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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
day_n	eat_v	lord_n	regard_v	5,035	5	12.1725	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28227	A book of warnings, or, The visitation of the Lord's love to the King and his Parliament, the nobility and gentry, the arch-bishops and bishops &c., the presbytery, the Independents and Baptists, the people of these nations thorough [sic] his servant George Bishope.	Bishop, George, d. 1668.	1661 (1661)	Wing B2988; ESTC R18647	27,063	34

the New-Moon or of the Sabbath-Dayes which are a shadow of things to come but the Body is of Christ Col. 2. 16 17. And He that regardeth a Day regardeth it unto the Lord and he that doth not regard the Day unto the Lord he doth not regard it He that Eateth Eateth to the Lord for he giveth God thanks and he that eateth not unto the Lord he eateth not and giveth God thanks For none of Us liveth to himself and no man dieth to himself For whether we live we live unto the Lord and whether we die we die unto the Lord whether we live therefore or die we are the Lord 's For to this end Christ both Died and rose and revived that he might be Lord both of the Dead and Living But why doest thou judge thy Brother Or why doest thou set at nought thy Brother We shall all stand before the Judgment seat of Christ As it is written As I live saith the Lord Every knee shall bow to me and every tongue shall confess to God So then every One of Us shall give account of himself to God Let us not the ●efore judge one another any more but judge this rather that no man put a stumbling block or occasion to fall in his brother's way I know and am perswaded by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of it self but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean to him it is unclean But if thy Brother be grieved with thy Meat Now walkest thou not Charitably Destroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ dyed Let not then your good be evil spoken of For the Kingdom of God is not meat and drink but Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God and approved of men Let Us therefore follow after the things that make for Peace and things wherewith we may edifie one a●o●her for meat destroy not t●e work of God one man esteemeth one day above another Another esteemeth every day alike Let every man be fully perswaded in his own mind Rom. 14. 5. to the end Now these things I am moved of the Lord to lay before you to the End that yee may take heed of Doing any thing by which the Lord may be Displeased with you Or that may grieve his Spirit or make him to Repent of the good he hath done you or to become your Enemy For certainly if yee shall impose upon Conscience in things appertaining to the Worship of God or cause his Innocent People to suffer or not Answer the End of the Lord in giving you this Day and Tryal His hand will be against you and he will reckon these things with you and it will be sad for you in that Day When he shall render unto you according to your Works And therefore in love to you and in the fear of God and as moved of him and as desiring your welfare both here and hereafter I have written GEO. BISHOPE To the Nobility and Gentry of These Nations Friends YOur Opportunities are great to do Good the Lord hath not dealt by You as with Other men You have Estates Great and Large Lands and Revenues and many your Servants in the most sweet and flourishing Places of the Nation You are Seated and your World abounds You have in a manner what yee can wish and your Travel is little most of you from your Ancestors yee have received from Generation to Generation with little Toyl or Trouble as to you unless your Desire of Encrease or falling below by other Miscarriages hath occasioned it You are full of Ease and Pleasure and if any thing be of more De●ectableness then other you have it Ride in and out Rise Walk lie down at your pleasure when multitudes of others rise early and lye down late and Eat the bread of carefulness and are your servants And this is the state of many or most of you and it is great and large as to the Outward Who are like to you Now it concerns you to see how you Answer the Lord for all his kindness and how yee Return to him according to the benefits received For the End of the Lord in all this is not that yee should do as yee list and because yee have your Wills as to this World therefore yee should do your Wills in this world but the Will of him that gave it you Excess Riot Pride Haughtiness Surfeting Drunkenness Gluttony Wantonness Cursing Swearing Diceing Gaming Chambering Revelling spending the Creatures on your Lusts Living in pleasure loving of pleasures more then God with such like were not the things that he minded as his End who with a liberal hand hath ministred to you but to be humble sober meek just temperate lovers of good things lovers of God liberal charitable given to good works lovers of Hospitality kind virtuous serving the Lord without distraction Passing the time of your sojourning here in fear For the Lord will require an account of you for all the deeds done in the body and his judgment ye cannot escape and the more kind and liberal he hath been to you and put it into your hands to do good the more he will require at your hands For to whomsoever much is given of him much will be required Therefore Friends it concerns you as I have said to mind your state and see how it is with you That within you which witnesseth to God will shew you if you heed it and become obedient thereunto which knows your Up-risings and your Down-sittings the thoughts and intents of your hearts and tries them which is with you wherever you go and wherever you lie down and whatever you do which is Gods witness and takes account of all your Actions and speaks to you from God and bids yee not to do the Abominable thing that his soul abhorrs which judgeth yee for Evil which shews yee Evil which tells yee what yee should do and which will make up the Reckoning for God and will leave you without excuse in the Day that he shall Judge the Quick and the Dead at his appearing and coming Now Friends this is of Concernment to You that this be your friend and that this answer for you in that Day that yee have done the Will of God and Answered the Requirings of his Spirit in you and what it moved you from God Well done thou good and faithful servant Enter into thy Masters Joy will the Lord say then to that which hath Done his Will and that will be a good word for you in the Day of the Lord when amazement and horror shall seiz upon all who know not God neither yield Obedience to his God and all faces shall gather Blackness and Paleness and the Mighty shall be afraid and the Strong man shall weep bitterly and the Heavens shall depart as a Scrowl and the Elements melt with fervent heat and the Earth and the works thereof be burnt up