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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
A63791	Friendly advice to the gentlemen-planters of the East and West Indies In three parts. I. A brief treatise of the most principal fruits and herbs that grow in the East & West Indies; giving an account of their respective vertues both for food and physick, and what planet and sign they are under. Together with some directions for the preservation of health and life in those hot climates. II. The complaints of the negro-slaves against the hard usages and barbarous cruelties inflicted upon them. III. A discourse in way of dialogue, between an Ethiopean or negro-slave, and a Christian that was his master in America. By Philotheos Physiologus.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1684 (1684)	Wing T3179; ESTC R203819	70,066	226

lewd Practices And thus in defiance to the Laws of your Religion and to his own Personal hurt one great over-grown Christian shall spend as much in one Day to gratifie his Lusts or Vanity as an Hundred or Two of his poor Slaves can get by their sore Labour and Sweat And as for Exercises there is rarely here in this Island any of the Christians that will labour except pure Necessity constrain them to it but you lay heavy Burthens on us and as your most illuminated Prophet saith will not touch them your selves with one Finger So that you make it a Genteel Quality and honourable to break and violate that great Command of the Creator in the beginning which I have heard is recorded by a most famous Prophet of the Iews and whom you also receive viz. That Man should get his Bread by the Sweat of his Brows which yet amongst the more Noble Christians as you call your selves is counted a poor low Base and shameful thing What Heathen People as you call them are there in the whole World that more pamper their Carkasses and indulge themselves like you with things that are not needful nor convenient Do you not invent an hundred Superfluities and needless Toys to gratifie your own and your Childrens Pallates and Sensuality the Wind forsooth must not blow upon them and as if the Earth were not good enough to bear them nor their Legs made to carry them you provide Horses and Coaches for them or we poor Slaves must lugg them about who are as well able to go as we For your Garments Houses Furniture c. who can exceed your Pride and Vanity One of your Women shall wear at once as much in value as would clothe an hundred poor People in modest Rayment each far better than hers to defend them from the Injuries of the Elements which is the chief end of Cloathing Add to this your great Palaces and sumptuous chargeable Buildings and all kind of rich superfluous Ornaments and Knick-Knacks in your Houses wherein you study to out-try and exceed each other meerly for State Pride and vain Glory and to be honoured of men which extravagancy is attended with another sore Evil for that it cannot be maintained but chiefly by great Oppression of Men and Beasts for those that spend Talents daily must lay about them for a continual Supply so that rather then they will be without those chargeable Vanities they care not how cruelly they use their Servants and inferior Creatures They will scourge their Slaves for a Penny and kill their Beasts with over-labour and at the same time spend Pounds in base depraved Wantonness and feasting of the Rich c. 4. You mention the avoidance of Evil Communications as another duty of your Religion which we Heathens do acknowledge and therefore we have a Proverb amongst us when any use lewd Discourse to bid them Wash their Mouthes with Water but we have observed that amongst the Christians there is nothing more frequent than Evil Communications whensoever any Number meet together are not your Discourses vain idle and frothy and oft-times such as no modest Ear can hear without tingling forth Horror and Indignation Most of it tending to Debauchery or injuring the good Name of Persons absent Iesting Lying Vapouring or speaking of Things and People they understand not nor have any thing to do withal Nay a man cannot pass the Way or Street but his Ears shall be grated with horrid Swearing and ungodly Speeches so that 't is evident you walk in the greatest opposition imaginable to his command 5. You say You are required to observe Purity and the natural Rules of Cleanness and to avoid all appearance of Evil Which indeed is no inconsiderable point in Nature and Religion but as far as we have been able to observe you practise the quite contrary for not only your Words are very unclean for the generality but also in your Foods and Drinks you make no distinction but rich provoking Food in excess and all strong intoxicating Drinks you desire with greedness which over-heats the whole Body and irritates the fierce wrathful beastial Nature whence all wanton vain and unclean Thoughts and Imaginations are generated Also you make as little distinction between clean and unclean Beasts as we nay not so much as some of our Country-men and you eat Blood though I have been told there is not any one thing more frequently expresly and plainly forbidden in all your Bible than that besides you make no distinction of the Times and Seasons of the Year when Beasts are subjects to Surfeits and other Uncleannesses neither are your Preparations and cooking of your Food so clean proper and natural as they ought to be and instead of abstaining from all appearances of Evil we see you court and improve them on all occasions For do not you appoint set Meetings and make great Feasts to which you invite the Rich that will invite you again where you drink to Drunkenness and eat to Gluttony roaring all the while like mad Bulls and mixing your Food with horrid Oaths and vain Discourses the fear of the great Creator being banisht from your Hearts nor any pity shewn to us your poor Vassals that endure the Heat of the day and are ready to fall and faint under those heavy Burthens laid upon us and would rejoyce to partake of the Crumbs that fall from your Tables which you will not afford yet spend our Sweat and the Labours of our Hands in all kinds of Wantonness and Superfluity by which many of you contract such grievous Diseases both to Body and Mind that they become themselves more miserable then us their poor Slaves 6. You say that the next great point of Christian Doctrine is to free your selves from Envy Strife Malice Back-biting and Slander which is also contradicted by your general practice for what is more frequent amongst you than Envy and Revenge And though in your Prayers you formally use those Words Lord forgive us our Trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us yet at the same time Envy lies lurking in your Hearts and the very next moment shall erect it self for do not many of you keep your Neighbours and Brethren in loathsom Prisons for some very little offence or in truth for none at all but only to shew your Power and gratifie your devilish Fury And as for the Gentleman called Strife he rides the Fore-horse and is Quarter-master-General amongst you what Fighting Swearing Damning Railing c. is there in every House between Fathers and Children Brothers and Sisters Relations and Neighbours ready to destroy and murder one another and all about Things not worth a wise mans Thoughts What swarms of Lawyers Clerks Pettifoggers and Idle-men does your Strife and unjust Contention maintain And how many are yearly with their Families utterly ruined thereby I 'll not leave him worth a Groat cries one I 'll make Dice of his Bones swears the other Let him not