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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	deny_v	form_n	godliness_n	5,889	5	9.5542	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95612	The uncharitable informer charitably informed, that sycophancy is a sin, pernicious to all, but most of all to himself. By Faithfull Teate, minister of the Gospel of peace and truth.	Teate, Faithful, b. 1621.	1660 (1660)	Wing T619; Thomason E1921_1; ESTC R209965	36,242	85

Innocent he will one day be more hasty to get rid of then ever he was to get his pay Mat. 27.3 and will cry take it again when he burns his fingers Pedlers are not over much at home in their own houses no more I fear are Informers in their own hearts If they were they would find less time and perhaps less reason to be so busie abroad but this is too natural 1 Sam. 18.9 A Saul can eye a David a good man whilst himself is possessed with an evil spirit It is easie to look about us to see how other men go but a kind of pain for it will cost some stooping which we love not to see how we our selves go While we view the blemishes of other faces we see not our own but did we look on our own natural face in Gods glass more we should have less leasure to gaze at other mens Could you follow the Rake-hell home that is such a gadder abroad I doubt you would find things in none of the best order There is one Informer would be incouraged for he hath Gods licence and that is Conscience Would we but often enough read over this Monitors bill and be but enough Criticks upon our own hearts which are nearest us and as willing to take informations against our selves as some are to get them against others 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Pet. 4 1● 1 Kings 20.49 we should not be as the Apostles word is such busie Bishops in other mens matters But whilst I was busie here and there saith he he whom I had in charge was gone What is become of family-Religion catechizing children instructing servants secret duty closet work heart examination c. since thou hast taken up this trade and been busie picking a talo here and a thank there Can. 1.6 Have they made thee a keeper of others vineyards and thine own vineyard hast thou not kept Think man if so that thy every Information against another is a double Indictment against thy self Let thy charity then begin at home for so is self-censuring and then thou wilt be less uncharitable when thou comest abroad In my small observation best men are least censorious of others and most critical as to themselves However he that loves to be exhaling dunghills as the Informer loves to do if he would do it with credit had need be clear himself as the sun is John 8.7 Let him that is without sin cast the first stone Pedlers sometimes will have some weapon in their hands which the Informer carries in his head whose tongue saith David Psal 59.4 is a sharp sword And where they suspect any difficulty or danger in their march they love company such as their own and so do these Talebearers to have seconds and vonchers Jer. 20.10 Report say they and we will report it Thus are these foxes tied tale to tale as Sampsons were turned tail to tail whilst they carry fire betwixt them from place to place You see why the hatred hiding-lyer is said by Solomon to utter a slander Jud. 15.50 a phrase proper to a Pedler who utters his Wares But let me tell you it is so bad a Trade that no man can live well upon it no not in this world for he that will love life and see good days let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips that they speak no guile let him eschew evil and do good let him seek peace ensue it Reader whosoever thou art let me warn thee though thou love not thy Neighbor yet as thou lov'st thy life to take heed of this Traffique warn thine Eve for her Grandmothers sake that she pry not into the Pack Let not this Pedler if thou canst help it ever put his staff within thy door and be sure to trayn up thy children to a better Trade I have been too long upon the Informers Trade and so hath hee Let us now both bid adiew to it I shall be shorter in his Religion for that is it wherein he is short else would he not have been so long in his Trade That 's the short and the long of it CHAP. III. The INFORMERS Religion THe moral Pedler for the most part carrieth what he hath in a painted box His hatred is covered by deceipt Prov. 26.26 He hath rough hands yet Jacobs voice When he speaks fair believe him not Verse 25. saith Solomon or when he maketh his voice gracious 'T is not so yet he makes it so Marg. after the Hebrew It would spoil his informing if he were not in the form The Pedler had as good be out of the world as fashion he must have to fit that or give over Is godliness in credit the Informer will have a form of it for less than that would hinder him in his Trade but no more for that would quite overthrow it The false Accusers 2 Tim. 3.3.5 whom Paul calls Devils are yet said to have a form of Godlyness They put on the Saint as Judas and Jesabel to play the Devil That Devils should co●et to be under a form of Godlyness seems somewhat strange but then he ads they deny the power and that takes oft the wonder for had they not the form they could not carry in a false sence such a Grace in Traducing But had they the power they would have more Grace in a true sence then to Traduce So then hear such a one speak and you may take him for a Jacob but if ever you come to feel him you will be perhaps of another mind Birds of Prey how curiously coloured soever are pronounced unclean as Eagles Deut. 14.12.13 c. Vultures Cormorants c. And so is the tongue that loves like Doegs all devouring words Isaiah 52.4 1 Sam. 21.7 And yet 't is said of that very Doeg that he was detained before the Lord. He was not it seems void of a Form of Religion who yet bloodily betrays and butchers in the next Chap. 22. those very Ministers with whom he had joyn'd in waiting upon God in the Chapter before James 1.26 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deu. 14.19 Some few excepted Lev. 11. Wherefore if any man seem to be religious and bridleth not his tongue that mans religion is vain He hath a Religion but it is but seeming therefore vain I find also that every creeping thing that flieth was unclean which seems most to fit the Informer who creeps up and down to pick up tales and then hath wings like a bird to carry the matter 2 Tim. 3.6 These creepers into houses as the Apostle calls them though never so heady Ver. 4. or high-flown yet because they are false accusers are therefore to be turned away from Ver. 3. as being unclean in a Gospel sense notwithstanding their gay feathers Ver. 5. though having a form of godliness There is yet further cause why the Informer should be in love with a form