Selected quad for the lemma: prayer_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prayer_n	forgive_v	lord_n	trespass_n	3,485	5	11.3824	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27365	Essays about the poor, manufactures, trade, plantations, & immorality and of the excellency and divinity of inward light, demonstrated from the attributes of God and the nature of mans soul, as well as from the testimony of the Holy Scriptures / by John Bellers.	Bellers, John, 1654-1725.	1699 (1699)	Wing B1828; ESTC R19644	23,851	33

Men for less when there is a Market for it And what Secrets is that Man's Breast fit for which Wine or Lude Women have the Command of Or what good Counsel can he give to others who will not refrain from a vain Oath to save or gain a Profitable Place to himself Now for such who will not be Reformed neither by the Laws of God nor by the Laws of Men the Laws of Nature will conquer them for Vicious Distempers will shorten the Days of some and Extravagancies will expel others out of their Ancestors Estates whilst Vertue and Industry will introduce new Purchasers into them And I wish such Purchasers by a Prudent Education would secure Vertue as well as an Estate to their Posterity and then Debauchery would soon be extinguished out of the World by it s not having Riches to support nor Countenance it For 't is an old Maxim Sine Cecere 〈◊〉 Baccho friget Venus Prov. 14 v. 34. Righteousness exalteth a Nation But Sin is a Reproach to any People 28. 2. For the Transgression of a Land many are the Princes thereof but by a Man or Men of Understanding and Knowledge the State thereof shall be prolonged Some Reasons against puting of Fellons to Death I Having made some Essay to supply the Wants and abate the Profaneness of the Age I would say something of Fellons most of whom rise from them two Miserable Fountains and of the stain their untimely Death is to Religion and of the loss it is unto the Kingdom There are several sorts of Distractions which all Men pities and takes care of preserving from doing themselves or others harm but Pellons are some of the worst sort of mad Men whom Charity therefore would oblige us to take some care to prevent their mischievous way of Living and deplorable Deaths The Idle and Profane Education of some and the Necessities of others brings Habits almost invincible for such to conquer of themselves without the State take them into their prudent management But to put them into Bridewell or Newgate for a Month or two and then turn them loose at their own Discressions who have none no more reclaims them than baiting a Horse well with Provender makes him less able to Travel they learn but more Skill in their Trade under the Tutors they meet with there The Scriptures saith Watch for the Devil your Adversary goes about like a roaring Lion seeking which of you be may devour What Consideration and Compassion then should be had of those unthinking unwatchful People whose Pride Lust or Necessities with the Devils incitements of them is their sole Guide If a Man had a Child or near Relation that should fall into a capital Crime he would use all his interest to preserve his Life how much soever he abhor'd his Fact in hopes he might live to grow better especially if he could have such a power of Confinement upon him as might prevent his acting such Enormities for the future And this Child and near Relation is every one to the Publick whilst the cutting off by untimely Death of one able Man may be reckoned 200 Pound loss out of the value of the Kingdom for besides their Persons they are commonly prevented of the Posterity which they might have which is loss to all Generations and if but one in a Succession they may be valued at 10 l. a Year which at 20 Years Purchase is 200 Hundred Pound How sincerely can we say the Lord's Prayer Forgive us our Trespasses as we forgive them which Trespass against us when for the loss possible of less than 20 Shillings we Prosecute a Man to Death Would it not be more natural and agreeable with our Prayers to God to have Compassion on our deluded Fellow Creatures We are but Men whom they offend but God is Infinitely above us whom we have offended And therefore as we should by a timely and industrious Education have the greater care to prevent such Enormities it would also very well agree with our State before God when any fall into such Crimes compassionately to keep them from further Mischiefs and save such to Repentance rather than to destroy them by sudden Death Mat. 18. 33. Shouldst not thou also have had Compassion on thy fellow Servant even as I had pity on thee The Life of a Man is of greater value with God than many Pounds and ought to be so with Men For tho he that spills Man's Blood by Man was his Blood to be spilt yet the Thief was to restore but four or five fold by the Ancient Law of God To make no difference between the Punishment of Theft and Murder seem a great deficiency in our present Law and often times must melt the Heart of a Compassionate Judge to hear their Shreiks and Cries when he as the Mouth of the Law pronounceth the Sentence of Death upon such forlorn Creatures The Goals wants regulating For whilst the Keepers are allowed to sell strong Liquors it provokes their Prisoners to great Expence and they often live high to be the more in the Goalers favour a Lord sometimes for cost and variety may Dine at some of their Tables Which hath two Evil Consequences First It forceth their Companions abroard to rob more frequent to keep the Prisoners so high in Goal to keep themselves from being discovered Secondly It keeps the Prisoners Blood always boiling and their Brains hot and without Sense of their Unhappiness in this World they live so voluptuous and without sense of the other World because they are so strongly diverted from thinking of it Also the Licencing too many Ale-houses gives Thieves the more cover which with ill Women c. makes their necessities the more pressing Now upon the whole there is reason to believe that few of them are so incourageable but that restraint by Confinement with suitable Imployment and Marriage or Exportations to our Plantations in time would alter their evil habits to a more honest one which as it would save their Bodies and Posterities to the Common-Wealth it might be a means to save their Souls from Eternal Ruin To this Discourse of Charity Industry Vertue and Mercy I will add a few Lines of that Religious Guide and Power by which good Actions may be performed The Excellency and Divinity of inward Light demonstrated from the Attributes of God and the Nature of Man's Soul As well as from the Testimony of the holy Scriptures Of God 1 st GOD is from Eternity to Eternity without Beginning of Time or End of Life 2 dly He is infinite and omnipresent whose Being is every where and boundless 3 dly He is omnipotent in Power being able to do all things 4 thly He is omniscient and therefore he knows the least and privatest Thoughts as well as the greatest and most publick Actions 5 thly His Being is invisible immaterial Life and Spirit Light and Glory and therefore he is not to be apprehended by any visible Creatures tho all things were created