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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
rest_n	hand_n	hold_v	left_a	3,237	5	10.9073	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81748	A right intention the rule of all mens actions. Converted out of Drexelius to our proper use. / By John Dawson ...; Recta intentio omnium humanarum actionum amussio. English. 1655	Drexel, Jeremias, 1581-1638.	1655 (1655)	Wing D2185A; ESTC R231958	220,422	649

vile a price If yee will be Seene of men GOD will turne his eyes from you Take heed otherwise yee shall have no reward of your Father which is in Heaven Therefore be not willingly deceived the greatest honour for the least good deed is every way an unequall and unworthy reward Without doubt Seneca throughly understood this and urging the same in his Epistles The price of all vertue saith he is in themselves the reward of a thing well done is Rectè facti merces est fecisse to have done it No man in my mind seemeth to esteeme more of vertue no man to bee more devoted to it then he which hath spoiled the report of a good man least he should spoile his conscience Senec. Epist 81. A good name indeed is of very much worth but a good conscience more But thou maist say perhaps I d●sire not to be commended of men alone but of GOD and men together O my good friend thou hast not yet knowne God if it sufficeth thee not to bee praised of God onely The Arke of GOD and the Idole of Dagon are no more then the Arke Let God therefore be so much to thee as God and all other things together Thou knowest also that Christ and the World are not friends why therefore wilt thou be enriched or commended by the enemy of Christ neither art thou ignorant that God hath a care of thee if it may be for thy profit hee will spoile Egypt that he may furnish thee The greatest reward of vertue is that she suffereth not her friends to lye hid shee brings them forth unto glory but in her owne time In the meane space endure thou to have all hurtfull honour removed from thee and complaine not I am not honoured as I have deserved another respect would be fit me c. These are most vaine complaints Take heed yea So will not God have the favours and honours of men to bee loved of us as that he permitted even his owne Son to be called Beelzebub nor is there almost any kind of contempt or injury which the Saviour of the World did not undergoe who that he might make all humane praise most hatefull to us in that most excellent Sermon which Matthew hath described endeavouring to perswade this one thing in a manner Nesciat omninò faciat quid dextra sinistra But when thou doest thine almes saith hee let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth Mat. 6.3 Let the countenance of a Christian turne it selfe wholly inward let it never goe curiously abroad with Dina let it not looke after a stranger with Sampson not an Egypti●n with Solomòn For what reason doe we yield the wealth of our vertues to humane praises as it were to flattering Heires they carry away all by flattering Let not therefore thy left hand know what thy right hand doth Christ goes on and presseth it divers waies that every worke is to be done with a most pure intention for Gods sake nor must wee enquire here what relisheth with us what pleaseth or agreeth with our humour Let not thy left hand know Beleeve it wee loose very much of our labours whilst wee follow onely our owne taste and sence in them and doe as we call it according to our devotion If these things be wanting we rashly omit both our prayers and our duties and this and that because we have no taste of the matter but surely when this is in our mouth when that which we doe or pray or endeavour agrees with our palate this is to sacrifice to our selves not to God If Boyes will not learne unlesse they may have white bread and butter to carry to Schoole with them they will become Doctors at leasure Our workes for the greatest part have then most worth when least delectation when we drive our selves thereunto by a godly constraint when we feele a certain molestation and loathing in them but yet wee overcome it Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth Moreover also the very party which is succoured is to bee deceived that hee may have nor yet know from whom hee receiveth Every good man is contented with Heaven and God for his witnesse and comforteth himselfe with Iob● Also now my witnesse is in Heaven and my Record is on high Iob. 16.19 This is a part of our folly when to our selves we seeme to labour in vaine unlesse there bee many spectators and witnesses of our paines God O vaine people hath his Theater in the darke why doe yee so hunt after the light and open world But one may aske what hurt is it if a Servant desire to please his Master and approve himselfe to him I say let every one performe his duty even as it is commanded when he goes about whatsoever his master would have let him doe that which is to bee done as accurately as he can for his heart for the rest let him never be sollicitous whether he shall please or displease otherwise hee shall bee accounted to have served the eyes of men onely Gedeons Souldiers going to fight against the Madianites in their left hand held a Pitcher with a Lampe in it and Trumpets in the right And when it came to the point of joyning Armies and skirmish they blew their Trumpets and brake their Pitchers and gave a shout withall crying For the Lord and for Gedeon Iudg. 7.20 In like manner wee when wee breake our Pitcher and beate down our body when wee sound with Trumpets and extoll the Religion of Christ in our Churches our Lampes burne bright Excellent●y all this so no man cry out for my selfe and for Gedeon Not so but for the Lord and for Gedeon Not unto us O Lord not unto us but to thy Name give the glory Not to me but to Christ not for my selfe and my owne palate but for Gedeon and the safety of many others Let us seeke onely the glory of God and for God onely not for our selves being so farre from our owne that the left hand may not know what our right hand doth Peter Ravennas If he will have thee thy selfe not to know how much more another Augustine calleth love a pure intention to God the right hand an eye cast a one side upon the shadowes of false glory the left August Serm. 60. The sweet Singer of Israel If I forget thee saith he O Ierusalem let my right hand forget her cunning Psal 137.5 When wee are not mindefull of Heaven our right hand is forgetfull of us nor standeth us in any stead as good as if wee had none at all when this right hand is out of action then the left hand bestirs it selfe Doe we not reprehend little Children when they offer their left hand to one that salutes them when with their left hand they take victualls who doth not cast it in their teeth You may bee ashamed not to use your better hand Nay we dissemble not the matter in such as are