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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	die_v	time_n	4,973	5	3.6216	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41876	Great Britains call to repentance: or, A seasonable exhortation, to a speedy reformation and turning from these crying sins of our age as swearing and prophaning the name of God, and making a sport and game of his sacred Word, and ordinances, lest his vvrath should wax hot against us, and instead of shaking his rod, like a father, he should bring upon us that desolutiou [sic] which the poor island of Jamaco now groans under. Therefore let us speedily repent, for what can we expect, since we have sinned as well as they? Licensed according to order.		1693 (1693)	Wing G1665A; ESTC R219884	4,709	19

Great Britains Call TO REPENTANCE Licensed according to Order LONDON Printed by E. Millet for P. Brooksby J. Deacon J. Blare and J. Back Great Britains Call TO Repentance OR A Seasonable Exhortation to a Speedy Reformation and turning from these crying Sins of our Age as Swearing and Prophaning the Name of God and making a Sport and Game of his Sacred Word and Ordinances lest his VVrath should wax hot against us and instead of shaking his Rod like a Fat●e● he should bring upon us that Desolution which the poor Island of Jamaco now groans under Therefore let us Speedily Repent for what can we expect since we have Sinned as well as they Licensed according to Order LONDON Printed for P. Brooksby J. Deacon J. Blare and J. Back Great Britains Call TO REPENTANCE MAny and Grievous are the crying Sins of our present Age amongst which the Prophanation of the Sacred Name of God is not the least For First his Name is taken in vain by the abuse of his Word in curious and fruitless prating of it Therefore one must never talk of Gods Word but that he may bring some Glory to God and some good Edification to Men. As the Apostle saith Jude 20. Edifie one another in your most holy Faith Unless this be our Scope when ever we take Gods Word in our Mouths to build up one another in Godliness we pervert the Word of God and take his Name in vain Secondly Gods Word is polluted by us when we speak of his Word in Mockage after a jesting and Scoffing manner As those did of whom Peter speaketh that derided the Doctrine of the last judgement Ho say they Where is the Promise of his coming For since the Fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of the Creation 2. Pet. 3.4 When will his coming be As if they should have said We hear a large discourse and here is much ado among these Preachers now a days about the great and fearful day or Judgement wherein as they say a●l Men must be called to account for their works but where is this glorious appearance What danger come h by their terrible threatn●ngs What profit hath any by their large Pr●mises And thus because God doth not presently pass Sentence and execute it by casting the Wicked into Hell and by receiving the Godly into the Jo●s of Heaven foolish vain Men that have no Faith make a Merriment and a Sport to laugh at this Doctrine So in Isaiah because he told them of Death the Atheists fell to mocking Come say they if we must dye th●n let us take our Pleasure while we may Let us Eat and Drink and be Merry for to morrow Soul and Body and all must came to nothing we will ply it while the time serveth And thus these Irreligious beasts cast off all the Exhortations of the Prophet by Jesting and Scoffing So many lewd Persons in these days are ready to ab●se the Words of Christ where he saith if one give thee a blow on the one Cheek t●en ●o him the other also to deride Christians and to disgrace Christian Patience Oh shameless Persons will not the Reverence of Christ scare them from the abuse of such Words as he with his own Mouth uttered These be the Words of God spoken and penned by the wisdom of the Holy Ghost for the direction and instruction of his Children not for every profane Swa … and Drunkard to vomit out of his filthly Mouth to move laughter with them And this is a common thing amongst fan●astical Companions that desire to be thought witty and conceited that if any place of Scripture serve their tu●n to gird or quip one another or such like purpose They had rather God should lose his Glory and Gods Word the Grace and Authority of it than that they would lose their Jest And thus that which God appointed to edify their Souls in Godliness they pervert to stir up themselves and others to Foolish Wicked and Prophane Laughter So thirdly The Word of God is abused in a most most gross and notorious manner when one brings it in the defence of any Sin Error or Heresie Which is to presume to wrest Gods weapons out of his Hands as it were to wound him with his own Sword This is as grevious an abuse of the Sacred Word of God and as Hu●tful and Mischievous as Swearing Thus the Devil did most damnably profane Gods Word that it might seem to agree with his devillish Temptations So let wicked and volumptuous Livers that spend all their time and labour in pursuing vain and fond Sports and Games and such foolish and fleshly delights as make them no whit more Serviceable to God or the Common-wealth or apt to do good to their own Souls and Bodies or any Man 's else Let such men I say be reproved and told that this kind of living is not allowable it will not hold out before God Man was made to Glorify God and to do good unto Men not to seek pleasure to his Flesh and live idely in the World and therefore they must repent and amend you shall have an excuse strait Gods Word must be brought as a defence they do not break Gods Commandments without warrant out of tte Scripture if you will believe them What say they will you have a Man live without Delight Do not you allow Recreation Why the Scripture doth afford a Man Recreation and then a number of places must be brought in for Recreation to maintain their voluptuousness But vain Man doth not the Scripture command a vocation and the Recreation as an help to further us in it Now if one may ask you that stand so much for Recreation what is your Occupation What sore I ravel is it that wearieth your Body VVhat earnest study troubleth your Brain that you must have so much refreshing and so much Recreation It must be some very painful Labour that needeth so much rest to make you able to perform it It is a sore labour indeed for it is the service of Lust and the Devil two hard Masters But this turning of Recreation into a Vocation or a Vexation rather it is not allowable by Gods Word how darest thou then be so impudently audacious as to rob God of his treasure to maintain thy filthy Lust and defile his Holy Word by defending thy unholy practice So likewise come to a Covetuous Person rebuke him for his Cruelty and Oppression shew him that the love of the World is enmity to God and that Covetuousness is Idolatry then comes in this place of Scripture which must salve all What hath not God commanded a Man to labour in his calling Doth not God say He is worse than an Infidel that provideth not for his Family And so all must go under the good name of Husbandry and Thrift and Providing for his Family But consider thou that standest thus for thy labour God will have thee labour but not to serve thy self and