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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	account_n	day_n	idle_a	2,166	5	9.1920	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08263	An alarme to awake church-sleepers. Describing the causes, discovering the dangers, prescribing remedies for this drowsie disease.		1644 (1644)	Wing A826A; ESTC R119	53,648	177

rags Pro. 23.21 Pro. 20.18 As hee that loveth sleepe commeth to poverty So he that loveth to sleepe at Church cannot but bee poore in grace and seeing the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleepe Eccles 5.12 thy sleepe bewrayes thy povertie 10. They receive no benefit by the Word preached the same being unto them wholly unfruitfull CHAP. V. Objections for Church-sleeping answered THey are of divers sorts some justifying it others extenuating it others translating the fault thereof on others all which may bee reduced into these five Objections Whereof the 1. may be taken from The sinne it selfe The 2. from The person committing it The 3. from The Preacher The 4. from The matter delivered The 5. The persons reproving it Sect. 1. The sinne it selfe From the sin itselfe I. It is no great sinne It is at the most but one of the little ones A. and so not worth the regarding A. 1. If it bee a sinne it is to be avoided how small soever in it selfe How small soever in comparison of other sinnes Ier. 4.14 Isa 3.16 The Lord taketh notice even of vaine thoughts disdainfull and proud lookes wanton eyes walking with stretched-forth necks and such other unseemly gestures Mat. 12.36 and of every idle word that men shall speake they shall give an account on the day of judgement how much more then taketh he notice of this sinne How much more shall wee be called to an account for the same Gutta cavat lapidem non vi sed saepè ●adendo 2. Even small sinnes continued in and unrepented of becomming at the length sinnes of customeare most dangerous A drop of water by falling on the hardest stone maketh it at the length hollow and the smallest sinne continued in doth at the length no lesse wound the conscience then the greatest yea those which at the length prove hainous crimes were but as we may so speake pettie offences Did not Mariners daily pumpe out the water that by little and little unperceived entereth the ship it would be thereby no lesse endangered then by some sudden great leake so did not Gods children daily mortifie their smallest corruptions they could not but at one time or other make shipwracke of Faith and of a good conscience 3. It is even in it selfe a great sinne and in like manner the cause of others as hath beene already shewed 4. Gods children make conscience even of their smallest sinnes 1 Sam. 24.5 If David doe but but off the lappe of Sauls garment his heart smites him for it Exod. 10.26 As Moses would have the cattell to goe with them and not an hoofe to bee left behind for Pharaoh that thereof they might take to serve the Lord their God in the wildernesse so must not we employ any one member on the service of Satan Rom. 12.1 but our whole man in every part and facultie thereof on the service of God at all times 5. Even for small sinnes as wee may so speake hath God inflicted fearefull judgements Gen. 20.2 6.18 as on the familie of Abimelech who had taken but not touched Sarai Abrahams wife 1 Sam. 6.19 2 Sam. 6.7 On the men of Bethshemesh for looking into the Arke and on Vzza for putting his hand thereon when the oxen shaked it 6. As the least sinne displeaseth God and for the least wee are to call upon God for mercy as David for the sinnes of his youth so ever the least occasioned the death of Christ Psal 1.25.7 II. Jt is an ordinary usuall thing and so the lesse to be regarded A. A. Therefore it is the more dangerous the more to be avoided 1 Pet. 3.20 Gods judgements being chiefly inflicted because of Nationall sinnes Was not disobedience the common sinne of the old world yet was not it left unpunished 2 Pet. 2.5 God spared not the old world saith S. Peter but saved Noah the eight person a Preacher of righteousnesse bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly Ezek. 16.49 were not pride fulnesse of bread abundance of idlenesse and unmercifulnesse to the poore the common sinnes of Sodome 2 Pet. 2.6 yet ●urned he it into ashes and con●emned it with an overthrow Agreeable hereunto is that of he Prophet touching Israel Hos 411. The Lord hath a controversie with the inhabitants of the ●and because there is no truth ●or mercy nor knowledge of God in the land Verse 2 By swearing and lying and killing and stealing and committing of adultery they breake out and blood toucheth blood Therefore shall the land mourne Verse 3 and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish The Benjamites one and all tooke part with those wicked men in Gibeah Iudg. 20.14 and did they not notwithstanding smart for it Though then Church-sleeping bee common it followeth not that therefore it is warrantable The rifer any evill is in the places or ages we live in the more carefull should wee be to shun and avoide the same See then saith the Apostle that yee walke circumspectly Eph. 5.15 16 not as fooles but as wise redeeming the time because the dayes are evill Ar● the times then wee live in o● the places wee abide in mor● then ordinarily evill in thi● kind That giveth us no liberty but should make so much the more wary lest wee b● taken napping Gen. 6.9 Noah was a just man in his generation even in that generation wherein the whole world was over-grown with wickednesse so should wee watch at Church though others be thereat taken with the sleeping evill III. To sleepe at Church is not hurtfull or prejudiciall unto others A. A. But what good is there hereby done unto any Malum est non fecisse bonum Chrys de virt vit To doe no good is in effect the same with to doe evill yea thus doing thou dost both hurt thy selfe and others Thy selfe as being hereby deprived of the sincere milke of the Word Others as being unto them through thy evill example a stone of offence IIII. To sleepe at Church is not so bad as then and there to have thoughts of covetousnesse Ezek. 33.31 eyes of adultery revenge disdaine and the like by being awake A. 1. A. The question is not which of the two are the lesser evill this or that 2. If thou didst seriously consider in whose presence thou art even in his who is a God cloathed with majestie and honour Heb. 12.29 a consuming fire and an everlasting burning who cannot away with sinne the least sinne in any and to what end thou didst come into Gods house thou wouldst neither sinne so nor so 3. Thy thoughts and lookes being such it appeares that thou makest but small conscience of thy wayes 4. If thou wouldst pray with the Psalmist Psal 119.36 Jncline mine heart unto thy Testimonies and not to covetousnesse Verse 37 And Turne away mine eyes from beholding vanity and