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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	good_a	love_n	unfeigned_a	1,422	5	11.0683	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91907	Three sermons preach'd upon extraordinary occasions. By Charles Robotham, B.D. rector, of Reisam in Norfolk	Robotham, Charles, 1625 or 6-1700.	1680 (1680)	Wing R1729E; ESTC R231140	83,223	245

must attend and accompany Works of Devotion yea and in some Cases of Exigency be preferred before them I will have mercy and not sacrifice Hos 6. 6. God delights not in a● naked Piety though never so specious if stript and divided from the Fruits of Charity God cares not for the Frui● of the Lips in confessing to his Name if there be not also the Gifts of the Hand in dispersing and relieving for his sake In short they that offer the Sacrifice o● Praise unto God must not forget to do good and to communicate unto others That from the co●nexion of these two Again secondly from the order and ranking of these two Duties or Sacrifices I shall observe that Christian Piety must lead the way and lay the ground for ●ue Charity First solid Devotion and then Christian Compasion First the right and due Service of God in Sacrifices of Praise and confessing to his Name and then the doing good and communicating unto others This is the order of the Text here and of the Scripture else-where Acts ● 4. Thy Prayers and thine Alms says the Angel to Cornelius are ●e up before God and so Verse ●e 31. First his Prayers and then his Alms. The expressions of his Piety are first mentioned ● God 's acceptance before the ●ercises of his Charity yea ●d they ought to have the pre●dency and that for a double season First Ratione objecti because Gods Due is before Mans Good God is first to be served and honoured in the main before Man be help'd or benefited Secondly Ratione motivi Because Piety to God is and ought to be the proper Motive to a true and a right Charity For what is Piety but the due regard and respect we have unto God in the first place And what is Charity but the loving of God for himself and of our Neighbour for Gods sake So the Schools define Charity stretcheth it self both to God and Man Homily 2. Sermon of Charity P. 38. it Amor Dei propter seipsum Proximi propter Deum Now to love God for himself is plainly Piety both in the Principle and Practise and to shew love or to do good unto others for the sake of God this is still Piety in the Motive though Charity in the Practice And indeed without the pious intention and disposition going before the very Works of Mercy Bounty and Liberality will scarce deserve the Name ● Charity as the Apostle i● mates in that supposition ● makes 1 Cor. 13. 3. Though I give all my Goods to feed the Poor and have not Charity The Rule in Christian Ethicks ●s that of St. Ambrose Virtutes non ●tibus sed finibus pensantur 't is the right and due End and Motive added that makes a true Christian Vertue and not the meer outward Action For a Man to give Alms meerly or mainly for Mat. 6. ● the love of Praise or to be seen of Men is but Vain-glory. For a Man to do it out of any other by Partial or Selfish End or respects Luke 6. 32 33 34. is but a kind of worldly running and policy But for a Man to do it for Gods sake and out of a Pious Love to God this this is Charity even that Charity which the Apostle calls Love out of a pure Heart and a good Conscience and Faith unfained ● Tim. 1. 5. Having premised thus much out of the Context and as I hope not impertinently to the Business in hand I shall now return to the Text it self in these words To do good and to communicate for get not for with c. Which Words are an Exhortation to a very great and important Duty to a very considerable and concerning Piece of Christianity i. e. The exercising of our selves in Acts of Bounty Mercy and Charity In the whole Verse for orders sake we may observe three main Particulars First the matter of the Duty i. e. To do good and to communicate Secondly the Motive to perswade it For with such Sacrifices God is well pleased Thirdly and lastly the manner of enforcing it by way of special Item and Memento To do good c. forget not For the first of these the Sum and Substance of the Duty here exhorted to 't is expressed in the Text by two words much to the same purpose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To do good and to communicate First 't is the doing of good or as the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may be rendered Well-doing The same with that ● Galat. 6. Verse 9. Be not weary of well-doing Good for the matter and well for the manner This 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But then we must know 't is not every doing of good that is here meant but good in a certain kind There is the good of ●●iety and Religion the good of justice and Honesty the good of Temperance and Sobriety But that in the Text here is the good of Charity To the purpose there is a two hold kind of Good Bonum in se 〈◊〉 Bonum alteri Good Good in it self and Good to another In the first sence the doing of good takes in the whole duty of Man whether to God or to our Neighbour according to that in Mica 6. 8. He hath shewn thee O Man that is good that is good in it self what is fit and fair right and duty to be done even to do justly and to love Mercy and to walk humbly with thy God All this is good in the larger sence But then secondly there is a more special doing of good not only good in it self but good to another In which sense the Scripture frequently means when it speaks of Good Works Mat. 26. 10. She hath wrought a good Work upon me 1 Tim. 6. 17 18. Charge them that are rich that they do good that they be rich in good Works i e. such Works as are some way or other helpful profitable and beneficial unto others Works of Mercy Works of Bounty and Liberality Such Works whose good effects reach to the Benefit of our Neighbour either publick or private such as are extended to the relief ease comfort or supply either of the outward or inward Man For Example sake such as are the feeding of the Hungry the cloathing of the Naked the helping or curing of the Sick the visting and comforting the Afflicted the succouring of the Helpless Friendless or Fatherless the harbouring of Strangers the redeeming of Captives the defending or delivering the Oppressed in short all kind of free and charitable contributing to the relief comforting or maintenance of others or distributing to the necessities of others These with many of the like nature are those which in the Language of Scripture frequently come under the Name of Good Works i. e. good in a peculiar and abounding sense in respect of the sensible yea or Spiritual good and benefit thence and therby arising and redounding unto others And that this is the Good here