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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	add_v	faith_n	temperance_n	2,660	5	11.1051	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02488	King Dauids vow for reformation of himselfe. his family. his kingdome Deliuered in twelue sermons before the Prince his Highnesse vpon Psalm 101. By George Hakewill Dr. in Diuinity.	Hakewill, George, 1578-1649.; Elstracke, Renold, fl. 1590-1630, engraver.	1621 (1621)	STC 12616; ESTC S103634	122,067	373

yet more often figuratively than properly It shall not be amiss then out of the property and nature of it to consider the duties included and implied in it The natural acts of it then are three motion progress and moderation As it includes motiō so is it oppos'd to lying or stāding or sitting as it includes progress in motion so is it opposed to jumping or capring up down in the same place as it includes moderation in a progressive motiō so is it opposed to violē● running Motion is the common effect of all naturall bodies they all either move in their place or to their place The heavens ayr and birds move above us the sea ●ivers fishes and worms move under us the beasts beside us and our own harts day night within us And shall we alone stands still in the midst of so many movers round about us Everie one of these Creatures seem to cry unto us Qui fecit me propter te fecit te propter se He that made me to move for thee made thee to moove for himselfe Why then stand yee heer all the day idle saith our Saviour to those loy●er●rs in the Gospell and I wish I might not justly say the like to many here present Idleness beeing commonly the best mark of a Gentleman and a Courtier whereas imployment and action was injoyned man even in the state of innocēcy Gen. 2. 15. but then for recreation afterward Gen. 3. 19. for necessity To which the Apostle seemes to allude He that will not worke and exercise himselfe in some lawfull kinde of imployment is to be held Telluris inutile pondus not so much as worthy to eate 2. Thes. 3. 10. Diogenes that hee might not seem idle in the midst of business would needs bee doing though it were but by rowling of his Tub and these men to shun the imputation of sloathfull persons become busie bodies and so walke indeede but inordinately v. 11. Like those walkers in the third to the Philippians who●e end is damnation or like that Arch-ranger vvho vvalkes about seeking whom hee may devour they wholly spend their time either mal● agendo or aliud agendo or nihil agendo in dooing naught or impertinences or nothing which will quickly bring them to the other two The minde of man being of such an active disposition that if it be not set aworke in goodness it will quickly set it selfe aworke in mischiefe if it be not manured with good seeds it will soon be fertill in weeds Pittie it is that three such good mothers as Truth Familiarity and Peace should by the viciousness of our nature bring forth three such bad daughters as Ha●red Contempt and Idlenesse the daughter indeed of Peace but the mother of Discord and Warre of the war of the sensuall appetite against reason as appeared in the filthy Sodomites Ezekiel 16. 49. Of the Subject against the Soveraigne as hath often appeared in the rebellious Irish. It were good then for a Prince to keep his Subjects in motion either by imployment of trades or discoveries or some such action which as it tends to the ornament and wealth of his Kingdome so doth it to the safety of his person and the rather if himselfe bee of a stirring humour whereas on the other side his standing still is like the standing of the Sunne in the firmament which as it cannot but breed admiration so neither can it well bee without dangerous effects it beeing knowne that the two first Races of the French Kings were extinct by putting off their Affairs of the State upon the Majors of the Palace that so they might betake themselves to a retired kinde of life Industry hath ever raised and enlarged Empires but idlenesse ruined them As then Princely State doth not become the Monkes Cool so neither doth Monkish retirednes the Princes Crown As the Lord hath called every one so let him walk 1. Cor. 7. 17. Secondly as walking implyes motion so doth it progress in motion when by his motion a man gets ground goes forward It is truly sayd even in Civill affaires that the mind of man is more cheered and refreshed by profiting in small things then by standing at a stay in great but in the course of piety and religion Not to get ground is to lose ground Wherefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ let vs go on to perfection And forgetting the things behind and reaching-forth to those which are before let us press toward the mark Turpis ridicula res est elementarius senex T is a shamefull thing to see an old man in his Ab●e but dāgerous for a Christian not to go forwrad in the gaining of knowledge and practice of sanctification His first beginning is as the dawning of the day his proceeding as a faire sun-shine morning his ending as the Sunne at high noone in the middest of a Summers day according to that of Salomon The path of the Iust is as the shining light that shineth more and more untill it be perfect day Now the steps by which we mount this Meridian are eight answerable to the eight steps going up to the Temple Adde to your faith vertue and to vertue knowledge and to knowledge temperāce and to temperance patience and to patience godliness and to godlines brotherly kindnes and to brotherly kindnes charity 2. Pet. 2. 5. The lowest step in this Christian Progress is Faith and the highest Charity faith being the ground-work and charity the● roofe of our spirituall building In the world the ambitious man never leaves his aspiring to honor nor the covetous man his scraping up of riches nor the voluptuous man his hunting after pleasure nor the curious man his prying into the secrets of God and the bowels of nature they all either do or desire to goe forward though it be to the Confines of hell And shall we then bee less active in our progresse to heaven Ad quod multi potuerunt peruenire nisi se putassent peruenisse unto which many vndoubtedly might have arrived had they not sate downe in the mid-way and thought their condition for Travellers good enough whereas the exhortation 2. Pet. 3. 18 Growe in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ still hath and will have its place and vse so long as we soiourne here belowe in this valley of teares vntill our faith be turned into vision and our hope into fruition untill we come to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ Eph. 4. 13 who being a child encreased as in age and stature so in wisedome and fauour with God and men which as all are to labour for so specially they that sit in his throne beare his name in that they are his anointed Thirdly as walking implyes motion and progresse so doth it moderation as it is opposed to violent running which is more subject both to falling and tiring then moderate walking Moderation