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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	good_a	seed_n	tare_n	1,657	5	12.7414	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67760	An infallible vvay to farewell in our bodies, names, estates, precious souls, posterities : together with, mens great losse of happinesse, for not paying, the small quitrent of thankfulness : whereunto is added remaines of the P.A., a subject also of great concernment for such as would enjoy the blessed promises of this life, and of that ot come / by R. Younge ...	Younge, Richard.	1660 (1660)	Wing Y165; ESTC R3044	119,764	146

to have treated 1. Of the time when we are to give 2. Of the meanes inabling to it 3. Of the ends to be propounded in it 4. Of the impediments that hinder it 5. Of the remedies or incouragements And 6. Of the Vses But finding that it would have been as welcome to the parties concerned therein as water into a ship I will onely give you a few gleanings out of them In which also I will more respect the weight and benefit of the matter then the order of handling that so I may couch all within a little compass CHAP. XXI Touching the grounds reasons and inducements which may move men to be bountifull and beneficent to the poore with which I will begin they are so many that onely to name them all would by worldlings be thought too much Wherefore I will onely nominate such as every wise man even out of self love will allow for weighty And therein be as brief as possibly I can in running them over 1. If in some good measure we perform this duty if we deal our bread to the hungry bring the poore that are cast out into our houses and that seeing them naked we cover them as it is I say 58. 7. God hath promised and given it under his hand that it shall go well with us in our estates and that we shall be no loosers by it but he will surely pay it us again Ecc. 11. 1. Luke 6. 38. Matth. 6. 4. And lest any should be discouraged from performing these duties because he is able to give but a little he assureth us that whosoever giveth a cup of cold water unto a Disciple in the name of a Disciple he shall in no wise lose his reward Matt. 10. 42. And that because this reward is not grounded upon the excellency and merit of the work but upon Gods rightousness and truth in fulfilling his promises according to that Heb. 6. 10. For God is not unrighteous that he should forget your work and labour of love which ye have shewed toward his name in that ye have minstred to the Saints and do minister Whereby he implyeth that it is no more possible that those who in love and obedience have exercised themselves in these works of mercy should lose their reward then that God himself should lose his righteousness And the wise man telleth us that he who hath pitty on the poore lendeth unto the Lord and that which he hath given he will repay again Prov. 19. 17. Neither in reason can it be otherwise for if mercy and bounty be in God as an inexhanstible everspringing fountain and in us as a little stream that floweth from it how is it possible that our small and shallow rivulets of mercy should flow to our Neighbours and that the everlasting spring of Gods mercy and goodness should be dry unto us or how should the stream flow and the fountain and well head be dried up Yea let us assure our selves that we cannot suffer in a wise and dis●reet manner empty our selves of these waters of Gods blessings for the satisfying and quenching of the poore mans thirst and relieving of his wants but we shall again be replenished from the fountain of all goodness and if like kind Nurses we let these deare Children of God suck the breasts of our bounty for their comfort and nourishment that which is thus spent will again be restored whereas if we churlishly refuse to impart and communicate this milk of Gods blessings it is the readiest way to have it quite dried up Neither are we to imagine that if we be carefull in feeding Christ that he will be carelesse in feeding us That he will deny us meate who hath given us his precious blood That he will suffer us to want earthly trifles who hath provided for us heavenly ricbes Let such more then heathenish diffidence be farre from us who professe our selves to be of the houshold of Faith Is it not he as Hannah speaketh that maketh poore and maketh rich that bringeth low and lifteth up Do we enjoy all things through Gods blessing And can we thinke to keep our riches by disobeying his commandment Indeed the contrary we may well expect according to that Prov. 11. There is that scattereth and is more increased but he that spareth more then is right shall surely come to poverty vers 24. And it is but just if God deny thee thy daily bread if thou denyest him the crumbs And thus it appeareth that by giving to the poor we shall be no loosers But this is not all For CHAP. XXII Secondly we shall not onely receive our own again but it shall be with great increase Yea if the Word of God be true there is not a more compendious way to thrive and grow rich then by being bountifull to the poore But that bounty is the best and surest way to ple●ty and that it is so far from weakning a mans estate or bringing him to want and poverty that it is the onely meanes to keep us from it and to bring plenty and abundance I have largely and plentifully proved if you remember in Chapter the 30. of The best and surest way to become rich And I heartily wish that the Reader would peruse the same For it is the most piercing and patheticall Chapter of all the parts and should methinks exceedingly wheron those that are greedy of gaine to put the same into practice and make them bountifull in doing these workes of mercy and not think themselves loosers thereby but rather to conclude as a mercifull man once did The more I give the more I have As what Husbandman does not reckon more of his seed in the ground then of that in his Barn or Garner And shall we be such Atheists as to trust the ground and not God Yea let us be so far from grudging these Almes to the poor when we have fit occasion that we do them with joy and thankfulnesse unto God that he hath given us so fit an opportunity of sowing our seed that so we may reap a fruitfull harvest For what husbandman would not readily and cheerfully hearken to one who should offer him fertile and fruitfull land ready prepared and ma●ured to sow his seed in with a faithful promise that he should reape the whole crop for his own use and benefit But thus God dealeth with us when he giveth us opportunity of relieving the poor Yea in truth much better and more ability for he gives us even the seed also we sow with and whereas if a man should freely receive of another Land to sow his seed in yet he were not sure of a fruitfull harvest For many accidents usually happen which cut off the hopes of the most skilfull Husbandman as Frosts and Mildewes wormes and locusts tares and weeds too much wet or too much drought may destroy the corn though the seed were never so good or when it is ready for the sickle the enemy may come and reap it