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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	earth_n	heaven_n	lord_n	4,502	5	3.6160	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44186	The father's new-years-gift to his son containing divers useful and necessary directions how to order himself both in respect to this life and that which is to come / written by the Right Honourable Sir Matthew Hale ; whereunto is added, divine poems upon Christmas-day.	Hale, Matthew, Sir, 1609-1676.	1685 (1685)	Wing H246; ESTC R40538	14,741	70

there before the Minister begin and stay till he hath done and all the while you are there carry your self Gravely and Reverently 10. After Evening Sermon go to your Closet and having read a chapter in the Bible examin what you have writ or recollect what you remember and afterwards if the Sermon be repeated either in your Fathers or in the Ministers House go to the repition thereof 11. In all your Speeches and Actions on that day let there be no lightness or vanity use no Running Leaping or Playing or Wrestling use no Jesting or telling Tales or foolish Stories nor talk about News or Worldly Business but let both your Actions and your Words be such as the Day is Serious and Sacred and tending either to instrust others or inform your selves in the great business of your Knowledge of God and of his Will and of your own Duty 12. After Supper and Prayers ended in your Fathers Family repare to your Closet and there upon your Bended Knees implore Pardon of God for what you have amiss and beg his Blessing upon what you have heard and his acceptance of all your Performances for the merits and satisfaction of Christ And lastly perform all this Chearfully and Heartily Uprightly and Honestly and account it not a burden to you for assure your self that you shall find a Blessing from God in so doing and remember it is your Father that tells you so who loves you and will not deceive you and which is more then that remember that the Eternal God hath Promised Isa 58. 13 14. If thou turn away thy Foot from the Sabbath from doing thy Pleasure on my Holy Daq and call the Sabbath a Delight the Holy of the Lord Honourable and shalt Honour him not doing thy own ways nor finding thine own Pleasure nor speaking thine own Words then shalt thou delight thy self in the Lord and I will cause thee to ride upon the High places of the Earth and feed thee with the Heritage of Jacob thy Father for the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it ALmighty God when he had rais'd the Frame Of Heaven and Earth and furnished the same With Works of equal wonder framed then A piece of greater Excellence call'd Man Gave him a comprehensive Soul that soar'd Above the Creatures and beheld their Lord Inscrib'd him with his Image and did fill The Compass of his Intellect and Will With Truth and Good gave him the Custody Of his own Bliss and Immortality And justly now his Sovereign might Demand Subjection and Obedience at his Hand Were only Being given 't were but Right His Debt of Duty should be Infinite But here was more a Super-added dress Of Life Perfection and of Happiness Yet this Great King for an Experiment Of Mans deserv'd Allegiance is content To use an Easie Precept such as stood Both with his Creatures Duty and his Good Forbids one Fruit on Pain of Death and give Freely the rest which he might Eat and Live But Man Rebels and for one tast doth choose His Life his God his Innocence to lose And now Death stricken like a wounded Dear Strictly pursued by Guilt by Shame and Fear He seeks to lose himself from God he flies And takes a Wilderness of Miseries A Land of New Transgressions where his course Is closer bound his Nature growing worse And whil'st in this condition Mankind lay A Man would think his injured God should say There lies accursed Man and let him lye Intangled in that Webb of Misery Which his own Sin hath spun I must be True And Just Unthankful Man thou hast thy due But 't was not so though Man the Mastery With his Creators Power and Will dares try And being overmatcht will still disdain To seek a Pardon from his Sovereign The Great and Glorious God the Mighty King Of Heaven and Earth despis'd by such a thing As Man a Worm of his own making breaks The rules of Greatness and his Creator seeks His Froward Creature not in such a way As once he did in the Cool of the Day Wherein Man Sinn'd and hid such Majesty Had been too great for Mans Necessity But the Eternal Son of God the Word By which all things were made the Mighty Lord Assumes our Flesh and under that he laies And hides his Greatness and those Glorious Rayes Of Majesty which had been over bright And too resplendant for poor Mortals sight And under this Disguise the King of Kings The Message of his Fathers Mercy brings Solicites Mans Return pay's the Price Of his Transgression by the Sacrifice Of his own Soul and undertakes to Cure Their Sin their Peace and Pardon to Procure To conquer Death for him and more then this To settle him in Everlasting Bliss And now O Man could this access of Love Thy Thankfulness to such a height improve That it could fire thy Soul into a Flame Of Love To him alone that bought the same At such a rate yet still it were too small To recompence thy Saviours Love withal Once did he give thee Being from the Dust And for that only Being 't were but Just To pay thy utmost self But when once more Thy Being and thy Bliss he did restore By such a means as this if doth Bereave Thy Soul of hopes of Recompence and leaves Thy Soul insolvent twice to him this day Thou ow'st thy self yet but one self canst pay Another REader the Title of this Solemn Day And what it doth import doth bid thee stay And read and Wonder 't is that Mystery That Angels gaze upon Divinity Assuming Humane Flesh th' Eternal Son Of the Eternal God is Man become But why this strange assumption or what end Equivolent could make him to descend So far beneath himself and equalize The Miracle of such an Enterprise Yet stay and wonder Undeserved Love To Man to Sinful Man did only move This stood from Heaven to Earth and all to win And rescue Lost and Fallen Man from Sin And Guilt and Death and Hell and reinstall Him in that Happiness lost by his fall And greater everlastingly to dwell In Blessedness so that thou canst not tell Which of the two the greater Wonder prove Thy Saviour's Incarnation or his Love But both conclude thou dost not give but pay A Debt in the observation of this day Another WHen that great Lamp of Heaven the glorious Sun Had touched his Southern period and begun To leave the Winter Tropick and to climb The Zodiacks ascending Signs that Time The brighter Sun of Righteousness did choose His beams of Light and Glory to disclose To our dark lower World and by those Rayes To chace our Darkness and to clear our Days And lest the Glorious and Resplendant Light Of his Eternal Beam might be too bright For Mortals Eyes to gaye upon he shrouds And cloaths his fiery Pillar with the Clouds Of Humane Flesh that in that dress he may Converse with Men acquaint them with the way To Life and Glory shew his Fathers Mind Concerning them how bountiful and kind His Thoughts were to them what they might expect From him in the observation of neglect Of what he did require and then he Seal'd With his Dear Blood the Truth he had Reveal'd FINIS