the Sabbath that shall be kept to God in Heaven A Prayer O Almighty Lord God the Holy Lord God of Sabbath thou searchest the Hearts and tryest the Reins and from thee no Secret can be hid Thou seest and knowest that some there be who under pretence of Religion have in a manner Destroyed and over-thrown all Religion They have caused thy Sabbaths to be despised thy Worship and Service on Weeks and on Holy-days to be neglected and all publick Religious performances to be slighted and contemned Forgive we beseech thee the multitudes that were heretofore and are still fraudulently circumvented and ignorantly drawn in to be partakers in these things Open their Eyes to see their Errors and give them Grace to Repent of them Grant that they may frequent the Solemn Assemblies on week days on Holy-days on the Lords day and those Holy and Religious Duties that are enjoyned by Authority work in them a love of them and incâ—ine their Hearts to use them with Care and Conscience as they ought Who they be that did heretofore and do still resist the Truth against their Conscience we know not neither will we Judge But O Lord of Hosts that tryest the Righteous and seest the Reins and the Heart pull them out for Judgment Take we beseech thee the Matter into thine own Hands and be pleased to Discover and bring to light their Treasons and Treacheries and all other their Secret Vices which they Cloak and hide under shew of Religion The multitudes of openly prophane Persons who are wicked without shew of the contrary open their Eyes to see how much it concerneth them to hearken to the good Instructions of thy Ministers to Obey the wholesome Laws of Godly Magistrates and let them not continually resist the good Motions of thy Holy Spirit moving them to Repentance lest by despising these means which thou usest for their Sâ—â—vation they bring upon themselves the Spiritual Judgment of hardness of heart which will be worse than all temporal Plagues and Judgments whatsoever And O Lord if thou hast not determined to lay the Land Desolate and to destroy Man and Beast out of it as even this heavy Judgment we have just cause to fear hangeth over our heads for our sins be pleased to hear the Prayers of those who Serve thee in Truth and Sincerity and grant that the Infection of Hypocrisie may spread no further and that the Leprosie and Plague of sin may be abated And Bless the Endeavours of those that are truly Pious and Religious when they Legally and Lawfully Oppose Hypocrites in their painted Vices and prosper them when they seek the Reformation of Capital and Scandalous Crimes in openly prophane Persons that so the Judgments which we have just Cause to fear hang over our Heads may be averted from us and this we beseech thee to grant for Jesus Christ his sake to whom with thee and the Holy Spirit be all Honour and Glory now and for ever Amen FINIS POST-SCRIPT IAM willing to believe that this Sermon or Treatise of the Sabbath will be a means to hinder the spreading Contagion of Schism and Heresie and if it find that Acceptance with the World as I hope it may I shall be encouraged to Publish such other Sermons of the same Text as I have prepared for the Press the Heads whereof I have proposed in the following Page But if my hopes deceive me and the World do still continue so to favour Sects and Sectaries that what is done doth not and what is proposed is not likely to make any thing for the publick good It is my desire that some other would find some better Expedient for the Common good than what is here done or proposed to be done and I shall willingly surcease and trouble my self nor the World no further but chear my self with Solon in this Consideration Solonis dictum O Patria ego dictis factis tibi opiâ—ulatus sum atque ita domum abiit in posterum quieturus that I have not been wanting to do what I could for the good of my Country though it hath not had that success as I hoped it would And shall onely humbly beseech Almighty God who is alone able that he would be willing for Jesus Christ his sake to Remedy and redress what is amiss Heb. IV. 9. There remaineth therefore a Rest unto the People of God THese words are a Summary and brief Conclusion and the Apostle doth infer and conclude from what he had before delivered that the People of God shall be happy and doth describe that wherein their Happiness doth consist Now then that you may see the Felicity of Gods chosen rejoyce in the gladness of his People and give thanks with his Inheritance I shall propound unto you four Grounds of Doctrines to be insisted upon First Ground of Doctrine In regard the reward that is promised unto us in the Life to come is set forth unto us by the keeping of a Sabbath I shall Observe unto you that the Happiness and Felicity of Man consisteth in the Service of his Maker in doing his Will and keeping his Commandments Second Ground of Doctrine God ever had now hath and ever will have a People upon Earth whose hearts are set upon this thing and will by no means be taken off from Serving him and glorifying their Creator Third Ground of Doctrine Though the hearts of God's People be whole within them and their intentions right placed and they intend the Service of God above all things yet they have their failings and their fallings their weaknesses and Infirmities and fall short of their Duties and their heart is not so right in all things that they should attain unto this Happiness in this Life Fourth Ground of Doctrine That which must Comfort God's People against all discouragements their fallings into sin and their failings in Duties is the consideration that such a Happiness they shall enjoy in the Life to come such a keeping of a Sabbath remaineth unto them that they shall never Offend God by sinning against him or faâ—l in their Duties in Serving him FINIS

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