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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	hand_n	left_a	rank_n	1,957	5	11.0587	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41388	Firmianus and Dubitantius, or, Certain dialogues concerning atheism, infidelity, popery, and other heresies and schisme's that trouble the peace of the church and are destructive of primitive piety written in a plain and easie method for the satisfaction of doubting Christians / by Tho. Good.	Good, Thomas, 1609-1678.	1674 (1674)	Wing G1029; ESTC R23950	83,883	174

being of a Supream Deity by a Clock whose hammer when it striketh sheweth the next wheele that moves it that the next and so forward until you come to the Clockmaker who made all the wheels and caused their regular motions Another instance is commonly made use of If a man should travel into a far Country at present not inhabited and there should behold some Goodly building he would presently conclude it grew not out of the Ground neither did the be●sts make it but t was the work of some ingenious Artists Or if a man should behold a well ordered army of Soldiers keeping rank and file turning altogether as if they were animated by one Soul sometimes to the right hand sometimes to the left he would presently conclude that there was some expert Commander to direct them Even so he that casts his Eye upon this Goodly Fabrick of the world must needs acknowledg the great Power and Wisdom of its Maker He that shall seriously observe the harmonious order the regular motions of its parts must needs acknowledge the truth of that saying Psal. 19.1 the heavens declare the Glory of God and the firmament sheweth his ha●dy work And Rom. 1.19 That which may be known of God is manifest in them for the inv●sible things of God are clearly seen by those things that are made viz his eternal power and Godhead Job 26.7 He stretcheth out the North over t●e empty place and hangeth the earth upon nothing Seriously consider what is wrote in the 36.37.38 Chapt. c. of that Book besides many other excellent Texts in the holy Scripture declaring how the Glory wisdome power of God is manifest in the admirable frame of the world and the exquisite order and harmony of all things therein contained See how the Heavens warm and water the Earth how the earth brings forth the grass herbs and plants how these feed the beasts how the beasts serve the several necessities of man who is the only Creature the immortal Angels excepted that can in a rational manner serve and set forth the glory of his Creator O how desirable are all his works and that a man may see even to a sparke ●ccles 42.22 none so little as does not manifest the Glory none so great which is not subject to the Almighty power and wise disposal of the Creatou●r Behold the in●nimate Creatures how they declare it the Sea whose proud waves are bounded by his power Job 38.11 of whose wonderfull ebbing and flowing no man is able to render a satisfactory account certainly those that go down to the Sea in Ships and do business in great waters these men see the works of the Lord and his w●nders in the deep Ps. 107. The earth which contains so much rich treasure in the bowels of it such v●riety of plants herbs flowers both for use delight in the Surface of it The Air that compasseth about both Sea and Earth receiving multitudes of vapours and exhalations from them both and returning them in gratefull dews and sho●res The wind that is brought out of Gods treasury no man knows whence it comes nor whether it goes the wisest Philosophers are at stand they know nor what to say of it The lightning and thunder two terrible yet very usefull Creatures frost and snow and ice and hail all which declare the Glory of God see Psal. 147.148 But above all the inanimate Creatures those that are above them all in place and exellency do magnify the Glory of their Creator as the Sun Moon and Stars O saith David Psal. 8. when I consider the Moon and the Stars which thou hast ordained what is man that thou art so mindfull of him and the Son of man that thou visitest him Looke we on the animate Creatures plants herbs flowers grass grain how wonderfully they grow and multiply consider their variety beauty virtue pleasures profits monstrat Quaelibet herba Deum every herb points out a Deity Consider the fish in the Sea the beasts in the Land the fowls of the Air see how they declare the glory of their maker peruse with a serious and diligent Eye the 39.40.41 Chap. of Job as before Last of all Thou stupid Creature consider thy self that art fearfully and wonderfully made View the excellent harmony consent and use of all the parts in thy little world with what dutifull care they serve each other so that the head cannot say to the feet I have no need of you the Consideration of which excellent frame and contexture of parts in the body of man made the learned Galen stand amazed and turned him from an Atheist to confess and believe a God and to compose an hymn in praise of his Almighty Creator In a word if we consider the whole Creation the harmony and Subordination of the several parts of that Goodly Fabrick of the Universe they do wonderfully declare the wisdom power and Glory of the omnipotent eternal maker of Heaven and Earth If we behold how the Heavens serve the Earth the Earth the Plants these the Beasts these man whose great end and errand for which he was sent into this world was to serve him who made the inferior Creatures for man and man for himself we must needs break out into the Psalmists holy Rapture O Lord how marveillous are thy works in wisdome hast thou made them all and he must certainly be a very unwise man that doth not consider them and a very Fool that will not understand them Dub. From what you taught me a little before that t is utterly impossible for any thing to make it self or by the power of its own nature and to spring out of nothing into somthing and by what you have now delivered from the goodly frame and fabrick of the world and the harmonious order of its parts t is evident that it owes not its original to chance which is a very dream 't is as cleer as the Sun at noon day that their is an Allwise an Almighty God the Glorious maker of Heaven and Earth however I pray you let me heare your other reason from the sacred bond of Oaths the horror of Cons●ience c. Firm. T is evident that very Heathens and mere natural men that have made no Conscience of telling a thousand lies of drunkenness fornification theft malice envy revenge c. durst not seriously and solemnly take one false o●th for fear of divine vengeance which hath been executed upon perjured persons as i● evident from histories sacred and prophane 'T is a most remarkable peice of history which is related of three notorious villaines which did swear against Narcissus Bishop of Hierusalem as Eusebius reports it lib. 6. Chap. 18. of Eccl●s Hist. And about the year 1661. we had a very signal instance of Divine justice executed upon on G. at Ludlow in the Councill of the Marches who taking a false oath in th●t Court was strucken in the same place presently with suddain death Such judgments as these against