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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	woeful_a	world_n	wretched_a	34	3	7.7425	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67762	No wicked man a wise man, true wisdom described the excellency of spiritual, experimental, and saving knowledge, above all humane wisdom and learning ... / by R. Younge ...	Younge, Richard.	1666 (1666)	Wing Y167; ESTC R14648	28,496	34

the cruel and tyrannical bondage and slavery of Egypt For first that bondage was of the body only but the service of sin is of the whole man body and soul. Secondly in the bondage of Egypt they served men but in this bondage service is done to sin and Satan most vile Lords which command most base and filthy works Thirdly in the bondage of Egypt the most harm was temporal loss of liberty smart and pain of body in this service of sin the loss is eternal even destruction in Hell for ever without the infinite goodness of God Fourthly in this bondage under Phoraoh they had a sense of their thraldom and desired liberty in this of sin men do not so much as suspect themselves to be bound but think themselves f●ee and despise liberty Lastly in all outward bondage they which are bound may possibly help themselves as by running away or by intreaty or by ●ansom In this bondage we lie still as it were bound hand and foot ●ill God by his mercy deliver us not having so much as the least thought of relieving our selves By all which it appears that such who take the most liberty to sin a●e the most perfect slaves in the world because most voluntary slaves and that Christs service is the only true freedom his yoke an eas●● yoke his bu●den but as the burden of wings to ab●●d which makes her ●lie the higher Wherefore as we serve the laws that we may be free so let us serve Christ and we shall be the f●eest people a●●ve A godly man being demanded what he thought was the st●angest and foolish●st thing in the world answered an impenitent sinner or an V●believer For said he that a man should provoke God so gracious and mighty that he should believe Satan the Father of lies and c●uelty forget his own death so imminent and inevitable obey the command of his flesh a D●udge so ignoble admire the world so fickle and dangerous prefer it before Heaven so blessed and glorious wilfully cast himself into Hell a place so woful and dolorous and all for vanity such a wretched emp●iness that he should fear the blasts of mens breath and not the 〈◊〉 Gods w●ath weep for the loss of friends and not f●r his soul. And lastly that Christ should stand at the door of his heart c●aving for entrance that he may ●emedy all and make him everlastingly happy and God call him every day either by his Wo●d in the mouths of his Messengers or by strange judgements or extraordinary mercies upon himself or others and all in vain Such an one sayes he is the most foolish and degenerate creature alive Thus I might go on to Traytors Murderers Backbiters Seducers Drunka●ds Blasphem●s Persecuters of the godly proud persons Hypocrits Thieves A●●iests and what other sinners you can name and prove them all fools alike But I have already upon one occesion or other done it in some other Tract only a word or two more that may reach to all that are in their natural condition and I shall concude Sect. 15. In the last place Are not all wilful sinners a●●ant fo●ls who Adam like will receive whatever comes or is offered them be it b●ibe or other sinful bait not once thinking this is forbidden fruit and thou shalt die the death That think the v●wed enemy of their souls can offer them a bait without a ho●k you cannot but acknowledge them stark fools though thy self beest one of the number Again for men to dishonour God and blaspheme his Name while he does support and relieve them to run from him while he does call them and forget him whiles he does ●eed them To imitate the common Protestants in Queen Marys time who laughed the Martyrs to scorn and esteemed them superstitious fools to lose their lives and fortunes for matters of Religion accounting Faith Holiness Immortality of the soul c. mee● fopperies and illusions To be quick sighted in other mens failings and blind to their own Are 〈◊〉 these so many infallible properties of a fool and yet these are the lively characters of every sensualist Insomuch that if I should give you a List or Catalogue of all the fools in one City or County you would bless your selves that there are so few Bedlam-houses yet so many out of their wits that cannot perceive or discern the same And yet no wonder for as before I told you sensual men are so benighted puzled with blindness that they know no other way then the fl●sh leads them Yea many by loss of conscience become Athiest● and by loss of Reason Beasts Yea to any thing that is spiritually good the natural man is blind and deaf and dead as ye may see by these en●uing Scriptures 1 Tim. 5. 6. Rom. 1. 21 22 25. Eph. 5. 14. Isa 6. 9 10. John 12. 40. Psal 69 23. Mat. 4. 16. 15. 14. Eph. 4. 18 19. 5. 8. 1 Pet. 2. 9. Acts 28. 27. Rom. 11. 8. Mat. 23. 16 17 19 24 26. 27. 3 4 5. 2 Pet. 2. 16. Rev. 3. 1● Rom. 6. 13. 8. 11. Micah 7. 16. Psal. 58 4. Eph. 2. 1. If our Gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost whom the god of this wo●ld hath blinded 2 Cor. 4. 3 4. But it is otherwise with the godly as let Satan and the world offer a wise Christian the bait of pleasure or profit his answer shall be I will not buy r●p●nta●ce so dear I will not lose my s●ul to please my sense If affliction comes he will consider that Gods punishments for sin calls for conv●rsion from sin and in case God speaks to him by his Word to forsake his evil ways and turn again to him he will amend his cou●se lest i● he hear not the wo●d he should feel the sword Whereas nothing will con●ute a fool but fire and brimstone The Lo●d spake to Manasses and to his people but they would not regard Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the Captains of the Host of the King of Ashur that took Manasses and put him in fetters and brought him in chains and carried him to Babel 2 Ch●on 33. 10. 11. Fools saith holy David by reason of their transgression because of their iniqui●y Psal. 107. 17. From which words Musculus in●ers that all wilful transg●ess●rs are a●●ant f●●ls And it is the saying of Cardan That dishonesty is nothing else but folly and madness Yea Solomon throughout all his Proverbs by a fool means the natural man and by a wise man a man sanctified O that it were rightly learned and laid to heart by all that are yet in the state of unregeneracy for it is every one of their cases To conclude in a word Without knowledge the soul is not good Pro. 19. 2. The ignorant cannot be innocent I am the light of the world says our Saviour John 8 12. 12. 46. Where light is not Christ is not for Christ is light Sect. 16 Object But here