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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	day_n	let_v	sabbath_n	1,007	5	9.2057	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29667	The nature of truth, its union and unity with the soule which is one in its essence, faculties, acts, one with truth / discussed by the Right Honorable Robert Lord Brook, in a letter to a private friend ; by whom it is now published for the publick good.	Brooke, Robert Greville, Baron, 1607-1643.	1641 (1641)	Wing B4913; ESTC S103446	48,160	214

former instances with some additions of a question or two more I Confesse there is a secondary intermediate Being which you may call a Cause which in our language doth precede and produce another the observation of which is very fitting so that wee search and puzzle not our selves with the grounds and Reasons of this precedency As apply fire to combustible matter and it will burn and if you call which in some sense you may call this application the cause of burning I dispute not onely the search into the nature of wood and fire and how the fire doth work upon the wood and how the wood can be both passive and active Simul Semel for they say Nulla est actio quin sit reactio this is That I desire to shun for intus exstens prohibet alienum whilst we entertain our selves with these poore Sophismes of wit we lose that glory which the immortall soule thirsts after But if our spirits and the light of our reason be dim Let us goe to the forge of the Philistines and sharpen our inventions our apprehensions there Let us learn from the Prince of the aire who knowing well that dissolve the fasciculus and Iugurtha his prophecy to his children will prove true taught his Scholars this lesson for these many ages Divide impera Divisions and distractions being the great road of all errour And if you long with the Israelites to have a King as your neighbours have and you desire to speak in their language When the soule entertaineth light say it doth understand When it doth exercise any morall vertue say it willeth When you see some things precede others call the one a cause the other an effect but travell not far in the search of the source of this cause Doe not make the will and the understanding two faculties Fratrum concordia rara Iacob will supplant Esau in the Womb Make therefore the severall Actings of the soule as Rayes of this one soule make these rayes and the soule sending forth these rayes a perpetuall emanation Divine and so by these degrees of truth mount up into the armes of Eternity and he will take care of you that you shall not dash your feete against the stone of free will that you shall not overthrow all faith by starting so many nice questions in the point of faith If you follow this rule and see all things in the glasse of Unity you will not lose all Arts and Sciences in the Wood of Divisions and Subdivisions in infinitum you shall be more substantiall than to make Substance and Accidents Two neither will it ever happen that you maintaine transubstantiation by affirming that Accidents can haerere in nullo subjecto You shall not make to your selfe a God of contradiction dividing the will and power of God Both which in God is God and so but one You will not maintaine two Covenants one of workes another of grace seeing grace is gracelesse without workes and Works worthlesse without grace If God shall give you to walke by this light practicall questions will be laid aside as well as Theoreticall you will not dispute whether you ought to be more holy on one day as at a Sacrament then at other times for you will then know that these Scriptures expresse fully the rule you must walke by Pray continually rejoyce evermore blessed is he that feareth alwayes Be ye holy not by fits and starts but as I am holy serving me alwayes with all your heart your might your affections So that every day every duty is to you an holy day an ordinance divine And if any man shall say Why doth God adde this parcell Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day c. and this strict injunction before you approach the Table of the Lord Let every man examine himselfe and so let him eat You will be able to answer that you ought not to be more holy in one day in one duty than in another for you must be all one Semper idem And secondly you will be able to prove that the weight of this injunction is not to adde any other holinesse to the day or the ordinance than a holinesse of separation For a holinesse of inhaerence cannot fall anywhere but upon a reasonable creature The Temple had no more For with the leave of learned and holy Master Cawdry Time Place are incapable of any other sanctification But the stresse of these and the like precepts lyeth here We ought indeed alwayes to keepe a Sabbath Every bread and every water ought to be a confirmation of our faith and of our graces But God considering that we are lower than the Angels and them hee hath charged with folly that we are infirme that we cannot alwayes keep the bow bent If we cannot be holy all the weeke if we cannot be pure at our own Tables as who can yet if we will remember the Sabbath and if wee will come to that feast of marrow and fatnesse with a wedding-garment and at other times doe our best though weak indeavours he will behold no iniquity in us We shall not be perplexed how farre we ought to mourne for the sinnes of others the sinnes of the times or our owne lives And these are intangling questions to many sweet spirits For drawing all things to an unity we shall know that sorrow and joy may meet in the same subject at once they must be both in the actings of faith Wee must not sorrow as without hope We may not lose our Faith in our teares Our teares must be teares of joy Wee may think that we have sinned and so sigh but at the same instant wee must know we have a Saviour and so triumph And if I were now all gore blood would I not now goe to the Chirurgians Truly the greater my sin the sooner ought to be my return the higher my Faith But great and inlarged Faith cannot be without exultation and magnificats Thus could we lay aside foolish questions could we seek into our hearts according to the Poets advice Ne te quaesiveris extra and not into the causes and the Being of causes things too high for us We might have an Heaven here we might see how Christ is one with GOD and wee one with Christ so wee in Christ one with God If wee cannot reach the perfection of this knowledge yet let us come as neere it as we can for the true knowledge of God in Christ is life everlasting A Postscript AND now Sir I have with what brevity I can run through what I never intended to speake of I had prepared a little in lieu of This upon the nature of Prophecy which I now shall reserve for a Discourse upon the fourteenth Chapter of the second to Corinth But it was with me in this case as it is with the soule prostrating it selfe at the throne of grace It designes to breath it selfe out in confession but