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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	rest_v	sabbath_n	17,277	5	10.3172	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04495	The mothers legacie, to her vnborne childe. By Elizabeth Iocelin; Mothers legacie to her unborne childe	Jocelin, Elizabeth, 1596-1622.; Goad, Thomas, 1576-1638. aut	1624 (1624)	STC 14624.5; ESTC S105581	25,697	155

forget how great the sin is and so by little and little thou maist get thy selfe a habit of it Reproue it in thy friend if hee will brooke reproofe but it is to no end to reproue a scorner Rebuke not a scorner lest hee hate thee but rebuke a wife man and he will loue thee Prou. 9. 8. Alwayes keepe a watch before thine owne lips and remember that thou needest not sweare if thou doest not accustome thy selfe to lie For if thou vsest to tell truths thy word will bee as currant as thy oath I hope thy calling if God hath made thee a man will bee of authority to reproue this vice in others and not to delight in it thy selfe If thou beest a Daughter remember thou art a Maid and such ought thy modesty to bee that thou shouldest scarce speak but when thou answerest thou art young speake if need bee and yet scarcely when thou art twice asked Eccles. 32. 8. Whatsoeuer thou bee thou hast a calling which thou must not dishonour thou art a Christian and Christ commaunds thou shalt not sweare at all Mat. 5. 34. The next vice too too common in this age is Drunkennesse which is the high way to hell a man may trauell in it from sinne to sinne till the Deuill shew him hee can goe no further as a Traueller from Inne to Inne till hee come to his iourneyes end Oh thinke how filthy is that sinne that makes a man a beast all his life and a Deuill at his death Solomon askes To whom is woe to whom is sorrow to whom is strife to wbom is murmuring to whom are wounds without cause and to whom is rednesse of the eies And in the next verse answers Euen to them that tarry long at the Wine and to the end of the Chapter sets forth the miseries occasioned by this vice Prou. 23. That thou maist auoid this sinne be carefull in the choise of thy friends for it is they that will betray thee to this sinne Neuer make choice of a Drunkard to thy companion much lesse thy friend For our Kingdome hath of late afforded more examples of those who haue beene slaine by their friends in a drunken quarrell than those that haue fallen by the enemies sword and how vnfit is hee to bee a friend that when thou shalt haue need of his counsell will haue his head instead of wisdome fild with wine and adde rather griefe than comfort to thy necessities And againe what secret thou shalt trust him with thou maist bee sure shall be vomited forth and all thy comfort must bee He did it vnwillingly when hee knew not what hee did Thus thou seest to bee a Drunkard is to bee a man vnfit for Gods seruice or good mens company I beseech God giue thee grace to detest it Next I must exhort thee from a sinne that I cannot name thou must search thine owne heart for it It is thy darling sin that which to enioy thou couldst resist all others at least thou thinkest so But doe not harbour it search diligently for it in thine owne nature and when thou hast found it cast it headlong from thee It is thy soules subtill betraier and all thy other sins depend vpon it There is not so much danger in all the rest that thou contendest with as in this one that thou art loth to call a sinne Thy other sinnes are like a rebellious multitude in a common wealth which wanting a head doe little harme This is their head cut it off and thou shalt see all thy other sins dispersed as an army of fearfull Rebels when they heare their great leaders head hath kist the blocke 10 When thou hast spent the day in religious and honest exercises in the euening returne againe to some good meditation or study which conclude with prayer commending thy selfe to God and so shalt thou ioyfully goe to thy supper which done and the time of rest come as thou begannest in the morning so shut vp the day with humble thanksgiuing for all the benefits that day receiued hearty repentance for all thy sinnes committed naming and bewailing them For thou knowest not if thou repentest not to night whether thou shalt liue to repent tomorrow And though thou wert sure of it yet the oftner thou makest euen thy accounts with God thy sleepes will bee the sounder and thou shalt awake with a heart full of ioy and ready to serue the Lord. Last commit thy selfe and all that is thine to God in zealous Prayer vsing Doctor Smiths euening prayer as his morning both which though they be for a family yet are they easily reduced to a priuate mans prayer So going to bed take thy rest beginning and ending in him who is both first and last Thus spend the six dayes thou hast to labour in that thou maist bee ready to celebrate the Sabbath to which there belongs another Remember 11 Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day This duty so often and earnestly commanded by GOD himselfe in the old Testament so confirmed to vs in the new by the Resurrection of our Sauiour in memory whereof it is called the Lords day and perpetually celebrated by the Church yet in these dayes as if wee neither had part in the creation nor redemption of the world too many keepe no Sabbath or at the most but a shadow of a Sabbath Where almost can wee finde one that will lose a good bargaine rather than make it on the Lords day Or that will bridle his owne desires to sanctifie that day Seeing therefore this danger in which thou maist easily bee entrapped by the Deuils subtilty and following the multitude I cannot but with all my power exhort thee carefully to keepe the Sabbath to which end I pray thee marke well the fourth Commaundement Remember that thou keepe holy the Sabbath day six dayes shalt thou labour and doe all that thou hast to doe but the seuenth is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt doe no manner of worke thou nor thy sonne nor thy daughter thy man seruant nor thy maid-seruant nor thy cattle that is within thy gates For in six dayes the Lord made Heauen and Earth the Sea and all that is therein and rested the seuenth day wherefore the Lord blessed the seuenth day and hallowed it If thou wilt bee won to the due obseruation of this day as an obedient seruant see God commands Remember that thou keepe holy the Sabbath day If as a louing and dutifull sonne see how GOD perswades thee by equity grounded vpon his owne bounty to thee Hee hath giuen thee six dayes to doe thine owne workes and hee requires but one of thee What canst thou say for thy selfe why thou shouldest not wholly that day giue thy selfe to his seruice Lastly if thou wilt learne how to serue him as a good Scholler he teaches thee an admirable way both by rule and example First by rule Thou shalt doe no manner of worke in it then by

example He made the whole world in six dayes and hee rested the seuenth wherefore hee blessed it Seeing God thus commands thee by his power perswades thee in his mercy and teaches thee both by rule and his owne most gratious example how canst thou bee so deuoid of grace nay of reason as not to obey so iust a Master so mercifull a Father so gracious a Teacher If thou make not a conscience of keeping this day howsoeuer a dull security may possesse thee to flatter thy selfe thou indeed makest conscience of nothing For I am perswaded if thou canst dispence with thy selfe to prophane this day either for thy profit or pleasure thou wilt not sticke vpon the like occasion to breake all the rest of the Commandements one after another Therefore for Christs sake bee watchfull that the Deuill deceiue you not nor none of his instruments draw thee away from this dayes duty Hee is alwaies busie and ready at hand to draw thee away from God but this day without doubt hee doubles all his forces hee will prouoke thine eies to sleepe hee will send heauinesse and dulnesse to thy heart and perhaps paine to thy body if he can so much preuaile any sleight any tricke to stay thee from Gods house and from the Congregation of his people hee will surely vse nay hee will sometimes doe it with religious pretences as to pray at home reade a Sermon study the Scripture and to spend the time in such Christian exercises as are infinitely good at other times But I once heard a religious Preacher affirme and I beleeued him that those who had ability of body to goe to Church and yet out of any euill disposition for good it can hardly bee absented themselues though they prayed they were not heard It behoues thee by how much greater his practises are against thee that day so much the more to fortifie thy selfe against him at no hand let him stay thee from the Church there GOD hath promised to bee present and there hee is Darest thou then silly wretch absent thy selfe from him I know thou darest not Goe then with a heart prepared to pray by prayer and going meditate on Gods great mercies in the creation of the world his greater mercy in redeeming it and mingle with thy meditation prayers that may apply these great blessings to thy selfe So approach and enter with reuerent and feruent zeale the house of GOD and throwing away all thoughts but such as may further the good worke thou art about bend thy knees and heart to God desiring of him his holy Spirit that thou maist ioine with the Congregation in zealous prayer and earnest attention to his word preached And though perhaps thou hearest a Minister preach as thou thinkest weakly yet giue him thine attention and thou shalt finde that hee will deliuer something profitable to thy soule either that thou hast not heard before or not marked or forgotten or not well put in practise And it is fit thou shouldest bee often put in minde of those things concerning thy saluation Thus if thou spend thy time at Church thou wilt bee ready to giue thy selfe to meditate of the holy Word thou hast heard without which truly hearing profiteth little For it is with the soule as with the body though meat bee neuer so wholsome and the appetite neuer so great yet if any ill disposition in the stomacke hinder digestion it turnes not to nourishment but rather proues more dangerous So the Word if after hearing it bee not digested by meditation it is not nourishing to the soule Therefore let the time thou hast to bee absent from Church bee spent in praising God praying to God and applying to thy selfe what thou hast heard If thou hast heard a sinne reproued that thou art guilty of take it for a warning doe it no more If thou hearest of a good action which thou hast ouerslipt striue to recouer time and resolue to put it in act Thus by practising what thou hearest thou shalt binde it to thy memory and by making it thine owne make thy selfe most happy Learne of Isaiah the true obseruation of the Sabbath If thou turne away thy foot from the Sabbath from doing thy will on my holy day and call the Sabbath a delight to consecrate it as glorious to the Lord and shalt honour him not doing thy owne wayes nor seeking thine owne will nor speaking a vaine word Then shalt thou delight in the Lord and I will cause thee to mount vpon the high places of the earth and feed thee with the heritage of Iacob thy father for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Isaiah 58.13 It is a wonder to see how often God hath commanded this one Commandement and yet how slacke we are to keepe it Exod. 31. from the 12. verse is all commanding this againe in the 34.21 and diuers places more Learne then to prepare thy heart early for this day which if thou obseruest well God will blesse thee and thy labours all the weeke Thus farre I haue endeuoured to exhort thee to thy duty towards God 12 Of which the honour due to thy Parents is such a part as cannot bee separated for God commands it Honour thy father and thy mother it is the first Commandement of the second table as Thou shal haue none other Gods but mee is of the first Idolatry being the greatest sin against God and disobedience to parents being the ring-leader in sinnes against man wee are first warned of them as if in case we should fall into them it were too late to auoid the other For if wee once become in heart Idolaters it will be no hard matter to be a bower down to an Image to abuse Gods holy Name and to prophane his Sabbath So if wee dare disobey good Parents at that breach theft murther adultery falsenesse couetousnesse easily enter Nay I dare say if thou breakest either of these Commandements thou breakest all of the first and second Table for as thou canst not bee idolatrous without breaking all the rest so thou canst not bee a disobedient childe but thou art a murderer a double one first of nature in thy selfe which if thy wicked purposes doe not smother will of her selfe breake forth into that duty For an example the story of AEneas Ihewes how much it was obserued by them that receiued not the Commandement from Gods owne mouth as did the Iewes yet he exposed himselfe to all dangers rather than hee would forsake his father Secondly thou art a murtherer of thy father who hauing stored vp all his ioy in thee hath by thy disobedience his gray head brought with sorrow to the graue which God forbid And what difference shall I say is there betweene a disobedient childe and an adulterer the one forsakes her by whom he giueth being vnto others the other despiseth those from whom hee had his owne being Truly this is a fearefull adultery and sinne is a crafty strumpet she will allure thee