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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	time_n	week_n	12,399	5	9.7424	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04600	Observations on the last Dutch wars, in the years 1672 and 1673. with some reflections upon the city and country.		1679 (1679)	Wing O104; ESTC R219204	10,666	15

OBSERVATIONS ON THE LAST Dutch Wars In the Years 1672 and 1673. WITH SOME REFLECTIONS UPON THE CITY and COUNTRY Deut. 23. 9. When the Host goeth forth against thine Enemies then keep thee from every wicked thing LONDON Printed in the Year 1679. OBSERVATIONS ON THE LAST Dutch Wars etc. I It being my fortune as well as other younger Brothers to run the risk of the world to live gentily it was my chance to be in the last Dutch Wars where through my own observation and the Sailers complaint I took notice of these three things First the general neglect of the Lords Day throughout the whole Fleet we working upon the Sunday as much if not more than we do upon others and that whilst we are in harbour and all this is done under the Name of Expedition And when we are at Sea a Commander thinks himself sufficiently excused to God and the World if he can find any trifling business to shift off his Chaplain from the duty of the day if it be but the providing of a Dinner for two or three of his Brother Captains and a Lieutenants Command for a Rope for the Boat shall be sooner answered with Boatswain's call than the Bell for prayers And this is exactly contrary to the first Article of War Anno decimo tertio Caroli Secundi Regis That all Commanders Captains and Officers at Sea shall cause the publick Worship of Almighty God according to the Liturgy of the Church of England Established by Law to be solemnly orderly and reverently performed in the respective Ships and that Prayers and Preachings by the respective Chaplains in holy orders of the respective Ships be performed diligently and that the Lords day be observed according to Law He that was ever able to read his Bible can tell that Joshua's Sword prevailed no longer than Moses held up his hands and had it not been for Moses's Prayers Joshua for all his valour had been defeated But we like the Scribes Pharisees and Hypocrites pay Tithes of Mint Annise and Cummin but omit the weightier matters of the Law and think that Powder and Bullet will do sufficient Execution without the blessing of God and that a Commander saying Bear in and keep your Luff shall as soon put a Fleet to flight as Gideon discomfit an Host but let us remember that it was the Sword of the Lord and Gideon And we see that God in Deut. 20. assigneth an employment to the Priests as well as to the Officers of the Camp But they cry out what good do these Churchmen do And as they are little regarded there so are they not taken notice of when they come home as if there were no respect or preferment deserved by venturing their Lives in the service of God and their King This fault is not only to be found in his Majesty's Navy but also to be deplored in the Country the Lords Day being set apart only for some idle business which we cannot afford our selves time enough to do in the Week or otherwise to run to hear a man that preach's twice a day calls us Saints and the Children of God but never instructs us what we must do for the attaining of these Titles and this only amounts to spiritual pride for they being once puffed up with being the Children of God they never think of honouring their Fathers and Mothers according to that Law which God hath enacted Such that pride themselves in the knack of Preaching and neglect Catechising make more Rebels than good Subjects Two such Parsons I hear of not far off who strive to out-Preach one another not I guess who should make the best Christians and consequently the best Subjects but who shall get the most popular Applause the Country People being more delighted with a well nosed Tone than Sense and Reason This might easily be remedied were those Acts put in execution which are made for the observing of the Lords Day But alas most of our Justices understand nothing but to cry so ho to a brace of Greyhounds and to speak well to a pack of Dogs and as much Law as to take away a man's Gun to make him pay his Fine for killing of a Hare or a Pheasant and threaten to whip a Beggar to save an Alms but in the more weighty points of the Law would be baffled upon the Bench by every High-shooe were it not for those worthy Gentlemen who never made profession of the Law but have made it their study and those that have been bred to that noble Profession and are in that honourable Commission Such Peruk'd Novices rendring the name of a Justice as ridiculous as a Fool doth that of a Clergy-man This day was very exactly observed by the French and very much to our shame and how unreasonable is it since God hath given us six for own labour we don't according to his command allow him the seventh for his service The second is that dreadful Prophanation of the Lords Name for every Sailer can ring a peal of Oaths as true as any of your London Huffs to whom if your back be towards when you hear him open you can't distinguish him by his mouth from one of your Town Gallants for he carries the shauntee behaviour in his Tongue though not in his Hat and Knee And this is exactly contrary to the second Article of War Anno Decimo Tertio Caroli Secundi Regis Every Person and Persons in his Majesties pay using unlawful and rash Oaths Cursings Execrations Drunkenness Uncleanness or other scandalous Actions in derogation of Gods honour and corruption of good manners shall be punished by Fine Imprisonment or otherwise as the Court Marshal shall think fit This as I have been told was punished by the gallant Earl of Sandwich with the loss of their victuals for that day and they themselves I have heard in a Godly humour complain and say For these two things we do not prosper and that it was not so in Oliver's days And we know that God will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain Yet though they look upon this and other Sins as Beams in their Brothers they only esteem them as Motes in their own eyes and most of them like our empty Bullies think not the other words which God knows in respect of Oaths and Curses to be very few to have any thing of Lustre without these foyls and many of them like some of our Gentlemen are made up of nothing but Oaths and Execrations so that if men were but aboard a Ship they need not send for such a one to hear him swear for there they may have their ears deafned with this hellish Thunder which will give as smart and as brisk claps from their Jaws as from the mouths of those formal Fops who made it their study to let them off with a Grace And if the Fine for it were appropriated to his Majesty's use it would until this vice was reform'd amount to much more than