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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	good_a	zeal_n	zealous_a	120	3	9.8088	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34789	Life & death offered to the choice of the sons and daughters of Adam, or, A doctrinal essay towards the discovery of the broad way that leadeth to destruction, and also the narrow path that leadeth unto life being the substance of several sermons preach'd on Matth. 7, 13, 14 : in the entrance of which discourse you have something spoken occasionally touching judging of others, and also touching the giving of holy things to dogs, and casting pearls before swine.	Carter, R., 17th cent.	1662 (1662)	Wing C663; ESTC R5924	50,195	64

the good of his people lest they be drawn away by them by one means or other to discover themselves by their fruits either by superstitious and idolatrous practices thrusting in their own inventions into the Worship of God and persecuting all those that will not conform even to the death and that upon a pretence of zeal to the Churches peace for that is their sheeps cloathing they wear to hide their abominable wickedness Or else by their debauchery and prophaneness whereby they make it to appear as clear as the Sun at noon that notwithstanding they may appear zealous for Church-Reformation and plead the holiness of places Orders Canons Garments c. yet that they are perfect enemies to a holy life and to the power of Godliness Deceivers and Hereticks when they plead the Kingly Office of Christ in his Church and are holy in their lives are of all persons in the world most dangerous and fittest to propagate the design of the Devil who often appears as an Angel of Light that he may deceive For holiness in a Leader or Teacher is of a very drawing convincing Nature When therefore any new notion is delivered to us that is contrary to the ancient received faith of the Saints the more glorious the pretence is under which it comes the more should we fear it and the more carefully should we ponder it in the ballance of the Sanctuary But now when God shall suffer deceivers by their prophaneness and debauchery so to discover themselves as that he that runs may read of what kind of spirit they are and whose interest they are advancing wo to those that shall join with a generation thus discovered a generation upon whom the marks of God's wrath and displeasure are He walks not by this rule that can be content to hear his Parish-Minister though he be never so superstitious in his Worship or prophane in his life Also according to this Rule should Teachers walk with respect to their people Ver. 6. Give not that which is holy unto dogs neither cast ye the Pearls before Swine lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and rent you Wherein Christ doth declare it to be lawful to call dogs dogs swine swine which cannot be meant of irrational creatures call'd by those Names but of men and women of prophane and wicked lives Now unto such must not be cast pearls which may have reference unto private reproof and admonition There is a great deal of Wisdom to be used in giving private and particular reproof to prophane persons for that Solomon saith Reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee He that reproveth a Pro● 9 7. 8 scoruer getteth to himself shame and he that reproveth a wicked man getteth to himself a blot There was a time when David was silent because the wicked were present To admonish or reprove some wicked prophane wretches especially in some of their mad moods and fits or at such a time to be speaking to them concerning the excellency of Christ and concernments of Eternity would be but to expose the Truths of Christ to great contempt and reproach and to draw forth their cursed lusts and passions giving them thereby opportunity to vent that inward hatred they have against Christ and all his concernments Again by holy things and pearls may be understood the sacred and holy things of God's House such as the Body and Blood of Christ in the Lords Supper Indeed the preaching of the Gospel belongs to all It 's to be preach't to every creature Great difference between preaching administring the Lords Supper Mark 16. 15. Dogs and Swine to the vilest sinners in the world and it 's the duty of all that live within the sound of the Gospel to attend upon it But now the Lords Supper is a peculiar Ordinance appointed and instituted to be practised by and administred unto not Dogs and Swine but Sons Daughters It 's a wicked man's duty to hear the Word preacht but not to come to the Lords Supper Before he comes to this Ordinance he must look after repentance towards God and Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ which Faith in Christ takes in not only the assent of the Judgement but also the consent of the will not onely the knowing but the loving and imbracing of truth Heb. 11. 13 were perswaded of the promises there was the assent of the Judgement and embraced them there was the consent of the will It 's the duty of a Minister by all means possible to entice and draw the people be they never so ignorant and prophane to the hearing of the Word but he greatly sins if he perswades draws much more if he shall compel an ignorant prophane people to come to the Lord's Table Object Some Ministers may here object and say Though I do perswade my people to come to the Lords Supper yet I discharge my self I tell them how they should be qualified and the danger of coming unprepared And so I am clear from the gu●lt of their blood Ans 1. The Text saith Give not holy things to dogs How then canst thou discharge thy self when notwithstanding thou tellest the people they ought to be so and so qualified to have knowledge faith repentance love to God and his people c. and that if they come unprepared they make themselves guilty of the blood of Christ and eat and drink to themselves damnation which are very astonishing considerations and yet nevertheless dost receive such to this Ordinance as are known to be very ignorant and also very dissolute and prophane And unto every one of these thou saist delivering the bread The Body of our Lord Jesus Christ which was given for thee take and eat this in remembrance that Christ dyed for thee And delivering the Cup The Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ which was shed for thee drink this in remembrance that Christ's blood was shed for thee It was Gods command to Jeremiah that he should seperate the precious from the vile Jer. 15. 19. But contrariwise some men do separate the vile from the precious do by the vileness of their own lives and the corruptnesse of their communions forcibly as I may so speak keep off such as do truly fear the Lord from joining with them so become a seperated company of ignorant prophane vile persons Now whether in this practice thou canst so clear thy self as not to be guilty of the blood of those souls as shall be strengthened in a way of wickedness by their receiving the Lords Supper from thy hands and strengthened in their hope of Gods love and eternal life notwithstanding a wicked course for that thou dost tell them in the administration of that Ordinance that the Body of Christ was given for them and his blood shed for them I say this thing is worthy of thy serious consideration That expression of the Lord Chancellor in his speech on the 8th of May 1661. is very significant and will