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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	due_a	eternal_a	great_a	262	4	2.1026	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03697	Points of instruction for the ignorant as also, an expositition on the ten commandements, and the Lords Prayer, by questions and answeres. With an examination before our comming to the Lords table. And a short direction for spending of time well. By Robert Horne.	Horne, Robert, 1565-1640.; Horne, Robert, 1565-1640. aut	1617 (1617)	STC 13824; ESTC S120917	35,674	114

vainely or lessen our faults falsely or excuse our selues by a lye or when by proud humility we fall in our 〈◊〉 speech that others may 〈◊〉 vs. So much for false witnesse in giuing forth what is it by receiuing in It is such as concerneth our neighbour or our 〈◊〉 VVhat say you of those who receiue a false report against their neighbour That as they who make it haue the deuill in their tongue so they who greedily receiue it haue him in their 〈◊〉 And here wee are forbidden as not to raise a false report with our tongues so not to hold it vp being raised by others with an easie eare that is wee are forbidden both to tell false tales and beleeue them How may wee receiue a false report concerning our selues When wée suffer our selues to be ●…attered in that which is false or to be set downe vniustly by enuious tongues thinking the worse of our selues for their detracting from vs. So much for the thing forbidden what is commanded To haue a charitable opinion of our neighbour to speake the truth with a good affection and to a 〈◊〉 end abhorring to lye as we would to be or be accounted the Deuils children Also to speake louingly of others and modestly of our selues So much for the Commandements that concerne all acts and purpose of vnright cousnesse where are we forbidden all motions thereunto In the next last Commandement which is Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours house c. What do you obserue therein The occasion and matter VVhat was the occasion The frailtie or ill disposition of our nature declining from the rule of Charitie to our neighbour and of Sobrietie to our selues VVhat doe you obserue in the Commandement it selfe The things forbidden cōmanded VVhat is forbidden The least and shortest thought or desire of the heart against our neighbour tickling it to sinne though we yeeld not to it And here all lus●…s are forbidden contrary to charity on our neighbours behalfe and temperance on our own Of what sorts are these They are either originall corruption as it were the firebrand it selfe or the effects as it were sparks that flie from it And these are our fond wishings and wouldings with other foolish thoughts of the mind desires of the heart and deepe 〈◊〉 of the head about matters tending to the impeachment of our neighbours welfare or of that vertue of contentednesse which wee should affect and labour for in that estate and place wherein God hath set vs. So much for that which is forbidden what is commanded Being contented with our portion we must dispose of all our thoughts and wishings according to charity wishing and delighting in our neighbours welfare as in our owne and 〈◊〉 against all euill desires to the contrary though of neuer so short continuance So much for the Commandements of duties to our neighbour in righteoufnesse what say you of Sobriety commanded to our selues This passeth through euery Commandement of the second Table cōmanding Humility in the 〈◊〉 meeknesse in the 〈◊〉 cleanenesse in the seuenth contentation in the eight charitable truth in the ninth and pure desires in the tenth Commandement So much for the Law what is due to those that breake it Punishments more or lesse in this life and the wrath and curse of God to damnation in the life to come That is paines temporal by ●…ments and death and paines eternal of soule and body in hell What call you Hell That euerlasting fire or treasury of secret fire prepared and kept in a place of the greatest distance from heauen for the punishment of all vngodly sinners Where is the place of hell God hath not reuealed And let vs that haue the hope of the Saints rather endeauor neuer to feele it then to know it When a house is on fire 〈◊〉 stand not to inquire how it came but do our best to quench it Wherein consist the torments of this place of hell Generally in these two punishments of losse and sense What call you the punishment of losse An euerlasting separation from God and Christ which is a plague of plagues and the very bottome of the 〈◊〉 of Gods wrath in full per●… torments of soule and body after Christ shall say to the wicked on his left hand Depart ye cursed into euerlasting fire prepared for the diuel and his Angels Math. 25. 41. VVhy call you this separation from God so great a plague and torment If the absence of the Sunne cause darknesse what ioy must néedes be lacking and sorrow abound where the Sun God of saluation shall neuer in the beautifull beames of his presence be séene any more where shall be no more glimpses of fauour but darke tempests and snares vpon all the ●…nhabitants of that land of 〈◊〉 and where they 〈◊〉 so depart from God 〈◊〉 neuer to 〈◊〉 which made 〈◊〉 to say that the tears of hell were not 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 Somuch for the punishment of losse what is that of sense That when euery member of the body and 〈◊〉 of the soule shall be tormented togither 〈◊〉 not for some thousands of yeeres and so an end but for thousands vpon thousands and thousands that 〈◊〉 no end For as the righteous say of Gods mercy that his mercy endureth for euer so of his iustice the danmed may say that his iustice endureth for euer What is this called in Scripture It hath many names giuen to it to shew how terrible it is and therfore it is called hell fire the wo●…me that neuer dyeth vtter darknes the burning lake and second death What do you gather of this If a man would not to gaine the world lye on a 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 wood for a very short time how much and 〈◊〉 must the 〈◊〉 needes suffer who shall bee tormented in a lake of burning fire for euer and if a little disease in one part so trouble vs vpon a soft bed how shall the wicked endure that worme of vnquiet conscience that will day and night and not as a disease of some short time gnaw vpon al parts of their 〈◊〉 and powers of their tender mind and not vpon their pallats of ease but beds of glowing fire How doth the Scripture further and for more terrour speake of this place and the torments of hell By calling it a place prepared for the diuell and his angels What gather you of this That as it would bee a grieuous thing to a man to liue a banished mans life in som dark prison couer'd with deadly obscurity but more gréeuous to liue there among the most spitefull enemies of his father fathers house so to be cast into a prison of eternal banishment from God and pit of vtter darknesse is a most woful thing but it is much more wofull not only to be so but to be bound in chains of perpetuall fellowship with those who from the beginning