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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	commit_v	sin_n	sin_v	2,906	5	9.7075	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15845	The drunkard's character, or, A true drunkard with such sinnes as raigne in him viz. pride. Ignorance. Enmity. Atheisme. Idlenesse. Adultery. Murther. with many the like. Lively set forth in their colours. Together with Compleat armour against evill society. The which may serve also for a common-place-booke of the most usuall sinnes. By R. Iunius.	Younge, Richard.	1638 (1638)	STC 26111; ESTC S120598	366,817	906

in sinne Many examples of monsters and superlative sinners Sathan works men by degrees to this height ofimpiety and not all at once Cu●t●me of sin takes away the ●ense of sin Againe God hath proclaimed an enmity betweene the wicked and the godly for so long as the world endures Sathan is their King and they must seeke his wealth 〈◊〉 honour all they can and strive to enlarge his kingdome by winning all they can from Christ by a continuall w●rre and skirmish As they have not bene waiting 〈…〉 in any age They would have our company in torments No thi●g hut our 〈…〉 the herpen● and is ●eede Good men draw all they can 〈◊〉 heaven wicked all they can to ●ell They shall answer for soule-murther Reve. 2. 14 Other reasons why they would have our company in the burning lake 1 Being out of hope themselves they are loth others should fare better then they 2 They thinke it will be some ease and comfort in misery to have companions But this will ad to the pile of their torments The Devil beholding to whores but farre more to drunkards for none helpe to people hi● inferanall kingdome like them VVe should be as zealous and industrious to win soules to God Their punishment A description of the last judgement and of hell The same further amplified Drunkards shal have a double portion of vengeance to other men The drunkards sinns aggravated by the circumstances First the civily righteous have hel for their portion bu● drunkards are notoriously wicked 2. His sins are against knowledge and conscience 3. He sins not of infirmity but presum●●ously and of set purpose 4. His sins are so open and scandalous that the Gospel is dishonoured and 〈◊〉 God blasphemed 5 He commits many sins one in the● eck of another and multiplies the same sins often 6 He sins against mercy the abundance of meanes and the many warnings which others never had The severall wayes whereby God calls to repentance The same further amplified Even this booke will be a witnesse against them when their consciences are awakened And then perhaps the gate of mercy wi●● be sh●t Want of consideration the cause of all impiety neglect of obedience 7. He not onely commits foule crimes but drawes others into the same sinnes 8. They abuse and persecute not the evill but the good who are to God as the Apple of his eye That the use their tongues only a friv●lous excuse Some can better abide ast ake then others ascoffe ●hat is done to the godly Christ takes as done to himselfe And well b● may for their hatred is against God and Christ. Though they are so blind that they think they love God ●●●hom they wrong a●e their best friends to whom they owe their very lives 1 By their i●nocency The ●eligious keeps off judgement● f●om them ● by their prayers In their 〈◊〉 they will sue to the godly and desire them a lo●e to pray for them Of which many examples ●ho count it a sin to cease praying for their greatest enemies Wicked mens thoughts touching the religious not the same in distresse as ● prosperity Their ingratitude and great ●olly 10 Their si● is not against the ●fe of body or estate but agai●st she soules of men A●objection answered None ●ut counterseits wil be beaten from Christs standard by their scoffes and reproac●es Their intention of soule murther shall be rewarded as if they ●ed do●e the same actually 11. Their sin doth not extend it se fe t●● this or th●t person only but to milions yea after ages But the drun kard hath ● shift to evade al this and what else can be spoken 1. He can apply Christs passion and Gods mercy as a war rant for his li●●ntious●●sse The hope of an bypocrite is easi●y blowne into him and as sooneblown out of him VVicked men are altogether in e●treames either God is so mercifull that they may live how they list or so just that be will not pardon them upon their repentance Objection of the thief upon the crosse answered Object God in mercyis in finitly transcendent Answ. But this makes nothing for such as love their si is better ●hen their soules His mercy rejorceth against justice but destroyeth not his justice His mercy is a just mercy And therefore hath equally promised all blessi●gs to thosewhich keepe his commande ments and threatned all manner of judgements to those that break them VVicked men believe no part of Gods word really and in deed All the promises in tailed to believers and limited with the condition of faith repentance One part of the covenan● of grace is that we ● wil for●ake the Divell and all his workes constantly believe c. Mark 61. 16. Object What it is to be born againe Answ. What to repe● and bel eve how we may know whether we have or not Corruption wilmix with our purest devotion But he can repent when sicknes comes Death may be sudden and give ● ma● no lea●●e to be sick● 2 Or if death be not sudden repentance is no easie worke and late repentance is seldome true 3 Or suppose thou offer thy best devotions to God wil be accept of thy dry bones whē Sathan bath suk'd out all the ●arrow Admonition not to defer●e repentance Objection that most men are of a contrary judgement and practics VVhere of a double reason First few men beleeve the whole written word 2 Ignorance is th●cause of all sinne R●ghtly a ●anknows no more then be practiseth He that hath saveing knowledge bath every other grace Ob. That the strictest lovers are ●eldome the ●sest men ●●swered Worldly men count wisdome felly and folly wisdo●e They not alwayes the wise● which know most The religious man wi●er than the b●ma●i●t Several mispr●sions of wisdome 2. Wiser then the most cuuning ●oli●●●●s The c●●ning politician a foole in 6. particulars First be is without foresight and never thinkes of the reckoning he is to give 2 He will not beleeve exce●t his senses say ame● to it 3 Bray him in a morter he will not depart from his folly viz. his 〈◊〉 4. He cares more for a little muck to leave behind him then for soule or bedy 5. Hee ca● finde in his heart to goe to He● so his son 〈◊〉 be left rich 6 H● 〈…〉 trifles before things of greatest worth Worldly men are penny wise and pound ●oolish But it is otherwise with the godly Iudeed though the divell makes fooles of them yet he makes them wise enough to make fooles of any that will trust them They are wise men in foolish things and foolish men in wise things They may be called subtile persons but not wise men except we take the greatest ●olly for the greatest wisdome And even such fooles are the voluptio●s 6. Helpes to saving knowledge First disc●rd●al fi●●hy lusts and affections 2 Get an humble heart 3 Procure the eye of a lively faith 4 Be con●stant in prayer for the spirits helpe But pray not

not take warning by the word that gentle warner the next shall be harder the third and fourth harder then that yea as al the ten plagues did exceede one another so the eleventh single exceeds them all together innumerable are the curses of God against finners but the last is the worst comprehending and transcending al the rest the fearefullest plagues God still reserves for the upshot all the former doe but make way for the last When the Dreame and the Miracle and the Prophet had done what they could upon Nebuchadnezzar God calls forth his temporall judgements and bids them see what they can doe if they will not yet serve he hath eternal ones which will make them repent every veine of their hearts and soules that they did not repent sooner Oh that I could give you but a glimpse of it that you did but see it to the end you might never feele it that so you might be won if not out of faith yet out of feare for certainly this were the hopefullest meanes of prevention for though diverse theeves have robd passengers within sight of the Gallowes yet if a sinner could see but one glimpse of hell or bee suffered to looke one moment into that fiery Lake hee would rather choose to dye tenne thousand deaths then commit one sinne and indeed therefore are wee dissolute because we doe not thinke what a judgement there is after our dissolution because wee make it the least and last thing we thinke on yea it is death wee think to think upon death and we cannot indure that dolefull bell which summons us to judgement Something you have heard of it here and in Section the 44. But alasse I may as well with a Cole paint out the Sunne in all his splendor as with my pen or tongue expresse the joyes of Heaven which they willingly part withall or those torments of hell which they strive to purchase For as one said that nothing but the eloquence of Tully could sufficiently set forth Tullie's eloquence so none can expresse those everlasting torments but hee that is from everlasting to everlasting and should either man or Angell goe about the worke when with that Philosopher hee had taken a seven-nights time to consider of it hee might aske a fortnight more and at the fortnights end a moneth more and be at his wits end at the worlds end before he could make a satisfiing answer otherthen his was that the longer he thought of it the more difficult he found it alasse the paine of the body is but the body of paine the anguish of the soule is the soule of anguish § 121. BUt to be everlastingly in Hell to lye for ever in a bed of quenchles flames is not all for as thy sinnes have exceeded so shall thy sufferings exceed as thou hast had a double portion of sinne to other men here so thou shalt have a double portion of torment to them hereafter the number and measure of torments shall be according to the multitude and magnitude of offences mighty sinners shall be mightily punished for God will reward every man according to his workes Revel 20. 12. 13. and 22. 12. As our workes are better or worse so shall our joyes in heaven our paines in hell bee more or lesse as every one hath beene more wicked he shall bee more wretched Capernaum exceeding Sodome and Gomorrah in sin shall feele also an excesse of punishment and the willfull servant shall receive more stripes then the ignorant Luk. 1● 47. 48. Mat. 10. 15 which being so viz. that every man shall be punished according to merit what will become of thee surely thy sins are so prodigious that they scorne any proportion under a whole volume of plagues But see wherein thy sinnes exceed other mens that shall go to the same place of torment how every sinne receiveth weight and increase in regard of circumstances and how thou after thine hardnes and heart which cannot repent heapest unto thy selfe wrath against the day of wrath and of the declaration of the just judgment of God who will reward every man according to his workes Rom. 2. 5 6. The particulars which greaten aggravate and adde weight to thy sinnes and make them above measure sinfull are so diverse and sundry that I may not insist upon all yet some are of such import that I dare not omit them First the civill justitiary who omi●t●th the performance of those good duties which the Law require●h is in a damnable condition but thou in a farre worse who wilfully runnest on in the commission of those sinnes which the Law flatly forbids It was the not slaying of Agag 1 Sam. 15. that lost Saul his Kingdome and the favour of God The not circumcising of Moses his first borne Exodus 4. had like to have cost him his life The not relieving of poore Lazarus Luk. 16. was the rich mans ruine It was not the evill servants spending his Masters money which cast him into prison but the not gaining with it he did not evill with his Talent no it was enough to condemne him that he did nothing with it Now if barrennesse bee sent into the fire how can rapine looke to escape if omission of good works be whipped with Rodds surely commission of impieties shall be scourged with Scorpions The old world did but eat and drink build and plant marry and bee merry and were swept away with the Beesom of an universall deluge which things were in themselves lawfull what then shall become of Lyers Swearers Drunkards Adulterers malicious monsters scandalous sinners whose workes are in themselves simply unlawfull If the civily righteous shall not bee saved in that great and terrible day where then shall all ungodly drunkards and deboyshed swilbowles appeare Heaven is our Goale we all runne loe the Scribes and Pharisies are before thee what safty can it bee to come short of those that come short of heaven Except your righteousnes exceed c. Meroz was cursed by the Angell because they came not to helpe the Lord in the day of battell Iudges 5. 23. they fought not against God yet because they did not fight for him they are cursed And if they that stand in a luke-warm neutrality shall be spewed up sure the palpable and notorious offender who takes up armes against God and opposes all goodnesse shall bee trodden under foot of a provoked justice O consider this and lay it to heart you that commit sinnes of all sorts and sizes you that can tear heaven with your blasphemies and bandy the dreadfull name of God in your impure mouthes by your bloody oaths and execrations yee that dare exercise your saucy wits in prophane scoffes at Religion yee that can neigh after strange flesh c. § 122. SEcondly the sinnes which thou committest are against knowledge and conscience and so farre greater then the same sinnes if another should doe them ignorantly The servant that knowes his masters will and if he