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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	deny_v	live_v	ungodliness_n	2,303	5	11.2667	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61800	The Bishop of Chester's charge in his primary visitation at Chester, May 5, 1691	Stratford, Nicholas, 1633-1707.	1692 (1692)	Wing S5929; ESTC R17221	18,998	32

as are provided against that Sin which is the Subject of the Day Which Statutes together with his Majesties Letter I have formerly sent you And let not only the more gross Sins of the Flesh but the more subtle Sins of the Spirit such as Pride Envy Malice c. be exposed to your People in their odious nature and aggravating Circumstances Acquaint them not only with those Duties to which they are all in common obliged as they are men and Christians but with those special Duties which are incumbent upon them in their different Ages States and Relations In short let that be the drift of your preaching which is the design of the whole Gospel of Christ Tit. 2. 11 12. To teach men to deny all Vngodliness and Worldly Lusts and to live Soberly Righteously and Godly in this present World Secondly As to the Manner of Preaching passing over other particulars I shall mention Three only at present Two of which are here sufficiently implyed Preach the Word sincerely plainly and affectionately 1. Sincerely Which is implyed in these Words That you will teach nothing as required of necessity to eternal Salvation but that which you shall be perswaded may be proved by the Scriptures For Sincerity consists as in teaching all that the Scripture makes necessary so in teaching nothing for necessary that is foreign to the Scripture as the Church of Rome does in her new Creed imposing many Doctrines as necessary to Salvation which are not only Strangers to the Scriptures but plainly contrary to the Doctrines which are there taught 2. Plainly and to the capacity of your Hearers which is implyed in the Word instruct For how can a man be instructed by a Discourse which he knows not the meaning of He defeats the design of his Preaching and betrays his Hypocrisie who renders that obscure which he pretends to reveal To which I add 3. Preach Affectionately with that warmth and earnestness of Spirit which becomes matters of the greatest moment It would grieve a Man to hear matters of the greatest moment so coldly and drowsily delivered as if the Preacher did not himself believe what he said and were afraid lest his Hearers should be brought to believe it O my Brethren let us but seriously consider the inestimable worth of souls the unvaluable price that was paid for them what danger they are in of being eternally lost how dreadful our accounts will shortly be if they be lost through our slightness and laziness Let us but consider what Heaven and Hell mean what it is to be everlastingly saved or damned and we shall then think our greatest zeal and fervency will be little enough for such a Work as this I shall say no more concerning Preaching but proceed to the next way of publick teaching which is Secondly By Catechising or instructing persons in the Principles of Religion Which is indeed but a more familiar way of Preaching This is a Duty laid upon you by the Canon and Statute-Law both The Fifty Ninth Canon under a severe Penalty requires every Rector Vicar and Curate upon every Lord's Day in the Afternoon to examine and instruct the Youth and the more ignorant People of his Parish in the Catechism The same is made your Duty by Act of Parliament in the first Rubrick after the Catechism and because some who are apt enough to censure their Brethren for breaking other Laws can too easily dispense with themselves in this His Majesty hath charged the Bishops to see Let. to the Bish of Lond. That all the Clergy in their respective Diocesses do Catechise the Youth To which if we add the Practice of the Apostles the great Master-Builders of the Church who first taught Men the Principles of the Doctrine of Christ And lastly the voluntary Engagement you lye under to it methinks nothing can be thought wanting to oblige you effectually to this Duty But now should we set aside all these Considerations and consider only how advantagious this Work is to the Welfare of the Souls committed to our care the great Benefits they would reap by it the great Mischiefs they fall into by the Neglect of it one would think we should need no other Motive to put us upon the diligent practice of it What is the Reason that our Sermons are generally of so little effect That our People hear us year after year and many of them are never the wiser are ever learning and never come to the Knowledge of the Truth One main Reason doubtless is because they were never prepared to understand our Sermons and to profit by them by being first more familiarly instructed in the Principles of Religion What 's the Reason That many are so easily seduced to Error and Vice but because they were never well rooted and grounded in the Faith Prov. 22. 6. Train up a Child in the way that he should go and he will not depart from it when he is old As therefore my Brethren you tender the Salvation of your People set your selves without delay to this so advantagious and necessary a Work And that you may do it the more effectually I give it you in Charge to preach constantly in the Afternoon upon some part of the Church Catechism and to Examine some of the Young People of your Parish quite thorow it as oft as you preach upon it And that Parents and Masters may take the greater care to send their Children and Servants to be instructed by you do not only frequently and earnestly exhort them to it but thorowly acquaint them with the great Benefits that will accrue not only to their Children and Servants but likewise to themselves thereby as their Children will by this means be render'd more dutiful and obedient and their Servants more faithful and diligent Having solemnly declared That You are perswaded that the Holy Scriptures contain sufficiently all Doctrine required of necessity to eternal Salvation and that you were determin'd out of the said Scriptures to instruct the People committed to your Charge In the next place you promised To give your faithful diligence always so to minister the Doctrine Sacraments and Discipline of Christ as the Lord hath commanded and as this Church and Realm hath received the same according to the commandment of God that is as God hath prescribed in the Holy Scriptures Of Ministring the Doctrine of Christ I have already spoken in what I have said about Preaching and Catechising As to the Sacrament of Baptism I shall at present only put you in mind of some few things which are either expresly or implicitly required by the Rubricks First Let your People know That Baptism being the solemn Admission of a Person into the publick Society of Christians it is very unbecoming its Nature and Design to have it administer'd in private Rubrick before private Baptism Admonish them therefore to bring their Children to be baptiz'd in the publick Congregation lest by their refusing so to do Christ should reckon them