Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	care_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	39	3	8.2104	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64808	Canaans flovvings, or, A second part of milk & honey being another collation of many Christian experiences, sayings, &c. : with an appendix called The heathen improved, or, The Gibeonites hewing of wood, and drawing of water for the sanctuary / by Ralph Venning.	Venning, Ralph, 1621?-1674.	1653 (1653)	Wing V198; ESTC R7804	72,507	246

it hope undoes most wicked men but the good may say we are saved by hope 327. The evil of evil company By being in ill company we suffer both in our names and our souls 't is both disgraceful and dangerous if we could keep our souls free yet our names will suffer and if we could keep our names safe yet our souls are in danger 328. The Gull Cicero reports of Cato that he wondred how Sooth-sayers could forbear laughing when they met with one another because they knew that they gull'd the people and well might he jeer the Astrologer that told him he had cast his nativity and would tell him what should befall him tush said he I have been new-born since I was born 329. It s unnatural to hate them that love us 't is natural to love them that love us but 't is supernaturall to love them that hate us 330. The Religion that proceeds from an humour is but an humorous Religion Men usually expresse themselves carry it in religion according to their naturall humor and are apt to mis-judge others if they comply not with their temper Some are so pitifull that they could save the damned others so Cholericke that they could damne the saved hence the melancholy christian is offended with the cheareful and the chearefull with the melancholy so that not onely the world but saints themselves put false constructions upon the carrage of saints The melancholly man lookes on John Baptist as a choise man because of great abstinence and austerity as well in cloths as diet For such humors are apt to thinke that religion consists much in sadnesse Christ say they wept often but we read not that he laught at all and sc●rse will they believe him a good Christian that is not somthing Hypocondriacall yet the world passeth a cleane contrary sentence and say he hath a divell The more sociable sort of cheerefull saints provided they they keep decorum and be of Christs spirit as well as christs example doe doubtless most adorne and advantage religion christ did not onely rejoyce in spirit but was popular and disdained not the tables and conversations of the greatest sinners for which the wicked world judg'd him as a wine-bibber a great friend and indeed he was to Publicans and sinners Now we should take heed 1. That we take not our naturall temper and humour for religion a man may be moderate by the heavines of his Phlegme and zealous from the heat of his choler our care therefore should be that our sorrow moderation and austerity on the one hand and our joy cheerfulnesse and zeale on the other hand be truely spiritual and christian 2. we should take heed not to condemne other saints that are not of our natural humor not to thinke the sociable and cheerfull to be but good fellows and genial-jovial blades or to thinke the more deprest sad dejected and retired spirits to be discontented God hath severall sorts of saints which he exerciseth as severall members of the body or severall vessels in an house most to that end to which they are appointed his Beanerges's and his Barnabas his Iohn and his Paul every one in their owne place according to the gift and grace received yea the same saint is sometimes in the exercise of one grace at another time in the exercise of another grace sometime most in selfe-abasing at other times rejoycing in Christ Jesus sometime in hope at other times in feare Now it may be his zeale doth best for him and thy moderation for thee his cheerfulnesse best for him and thy sadnes best for thee that which it may be is an occasion of sin to thee is none to him and that which would be an occasion of sin to him is none to thee judge not therefore another by thy selfe nor thinke that every one must be cast in thy mould 331. We cannot give a reason of infinite things though and indeed because there is infinite reason for them 't is not because ther 's want of reason or too little but because ther 's such excesse of reason or too much for our capacity 332. A pure conscience is the safest safeguard in time of scandal hic murus aheneus esto nil conscire tibi nulla pallescere culpa Mine innocency shall be my brazen wall the faultles man need not for fear looke pale 333. Surely if we thought that God were good to us in every condition we should have good thoughts of God in every condition 334. They that would avoid the evill of occasions must avoid the occasions of evill as Solomon inculcates by foure severall expressions in one verse Prov. 4.15 That you may not enter into the path of the wicked and not goe in the way of evil men 1. Avoid it 2. Pass not by it 3. Turn from it 4. And pass away They that play with wantonness are like to play the wantons 335. Gods dispensations are so checquer-wrought with blacks and whites that many times a Saint hath cause to rejoice but yet with trembling and at other times to tremble but yet with rejoycing 336. It was a desperate saying of one a Lawyer that as he that will not adventure his body cannot be valiant so he that will not adventure his soul cannot be rich Men had better lay down their trades then live by sinning 337. Surely goods ill gotten will never be good 't is better a man should be able to say as a good man once on his death-bed to his wife I shall leave thee no great estate but I shall leave thee a good estate an estate well gotten then to say wife or child I shall leave you a great but not good because an ill-gotten estate To have an estate with a curse is to be miserably rich 338. Heaven and Hell That which makes Heaven so full of joy is that Heaven is above all fear and that which makes Hell so full of terror is that Hell is below all hope Heaven is a day which shall never see any approachings of night and Hell is a night that shall never see any dawnings of day 339. Did we consider that both our good and evil were from God it would make our good to be the better and our evil not to be so bad 340. A wise mans heart commands his tongue but a fools tongue commands his heart 341. Successe at first doth many times undo men at last many may say that they had never been unhappy if they had not been happie 342. A Christian should not care much for what he hath and he should care nothing for what he hath not for what he hath may not be and what he hath not may never be his 243. Mans Preaching is but voice without power but Gods is power without voice Mans is word without work Gods is work without word man doth but speak but God speaks and doth every one of Gods words end in works he said Let there be light and 't was so 344. God speaks