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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	command_v	day_n	sabbath_n	10,415	5	9.9260	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55741	Christ's revvard of a Christians watch and ward, or, A sermon preached at the burial of Mr. John Berry of Thorverton in the countie of Devon, Aug. 23, 1654 by John Preston ...	Preston, John, b. 1598 or 9.	1655 (1655)	Wing P3297B; ESTC R1152	15,552	24

the last trumpet Arise ye dead and come to judgement sound and resound always in thine ears Mors tua Mors Christi fraus Munda Gloria coeli Et dolor Inferni sunt meditanda tibi Thy death and Christs Earths Fraud Heav'ns habitation And Pains of Hell let be thy meditation Labour to finde out what hinders from doing good whether too much business and pudder about the things of this world as if we were born to live here everlastingly The Scripture sets Bounds limits to us as 1 Cor. 7. 31. use this world as not abusing it not doting upon these passable and perishable things as our Saviour Luke 21. 34. Warn us to take heed that we be not overcharged as not with surfetting and drunkenness so not with the cares of this life There is an overcharging of the soul with cares as the body with meats or drinks As the glutton and drunkard are unweildy to work so cares eat up the power of the soul so that they loose many opportunities to do good and to receive good Cares choke the word But more particularly First in the Morning begin to wake with God and give thy soul a Mornings-draught steept in the Meditation of God his mercy and preservation before the World or the Flesh thrust in Bethink of all that may befall thee that day of all the dangers of all the troubles what Armor to encounter surely ye have need to buckle on your Armor with Patience to go up and down amongst men shall I say hissing Serpents of envy poisonous Adders of maliciousness and fiery flying Scorpions of slandering their neighbours and we must fight as S. Paul with Beasts after the manner of men You cannot go safe amongst these malevolent spirits without your coat of Male girded on about you by prayer Where the enemy once entered barracado up that passage more stronngly as souldiers do where the enemy hath broken in or the wall is weak Take Provisions for thy journey or undertakings that ye may be able to encounter whatsoever Accidents befall you Let God have the first fruits of the day the firstlings of your hearts Begin the day with prayers and it will sweeten all your actions of the day with comfort and all occurrences thus I commended my self to God in prayer and have set upon the day with this Resolution to do nothing that may offend God or a good conscience regarding no Iniquity in my heart but to pass the day in the works of my calling under the shadow of the Almighty c. Afterwards in the day let us do nothing wherein we conceive God ●ill not protect us that we cannot pray to God for a Blessing upon it If men would do so what would become of their lying swearing forswearing cheating couzning and underminings drinkings lasciviousness and vanities for why can they pray to God for a Blessing upon these courses In the day-time carry a heavenly minde in earthly business No Occurrent fa●ls out no Object is presented but a gracious heart will draw out something of it for religious use A good Christian is an Excellent Chimist and extracts heavenly things and things for heavenly uses out of earthly minerals and materials The present Harvest puts him in minde of the day of Judgement and the Reapers of the Angels When he plows the ground he thinks upon the fallow ground of his heart how it needs turning and ripping up when he weaves or sees the Weavers shuttle he meditates upon the shortness of mans life now at this end but presently at an end c. Thus he reasons with himself God hath set me in this place for a little time and here I must work in this inferiour calling and I must serve God with contentment in it As for recreation make it not a vocation you will quickly err in the use of lawfull things if ye be not watchfull Prosperity is a slippery Mountain if you walk not warily you will slip and slide glide into the forgetfullness of God of your selves of your duty which is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be that fall into it Take heed saith God when thou art in that good land that floweth with milk and hony that thou forget not c. Job knew that for to get full of all was the way to be forgetfull and therefore when his children were banqueting he was sacrificing If Athwarts and crosses of the world come look upon the hand that orders all wherein thou art prone to be overtaken take especial care to prevent and be watchfull there And because every man cannot use Privacy well be watchfull over thy self alone use the ●ime of Aloneness in Meditation of him that All One is though he ●e Three Let thy sequestration-time be thy holy meditation-time ●athan is busie still he will be too cunning for thee and make thy ●eart his shop if thou suffer it empty and fill it not with good ●houghts Let thy company be such as to whom thou mayest do good or ●rom whom thou maist receive good Good company strengthens ●ne another as stones in an Arch. Such company as thou keepest ●●ch thou art or such thou wilt be shortly or such thou wilt be ●ccounted to be When it comes to night reflect upon the occasions and passages ●f the day go over all where thou hast offended crave pardon ●here thou hast done well bless the Lord If thou have done good to none nor made thy self better thou mayest cry out heu diem perdidi Alas I have lost a day Suffer not thy body to rest before thy conscience be assured of peace reconciliation with God through Iesus Christ Dangerous to go to bed with a guilty conscience what do we know whither we shall live till the morning If we could account Religion a serious thing as it is we would not hear these things as strange Doctrines but we would think of them seriously and practise them affectionately Renew your Resolutions for the time to come for we have all broken our vows and covenants with God Observe all advantages for praying to and praysing of God speaking of his goodness to others with thy mouth and let thy life speak thereof lowder let God have all the Honour of his Assistance of thee blessing thy Labours Above all Remember the Sabbaoth do the work of the Lord onely upon the Lords day If thou mingle thy worldly business with his service thou spoylest all such mixings marr all Dead flies cause the ointment of the Apothecary to send forth a stinking savour Eccles. 10. 1. So distracted thoughts worldly mindedness and earthly talke and business upon the Lords day will cause all thy prayers and services to stink in the nostrils of God And if thou steal away of his time to use it about thine own occasions thou art a Thief also to thy self and to thine own profit For therefore God commanded thee to keep the Sabbaoth that he might bless thee that by thy