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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
head_n	door_n	king_n	lift_v	2,752	5	10.5545	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04816	The burthen of a loaden conscience: or the miserie of sinne set forth by the confession of a miserable sinner.	Kilby, Richard, d. 1617.	1608 (1608)	STC 14950; ESTC S100262	42,020	107

verie carefull of bringing vp their children whereupon a learned Iewe was wont to saie that Christians were called tillers because they did diligently till the heartes of those that were vnder their charge sowing in them the seedes of godlinesse There are too few such tillers now adaies that heauenly husbandrie and blessed tillage is laide aside Our most mightie Lord God for his sonne Iesus Christs sake restore it and be mercifull to young children that his holy Ghost may fill their hearts with grace and goodnesse Amen Amen AS I grew in age so I increased in sinne prouoking Gods displeasure continually who notwithstanding patiently indured me yea deliuered me out of many deadly dangers whereinto I by follie and sinne did thrust my selfe from time to time Moreouer of his great goodnesse he gaue me knowledge of his righteousnesse and of mine owne sinnes moouing me oftentimes to leaue the waie of damnation and turne vnto his blessed maiestie thorough Iesus Christ assuring my heart that in so doing I should be blessed but otherwise cursed and condemned But all this did not preuaile with my reprobate heart which beeing vtterly hardened in sinne and voide of repentance causeth me to heape vp wrath vpon wrath and vengeance vpon vengeance to the increasing of mine euerlasting torments in hell fire All maner of people yong and olde take heede by me Haue no more Gods but one Consider well what he hath done for you He made you at the first like vnto himselfe in wisdome and holinesse and when you were by sinne made like the deuill and must therefore haue beene condemned to hell torments God sent his onely sonne who taking vnto him a bodie and soule was a man and suffered great wrong and a shamefull death to procure your pardon and to buie you out of the Deuills bondage that ye might be renued to the likenesse of God And now he hath sent the holy Ghost to enter and take possession of your hearts clensing you from sinne which is the Deuills likenesse and making you righteous which is the likenesse of God to the ende ye might be fit to keepe companie with all Saints in the ioyes of heauen Call to mind how long ye haue intertained the deuill and kept out the holy Ghost and with how great patience God hath hitherto suffered you and kept you aliue because he would not haue you perish but 〈◊〉 and be saued O what is the reason that people doe not loue this God aboue all things yea aboue their owne life Surely the 〈◊〉 is because they lacke faith for they doe not esteeme it their onely happinesse to be in the fauour of God but like vnto bruit beastes giue credit to deceitfull shewes and flattering enticements and so are wilfully snared of the Deuill who with his alluring baites draweth them on to destruction and the further he draweth them the surer he is of them Therefore all people for Gods sake take heede doe not delaie the time as I haue done thinking to turne vnto God to morrow and next daie for the longer you continue in sinne the harder it will be to repent because the deuill doth euery day get more and more power in you till your heart be fulfilled with wickednesse and so God doe euerlastingly forsake you Neuer be at quiet with your heart vntil you be in loue with God Studie and striue to compasse the loue of God ioye in whatsoeuer furthereth you vnto it grieue in all that hindereth you from it How shall I endeauour to loue God loue that which is good and hate that which is naught for good cōmeth of God and euill is of the deuill The thought is the beginning of your good and of your euill An euill thought is sent from the deuill and if you entertaine it it bringeth in the deuill A good thought is sent from the holy Ghost as a messenger vnto your soule if you receiue it and make much of it in your heart the holy Ghost will enter and putting out the Deuill will fill you full of heauenly grace Therefore doe as the Psalme biddeth you 4.7 lift vp your heads O ye gates and be ye lifted vp ye euerlasting doores and the King of glorie will come in Withdrawe your minde from all euill thoughts and thinke vpon God and godlinesse cleaue thereunto with full purpose of heart and studie how you may alwaies doe his will with diligence and suffer his pleasure with patience assuring your selues that if you giue your minde to serue him hee will not saile you nor forsake you but preserue you to his euerlasting kingdome and glorie doe not endure to thinke say or doe any thing against your conscience but alwaies be carefull to please God My heart beeing not knit vnto God but to the world I framed my religion to mine affection and mine affection to imagination first I was hote against the Romane religion then being much befreinded by some that fauoured that religion I to gratifie thē grew in good liking of it also yea so farre forth that I became a recusant was receiued into the Church of Rome by a Seminarie Priest and did what I could to perswade manie others to leane that waie But when trouble was likely to fall vpon me I went to Church againe and so by little and little fell off yet so as wheresoeuer I found any of that religion I was still sutable vnto them After this I beeing kindely vsed of some that were commonly called Puritans tooke liking of their opinions yea and in some points was readie to runne beyond them and all this in great shew of zeale towardes God so that I made my selfe beleeue that I was in the right waie and did well I doe often wonder at my selfe how feruent I was first a Protestant then a Romane Catholike afterward a Precisian so that I tooke vpon me to rebuke many yea and some of high degree as though I had beene a verie man of God full of the holy Ghost whereas indeede the deuill was in my heart and therefore all my waies were sinnefull and displeasing vnto God O all ye Christian people take heede by me doe not rashly giue your minde to fancie this or that religion but first of all settle your heart in the feare and loue of God Make conscience betweene God and your soule of all that you thinke say or doe Serue God in your spirit vnfainedly turning from sinne and striuing to please him Till you be thus setled in true godlinesse it is vaine yea and daungerous to hammer meddle with points of religion for your heart beeing vncleansed and your affections vnrighted God is not your leader but the deuill who will strangely deceiue you and make you proude of your doings when you stinke in your sinnes before the face of God Therefore submit your selues humblie to God weane your soules from sinne that ye may be wedded to Iesus Christ and by his spirit bring forth such fruits as are pleasing to God which