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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	holy_a	keep_v	sabbath_n	2,405	5	9.4746	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50170	The triumphs of the reformed religion in America the life of the renowned John Eliot, a person justly famous in the church of God, not only as an eminent Christian and an excellant minister among the English, but also as a memorable evangelist amoung the Indians of New-England : with some account concerning the late and strange success of the Gospel in those parts of the world which for many ages have lain buried in pagan ignorance / written by Cotton Mather.	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. De successu Evangelii apud Indos in Nova-Anglia epistola. English.	1691 (1691)	Wing M1163; ESTC W479490	74,580	162

Callings we keep up Heavenly Frames we buy and sell and toyl yea we eat and drink with some eye both to the Command and the Honour of God in all Behold I have not now left an inch of time to be carnal it is all Engrossed for Heaven And yet lest here should not be enough Lastly We have our spiritual Warfare We are alwayes Encountring the Enemies of our Souls which continually raises our hearts unto our Helper and Leader in the Heavens Let no man say 'T is impossible to live at this rate for we have known some live thus and others that have written of such a life have but spun a Web out of their own blessed experiences New-England has Examples of this life tho alas 't is to be lamented that the Distractions of the world in too many professors do becloud the beauty of an Heavenly Conversation In fine our Employment lies in Heaven In the morning if we ask Where am I to be to day Our Souls must answer In Heaven In the evening if we ask Where have I been to day Our Souls may answer t● Heaven If thou art a Believer thou art no stranger to H ●ven while thou livest and when ●hou dyest Heaven will be no strange place to thee no thou hast been there a thousand times before In this language have I heard him express himself and he did what he s●id he was a Boniface as well as a Benedict and he was one of those Qui faciendo docent quae facienda docent It might be said of him as that Writer characterises O●igen Quemadmodum doeuit sic vi●it quemadmodum vixit sit docuit Article II. His particular care and zeal about the Lords-day THis was the Piety this the Holiness of our Eliot but among the many instances in which his H●liness was remarkable I must not omit his exact Remembrance of the Sabbath-day to keep it holy It has been truly and justly Observed Tha● our whole Religion fares according to our Sabbaths that poor Sabbaths make poor Ch●istian● and that a strictness in our Sabbaths inspires vigour into all our other Duties Our Eliot knew this and it was a most Exemplary zeal that he acknowledged the Sabba●h of our Lord Jesus Christ withal Had he been asked Servasii Dominicum he could have made a right Christian primitive answer thereunto The Sun did not set the evening before the Sabbath till he had begun his preparation for it and when the Lords-day came you might have seen John in the Spirit every week Every day was a sort of Sabbath to him but the Sabbath day was a kind type a tast of Heaven with him He laboured that he might on this High-day have no words or thoughts but such as we e agreeable ●hereunto he then allow'd in himself no Actions but those of a Ra●sed Soul One should hear nothing dropping from his Lips on this day but the milk and honey of the Countrey in which there yet remains a ●est for the people of God and if he beheld in my person whatsoever whether old or young my profanation of this day he would be sure to ●estow lively Rebukes upon it And hence al●o unto the general Engagements of a Covenant ●ith God which 't was his Desire to bring the ●ndians into he added a particular Article wherein they bind themselves mehquontamunat ●abbath pahketeaunat tohsohke pomantamog i. e. ●o Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy as ●ong as we live The mention of this gives me an opportunity not only to Recommend our Departed Eliot but also to Vindicate another great man unto the Churches of our Lord Jesus Christ The Reverend and Renowned OWEN in his Elaborate Exercitations on The Lords-day had let fall such a passage of this I judge that the Observation of the Lords-day is to be Commensurate unto the use of our natural strength on any other day from morning to night The Lords-day is to be s●t apart unto the ends of an holy Rest unto God by every one according as his natural strength will enable him to employ himself in his lawful Occasions any other day of the week This passage gave some scandal unto several very Learned and Piou● M●n among whom our Eliot was one whereupon with his usual zeal gravity and sanctity he wrote unto the Doctor his Opinion thereabout who returned unto him an answer full of Respect some part where of I shall here transcribe As to what concerns the Natural strength of man saith he Either I was under some mistake in my Expression or you seem to be so i● your Apprehension I never thought and 〈◊〉 hope I have not said for I cannot find it that the Continuance of the Sabbath is to b● commensurate unto the natural strength of man but only that it is an Allowable mean of me● Continuance in Sabbath Duties which I su●pose you will not deny lest you should ca● the Consciences of professors into inextricable Difficulties When first I engaged in that work I intended not to have spoken one word about the practical Obs●rvation of the Day but only to have endeavoured the Revival of a Truth which at present is despised and contemned among us and strenuously opposed by sundry Divines of the Vnited Provinces who call the Doctrine of the Sabbath Figmentum Anglicanum Upon the Desire of some Learned Men in these parts it was that I undertook the Vindica●ion of it Having now discharged the Debt which in this matter I owed unto the Truth and Church of God tho not as I ought yet with such a composition as I hope thro' the Interposition of our Lord Jesus Christ might find acceptance with God and his Saints I suppose I shall not again engage on that Subject I suppose there is scarce an● one alive in the world who hath more Reproaches cast upon him than I have tho hitherto God has been pleased in some measure to support my spirit under them I still relieved my self by this That my poor Endeavours have found acceptance with the Churches of Christ But my holy wise and gracious Father sees it needful to try me in this matter also and what I have received from you which it may be contains not your sense alone hath printed deeper and left a greater impression upon my mind than all the virulent Revilings and false Accusations I have met withal from my professed Adversaries I do acknowledge unto you that I have a dry and barren Spirit and I do heartily beg your prayers that the Holy One would notwithstanding all my sinful provocations water me from above but that I should now be apprehended to have given a wound unto Holiness in the Churches 't is one of the saddest frowns in the cloudy B●ows of Divine Providence The Doctrine of the Sabbath I have asserted tho' not as it should be done yet as wel as I could The Observation of it in Holy Duties unto the utmost of the strength for them which God shall be pleased to