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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	command_v	servant_n	unprofitable_a	1,244	5	10.6349	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93240	Divine cordials: delivered in ten sermons, upon part of the ninth and tenth chapters of Ezra, in a time of visitation. By that godly and faithfull preacher of Gods Word, Iosiah Shute, B.D. and late rector of Mary Woolnoths in Lumbard-Street London. Published by authority.	Shute, Josias, 1588-1643.; Reynoldes, William.	1644 (1644)	Wing S3714; Thomason E38_7; ESTC R7756	101,687	190

and yet love and shall not God doe the same who is fuller of mercy then the Sea is of water all the mercy which is in all the men upon earth is not as the drop of a bucket to that Ocean of mercy that is in the Almighty Come to our own experience thou art the Father of a child and he offending thee thou correctest him shall a man say thou hatest him because thou chastifest him no wise man but will say thou lovest him and therefore thou punishest him that hee may grow better againe thy child hath a disease growing upon him which if it be not prevented in time will be his death and thou tendring his good givest money to a Surgeon to cure him though it be to his great paine is it because thou hatest him O no it rather appeares that therefore thou lovest him else thou wouldst not be at charge with him So God findes cause to punish us for our sinnes shall we dare to say he doth it because he hates us God forbid Saith Augustine I know the Physitian is irksome to a man in a frensie because he ties and binds him doth he use him thus because hee hates him no but desire to cure him constraines him to take that violent course with him Againe thou sometimes walkest into thy garden and findest occasion to prune thy trees is it because thou hatest them no but therefore thou do'st it to make them grow better now if all this be true in thine own experience why should not God love and yet punish Vse 2 In the second place it should teach every man to take heed of censuring any to he such as God hates on whom God layes his afflicting hand This was the humour of the Jewes spoken of in Luk. 13.2.3.4.5 they thought those Galileans whose bloud Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices Luk. 13.2 3 4 5 and those eighteen on whom the Tower in Silo fell to bee greater sinners then any in Ierusalem our blessed Lord corrects this and tells them it was not so but that except they repented they should likewise perish This was also the misprision of them of Melita Acts 28.4 Acts 28.4 When they saw a Viper come out of the fire and fasten on Pauls hand they presently judge him to be a murderer O take heed of this for all these things fall out alike both to good and bad and in so doing a man may censure the generation of the righteous Psal 73.15 Psal 73.15 Nay he may be guilty of censuring our Saviour Iesus Christ for he was despised and rejected of men a man of sorrowes and acquainted with griefe Isa 53.3 yet at the same time he was the Sonne of his Fathers love Isa 53.3 one in whom hee took an everlasting complacency Iosephs cup may bee found in Benjamins sack and Gods child may be punisht yet in his love and favour for God may love and yet punish thou hast punished us lesse then our iniquities deserve The point is plaine Doct. 2 God doth not punish any of his so much as they deserve In Ierem. 10.24 the Prophet prayes thus Ierem. 10.24 O Lord correct me but with judgement not in thine anger lest thou bring me to nothing as if he had said correct me moderately and not according to my demerits and yee shall finde it to bee Gods own promise in Ierem. 30.11 I will not make a full end of thee Ierem. 30.11 but will correct thee in measure the same also is the confession of the Church Psal 103.10 Psal 103.10 He hath not dealt with us after our sinnes nor rewarded us according to our iniquities And Zophar Iobs friend tells him Iob 11.6 Iob 11.6 that God exacted lesse of him then his iniquity deserved It is a good observation that is made by some of the Learned that as God still rewards ultra merita beyond mens deserts so he ever punishes citra lesse then they deserve that hee is alwayes beyond our merits in rewarding us is evident in Luk. 17.10 where our Saviour saith Luk. 17.10 When yee shall have done all those things which are commanded you say Wee are unprofitable servants wee have done that which was our duty but hee is ever on this side in punishing us See this in Gods dealing with Adam what deserved he at Gods hand but hell yet be punisht him only with temporall death So when Cain had committed that great sinne against God he might have sent him presently to his own place but hee spared him and suffered him to live a long time on the earth waiting for his repentance and when the Israelites deserved to be destroyed and that hee was forced to punish them yet he let not his whole displeasure rise against them Psal 78.38 Psal 78.38 Vse 1 Is it so let us then in all the judgments which God inflicts upon us lay our hand upon our mouth and conclude that it is lesse then we deserve Hast thou a disease upon thee know that it is lesse then thou deservest though it be sharpe and irkesome O but will some say my disease is so grievous that I wish I were out of my life what of that hee could yet lay more grievous upon thee he might send terrours into thy soule if he would which bee tempestates mentis the tempests of the mind and farre worse then any corporall disease judge then if God doe not punish thee lesse then thou deservest O but saith another when God sends a man to Hell doth hee punish him lesse then his desert I answer in regard of the extention of time that which God inflicts on the damned in hell is as much as they can deserve or he can inflict upon them because it is for ever but in regard of the intention of the punishment they be not punished as they deserve God could make the paines of those in everlasting chaines much more intensive but that all his wayes are intervein'd with mercy let us therefore be patient in suffering what God layes upon us knowing that whatsoever the punishment is it is lesse then and on this side our demerit Vse 2 Secondly let us learne of our heavenly Father to bee mercifull as he is mercifull hee doth not deale with us after our deserts why should wee deale otherwise with our brother you see Solomon spared Shimei his life though for reviling his Father he had deserved death only he confined him to Ierusalem which when he violated then and not before he took away his life The Iewes ever had a desire to bee more holy then the Law of God required therefore when the Lord had set and appointed when the Sabbath should begin and when it should end they would begin it an houre before and conclude it an houre after the time limited by God So the Lord commanded them to have no familiarity with the Heathen and they were so strict that they would not so much as speak to one uncircumcised