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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

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89388	Motives to perswade people to abstain from one meals meat in a week, and to give the value thereof unto the trustees for propagation of the Gospel: especially for maintaining hopefull poor scholars at the Universities.		1646 (1646)	Wing M2943; Thomason E1189_11; ESTC R208287	4,511	15

Motives to perswade people to abstain from one meals meat in a week and to give the value thereof unto the Trustees for propagation of the Gospel especially for maintaining hopefull poor Scholars at the UNIVERSITIES Septemb 15th 1646 1. THere wanteth in England and Ireland at this day more then fifteen thousand Preachers as will easily appear if the unworthy be all put out and the numbers of Churches Chappels Noble Families Armies Navies forraign Plantations and where Merchants have setled tradings be all reckoned up 2. When people use not the means to prevent spirituall famine God usually sendeth corporall famine Hag. chap. 1. and chap. 2. And when they provide to have plenty of spirituall food God Malach 3. biddeth them prove him if hee will not send them plenty of corporall food Prov. 3.9 10. honour the Lord with thy substance and with the first fruits of all thine increase so shall thy barns be filled with plenty and thy presses shall burst out with new wine 2 Sam. 24.25 And David built there an Altar unto the Lord and offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings so the Lord was intreated for the land and the plague was stayed This was the Lords prescription then for the cure of the pestilence 3. Nature teacheth every man and woman to give of their meat to such as be ready to starve and Grace much more Luke 3.11 And hee that hath meat let him doe likewise Isa 58.7 Is it not to deale thy bread to the hungry Rom. 12.20 Therefore if thine enemie hunger feed him Mat. 25.42 I was an hungry and yee gave mee meat And our Saviour Mark 3.4 maketh it all one not to save life and to kill But what is feeding of bodies compared to feeding of souls or saving of lives to saving of hunger-starved soules If Paul 2 Cor. 8. begged to save poor saints lives ought not all Ministers much more to beg of their people to save poor souls If Dives Luk. 16. went to hell for not refreshing Lazarus his body with the crums which fell under his table what hope can they have to goe to heaven that will not give one meale in a week to save many souls And if as Haggi Malachie and Paul have done Ministers will not preach and presse this duty at this time how will they answer it to God another day and thereupon if the people will not doe it are not their gods their bellies as Paul Phil. 3.19 sheweth them All parents that are not unnaturall have a provident care how their little children shall live if they survive them and bethink themselves who shall bring them up and all parents that be more then carnall will provide not onely Gardians for their children that they may the better live temporally but also Preachers that they may live eternally 4. All other kinde of almes costeth a man something but if the meale be forborn and the value given this gift costeth a man nothing For example suppose a man would forbear his Sabbath dayes dinner and onely take a very small refection at noon that day so much as might stay his stomack till night and at supper deduct or abate as much as that refection came unto behold how many blessings would come thereby First no work would be hindred thereby as perhaps if this abstinence were on a week-day some would alledge Secondly some more might be at Gods publick worship when none stayed at home for cooking of meats Thirdly all drowsinesse would be avoyded and many be much fitter in the afternoon to worship God Fourthly at supper the rich man would have the poor mans stomack and much meat which is now cast away in many houses would then be eaten experience of this wee have in our monethly Fasts for the fragments left the day before are dainties upon the Fast-day at night especially for the first course verifying that which Solomon writeth Prov. 27. ver 7. The full soul loatheth the honey comb but unto the hungry soule every bitter thing is sweet 5. God promiseth a man Deut. 15.10 for opening his hand wide and giving to his poor brother but bodily reliefe to blesse all that such a man putteth his hand unto If so O then how much more will God blesse him for his charity to many souls And with what peace of conscience and joy in the holy Ghost might such a one each Sabbath day at night goe first to supper and afterward to bed and yet do all this without expence of one half-peny Object It is contrary to the nature of the Sabbath which should be a day of rejoycing to fast Answ 1. Daniel Chap. 9.3 and 10.3 fasted full three weeks namely each day from morning untill night and at night did eat no pleasant bread nor did flesh or wine come in his mouth neither did hee annoint himselfe all that while in which space there must needs be three Sabbath-dayes yet God was not offended but greatly pleased with Daniel for this 2. Wee have the like cause for the seventy weeks of our Captivity are now also expired 3. Wee fast not but abstain somewhat and prepare to sanctifie the Sabbath the better and that our ordinary supper might be more then a feast unto us at night after wee have offered our dinners unto God in this service and our praises and prayers in his publick worship And perhaps if the practice of the Jewes be well searched into they did eat little or no dinners on their Sabbaths or Feast-dayes but first feasted their soules and after their bodies as the Master first feasteth but the servant when hee hath done 4. Let us prove if wee doe thus whether our ordinary suppers shall not be blessed and goe farther then otherwise they would even as the five loaves and two fishes did People often have such blessings but too seldome doe observe how the Lord doth make many times a little meat to fill many and that much more at one time then at another 5. When this objection is well examined perhaps it will appear to come out of the stomack and belly rather then out of the head or to have any weight of reason in it Whatsoever some have written and others said in their incogitancy especially in regard that the abstinence here reasoned for and a very small refection taken at noon tendeth generally to the better sanctification of the Sabbath which is the scope and end of the fourth Commandement and whatsoever maketh for the better keeping of it is virtually commanded in it But if there be some few particular men and women who undeceived find that feasting or eating liberally doth more fit them to sanctifie a Sabbath they and they only may take such libertie but all others doubtlesse shall doe better to eat so as may the better fit them for the services of the day Object Yet the Divell who would not have this to be done will suggest that the family will eat as much more at night as was spared at noon Answ But that will