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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	faith_n	good_a	shipwreck_n	6,868	5	12.4968	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43064	A sermon preach'd before the King at His Majesty's chappel in Windsor-Castle, Novemb. 10, 1695 by Greg. Hascard.	Hascard, Gregory.	1696 (1696)	Wing H1116; ESTC R25417	12,336	29

to go and preach to and baptize all Nations they receiv'd an Abridgment of that Religion which they were to teach which was only this That Jesus was the Christ and this became the Character of a true Christian and 't was the brand of the Man of Sin whosoever and wheresoever he is that either directly or by natural Consequence he should deny That Jesus was come in the flesh that the Son of God had taken upon him Humane Nature 1 John 4.2 3. And 't was the Wisdom of the first Planters of Religion to prevent the Cavils of the Gnosticks and other peevish Disputants whose Heats are most kindled by Straw and Stubble laid upon the Foundation 1 Cor. 3.11 12. Variety of Phrases and changing of Syllables to reduce all the Fundamentals of Religion and comprize them under shorter Forms call'd our Creeds which when after Ages drew into thin and invisible Surfaces our Faith turn'd into Faction and sophistical Niceties the easiness of Religion its true Honour was confounded the Commandments of Men the Institutes of the Schools Aristotle Canoniz'd the Prejudices and Craft of the Age brought into the Temple and call'd the Holy of holies Christian What shall you do to be saved You are safe and secure in this Church that preserves this Faith intire as its Author did deliver it neither wresting its Articles from their natural Sense not adding any pretending a Divine Commission nor diminishing the number of them whose Doctrine is Apostolical Discipline primitive and Ceremonies few and decent all leading to an holy Life the solemn end of all Religion As for those Controversies that are not of his Foundation which warm the Heads of the Learned and Studious and stir up the Blood of the Angry and Peevish if the unhappiness of your Education the privacy of your Living or greatness of your Employment will not permit you to state and determine their Truth the Spirit of God will either lead you into it or else your industry probity and sincerity of Mind will excuse your Ignorance which in such matters will never hazard your Salvation 3. 'T is the Question of a Vicious Christian to his Spiritual Guide who having been baptized into this most Holy Faith made his solemn Vows for a Virtuous Life and by entertaining the hopes of a blessed Eternity listed himself under the Banner of Christianity yet notwithstanding all this he hath fouly apostatized and run from his Colours betraying his Faith and his Conscience his Resolution and his Reason into Lewdness and grosser Follies and prostituting all Holy Things crucified the Lord of Life again whereby he has degraded his Nature wounded Religion stain'd his Family damnified his Prince and Countrey scandaliz'd all that are good and wise and abus'd his God and now being and Aged and Gray headed Sinner labouring under Infirmities of Body the Punishment of his Greener Days and a distemper'd Conscience within and now taking a view of all his Pleasures and Follies that are past giving this sad account That he began them in Fancy carried them on in Labour and now end in Dissatisfaction and Disdain and this sorrowful Question here after a Life so ill spent What shall he do to be sav'd Sinner What shall you do to be sav'd Renew your Vows repeat your Resolution abhor and detest your Follies that are past and take the Propher's Advice to the Tyrant Break off your sins by righteousness and your iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor and it may be a lengthning of your Tranquility your Possessions will be enjoy'd with a more easy mind and your lawful Pleasures will taste the sweeter for this is believing on the Lord Jesus Faith being a complexive term signifying not only our Assent but our Obedience too our Creed and Practice So to Believe as to Repent so to Repent as to bring forth fruits meet for repentance So to Believe as to change your ill habits to reform your Manners to restrain your Passions and vain Desires and put a final conclusion to all your Lusts and Follies and the time past of your life may suffice you to have wrought the will of the Gentiles If you have been guilty of Violence and Oppression Restitution must be made a large and Heroick Charity must be exercis'd and Satisfaction made in all Capacities You must run counter to and unraffle all the Ill Customs you have contracted recant and unsay wherein you have deceiv'd by a Virtuous Example Discourse and Behaviour allure unto Piety where by your Vicious Actions you have seduc'd in time to come use mortification and self denial Go and sin no more lest a worse thing happen unto you and now be more Brave and Generous and like St. Paul because once a blasphemer a persecutor and injurious upon his Conversion he laboured more abundantly and his faith wrought and was perfected by love The Sinner so believing and so acting let his former Crimes be of never so deep a dye never so many of a long continuance and cloath'd with all their aggravating Circumstances is heavy laden yet hath his Pardon seal'd in Heaven Remission of Sins by Christ being as certainly true as Jesus is the Christ This is the Plank after Shipwrack of Faith and a good Conscience by which we may swim to Shore This is the way to redeem time that is mispent and fled away to call Life back and act it o're again The Sinner thus sincere and resolv'd is accepted into Favour treated like a righteous Person his Debts cancell'd no former Miscarriages to upbraid him but look'd upon as a Saint and a Friend of God his Question Answer'd and he eternally sav'd through Christ on whom he did believe 4. 'T is the Question of an honest Christian troubled in Mind whose wounded and timerous Spirit viewing a large Catalogue of black and crying Sins though now repented of fancies them beyong the Divine Mercy and Reprieve Sometimes an Hypocondriacal Passion the effects of his Constitution over-clouds his Soul which he calls the Anger of God the withdrawing of his Spirit and the doom of Heaven To day he is disappointed and some Calamity of Life Fire or Mildew blasts his Hopes he measuring his Assurance in God by Success and Sunshine thinks Heaven is gone and Eternity will Miscarry His pensive Thoughts grime every Frailty for an habitual Sin and swells every Error into the Sin against the Holy Ghost unpardonable and dye he must Sometimes his Thoughts are confus'd about another World and hath dismal Apprehemsions about eternal Decrees and some severe Men have denounc'd Damnation against him because he is not of their Party and Division and because of some unintelligible Characters which Enthusiasts have set for Men to judge by whether they shall be sav'd or no and overaw'd by the greatness of Eternity and God and the sly Deceiver who first tempts Men to presumption and then to despair improving Scruples into Despondency David's roaring for the Disquietness of his Mind and the