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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	command_v	forbid_v	vice_n	1,917	5	9.6001	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19411	A treatise against traitors Meete for all faithfull subiects in these dangerous dayes. Taken out of the 40. chapter of Ieremye, the 13, 14, 15, 16. verses, and 41. 1, 2, 3, 4. Made and published for the benefite of the Church and common wealth of England: by Samuell Cottesford Minister and publique preacher of the woord of God.	Cottesford, Samuel.	1591 (1591)	STC 5840; ESTC S116422	48,076	146

persons and so to heare and see into them as that they might be able to discearne betweene matter and matter counsaile and counsaile iudgement and iudgement and accordinglye to knowe what to leaue and what to take so farre-foorth not as pleaseth themselues but as they shall see serue for the glorye of God the prosperity and safety of their own person Church and Country to the fitting of them wherunto Moses in the 17. Deut. 18 19. ver teacheth what ought to be the exercise of Kings and Princes continually for the increase of their knowledge in al matters So that to some purpose serueth this plain and blunt speech of Ionathan that thereby Gedaliah being warned might take knowledge of that which might keep him from capitall danger and his people from vtter ouerthrow concerning whose faithfulnes in discouery of this high treason we are taught especiallye the discharge of the duety of subiectes to their prince sole gouernours as also to all inferiour magistrates verye necessary to be laid forth in these dangerous daies wherin Sathan seekes by this most foule sin and abhominable of treasons and disloyalties without remorse in euery nation practised comitted most villanously to send many thousands of soules to the deuill This then is the doctrin that we must euery one of vs learne lay vp in our harts that is that it is not sufficiēt to abstain our handes from blood but our harts also frō the consent of any matter tending thereunto the reasons to inforce this doctrine may be first that the law of nature abhorreth it whereby they that neuer knew God aright are made inexcusable notwithstanding before him being led by the instinct thereof onely into a feeling and knowledge of the same how much more then doth that sin become more sinful to vs whō the lawe of nature not only directeth but the written lawe of God also as a sound reason to draw vs to an execrable detestatiō therof doth by the ministery of the word by the power of the spirite teach vs and the same God hath included this sin amongst many others within the secōd table of those great and ten cōmaundements wherof the negatiue preceptes forbidding whatsoeuer vice doth infer the commaunding whatsoeuer contrarye vertues and again whatsoeuer people amongst them affirmatiue teaching and cōmaunding any holy or christian vertue doth therupon infer a flat forbidding of the vice cōtrary therunto as in one among the rest the 6. in number being a negatiue precept and aiming at the matter now in hand Thou shalt not kill wherin this point generally taught that not onelye he that layeth violent handes vpon a man but he also that stoppeth not bloodshed when he may Naye he that by negligence dooth omit the dutifull care of preseruing his neighours life is a mankiller before God and is by the law of God so to be deputed and reckoned before men to this purpose speaketh Salomon Eripe raptos ad mortem c. Deliuer thē that are drawen to death and wilt not thou preserue them that are ledde to be slaine wherein the holy Ghost censureth not onely princes Iudges and Magistrates for suffering which falles out many times the innocent to be punished vnworthily But all sortes of men who not laying violent handes vpon their neighbours to kill them but who seing their neighbours in any sort distressed vnto death and for want of comfort like to perish vnder their noses when as they haue not onelye a sufficiencie but a superfluitie rather or outward blessings for their releefe yea and not denying the same but neglecting onlye and deferring to help thē of these it may wel be saide though thou hast not murdered with thy hand yet Tot occidisti quot Succurrere quum potuisses neglexeris ofso many hast thou bin a cruell murderer being distressed thou didst meerlye neglect to releeue them when thou haddest sufficient therunto a very necessarye thing against the vnmercifulnes of these our daies and the hard har tednes of the richer sort of people amongst vs who neither one waye nor other can be brought to that charitable consideration of their poore miserable and distressed neighbours ready to perrish euen at their dores either by the superfluitye of their meats drinks or cloth to comfort them or otherwise by withdrawing from their own store some good portion of their gold and siluer towards the setting on work the swarmes of men women children that neither haue meate drinke nor cloath in any good measure to feed and clothe themselues neither yet any thing to imploy their labors vpō that therby yet though they wil not freely giue thē to their releef yet they might prouide that by their meanes at the least the poore by the sweate of their browes vnder them might more honestly and competently True then they do wherunto each man is not onely in conscience bound by the law of God and the law of our land by statute prouided though by default of them who should see the execution of it this charitable duetie be to the dishonor of God in not prouiding against idlenes vtterly omitted Is this true in general betweene man and man and is it not more true against them when not in outrage as too manye of that sorte our late yeeres haue yeelded forth a fruite vntimely to passe ouer the actes done by the like villanous minded in other nations and to speake of those that at home proudlye and presumptuouslye haue attempted the same against the life of our naturall and most mercifull Soueraign is the not releeuing the distressed the oppressing of the widow and fatherlesse the cruel withholding the hire from the poore labourer is the taking of thy neighbours pledge the taking of Vsury of the decaied and the labour of thy neighbour without wages is this murder with God nay as it is indeed to take pleasure at other mens miseries is it cruelty is not this then murder in the highest kinde to conseale a pretēded mischeef against a Prince whose life is thy life my life or the life by Gods prouidence he will so haue it of all men within this and her territory Nay shall the prince be culpable before God for not releeuing thee with iustice in any cause of thy distresse wilt thou hold it to be crueltie in a magistrate whē as it may be thou alone shalt but suffer or some one house or family with thee shalt not thou be reckoned in the highest degree of murtherers who when it is in thy power by disclosing some pretended mischeefe against the state of a prince thou concealest it altogither or else disclosest it when it is too late When as vpon the safety of a prince relieth the prosperitie peace and security of not an house not a Towne not a prouince not a shire not a land but of many Lands and Countries Shires and prouinces Townes and Citties most populous So that you see the point to be obserued wherein those especially