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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	david_n	lord_n	saul_n	3,363	5	9.9017	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30279	Foolish talking and jesting described and condemned In a discourse on Ephes. 5.4. neither foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient. By Daniel Burgess.	Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713.	1694 (1694)	Wing B5706; ESTC R214159	35,920	118

without Sincerity He that considers both shall think it to be wisely and kindly that God banisheth dissembling Lips And as cruelly and foolishly that any Man recals and uses them Where dwells the Man that desires not in his heart to have all the Town take his Word Hypocrites are undone when they are Unbelieved and yet no Man that knows them can Believe them Wise Men are they not to Desire perfect Impossibilities i. e. the Eternal concealment of Lies or inward belief of revealed ones It is not the way of the Wise to sail East when they would land in the West To directly-oppose their own Desires as they notoriously do whose Tongues run in Dissimulation while their Hearts lust after the repute of Veracity In short Men of the falsest Tongues would have nothing but very Truth put into their own ears But doth Wisdom either reject ought but Evil or embrace the practice of ought but Good Hypocritical Talk is Innocent or Harmful if Innocent why Angry with other Men for it if Injurious what makes the use of it Yours Every Man that uses it is Self-condemned No doubt but Saul was so when he pressed David to fight the Lord's Battels to the end that he might be slain by one or other of his Enemies Jacob's Sons were so when they expressed Zeal for Religion vaunted that none but Men of their Faith should be taken into their Family but designed only to make way for the Swords wherewith they cut the knot of the Controversie about their Sister's Marriage Jezabel was so when she called for a Fast for an After-meal of Naboth's Estate and Life Judas was so and so was his Successor Julian when he Preached what the Historian calls his Play of Christianity Plainly so are we all as oft as our Speech is with Dissimulation As oft as our Tongues deliver false Copies of our Minds Yea though they truly enough do represent the Things we speak of As oft as we speak for God deceitfully and contend for our holy Faith unfaithfully Designing to win but the Praise of Men or the Peace of our own Minds which are madly got when stollen by Lies Briefly A Lie is the utmost Corruption of Speech Deviation from its principal Service Violation of the Original and principal Law laid upon it The Tongue 's part being not so much to deliver what things really are whereof it is no Judg as to declare what the Speaker verily thinks of them in his Mind whereof it is a Witness And the most perfect Truth is a Lie in a Hypocrite's Mouth when neither Believing it himself nor concerned to have others Believe it he sets it forth with a false Profession of both Which Falsity his own Heart tells him is of so great a Malignity So great that it turneth Words of Hony into Gall of Wine into Poison of Holiness into Profaneness An aweful Thought and worthy thy to be considered Naturalists reckon Elephants and Camels among Wild Beasts though they do the Service of Tame ones because their Nature is Wild. Casuists determine Hypocrites to be Liars though they fill their Mouths with choicest Truths because there is no Truth in their Inward-Parts Remove from me the way of Lying and grant me thy Law graciously is Wise Mens Common Prayer 3. Rash Talk is Foolish That is Rash wherein the Tongue out-runs the Wit Or if Wit doth indeed Sail yet Judgment doth not Steer Though of our whole Man except but only the Heart it is the Tongue that most of all wants Government So vast are the Benefits or Mischiefs that it is apt to Produce With so much greater Ease and Speed than our Hands and Feet it doth hasten to produce them and so much more Indefatigably So very difficultly is it brought to Good-Behaviour and so palpable a mistake is our Proverb that Good words cost nothing Lions being as soon made to draw Chariots quietly as our Tongues to speak inoffensively So very difficultly also are they restrained from Evil no Bears or Tygers more needing to be kept within Rails and in Chains Perpetually is the Tongue presented with Temptations which sute its inward Propensions All Persons are Tempters If High to Flatter them if Low to Insult over them if Kind to Idolize them if Cross to Rage against them And all Things are Temptations Prosperity to Boast Adversity to Murmur Grateful things to be Lavish in their Praises Grievous ones to be as Prodigal of harsh Censures And what are they the Wise in Heart that let such a Creature go without a Guard The Creature which if any of the Subjects of God's Kingdom needeth his Supream and our Subordinate Government Unnatural it is the Natural Use is changed when the Tongue leaps before the Mind looks Brute Creatures will not so rebel against their Natures they open their Eyes e're they stir their Feet or Wings Wiser than we are whose Tongues gallop with the Eye-lids of our Minds shut Unless Wisdom it be and Reason to put off Nature If it be any it 's one full of Impiety and contrary to the Author and Lord of Nature He that Speaks as he Spits what comes next and Talks without the use of his Understanding he Talks without the Fear of his God And as truly against Law as Nature Nor is any Thank owing unto his Care if all the Commands of the first Table be not broken by his haste The Rash Talker puts it to the adventure and interpretatively says He will lose his God rather than his Word How mad a Choice But Neither is Unadvised Talk more against Piety than against Justice and Charity An ever-flowing Fountain of Iniquity it is For seldom is it other than Injurious as either False robbing Auditors of Truth or Contumelious robbing them of the Honour due to them or downright Felonious robbing them of Money or Slanderous robbing them of their good Name or someway Tedious robbing them of their Patience at the least Vain and robbing them of invaluable Time A wretched Folly thus to Plunder and Devour Men rashly without any End or if any the worst that can be proposed It would be farther considered also That The Rash Talker is not any manner of Felon more than de se His Sin doth most mercilesly of all rob himself While it Scratches other Men it Stabs him Much from them it Steals but himself out-right it Kills His Rash Licentious Talk murders all Wise Mens respect unto his Name Destroys their Credit to his very Deliberate Words Mortally wounds the Peace of his Conscience Cuts the very Throat of all his just Comfort Perfectly slays his Friendship with Men of Worth and Repute Makes his Tongue worse than none in the Apostle's Phrase Dead while it Lives Gives Death to his Understanding the Guide of Life which no longer lives in us than it leads us finally It is a Mortal Self-Pollution of his blind Will and Affections which take an infamous Rot when Judgment ceaseth to restrain and regulate them as in