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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	damnation_n	drink_v	eat_v	10,899	5	8.2264	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96652	A good and seasonable caveat for Christians. Delivered in a sermon at the funerall of the right worshipfull Sir Charles Shirley, Knight and baronet, in the parish church of Breedon, in Leicester-Shire. / By John Wilson, Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word in the sayd parish. 7. Octob. 1646. Imprimatur, Jo. Downame.	Wilson, John, of Breedon, Leicestershire.	1646 (1646)	Wing W2899; Thomason E1182_5; ESTC R204901	27,614	71

his presence what zeale Ro. 12. 11. cheerefulnesse Psal. 100. 1. sinceritie Josh. 24. 14. and reverence Heb. 12. 28. you should use in the service which you performe to God Art thou to receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper take heed that thou doe it not rashly or unadvisedly it is the advice of the Apostle Let a man examine himselfe and so let him eate of that bread and drinke of that cup 1 Cor. 1. 28. 19. and he gives a good reason for it in the next verse for saith he hee that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himselfe not discerning the Lords body What shall I say more In a word art thou a beleever and hast embraced the Faith of Christ take heede thou undertake not any thing without due advice and deliberation lest that old proverbe be verified by thee qui ante non cavet post dolebit he that doth not beware before will be sory after Now lest what I have said be not enough to make us take heede to our selves in all our undertakings I beseech you look back into the former ages and consider what and how many miserable inconveniences and sad disasters have happened to severall people only for want of good take heede it was the want of good take heede that cast the Angels out of Heaven it was the want of good take heede that exiled Adam from Paradise that brought the flood on the old World it was the want of good take heede that brought sire and brimstone on Sodome and Gomorrah that rent ten tribes from Rehoboams kingdome 1 King 12. it was the want of good take heede that shut the five foolish virgins out of Heaven Mat. 25. and it is the want of this good take heede that shall bring a generall destruction on the wicked and ungodly 1 Thes. 5. 3. No more but this consider I pray you what is it that brings so many some to poverty some to disgrace some to sodaine desperate and dangerous deaths but only the want of good take heede that you may therefore escape all these inconveniences and thousands more which are most incident to the carelesse I beseech you remember the exhortation of Moses in my Text Take heede to your selves Quest But then as the Souldiers said to John the Baptist Master what shall wee doe So may you say to me you have we confesse proved that we should bee circumspect and take heede to our selves but we would know the manner how wee should doe it or what it is that we should take heede to in our selves Ans. I answere You must first take heede to your eyes they are apt to range after iniquity and if they be not diligently watch't they prove arch-traytors to mankinde untill Adam and Eve lusted with their eyes sin and Sathan entred not into their hearts Gen. 3. had not Herod look't or Herodias dancing hee had not so rashly granted her John Baptists head Mar. 6. had not Potiphars wife given her eyes liberty to behold Joseph she had not lusted to defile her marriage bed with him King 2. had not Sichem seene Dina Jacobs daughter he had never ravish't her Gen. 34. These evils proceede from licentious gazing on such objects and therefore saith the Prophet turne away mine eyes lest they behold vanitie it was the want of taking heede to the eyes that made Tarquinius Sextus to ravish Collatinus wife that made Queene Cleopatra to use her brother Ptolomeus as her husband that made Macareus to lye with his sister Canaces and Menephron to defile his own Mother And indeede it is God's great mercy that he hath placed in the eyes as well the remedy as the malady fletum visum the faculty of seeing and the sluce of teares Vt qui delinquant videndo poeniteant plorando that they who have offended by seeing may repent by weeping if therefore thou wilt escape the punishment of weeping I meane of eternall weeping in hell fire take heed to thine eyes look not after a woman to lust after her for then thou hast committed adultrie with her in thy heart Mat. 5. In a word make a Covenant with thine eyes that they behold nor vanitie Secondly Take heede to your eares which most commonly are more open to Syrens songs then to heavenly ditties to obscene communication then to the precepts of God and therefore Christ sets a double guard at this Port of hearing and both delivered in the termes of my Text The first is in Mark 4. 24. where we are bid to take heede what we heare and the other in Luke 8. 18. where we are bid to take heede how we heare Psal. 141. 3. hee keepes both these sayings well that heares the word of God diligently and practises it in his life and conversation constantly Thirdly Take heede to your tongue for this is often times an unruly member so unruly that as one well observes the port-c●●llis of the teeth and the counterscarfe of the lips are not sufficient to keepe it in unlesse with David wee daily pray Psal. 14. 3. Set a watch O Lord before my mouth keepe thou the doore of my lips Take heede to your understanding that it be not corrupted this is the first doore the Devill knocks at the first forge where sin is framed the first commander the Devill seekes to corrupt for though he intend to sack the whole citty of our Soules yet hee makes his first assaults against this Port. And therefore as the besieged fortifie most where they feare most batteries or assaults so take we heede to looke carefully to our understandings that they bee not blinded with ignorance nor insnared with the subtiltie of Atheisme Heresie Popery Schisme or any thing else repugnant to God and his truth Take wee heede to our understandings that they dive not too farre into the hidden mysteries of the word There is enough revealed both for our faith and our salvation Mitte arcana Dei meddle not with the secrets of God Quod Deus texit quis revelabit what God hath hidden let not the understanding pry into Consider wee that our understanding or intellectuall part is that which the Devill Hereticks Atheists Papists Schismaticks and many other pernicious enemies much labour to corrupt and therefore let us take great heede to preserve it Take heede to your will which will be either the seate of sin or sanctuary of grace if it be depraved it hath a very malignant influence upon all our actions and therefore as besiegers of a Garrison labour most to possesse themselves of the chiefe Sconce or capitoll knowing that thence they may command the whole City so the Devill besieging the City of our soule labours chiefely to captivate our will because he knows that if that become subject to his Lawes and embrace his Scepter all the faculties of the whole man will be tributaries to the same service Take heed therfore that your wills be not enslaved by Sathans policy but renued by grace and