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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
work_n	keep_v	lord_n	sabbath_n	4,573	5	9.3555	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02626	The plain mans path-way to heaven wherein every man may clearly see whether he shall be saved or damned. / Set forth dialogue-wise for the better understanding of the simple, by Arthur Dent, preacher of the word of God at South-Shoobery in Essex.	Dent, Arthur, d. 1607.	1643 (1643)	Wing D1052B; ESTC R174600	204,325	502

no violence nor shed innocent bloud in this place For if you doe this thing then shall the King sitting upon the Throne of David enter in by the gates of this house and ride upon chariots and upon horses both hee and his seruants and his people And againe Jer. 3.22 O ye disobedient children returne and I will heale your rebellion The Lord also saith by his Prophet Esay If yee consent and obey Esay 1.19 yee shall eat the good things of the Land but if yee refuse and be rebellious yee shall be devoured with the sword For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Hos ● 1 The Prophet Hosea saith Come let us returne to the Lord for he hath spoiled and he will heale us hee hath wounded us and hee will bind us up And againe O Israel Hos 13. ●● returne unto the Lord for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity and I will heale thy rebellion and will love thee freely for 〈◊〉 i●●●●●ed away from thee I will be as the dew unto Israel hee shall grow as the Lilly and fasten his root as the trees of Lebanon His branches shall spread and his beauty shall be as the Olive tree and his smell as Lebanon The Prophet Micah telleth us what is good for us and what is our best course and what the Lord requireth at our hands namely these foure things Micah 6.8 To doe justly to love mercy to humble our selves and to walke with our God The Prophet Amos giveth the same counsell saying Seeke the Lord Amo● 5.38 and ye shall live Seeke good and not evill Hate the evill and love the good and establish judgement in the gate It may be that the Lord of Hosts will be mercifull unto the remnant of Joseph And the Lord himselfe saith Jer. 16.8 If this Nation against whom I have pronounced turne from their wickednesse I will repent of the plague I thought to bring upon them Thus we doe plainly see what advice and counsell the Prophets and holy men of God doe give unto us The summe of all is this that if wee doe truly repent and turne unto him with all our hearts studying to obey him and walke in his wayes then he will grant us any favour that wee will require at his hands For even as a wooll-pack or other soft matter beateth backe and dampeth the force of all shot so penitent melting and soft hearts doe beat backe the shot of Gods wrath and turne away his vengeance from us Moreover wee may observe in all experience that when Potentates are offended or any great man hath conceived a displeasure against some poore man then he must runne and ride send presents use his friends breake his sleep and never be quiet untill hee have pacified him Even so must wee deale with our God seeing hee hath taken a displeasure against us O therefore that wee would speedily use all possible meanes to pacifie his wrath Oh that wee would with one heart and voice every one of us from the highest to the lowest humble our selves before our God forsake our former evill wayes be grieved for that wee have done and purpose never to doe the like againe Oh that it might goe to the hearts of us that wee have so often and so grievously offended so loving a God and so mercifull a Father Oh that wee would awake once at last and rowse up our drowsie hearts and ransacke our sleepie consciences crying out against our sinnes that our sins might never cry out against us Oh that wee would judge our selves accuse our selves indite our selves and condemne our selves so should wee never be adjudged accused endited or condemned of the Lord. Oh that all hearts might sob all soules might sigh all loines might be smitten with sorrow all faces gather blacknesse and every man smite himselfe on the thigh saying What have I done Oh that both Magistracy Ministry and Commonalty would purpose and vow and even take a bond of themselves that from henceforth and from this day forward they would set their hearts to seeke the Lord and wholly give up themselves to his obedience Oh that all men women and children would feare God and keep his Commandements would eschew evill and doe good would study to please God in all things and to be fruitfull in all good workes making conscience to perform the duties of their generall callings and duties of their speciall callings duties of the first Table and duties of the second Table that so God might be sincerely worshipped his Name truly reverenced his Sabbaths religiously observed and that every man would deale kindly mercifully justly and uprightly with his neighbour that there might be no complaining no crying in our streets Oh I say againe and againe that if all of us of what estate degree or condition soever would walke in the paths of our God then doubtlesse wee should live and see good dayes all future dangers should be prevented our peace prolonged our state established our King preserved and the Gospel continued Then should wee still enjoy our lives our goods our lands our livings our wives our children our houses and tenements our orchard● and gardens yea as the Prophet saith wee shall eat the good things of the Land spend our daies in much comfort peace and tranquility and leave great blessings unto our children and posterity from age to age from generation to generation Phil. You have fully answered my question and well satisfied mee therein out of the Scriptures yet I pray you give mee leave to adde one thing to that which you have at large set downe The Lord saith by the Prophet Amos Amos 4.6 7 that for their sinnes and rebellions hee had given them cleannesse of teeth that is dearth and scarcitie and yet they did not turne unto him Also hee with-held the raine from them and punished them with drought and yet they did not turne unto him Moreover hee smote their Corne their great Gardens their Orchards Vineyards Fig-trees and Olive-trees with blasting and mildew and the Palmer-worme did devoure them and yet they did not returne unto him Last of all hee smote them with pestilence and with the sword and overthrow them as hee overthrew Sodome and Gomorrah and they were as a fire-brand pluckt out of the burning yet for all this they did not turne unto him Yee have not turned unto mee saith the Lord. But now to come to the point Out of this I gather that if wee multiply our transgressions God will multiply his plagues upon us but on the contrary if wee would unfainedly turne unto the Lord our God with all our hearts all plauges should bee stayed all dangers prevented and no evill should fall upon us For because they would not turne therefore he smote them If therefore they had turned hee would not have smote them But now I pray you briefly conclude this point and declare in few words what it is that doth most materially concerne our