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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	angel_n	heaven_n	zion_n	350	4	8.7652	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30636	Tagathon, or, Divine goodness explicated and vindicated from the exceptions of the atheist wherein also the consent of the gravest philosophers with the holy and inspired penmen in many of the most important points of Christian doctrine is fully evinced / by Richard Burthogge.	Burthogge, Richard, 1638?-ca. 1700.	1672 (1672)	Wing B6157; Wing B6156_CANCELLED	50,348	170

unbecoming for men nor so dishonourable to God as superstitious Fears and Scruples Several considerations to evince it And being so 1. There is nothing more undecent and unbecoming for men nor more dishonourable as well as more ungrateful to Divine Goodness than superstitious Scruples Fars Distrusts and Apprehensions of God as if he were a Mean and Low Being whom insignificant and little things could either irritate or please as if he did not know or not consider that we are but flesh but that he weighed us in a Ballance as by grains and scruples or that he were inexorable hard and rigid In a word as if He were not an infinitely excellent perfect Being the Best but had a Composition in his Temper of somewhat Little Small Evil and Weak No God looketh to the Heart and so thou be sincere it is enough But don't mistake Sincerity He accepteth not according to what a Man hath not but according to what he hath Mind the great Duties and Perfections of the Humane Life and of the Divine and know assuredly that God will wink at unavoidable infirmities in thy discharging of them Take heed of Diffidence and Slavish Feares and know it more obliging to the Great God to Love him cordially than to Fear him servilely for it is Love and not Fear that hath the honour to fulfil the whole Law and let the Scrupulous consider it Once a Melancholly Scrupulous Unchearful and Fearful it is a Miserable and Forlorn Life So Plutarch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and it also is a thing that makes a Christian as utterly unlike to Jesus Christ as any thing can be He came eating and drinking in a complacent and chearful fashion and not as John the Baptist with a hair Coat and Leathern Girdle And it is utterly improper to the Gospel State in which he is He is not under the Law but under Grace Jesus Christ is come on purpose to bring Life and Immortality to Light to let him understand the infinite and inexpressible Good will of God the Father and to acquaint him with those eternal motions in the Heart of God in his Favour that God is willing to adopt him And this good News should make him to rejoyce A little should not cloud his joyes The Apostle bids us rejoyce and again rejoyce that we may perform Duties chearfully God loves a cherful Giver So Porphyrie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Believe it all our Melancholly Fear and Apprehension saving onely so much of it as is constitutional proceedeth from our ignorance of God and of the Gospel liberty we are redeemed into that we don't consider and perhaps distemper will not let us that we have not now receiv'd the Spirit of Bondage that Spirit of the Law again to Fear but the Spirit of adoption that Evangelical and Gospel Spirit by which we invocate one God as our Father For we are not come unto the Mount that might be touched and that burned with Fire nor unto blackness and darkness and tempest And the sound of a Trumpet and the voice of words which voice they that heard intreated that the Word should not be spoken to them any more For they could not indure that which was commanded and if so much as a Beast touch the Mountain it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart And so terrible was the sight that Moses said I exceedingly fear and quake But we are come to Mount Sion and unto the City of the Living God the heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable company of Angels To the General Assembly and Church of the First born which are written in Heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the Spirits of Just men made perfect and to Jesus the Mediatour of the New Covenant and to the blood of Sprinckling that speaketh better things than that of Abel But this is not said to encourage any in their insolent Affronts or Provocations of God Shall Sin abound because Grace hath abounded God forbid The Goodness Patience Long-suffering and Forbearance of Almighty God where there is any Ingenuity to take a right Impression and Resentment of it Leadeth to Repentance Such as take incouragement for none is given them to do evil because they know that God is good have reason to consider that there is Mercy with him but not that he may be presumed on but Feared That he is Maximus as well as Optimus That he is Judge of all the Earth and will as surely right himself as others that he wanteth not Ability if once he have the will to A●enge And finally that Despised Bonity and Patience will at last convert to Fury SECT 14. Second Corolary Nothing so Decent and becoming for Men nor so obliging to God as Confidence in him as adoring and glorifying of him To glorifie God what 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Psalm 150. What it imports Wherefore 2. It is most Decent and becoming for Men who are obliged of God and know him to be God to acknowledge it in Prayer to him in dependance on him in confidence in him and in Praises of him For to Believe Pray and Trust it is the Work of Earth and to Admire Adore and Praise it is the work of Heaven but to be begun on Earth 'T is all the Retribution that Almighty God requires that he be blessed for his blessings which he then is when we return with his blessings and really as well as verbally acknowledge them unto him that they are effects of his alone Bounty that all derive from him and that he is the Origen and source of all Bonus Deus had a Temple among the Megalopolitans We must Pray and Praise Praise is comely So Porphyrie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So Pythagoras in Iamblicus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For this shall every one that is Godly Pray So also Pythagoras in Iamblicus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But it ought to be remembred that he that Praiseth glorifieth God more than he that Prayeth for as much as he that prayeth but hopeth that he will be Good but he that praiseth doth acknowledge that He is so and therefore we ought not to be more in application and address to God by way of Supplication and Petition than of Acknowledgement and Praise which yet as gross a Piece of Inequality as 't is we all are subject to who are very often infinitely more concerned and zealous in our Prayers than in our giving of thanks It is because our Prayers are for our selves but giving thanks is to God We have the Psalmist for a great Example of our Duty how many Psalms has he composed all of Praise the 145. 146. 147. 148. 149. and in fine 150. are all Laudatory Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his Sanctuary Praise him in the Firmament of his Power Praise him for his mighty Acts Praise him according to his Excellent Greatness Praise him with the sound of the Trumpet