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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	church_n	holy_a	word_n	6,560	5	4.2187	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42490	Megaleia theou, Gods great demonstrations and demands of iustice, mercy, and humility set forth in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at their solemn fast, before their first sitting, April 30, 1660 / by John Gauden ...	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing G364; ESTC R16267	41,750	78

the bargain thou even thou must so repent by making restitution of unjust acquisitions as may make thee capable of Gods pardon who will not be mocked by lame and crackt titles nor may be robbed without making the curse threatned to light on such injurious presumptuous sinners who neither fear God nor reverence man though great and rich and many though Courts and Councils and Armies and whole Nations conspire to do injustly yet will God be a swift witness against them and bring his Justice upon them 6. Of thee O godly gull and holy-cheat who pleadest an hypocritical nonplus and a state necessity of doing somthings both injust and cruel in order to do good to advance Justice to glorifie God to reform Church and State as if the reasons and interests of both Religion and Justice did sometimes want unjust proceedings as pills to keep them in health which Aristides pleaded by way of Irony to those who impatient of exact Justice forced him somtimes to deviate from it by their popular peevishness he told them he did it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in order to the publick good God will discover these impudent fallacies and so punish the presumption of doing evil that good may come thereby that all men shall shall hear and fear and confess there is a God that judgeth the earth when they shall see vengeance to overtake these men and the iniquity of their heels to compass them about Better to follow Gods counsel by doing Justice though we perish with Lazarus on a dung-hill and suffer the last strokes of humane Justice in this world than to fall under Gods eternal and inexerable Justice which will strip thee of all the goods thou gettest and bring upon thee infinitely more evil than that which by unjust and wicked means thou soughtest to escape there is no necessity scelera sceleribus tueri to make evil deeds good by doing worser it is the Devils hardning Maxim to damn souls by desperation as if a theif should plead it necessary to kill that man whom he hath robbed lest he be pursued and taken by him 7. Of thee O Minister of the Church and Pastor of souls God requires first to do justice to thy brother of the same tribe and calling by not intruding thy self into his work against right and reason and law that thou mayst have a plea or pretence to the profits of his living and so thou mayst feed thy self by feeding anothers flock against his will when Justice requires us not onely to eat our own bread but to do our own business and not {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to Vsurp on anothers either emolument or employment which they are able and willing to performe Of thee O Church-man great small God requires this Justice to God to Christ to the Church to peoples souls to the holy word and worship of God to the truth of Doctrine to the solemnity of his service to the necessity of mens souls by feeding them with wholesome food by giving them their portion in due season by not denying the children their bread for fear of dogs eating it by administring the blessed Sacraments duly and reverently according as the Church in which thou servest hath appointed thee not setting up and urging thy own fancies and whimseys thy novel inventions and schismatical partialities thy humane traditions and unauthentick because uncatholick observations instead of Christs institutions not so shy and startling at the shadow of some decent and innocent rites or circumstances and ceremonies in religion as to fly from the unity order harmony and authority of the whole Church by a supercilious unjust and merciless severity which savors too much of pride and self conceit hereby shaking and overthrowing the faith of many poor souls who are ignorant weak and instable by the perturbatious thy pragmatique and popular activity gives them 8. Lastly of thee O whole Palestina O Church and State O my native County and Nation both in thy latitude and diffusion and in thy Parliamentary Epitome or representation of thee the Lord requires not only to do justice but to shew mercy there where is the cryingest injustice and cruelty in the world There is a voyce from abroad and at home which crys Oro miserere laborum Tantorum miserere animi non digna ferentis O do not approve confirm or adopt that pride injustice and cruelty of some sons of Belial who lifted up themselves above all that is called God all Laws of God and man all duty to their betters and Superiors If what hath been done in this sorely afflicted and abused nation with expence of so much blood and treasures with so much terror and extravagancy be well and worthily done it will be an act of your Justice to assert it and of your Mercy to absolve other of us poor scrupulous souls of those scruples of conscience which we have of those fears and jealousies lest the Nation lying under so great sins may be exposed to Gods sorest judgements even to an utter vastation But if it appear to your wisdom piety Justice and Mercy to have been a violent and unparalleld method of presumptuous wickedness of unjust cruelty and most cruel injustice in which was neither matter nor form essential of Justice under the formality of high justice if men have killed and cosened and taken possession even the spoil and price of blood I doubt not but you will so far remember Gods Demonstrations and demands as to do Justice to God to your Country to your Laws to your Superior to Soveraign power to the whole Nation and to all mankind as to testifie a just abhorrence and perfect detestation of those things to which as you would not have been Fathers so I believe you will not be Godfathers It is an usual saying among Statists to excuse their excentricities and deviations from the exact rules of justice Nullum magnum exemplum justitiae sive aliqua injustitia I am sure we have known magnum exemplum injustitiae sine aliqua justitia a transcendent injustice which had not any grains of justice in it in the vindication of which I do not so urge the rigor of justice as not to require also such temperament of mercy as may distinguish between the flower and the bran the vile and precious the pertinacious and penitent such as sinned with malitious wickedness with an high hand and those that were only carried down the rapid torrent and strong delusions of times There is yet one instance of doing justice and shewing Mercy to the whole Nation which I cannot but recommend to my Country and to you the Fathers of our families and heads of our Tribes which is in reference to the souls of many poor people that in a land of plenty they may not be famished for want of able and industrious Preachers which cannot be had or expected whatever verbal severities are pretended of Reformation of Religion and propagation