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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	punish_v	punishment_n	sin_n	7,494	5	5.5732	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49605	Ethice christiana, or, The school of wisdom wherein the grounds of moral philosophy are demonstrated to comply with the principles of Christian religion, by a mixt exercise of grace and vertu / written originally in French ... by M. De la Serre ; and done into English by J.A.	La Serre, M. de (Jean-Puget), ca. 1600-1665.; Alardis, James.	1664 (1664)	Wing L457; ESTC R24425	37,313	130

us to remove both Heaven and Earth in quest of our repose if both of them faile us in the end so that we be not able to find it and if the Earth remain to us it serveth for a tomb to our hopes aswell as to our selves 18. We must of necessity work in the Lords Vineyard if at the end of the day we would receive our wages all other employments are unprofitable as well as our sorrow for the mispending of time seeing the want thereof renders us incapable to repaire our losses 19 Whatsoever Actions you do here below all the recompense that the World can give you for them cannot enrich you and if you do not take your aime beyond Time all the houres thereof are fatall to you seeing every moment may sound your retreat but such a retreat as hath no returne 20. Undervalue all things here below seeing all that you set your eye upon changeth countenance with you and let your apprehension be continually filled with this truth that only the good which we do in this life is the sole consolation which remains unto us at our death 21. Know then that Good hath this property it replenisheth with joy the heart of him who exerciseth himself in the practice thereof and although a man should never expect any other reward yet the good it self is alwaies our Glory our Happiness and our Prize 22. Our Actions are only rendered considerable by their Object and End and although the event of them be happy yet if their Object be not just and lawful both shame and loss are inseparable companions to their success 23. It is not enough not to do evill we do it alwayes when we cease from doing of good We must diligently worke out our own salvation without the intermission of one moment for that one moment may prove most fatal to us 24. Consider that in this World every man liveth as he pleaseth and although the manner of living and dying be quite different all must undergo the same judgement for an Eternity 25. If you desire to establish your repose firmly lay the foundation thereof upon your Salvation which ought to be the only scope of all your actions else they are to no purpose Suppose you were eminent in Honour and Riches this is as much as to enjoy a temperate Aire in the Country wherein you are but seeing you are alwayes upon your journey the change of the Climate will breed an alteration in the countenance of your Fortune and in the end you shall be only happy in remembring that you have been so 26. Consider that the vertuous actions of our life are as so many pictures of our good fortunes whereof the object being alwaies present renders us still happy So that the honest and vertuous man hath this advantage that he surviveth himself before his death seeing he enjoyeth the felicity of his life past by the pleasant remembrance thereof which abideth with him CHAP. II. That in this Life we can find no true ease but in peace of Conscience 1. YOu may well looke for Ease here below but you must give it to your self before you can find it it must be a piece of work of your own making seeing you cannot obtain it but only by the force of your own Industry 2. Suppose that Messengers bring you glad news every day and that your affairs are regulated by your wishes yet you cannot deny but that the remorse of Conscience hindereth your mind from enjoying that rest which it desireth 3. Consider that all sins carry their torment along with them and that God punisheth them in the Thought aswell as in the Will and that with a continual punishment seeing the remembrance of them is both the Torment and Executioner 4. The Sinner never taketh his Pastime with delight because the justice of God pursueth him alwayes to punish him without intermission and mingleth so many thorns among his Roses that the sighs of his heart do often belie the cheerfulness of his countenance 5. Imagine the greatness of the disturbance of a Malefactor fain would he flee from his punishment but the thoughts of his crimes do torment him incessantly so it is with the Sinner as God is every where so the Sinner feeleth his justice in every place which keepeth his soul upon the rack by the remembrance of his sin 6. Think not to find any delight yea in your very pleasures having your soul contaminated with the staines of your crimes God is pleased to change the nature of your contentments and to turne the subject of your consolation into that of your torment 7. Let the wicked man withhold no delightful thing from his Senses and let Voluptuousness be their nursing-mother her breasts are alwayes filled with bitterness to seed them seeing that by chastisements from above they find an unsavoury taste in the most delicious dishes 8. Trust not to the testimony of wicked men for God layeth his hand upon them to such an extremity as to make them insensible of his correction and as this stupidity is a marke of their reprobation so it witnesseth before hand the Eternity of the torments to which they are destined 9. Innocency carrieth alwayes Heaven with it and it is never found in any soul without communicating unto it the sweetness of that Repose which doth properly belong unto it it being the effect and Innocency the cause 10. Hell also followeth Sin unseparably so that Sin causeth its own torments in bringing them forth by reason of the necessity of justice which doth alwayes punish it 11. Know for a truth that the repose of the Conscience bringeth forth peace to the Soul and as both these together make up a Heaven upon Earth so there is no other Hell but that which consists in the privation of them 12. As often as you make a divorce from your Conscience you proclaime warr against your self and it is a warr wherein no Truce is to be looked for seeing justice gives none 13. Study to employ well the precious moments of your dayes if you would not die a Death which will admit no return to life again unless it be to make you the eternal object of the wrath of an angry God 14. O how unhappy is he at the hour of Death who hath mispent the time of his Life because as his sorrow for this fault is in vain so he feeleth himself instantly strucken with an evill both sudden and incurable 16. That God hath a love towards his creatures doth manifestly appear by the trouble they are in when he withdraweth his presence from them for they can find no rest but in him alone 17. There is no pleasure that can satisfy our mind or fill our heart because it is the property of our Envy to be irregular and from the satiety thereof there ariseth alwayes a new appetite 18. All that you do without consulting the Oracle of Heaven passeth for an improfitable labour whereof the pain abideth although the work

be ended seeing the grief thereof is continual and the reward imaginary 19. Do not lull your self asleep in the success of your wicked designes the justice of God is so much the more rigorous as it appeareth slow and if you do not prevent it by correcting your self first you shall never be able to shun it 20. Learn to admire the mercy of God that giveth your heart leave every moment to justify it self before him seeing the least of the sighs thereof can expiate the crimes of it 21. Establish unto your self a way of living wherein Honour may be your object and Reason your guide and be not slack in your duty this is the only means to find repose in the troubles of the World and to enjoy a calme amidst the storm whereby we are continually agitated 22. Every body loveth life and yet no body learns to live all the world dyeth and yet there is none that knoweth rightly how to dy This Science ought to be the only study of the Wiseman seeing it alone can sufficiently instruct us in the Art of working out our own Salvation 23. A Soul deprived of Grace is alwayes in Alarum being continually disturbed with the horrour of the crimes it hath committed and it may be said truly of it that it is a blind thing walking along the brink of a precipice 24. Imagine the disquiet of a sick-man in the heat of a continual Feaver He hath no rest night nor day feeling himself by little and little consumed by a secret fire which burneth him without being perceived devoureth him without being known and at last reduceth him to ashes without giving the least moment of intermission to his painful burnings 25. This poor afflicted man is the true picture of a guilty Soul which seeing it self buried in a body tormented with a continual agony feels it self already burning in apprehension in those Eternal Fires which are destined for the punishment thereof No wonder if his disquiet be great seeing every moment may be the last of his life and the first of the just vengeance of an angry God CHAP. III. That we ought to draw our consolation against the miseries which befall us from the consideration of the Original whence they are derived 1. COmplain not of the Crosses which are inflicted by the Divine Majesty they are presents sent from Heaven your patience will shortly make you know the value of them 2. Complaints are unseemly in the mouth of a Malefactor if you can do no other thing but provoke God do not augment the number of your offences in murmuring against his justice 3. You must know that God doth commonly afflict his Elect in strowing under their feet those Roses wherewith his head was crowned therefore seeing he hath been a sharer in them his Elect can have no part in his glory but by right of that succession 4. What cause have you to complain of the justice of God seeing his very rigours are the effects of his compassion he punisheth you in this World to the end that he may shew mercy to you in the next in his vengeance he constraineth you to admire his Bounty 5. In all your afflictions let Reason prevent Time in comforting you and be indebted to none but your self for the healing of your pain seeing you may find the remedy in your submissive Spirit 6. He that complains of the evill that he suffers must needs have forgotten the evil he hath done if he doth remember it his complaint passeth for a new crime greater then any that went before 7. As often as Heaven punisheth you do reason to justice in suffering without murmuring the chast sement which it inflicteth upon you silence and Submission do alwayes appease the wrath of God 8. There is no greater misery then to complain of those miseries that happen unto you because in murmuring against Justice which punisheth you you constrain it to augment the force thereof and to fall more heavily upon you by reason of this last crime which you commit 9. A heart filled with God doth never sigh but for joy amidst the greatest afflictions so that seeing he loveth much more then he suffereth the excess of his love doth so vehemently moderate that of his pain that by little and little he loseth the feeling thereof 10 Consider that you are the cause of your own afflictions to the end that punishing your self by the sorrow which you ought to have for them this sorrow may be your first comfort 11. How unhappy are the favorites of Fortune to follow the blind in their blindness suppose she should lead them a pleasant way yet that is no other then the way to their grave where they shall find the thorns of all those Roses which they have trampled upon 12. In all your calamities look up to the hand that smites you before you complain of the stroke it hath given you God doth never punish us in Time but to make us afraid of his vengeance in Eternity 13. The Time of afflictions is of short continuance in respect of that Eternity of glory which is to succeed it the evill of our sufferings soon passeth away but the good of our constancy ought never to have an end 14. Generous spirits have alwayes carried a respect and reverence toward the unfortunate knowing that they are sick persons who should at least be comforted if they cannot be cured 15. Never refuse comfort to an afflicted person to the end that God may repay it you when you stand in need of it As all the evils are punished in this world so is all the good recompensed 16. Flee not from the unfortunate seeing that to morrow you may be of their number but render to them what you would expect from others if you were in their condition The afflicted have no enemies seeing their misery maketh truce with all those who have proclaimed war against them 17. If it be true that the Object hath influence upon the Power or Faculty there is no afflicted person which may not receive abundance of consolation in the apprehension of a crucified Saviour never was any frustrated that came to him in sincerity 18. Be not weary in suffering as the Rose fadeth the prickles thereof become blunt it is not a small comfort to you in your crosses that you can reckon the houres thereof Those evils that must needs take an end are never of long continuance 19. O how happy a thing it is to grow old in affliction He that dyeth upon the Cross carrieth his death so far into the second Life which he hopeth for that he feeleth himself reviving according to the measure that he feeleth himself dying 20. The livery of the unfortunate is the livery of the Predestinate and it may be truly said that their silent constancy is continually working at those Crowns which are appointed to be the reward of their labours 21. They that rejoyce at the miseries of others prepare their own punishment after they have