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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	age_n	church_n	time_n	2,142	5	3.6322	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10184	Healthes: sicknesse. Or A compendious and briefe discourse; prouing, the drinking and pledging of healthes, to be sinfull, and vtterly vnlawfull vnto Christians by arguments, Scriptures, fathers, moderne diuines, Christian authors, historians, councels; imperiall lawes and constitutions; and by the voyce and verdict of prophane and heathen writers: wherein all those ordinary obiections, excuses, or pretences which are made to iustifie, extenuate, or excuse the drinking or pledging of healthes, are likewise cleared and answered. By William Prynne Gent. Hospitii Lincolniensis.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1628 (1628)	STC 20462; ESTC S115452	103,812	122

for very toyes and trifells as himselfe accounts them will stand more stiffely with them vpon greater things which haue some seeming price some good and value in them his Heart will cleaue so close to th●se that he will sooner part with God then them Wherefore if Healthes or any of the forenamed particulars bee but vaine and nugatorie trifells in their best acception if they are such vanities and nicities wherein wee may denie our selues without any losse and danger let vs not so much vnder-value the Loue and Fauour of our Gracious God or the Blood and Passion of our blessed Sauiour Iesus Christ who died to Redeeme vs as well from our vaine and scandalous as from our sinfull and wicked conuersation as not to part with Healthes and trifells for their sakes who haue parted with so much for vs for feare wee prooue farre worse then Iudas who would not betray nor sell Christ Iesus vnder thirtie pieces of siluer which were more of value then thirtie thousand Healthes can bee to vs or others Fourthly admit the most nay more then can bee granted that Healthes are things indifferent yet questionlesse they are not vsefull nor expedient especially vnto Christians who haue vowed Temperance and Sobrietie vnto God What haue Temperate Sober Graue and Holy men to doe with the Ceremonies of Deboist Licentious Riotous and Drunken persons with the inuentions and practises of Ebrious and Luxurious Infidels who walke in Reuellings Banquetings and excesse of Wine Is it expedient for Godly and Religious Christians or is it for the honour grace and credit of Religion that the professours of it should imitate take vp or practise the Heathenish Hellish Prophane and Complementall Healthes and Ceremonies of such men as these to the blemish staine and scandall of the Gospel and the encouragement president and confirmation of Licentious Drunkards If so what difference and distinction is there then betweene Christianitie and Paganisme betweene Grace and Wickednesse betweene a Christian and an Infidell betweene a Holy Temperate and abstemious Childe of God whose Temperance and Sobrietie consist in deedes and practise not in words and shewes alone and a Deboist and Ebrious sonne of Belial Certainely if it be expedient that there should be some apparent discrepancy and manifest difference betweene Christians and Pagans betweene Godly and Sober men and Swinish Drunkards betweene Professours of Religion who should shine as Glorious and Resplendent lights and Lampes of Holinesse in the midest of this our Riotous Deboist Peruerse and Crooked generation not any wayes conforming nor fashioning themselues vnto the Lusts the Wayes the Rites and Ceremonies of Pagans Gracelesse or Vngodly men and open or notorious wicked men who make their b 〈…〉 ies and their lusts their God If it bee expedient that the Liues the Wayes and Workes of Holy men should vary from the Workes the Wayes and Liues of Gracelesse persons and the sonnes of Satan then doubtlesse how euer some may d●eme these Healthes indifferent in themselues yet none can iudge them so to Christians because they are inexpedient and vtterly vnsuitable to their Temperate Holy Sober Heauenly Gracious Exemplary and inoffensiue Liues Wherefore the very inexpediency and inconueniency of these Healthes admitting them to be but things indifferent in themselues which I can hardly grant should cause all good and Gracious Christians Who are to moderate and curbe themselues in the vse of lawfull things and things of smallest weight that so they may more easily auoide vnlawfull things and greater euils vpon all occasions for euer to abominate renounce and quite abandon them in their practise for feare of giuing incouragement vnto euill and scandall vnto godly and Gracious men Fiftly where as it is surmized and obiected that this refusall and dislike of Healthes doeth sauour of nothing else but of a Puritanicall Singular Factious Indiscreete and ouer-scrupilous and precise Spirit which is now the common and receiued opinion and iudgement of the World I answere that it cannot be so vnlesse we will taxe and censure those Fathers Councells Diuines Historians Emperours States and Heathen Authors together with the very Spirit and Word of God whose Testimonies and Verdicts I haue here produced against Healthes for Puritans and Prescitians and for ouer-precise Zealous Singular Factious and Contradictory Spirits which the most Pe●emptory and Audacious Drunkard or the Deboistest and rudest Roter dares not to auouch Indeed the World is now growne to such a Prodigious Impudent and excessiue straine of Wickednesse and Prophannesse that it feares not to Reproach Reuile Condemne and Censure all Grace and Holinesse all Temperance and Sobrietie nay Morrall Grauitie Staiednesse Ciuilitie and Modestie vnder the Approbrious and Ignominious tearines of Puritanisme and Precisenesse or of Stoicall and Factious singulatitie He that Will not runne into the same excesse of sinne and riot that others doe he that will not be a Baud or Pander to his owne or other mens sinnes and lusts he that will not turne and incarnate Deuill or a very Hydra or Monster of Impietie and Prophannesse hee that shall but offer to oppose himselfe against the crying sinnes and common vices of the Times against the Drunkennesse Excesse and Riot against the Pride the Vanitie the Idleuesse and Lasciuiousnesse against the sinnefull Fashions and Customes against the Scurrilitie Ribaldrie Swearing Blasphemie Prophannesse Wickednesse or Licentiousnesse of the World which affront and braue God to his face and bid defiance to his Maiestie Hee that shall but Write or Speake against these sinnes or any other nay he that liues not in them and feares for to commit them out of Loue and Conscience towards God is forthwith branded for a Puritan or for a Nouellizing Factious Singular Surly Proud Criticall Censorious Discontented Furious and ouer-Zealous Spirit though hee hath God himselfe and all Antiquitie though hee hath Apostles Prophets Councells Fathers nay Infidels and Pagans and the whole Church of God from age to age to backe and second him and to iustifie and acquit him against this false and scandalous imputation This euery mans experience and Conscience cannot but testifie as an irrefragable and vndoubted trueth Wherefore bee not ouer rash nor too precipitate to preiudicate taxe or censure others for Puritans Prescitians Humourists or the like for disapprouing or reiecting Healthes or for opposing the vanities Fashions Sinnes and Customes of the Times as the maner of most men is since they haue God himselfe and all antiquitie to iustifie second and assoile them But learne to see the Deuills art and pollicy and the inueterate spleene and mallice of the World against all Holy men who labour to suppresse and quite abolish all Temperance and Sobrietie and the very practicall power of Grace and Holinesse by preiudicating censuring prosecuting and reuiling them vnder the names of Puritanisme Singularitie and Precisenesse in a censorious peremptory rash and vnaduised manner without any due examination of the things