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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	ordinance_n	power_n	resist_v	4,907	5	10.4011	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36329	Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life, in and after a time of great mortality, by a wasting plague (anno 1665) answered in XIII directions / by Tho. Doolitel.	Doolittle, Thomas, 1632?-1707.	1666 (1666)	Wing D1895; ESTC R35664	157,743	310

loof off from my sore and my kinsmen stand afar off This it may be hath been thy condition who readest these lines thy body was full of loathsome sores and God hath cured thee and which was worse thy soul was full of loathsome reigning sins and God hath healed thee what now doth God expect at thy hand but that since he hath given health unto thy body and grace into thy soul thou shouldest use both unto his glory which if thou conscientiously and sincerely endeavor and practise ere long thou shalt be received into the Armes of thy Lord where there shall be no more sickness in thy body nor sin in thy soul for ever DIRECTION III. HAth God spared you in time of Pestilence then if you would Live in some measure answerable to so great a Mercy Be eminenth exemplary in the Place Capacity Calling Station or Relation wherein God hath set you Every Rela●ion hath some Duties peculiar to that Relation and every Calling and Capacity wherein Divine Providence hath pl●ced you hath something wherein you may be peculiarly eminent and who knowes but God hath preserved you for this end that you may excell in the Capacity and Condition God hath called you unto if your Condition be a Condition of Prosperity be eminent in Humility Self-denial and Charity if of Adversity be eminent in Submission and Patience in undergoing the Will of God But that I may speak more Comprehensively and Distinctly I shall consider that every one that is left alive after this sore Judgment stands in one or more of these following Capacities or Conditions in every one of which every Man whom God hath spared should now labour to be eminently exemplary This Capcity is either Political Magistrates or Subjects Ecclesiastical Pastors Flock Oeconomical Conjugal Husband Wife Parental or Filial Parents Children Despotical or Servile Masters Servants One of these every Person is that is preserved from the Grave and if every one would now endeavour in good earnest to do something singular but singularly good for God in his particular Relation to do the Duty which God peculiarly calls for and excell therein that you failed in and came short of before this would be a good Improvement of the Mercy and this would be in some measure to walk up unto it SECTION I. LEt us consider the Persons whom God hath in mercy spared from the Grave in their Political c●ci●y and such are either 1. Magistrates and Governours for over us by God Le●e with humility and reverence minde you of your duty and tell you That God expecteth and requireth that since he hath intrusted you with Authority from himself and given you Life and preserved you from the Grave in the day of his sore Visitation in the City that though your Place and Office did oblige you to a less retired Life then many others yet God hath kept you from Death by Infectious Diseases Now should you not inquire what you should do for God and how you may improve your time and Talent for his Honour should not you punish Sin that is so indeed and Countenanc● Holiness and Religion that is so indeed should not you be zealous for God in punishing of open-Prophaneness and the horrid Oathes that have cried aloud in the eares of God Men prophanely Swearing by the Sacred Name of God and Sabbath-bre●king and violation of the Holy Day of God did not Nehemiah do so Nehem. 13.15 In those dayes saw I in Judah some treading wine-presses on the Sabbath and bringing in sheaves and lading Asses as also wine grapes and figs and all manner of burdens which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold Victuals Vers 1 6. There dwelt Men of Tire also therein which brought fish and all manner of Ware and sold on the Sabbath as many did Fruit openly in some places of the Streets and in Fields about London unto the children of Judah and in Jerusalem Vers 17. Then I contended with the Nobles of Judah and said unto them what evil thing is this that ye do and profane the Sabbath day Ver. 18. Did not your fathers thus and did not our God bring all this evil upon us and upon this City yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the Sabbath Vers 19. And it came to pass when the Gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath I commanded the Gates should be shut and charged that they should not be opened till after the Sabbath and some of my servants set I at the Gates that there should be no Burden brought in upon the Sabbath day Vers 20. So the Merchants and sellers of all kind of Ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice Vers 21. Then I testified against them and said unto them Why lodge ye about the Wall if ye do so again I will lay hands on you from that time ●orth came they no more on the Sabbath This Example is worthy your Imition and oh how much good may you do and how much Sin and Dishonour to God thereby might you preven● if you do indeed obey the Laws of God and Execute the good Laws of this Kingdom in that Case made and provided Should not you discourage Drunkeness and Houses notorious for uncleanness That Taverns and Ale 〈◊〉 be not so much frequented should you not be a Terror unto the Evil why Drunkenness and prophane Swearings and Brothel-houses are Evil indeed for which a Land is made to Mourn and should not you be a praise to them tha● do well Rom. 13.3 Are not you Gods Ministers for good to them that are good and revengers to execute wrath upon him that doth evil and can you w●●k worthy of so great preservation from the Plague if you do not cut down Sin and incourage Godliness SECTION II. 2. SUbjects and People Governed Many and strickt are the Pre●epts and Injunctions of God upon People to their Magistrates and no less then damnation is threatned by God himself to such as oppose themselves against their Magistrates Rom. 13.1 Let every Soul be subject to the Higher Powers for there is no Power but of God the Powers that be are ordained of God Vers 2. Whosoever therefo●e resisteth the Power resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation Vers 5. Wherefore ye must needs be subject not only for Wrath but also for Conscience sake True Religion we see from this Scripture doth oblige People and Subject in Duty and Obedience to their Magistrates and none will more Conscientiously obey than those that are most Religious Obedience to Magistrates from this place is required because 1. They are Ordained of God 2. They that resist them resist an Ordinance of God 3. Such as do so receive to themselves damnation 4. They are appointed of God to be a terror to the evil not to the good 5. Conscience is bound so to do 6.