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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
rest_n	day_n	labour_n	sabbath_n	6,576	5	9.5742	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05259	The mothers blessing. Or The godly counsaile of a gentle-woman not long since deceased, left behind her for her children containing many good exhortations, and godly admonitions, profitable for all parents to leaue as a legacy to their children, but especially for those, who by reason of their young yeeres stand most in need of instruction. By Mris. Dorothy Leigh.	Leigh, Dorothy.	1616 (1616)	STC 15402; ESTC S113606	65,870	296

Now hee will shew thee the figure of that euerlasting rest which hee will bring thee to through Christ. Now if thou beest not very ready and diligent to attend vpon him the seuenth day thou shewest that all thy labour on the six daies was for thine own pleasure or profit more then for thy obedience toward the Lord thy God for if thou wouldest haue obeyed him in thy labour in the six dayes thou wouldest haue obeyed him in thy rest the seventh day also This shal be a witnes to thine own conscience least that thou bee deceiued as many bee who thinke that they labour all the weeke to please God when indeede they labour to please themselues because that commandement pleaseth their humour better then to keepe holy the Sabbath and they will bee willing to take one houre from the Lord in the morning and another in the afternoone or two it may be which sheweth that their mindes and affections are more on the world then on the true seruice and obedience they owe to God CHAP. 41. Prodigality set out SOme think that the prodigal man taketh too little care for the world but I say he is a wicked man and taketh too much care for the world and too little care to please GOD. Hee is an idle man and will not labour 6. dayes Hee is a disobedient man and wil not keepe holy the seuenth day He is a wast full man he wil spend wastfully for the vaine-glory of the world which somesay they care not for he leaueth those things w ch God hath giuen him and his family without care Yea he is a couetous man for he will borrow of others and spend it wastfully and neuer pay it againe He breaketh the cōmandement which saith Owe nothing to any man but this that you love one another for the holy Ghost saith The vngodly borroweth and paieth not againe but the mercifull man is liberall and lendeth Some will say they would pay if they had it but indeede they will not haue it because they will not obey God and liue as hee hath appointed them They are proud and will spend so far beyond their calling that they haue nothing to lend to the poore children of God because they spend either vpon the wicked or in excesse when there is no neede or vppon those that haue as little or lesse neede then thēselues Such a person is worse then an Infidel because be prouideth not for his owne houshold God doth not say Because hee taketh not care for his owne houshold for all his care should bee to please God but hee careth not to please God neither doth he obey God to labor 6. daies and to see his houshold labour for whilest he is idle or vsing some vaine pastime out of his calling his children seruants dissobey GOD and mispend their time and weaken his estate and all through his owne carelesnesse to please God Hee sheweth himselfe no good Christian for a good Christian life is a carefull life not carefull of the world but carefull least the world should hinder him any way frō seruing of God either in being too negligent in his calling and so prouide not for his houshold become worse then an Infidel or lest hee should bee couetous and become the man whom God abhorreth And yet there bee some so ignorant that they will say The prodigall man beareth a noble mind But hee beares a wicked mind they know not what a noble minde is that say so Our Peeres and Princes are called Noble men because they beare noble mindes that is they are vertuous and temperate discreet gouerning the Cōmon-wealth according to their calling regarding the vertuous keeping vnder the vicious holding in the prodigall who would run away with a whole kingdom if they might haue it nay no kingdome is able to satisfie prodigal persons for their disobedient humour wil neuer be satisfied because they doe not labour to keepe the commandement of God Some are more infected w th this sin then others but all that are not infected with prodigalitie haue a disobedient humour they are vndiscreet because they cannot spend whē they should and spare with discretion when the time is They are vnthankful because they do not heartily thank God for his blessings but wish they were more Neither wil they bee thankefull to the King nor a worthy noble Prince or Peere for if they spend a little prodigally in their seruice they will thinke they are indebted to thē though all of it were by the Prince liberally bestowed on them but indeede such are not to be about Princes or Peeres no more then the couetous Some wise and learned men haue disputed whether the couetous or the prodigal be the worst member in the Common-wealth but I pray God you nor yours be none of both but here what the holy Ghost saith The couetous is the man whom God abhorreth The prodigall is worse then an infidell And thus I leaue them and pray to God for Christs sake they and wee may leaue both those and al other sins and take hold of Christ by faith and liue through him with God for euer and euer CHAP. 42. Difference betweene an act habite of sinning NOw you must know this that the deare children of God for want of discretion doe sometime an act w ch may be called couetous yet not vpon a couetous humor and an act that may be called prodigall and yet not vpon a prodigall humour but for want of discretion at that time for there is none so discreet at all times that is not somewhat infected with either of these sins for wee are infected with all sins and therefore God in great mercy to man made the Sabbath or Lords day so that if a man did in sixe dayes ouerslip himselfe as indeed we all do and did not reconcile himselfe to God euery night as we ought to do yet on the Sabbath day the Lord calleth him to him and sheweth him his faults and wisheth him to bee reconciled vnto him through Christ and breatheth into his face the breath of life again and renueth in him the image of God again that was decayed by his sin and so he goeth home a renued man And therfore I say say truly that all the writers in the world cannot expresse what hurt that man woman or childe doeth himselfe that doth not attend on the Lord on the Sabbath day neither can any man or woman doe their seruants more hurt thē to keepe them frō the Lords house that day The Lord hath charged thee that thou if thou hast any vnder thee shalt see thē come and come thy selfe as thou wilt answere it for the Lord himselfe is now there prepared to teach thee and thine and therfore go to him and go prepared clense thy heart of all earthly things know that hee is there to see thine heart and all thine affection and behauior Some wil say I would