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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	ghost_n	sin_n	sin_v	2,468	5	10.3762	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30592	Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of a self-denying heart, delivered in a treatise upon Hebrews II, 25, 26 / by Jeremiah Burroughs.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.	1650 (1650)	Wing B6095; ESTC R8121	454,946	722

that which thou sayest is hypocrisie is but the skin of the wilde beast thy own unshapen conceits to make thy self and their adversaries run upon them that you may the more freely venture because the wilde beasts would not venture upon the body of a man so freely but when they saw the body of a man in the shape of such a beast as they hated they ran upon it freely And so thou dealest with Gods Saints in putting an unshapen form upon them to let out thine heart more freely upon them But what if that which thou callest hypocrisie God account godliness yea know that this thy aspersion upon godliness to say it is hypocrisie and upon the people of God to say they are hypocrites is the reproach of Gods people and there is a great deal of evil in it more then thou art aware of In Mark 3. from verse 22. and so on when Christ cast out devils they said He casts them out by Beelzebub the Prince of devils well says Christ All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme but he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness but is in danger of eternal damnation So that it seems these Pharisees had sinned the sin against the Holy Ghost in that they said He had an unclean spirit because they attributed that to an unclean spirit which was done by the Spirit of Christ onely they did this against knowledge and in malice I do not say that all reproachers do sin against the Holy Ghost but if it be against knowledge and in malice consider how near it comes as their attributing that to an unclean spirit which came from the spirit of God was it so does not thy attributing that to hypocrisie which comes from the Spirit of God in sincerity come near it But lastly if it be for hypocrisie that thou reproach and not for godliness then it is for an evil if it be for an evil that thou doest reproach them then the better thou art and the better mood thou art in the more thou wilt reproach them But we see the contrary evident Wicked men they reproach the godly for hypocrisie as they say but they do it when they are in the height of their lusts but if they be in a good mood when they are on their sick beds or death beds and in their best condition they reproach them least therefore sure it was the good they reproached and not the evil But thus much concerning the first branch The second is this it calls for a trembling heart from those that shall rejoyce at the reproaches of Gods people Perhaps thou art one that wilt not reproach thy self yet thou mayest rejoyce at the reproaches of Gods people There is a great deal of evil in this Surely thou hast no love to them for love does not rejoyce in iniquity 1 Corinth 13. 6. When the Devil does sow the seed thou dost come with the harrows to cover the seed when thou dost rejoyce in their reproaches Proverbs 18. 8. The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly It may be translated The words of a tale-bearer are as the words of them tbat are wounded That is The tale-bearers that come and tell you things they come with expressions of a great deal of brokenness of heart as if their spirits were grieved at that they hear and they speak as if they spoke in the defence of them and then they are as wounds not the wounds of them they speak of but the wounds of the wounded And if any come in this way to cast reproaches upon Gods people they are taken down into the belly and they go glib down This is a slight of the Devil to make them pass without the least questioning for those that reproach seem to speak out of wounded troubled hearts But we do not rejoyce in this that we hear any evil of Gods people but we rejoyce that they are discovered and this is the work of God 1. If so be thy conscience be convinced that through the concealing of such and such things there was a great deal of mischief done before and there is a great deal of good like to come to the publike cause and the name of God in the discovery then you may rejoyce Secondly I appeal to conscience Suppose the discovery do a great deal of hurt Gods name does suffer by it is there a proportionable measure of grief in thy heart for the suffering of Gods name unto the joy that is in you for the discovery But thirdly suppose it were one that were near to you suppose it were your Father or Brother the Wife of your bosom the dearest friend you had that were discovered would your hearts rejoyce then if you rejoyce because God hath glory by the discovery then would you rejoyce if the dearest friend you had were discovered Fourthly yea suppose you did suffer much by this discovery that it were much to your prejudice you should lose something that your hearts are much set upon would you rejoyce then Fifthly if so be that it were for the discovery that you rejoyce then you would not rejoyce that they are discovered to such as will not honor Gods name You are glad that any know of it that Gods enemies know of it that will not make a good use of it but will be hardened in their sin and dishonor Gods name Take heed you do not deceive your selves to rejoyce so in the discovery of the people of God there is a great deal of evil in it more then you think of Joseph he feared Mary but he feared the name of God might suffer and therefore he would not make her a publike example The third branch is to those that are divulgers of the reproaches of Gods people Consider what you do they are the reproaches of Christ take heed you do not divulge the reproaches of Gods people Suppose they prove false do you think that after Gods people have suffered so much this will be enough to answer God and Christ for all the dirt that hath been cast upon his face I heard so that the names of Gods people may suffer much when they are under false reproaches As it is with a stick a stick when it is in the water it looks as if it were broken pull it out of the water and it is straight So it is with the names of Gods people when their names are under reports that go abroad in the world they look as broken but when their names are pulled out from the reports of the world they appear whole And therefore take heed of divulging the reproaches of those that are godly You may in this do the Devils work and carry the Devils pack The Apostle in 1 Timothy 3. 11. speaking of women says That they must be grave not slanderers The word in