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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	custom_n	fear_v	tribute_n	4,452	5	11.2078	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44523	Gods providence in the midst of confusion set out in a sermon preach'd at the Savoy, January the 30, 1681, being the anniversary of the martyrdom of King Charles I / by Anthony Horneck.	Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1682 (1682)	Wing H2832; ESTC R13705	32,946	55

stand amazed at his own Vertue and while he saw he was able to do what he thought had been impossible admire the immense power and goodness of God when grace was thus sufficient for him and made his strength proportionable to his burden This made him find by blessed experience what the Saints of old felt in their Chains and Tortures and assured him that to rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory in the midst of Flames was no Fable This made him see that the things Invisible are the most desirable Objects and find with the great Apostle that there is a great difference between being Persecuted and forsaken 5. Such Disorders are sometimes permitted to discover the ill Principles of some Mens Religion who are like to seduce others by their specious Pretences that Men who are in good earnest resolved to be saved may be aware of them and not fall into the same condemnation 2 Tim. 3. 1 5 9. Men who suppose that gain is godliness when troublesome and Perillous times do come and Disorders rise serve themselves of these Tumults and under a shew of Piety grasp what they can and betray their Carnal Ends which in such times cannot be hid when there are opportunities and temptations to call them out into Action for as in such Disorders commonly the Right Cause or the Party that have most Justice on their side are oppressed and come by the worst so the other make advantage of their Misery and their Blood and Tears give the other Growth and Stature It 's possible Beloved Hearers you may remember times when Men walked in Sheeps Cloathing but within were Ravening Wolves and while their Voice was exactly like Jacobs their Hands continued rough as Esau's when Men cryed The Temple of the Lord and yet at the same time Murthered those that opposed their Insolencies and talked of the good Cause while they meant nothing else by it but enriching their own Purses when Men pretended a thorough Reformation and made their own Souls as black as Hell and gave out that they fought for God when it was only to maintain what they had unjustly purchas'd when Men sighed and groaned to get the Prey into their Net and laboured much for a Spiritual Kingdom to make a surer settlement of their Temporal Possessions When Men under a shew of seeking a World to come did what they could to enjoy this present and left no Stone unturned to Establish Religion that thereby they might Establish themselves the better in their Unrighteous Acquists when Men to pull down Idolatry as they called it set up Robbery and Sacriledge in the room of it and instead of doing things better than they had been exchanged only one Sin for another when Men call'd that Zeal which was in good earnest nothing else but inordinate Passion and termed that Charity which was no more but Kindness to their Brethren in Iniquity when Men called others Dumb Dogs that they might more securely Bark at them and represented them as lazy Droans that they might carry the Honey those Bees had made to their own Hives when Men undertook to resolve Cases of Conscience while themselves had seared their own and under a pretence of taking Scruples out of other Mens Breasts felt none for the monstrous Injuries they had been guilty of to their Neighbours when Men gave out they pittied the Divisions of the Church while themselves were the Causes that began them and talk'd of Works of Mercy while they shew'd none to those they had turned out of their Livings when they trampled on the Pride of Prelates with a greater of their own and ran like mad from Babylon to be consumed in the Fire of Sodom and Gomorrah So I have seen some gaudy Flowers arrayed more gloriously than Solomon but when dismantled have been nothing but unsavoury and unprofitable Stalks so the deadly Night-shade looks fresh and green as other Plants but carries Poison in its Bowels so the Prince of Precious Stones the Diamond by its Rayes promises so many Springs of Light but its Powder kills without Remedy so Gold and Silver dazle the Eye yet are no Steams more odious or loathsom than those which rise from the Mines they are digg'd out of so the Butterfly is striped with several Paints yet is no more but a squallid Animal so the Glow-worm looks like a creeping Star yet if you behold it by day light it is a very homely Creature These are the true Emblemes of some Mens Religion in the World and their partial Obedience in times of Disorder and Confusion tells the Considerate part of Mankind that what they profess is Varnish not Substance Glass not Natural Chrystal Shadow not Reality for how can that be true Religion where I give to God the things which are Gods and deny to Caesar the things which are Caesars where I am conscientious to the Creator and unjust and perfidious to the Creature where I offer Sacrifice and envy my Brother in my heart where I express love to my Maker and yet do not give all their due Custom to whom Custom Tribute to whom Tribute Fear to whom Fear and Honour to whom Honour or in St. Peters Phrase Fear God and do not Honour the King And these Sophistications God commonly discovers in Confusions intending them as Sea-marks to give warning to the Ships that see them afar off not to come near those Sands lest they split their Vessel and lose their Goods which with great cost and labour they have purchased But it 's time we proceed and enquire 3. How Gods Providence appears in these Disorders and Confusions 1. God puts bounds and limits to the rage of Men that cause and encourage those Disorders The proud Senacharib Es. 37. 24. talks big he had already put Jerusalem into Consternation and boasted of greater mischiefs he intended By the multitude of my Chariots saith he am I come up to the height of the Mountains to the sides of Lebanon and I will cut down the tall Cedars thereof and the choice Fir-trees thereof and I will enter into the height of his Border and the Forest of his Carmel But he that sits in Heaven laughs at him and the great Jehovah derides the little talking Insect assures the Prophet that beyond such a Field he shall not step and as he saith he doth Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears therefore will I put my hook in thy nose and my bridle in thy lips and I will turn thee back by the way which thou camest When Maxentius had filled Rome with Murthers and the People feared not only greater Injuries to their Persons but a total Desolation so great was the fury of the Monster the Almighty sets bounds to his brutish Courage and sends the great Constantine to remove him and with him the Yoak he had laid on the trembling People And thus hath God dealt with most Tyrants who have thought to crush the World by their