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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	affection_n	love_v	true_a	4,053	5	4.6245	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55939	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor and court of aldermen at Guild-Hall-Chappel, July the 23th, 1682 by Thomas Pargiter ...	Pargiter, Thomas, 1642 or 3-1705.	1682 (1682)	Wing P356; ESTC R604	14,925	40

And this Duty of not wronging others is very much improved in the New Testament and our Saviour hath there advanced it to an higher pitch than it was before for he is there so far from giving us leave to do the least wrong to others that he hath strictly commanded us to be kind to our very enemies and to do good to those very Persons that hate us and deal evilly with us and to suffer the greatest injuries from others rather than to do the least harm to them And we may observe that most of the Precepts delivered by him in his famous Sermon upon the Mount are such as put us upon a severe honest course of Life and leave no room at all for any kind of crooked and deceitful dealin●s amongst us So that now under the Gospel it is more especially our Duty to be of an innocent and harmless conversation to live without Guile and Deceit in the World and to keep our Hands pure and clear from violence and wrong and from all manner of unjust dealing The ancient Christians that lived in the first Ages of the Church thought themselves strictly obliged by the Doctrine of Christ to do so as plainly appears by that well known and that often cited account which Pliny gave of them in a Letter to Trajan the Emperour when he had begun a Persecution against them for in his Letter to that Heathen Emperour he tells him that all that could be proved against his Christians was only this that they used at set times to meet together early in the Morning before day to Worship Christ and that they did then bind themselves not to Rob or Steal or commit Adultery not to break their Word or falsisie their Trust or the like Thus honest had these former Christians their conversation amongst the Gentiles thus harmlesly and inoffensively did they behave themselves in the World and thus carefully were they to abstain from the very appearance of doing any wrong so that the Heathens themselves who watched for their halting could find no other fault with them nor charge any other crime upon them but only this that they were Christians And though the Christians of our daies to their shame be it spoken are in their temper and their carriage very unlike to these Christians of old yet the Doctrine of Christ in this matter is still the same and doth as strictly require us to forbear the doing of any wrong as ever it did them But farther yet Thirdly We must not do any manner of wrong to others nor in any thing deal injuriously with them because that it is required of us that we should love them The loving of one another is the Royal Law of Christ and that which is peculiarly his Commandment It is indeed an old Commandment as old as the Law of Moses nay as old as the Law of Nature it self for long before Moses made it Written Law God himself had made it a branch of the Law of Nature within us But our Saviour hath now so fully instructed us in it and in such a special and particular manner obliged us to the performance of it that he calls it his New Commandment And indeed this Commandment of loving our Brethren he doth every where in the Gospel so strictly enjoyn us so earnestly recommend to us and so vehemently press upon us as if he almost required nothing else of us in comparison of this And if it is thus strictly and indispensably required of us that we should love others then to be sure we must not any waies wrong them or be injurious to them for how can the doing of any wrong to them be any waies consistent with our loving of them This would certainly be but a very cross and untoward way of shewing that kindness and affection to others that Christ hath Commanded us to have for them But farther yet than this Fourthly We must not do any manner of wrong to others not in any thing deal injuriously with them Because that it is not only required of us that we should love others but also that we should love them as our selves Indeed that known Precept Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self respects rather the quality than the quantity of our Love towards others and doth not command a parity but a likeness of it for we are not bound to Love others equally or so much as our selves but with the like manner and kind of Love that we do our selves Our Love then to others like the Love to our selves must not be false and feigned and hypocritical but true and real and without all manner of dissimulation Now if we are commanded to proceed so far in our kindness and good will and affections towards others as to Love them as truly and sincerely as we do our selves then it is past all doubt that we must not do any manner of wrong to them for there are none of us that Love our selves so little as to be willing that any kind of hurt or injury should be done to us But now 5. To make use of the Apostle's dreadfull Argument to Enforce this Duty and set it fully home upon you We must not do any manner of Wrong to others nor in any Matter whatsoever deal Injuriously with them Because that the Lord will be the Avenger of all such There is not one of all those that do so that shall escape the Vengeance of God and go away unpunished For the God that is above them doth narrowly observe all the Fraudulent Courses which they take and all the Injurious Practises which they use to the hurt of Others and will in due time call them to a very strick and severe Account for them and fully pay them that which they have Deserved They that break through all the Bounds of Equity and Justice to go beyond and over-reach their Neighbours that use any subtile Arts and Devices to defraud their Brethren of their Possessions and endeavour to encrease their own Substance by the Spoil which they make of other men are such Transgressors as God is highly Displeased with and doth usually sooner or later Plague even here in this World as well as in the World to come Sometimes he sends his secret Curse into their Houses which there sticks fast by them and like a Canker eats into their Estates ' and wastes away their Goods and by degrees devours and consumes all that they have And sometimes he causes the Hand of Publick Justice to find them out and to pluck the Spoil out of their Teeth and to gripe them and handle them roughly and make them Vomit up those forbidden Morsels those Morsels of Violence and Deceit which they had so glibly devoured And sometimes nay oftentimes indeed he takes the Matter more openly into his own Hand and punishes them in an extraordinary manner and in some signal way doth Execution upon them when they think themselves safe from fear and far enough from danger How secure did